Source Library · SRC-V99-140 · USAF witness statements (scans of copies from Lt Col Halt's papers)
Rendlesham Forest: statements of A1C John Burroughs, A1C Edward Cabansag and SSgt Jim Penniston (with those of Lt Fred Buran and MSgt J. D. Chandler)
USAF 81st Security Police Squadron personnel, RAF Bentwaters; copies from Lt Col Charles Halt's papers via CAUS and James Easton (1997); scans reproduced by Ian Ridpath · 1981-01 (Buran and Chandler dated 2 Jan 1981; the other three undated)
Record
- Author / institution
- USAF 81st Security Police Squadron personnel, RAF Bentwaters; copies from Lt Col Charles Halt's papers via CAUS and James Easton (1997); scans reproduced by Ian Ridpath
- Date
- 1981-01 (Buran and Chandler dated 2 Jan 1981; the other three undated)
- Source type
- USAF witness statements (scans of copies from Lt Col Halt's papers)
- Used for
- CASE-006: the patrol's own early statements. Penniston: typed, unsigned, undated, with a sketch map and an object drawing (Penniston1-3.PNG). Burroughs: handwritten, undated, with a drawing (Burroughs1-3.PNG). Cabansag: typed, undated (Cabansag.PNG). Buran and Chandler on AF Form 1169, 2 Jan 1981. Provenance notes: http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham2b.html.
- Limitations
- Not released by the USAF or the MoD: Halt gave the copies to CAUS, and Halt confirmed them (his annotations were removed for this reproduction; the annotated set is printed in Bruni's 'You Can't Tell the People'). Linked, not hosted. Whether the MoD file DEFE 24/1948/1 (The National Archives) contains them was not checked; it is a paid download.