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RAF Bentwaters

RAF Bentwaters

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Nov 3, 2026

Kevin CobleGUEST
50:11
The Air Force had varsity football teams at every base in Europe.
Kevin CobleGUEST
50:15
I was stationed outside of London, place called RAF Bentwaters.
Ken BatorHOST
50:19
Mm-hmm.
Kevin CobleGUEST
50:20
United Kingdom.
speaker_0HOST
4:22
American military personnel were stationed all over the world at this point, including at bases in the United Kingdom.
speaker_0HOST
4:29
And in the English country of Suffolk, there were two bases closely tied together, RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge.
speaker_0HOST
4:39
Now, when you hear RAF, you might reasonably assume that we're talking about a base full of British personnel.
speaker_0HOST
4:46
But both of these installations were being used by the United States Air Force.

9 MINS LATER

speaker_0HOST
13:42
So we want to know what's going on.
speaker_0HOST
13:43
Do you guys have any reports? Tell us what's going on.
speaker_0HOST
13:46
Suffolk Police reports place a call from RAF Bentwaters at 4.11 a.m. on December 26th.
speaker_0HOST
13:53
They were treating it as a UFO in its literal sense, meaning unidentified flying object.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
1:38
Suffolk, on England's east coast.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
1:41
American airmen are serving at two nearby bases, RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
1:48
RAF is Royal Air Force.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
1:51
These are British bases being used by the United States Air Force.
Matt TonesHOST
22:32
And five years later, across the Atlantic, another incident will become part of UFO history.
Matt TonesHOST
22:38
December 1980, Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, adjacent to RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Matt TonesHOST
22:49
two installations used by American military personnel during the Cold War.
Matt TonesHOST
22:53
Over several nights, servicemen report unusual lights and objects in and around the forest.
Neal ParksHOST
5:43
It was a daily reality built around nuclear deterrence, military readiness, espionage, and the terrifying possibility that a miscalculation could trigger the end of the world.
Neal ParksHOST
5:55
RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters were neighboring installations in Sulphur.
Neal ParksHOST
6:00
and that used by the United States Air Force.
Neal ParksHOST
6:04
Their location mattered.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
56:53
The whole point about John Hutchison was that he could take a bar, a steel, a bar of aluminium, hit it, hit it with his vibrational energy weapon, and literally you could then just take the aluminium girder and just break it with your hands, just fell to dust.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
57:15
So that kind of technology... was used at the Bentwaters UFO incidents in December 1980.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
57:23
And that's why there were 24 nukes put in the nuclear bunkers of the Bentwaters Woodbridge nuclear storage facility.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
57:36
Some kind of devices flew over that and neutralized the weapon.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
57:42
by disassembling or springing apart the nuclear material so it wasn't radioactive anymore.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
60:33
He's got a YouTube and a Facebook presence.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
60:39
And he's putting pictures of all that stuff on his site, showing that you have an identical shaped nose cone, which was designed for the front of the shuttle.
Miles JohnstonGUEST
60:49
So what is that doing in a hangar in Bentwaters? Because it stained, it was also stained with water because it had been sitting in the water and there were stains on it showing it had been in the sea after a breakup.
Rare Eddie OneHOST
8:26
It is December 1980.
Rare Eddie OneHOST
8:30
The story centers on Rendlesham Forest, close to an RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters.
Rare Eddie OneHOST
8:39
American Air Force personnel were serving at these bases.
Rare Eddie OneHOST
8:44
The main encounters are usually dated to the early hours of the 26th and 28th of December.
Richard BeckwithHOST
1:37
For three nights in late December 1980, UFOs besieged a joint British American Air Force base near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
Richard BeckwithHOST
1:47
Known as RAF Bentwaters, situated on the northern edge of the Rendlesham Forest, the Cold War era base served as a deterrent to Soviet aggression in Western Europe and played a major role in NATO.
Richard BeckwithHOST
2:01
It served as the primary home for the 81st Fighter Wing and secretly housed a substantial arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons.
Richard BeckwithHOST
2:11
Colonel Charles Halt, served as the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters under then Colonel Gordon Williams.
Richard BeckwithHOST
2:20
On the night of December 28, 1980, Colonel Halt and several service members, including a number of base security personnel, witnessed UFOs maneuvering over the base.
Richard BeckwithHOST
2:30
One UFO interacted directly with Halt and his men, at one point shining a bright beam of light down to the ground in front of them.

5 MINS LATER

Charles HaltGUEST
7:55
They called me back the next day and said the sink, who's the commander in Europe's executive officer, wants that position.
Charles HaltGUEST
8:01
But we've got a good deal.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
31:07
And in some respects, there are some of us that know a heck of a lot I was watching a history lesson, I replayed it, I saved some of the programs, and it was the incident in England, I forget the name of that base.
Richard BeckwithHOST
31:28
Bentwaters.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
31:28
That's it.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
31:30
And I was watching that and I kept laughing.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
31:33
I thought, how many people really believe those who experienced it? compared to those who denounce it.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
31:48
And I don't know the statistics, but my experience of people I've met in my lifetime, I'd say 75-8% believe it happened, and 20% are willing to believe our government because they think they're basically framed it, it might be true.
Richard BeckwithHOST
32:05
I think the explanation for the Bentwaters incident was that the security personnel were seeing a light from the local lighthouse, as opposed to objects that were hovering over the base and shining beams on the weapons storage areas.
Stanislav O'JackGUEST
32:23
Well, last night, when I was watching it, the two major officers, I can't think of the names, the ones who actually went out and saw it.
JamesHOST
0:22
While others follow the noise, we follow the money.
speaker_1GUEST
0:30
The event occurred in the same place as the Rendlesham incident, over RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, which are two joint RAF and US Air Force bases, which are located in Suffolk, England.
speaker_1GUEST
0:44
And the incident occurred during the late hours of August 13th, 1956, and extended into the early morning hours of August 14th.
speaker_1GUEST
0:56
Well, the first sighting was at 9.30pm when Airman 2nd Class John Vaquer, who was a radar operator at one of the bases in the east of England, repeatedly tracked single and multiple objects on his ground controller porch radar, which displayed high speed as well as rapid changes of direction.
speaker_1GUEST
5:56
Well, I was just going to say that, going back to, again, Jim Tennyson's sign in 1980, when he saw that the triangular shaped UFO 3 meters by 3 meters lands in the forest when that took off he explained it was like a blink of an eye and suddenly this object was gone so there is sort of a recurring pattern when it comes to UFO reports with this you know blink of an eye speed only 55 minutes
JamesHOST
6:24
after
speaker_1GUEST
6:25
that object go to 12,000 miles per hour was reported more activity occurred as radar and RAF Bentwaters picked up an identified target and this is on the same east to west course as the previous one at an apparent speed of 2,000 to 4,000 miles per hour and personally I located in the Bentwaters tower actually reported at the same time they saw a bright light which seemed to pass over the field from east to west so this field you know basically in front of the tower and suddenly this object passes from east to west an altitude of four thousand feet and this report actually coincides with another report from a pilot in the vicinity who at the same time reported a bright light which streaked beneath his twin-engine C-47 military transport plane.
speaker_1GUEST
7:28
That's right, yep.

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