WEBVTT - This is Unreal 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.760 Strange Arrivals is a production of I Heart three D 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:12.920 audio for full exposure. Listen with headphones. No experience, no job. 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:15.800 I could do that job, but it would give me 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:22.599 the chance. Maybe we don't ask spart e sperience. We 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.040 give it. You won't read it in AFO, you man, 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:31.720 it's sick service. Pick your challenge sends us up a 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:43.160 part maybe, but place, it's a big place. I'm Toby 0:00:43.240 --> 0:01:04.640 Ball and this is Strange Arrivals Episode two. This is unreal. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.120 Picture yourself as a young airmen on R. A F. Bentwaters, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.120 one of the twin air bases bordered by Rendell shamp Forrest. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:20.560 It's late December. You and more than ten thousand other 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.400 Americans are divided between these two bases on the North 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.960 Sea coast, seventy miles northeast of London, de east. About 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.000 a hundred and fifty miles across the water are the 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.680 Hague and Amsterdam. Jimmy Carter is in his last days 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.720 as president. The struggle for human rights overa it's all 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:46.040 differences of color or nation or language. Leonard Bresnev is 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:57.160 still in the Kremlin, shoeless in terms of world events. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.320 In late of course, The big thing hanging released the 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.720 United States would have been they around hostage crisis that 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.120 that's still going on and nobody knows how it's going 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.120 to end. I'm Kirk Droisley. I'm a chair of the 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.160 history department the University of New Hampshire, and I specialize 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.720 in US foreign policy and US environmental history. Reagan had 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.000 just been elected, and so he had run this campaign 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.080 on the United States being far weaker than the Soviet Union, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.000 being vulnerable to Soviet expansion. It can happen at any point, 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.480 and therefore we are the only ones that can preserve 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.760 the peace, and to do that we must have strength. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.440 It was not clear when or how the Cold War 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.799 would end. The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan the previous year 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.160 in late December, in their greatest show of four since 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.400 the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. They are lifted thousands of 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.200 soldiers into the Kabul area and moved tens of thousands 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:06.280 more overland across the border into northern Afghanistan. It seemed 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.240 as though they had gained an upper hand on the 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.840 world stage. What would happen if they made an aggressive 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.200 move in Europe? How would the US respond? If you 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.120 were at Bentwaters or Woodbridge. This was not an idle question. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.919 You were on the front lines, because it is is our 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.200 legacy at failure in the nineteen seventies into and of 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.400 course Britain also was now under Margaret Thatcher's control as 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.440 Prime Minister, and she had very similar rhetoric about ramping 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.800 up the Cold War in good versus evil. It is 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.240 fashionable for some commentators to speak of the two superpowers, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.800 the United States and the Soviet Union, as though there 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:50.600 were somehow of equal worth and equal significance. Mr Speaker, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.040 that is a travesty of the truth. The Soviet Union 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.800 has never concealed its real name. In the words of 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:04.320 Mr Bresner, the total triumph of all socialists all over 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:09.480 the world is inevitable. For this triumph, we shall struggle 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:14.760 with no lack of effort. Indeed, there has been no 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.119 lack of effort. So I think that on that base 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.520 in December they would have been hearing a lot of 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.680 rhetoric about this new, more intense Cold War, that the 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:29.680 Soviets might come across Europe. It was the height of 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.080 the Cold War, so tensions were high. This is Jim 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.200 Peniston again, in he was a sergeant in the U. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.000 S Air Force and was one of the witnesses to 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.360 the first night of the reynoldshom Forest Encounter. Looming over 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.040 any conflict during the Cold War was the knowledge that 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.680 the US and the Soviet Union had nuclear arsenals adequate 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.600 to annihilate each other. This led to a US doctrine 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.640 of mutually assured destruction, that knowing the devastation that would 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.960 result in retaliation, would prevent each side from launching a 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:11.320 nuclear strike. The acronym, of course, is M A D. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.200 We had nuclear weapons that were stored at Dent Waters. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.960 I can say this today. We also had five squadrons 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:24.359 of a ten tank killer aircraft and their mission was 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.239 to go ahead and deploy during the first few days 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:32.800 of imaginary war and go to forward operating locations in 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:38.560 Germany el Horn, Light Pine Home a few others. We 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.760 had a different type of terrorists threat at the time. