The People4, over his possible part in the Stomping around, goo"ng o# events of the second night. Equally inevi- Why the US Air Force and the British MoD kept quiet tably the question of a ‘cover-up’ arose in about the Rendlesham Forest Incident the course of the exchange. In respond- ing to that idea, Conde wrote: by Peter Brookesmith Knowing the USAF as I do I am still con- o the devoted connoisseur of skeptic- vinced that if the USAF was covering any- Tversus-believer debates, the argu- thing up, it was a vice base commander ment over the ‘Rendlesham Incident’ of leading a search for UFOs o! base [em- December 1980 has become a classic phasis added] accompanied by people re- of its kind. The case was early dubbed sponsible for guarding nuclear weapons. ‘Britain’s Roswell’—an appropriate sou- The fact that senior leadership did nothing briquet, for claims and counter-claims to Halt can be attributed to their desire to about both cases have unfolded along keep the situation low key. Relieving Halt strikingly similar lines over the years. would have made a splash, especially if he Believers and star witnesses have elabo- LT COL HALT: 3.30: and the objects are threw a public "t, coupled with a lack of rated the story, some in fantastical ways, still in the sky, although the one to the "rm evidence. They may have believed he while intrepid truth-seekers with nothing south looks like it’s losing a little bit of was a wacko, but could not prove it.5 to gain—decried in the trade as fact-shy altitude. We’re turning around and head- debunkers and government shills—keep ing back toward the base. The object to Conde’s hint that Halt was out of order digging up bits of evidence that indicate the sou... the object to the south is still in rambling about o# base was echoed nothing anomalous happened. beaming down lights to the ground. by Col Sam Morgan, who in the summer of 1981 succeeded Col Ted Conrad as Lt One phase of this decades-long debate [Break in recording] Col Halt’s immediate commanding of- revolved around the suggestion—and it $cer. In a 1984 phone conversation with was only a suggestion, not a ‘claim’—by LT COL HALT: 0400 hours: one object famously horned, hoofed, and tailed the former USAF law enforcement o!- still hovering over the Woodbridge base commentator on ufology, Phil Klass, Col cer, retired Senior Master Sergeant Kevin at about $ve to ten degrees o# the ho- Morgan said: “Halt really had no authority Conde: that a prank he played while on rizon. Still moving erratic and similar out there in that forest anyhow. So he was a patrol at Woodbridge may have been be- lights beaming down as earlier. 1 kind of hobbyist on his own lurking around. hind one feature of the case. When I... looked into it I concluded that it Interestingly enough, two other wit- was just a bunch of guys screwing around Brie"y stated, Conde—then a Technical nesses—local residents—had said they in the woods.” 6 This last phrase in turn is Sergeant—on one occasion adapted a saw coloured lights moving around in strangely redolent of Kevin Conde’s fel- USAF police car’s fancy lighting system the region of the East Gate at the same low 81st SPS security policeman Chris to generate a brilliant display of coloured time.2 So Conde’s practical joke, or one Armold’s words, in a message to the e- illuminations in a foggy night sky. This like it, looked for a while as if it might be zine UK UFO Network. 7 Apart from some could have created the impression that a good explanation for that otherwise exceedingly dry remarks about the event mysterious beams of light were being puzzling aspect of the case. On the other (such as it was—“It just was not an issue,” shone not up from, but down onto, the hand, Ian Ridpath’s analysis of which stars said Armold) and some of its latter-day Woodbridge base from above. Conde were scintillating, and subject to autoki- stars, Armold describes the venture into was not sure, but thought it possible that nesis, near the horizon on the night Halt the woods as “just a half-dozen or so of us he had perpetrated his jape at the time was in the woods, could equally well ex- stomping around goo"ng o!.” Lt Col Charles Halt and his party were plain the remarks about ‘light beams’ on stumbling around in the dark in Rendle- Halt’s tape.3 And as Kevin Conde can’t be The o!cial position sham Forest. If so, these exchanges, on certain when he played his prank, and the tape-recorded commentary that Halt no testimony has so far emerged to pin n April 1998, I became intrigued by made at the time, make sense: something similar on someone else on Ithis question of US airmen wandering the Night In Question, Ridpath’s explana- around, apparently on duty, en masse, in LT COL HALT: Now we’re observing what tion becomes the most parsimonious. the Su#olk woods. It struck me as strange appears to be a beam coming down to that they should feel free to do so. I lift- the ground. I mention all this simply to give Kevin ed my electric telephone, and spoke at Conde his due locus standi in the Rendle- length with the RAF and