The Rendlesham Forest incident was not the first involvement of RAF
Bentwaters in a UFO incident. At about 9.30pm, August 13, 1956, radar operators at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath started reporting multiple unidentified objects that were moving at very high speeds and performing rapid changes in speed and direction.
Just before 11pm an object was picked up on radar travelling at approximately 3000mph coming in from over the North Sea to the east. The UFO flew over the radar installation and was lost of screen a further 30 miles to the west. This UFO was also reported by a control tower operator as a streak of light and USAF C-47 Dakota pilot as a fuzzy flash of light between his aircraft and the ground.
At about 11.30pm, an RAF interceptor jet, a Venom NF2a left RAF Waterbeach to investigate. The pilot reported seeing a bright red light and he also managed to get it on his radar but as he was reporting this back to base the light disappeared.
The light re-appeared and began to tail the Venom pilot; he was unable to get behind the object to take a look at it. A second interceptor was scrambled and this pilot described the UFO as "the clearest thing I've ever seen on radar." Then the second pilot lost sight of the UFO before being joined by two Lockhead T-33s which were en-route to RAF Bentwaters. The planes searched for the UFO for a further 45 minutes but found nothing.
In 1969, Dr. Edward Condon wrote this entry about the 1956 RAF Bentwaters sighting in his air force funded study at the University of Colorado, The Condon Report:
"In summary, this is the most puzzling and unusual case in the radar-visual files. The apparent rational, intelligent behaviour of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of the sighting. However, in the view of the inevitable fallibility of witnesses, more conventional explanations of this report cannot be entirely ruled out."
by alien-ufos.com
Bentwaters in a UFO incident. At about 9.30pm, August 13, 1956, radar operators at RAF Bentwaters and RAF Lakenheath started reporting multiple unidentified objects that were moving at very high speeds and performing rapid changes in speed and direction.
Just before 11pm an object was picked up on radar travelling at approximately 3000mph coming in from over the North Sea to the east. The UFO flew over the radar installation and was lost of screen a further 30 miles to the west. This UFO was also reported by a control tower operator as a streak of light and USAF C-47 Dakota pilot as a fuzzy flash of light between his aircraft and the ground.
At about 11.30pm, an RAF interceptor jet, a Venom NF2a left RAF Waterbeach to investigate. The pilot reported seeing a bright red light and he also managed to get it on his radar but as he was reporting this back to base the light disappeared.
The light re-appeared and began to tail the Venom pilot; he was unable to get behind the object to take a look at it. A second interceptor was scrambled and this pilot described the UFO as "the clearest thing I've ever seen on radar." Then the second pilot lost sight of the UFO before being joined by two Lockhead T-33s which were en-route to RAF Bentwaters. The planes searched for the UFO for a further 45 minutes but found nothing.
In 1969, Dr. Edward Condon wrote this entry about the 1956 RAF Bentwaters sighting in his air force funded study at the University of Colorado, The Condon Report:
"In summary, this is the most puzzling and unusual case in the radar-visual files. The apparent rational, intelligent behaviour of the UFO suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of the sighting. However, in the view of the inevitable fallibility of witnesses, more conventional explanations of this report cannot be entirely ruled out."
by alien-ufos.com
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