This unexpected fascination with UFOs reminded me of a book my Granny bought me years and years ago. I dug the book out and have started reading it again – UFO landings in the Guernsey German Underground Hospital, but written in a more innocent (and strangely formal) style than could be expected today.I think it gave me a nightmare at the time. Reading the book in turn made me find some images I took in Guernsey down in the Underground Hospital in 2007. The hospital tunnels were, I think, built with forced labour during the WW2 Occupation by Germany. It really is strangely spooky place all on its own without any ‘aliens’ (German, inter-planetary or any other type).
And I did have a dream about alien landings the other night.
Dominique Rey
This is an interesting site featuring several podcasts, recommended to us by our UFO witness:
http://rendlesham-incident.co.uk
Paul and Ben Eno have released a series of podcasts aired between, I think, August and October 2010 as ‘Return to Rendlesham’ podcasts. These feature amongst others, John Burroughs, Jim Penniston, Charles Halt and Nick Pope. First broadcast on: Online/Archiveradio.com. This site also has other interviews including an article about the BBC broadcast ” The Truth is not out there”. This follows Evan Davis investigating Rendlesham with, ” noted skeptic, Ian Ridpath, and Mark Pilkington. The group observe satellites, glow worms, and of course the Orford Ness lighthouse, which is apparently all it takes for Davis to conclude: “mystery explained.”
“On Monday night, after dark, I ventured into Rendlesham Forest with the astronomy writer, Ian Ridpath, a scientist who has almost made a career of explaining the incident. He took me to the place where the airmen reported seeing flashing lights in the sky. There, we were greeted by the sight of the Orford Ness lighthouse a few miles away. Mr Ridpath was certain that this was what the witnesses to the mysterious lights in the forest were looking at. It is still there now – its light rotating every five seconds.”
It was a bit too misty on the day we were in Rendlesham, so lighthouse views were limited. We did go into Orford to view the lighthouse – NIcola has some pictures – (and we sent a postcard to Aid & Abet from Orford on the way) and our conversations and reading seem to conclude that the Lighthouse is not the answer.
Dominique Rey
Aforementioned Orford Lighthouse image now added
Nicola Naismith
We collected samples in Rendlesham, both items went into the same receptacle which is probably highly dubious in terms of collecting evidence however the evidence was well basic to say the least and some 30 plus years after the incident. I left the receptacle and contents in Dominique’s capable hands and wonder if it will find its way to Aid and Abet at some point – although it may not fit through their letter box.
Nicola Naismith
I’ve been trawling the internet for diffferent maps of the Incident area, partly as it was difficult for me to get bearings whilst wandering around the forest (I forgot I had a compass in my kit). Lots and lots of rows of trees. One thing I came across was ” Is the Rendlesham Forest Incident Happy?” from this fairly well-known site: www.jonbounds.co.uk/isbrumhappy by Jon Bounds. I tried it last week or so and was dispirited as the Incident came up as “AWFUL”.
Emotional Wellbeing for Rendlesham Forest incident on: Tuesday 27th of September 2011 22:57: 0 % (awful)
Today, as you can see below, is much better. Better for whom though?
Emotional Wellbeing for Rendlesham Forest incident on: Tuesday 4th of October 2011 23:02: 61.3 % (okay) spirit
Sad to Happy: 7 (out of 10)
Asleep to Awake: 5.56 (out of 10)
Out of Control to In Control: 5.82 (out of 10)
*The script read the 100 latest Tweets from within a 1 mile radius of Rendlesham Forest incident and rated the words against a database. Concept & site by Jon Bounds.
Dominique Rey
We have started sending in research material to Aid & Abet, for them to display in the gallery space as they choose. To date, 2 postcards, email images, email text and the initial short video. As a process, this certainly keeps the mind ticking over the information we have collected to date, never mind the NHS. The lateset piece was text from our interview – it is interesting that the notes we both took describe slightly differing versions of the UFO sighting – how stories and memories can subtly transform, like chinese whispers, and how small alterations in language, punctuation or maybe the omission of a letter can somewhere along the line create radically different meanings.
Dominique Rey
