UFO Skeptic Simon Holland’s Newest Rendlesham Forest Fantasy

“… in August 1980, a UFO landed close to an alarmed constructing inside the WSA complicated at Kirtland AFB and solely hurriedly left when an armed Air Power safety patrol arrived.”

Self-styled “Professor” Simon Holland is a British science filmmaker who additionally fancies himself an professional on UFOs/UAP. Sadly—as a number of of his YouTube movies clearly show—he’s completely, negatively biased on the subject and has prior to now routinely rejected proof supporting the truth that superior craft of unknown origin are working in Earth’s ambiance and oceans. Certainly, primarily based on what I’ve seen him preach about so far, it appears that evidently any different clarification for what eyewitnesses report in a given case is preferable in his thoughts to the almost definitely one—an unmistakable UAP presence on the time of the incident in query.

By Robert Hastings The UFO Chronicles 3-21-25

Relating to Holland’s latest, highly-imaginative
remarks regarding
the well-known, well-documented UAP sightings in Rendlesham Forest and at
close by RAF Bentwaters airbase within the UK, in December 1980—which Holland
confidently tells us have been really because of the witnesses unknowingly observing
occasions associated to a Prime Secret paranormal experiment performed by the US
authorities—I make the next observations:

First, as my UFOs and Nukes ebook
chapter
on the incidents reveals, dozens of former or retired US Air Power personnel
who have been stationed at RAF Bentwaters or close by RAF Woodbridge have gone on the
report relating to what have been unambiguous UAP sightings—involving anomalous,
airborne, structural craft—through the late December timeframe.

The data offered within the chapter—together with that derived from my
tape-recorded interviews with a rating of these former US Air Power
witnesses—convincingly confirms that the a number of incidents reported concerned
real UFOs, a few of which have been tracked on radar. Subsequently, the mysterious
occasions reported weren’t in any method associated to some fanciful, allegedly
categorised, paranormal experiment within the woods, as Holland claims.

Importantly, key witnesses together with RAF Bentwaters Deputy Base Commander, Lt.
Col. Charles Halt, a lot of USAF Safety Policemen (SPs), and one member
of the 2164th Communications Squadron, all affirm that one focus of the
anomalous exercise was the nuclear Weapons Storage Space (WSA) on the bottom. At
one level, a hovering, round craft with flashing lights directed a number of
beams—laser-like in look however unknown in composition—down onto one or
extra of the reenforced concrete bunkers through which massive numbers of the weapons
have been saved.

Though Col. Halt dutifully refuses to acknowledge the presence of nukes in
the WSA, in step with official USAF coverage of by no means publicly confirming the
location of saved nuclear weapons, their presence has been established by way of
the testimony of a few of the SPs who have been on base on the time, in addition to the
findings of varied researchers.

Particularly, at the moment, the Bentwaters WSA held the most important stockpile of
US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Had battle with the Soviets erupted, the
goal of these “battlefield” nukes was to blunt the anticipated, large
Russian tanks-and-troops thrust into Western Europe predicted by US navy
analysts.

As my ebook paperwork, UAP exercise at American WSAs extends again to the late
Nineteen Forties—on the first atomic bomb storage depots situated at Kirtland AFB, New
Mexico, and Fort Hood, Texas—and continued to happen at the least into the
late Nineties, at WSAs situated on USAF ICBM bases, together with Malmstrom, Minot,
F.E. Warren, Loring, Wurtsmith, Grand Forks, and different places.

Certainly, in August 1980, a UFO landed close to an alarmed constructing inside the WSA
complicated at Kirtland AFB and solely hurriedly left when an armed Air Power
safety patrol arrived. So, the occasions on the Bentwaters WSA 4 months
later have been merely a part of a decades-long sample of UFO exercise at nukes
storage websites that had occurred for many years and would proceed sooner or later.

In any case, a lot of US Air Power witnesses independently interviewed by
British researcher Gary Haseltine and myself have confirmed for the report
what was clearly a UAP incursion—presumably on two totally different nights—on the RAF
Bentwaters WSA in late December 1980.

If Holland is even conscious of these reviews, he doesn’t point out it in his video.
As a substitute, he cites a single first-hand supply, “Rick, the US Air Power
mechanic” who alleges that the entire intriguing goings-on on the base
really associated to a extremely secret US Authorities experiment involving
unspecified paranormal phenomena.

Improbably, inside a day of Holland posting his video in regards to the supposed
experiment, he claims that a number of “scientists, members of the UFO neighborhood,
the navy and the spooks” got here ahead to verify, presumably by way of e mail or
texts, that the paranormal incident had really occurred.

Actually?! Until Holland already knew these individuals and had beforehand verified
their scientific bona fides or navy/intelligence neighborhood credentials,
how can he ensure that the people who approached him have been who they mentioned
they have been and, extra importantly, have been a part of, or at the least knew about, the
alleged secret experiment? As anybody who follows social media posts is aware of,
massive numbers of wannabes might be counted on to reply to any given article or
video, claiming to know “the actual information” in regards to the topic at hand, no matter
it could be.

Clearly, regardless of Holland’s evident naiveté in accepting on religion the claims of
the people who approached him, till all of these individuals are publicly
recognized, their claimed insightful testimony and alleged credentials ought to
not be taken at face worth by the remainder of us.

