Nobody seems to know what happened to you and as long as you don't know for yourself what happened (you were the ''observer'') the topic will always be stuck at that point. But the fact that you don't know doesn't mean that it couldn't have been something mundane that you saw.
John, so what actually made you think that what you saw was NOT mundane ? Was it the colors, the intensity of the lights, the movements ? Can you absolutely exclude a mundane explanation ? I suppose that's what you're implying with your last post. What exactly was so unusual. Or is that something you can only show us in December, in the forest ?
The witnesses have already reported what happened to them. In doing so they have made their case as to why the objects could not have been mundane. There is nothing in the forest, or in the sky, that could account for what was seen, just as there is nothing in either of those places to account for the effects the objects produced on the witnesses, when they got close to those objects. What the witnesses claim, is that, in their experience, they know of nothing mundane or ordinary, that can be encountered or observed, on any particular day of the week, in Rendlesham forest, (nor anywhere else for that matter), that can account for what was seen, and what was felt by them, other than to say that there was an unknown object present in the forest that night. That is what they have said themselves, and no amount of reshuffling of quotations or extracts from statements, can change those basic facts of life
So when they walked back they discussed what they had experienced. They figured that they would have to make reports on what they had seen and so they decided to ''tell a story'', they couldn't tell their superiors that all the strange lights they had seen where just the lighthouse and whatever mundane objects. They would have made an exhibition of themselves as they had went out there to investigate ''strange lights''. Ed figured it would be clever to say they walked different ways so that nobody would suspect them of fabricating stuff. John came up with the screaming woman and JP thought that the zig-zagging movement of the ''object'' would stun people.
Unfortunately the story got too long and too intricate so that when they finally wrote their statements their memory had meanwhile played tricks on them. Their stories which should have been congruent now differed.
As you said Stephen, the above is merely hypothesis, and in your eyes, it is at best; conjecture, but only because It seems to makes sense to you, It does not make sense to others, myself included, and it is certainly NOT what the witnesses themselves have reported went on. What the witnesses reported went on, has not been disproven, and there is no evidence here to disprove that what the witnesses report was not factual or honest in any way whatsoever. You, and others have accused the witnesses of embellishing their witness statements, when in reality; what you are doing here, is the equivalent! Stick to the facts please!
Nobody seems to know what happened to you
By finally admitting that much, I presume its safe to say that you include yourself, Ian and Fatuus, aswell as the rest of us on this forum in that statement too! I agree with that, NOBODY but the witnesses themselves are in any position of authority whatsoever, to claim to know what exactly happened to them in the forest, or to claim any of what they say is true, or untrue, to any degree of a certainty at all.
At no time did I observe anything from the time I arrived at RAF Woodbridge.