Culture-Crop - Rendlesham Forest anomaly

Physiological anomaly in Rendlesham Forest

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Place of discovery : "Friday Street" 200 yard away from the old USAF Bentwaters military base perimetre fence

Visite 1 - Mid-November 2002

Mid November 2002 my mother went into hospital for an emergency operation and I drove up to Ipswich to be near her and to look after her lurcher, Scally. On the first occasion I spent three nights at her house and on the second day took Scally for a run in Rendlesham Forest, a long time favourite place for walks and picnics. We stuck to the usual path amongst the trees until Scally for some reason decided to swing left and I found myself in a part of the forest that was unfamiliar to me. We carried on for some way amongst the pine trees and arrived at a wider, little used track. I can remember noticing the tree, a white spectre, and as I had been taking photos of our walk for my mother i decided to take a couple of pictures of it.

On returning to London I uploaded the photos (digital) onto my computer and found my curiosity becoming stronger whenever I looked at them.

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A week later I was back in the forest having Once again driven up from London to visit my mother.This time Scally and I went straight to the tree with the express intention of studying it more carefully. Although I wasn't to notice it at first, the whole scene, tree and ferns, had already lost its freshness. This became evident on comparing the two sets of photos. I took note of the way in which the white coated resin, like sugar icing, had been ejected from the trunk of the tree, spraying the ferns in a singular northly direction. My first impression was that the tree had been 'hit' by some intense unknown force which left no signs of physical damage. (I dont know why but the image of a boxer receiving a blow to the side of the head knocking gum shield and saliva out the other keeps coming to mind) the old USAF Bentwater military base primetre fence was only 200 yards away, and having lived in this part of Suffolk for the first 20 years of my life I was well aware of the strange goings on, and mystery surrounding Rendlesham forest including the 1980 UFO incident. I decided to investigate further and emailed an association which specialised in the effects of lightning strikes on trees. They replied saying that under no circumstances did this sort of damage correspond with their experience of trees hit by lightning. I contacted a site specialising in beetle attack on trees but got no response although the forestry commission spokesman for the area suggested that this was probably the cause. If so I am at a loss to understand why, out of all the thousands of pine trees in the surrounding area this is the only one that has suffered an attack. To this day, two years later, the tree is still alive. A beetle attack on this scale would have meant a rapid demise.

Visite 2 - End November 2002

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Visite 3 - February 2003

These photos show the proximity to the Bentwaters perimeter fence.

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Visite 4 - March 2003

Four months after the first photos the resin has lost its freshness and has taken on a greyish hue.

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Control example

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A "control" tree from another part of the forest. The damaged trunk was probably the result of a scrape by an off road vehicle. The reaction to this wound is slight; just a light resin flow and nothing like the enormous expulsion of resin engendered by the 'attack' on our tree.

Samples and control samples have been collected and sent to a French scientist for analysis.

Visite 5 - November 2004

The tree is still in good health two years after the first photos were taken.

The tree, like all those around it, has been marked for felling.

Visite 6 - January 2007

This photo taken two years later from the same position as the above photo. In the background the perimetre fence of the USAF base, Bentwaters.

All thats left of our tree, the stump.

A journey to the area is to be made in the near future to record distances and take comparative photos of other stumps.

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The geographical position of the tree, updated 27/03/2007

Here is an ordinance survey map of the area. The red, hatched, rectangular box on the left shows the area which has been logged. The tree was practically in the middle and its position is represented by a red dot.

Below right another red, hatched, box shows the location of the famous 1980 UFO event in the forest. The arrow points to the approximate site of the landing of the said UFO.

The opinion of a French botanist - march 25 2007

On the subject of the tree in Rendlesham forest, you are right, this is indeed strange. I have never seen anything like it! The strangest thing is that only one tree has been affected by this bizarre oddity. One can rule out fungus attack, and its definitely not a virus attack. If either of these were responsible the surrounding trees would also have been affected, so its not that. Its as if an electric shock, or something of that nature has upset the biological system of the tree at a cellular level. One can rule out straight away any question of lightning strike which never has this effect on a tree.  This is a conifer, and as such is very sensitive to the slightest knock and easily weeps resin, though this is rarely white and as omnipresent as in this case. What we have got here is really

exceptional..!   I can imagine that perhaps some kind of telluric field receiving a magnetic kick could have caused this. The attack has really isolated its subject, and what is even stranger is that it is outside the base..... either its an experiment by something unknown, extra-terrestial maybe, or the tree was the victim of a military experiment that went wrong. I however have my doubts about this last theory as most military experiments are conducted with the utmost discretion, and if it this was the case they would have failed miserably here!

There you are, I have to say that this case leaves me flabbergasted, though I hope I have been able to throw some light on the case.
Florent.

Visite 7 - April 15 2007

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Control stump - about 25 cm of the trunk left above the ground.

Another control - about 25 cm from the ground.

The remains of our tree, cut close to the ground.