British Army M/SGT BALL: Look at the colours... shit. sham a#air. Inevitably, if now perhaps to press o!cers at the Ministry of Defence. his chagrin, Conde was drawn into what I didn’t mention the Rendlesham case. LT COL HALT: This is unreal. one can only call an argy-bargy on the I merely asked, à propos any RAF base Internet with the late Georgina Bruni, leased to the USAF, where the USAF’s [Break in recording] author of the True Believer’s Bible on territorial responsibility ended and who the Rendlesham incident, You Can’t Tell would defend the perimeter if it were at- 6 tacked. Crown on the other, the separation of from political crisis to outbreak of hostili- military and police powers is taken rather ties generally take a long time. By the mid The answers were interesting, for they seriously by the British. Given Lt Col Halt’s Sixties it had been calculated that there suggested that Lt Col Halt had put him- position and responsibilities,9 it would be were some 40–50 discrete stages an inter- self in a potentially embarrassing posi- surprising (or at least depressing) if he national crisis would pass through before tion. They were: hadn’t been apprised of the subtleties an exchange of nuclear missiles became of the British constitution and where he inevitable.12 During that time US bases in t
USAF responsibility starts (and ends) stood in relation to it. the UK would have ample opportunity to with the fenceline of an RAF base prepare their defences. leased to the USAF. Wars and rumours of wars One can safely say that any necessary t
Beyond that, i.e. outside the base, t’s not hard to see that the intricacies diplomatic niceties would, in one form or responsibility for security rests with Iof the British constitution could cre- another, have been observed long before the local police. ate problems, unforeseen in the 17th any actual shooting started. One can say century, for those wanting to defend a this particularly safely because in Octo- That’s the strict legal position: Mr Plod is USAF base in the UK against a common ber 2010 the aforementioned Nick Pope, in charge. If hordes of Red Army Spetsnaz enemy. But in the interests of pragma- former Ministry of Defence (MoD) clerk 8 troops were to have parachuted into tism much may be done by way of laws, and would-be half-colonel of the British the Su#olk countryside as Soviet ICBMs leases and treaties when a country enjoys Army, stated at the Fortean Times Un- rained down on Birmingham, Knotty Ash, (and sometimes su#ers from) an unwrit- Convention that US forces in the UK had Stow-in-the-Wold, &c, the protocol, at ten constitution. Even the egregious Nick standing authorization under the Status face value, would have been as follows. Pope, devotee of an ET interpretation of of Forces Agreement to venture o#-base The US base commander complains to the Rendlesham incident and of whom if the security of a base was compromised. the RAF base commander, who passes on more later, recognizes as much: As the person who provoked this useful American expressions of distaste to the revelation, I regret not having had the wit local police who, duly incensed at the So- The legal position with regard to United to point out at the time that proceeding viets’ o#ence of armed trespass, request States Visiting Forces (USVF) is complex, mob-handed o#-base to debunk (Lt Col (in suitably clipped tones) the Army to and there are a number of di!erent laws Halt’s own word) a UFO or two, scarcely give military aid to the civil community. and treaties governing what USVF per- constitutes defending ‘the security of the Note that formula: the strict legal and sonnel can and cannot do in the UK. The base’ as that term might commonly be constitutional position is that the British general rule is that US jurisdiction ends at understood. military would come to the assistance of the perimeter fence, though there are a the police and thus to the defence of the number of circumstances where it would Such US exercises as occurred o#-base, British sovereign, her subjects, and her be quite proper for on-duty USVF person- not being a reaction to a threat, would realm—not to the aid of the US military. nel to go o!-base.10 also have been cleared with everyone concerned in the proper order, including This protocol may seem quaint and curi- One such circumstance is certainly the the British police. Constitutionally, ‘clear- ous, even Byzantine, to those unaware defence of the base. USAF security police ance’ would, after all, take no more than of the delicate constitutional position of are also trained as infantrymen, ful$lling a telephone conversation between the the British Army. This is commanded by the same role as the RAF Regiment does base commander (an RAF o!cer) and the the sovereign but exists only by consent on a British air base. As Kevin Conde ex- local chief constable to become legal— of parliament, which may decline to raise plained it: the latter is su!ciently autonomous— taxes to support it. The arrangement has and thereafter it’s up to him whom else, its roots in the