Name Charles Halt | Rank Lieutenant colonel | |
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Commands held Kunsan Air Base, Korea; RAF Bentwaters | ||
Service/branch United States Air Force Allegiance United States of America Similar Chuck Yeager, Gabby Gabreski, Bob Hoover | ||
Lt colonel charles i halt testimony audio tape recording rendlesham forest findingufo
Charles I. Halt (Born 1939) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former deputy base commander of RAF Bentwaters, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. After serving in Vietnam, Japan and Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards, and he was an important witness to events on the second night of sightings.
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- Lt colonel charles i halt testimony audio tape recording rendlesham forest findingufo
- Rendlesham Forest Investigation
- Post military
- TV Documentaries
- References
Rendlesham Forest Investigation
In the late hours of December 27, and early December 28, 1980 then Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Forest. During this investigation they witnessed several unidentified lights, most prominent of them being a bright flashing light in the direction of Orford Ness. In January 1981 Halt composed an official Air Force memorandum listing details of the events. The memo was then dispatched to the Ministry of Defence. Halt also made an audio tape recording of the incident.
Post-military
After retiring from the US Air Force in 1991, Halt made his first public appearance in a television documentary, where he confirmed the authenticity of the Rendlesham Forest incident. In 1997 he was interviewed by Georgina Bruni for a book about the Rendlesham event, You Can't Tell the People. He has also appeared in several television documentaries, including the three listed below.
In June 2010 Halt issued a notarized affidavit in which he summarized the alleged events of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident and concluded: "I believe the objects that I saw at close quarter were extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now – to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham Forest and RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."
Col. Charles Irwin Halt has released a book written with John Hanson (of the excellent 'Haunted Skies' series of books), 'THE HALT PERSPECTIVE'. A follow up book is in production and should be published in 2018.