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the original analysis. I have spoken with the key witnesses in this complex case on many occasions. I am convinced that they are being truthful, and while recollections vary in some instances, this is to be expected given the time that has passed and given the fact that events occurred over several nights, with different people being involved at different locations. Indeed, I would be suspicious if everyone told exactly the same story, because in my experience this would suggest improper collusion between the witnesses. But the simple fact that this is a multiple-witness event, where those involved are military personnel and where there is physical evidence, makes this one of the most significant UFO sightings ever. [4] The late five-star admiral Lord Hill-Norton, the UK's former Chief of the Defence Staff (the equivalent of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the United States), though retired at the time, often asked me to brief him on the UFO phenomenon and draft material for him on the subject—a fearsome task for a middle-ranking government official. He was particularly outspoken on the Rendlesham Forest case and felt strongly that the MoD's line on the incident (that the events were of "no defense significance") was entirely unacceptable and at odds with the facts. In a letter that he wrote toa UK defense minister which he copied to me, the aoe o4 aa6 a aw My position both privately and publicly expressed over the last dozen years or more, is that there are only two possibilities, either: An intrusion into our Air Space and a landing by unidentified craft took place at Rendlesham, as described. Or: The Deputy Commander of an operational, nuclear armed, U.S. Air Force Base in England, and a large number of his enlisted men, were either hallucinating or lying. Either of these simply must be "of interest to the Ministry of Defence," which has been repeatedly denied, in precisely those terms. [5] On May 15, 2006, under the UK's Freedom of Information Act, which is broadly similar to the U.S. FOIA, the Ministry of Defence published a formerly secret report on UFOs. Much information about UFOs had already been released, both at the National Archives and on the Ministry of Defence's website, but the release of this latest study was different and totally unprecedented. The study was classified "Secret UK Eyes Only" and only eleven copies of the report were ever made. It ran to over 460 pages and was given the code name Project Condign. Work started in 1996 and the final report was not published until December 2000. admiral summarized his views on the case as follows: Project Condign Interestingly, the timescale is broadly similar to the semiofficial