The suspicion that the U.S. military has evidence of UFOs appears to have some truth in it. On Monday, a retired U.S. Air Force police officer spoke about an incident he witnessed 36 years ago but was told by higher officials to keep quiet.
According to Steve Longero, he saw a UFO three times in December 1980 while at the Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, England. The incident is often called Britain’s Roswell, The Sun reported.
On Dec. 26, 27 and 28, 1980, Longero and other military personnel stationed near the RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge saw strange lights in the forest. It was hovering above two NATO airbase which were then on high alert since it was the peak of the Cold War.
Longero was deployed to guard the weapons storage area. The USAF police sergeant recalled the base’s very sophisticated alarm system began to go off. At the same time he saw lights over the treetops which he initially found hard to believe.
He recalled seeing fluorescent lights with a reddish glow. Longero went to the area to check the lights. Other military officers, whom he identified as Airman First Class Larry Warren and Edward Cabansag, and Staff Sgt. Jim Burroughs, also checked the lights. Longero said he felt like the lights were watching them.
Other than Longero, another officer, Col. Charles Halt, also revealed what he knows in a book, “The Halt Perspective,” which he just released detailed their encounter with the UFO lights. Halt wrote that they gathered the troops from the bases and were given a little briefing what to do.
Although they saw lights which the officers believe came from UFOs, to this day there are still several theories to explain what they witnessed, including the possibility it was a spy satellite from the then Soviet Union. Days after the incident, Longero was given a debriefing and ordered not to talk since the base had on site nuclear weapons.