causes of the Civil War In the event of real tensions, and the belief including no one, he might choose to tell and the Glorious Revolution of the 17th that the Russians were coming, we would about it. century, and revolves around the Brit- ... have operated freely o! base. The exer- ish distaste for standing armies, which cises that have "gured into some of this Out of his own mouth historically have been seen as potential controversy are an example. The major- instruments of regal tyranny. A similar ity of the hard core ‘combat’ occurred o! ne circumstance in which it is legal suspicion of standing armies is built in base. Oand most de$nitely moral for US to the US Constitution, which insists that forces to move beyond base perimeters in funding for the military must be reviewed When in the air base ground defense formation is to deal with downed aircraft. every two years. But, as will become clear, mode we knew that if we waited until we But on the second night of the Rendlesh- the British position is important to the had Russians in the wire we were already am saga, the night Hall went snooping in ‘Rendlesham Incident’ and the nature of too late. It was our mission to go o! base the woods, there was no such triggering any cover-up by the authorities. and engage them as far from the #ight misapprehension about downed planes line as possible.11 to inspire (or justify) an o#-base expedi- As part of a series of safeguards against tion. 13 According to Halt himself, the politicization of the Army on the one In the prelude to what turns out to be hand and the abuse of power by the a shooting war, the preliminary stages The duty Flight Lieutenant [Bruce En- 7 glund] came in, and he was quite shaken, hauled up before the local beak, but it’s added: “Halt was a bit like the boy scout and insisted upon speaking to myself and not impossible. who never grew up and was out looking the base commander about a matter of for some kind of attention or excitement.” utmost urgency. He said, “It’s back,” and Having discussed this with various par- Halt’s now-famous habit of riding around I said, “What’s back?” and he said, “The ties, I’m less convinced today that the at night with security police patrols UFO is back.” I assembled a small team of situation was quite so clear-cut. For ex- would certainly suggest a certain Walter experts and we set o! in the forest, ready ample, the question of whether Charles Mitty-ish tendency. Regarding this, Col to debunk it.14 Halt and all his cohorts were in fact ‘on Morgan commented: “I was concerned duty’ (or regarded themselves as such) that he would usurp Major [Mal] Zickler’s Two points emerge from this revelation. has never been fully answered.15 Even authority and often spoke with Major Zick- In the $rst place, it suggests a high degree so, Halt himself had changed into a ‘util- ler to ensure he was not irritated by Halt’s of psychological priming among the air- ity’ uniform, and sallied forth to scratch actions. As long as Maj. Zickler could toler- men involved in favour of some anoma- among the trees with issue kit (a starlight ate Halt’s meddling and as long as Halt did lous occurrence, deriving (one presumes) scope and a Geiger counter, at the very not compromise his job performance, I did from reports or rumours of the events of least: the presence of light-alls is disput- not interfere.” the previous evening. In fairness, Englund ed) and certainly $led an o!cial report. may have been using the term ‘UFO’ in Lt Bruce Englund was certainly on duty. The enlisted men who chau#eured Halt the strict technical sense it’s employed Chris Armold, by his own account, seems around were not always so sanguine, by aviators and air tra!c controllers. But also to have been on duty. Sgt Monroe while independently endorsing Col Mor- Halt’s retrospective claim that he ‘set o# ‘Greg’ Nevilles, who operated the Gei- gan’s perception that Halt was in search in the forest, ready to debunk’ the UFO ger counter (and according to Col Sam of attention and excitement. Kevin Conde suggests that he, at least, didn’t take the Morgan had had little training on the observed: term in that sense. machine and was none too bright), was also on duty: Halt recruited him as he was Senior o$cers generally stayed out of Second, Halt’s formulation here $ts the the on-call member of the base’s Disaster our business, as they did not want to in- traditional template of believers’ rheto- Preparedness Unit. The status of Sgts terfere or become part of something they ric—the claim to have started as a skeptic Adrian Bustinza and Bobby Ball isn’t clear. [might] have to rule on later. Halt rode all but to have been slowly converted to a Larry Warren and John Burroughs seem the time—says something about his life belief in a favourite anomalous or para- just to have tagged along. In any case or lack of. ... Folks that ride with cops want normal phenomenon by the overwhelm- it seems hardly likely that any of these the excitement, and when they see some- ing nature of the evidence, etc. The in- people would disobey