What do you think about this?
In the days after Christmas in 1980, US Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, watched lights come down into the trees of Rendlesham Forest. Around three in the morning, a security patrol went in to investigate, expecting a downed aircraft. Sergeant Jim Penniston later said he found something else entirely. A craft of unknown origin sitting silently in a clearing, metallic, covered in strange symbols. He said he got close enough to touch it, that the surface was warm, and that he copied the markings into his notebook.
This was not a couple of nervous airmen. The deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, went into the forest himself on a later night with a team and a tape recorder running. His voice survives on that tape, narrating a glowing object moving through the trees and dripping molten metal. Halt put it all in an official memo to the British Ministry of Defence. Investigators measured radiation at the alleged landing site higher than the surrounding ground.
Decades later, Penniston made an even stranger claim, that touching the craft pushed a string of ones and zeros into his mind that he wrote out as pages of binary code.
Could it be that two of the most secure military bases in NATO recorded a real visitor, and that memo is the only piece they let us see?
Mass confusion, a secret aircraft, or something that came down out of the sky? What do you think Halt and his men found in those trees?
What do you think about this? Over five months from late 1989, more than 13,000 people in Belgium reported a silent black triangle with three corner lights. In March 1990 two F sixteen jets locked radar on it, and it made moves no pilot could survive. Secret aircraft, or a genuine visitor?
What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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