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The 1947 crash of a high-altitude Project Mogul balloon near Roswell, New Mexico that was briefly described by the US Army as a recovered "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon — and later, in 1994, as a classified Soviet nuclear-test surveillance balloon.
The December 26-28, 1980 incidents near RAF Woodbridge (a US-operated base in Suffolk, England) when USAF personnel reported unusual lights and an "illuminated triangular craft" in the adjacent Rendlesham Forest.
A media-provenance page tracing alien-autopsy film and image claims.
Over two nights in late December 1980, USAF airmen stationed at RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk reported encountering a landed or hovering unidentified craft in Rendlesham Forest. Lt Col Charles Halt later filed an official memo describing the incident, which was declassified via FOIA in 1983. Investigators Ian Ridpath and Kevin McClure subsequently identified mundane explanations: the Orfordness Lighthouse and the reentry of Soviet satellite Cosmos 749. The UK Ministry of Defence concluded in 2001 the event had 'no defence significance.' The incident is sometimes called 'Britain's Roswell.'