Halt, whom they thing dramatic it is exciting. In the end tention, conscious or otherwise, of this would regard as in charge by virtue of his though it is also frustrating, because they ploy is to endow both the evidence and rank. All of which makes Halt’s position à aren’t cops and they can’t share in the the adherent with authority; but implic- propos the standing arrangements be- excitement. All they can do is just watch. itly, it depends on the fragile notion that tween the UK Government and the USAF That’s Halt—he watched, but could not personal ‘authenticity’ and experience ambiguous at best. participate, and he hated that. Until outweigh the forces of logic and rational Christmas 80-81. Then he had the chance examination. In turn this has some bearing on how to be a man of action. 16 Halt’s commanders decided to respond to What happened next his adventure and his report. That would And Col Morgan’s take today on Halt’s also depend to some extent on how they story is this: n the original version of this article, I viewed Halt as an individual, an o!cer, Iremarked at this point as follows: at and a gentleman. Halt was in the same Halt was meddling as usual and went to the very least Halt should have known position anyone might be in any large check things out. Halt was over reacting enough to be aware of the possible con- corporate enterprise: how his peers and when on the scene and it was recorded sequences of going for a mass hike o#- superiors reacted to his behaviour would on a pocket tape recorder. I got this tape base, on duty and in uniform. Then-Sqn depend largely on their wisdom and ur- and... [it] started a story which, for Halt, Ldr (later Wing Cdr) Don Moreland, the banity, and their view of his character. shined a light on him. He could have ad- British base commander, should have Halt was fortunate in having his expedi- dressed the facts or he could have in#ated known that better than anyone. US forc- tion viewed kindly by men of experience the story. He chose to in#ate the story. es overseas are subject to local law for and insight. One says ‘fortunate’ because Soon the story was much bigger than he crimes committed on the host’s territory neither the o!cers nor the enlisted men expected and he does not now have a and, legally speaking, Halt and his men around him seem to have formed an es- graceful way out. were trespassing. Even under the law of pecially high opinion of Lt Col Charles trespass as it stood at the time, had they Ignis Halt. Red peril, red faces caused signi$cant damage in the forest, they would have been committing an of- Col Sam Morgan called him “a kind of twit” alt’s superiors’ response to news of fence, albeit minor, and could have been in his 1984 conversation with Phil Klass. Hhis sortie should also be seen in the prosecuted. For diplomatic reasons it’s In an email exchange with me in Decem- general political context of the time, and perhaps unlikely they would have been ber 2010 he called Halt’s foray “"aky”, and against the backdrop of the presence of 8 nuclear weapons at the Woodbridge/ drugs and rock’n’roll, and a state of a!airs putes happened—that a bevy of US air- Bentwaters complex. too close to Bilko for comfort. The second men, at the behest of a Deputy Combat invites cranks and makes sure that real Support Group Commander who should At the end of 1980, there were US hos- journalists stay far away. have known better, went blundering tages still held in Iran (on 21 December, about where they should not have been. the recently self-installed ayatollahs had We know what Halt’s superiors did in (No wonder the forest wildlife was in up- demanded $10 billion for their release), these circumstances, which was send a roar.) It should be no great surprise that— and the Iran–Iraq war was in its opening bland report by Halt up the line via Sqn in the interests of good relations, and stages; there was an IRA mainland bomb- Ldr Moreland to the MoD. They, having most particularly good public relations, ing campaign in progress; the USAF base made some enquiries that established between long-standing allies—there was at Greenham Common was infested with that nothing was seen on radar, came a policy of discretion; or cover-up, if you ladies protesting against stationing US to their usual conclusion—“no defence insist. But it was only a cover-up of sorts. cruise missiles in the UK, while there had signi$cance”—and directed their at- For there is a fairly large distinction be- recently been a rise in militant anti-nu- tention and their long-su#ering quills tween studiously ignoring a potentially clear protest in general (for instance, the elsewhere. But Rogerson (as I did until profoundly embarrassing infraction of Sharpness incident of 8 July). The Soviets quite recently) clearly thought, in 2001, English law because of what it revealed had renewed jamming of Western radio that there had been a conscious, calcu- about the calibre of certain senior USAF broadcasts to the USSR; Poland was in lated decision by those on the ground at personnel, and conspiring to