RENDLESHAM REVISITED: THE LARRY WARREN STORY PDF Print E-mail
Written by Omar Fowler   
Saturday, 11 July 2009 01:10
Larry Warren (pictured below) was a member of the 81st United States Air Force Security Police, stationed at RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, during the period 27/28/29 December 1980 when a series of UFO incidents took place. These are known as either the Rendlesham Forest, Bentwaters or Woodbridge incidents.

Together with fellow American UFO Researcher Peter Robbins and Tony James of the East Midlands group EMUFORA, Larry Warren   re-visited the site in March 1994.

<img src="/images/articles/web/photo-(1)-Copy-(36).jpg" alt="Bob Dean" width="118" height="124" align="left">Larry Warren takes up the story:-

I was unable to reveal a number of aspects of the UFO events years ago because of security.  Forget about UFO's, 'they' can snuff that out.  We can be portrayed as either liars, fools, or people just out to make money.

I arrived at RAF Bentwaters on December 1st 1980, after completing extensive air base ground defence and nuclear weapons tactical training.  We had the largest nuclear arms dump in all of NATO, it was split between the two bases (Woodbridge & Bentwaters). I knew that just one of our nuclear weapons could have removed East Anglia with no problem! (Both RAF Woodbridge and USAF Bentwaters are now closed).

On the night of the 27th of December (1980) a police patrol observed lights in the direction of Eastgate Road, in Rendlesham Forest, it was a tall pine forest at the time.  The next night further activity took place and that's when I became involved.

On the night of the 29th of December our security group was called out, we boarded our military pick-up trucks and entered Rendlesham Forest.  Colonel Halt and Lt. England were in my truck and we also carried a lot of lighting equipment.  We were only able to proceed so far before we were ordered to stop in a clearing.  There was an 'armoury' vehicle parked there and we had to surrender our weapons (which we shouldn't have taken off the base anyway).  However, a few people still carried side arms and several people carried radio's.  We had no idea what was happening but we could see a lot of activity down at the end of the road.  There were a lot of flashlights moving about and a lot of radio transmissions.

I was in a group of five with a Lt. and we moved through the woods down a path into the forest.  I could see flares over to my left at about a 100 yards.  There were red surveyor sticks and we heard over the radio "we want you guys to avoid those hot spots", to us that meant radiation areas.  We still had no idea what was going on.

We walked down this logging road and just at that moment we came across our flight chief talking to a young airman sitting on a fallen tree.  He sat holding his head in his hands and was out of control, very upset.  I guess I was in a kind of perceptive shock by this time.

We continued on our way and came over a rise in the ground, I remember the brambles tearing at my legs.  Then we saw this illuminated field, (Capel Green).  The trees were lit up yellow and in the distance we could see a farmhouse, with a light on in an upstairs window.  This 'thing' illuminated everything.  During my visit to the site recently, it all came back to me.  There is no way that it cannot, this event changed my life forever.

In the centre of this field there was a huge light, it was about a foot in height and about fifty feet across. It was self-illuminated, you could see through it at times. Nearby there were cameras set up, movie cameras and video's.  We were told to move into the field and I came to a halt within twenty feet of the object.  It was not hovering and I can only describe it as a "solidified mist".

We all stood there watching it, there were security police from "D Flight", there were two English 'bobbies' and nearby some senior personnel.  Then we saw the 'disaster preparedness" crew move in.  They were equipped with geiger counters and they started going around this thing on the ground.   Then two cows came up and stood staring at the illuminated mist, we never saw them again, I'm not sure what happened. (The cows ran off and were later hit by a taxi).

Then we saw this small red light moving over the top of some trees at the edge of the field.  At first we thought it was an aircraft because the runway is only a mile and half away.  Then the red light moved in quickly over the trees and approached the field in a downward arc.  Then it stopped and hovered  about twenty feet off the ground. It was the size of an American basketball, self-illuminated, not quite red, but that's as close as I can get to it.  Then just as we were watching it, it exploded and light showered down on this object.  I was fairly close to this event and the brilliance of the flash affected my eyes.  Some personnel ran and disappeared back into the forest and a lot of us were left standing there in a state of shock.

Suddenly in place of the mist, there was now a more solid looking object.  It was about thirty feet across at the base and the sides rose up sharply to about twenty five feet in height.  It had delta appendages that came out of it, I don't know whether they were landing gear or not, I couldn't be sure as it was so close to the ground.  It had no windows, no markings, no flags, no country of origin, nothing.

