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Britain's top UFO investigator has revealed that the one UK X-files case that mystified him the most was the infamous Rendlesham Forest sighting involving a US air base and strange radiation.
Nick Pope, who spent 21 years working at the Ministry of Defence and three running its UFO desk, told the Daily Star in an exclusive chat that the case that has always baffled him most was the Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980.
It's a case that has come to be known as "Britain's Roswell'.
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A series of unexplained lights were spotted over the forest in Suffolk near RAF Woodbridge, which was then used by the US Air Force.
Credible witnesses to the bizarre incident included deputy base commander Lt Col Charles I Halt.
Servicemen sent to investigate found three small impressions on the ground in a triangular pattern, burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees.
High radiation readings – double those of their surroundings – were recorded within the triangle of depressions a similar small "burst" over half a mile away from the landing site.
The MoD said the event posed no threat to national security and was never formally investigated any further.
But Pope says the strange happening is "the biggest case in our files".
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He told the Daily Star: "It's not just lights in the sky – but something landed and there were radioactivity levels at the landing site.
"All this is documented in a declassified MoD file. So in a sense it's not even debatable.
"The data are there. It's just a question of what you do with something like that.
"It's a little bit like an unsolved case in a police file.
"You've done all the investigation you can and you're left with a mystery and it's frustrating.
"I was frustrated.''
Nick Pope appears in a new National Geographic series UFOs: Investigating The Unknown, which starts on Tuesday (May 2) and explores the on-going US probe including eyewitness accounts and declassified footage of sightings.
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