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BENTWATERS SOLDIER SAW INSIDE SUPER-SECRET VAULT

Base Was Site of Famous UFO Events in 1980
by Michael Lindemann

The military base known as RAF Bentwaters in England is
associated with one of the most impressive yet controversial UFO
cases of all time. Almost no one disputes that something
strange occurred near the base during late December of 1980, but
what it was remains shrouded in mystery. Odd moving lights were
reported in the sky and in the Rendlesham Forest that separates
Bentwaters from its nearby sister base (now closed) called RAF
Woodbridge. Soldiers were dispatched into the woods, led by Lt.
Colonel Charles Halt, USAF. (Though on British soil, both
bases were manned by American forces).

On January 13, 1981, Halt sent a classified memo regarding the
events to the British Ministry of Defence. That memo, released
to U.S. UFO researcher Robert Todd in June of 1983 through
the Freedom of Information Act, says that several witnesses
reported a triangular, metallic, highly luminous object either
hovering or standing on legs, and then maneuvering through the
forest, on the night of December 27. Though not a witness to
this object himself, Halt said that the next morning he did
witness three depressions in the ground, arranged in a
triangular pattern, that apparently marked where the object had
stood. Halt further stated that on the following night he and
others witnessed an astounding display of moving lights in the
sky.

Halt's memo left little doubt that whatever happened was out of
the ordinary, but continuing efforts by independent researchers
have not resolved the Bentwaters mystery, and current opinions
vary widely. Some now believe the strange events were all
staged as part of a very elaborate psychological warfare test,
possibly involving mind-control techniques. Others say craft of
unknown origin were seen at close range, and that extensive
photo and physical evidence was gathered at the site -- all of
which was then locked away in government vaults. Still others
say not only craft but "aliens" were seen and contacted.
Finally, there are the hard-line skeptics who say nothing at all
remarkable happened, except that airmen who should know better
mistook the light of a nearby lighthouse in the fog for
something otherworldly.

Now CNI News has learned of a U.S. soldier who was stationed
at Bentwaters some years after the famous 1980 events, but who
saw several things that lend strong credence to the strange
claims associated with the base. This soldier prefers that his
name not be used in this story, but he has communicated under
his own name with CNI News editor Michael Lindemann.

Concerning his military background, the soldier says: "I entered
the service in 1983 and was assigned to RAF Bentwaters in 1984.
I was involved in nuclear weapons and because of our extensive
background investigations, members of our section were often
called upon to do other high-security details. Since even the
Security Police didn't have as high a clearence, a lot of these
details were simply being our own guards -- hence my access to
the vault (see below). I volunteered for as many of these
details as I could because it was supposed to create an
impressive military record. However, when I arrived at my next
base (I left Bentwaters late in '86) no records of my special
duties followed me. I called my immediate supervisor when I
discovered this and he said, 'What happens at Bentwaters stays
at Bentwaters.' I think this had more to do with security than
UFOs. I was an enlisted man and I was an E-4 Sgt when I entered
the vault. I left the service in 1988. I was still angry that
none of my record followed me. I simply didn't re-enlist and
had an honorable discharge. I was still an E-4."

Here is the soldier's account of his extraordinary experience
in "the vault" at Bentwaters, where apparently something very
interesting and very secret is hidden.

"On RAF Bentwaters there is a secured area around the flightline.
This is normal and many people have access, but not all. Inside
this area is another secured area containing the munitions dump.
Again, this is normal; fewer people have access to this. On this
particular base there is another weapons storage area that only a
few people can get in. You are searched and must travel around
in pairs inside this area. It is heavily guarded. The bunkers
in this area require an elaborate key and password sequence to get
in. One particular bunker is different.

"Inside this bunker is a vault with two combinations and two locks.
Because of regulations, no one person can have access to more than
one [combination or lock]. Hence, if you can get a key you won't
get the combo, or vice-versa. It takes four people to open the
door -- plus the security team verifying passwords, etc. This is
the most secure area I have ever seen in the Air Force.

"I was picked to be a key holder, which meant that I was armed, and
told to escort the individual who needed [access to] the vault,
along with the three others needed to open the door. I don't know
who the individual was; he was American and a civilian. We opened
the door and I at first couldn't believe it. It contained a
roughly-made shelf made out of two-by-fours holding two old wooden
crates. The individual opened one of the crates, which was only
sealed with a lead seal, and inside was a green styrofoam container
in two halves. He opened it up and inside was a rod about a quarter
inch in diameter and bent about three times along its length. It
looked solid and if it were straight it would be about a foot long.
It was dull but corrosion free from what I could tell. The man
looked at it for about a minute, then put it away and resealed the
box with a new lead seal.

"For his minute we spent about four hours preparing to open the
vault. It is that secure.

"That was when I started asking questions about why a small rod
would require so much security. The underlings such as me hadn't
a clue, but when I started asking others I was told not to
worry about it. One officer that I knew personally once said
under his breath that it was 'proof,' but when I pressed him he
denied saying it. The only other response I got, from people
who obviously didn't know, [was] that it probably had something
to do with all the UFOs that supposedly visit the base."

This soldier has no doubt that he saw something very extraordinary
in that vault, but he was highly skeptical of a UFO connection
until he had his own amazing sighting at Bentwaters some time
later. Here is his account.

"I was working nights and for once the sky above the base was
clear. I took an astronomy class in college and was testing my
knowledge of the constellations when I saw what looked like an
equilateral triangle. Of all the constellations, none I could
think of formed a triangle with such bright stars. I had been
looking and thinking for about five or ten minutes when, right
when I was looking directly at them, the stars turned a full
circle, each ending up where they started, and then shot out at
90 degree angles from the direction they were moving, and within
a second were gone over the horizon, each going a different
direction. Because they were just points of light I figured
they were far away and that would make their speed something
incredible. I was so shook up I took the rest of the night off
and for weeks had this nightmare that all the stars in the sky
were spinning, and thus the end of the universe was near. That
may sound strange, but it was that disturbing."

It is interesting to compare this soldier's sighting with
Colonel Halt's eyewitness description of events on December 28,
1980. Halt wrote in his memo: "Three star-like objects were
noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the
south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The
objects moved rapidly in sharp angular movements and displayed
red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared
to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned
to full circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky
for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for
two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time
to time."

=================================================================
"In all times and all places, with the possible exception of
Western Europe for the past two hundred years, a social commerce
between human beings and various types of discarnate entities,
or non-human intelligences, was taken for granted."

-Terence McKenna =================================================================

Excerpt from:
CNI News - Volume 13.7
December 28, 1995
Published by the ISCNI News Center
Editor: Michael Lindemann
ISCNI@aol.com

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