Unexplained Lights

Brief of the event

James Penniston

 In 1980, Mr. James Penniston was assigned to the largest Tactical Fighter Wing in the Air Force, RAF Wood bridge in England. He was the senior security officer in charge of base security. At that time he held a top-secret US and NATO security clearance and was responsible for the protection of war-making resources for that base. Shortly after midnight on the 26th of December, 1980, Sergeant Steffens briefed him that some lights were seen in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the base. He informed Mr. James that what ever it was not a crash… it landed. Mr. James discounted what he said and reported to the control center back at the base that they had a possible aircraft crash. 

When they arrived near the suspected crash site it quickly became apparent that they were not dealing with a plane crash or anything else they'd ever responded to. There was a bright light emanating from an object on the forest floor. As they approached it on foot, a silhouetted triangular craft about 9 feet long by 6.5 feet high, came into view. The craft was fully intact sitting in a small clearing inside the woods. 

As the three of them got closer to the craft we started experiencing problems with their radios. James then asked Cabansag to relay radio transmissions back to the control center. Burroughs and James proceeded towards the craft.

When they came up on the triangular shaped craft there were blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior as though part of the surface and the air around us was electrically charged. They could feel it on their cloths, skin and hair.

After ten minutes without any apparent aggression, James determined the craft was non hostile to their team or to the base. Following security protocol, they completed a thorough on-site investigation, including a full physical examination of the craft. This included photographs, notebook entries, and radio relays through airman Cabansag to the control center as required. On one side of the craft were symbols that measured about 3 inches high and two and a half feet across.

Glyph images above courtesy of Javier Castro

These symbols were pictorial in design; the largest symbol was a triangle, which was centered in the middle of the others. These symbols were etched into the surface of the craft, which was warm to the touch and felt like metal.

The feeling I had during this encounter was no type of aircraft that I’ve eve seen before, said James

After roughly 45 minutes the light from the craft began to intensify. Burroughs and James then took a defensive position away from the craft as it lifted off the ground without any noise or air disturbance. It maneuvered through the trees and shot off at an unbelievable rate of speed. It was gone in the blink of an eye.

In James logbook, he wrote, Speed: IMPOSSIBLE. Over 80 Air Force Personnel, all trained observers assigned to the 81st Security Police Squadron, witnessed the takeoff.

The information acquired during the investigation was reported through military channels. The team and witnesses were told to treat the investigation as "top secret" and no further discussion was allowed. The photos we retrieved from the base lab (two rolls of 35 mm) were apparently over exposed.



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