Because of the brilliance of the light you could hardly look at it dead on, if you looked at it from the side of your peripheral vision you could just make out the shape of it.  There it was and we couldn't move.  I felt as if I were in something like a 'dream state', even now I can't comprehend the true dimensions of it.

At this point my sergeant, myself, a disaster preparedness man and my ship commander were ordered to move in on this object.  I noticed that when we were standing close to it our shadows were cast upon it at an angle.  Somehow this object was 'pulling' our shadows.  This effect was strange because we had no lights behind us.  (Once we had got our lighting equipment into the forest, none of it would work!)

Shortly afterwards, we were ordered back to our original position.  At that point the whole object was surrounded by our security police at intervals of about ten feet, there were a lot of personnel out there.  

Then a light moved out of the side of the object and split into three.  In each light you could make out what appeared to be individual beings of some kind.  I saw clearly what looked like eyes, facial features, clothing and some other device, but I couldn't make out the legs and the lower extremities , it was almost as if the light was translucent at that point.

One 'being' moved towards the front, there was a lot of activity, cameras flashing all the while.  Our Wing Commander Lt. Col. Williams, stood nearby with other senior officers (I recognised him, as he was six foot seven).  He conversed with the  people in his group and then he approached these three "beings" or whatever you wish to call them.  As he stood in front of the centre one, it adjusted its head up to his height and to me, this proved that these things were in fact alive.

There was no sign language, no hand shakes and no exchange of Milky Way candy bars!   What happened next was what could be described as a 'face off'.  If there was any communication it must have been by telepathy, who can say, I've never stated what it was.  Suddenly there was a sound in the woods like a tree breaking and these 'beings' retracted under a delta type of thing on the craft.  Their arms moved up tight and then after a minute or so they moved back closer.  I was only about twenty five feet away from all of this activity.  I could see them clearly, they were not standing and there was no three dimensional shape to them.

The two British bobbies were still taking pictures, but then I saw their cameras taken away from them.   (I understand that they are no longer police officers at Woodbridge, one had a mental breakdown and the other was virtually ridiculed off the force and now has an alcohol problem).   

Then my ship commander then told us to return to our vehicle.  We went back over the rise and headed back to the trucks. When we reached the parking area, we could see strange lights in the sky and these strange blue things moving around. We boarded our vehicles and headed back to Woodbridge with our group.

I was totally 'screwed up' over what I had seen or thought that I had seen.  In fact it changed the lives of everyone who was involved in these events.  I know about some of events that took place at Rendlesham, but I still don't know the complete story.

According to other witnesses,  when I had gone, a smaller triangular object appeared in the parking area where the vehicles had assembled.  It was so small that one of the personnel grabbed the object by putting his arms around it.  The object then moved about ten metres with him holding on to it. I believe that the person concerned subsequently suffered severe health effects.  Then another guy got into his pick-up truck and a 'being' or whatever you want to call it, followed it right down the road. Then this creature passed right through the windshield. ( it seemed they could go through metal or whatever).  The driver could see its face quite clearly and he went bonkers' and kicked the windshield right out of the truck.

Other witnesses who were at the scene, have told me that a beam then shot down out of the sky and this 'being' ran straight up the beam into a dark shape hovering above, it wasn't possible to make out what it was.

The next morning, hours after the event, I was back at Bentwaters, having coffee with a number of the other guys who had been at the incident and we were made fun of by the guys just coming on duty on the day shift.  We got it all,  "little green men" etc.  I noticed that my eyes were watering profusely and I had a metallic taste in my mouth.  My buddy looked at me across the table and said "what the hell happened to us?"  I started to talk, but our sergeant told me to shut up.

We had not yet been de-briefed, but I suspected that this was coming.  Then at about 10am, I got a phone call to report up to the security chiefs office.  When I arrived the first thing that happened was that people from the "disaster preparedness" team went over six or seven of us with geiger counters,  I was very scared at this point.

We were then told to sign security documents.  What disturbed me about this paperwork was that it was a pre-typed statement and it said that we were off duty and that we just saw lights flipping across the trees.  We were ushered into the office where we were greeted, not by "men in black" but by men in grey business suits from the United States.  They were very unfriendly looking and they wore plastic laminate I.D. badges, which read "Armed Forces Security Services".

