Rendlesham Forest / RAF Bentwaters–Woodbridge
Also: Bentwaters; RAF Woodbridge; Rendlesham incident
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RAF Woodbridge East Gate
The East Gate near the reported incident area, photographed decades later. Location context — not a photograph of any reported object.
Taras Young · 2014 ↗CC BY-SA 4.0Licence terms ↗Resized and WebP-converted for display; content unchanged.Jesse Michels · 0:49:41
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedLyn Buchanan · 1:31:18
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedForest between the twin US-run bases in Suffolk where airmen reported lights and a landed object in December 1980; Lt Col Charles Halt's memo to the UK Ministry of Defence is public. Michels stresses the nuclear weapons stored at Bentwaters; Lyn Buchanan says he later remote-viewed the incident.
Where the pin is
52.0889, 1.4492 approximate
Rendlesham Forest east gate area between RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, from public gazetteer.
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
What is claimed
Michels narrates that Lt Col Charles Halt detailed the incident in a memo to the UK Ministry of Defence, describing a security patrol seeing lights descend into the forest.
- 0:49:41 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
Lieutenant Colonel Charles halt detailed the entire incident in a memo to the UK Ministry of Defense he said that a security patrol saw strange lights descending into the nearby rendlesham Forest
- 0:49:41 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
Michels says Bentwaters held the largest group of tactical nuclear weapons stored in Western Europe at the time of the 1980 case.
- 0:07:18 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
the bentwaters case in 1980 in England that was the largest group of tactical nuclear weapons being stored in Western Europe and it went back out
- 0:07:18 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
Buchanan says he remote-viewed the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.
- 1:31:18 “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan · Lyn Buchanan ▶
didn't you remote view um the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident? >> Oh, yeah.
- 1:31:18 “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan · Lyn Buchanan ▶
Buchanan believes Colonel John Alexander knew about Rendlesham before almost anyone else in the United States.
- 1:35:57 “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan · Lyn Buchanan ▶
I believe Colonel John Alexander knew about Rendlesham before just about anybody else in the United States.
- 1:35:57 “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan · Lyn Buchanan ▶
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Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) 24 December 2024
- 0:07:18 ▶ Jesse Michels
the bentwaters case in 1980 in England that was the largest group of tactical nuclear weapons being stored in Western Europe and it went back out
- 0:49:41 ▶ Jesse Michels
Lieutenant Colonel Charles halt detailed the entire incident in a memo to the UK Ministry of Defense he said that a security patrol saw strange lights descending into the nearby rendlesham Forest
- 0:07:18 ▶ Jesse Michels
“I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan 28 May 2026
- 1:31:18 ▶ Lyn Buchanan Buchanan says he remote-viewed the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.
didn't you remote view um the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident? >> Oh, yeah.
- 1:35:57 ▶ Lyn Buchanan Buchanan believes Colonel John Alexander knew about Rendlesham before almost anyone else…
I believe Colonel John Alexander knew about Rendlesham before just about anybody else in the United States.
- 1:31:18 ▶ Lyn Buchanan Buchanan says he remote-viewed the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident.
Named in 7 uploads (automatic name matching, 12 mentions)
- UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) ×6
- UFO Skeptic Mick West Challenged To A Debate ×1
- “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan ×1
- “I Saw a Mantis Alien In a Government Facility!” -Lyn Buchanan | EARLY RELEASE ×1
- "I Retrieved a UFO With My Helicopter!" -Jake Barber ×1
- Army Captures Live Alien (Hospital Report Revealed!) ×1
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Sources on this record
- Rendlesham Forest / RAF Bentwaters–Woodbridge — Wikipedia
- 0:49:41 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
Lieutenant Colonel Charles halt detailed the entire incident in a memo to the UK Ministry of Defense he said that a security patrol saw strange lights descending into the nearby rendlesham Forest
- 0:07:18 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) · Jesse Michels ▶
the bentwaters case in 1980 in England that was the largest group of tactical nuclear weapons being stored in Western Europe and it went back out