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A variety of entertainment for Christmas.

Christmas Night, 1980 at R.A.F. Bent Waters.

An airbase on the North Sea coast of England, run by the U.S. Air Force and which

houses nuclear weapons.

I was doing a perimeter lighting check for the base, you know, really mundane stuff.

An airman on patrol sees something descend from the sky and into the forest outside the base.

There was like an orange-is-redish coloring in the forest and like a white light. Three men enter the forest to investigate what they think must be a plane crash.

I could feel static electricity on my face and my hair and my poles. And then I was finding my movements

labored, like walking through a pool of water that was waste deep.

But it's not a plane crash.

I'm standing there wondering, what is that?

Is it a weapon?

Such a communication?

Some kind of warning.

It's something very different.

The white light disappeared completely, and the only thing I could see was this black craft.

And there's another encounter the next night.

What happened to Bunny Camplin, the lieutenant was on the second night.

She disappeared from the base immediately.

And the next night.

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