The Rendlesham Forest Incident: “Britain’s Roswell”
The Beginning of the Case On 26 December 1980, near the RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge air bases in Suffolk, England, which were operated by the US Air Force, two American servicemen on patrol reported seeing strange lights in the forest. What began as an investigation into a possible aircraft crash became one of the best-known UFO cases in Europe, often called “Britain’s Roswell.” The case became public on 2 October 1983, when the British newspaper News of the World ran it on its front...
