Yet one more latest TV documentary (‘starring’ a widely known liverpudlian comic) trotted out the standard suspects to dismiss the well-known December 1980 UFO touchdown because the Orford Lighthouse seen via the timber. Let’s dismiss this ludicrous suggestion as soon as and for all!
Check out the images beneath: the primary is the view throughout the open Capel Inexperienced fields from the sting of the forest. The lighthouse can simply be made out within the ‘notch’ on the horizon. It was demolished a few years in the past, however was a well-known sight to anybody who walked out to the japanese fringe of the Forest: however solely from a reasonably restricted part of the boundary.
The following two images present more and more magnified pictures of the lighthouse: as you may see, it was not precisely dazzling, and wasn’t seen – even at evening – from the area of the Forest the place Colonel Halt (then Deputy Base Commander) and his safety crew encountered the reported object.
- A lighthouse couldn’t have moved via the forest between the timber
- It couldn’t journey upwards via the cover
- It couldn’t have hovered over the weapons shops on the airbase
- It couldn’t have shone a parallel-sided beam onto the bottom in entrance of the searchers
- After years of service, nearly all of the navy witnesses had been very acquainted with the lighthouse (and the Shipwash Lightship)
On quite a few events I’ve walked via the forest with Colonel Halt and listened to his recollections: even forty-odd years on, his reminiscence of occasions is constant, unexaggerated and spectacular.
