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Halt memo on Rendlesham released under U.S. FOIA

Name: Halt memo on Rendlesham released under U.S. FOIA
Start: 1983
Location: Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England

When: 1983
Where: Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
Sources: 3 public sources

Charles Halt's January 1981 'Unexplained Lights' memo, released under the U.S. FOIA in 1983 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Lt. Col. Charles Halt's January 1981 memo to the UK Ministry of Defence, 'Unexplained Lights', describing lights and landing traces near RAF Woodbridge, was released in the U.S. under FOIA. In October 1983 the News of the World ran it as a front-page UFO landing story.