UK's first UFO tour will explore 'Britain's Roswell' due to unexplained lights
A committed UFO hunter will take sceptics and believers alike to one of the biggest sightings hotspots in the country in a first of its kind tour.
Former detective Gary Heseltine has announced tours through Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk in August this year.
The committed paranormal investigator has spent the past five years looking into a string of notorious incidents at the sight.
He has just published Non-Human The Rendlesham Forest Incidents: 42 years of Denial which digs into the case and includes a number of his interviews with members of the public and military who were in the area at the time.
Mr Heseltine, vice president of the International Coalition for Extra-terrestrial Research, told the Mirror that the Rendlesham Forest incident is "regarded as the second most important case after Roswell" for the UFO community.
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In late December 1980 a number of witnesses reported seeing unexplained lights in the sky.
The Rendlesham Forest case has fascinated UK UFO hunters for years (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)The events occurred just outside RAF Woodbridge, which was used at the time by the United States Air Force.
Sceptics suggest that those who reported seeing unusual things were misinterpreting normal events, such as the Orfordness Lighthouse and stars in the sky.
Others have claimed that the unidentified flying objects were set off by pranksters or by British military personnel winding their American counterparts up.
Mr Heseltine argues that the incident is far more serious than many give it credit, and that it should have been properly investigated.
The UK Ministry of Defence went on the record closer to the time to say the lights posed no threat to the public and were therefore not investigated as a security matter.
Direction pointer to footpath trail to site of UFO landing near former USAF base at Rendlesham forest (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)As part of Mr Heseltine's work he has carried out extensive interviews with deputy base commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt.
The US military man is revered in the UFO hunting community as one of the, they believe, most reliable witnesses when it comes to sightings.
On January 13 he wrote what has become known as the Halt Memorandum of his experience in the Suffolk forest.
"Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge," part of it reads.
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"Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate.
"The on-duty flight chief responded and allowed three patrolmen to proceed on foot. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest.
Tours of the forest will begin in August (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)"The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high.
"It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs.
"As the patrolmen approached the object, it manoeuvred through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy.
"The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate."
In August this year Gary will be hosting two tours around the forest, offering insights into a case which has become his speciality.
They will be limited to 25 people and cost £30 each.
The dates of the tours are yet to be announced, but Gary is hoping for a summer launch.
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