remain si- upheaval, threatening the integrity of the Woodbridge not to make much of Halt’s lent about the arrival of an extra-terres- Soviet empire, and there was a real pos- expedition. For the record, I’ve never as- trial craft. Or perhaps time-travellers, as sibility of invasion by the Red Army; the sumed, as Rogerson seems to here, that we are now invited to believe. Gang of Four was on trial in China; and the USAF or the MoD has throughout de- Ronald Reagan, whose rhetoric promised liberately de"ected attention from some In sum: Lt Col Charles Halt should have an end to détente with the Communist Greater Secret hidden in the Rendlesham known the law, the British constitution bloc, had just been elected President of incident. and the conventions before initiating his the United States. foolhardy expedition. If he did not, he was But from what I can gather, it seems not out of order; and if he did know, he was In short, these were fairly jumpy times by to have crossed anyone’s mind that Halt even more out of order. The USAF may Cold War standards. In their light, there had, in the vulgar phrase, driven a coach be forgiven for wishing to draw a discreet was potentially a huge embarrassment and horses through the Status of Forces veil over what may have been ignorance for the USAF and for the US itself in the agreement. Whether this was inatten- or foolishness on the part of a senior of- discovery that a bunch of American air- tion to $ne detail or a case of turning a $cer at a strategic air base. Unfortunately, men from Woodbridge and Bentwaters blind eye is, at the time of writing, any- as with many another attempt to conceal had been distracted from what they one’s guess. The fact of Halt’s transgres- a cock-up, this one back$red massively— were supposed to do—guard their base: sion may, of course, have crossed Don and the smoke is with us still, for an un- the heart of the USAF police task was to Moreland’s mind, but he hasn’t said so on nerving number of people seem to pre- guard the weapons systems and storage the record. Halt seems not to have had an fer breathing its enchanting fumes over areas—and go for a ramble in the forest earwiggin’ over his foray. Col Sam Morgan the refreshing ozone of rational thought. in search of a ‘UFO’. In a review in Mago- told me: “I don’t know of any wire brushing Fortunately for Halt, however, he was nia (No 74, April 2001) of Georgina Bruni’s that Halt received here over his actions, nor commanded by o!cers who were more You Can’t Tell The People, Peter Rogerson, did I "nd anyone concerned about the mat- of the civilised and forgiving variety than admittedly with some exaggeration, put ter. It was dismissed as little more than Halt they were a species of unrelenting mar- it this way: being Halt.” The urbane and tolerant view tinet. prevailed. Rather more likely is that the ...if you were the USAF or the British or wider implications occurred to the civil Ironically, if anyone is now touting a tale American governments and you were servants in the MoD, and perhaps to oth- of sinister, premeditated cover-up, it is pushed to into an absolute corner, which ers such as Gen. Charles Gabriel, to whose Col Charles Halt himself and his cronies. story would cause you the most embar- notice the incident came. But however The $nal word on that should go to Col rassment in the tabloids: “Drug crazed one looks at it, it wasn’t in anyone’s inter- Sam Morgan: American servicemen "red on a light- ests to make an uproar, since that would, house thinking it was an ALIEN SPACE- inevitably, have become public. Over the years Halt has expanded his story SHIP (shock horror), and these are the to the point of hinting at a cover up by the men guarding the CRUISE MISSILES” (even And "nally USA and UK authorities and I would cer- more shock horror); or, “Brave lightly tainly criticize him here. I have never be- armed US servicemen confront an ALIEN one of the above bears on what ‘re- lieved that a national government would SPACESHIP, risking all to do their sacred Nally’ happened in the forest. But it be capable of such a cover up, as there duty and protect their precious charge”. does reasonably, Occam-like even, ex- would just be too many people involved. No real contest is it? True or not, the "rst plain why for years both the UK MoD and If nothing else, I believe Halt has insulted headline invites in all sorts of real investi- the US DoD were really not that keen to both our governments with his accusa- gative journalists, sni$ng out tales of sex, let much on about what no one now dis- tions. 