A Christmas story from Britain’s Roswell: the Rendlesham Forest UFO legend
‘What the hell is it?… Who is in charge?’
These were the questions that Airman 1st class Kurt Loutzenheiser asked US Air Force Security Police when he was confronted with a landed object deep inside Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England
It was a pitch black night and the NATO complex, that included USAF-controlled RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, separated by the forest, was closed for the Christmas holidays.
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David Clarke is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He teaches media law and his research specialism is contemporary legend. Previously he worked as a journalist for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. His PhD in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. From 2008-13 he acted as consultant and curator of the MoD UFO files project with The National Archives. His books include The Angel of Mons (2004) and How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth (2015). In 2018 he co-founded the Centre for Contemporary Legend at Sheffield Hallam University. This blog covers his twin research interests in journalism and folklore. The views expressed in the contents are entirely his own.
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