During the early hours of boxing day in 1980, the Bentwaters base was quiet, just like any other day, only this day would turn out to be like no other. The Bentwaters base was completely surrounded by the Rendlesham Forest; approximately 200 or so yards away was another US Airforce base known as Woodbridge.
Things would start to become strange when John noticed lights coming from the forest. He notified Staff Sergeant, Bud Steffans, who arrived almost immediately and watched the forest in amazement with John. At the time the pair didn’t know what to make of this; they stated that there were two bright lights, one red, and one blue. The blue light was directly beneath the red light and they were flashing.
Bud’s initial suspicion was that a military aircraft must have made an emergency landing in the forest, but after a quick radio transmission, he learned that no flights were made that night. The pair then suspected that the light may be coming from a civilian plane, but they then came to a startling realization… No one had heard anything. John and Bud got in a military vehicle on scene and drove down to a small track that leads into the forest. It was at this point that the pair realized that something highly unusual was taking place. Whilst driving into the forest they described seeing another light; this one was white and unlike this other two, this one wasn’t flashing, but was slowly moving in their direction. They stated that it didn’t seem to be attached to any sort of vehicle or aircraft and with that, they backed out of the forest.
