Britain reveals its X-file, a 1980 report on OBM

The description of the American Air Force officer who was stationed in Great Britain is amazing, but there is no physical evidence of any threat to Great Britain, says a report published after it was shelved for 22 years * Apparently these are light illusions from a nearby lighthouse

The British government plans to release many documents that have been classified until now, and this document is the first in a series. According to the estimate, there are about a hundred more files and pieces of evidence that are currently prohibited from publication. The intention is to allow their publication according to the Freedom of Information Act passed by the British Parliament in 2000.
And another update. CNN cites obscene enthusiasts in Britain who claim that the exposed file does not include all the evidence and that tapes from the event were taken by a senior American officer and disappeared.
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This could have been an episode of the series Cases in the Dark. Over 20 years ago, a US Air Force officer reported seeing a "strange glowing object" near an air force base in Great Britain.
This strange sighting near Woodbridge Air Force Base in eastern Britain happened in the early morning hours of December 27, 1980 and is detailed in a classified government file called the Randlesham case. The report, several tens of pages long, has only now been released for publication as part of the British government's operation to open internal files.
In the report known as "Unexplained Lights" it was stated that a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force said that he witnessed an object shining with a "red sun-like light" moving through the trees in Randlesham Forest.
Two American patrolmen observed the "unusual" lights outside the fence of the British Air Force Base Woodbridge, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hallett says in the report.

After receiving permission, the two Americans and another patrolman began to investigate the lights. Their reports tell of the object shining a strange glowing light in the woods, writes Hallett, who was deputy commander of the British base at Bentwaters, near Woodbridge.
The object was described as metallic in appearance and triangular in shape. It is about two to three meters wide at its base and about two meters high. "He illuminated the whole forest with white light. The bone itself also featured a flashing red light on its head and its banks were illuminated by a blue light from below. The bone floated or stood on legs.”
When the patrol man reached the bone he maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At the same time, the animals on the nearby farm started going wild.

An hour later, the UFO was seen again near the back gate of the base.
Hallett's report continues: “Later in the night, a red sun-like light was again seen among the trees. It moved around and flashed. At one point it appears to throw off glowing particles and break up into five separate white objects and then disappear.

Immediately afterwards three star-like objects were seen in the years, two in the north and one in the south, all about ten degrees above the horizon. The object moved rapidly at sharp angles and showed red green and blue lights. The objects in the north appeared elliptical in 8-12x binoculars, then they became full circles. The objects in the north were visible for up to an hour or two. The object moving south was visible in the sky for two or three hours and it occasionally emitted a beam of light downward.
The next morning, Alt and the crew member who was with him found three holes in the ground, each about twenty centimeters wide.
The radiation measurement was 0.1 milliroentgen (radiation unit, thousandth of the roentgen) in these alcoves, a level 10 times higher than normal, the report states.
The officer tried unsuccessfully to film the incident on camera, according to the report the film was damaged. Nothing was also seen on the radar of the nearby Biti Air Force Base.
A Defense Ministry memo included in the file reveals skepticism about the sighting, although its officials write that they were open-minded when hearing the testimony.
"No threat to the security of the United Kingdom was discovered and no further investigations have been conducted since then," the memo said. "No additional information about the lights arrived that would change our opinion because the sighting of these lights was not important from a security point of view. No unidentified object was seen on radar during the period in question, and there was no evidence of anything entering UK airspace and landing near Woodbridge Air Force Base.
According to the memo, US Air Force personnel could see a beam emanating from the nearby Orford Ness Lighthouse as the strange shapes were created as the beam of light penetrated the trees. Another possibility was that fireballs - a type of lightning - explain some of the lights. "In the absence of solid evidence, the Department of Defense remains open-minded about this evidence." The report concludes.

Before publication this week, the report was seen by about twenty people who requested access to it through the US Freedom of Information Act. The file was available to the public for some time, but only after obtaining permission from the Department of Defense. Now the government has announced that it will publish it on the website, www.mod.uk along with other files reporting on cases in which UFOs were observed.

"These first steps are important progress towards changing government policy, and expanding the public's right to know what is being done in its name," said British Information Minister Yvette Cooper.