Rectangle over Raf Bentwaters (UK/England) · United Kingdom
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
Rendlesham Forest
This report is one of several linked to a curated case with its documentary record.
The report, as filed
Additional information (eyewitness account) of the Bentwaters Incident
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Artifacts from the case file
This report belongs to "Rendlesham Forest"; the case's documentary artifacts apply to every report linked to it.
The reported landing site, Rendlesham Forest
The clearing associated with the first night's events, photographed decades on.
Simon Leatherdale, via geograph.org.uk · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
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What would the paper say?
UK sighting reports were handled by the MoD's UFO desk until 2009; later records answer to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, earlier files sit at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: UK Ministry of Defence · records window 1980-12-24 → 1981-01-10