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originally posted by: midicon
a reply to: JimOberg
I always found it strange that the Rendlesham Forest affair was also just a few hours following a Soviet rocket re-entry.
originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: JimOberg
Come on, Jim! Everybody knows motherships do not enter the atmosphere. They stay orbiting around the target planet vomiting orbs that do enter the atmosphere and hover over lakes silently.
originally posted by: midicon
a reply to: JimOberg
I always found it strange that the Rendlesham Forest affair was also just a few hours following a Soviet rocket re-entry.
originally posted by: midicon
a reply to: scrounger
The 'lighthouse' perhaps shows that there is something else going on there. I can conjecture a few scenarios but hey if aliens are your' first go to default, knock yourself out.
That was not surprising. Distance estimates to UFOs have always been unreliable without some kind reference, which is almost always absent.
originally posted by: JimOberg
Distance estimates ranged from a few hundred feet to several miles.
I was a bit surprised by the claims of maneuvering and course changes, since re-entering satellites generally don't do that.
Many observers reported maneuvering including course and altitude changes, as well as hovering
I wasn't surprised that people misunderstood what they saw, but I thought they would be more accepting of the explanation offered...I didn't expect to see such vehement denials.
Vehement attacks [worst ever seen] on the idea it was only a reentering satellite, with nasty personal insults to proponents of that explanation.
originally posted by: midicon
a reply to: JimOberg
I always found it strange that the Rendlesham Forest affair was also just a few hours following a Soviet rocket re-entry.
I thought the one thing that everyone agreed on was that atmospheric entry of some bolides is what started the whole chain of events. There was an atmospheric re-entry of a Cosmos rocket launcher that night but the timing is off for that to be the trigger. I think the timing of the bolide just before 3am matches the initial investigation event at 3am that started the entire sequence of events.
originally posted by: NightVision
You must not have read up on the Rendlesham Forest affair.
The British Astronomical Association’s Meteor Section Newsletter no. 4 (1981 February) summarized the various events of the night of 1980 December 25–26, including a brilliant fireball at 02.50 on December 26. The timing of this fireball matches the appearance of the bright object in the sky seen by security guards at Woodbridge air base that sparked off the Rendlesham Forest UFO chase.
originally posted by: mirageman
Christmas Night 25th into 26th December 1980 (3am) – after reports of strange lights in Rendlesham Forest, England, three USAF security policemen are sent to investigate a possible downed aircraft from the nearby twin NATO bases of Woodbridge and Bentwaters.
originally posted by: JimOberga significant minority correctly reported separate lights [which some interpreted as a ‘fleet’ of UFO orbs]
originally posted by: Erno86
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
And may I add: These fiery balled foo fighters, should have the wherewithal to quench forest wildfires, since they purportedly have the ability to extinguish fires when they land in brushy, forested areas; despite the starship being shrouded with a magnetically contained fiery plasma.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
Certainly some UFO reports could be a result of space junk coming back in hot. But just as certainly not all of them, particularly the ones where people are interacting with strange beings doing strange stuff. I doubt something like the Falcon Lake Incident was a satellite re-entry. So what percentage? One or two percent, perhaps less?
originally posted by: chunder
a reply to: scrounger
Then why did the time stamps on the halt audio recordings about the light flashes match the frequency of the lighthouse exactly ?
So yes, that is what happened.
Whether that is the explanation for the entire sequence of sightings is doubtful but at some point at least these highly trained personnel confused the lighthouse for something else.