RENDLESHAM CONFERENCE 2011

[truth65]

Hi,just wondering if we could have another convention of some sort this year ad i know a lot of people like myself have had to miss the latest rendlesham conference due to injury.
Im planning to return this year as soon as im fit and up and walking again so if anyone wants to join me this year when im ready and prepared ill let you know when im ready and going.
David

[Gordy]

Dave and I are happy and willing to stage another conference here at the Woodbridge Community Hall, maybe Dec 2011.

[AgentAppleseed]

Would be great if they decided to have another one for 2011. I definitely would not miss another one.

[Deep Purple]

I would miss it. The recent developments on withholding information from the forum, by principal witnesses, to then present us with a sequence of meaningless Binary numbers holds little prospect of any meaningful dialogue. The event is 30 yrs old and spin , plattitudes, deception can only lead to a conclusion that this is an epsiode of the Muppets show gone badly wrong and nothing happened.

[Matt Lyons]

Hi to all organisers,
I am chairman of BUFORA and I came into the deeper study of the subject ten years ago. I missed the earlier two decades of conferences and the running of the conferences is vital and more important than ever. You have new witnesses coming forward in more outspoken and specific levels they would not have done so previously, either due to stil being in active service or other reasons. To have a conference where the co-authors of 'East Gate' and two other principal forces witnesses were all under the same roof was very special.
I felt that the conference could have been an all day event, every speaker felt like an hour too short for all the things they had to tell, directly involved in the event or not.
It was an absolute credit to you all in all the background orgnaisation that must have taken hundereds of hours and communications in order for this event to converge into those precious few hours in Woodbridge and it was very appreciated.
I said hello to people I had not met from the local area and those I had little time left to say hello to. I would suggest there should be be one for the local people to come forward that knew of something odd going on this phase of UFO sightings. I had only just left school when all this kicked off in the forest on those three nights, although some people may have started to tire that may have been researching, listening or investigating from the start of the event, it should be remembered that there is a new generation of us who want to look at the case from a summary and objective approach.
New articles and witnesses are still coming forward and I can defintely say that although already well researched, BUFORA will be keeping this case wide open for further developments and research.

Best wishes to you all in the new year

Love, life and hapiness to you all

Matt

[AdrianF]

While I will take my hat off to Gordy and those who managed to put all the pieces in place and raise some much needed cash for charity, I wouldn't be in a great rush to attend another one.
What would there be to discuss, the Easter Bunny being alive and well in Rendlesham Forest?

[alienshitstorm]

maybe a conference with some british witnesses ,to cover some of the strange things spotted by them over the years as metioned by brenda butler...

[WizardofOdd]

Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely LOVE to get a guided tour of the forest by Jim, John and Larry, and would no doubt hang uncritically on their every word (and it's good that all proceeds went to charity), but once the usual rent-an-experts crop up, and all this new stuff comes out, conveniently for this anniversary, my incredulity circuitry starts popping fuses. Reminds me of the time I tried to join my local society and was told that I couldn't because it was being closed to new members due to declining interest! There needs to be balance (for example, shame Mr Ridpath felt he couldn't attend -even though I don't agree with 99% of his conclusions).

So please put me down for a walk in the forest -but not sure I could sit through a whole 'conference', I'm veering towards Deep Purple, even though I'd like to believe (to borrow someone else's catch phrase), and am still interested in hearing what everyone has to say -sans the circus.

[John Burroughs]

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters" Albert Einstein

[arvd]

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters" Albert Einstein

What's with all the Albert Einstein bollox.

[John Burroughs]

While I will take my hat off to Gordy and those who managed to put all the pieces in place and raise some much needed cash for charity, I wouldn't be in a great rush to attend another one.
What would there be to discuss, the Easter Bunny being alive and well in Rendlesham Forest?

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

[alienshitstorm]

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters" Albert Einstein

What's with all the Albert Einstein bollox.

real nice attitude you have there

[puddlepirate]

I wouldn't attend another 'conference' on this topic. There would be no point. I wasted over 5 hours sitting there listening to the same old stuff being trotted out by the same old faces. The promised tour of the forest to point out the landing sites didn't happen or at least it hadn't happened by 0215 which was the time that I and many others started to leave the area. There was no new information other than the binary code nonsense - and even that couldn't be revealed in full. As for the event contributing to furthering the knowledge of what happened in Dec 80, it didn't. It was nothing more than a precursor to the TV interviews by the German and US crews that took place in the very early hours at east gate and at the T junction at the bottom of the east gate service road. Apparently there had been filming the day before so the 'conference' was simply one of several filmed sequences that comprised an episode of Ancient Aliens on the History Channel and whatever the German crew were planning to broadcast. We were nothing more than a studio audience who had to pay for the priviledge. It would have been different had the civilian witnesses been allowed to speak but they were simply ignored or brushed to one side.

