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? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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