Accidents

Simon additional mentions that some USAF personnel “have been harmed” at Rendlesham
Forest in 1980, implying that these accidents occurred because of the
purported paranormal experiment. Truly, so far as I do know, the one individual
who was bodily harmed—or at the least has gone public together with his medical
points—is former SP John Burroughs. He has repeatedly publicized sure coronary heart
issues he at present suffers from that could be because of radiation publicity.
These clearly appear associated to Burroughs’ now well-publicized method on
foot—along with former SP Jim Penniston—towards a small, metallic,
triangular-shaped craft sitting on the bottom within the forest. Certainly, radiation
traces have been later detected within the three touchdown gear depressions within the soil
the place it had landed. In response to Penniston, after a brief interval the craft
took off at excessive velocity and was out of sight within the blink of a watch.

In a video displaying
Burroughs’ makes an attempt to recollect the main points of the incident by way of hypnosis, the
former Safety Policeman frantically relives the encounter with the UFO,
talking extraordinarily quickly and clearly beneath duress.

The important thing level that I’m making right here is that Burroughs’ subsequent well being
points apparently resulted from his expertise involving an anomalous aerial
craft of unknown origin, with vibrant, flashing lights, that had landed within the
woods—not because of his unwitting involvement in some purported secret
paranormal challenge, as Holland would have us imagine.

Ominously, a few of the follow-up occasions at RAF Bentwaters, together with the cruel
interrogation of SP Jim Penniston—that included the administration of a “reality
serum” kind drug—occurred in response to Penniston’s involvement in the identical
incident, not due to his stumbling upon some highly-classified paranormal
experiment within the Rendlesham Forest, as Holland implies.

A Counter-Intelligence Presence

Holland Additional alleges that Air Power Workplace of Particular Investigations (AFOSI
or simply OSI) and CIA personnel from Washington flew into the adjoining
Woodbridge base aboard a C-5A cargo plane prior to the experiment
happening, presumably to offer further safety and to suppress any
info that may leak out about it. Nonetheless, as the previous Bentwaters
Deputy Base Commander, now-retired Col. Charles Halt, has repeatedly acknowledged,
the OSI brokers arrived within the UK solely after a number of reviews of UAP
sightings within the forest and on the WSA had taken place and commenced to unfold as
rumors. In different phrases, OSI’s presence was a response to earlier
security-related UAP occasions and had nothing to do with some purported
experiment, or challenge, that Holland self-assuredly claims required them to be
current earlier than it occurred. However, in a follow-up
video Holland
insists that his personal interpretation of occasions is appropriate. He says,

“What I’ve been instructed is that Deputy Base Commander Charles Halt now needs to
inform us—admit—that he is aware of in regards to the challenge. He was briefed, he knew {that a}
crew from the Air Power, from the CIA, from one other company had already arrived
in Suffolk, presumably on board the C-5A transport airplane that landed at a safe
space at Woodbridge. And no matter occurred in late December was a deliberate
challenge, and the deliberate challenge was to mess with folks, to mess with
perceptions, to evoke the extremely unusual—perhaps as a result of Suffolk was the best
place, a ‘weak’ place of actuality…”

Whereas writing this text, I despatched Holland’s two movies to Colonel Halt and
requested him to remark. He replied:

Lately I got here throughout a few YouTube applications on the Bentwaters incident
by a “Professor” Simon Holland [which were also subsequently sent to me by
Robert Hastings]. I used to be shocked by the nonsense he offered as truth. I suppose
some folks will imagine something. I used to be one of many main witnesses so I
really feel obligated to remark. His assertion that this was a secret authorities
experiment is nonsense, as greater than 75 folks witnessed the UAP occasion [that I
participated in] from greater than seven totally different places, some being a mile
or extra away. There have been even radar observations of the aerial objects.

Holland additional acknowledged {that a} C-5A plane with CIA private arrived previous to
the occasion and parked on a newly-constructed parking pad. There was no new pad
and though a airplane did arrive it was not till after the occasion. There is not any
proof its arrival was even associated to the occasion. There may be suspicion however no
proof that CIA private have been on the airplane. I simply want Holland had accomplished his
homework as he, like so many, simply muddies the waters.

As soon as once more, as a number of researchers have uncovered, the incident through which Col.
Halt was concerned was solely one among many over a four-night interval—all involving
anomalous aerial objects. For instance, I used to be the primary individual to
interview
the 2 USAF air visitors controllers at RAF Bentwaters, Ike Barker and Jim
Carey, who tracked on radar an unbelievably quick craft that lined 120 miles
in roughly 8-12 seconds. At one level, the UAP stopped instantaneously
and hovered not removed from the management tower. Barker noticed it and described
it because the twice the scale of an F-111 fighter and looking out like an “orangish
basketball with portholes across the center”. After just a few seconds, the UFO
raced away.

Summarizing, self-titled “Professor” Simon Holland will get nearly every thing
improper when advancing his newest concept in regards to the nature of the occasions
in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. If one really interviews the various
witnesses to what occurred, as I and different researchers have, and Colonel Halt
did, one rapidly learns that the frequent ingredient in all of their narratives is
the presence of what have been clearly UAPs—a number of of them—throughout the entire
extraordinary occasions that occurred.