The only truly interesting part of the whole affair were the allegations made by an ex-Suffolk Constabulary policeman who was sitting behind me. I overheard him say to the person sitting next to him that drugs abuse was rife amongst USAF personnel and it caused the local police some major problems. When Penniston stated the SPS could not drink alcohol or take medicinal drugs for 24 hours before guard mount, the ex-copper nearly fell off his chair with laughter. He turned to a guy sitting to his right and said that was the biggest load of bollocks he had ever heard. I've got no idea if these allegations are true nor if the guy was really an ex-copper but he seemed to know his stuff. He also claimed to have served with one of the coppers who responded to the call from Bentwaters.

[marantz]

puddlepirate, you seem to have been on the forum the longest. Do you know if Larry Warren was actually out there on any of the nights? I have heard (I can't for the life of me think where) that he was given the story by another airman. Would you happen to know who that was ? Thanks Marantz.

[marantz]

I was just looking through the testimonies on Ian Ridpath's site. IT appears James Penniston claims he originally saw a MECHANICAL object.

Is the spinning light house not a MECHANICAL object ?

[puddlepirate]

Hi Marantz

I wasn't there nor have I ever served in the USAF so I can only give a personal opinion based on my impression of LW after meeting him at the event on the 28th. He came across to me as an OK, honest bloke who has never changed his story so I have absolutely no reason to doubt his word. He says he was there and I believe him.

[marantz]

Have you read this. Larry Warren Story:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=688

[puddlepirate]

In Warren's favour is the fact that he is the only witness to have been subjected to official action. He had his passport confiscated. He has not brought the USAF into disrepute and there is nothing in LAEG other than his claims regarding the involvement of senior officers, that is disparaging of the USAF. So why was it that only LW was subjected to official actions? Why not Burroughs and Penniston or indeed, Col Halt? Could it be that such action was taken because LW revealed classified information to unauthorised persons? i.e. he spilled the beans and brought the story into the open and that in itself contravened the terms of his Personal Security Pledge? It is worth remembering he was a 19yrs old airman, not long out of basic training on his first foreign draft who suddenly found himself in a most peculiar situation. Anyway, LW is perfectly able to speak for himself so if he reads this I'm sure he'll put me right.

[John Burroughs]

I wouldn't attend another 'conference' on this topic. There would be no point. I wasted over 5 hours sitting there listening to the same old stuff being trotted out by the same old faces. The promised tour of the forest to point out the landing sites didn't happen or at least it hadn't happened by 0215 which was the time that I and many others started to leave the area. There was no new information other than the binary code nonsense - and even that couldn't be revealed in full. As for the event contributing to furthering the knowledge of what happened in Dec 80, it didn't. It was nothing more than a precursor to the TV interviews by the German and US crews that took place in the very early hours at east gate and at the T junction at the bottom of the east gate service road. Apparently there had been filming the day before so the 'conference' was simply one of several filmed sequences that comprised an episode of Ancient Aliens on the History Channel and whatever the German crew were planning to broadcast. We were nothing more than a studio audience who had to pay for the priviledge. It would have been different had the civilian witnesses been allowed to speak but they were simply ignored or brushed to one side.

The only truly interesting part of the whole affair were the allegations made by an ex-Suffolk Constabulary policeman who was sitting behind me. I overheard him say to the person sitting next to him that drugs abuse was rife amongst USAF personnel and it caused the local police some major problems. When Penniston stated the SPS could not drink alcohol or take medicinal drugs for 24 hours before guard mount, the ex-copper nearly fell off his chair with laughter. He turned to a guy sitting to his right and said that was the biggest load of bollocks he had ever heard. I've got no idea if these allegations are true nor if the guy was really an ex-copper but he seemed to know his stuff. He also claimed to have served with one of the coppers who responded to the call from Bentwaters.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

[IanR]

Is the spinning light house not a MECHANICAL object ?

Yes, defidently[sic] mechaniclal[sic] in nature! (© J. Penniston 1981)

Ian