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.640 We had groups like the r A Black, September, Bottom 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:50.599 Line Hoff Group, Red Brigade, those type groups, and our 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:56.600 perimeter was always either being observed or tested while we 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.000 were there. Mainly it's because that we were about three 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.200 miles from Felix So and Loosoft. There were two ports 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:08.039 right on the North Sea where we frequently had Russian 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.880 trawlers and stuff like that go there. So the situation 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.159 was tense. And things that we look back on through 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.839 the comfortable lens of history, the release of the hostages 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.360 in the US embassy in Tehran, the collapse of the 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:28.560 Soviet Union, the disintegration of left wing terrorists groups in Europe, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:33.880 all were uncertain and at this base would have held 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.760 potential for real trouble. It's in this atmosphere that Airmen 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.000 first class John Burrows, another witness to the encounter on 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:46.880 the first night, went back to base. It was the 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.800 morning of December twenty four hours after that initial encounter, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.200 got up on the desk before the night shift was relieved. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.800 When I went in there, the death sargeants at ours 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.400 was the guy that was chasing UFOs in the woods 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.400 the night before. The desk sergeant was talking about Burrows 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:11.000 and Peniston, of course, but then he added something, you're 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.680 not gonna believe this. We had an incident last night. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.720 What he told me was the shift commander I had 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.800 an interaction with some kind of a blue light. They 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.680 went through her vehicle shut it down. And ended up 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.320 getting really the duty because it shook her up so much. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.239 So that was night too. The incident that Burrows refers 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:36.680 to here involves Lieutenant Bonnie Tamplin. There doesn't seem to 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.440 be any documentation, and her account mostly comes to us 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.080 second or third hand. But briefly, the story is that 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.400 there was a report of lights that Tamplin and probably 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:53.840 another person went to investigate. During the investigation, as Burrows said, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.440 a blue light of some sort entered their vehicle and 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.040 shut off the engine and radio. What happened to money 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.280 Gamp and the lieutenant was on the second night she 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:07.400 disappeared from the base and immediately this is Chuck Halt, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.560 who at the time was a lieutenant colonel and the 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:15.000 deputy base commander. He's not implying by the way that 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.840 she was abducted by aliens or anything like that, she 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.360 was transferred. I'm tried to track her down and I 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.760 was told Fining she was in Italy. I have found her, 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.360 but she will not respond. I know where she lives, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.440 I know her address, but she does not want any involvement. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.320 They scared to you know what I don't. And this 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.080 is the extent of what happened on the second night. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.320 For us, it mostly serves as a bridge between the 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.760 events of the first night and the events of the 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.640 third night, to which Chuck Halt would be an important witness. 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.760 On the third night, there was a social function at 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:57.880 the base and awards ceremony. My name's Nick Pope, and 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.320 I worked for the British gown him and for twenty 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.960 one years at the Ministry of Defense for much of 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.600 the early nineties. Pope's duties included researching and investigating the 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.000 UFO phenomenon and determining if it posed a threat the 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.520 United Kingdom or if it was of any defense or 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.680 scientific interest. He was in the desert when I spoke 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.160 with him, and so coverage was not great, so I 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:29.959 apologized for the quality of the audio. Anyway, Chuck Halt 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.880 was at the ceremony and his night was interrupted by 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:38.560 a report. The Stingy based commanders were there and burst open. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.760 A junior officer went up saluted it and said, sir, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:46.960 it's back, and and one of the officers, deputy base commander, 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.120 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Holt, said what are you talking about? 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.040 What's by? And the young officers said the uf post 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.720 it's it's come back. The third consecutive night with the 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.680 UFOs sighting well, Holt and one of the other senior 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.520 commanders conferred and decided someone had better go and deal 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.520 with this and see what was going on. So Colonel 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:15.840 Holt drew the short straw, really threw together a team 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.760 of about half a dozen people and went out into 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:21.559 the forest, in his own words, to debunk this UFO nonsense. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:26.520 The small group Halt assembled included an on duty airmen 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.319 named Morgan Nevill's. But I knew he had a camera 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.040 and he had done some work for Photo Lapp and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.320 he was pretty good photographer. I said, have him made 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.679 me a disas preparedness office in about thirty minutes and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.920 we'll go out and take see what this is all about. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.040 So I went home and change master. Starting ball came 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.440 by in the cheap several people in it, driven by 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:52.760 an Lieutenant uh England, on duty cop. We went found 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.000 disaster for parents. We had to wait for nimals because 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.840 his wife was at the Catholic Women's program with the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.160 chapel and he was mayby city. He finally showed up 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.720 and I said, don't want you to bring your camera 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.160 at the gagger Conner. The only reason I saiders two things, 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.800 because I wanted the document was not being air while 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.640 this was going on. John Burrows, one of the witnesses 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.760 to the encounter, on the first night, was on base 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.200 talking with friends. I went over to the dorman, talked 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.600 to some of the guys I worked with that we 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.959 decided to go out there. Me and a couple other 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.280 guys went out into the forest and end up with 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.960 me meeting up with Colonel Hall on night three. So 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.920 two groups entered the forest, one determined to find nothing 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.000 and the other hoping for a repeat of the sighting 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.840 forty eight hours before. One of these groups was not 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:50.240 ready for what was about to happen. Strange arrivals will 0:11:50.320 --> 0:12:08.000 return in a moment. On the night of December, two 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.599 separate groups headed into Rydalshow Forest. The first, more or 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.840 less official group was led by Deputy base Commander Chuck Halt, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.840 who made it clear that the base didn't at the 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.280 time take the sighting very seriously. The second group was 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.880 John Burrows and his two friends, hoping to catch a 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.520 glimpse of what Burrows had seen on the first night. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:36.760 Chuck Halt, sorry went on into the forest, and I 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.040 was shown the site. We were something that supposedly landed 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.920 the first night. There were three indentations eight or ten 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.720 feet apart, and we definitely got radiation readings, and they're 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.200 both on the ground higher in the center of the 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.880 triangular formed by the three objects and the three sides 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.040 towards the landing site and higher readings all more the 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.280 background and not enough to be dangerous. Halt made an 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.960 audio recording to document anything that happened to them that night. 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.920 It is the one real time document of the events 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:15.080 over these three nights. To preserve battery power, he turned 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.760 the recorder on when there was something that needed to 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:22.719 be documented and off when there wasn't. This is from 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:26.240 the cassette tape made that night. The first voice you 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:31.160 hear is Colonel Halts, the second is Lieutenant England, and 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:35.000 the third is Morgan Nevill's Yeah, I see it too. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:41.080 What is it? We don't know? Strange small red light. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.400 Let's see on maybe a quarter and half before they're 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.200 at and I think it's gone now it was approximate 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.960 add twenty degrees through. Is it back again or splash? Light? Said, 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:58.520 so I can get a better look at it and 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.920 see if you get the Spanish coop on it. All 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.679 the animals have gotten quiet. Now we haven't got to 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.480 undertain on the twenty degrees inside through to the plarry. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.240 Now still getting reading on the meter, got two clicks. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.520 So Halt and his companion saw a light in the 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.920 distance that disappeared and then reappeared. They turned off their 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.800 flashlights and found a better vantage point at the edge 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.320 of a clearing. They looked through a star scope night 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.440 vision goggles to try to get a better view. At 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.240 this point, Burrows's group joined up with Halts. We met 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.280 up with them. Halt kind of told me what was 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.240 going on. Showed me some blue lights in the sky 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.360 that were flying around, and then all of a sudden 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.280 in the distance, an orangeish hue type of flight or 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.280 whatever started coming towards us. He asked me, if that's 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.320 what I dealt with the first night? And did it 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.400 looked like but it was farther away. While where were there? 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.200 Kind of I want to do? I saw a small, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.880 I say basketball size maybe the larger beach ball size, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.920 going orange object directly from out of the forest toward 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.600 the farmer's fears, a farmer's field to the east of 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.400 us in a farmhouse. The objeck was out in the field. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:21.440 It was glowing and the equivalent of dripping metal or 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.840 sparks for coming off it. We watched it for several minutes, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.960 just so let's get close to it. As we started 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.600 to the object move into the forest in front of us, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.000 between us and the farmer's size. It moved horizon lea 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:39.920 bombing up and down through the trees. Again from Halt's tape, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.960 its coming this way. It is definitely coming this way. Shoot, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.760 leather is no down of bias. This is weird. The 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:55.760 last different two nights, one light to the lift, take 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:02.600 splash lights off. There's something very very strange. I can okay, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.360 this is from my interview with Chuck Halt. The particulars 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.640 obviously under intelligent control and some kind of sensors to 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.840 avoid things if they got close. It moved back out 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:18.400 into the field between us and the farmer's house. At 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.040 that time I can see the windows in the farmer's 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.840 house glowing bright reflection. Oh my, look like the house 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.960 was on fire. I was kind of concerned about, you know, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.960 an issue for the people in the house. On Halt's tape, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.080 you can hear as they walk to the edge of 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.240 the woods, flashlights off to get closer to the object. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.840 Halt thinks it looks like a winking eye, and when 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.280 he looks at it through the star scope, it seems 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.480 to have a hollow center and when the lightest flashing 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:54.440 right at them, it almost burns his eyes. Okay again, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.800 but it just moved to the right hand, got the 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:04.000 right strange. Oh that's how much to answer the woods 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.280 up there? You want to do a lot lights and 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.080 still carefully come on. Okay, looking at the thing. We're 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.240 probably about two or three hundred guys away. It looks 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.480 like an eye winking at you, still moving from side 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.840 to side, and we put the star scoop on it. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:23.520 It starts star dark sars and I looking at it 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.960 and the flashes so bright to the star scope that 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.879 was burned dry. Burrows asked Halt for permission to move 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.760 closer to the object. I wanted to see what it was. Anyway. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.119 We were trying to figure out what was going on, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.920 just like everybody else, because it just didn't make sense. 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:46.040 Halt okay, Burrows and another Air Force cop to proceed. 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.119 We started running towards it. As we got closer and 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.320 he went to the ground. I kept going. I remember 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:55.200 getting close to it, and then the next thing I know, 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.120 I was gone. But he said that I went into 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.400 it and I disappeared for a while, then he saw 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:04.640 me come back. In the course of interviewing Rendelsom witnesses 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.920 and researchers, I was not able to find the person 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.160 accompanying Burrows during this event. No one else mentioned anything 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.840 about Burrows being taken up to the craft. Throughout the 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.960 Rendelsom case, there are a number of situations like this 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.320 where one witness's account is not corroborated by the others. Again, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:30.800 Deputy Based Commander Chuck Halt, the objects suddenly exclently exploded 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.879 like fireworks into five white going objects and they disappeared. 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.639 So we went either to the field looking for traces 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.560 of from whatever was coming off the object, and the 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.400 only thing we find evidence of was that cos there accalpies. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.520 So while we're going around looking, we noticed pre objects 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:53.879 in the north and the sky, multi killer objects moving 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.320 together in synchronizations and they're doing a great search or 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:03.200 some type of performation flying away a bizarre three or five. 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:08.280 We see strange stroke like flashes to the fish sporadic 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.240 that there's definitely something that some kind of phenomenal three 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:17.320 or five about ten degrees horizon directly north. We've got 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:22.720 two strange objects, half moon shaped, dancing about with color 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.480 lights on them, but guests to be about five to 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.800 ten a lot maybe less the half those and turned 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:33.280 in the full circles because all of those elimp eclipse 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.840 or something there for a mere two. So here they 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:40.160 are seeing colored lights that are some distance away from them, 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:43.600 starting off shaped as half moons and then appearing to 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:48.560 become circular. They're very fifteen. Now we've got an object 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:54.240 about ten degrees directly and once an aay're moving once 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:58.560 moving away from us. The lights are moving away from 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:09.639 them now north here he comes from the song. He's 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:13.600 coming toward us. Now appear to be a beam of 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.840 coming down to the ground. Here, Halt says that he 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.440 sees a light beam coming down from the craft to 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:30.200 the ground. This will be important later side of farmers 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.320 the second farmers field, and they deciding again about degrees 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.400 after the coast. It's right on the horizon, loos about 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.040 a bit and flashes from time to time still study 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:47.479 new color. Halt uses radio to call the command post 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.440 to see if they had anything on radar. They reported 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.480 back to him that they did not. This report would 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:59.480 be disputed later, but at the time the response he 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.000 received Eaved was that there was nothing unusual on radar. 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.200 We decided to go go further out to get a 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:10.520 better view. Can we see objects of the found going 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.320 white options one of the objects because overhead is very 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:19.679 high speed probably dry, high abound and being elevations above us, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.480 that sens a laser light. Being that our fate attending 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:29.119 me away, the veins about and dang pain diameter of 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.639 sirs andand and are rather wondering what is that a 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.879 weapon to communication some kind of worry and this is 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:45.960 suddenly some being appeared disappeared. The group kept moving. Halt 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:48.920 had his radio on. He says he could hear people 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.720 at the weapons storage area who are looking at the 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.399 objects through binoculars, and that they were reporting that the 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.720 objects were triangular and that there was a larger