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USAF Memorandum on Rendlesham Forest Incident (Halt Memo)
- Source label
- U.S. Air Force
- Catalog date
- 1981-01-13
- Record type
Record summary
Lt. Col. Charles Halt's January 1981 memorandum to the British Ministry of Defence describing 'unexplained lights' near RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge on December 26–28, 1980. The most famous on-base UFO event recorded by USAF personnel in Europe.
This is archive metadata, not a transcript. Catalog dates may refer to a release or collection rather than the event itself.
Source and citation
Record ID: rendlesham-1980
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