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This article was taken from The People, Sunday, 4th

December 1994.

UFO LANDING WAS KEPT SECRET, SAYS EX-DEFENCE CHIEF

By David Jack

A series of chilling encounters with alien spacecraft have

been covered up, claims Britain's former military top gun.

Lord Hill-Norton is convinced the Defence Ministry is

hiding the fact that a UFO landed in Britain. The former

Chief of the Defence Staff said: "The Ministry has doggedly

denied that anything untoward happened and I simply don't

believe them.

"Someone is sitting on information that should be in the

public domain."

His claims centre on bizarre incidents at RAF Woodbridge

in Suffolk, where American airmen claim to have seen UFOs.

The People has seen a top-secret report by American Lt

Colonel Charles Halt which confirms sightings of UFOs

"involving an intelligence which didn't originate on earth".

And former US military intelligence officer Clifford Stone

claims that the USA, NATO and Russia have long exchanged

details of similar incidents under the code name Operation

Moondust.

[Start Italics] His evidence is due to be screened on

LWT's Strange But True programme this Friday [End Italics]

It centers on the mysterious events of December 27, 1980,

when radar operators at RAF Watton, near Norwich, picked up

an unusual blip.

As RAF Phantom jets closed on the object, pilots reported

seeing intense, bright lights in the sky.

Former radar operator Mal Scurrah said: "As the Phantoms

got close the hovering object shot upwards at phenomenal

speed - monitored at more than 1,000mph."

At RAF Woodbridge, airman John Burroughs and sergeant Jim

Penniston investigated a dazzling fire in nearby Rendlesham

Forest.

"The air was filled with electricity and we saw an object

about the size of a tank," said Penniston.

"It was triangular, moulded of black glass and had symbols

on it. Suddenly it shot off faster that any aircraft I have

ever observed."

Next night the object returned and base deputy commander

Lt Col Halt went to investigate.

He said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It looked

like the rising sun with a black pulsating center. It

appeared to be dripping molten metal."

[Start Italics] Halt's tape recordings and photographs

were confiscated by US defence officials and there was an

information black-out. [End Italics]

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