Through our research, we know that "Armed Forces Security Services" is a field arm of the National Security Agency, which is a very dirty bird in this whole story.  There was also a "Commander Green" from the Office of Naval Intelligence in London, (the USAF did not de-brief us).

We were told that this "problem" has existed longer than anyone of us in the room was aware.  They did not say anything about UFO's or E.T.'s, nothing.... we just sat there and listened. The propaganda talk continued and we were warned that if we communicated these events via the mail, via the telephone or in any way shape or form, we would be reprimanded.

We were next shown a film, a debriefing tool, it does only one thing, to confuse you even more about what you have gone through.  After the film finished, we were told to "toe the line" and the government would look after us.  No threats other than this....one of us asked a question, what would happen if we told about this.  The AFSS chap just looked at us and with a smile said "bullets are cheap!"  Everyone laughed, but it was kind of sick.

Then I heard a humming sound to my right and I looked over and there was a guy I knew was from the American "Bible Belt".  (In that faith there is no one bigger than Jesus and certainly no one else is coming to Earth).  The humming was coming from this guy, he was holding a small pocket bible and reciting "Hail Mary", "Hail Mary", non-stop!  That was really sad because he was a nice type of a guy, but he was destroyed by this.  He went "a.w.o.l." two weeks later, was picked up at Chicago airport by the FBI and returned to the base.

I was on patrol duty the night that he called in and said he was going to kill himself.  We and another vehicle patrol responded,  but it was too late.  He had put an M16 into his mouth.....that was the first time that I had ever seen death.

In these events, lives were lost and this is something the government doesn't want  disclosed.

Later on, together with a friend of mine,  I went to one of the red public telephones on the base and telephoned my mother.  I figured they were never going to watch that.  I got through and said "You're never going to believe this but last night we saw a UFO and it landed on the base"......suddenly she wasn't there anymore!  I knew I was in trouble, because we have a thing called "Comsec" (communications security).

Later, I was called into the base command centre and accused of breaching security. I denied it several times, but then they played me a tape of my phone call and offered me two choices.  I could lose my stripes or have a fine of $300.  There would have been no reprimand and nothing in the record books.  I went for the money. After that I was watched constantly.
Many witnesses were sent on temporary duty assignments to Egypt and all over the World,  there were guys I never saw again!  I didn't think that this cover-up was as deep as it was, but you just can't imagine it until it happens to you and you see it go on.

Films and photographs of this event do exist and this has been verified by senior people above me.  I didn't know until later, that RAF Watton tracked these object for three nights.  The USAF went to them, explained what happened and then asked if they could borrow the radar tapes. They took the tapes away and they were never returned.  This caused political repercussions, but it was then quietly covered up.

On the 10th of January 1981, a few days after the incident, I visited the Optical Retina Clinic at Lakenheath, as my eyes were causing me problems.  After extensive investigation, I was informed that I had burns to the retina of both eyes. (Larry Warren later stole his medical records, as he was sure they would disappear).  Another problem that developed in later years was bleeding through the skin and after a number of medical tests, I was told "you are showing signs of radiation sickness".

I no longer worked as a security police officer and had been relegated to a typing job in a back office where "they" could keep an eye on me.  I subsequently decided to quit the USAF and after contacting a lawyer, applied for an honourable discharge on the grounds of "breach of contract". My request was granted and duly signed by Col. Gordon Williams on September 15th 1981.

It was only revealed last year (1993), during an interview with Lt. Col. C.I.Halt (Deputy Base Commander USAF), that the actions of the UFO's had affected the nuclear weapons in their underground storage areas.  This happened when the UFO's shot their beams of light down over the Woodbridge Base.  The light beams apparently penetrated the "hardened" nuclear storage bunkers and somehow affected the weapons stored within, making many of them useless.

Peter Robbins the American Researcher and associate of Budd Hopkins had been working with Larry Warren on a new book about the incident called "Left At East Gate" (the NSA have asked for changes to be made to the book, but this has been refused). Peter visited the Rendlesham Forest location 8 years after the incident during his research on the book.  He confirmed that the ground was still discoloured.  Soil samples were taken from the site and these were later analysed, showing "profound differences when compared to soil in the adjoining area".

The full account of the incident can be found in "Left At East Gate" by Larry Warren & Peter Robbins, Published by Michael O'Mara BOOKS Limited.
ISBN 1-85479-231-8.

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