Thanks Dan92
They did pick something up on radar the first night we went into the woods! CSC called eastern radar through are tower and they confirmed something was seen on radar and disappeared over Woodbridge! LT Buren has verified this because he was the one who made the call!
This maps to something I was told by a very reliable source about two months ago but as that was 'mate of a mate' stuff it's invalid as evidence. The fact that easterm radar confirmed a contact was lost over Woodbridge is interesting - especially as verification was requested by Lt Buren.
On a different point - the whole purpose of stealth was for it to be invisible to radar. Given the aircraft remained secret for so long, it can be assumed that its stealth capability worked therefore there would have been no radar signature or if there was then it was more likely to look like noise rather than a firm contact.
I remember BTDTs comment about him working on an aircraft at Woodbridge that had to be up on the flightline by 0630. At approx 0200 his flight was mustered then told to leave because the base was being evacuated. Because his car's fuel tank was virtually empty and the base petrol station was closed, he asked if he could leave by the east gate in order to shorten his journey. With permission granted he headed off down the east gate service road, turned left at the bottom, went past the end of Woodbridge runway at which point he saw floodlights to his right, preventing anyone from looking into the forest. His posts must still be on the forum somewhere but I think that's pretty much what he said. Taking his statement at face value, then if Woodbridge was being evacuated (and perhaps also HMP Hollesley Bay) then the situation must have been very serious indeed. However, there has been no confirmation of that evacuation - not at Woodbridge nor the alert at HMP Hollesley Bay.
There appear to be a number of elements that suggest someone, somewhere knew full well what was in the forest... e.g. the need to take floodlights, the fact that Halt and co should take a geiger counter but did not need NBCD suits, Conrad's apparent lack of concern over what was going on, the increase in flash-override voice traffic on the Autovon system (apparently a precedence reserved for calls to the US President or the UK PM or similar high ranking persons - that alone would surely have been enough to get any commanding officer reaching for his cap to find out what the f**k was happening...), the lack of response from the RAF, an apparent lack of concern that a radar contact had been lost right over Woodbridge.....fairly insignificant on their own but quite telling when put together.
You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time (Winston Churchill)...causa latet, vis est notissima
I'm aware though of allegations of so-called christian fundamentalism used in the military to influence soldiers. Recently I saw this documentary on RT:
You're right to be suspicious!