The colour picture of rabbit scrapings in the forest floor was taken by me in the summer of 2010.
The following includes consumately related and profound case evidence, I don't recall ever previously being published.
Although I knew something like this existed...somewhere, it has taken countless hours to track it down within my considerable archives.
The documentation was eventually located in a personal email on a backup disk.
That would be a 3.5" floppy disk...
Firstly, an extract from American journalist AJS Rayl's (Salley Rayl) interview with Jim Penniston:
Original broadcast date: April 22, 1997
RAYL: Okay. Now, at this point, you're in the clearing alone? What happened to the other airmen?
PENNISTON: Airman Burroughs was along with me to about, oh, I would say, within 20 meters of the craft itself.
RAYL: All right. So, you're in the clearing now. You're about 10 meters from the craft. Would you describe for us what you saw?
PENNISTON: The white light that was blinding at one point, at 20 to 30 meters had dissipated and it was.. you could see the outline of the silhouette of the craft which was triangular in shape. It was approximately, about, you know, 9 feet by 9 feet by 9 feet and probably 6 feet high.. 7 feet high...
(...)
RAYL: And exactly what did you do in that investigation?
PENNISTON: We checked the outside of the craft out. We started to... we carry cameras for possible terrorist encroachment of the base. We had them with us anyway, and we started photographing the craft. A 360 walk-around of it and examining various parts of the length of the craft and height, trying to find markings or, you know, some type of entry system.
(...)
RAYL: You, at one point, touched it. Can you describe that for us?
PENNISTON: Yes. It was warm to the touch. At the time, the air temperature was probably about 32 degrees [Fahrenheit] and it was very smooth, black, glass-like in appearance, with some color that was, that would gradually turn into the opaque blackness. Then, as I ran my hand toward what I assume was the front of the craft, there was an inscription or lettering of some sort that was inscribed on the side of it.
RAYL: Could you make out what that lettering or inscriptions were?
PENNISTON: Well, they measured approximately 3 or 4 inches high and they stretched out over 3 feet of the craft. There were symbols of some sort, not recognizable to me. They felt like they were etched on the material themselves, slightly raised.
RAYL: Now, we have actually a copy of your original drawing in our Library for those people who would like to go look at that. That's available. They are quite interesting symbols, and I certainly haven't been able to make any sense of them. Have you in the years since?
PENNISTON: No, no I haven't. Those drawings came directly from my notebook that I had that night.. I drew out.
(...)
PENNISTON: In the course, during the course of the investigation, about 30 minutes into it, maybe 20 minutes, the craft lifted up and - about 3 or 4 feet high - and started to maneuver back and forth through the trees away from us. It got about 30 meters, 50 meters away and it lifted up above the tree line. It hovered momentarily and then it took off in the blink of an eye.
RAYL: And what did you do at that point? What are you thinking at this point.
PENNISTON: I looked over at Burroughs. I said, "How are we going to report this? [laughing]
(End)
During April 1997, John Burroughs corresponded with American UFO researcher, John Powell and I was kindly permitted a copy of same.
This is what Burroughs had to say about these exact same events
Referring to the, 'Unsolved Mysteries' feature, Powell asked:
"Regarding one of the last clips shown, which depicted one or two airmen prone as a very nearby and clearly craft-like object rose from a landing position and took off, do you know if there were any ground traces of
this"?
Burroughs clarified:
"First of all, we did not see a structured 'craft' as was depicted. All we saw were lights that seemed to imply a structure of some kind".
"Later inspection showed three round depressions at that spot, forming an
equilateral triangle. The British Police explained these as 'rabbit holes'."
There is further information available regarding other matters, however I shall take care of that seperately, as I do not wish to deflect attention from this seemingly critical exposé of Penniston's claims.