object 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.920 that had sparks coming off of it. But despite all 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:05.119 of this that Halt described, there still seems to be 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.680 little interests from the base and they can hear the 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.280 people and weapons starge carry or seeing the objects. We 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:14.360 saw in the sky were actually triangular, and they can 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.840 see an equivalent of what we would call a mother 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.119 ship with small objects coming off, with sparks or whatever 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.480 emanating from them. Again, you get the sense that no 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.119 one at the base was taking this very seriously. We 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.639 were out there for several hours watching this. Nobody seemed 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:34.560 to get excited at the command post, did seem to 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.000 secure too much. So finally we were wet and tired 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.960 and cold temperature of summer air free scene, and we 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.040 must blowing off the coast. So we packed it in 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.119 and went home. I didn't know what else to do. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.760 I've expected somebody to come out and respond with me. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.240 Burrows leaves the story here. Over the next few days, 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:59.720 he would return to base and write the document we 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:03.880 heard from earlier describing his experiences. On the first night, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:09.800 Halts Night, however, was not over. So I showered and 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.720 cleaned up because it was I was went dirty, good sleep. 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:17.880 So I went into the office and my boss, Colonel Williams, 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:20.720 met me on the steps. They said, ever, some night 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.800 you had, because he had monitored by radio conversations and 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.840 I see I made a type of quarter open. Colonel 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:30.760 Williams asked for the tape and Halt reluctantly handed it over. 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.240 This was Sunday. There was a meeting of top staff 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.520 on the coming Wednesday and the Colonel said that he 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.240 would play the tape at that meeting. Halt was horrified 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:45.560 by so oh my god, there's the end of my career. 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:48.359 I waited all week and of course when he came 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:50.840 back Wench and the after lunch, I was waiting at 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.920 the door. First thing I said to him, a boss, 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.120 still I have a job? Am I still gonna be here? 0:23:57.119 --> 0:23:59.560 And he asked throw me the tape. I said, what 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.560 do we He said, well, I played the tape for 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:07.440 the General of Staff and the general said, well, anybody 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:12.160 staff have comments? Nobody said anything is infinite wisdom. He said, 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:14.720 well we have them off the base. It's a British 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:17.800 affair case closed. So I said, I mean the end 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:19.600 of it and he said no, you get with Squadrone 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.159 or Morland who was to the A zone from the 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:25.520 RF of the base, and see what he wants to do. 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.480 So I had to wait about tender Halt base because 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:32.040 Don Morton was in Wales at his family home to 0:24:32.119 --> 0:24:35.240 the hall Christmas holidays. So when he came back. I 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.360 briefed him and played the tape, but he didn't want 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:42.399 to do either. So about two weeks past between halts 0:24:42.480 --> 0:24:45.440 uf O encounter and his meeting with the squad leader 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.760 Don Morland, a Royal Air Force representative at the bases. 0:24:51.280 --> 0:24:54.840 In this meeting, Halt was to tell the British authorities 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:59.320 about the three nights of the encounters. David Clark has 0:24:59.359 --> 0:25:02.560 interviewed any of the people involved in the Ryndalship encounters, 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:08.680 including Don Morland. I'm David Clark. I'm associate professor at 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:13.720 Sheffield Hallam University in the UK and my specialist subjectives footlow. 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:16.480 This is how Donald put it to me when I 0:25:16.560 --> 0:25:19.439 interviewed in Chuckhole. Invisted him into my offit and said, oh, 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:22.240 by the way, while you've been on holiday, Don, the 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.399 the aliens landed. But I thought I'd wait until you 0:25:25.480 --> 0:25:28.119 came back off holiday to tell you about it. And 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.840 he thought he's pulling my leg. This is a joke, 0:25:33.920 --> 0:25:35.760 and then he came out with all this fantastic story 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.320 about wizards and bangs and lights flying around in the forest. 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:42.760 As you would imagine, Don Morland was unsure what to 0:25:42.840 --> 0:25:46.400 do about this. He told Halt that if they gave 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.560 an official account of these sightings, it would lead to 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:53.680 a big inquiry. So Moreland suggested that Halt write it 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:57.679 down in a memo, and he actually did that, almost 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:00.280 as like an ex roment, because he didn't think the 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:03.679 whole would actually commit this to writing. He said, put 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:04.879 it down any much and I'll send it to the 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.359 Ministry Defense. And he didn't think you would take the 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:10.440 bait and the behold. He did. He produced that one 0:26:10.520 --> 0:26:14.359 page and that's gone down in history. He made a 0:26:14.400 --> 0:26:16.320 lot of phone calls and I don't know what all else, 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:20.159 as give me a memo to talk from. So I 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.720 wrote the infamous memo who was never supposed to go anywhere. 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:25.600 It was supposed to be a document for him to 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:29.240 read it and talk from. You can easily find the 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:33.200 Halt memo on the internet. It's just one page with 0:26:33.440 --> 0:26:38.200 three numbered paragraphs and is signed at the bottom. The 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:42.000 first paragraph is a brief account of Penistin Burrows and 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:46.000 Coban SAG's encounter on the first night. It puts the 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:49.880