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Col. Charles Halt publishes 'The Halt Perspective' on Rendlesham

When: 2016
Sources: 2 public sources

Charles Halt's 1981 memo to the UK Ministry of Defence, the core document of his Rendlesham account Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles Halt, deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters in 1980, published The Halt Perspective with former police officer John Hanson, setting out his own account of the Rendlesham Forest events. In press coverage Halt said he believed the objects he saw were extraterrestrial.

Sources

PressNew book promises 'truth' about Rendlesham UFO mystery from perspective of airbase commander (opens in a new tab)East Anglian Daily Times
OtherThe Halt Perspective (Halt / Hanson), ISBN 9780957494497 (opens in a new tab)Schweitzer Fachinformationen (book listing) / 2016

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How the story came out

This reports on Rendlesham Forest incident (Dec 1980).

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