Retired USAF Colonel Charles Halt is shown on video admitting that two men involved in the Rendlesham Forest incident in Suffolk, England were ‘unaccounted for hours’
A U.S. Air Force colonel was recorded saying the believes two men involved in the Rendlesham Forest incident – considered the ‘British Roswell’ – where perhaps abducted by aliens.
Video shows Charles Halt saying he believes one of the two men, John Burroughs, ‘may have been abducted’ and admitting that both Burroughs and Jim Penniston were ‘unaccounted for hours’.
Halt, who is now retired, was discussing the December 26, 1980 incident in which Staff Sergeant Penniston and Airman Burroughs reportedly interacted with a small aircraft that landed in Rendlesham Forest, near the NATO airbases of RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, England.
Halt was working as a deputy commander in the U.S. army at the time.
Halt, in his original memo to the UK’s Ministry of Defence, did not mention the thoughts that have now been revealed by former police detective Gary Heseltine, who along with his wife, Lynn, is making a documentary about the incident.
The video was shot by Lynn in 2010 and shows her husband walking and talking with Halt about the incident.

The admission comes courtesy of a 2010 video showing Halt (left) discussing the December 1980 incident with Gary Heseltine (right), who along with his wife Lynn is making a documentary about it

Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston (right) and Airman John Burroughs (left) allegedly interacted with a UFO that landed in Rendlesham Forest on December 26, 1980
![Pictured is the east gate at RAF Woodbridge, near where the incident is alleged to have occurred. In the video, Halt says: '[John Burroughs] may have been abducted, who knows](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/16/04/482D541700000578-5273335-image-a-65_1516076269853.jpg)
Pictured is the east gate at RAF Woodbridge, near where the incident is alleged to have occurred. In the video, Halt says: ‘[John Burroughs] may have been abducted, who knows
The notion that Burroughs and Penniston were abducted by the unidentified flying object has been widespread.
Halt became involved on December 28, 1980, when he returned to the area of Rendlesham Forest where Burroughs and Penniston claimed to have seen the aircraft.
He allegedly saw a light-beam from the aircraft.
One witness told The Sun in December 2016: ‘I could see these lights over the treetops, and I was thinking, what’s going on? Then they started sending people out there and at first it was hard to believe, all these bright lights. It was hard to take in.’
The UK’s Ministry of Defence dismissed the incident.
The incident is called the ‘British Roswell’ after the famous alleged UFO citing in Roswell, New Mexico.
‘[John Burroughs] may have been abducted, who knows,’ the footage shows Halt saying. ‘I don’t play that up.’
He adds: ‘You know there is lost time, we know that. They were not on the radio.’

Pictured is another view of the gate. One witness to a December 28 citing told The Sun: ‘I could see these lights over the treetops, and I was thinking, what’s going on? Then they started sending people out there and at first it was hard to believe, all these bright lights. It was hard to take in’

Heseltine told The Sun he believes Halt’s admission is in the ‘public interest’

Halt sent a memo to the UK’s Ministry of Defence about the incident. The Ministry dismissed its potential significance
Heseltine told The Sun that he decided to release the video because the admission that Penniston and Burroughs had lost communication with the base ‘had never been made public’.
‘I think it is in the public interest,’ he added to The Sun.
Halt, meanwhile, told The Sun: ‘I never said anyone was abducted.’
The revelation comes after this past summer’s reveal of ‘Britain’s X-Files’, some of which shed further light on the Rendlesham Forest incident.
‘What’s readily apparent from a detailed study of all this is that the MoD was telling Parliament, the media and the public that the UFO phenomenon was of “no defense significance” and of limited interest to the MoD’, Nick Pope who was part of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project from 1991 to 1994 told MailOnline last summer.
‘However, the files show that behind the scenes, the subject was obviously taken more seriously than we let on, with many of the cases self-evidently being of great defence significance – e.g. when UFOs were seen in close proximity to military bases, were encountered by RAF pilots, or were tracked on radar by fighter controllers or air traffic controllers.’

Halt (pictured in a portrait from his army days) told The Sun: ‘I never said anyone was abducted’