9 NOTES & REFERENCES http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/ Lord Birdwood, whose o!ce was morgan.pdf next to mine at the J. Walter Thomp- 1. A transcript of the ‘Halt tape’ can be son Company in London, in the mid- found at URL: www.ianridpath.com/ 7. UK UFO Network, #80 Pt II, 5 Sept 1960s; he in turn had it as part of a ufo/halttape.htm, and an MP3 audio 1997. Archived at http://ufoup- brie$ng (which included a screen- $le can be downloaded from www. dateslist.com/1997/sep/m07-029. ing) concerning Peter Watkins’s ianridpath.com/ufo/halttape.mp3 shtml then-banned BBC $lm The War Game at the House of Lords. Having since 2. Thanks to James Easton for point- 8. ‘Spetsnaz’ is an abbreviation of Spet- searched in vain for some more con- ing out this connection, by way of sialnoye Nazranie—’troops of special crete reference, I am forced to appear Jenny Randles: UFO Crash Landing?, purpose’. ‘Although Spetsnaz units to be name-dropping. in a post of 1 September 2003 to may be used for other purposes dur- the UFORL e-mail list: In UFO Crash ing peacetime, their primary role is 13. I suspect that the responsibility of Landing?, Jenny Randles documents to carry out strategic missions during USAF police for $nding downed air- a witness, Sarah Richardson (only 12 the $nal days prior to war breaking craft was also covered in the leases at the time), who reportedly watched out and in war itself. These wartime and treaties to which Pope refers, enigmatic ‘light beams’, when Halt tasks would include: deep reconnais- and involved some kind of standing was making a similar observation. ... sance of strategic targets; the de- licence to cover such emergencies. At the time, she was at her mother’s struction of strategically important Once again it would clearly be mad home in Woodbridge. It was be- command-control-and-communica- to have to go through a diplomatic tween 1 and 3 am into Sunday, 28 tions (C3) facilities; the destruction of rigmarole before getting people to December.“From (Mum’s) house you strategic weapons’ delivery systems; twisted metal and roasting "esh. The could see the river and the forests and demolition of important bridges and UK’s FOIA has yet to be fully exploit- the bases. You could hear the revving and transportation routes; and the ed in $nding out just what were (and of the engines. You became familiar snatching or assassination of impor- are) the arrangements, agreements, with all the spotlights and other ac- tant military and political leaders. contracts or treaties by which (even tivity. This night was di!erent. Three Many of these missions would be allied) foreign troops could go into bands of light appeared over the carried out before the enemy could action on British soil? woods to the side of the runway ... They react and some even before war had were star-like and they were bright, actually broken out.’ —John Keller, 14. Interview with Col Halt, Strange But coloured red, blue and yellow ... the ‘Spetsnaz’, http://www.systemauk. True?, UK ITV, 9 December 1994 oddest thing was the colour changes. com/spetsnaz.htm Blue, green, yellow and so on.”Jenny 15. At the time I was writing the $nal also notes that on the same night, 9. Lt Col Halt’s o!cial title was Deputy draft of this article I had had no an- local garage owner, Gerry Harris, Combat Support Group Commander, swer to an enquiry on this precise claimed to have observed near [the] a post most often referred to as ‘dep- point, forwarded via a third party to East Gate and apparently emanating uty base commander’. The Combat Col Halt on 21 December 2010. from within the forest, “three sepa- Support Commander was ultimately rate lights” which sometimes “moved responsible for all roads and grounds, 16. E-mail dated 1 October 2010, to Ian around in circles”. all buildings and structures, secu- Ridpath. rity, law enforcement, the schools, 3. See the analysis at www.ianridpath. the Commissary, the Base Exchange THANKS most especially to Kevin com/ufo/rendlesham3.htm (BX), behaviour of dependents, utili- Conde and Col Sam Morgan, for clarifying ties such as water and sewerage, and a number of points raised while revising 4. Georgina Bruni: You Can’t Tell The many other such activities. It was this article, and to Dr David Clarke, James People: The De$nitive Account of the security and policing aspect of Easton, Joe McGonagle, Jenny Randles, the Rendlesham Forest UFO Mystery, his job that gave Halt the licence to Ian Ridpath and John Stepkowski for vari- Sidgwick & Jackson 2000 ride with the base law enforcement ous speci$c illuminations, as well as for patrols and, of course, to call on se- continuing discussions of the Rendlesh- 5. Kevin Conde, e-mail message to curity troops to join him on the night am incident over the years, and for keep- Georgina Bruni dated 17 July 2003, he went outside the wire and into ing my interest in it alive. quoted in a post to the UFORL e-mail Rendlesham Forest. list of 20 July 2003. This list is now Copyright © 2004, 2011 Peter Brooke- defunct, but some posts may still 10. Post to UFORL e-mail list, 21 July smith be retrievable through the Wayback 2003 Machine, http://web.archive.org/col- This article is adapted and expanded lections/web.html 11. Post to UFO Updates, ‘Re: More Bent- from ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’, pub- waters Information’, 30 Aug 2003. lished in The Skeptic Volume 17 Number 6. Klass’s typed notes of his conver- 2-3, Summer and Autumn 2004 sation can be found as a PDF at 12. I had this piece of information from 10