The Missing Other UFO Incident
Does the following extract now explain why we seem to have two different accounts of events in the forest that second night and the actual background to why Halt was informed the UFO had returned.
There was in fact an earlier occurrence in the forest.
Address by Colonel Charles I Halt
Quest International Conference
Leeds, 31 July, 1994
There are seemingly only four related testimonies, from Larry Warren, Greg Battram, Adrian Bustinza and brief anecdotes from John Burroughs re later stages on the clearing's periphery.
For the first time, assembling all of this in the greatest detail I have available, in the event it might be helpful, I have avoided using Larry Warren's so much as possible and the key accounts come from Larry Fawcett's transcripts of his telephone interviews with Battram and Bustinza.
Battram:
"We got out there and parked the truck on the side of the road and went walking in toward the clearing".
"Just as we got about 50 yards away, we started to feel the hair on our necks and arms and stuff stand up".
"And it felt really strange. And we could hear a "thrumming" kind of a sound".
"A "thrumming" noise coming out of the forest, from the direction of that object. It had a ground fog all around it".
"We couldn't really see a distinct shape, but there were alternating colors in it and the whole bit. It was really strange. The closer we got the worse the static electricity feeing got and we just said _ _ _ this. And we turned around and took off".
"I would say it was it could have been, the fog itself was like one-hundred feet across".
"I couldn't really see the thing. Inside it seemed there was a denser section to the fog, about thirty to fifty feet maybe across".
"It seemed like that and when we left and when we leftwe met up with Lieutenant Englund, as I remember it; anyway he was the only officer I knew; and some security police came over from Bentwaters".
"We just told them the whole bit and he said O.K., head on back".
"Then we went back into the perimeter of Woodbridge and stuck around there. We could see some activity over there but that was it".
Subsequent Q&As:
Q: Could you see all the light all's they had in here?
A: I could see a couple of them as they were bringing them out.
Q: Were there a lot of personnel going out there?
A: Well, it seemed like it. I saw twenty to thirty people.
Q: How about choppers? Were any of those up?.
A: No, not that I know of, because we were in Woodbridge and we didn't see any of them take off. Later on I think there was a helicopter flight.
Q: Yes, because Bustinza told me that Zickler, Major Zickler had ordered the scramble ordered the scramble of two choppers from Woodbridge.
A: Well, that could be because we did hear them starting their engines and they do that at night sometimes. We could see one of them out there hovering around. Up above the normal parking area. So in all the excitement and stuff like that. We were just chatting our heads off about what we had seen. We weren't really paying too much attention to our surroundings. We went off and parked some place".
Q: Were you picking up chatter on the radio, about this?
A: No. We couldn't get through the closer we got the worse it got.
Q: So really when the thing was in the field you really couldn't get a shape on it, other than lights on the bottom and all kinds of colors were in it?
A: It seemed to be alternating, mostly between oranges, red, blues and whites.
Q: You are definitely sure there was something solid there?
A: Yes, because I don't know if it was more a sight or a feeling, but it was a denser section to that bank fog. Like it just didn't fit.
Q: In other words there was no fog anywhere else, but actually where the thing was?
A: Oh, yes it was right there. Strange.
(End)
Bustinza's account now seems to gel and begins from the light-alls being acquired from RAF Bentwaters (not Woodbridge):
Q: ...and a jeep pulled up and I believe a Lieutenant Englund and yourself was in the jeep... and from there you drove to the motor pool... and Lieutenant Englund told you to fill the light-alls...?
A: So we went ahead and we checked these. We made sure they were full and they were full... And then we took them up back to the field and they wouldn't work. And they were functioning perfect when we tried them out.
Q: From there you went out the gate towards Woodbridge?
A: Right.
Q: ...There was a Major Zickler there?
A: Yes, that was our squadron commander.
Q: And there was John Burroughs there?
A: John Borroughs, correct.. Sgt. Madena, Captain Verano Station Commander, MSgt Ball my Flight Chief...
Q: ... helicopters over above?
A: Yes, a squadron, paramedic squadron was activated.
Q: Paramedics?
A: Paramedics.
Q: Paramedics. Where were they from? Woodbridge?
A: Woodbridge.
NOTE: "paramedic squadron", whether mistaken by Bustinza, or misheard, is surely a reference to the 67th ARRS pararescue squadron, based at RAF Woodbridge.
Q: As we're going into the field now Larry could see lights coming through the field.
A: Right.
Q: And you got to like a barbed wire fence, I think he said, or a
stone fence or something?
A: A barbed wire fence.
Q: And at this point Larry could hear the helicopters talking with the ground radios.
A: Right, they flew by the officers there.
NOTE: Bustinza is apparently at the barbed wire fence and not in the field itself.
Q: Larry says at this point, when you came to the field there was like a large asperin shaped transparent thing in the middle of the field. He describes it as looking like an asperin but you could see through it like misty and stuff?
A: That's the yellow mist I was talking about.
Q: All of a sudden he could hear the helicopter or somebody say here it comes. And they looked up and over the pine trees came a red ball of light. And this red ball of light like went over top of this mist in the middle of this field and all of a sudden it exploded into a lot of colors but there was no sound. Do you remember that?
A: Yes, I remember that. That's the main, the cream of the crop I would say.
To tell the truth, I remember seeing the craft. I remember Col. Halt talking and I remember looking to who he was talking to and I couldn't see nobody.
(End)
Adding Burroughs:
"Bustinza...he was standing by the light alls when one of the objects Halt and the LT who got him from the party pointed out to me in the Sky came at us went over our heads headed straight at the light-alls...the object went through the truck (window)...".
NOTE: Burroughs clarified that he was referring to blue lights which came from the, 'exploding object'.
"I and Bustinza were running towards it and Bustinza fell to the ground. He told me afterwards that he felt something push him down and then would not let him back up. I then felt like I was almost next to the object and all of a sudden I was out in the middle of the field by myself and I didn't know why. I could not account for about 15 min of time".
(End)
Incorporating Halt's recording, we appear to have somewhat comparative accounts re an enigmatic light source rapidly approaching and exploding into colours.
As for the relatively large fog-like observation/object perceived to have been within the clearing earlier and again exhibiting an array of different coloured flashing lights, again the feeling of static electricity and this time a "thrumming" sound, albeit only mentioned by Battram...
Presumably this had all disappeared by the time Halt arrived (had a localised fog dissipated?).
Which brings us to the next stage; Halt's direct involvement and perhaps even more new intrigue...