Encounter in Rendlesham Forest
Subtitle: the inside story of the world's best-documented UFO incident
By: Nick Pope with John Burroughs, USAF, (Ret.), and Jim Penniston, USAF, (Ret)
Contributors: Burroughs, John (Former Air Force sergeant), author; Penniston, Jim, author
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781250038104; 9781250038111
Subjects: Unidentified flying objects; UFOs & Extraterrestrials; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT; Sightings and encounters
Description: "In 1980, a UFO was tracked on military radar in Rendlesham Forest, England. It landed near two of the most strategically important military bases in NATO, and was approached by military witnesses who touched the hull. This explosive new book--perfect for fans of Annie Jacobsen's Area 51, and Leslie Kean's UFOs--tells the full story of this incident, which is set to become better-known than Roswell. Written by Nick Pope, an international bestselling author and former government UFO investigator, working closely with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, the two officers at the heart of the encounters, this book reveals the first-hand witnesses' full stories for the first time and is supported by numerous formerly-classified documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Burroughs and Penniston are well-known in the believer community and are enthusiastic about promoting the book with Pope. An ex-Ministry of Defense official, Pope is the only government UFO investigator to have gone on the record on this subject. He has a huge US media profile as a UFO expert, making him the perfect person to team with Burroughs and Penniston to write and promote this book. The inside story of these events and their aftermath will change people's perceptions about the UFO mystery and about the true role played by government, the military and the intelligence agencies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ground Zero; title: The morning after; title: Into the darkness; title: It's coming this way; title: Charles Halt over the years; title: The most important bases in NATO; title: Debriefing the witnesses; title: The Brits are coming; title: Skeptical theories; title: Exotic theories; title: The story gets out; title: Rendlesham rumors; title: No Defense significance?; title: Project Condign; title: Beyond Rendlesham; title: Other voices; title: The search for answers; title: The Rendlesham Code; title: Final thoughts from John Burroughs and Jim Penniston; title: Conclusion; title: Selected documents and images. Appendix A. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt's official report of the UFO encounter ; Appendix B. Jim Penniston's "binary code message" from his original police notebook ; Appendix C.A Defence Intelligence staff document assessing the radiation readings taken at the landing site ; Appendix D.A Defence Intelligence staff document confirming that CINCUSAFE visited the Bentwaters/Woodridge bases immediately after the UFO encounter ; Appendix E. Transcript of the tape recording Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt made during his encounter ; Appendix F.A letter, drafted by Pat Frascogna, Esq., to the President of the United States, at the request of, and signed by, six former Congressional representatives, asking that the medical records of John Burroughs and Jim Penniston be retrieved from the Classified-Records section of the Department of Veterans Affairs and released to them.