The Lighthouse
Strange Arrivals
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The British tabloids get wind of the Rendlesham encounter and it becomes public in 1983. The news prompts a closer look at the Rendlesham narratives, and researchers put forward alternative explanations that don’t involve unknown craft entering the air space above RAF Bentwaters. Twenty years after the encounter, the UK Ministry of Defense releases its Rendlesham file. What’s inside is not what researchers were expecting.
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| 0:00.0 | Strange Arrivals is a production of I Heart 3D Audio. |
| 0:07.0 | For full exposure, listen with headphones. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey you are, Ms. change from your two 20s check the other tires for you. They look okay |
| 0:19.6 | anything wrong? |
| 0:26.0 | No Anything wrong? No, nothing's wrong. I was just looking at that, uh, that hitchhiker. |
| 0:29.0 | What hitchhiker? |
| 0:33.0 | He's gone now. |
| 0:37.0 | He's gone now. |
| 0:38.0 | I guess he got picked up. |
| 0:40.0 | Probably. |
| 0:46.0 | Funny though, I saw him a little while ago while you were changing the tire. He probably got a lift right after we passed him. |
| 0:50.0 | Probably. In the day's following |
| 0:55.0 | 28th, 1980, Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Holt, the Deputy Base Commander, was asked to write a memo describing |
| 1:05.9 | the events of the three-night encounter to give to the Royal Air Force Representative at |
| 1:10.8 | R.A.F. Bentwaters. The memo was sent up to the Ministry of Defense, but Holt never heard anything back. |
| 1:20.0 | I was relieved to be very honest with you, and that was I thought the end of it until two or three years later whenever the memo got released and then it hit the fan. |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Toby Ball and this is strange arrivals. Episode 3, The Lighthouse. It hit the fan on October 2nd, 1983 in the English newspaper called The News of the World. |
| 1:59.8 | Under the headline, UFO lands in Suffolk and that's official. |
| 2:05.0 | The article began, a UFO has landed in Britain, |
| 2:09.0 | and that staggering fact has been officially confirmed. Despite a massive cover-up, news of the world |
| 2:15.8 | investigators have proof that the mysterious craft came to earth in a red ball of |
| 2:20.9 | light at 3 a.m. on December 27th, 1980. |
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