The stump is coated with a thick white crust. When I lifted up this crust at the centre of the stump I found a sticky mass of black resin underneath. The stump had been cut much closer to the ground than the other trunks.

Visite 8 - May 6 2007

The stump with tools just before cleaning and planing

The stump cleaned up and planed.

Visite 9 - May 11 2007

The return a week later to check the condition of the stump after its initial clean-up

The stump which was cleaned up and planed 5 days earlier is once again covered with a thin layer of resin and white stuff which has risen from the roots since the last visit.

Is the stump still active 18 months after the tree was felled...!

The stump once again cleaned up.

Close up of the centre.

to follow...

Will they eventually uproot the stumps? If so when?

1980 : The Rendlesham Forest UFO/ incident - Rumours and files

French Links

Ufologie.net &

Les incidents de Woodbridge/Rendlesham, 1980. Le 27 décembre 1980, un OVNI a été observé dans la forêt de Rendlesham à l'extérieur des portes arrières de la base jointe de la RAF et de l'US Air Force de Woodbridge dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre (...). Beaucoup de documentations sur ce site.

RR0.org

Fin Décembre 1980, alors commandant de la base aérienne de Bentwaters dans le Sud de l'Angleterre, le colonel de l'USAF Charles Halt observe et enquête sur divers objets anormaux apparus dans le ciel de la Forêt de Rendlesham (...)

Ovi.mail.free.fr

Les vidéos et documentaires proposés sur le site peuvent être téléchargés avec le logiciel eMule. Le site utilise le réseau Peer To Peer pour le téléchargement des documents de grande taille. Pour tous problèmes d'affichage vidéo n'hésitez pas à consulter la rubrique problèmes vidéo. Documents déclassifiés par le Ministère de la Défense Britannique début décembre 2003 (...)

English links

Ufoevidence.org

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc1004.htm Britain to Publish Files on UFO Sightings Reuters, November 28, 2002. Summary: The British government will publish files on reported UFO sightings as part of a shake-up of its laws on freedom of information. Among the documents to be published is the "Rendlesham File," which deals with one of the country's best known sightings of an unidentified flying object (...)

http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/RendleshamForest.htm The Rendlesham Forest case is undoubtedly one of the best documented and most significant military encounters with a UFO. It is also very credible incident. The incident spanned four days in 1980. Rendlesham Forest is a large pine forest, east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. Nearby are the twin NATO air bases, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge; at the time both bases were being leased to the United States Air Force. Several UFO incidents, including multiple-witness sightings by military personnel, ground traces, and radioactive anomalies were reported from Rendlesham forest. According to USAF security patrolmen on duty, "the object was described as being metallic in apperance and triangular in shape, approx. 2-3 meters across the base... it illuminated the entire forest with a white light, and had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath." In November, 2002, the British Ministry of Defense released the "Rendlesham File" of documents related to and confirming the Rendlesham Forest incident.(...)

Scifi.com/rendlesham/

Ufo Invasion at Rendlesham. About the Rendlesham Incident. In late December 1980, in Rendlesham Forest, England, numerous U.S. military personnel witnessed what has come to be regarded as the most significant military-UFO incident in the history of Great Britain. (...)

Ufocasebook.com/Rendlesham2.html

The Halt document, one of the most important papers in Ufology, states that patrolmen on the base encountered a "saucer-like" object in the forest adjacent to the military bases. Halt describes the craft as maneuvering through the forest's trees, and eventually disappearing into the sky. He further states that the next day's investigation found marks at the spot of the encounter, and abnormal levels of radiation. On the same night of the event, strange objects were observed performing aerial moves that defied the laws of physics. These lights divided into smaller lights, and eventually disappeared from view.

Questions & Suppositions :

We have searched the internet, and asked the advice of other researchers who for the most part have been unable to enlighten us further on what may have happened to this pine tree. We continue in our quest to throw some light on this strange anomaly.

What happened to this tree?

is it an attack by Insects or a parasitic fugus ?
is it a a common disease ?
a normal reaction ?

What is the source of the tremendous heating from which the tree has suffered if it is not lightning?

a military target
the victim of some heat emission from an unknown source ? (UFO?!)

Example :

This photo is supposed to represent the "Rendlesham Forest" incident where a cone shaped UFO was seen through some trees in 1980.

Others pictures on Martinbowermodelworl Rense.com Ufocasebook

On this page http://ufologie.net/htm/rendlestape.htm Part of the transcript from a recording made by Colonel Halt at the scene of the Rendlesham forest UFO incident where he makes reference to sap running down from the trunk of a pine tree.

Example :

LT COLONEL HALT: There's a round abrasion on the tree about three and a half, four inches diameter. It looks like it might be old, but er, strange there's a crystalline...pine sap that's come that fast.

Could there be a link between the 1980 UFO incident and the 2002 'Tree'? The fact that the ferns seem to have been covered by what appears to have been rapidly ejected sap, forming a crystaline crust suggests this could be the case. We leave you to draw your own conclusions until such time as a more banal explanation is forthcoming, in the event of which we will inform you on this page.

To be continued.

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