AO#4 - Rendlesham Forest Traditional Cache
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The 4th and final cache that was required to complete Alien
Outpost, sadly the final is now archived.
Rendlesham Forest, England
Rendlesham Forest will always be remembered as the UK's answer
to Roswell, being as it is the only other UFO incident that has
received official recognition from the government and military. It
is the most significant UFO incident ever to have occurred in the
UK and one of the most significant anywhere in the world.
The incident spanned four days in 1980 from late on December 26 to
December 29. Rendlesham Forest is a large pine forest, east of
Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. Nearby are the twin NATO air bases,
RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge; at the time both bases were
being leased to the United States Air Force.
Mr. Gordon Levitt was the first person to report seeing a UFO on
the night of December 26, 1980. He lived in Sudbourne, on the edge
of Rendlesham Forest. He was out in his garden with his dog when he
saw a UFO that looked like an upside-down mushroom with a
greenish-white glow. The craft was silent and heading in the
direction of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge. Levitt's dog later
started acting strangely and refused to come out of it's kennel.
The dog's condition got worse and it died before the New
Year.
At RAF Woodbridge, where the UFO was headed, were two US Air Force
security patrolmen, John Burroughs and Budd Parker. They watched
the craft reduce altitude and land in the woods before Burroughs
called the base at 2am. He reported seeing a Christmas tree like
pulsating mass of colored lights. Jim Penniston, a security patrol
sergeant and Herman Kavanasac drove in a jeep to join the two
patrolmen.
Penniston, being the ranking officer took command of the situation
which he believed to be a plane crash after seeing lights filtering
through trees. Parker continued his patrol at the east gate of RAF
Woodbridge while the other three men entered the forest on foot.
Radio contact with RAF Woodbridge started to break down as the men
entered the woods so Kavanasac was ordered by Penniston to stay at
the edge of the forest to relay messages.
The two men who went deeper into the forest towards the lights
reported that the air became alive with energy and crackled as
though they were in a thunderstorm. The energy caused the mens'
hair to stand on end and their skin to tingle.
Penniston's description of the object was a conical object about
the size of a small car, floating on beams of light just 12" above
the ground. He also reported a mist surrounding the craft and black
marks like writing on one side. The men founded that getting any
closer to the object was like walking in slow motion, some force
was trying to hold them back. Before the men got close enough for a
detailed look the craft rose rapidly into the air in a flash of
light and disappeared. The men reported hearing a women screaming
and animals in a nearby paddock became frenzied. Penniston retired
from the air force in 1993 with 27 medals and much experience of
recovering crashed aircraft. He is alleged to have taken many
photographs of the craft but after handing them over to the USAF he
never saw them again.
The next day, three small depressions 1.5" deep and 7" in diameter
were found along with tree which had had their tops broken. The
three depressions were checked and found to be in a very regular
triangular pattern and radiation readings were ten times the normal
background level. The side of a tree facing the triangle was also
found to have higher than normal radiation levels.
A very interesting incident! This should be a pretty
easy cache to do, though, where the cache is, there is NO GPS
RECEPTION at all. The co-ords were taken in front of the object
that renders a GPSr useless.
Pick the right time our you may get wet feet, though, it is doable
from above. Please be sure to hide the cache back really well, it's
a popular area. You will probably have to be very unlucky to be
spotted at GZ, but, be carefull anyways.
It's a small container, so small swaps are a must. Inside you will
find a little grey alien, he has a special tag attached, the alien
stays with this cache at all times, he is not a swap.
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