# A structured craft landed in the clearing and was approached and touched.

> Disputed: A structured craft landed in the clearing and was approached and touched.

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[Questions](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions)[Rendlesham Forest, December 1980](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest)[What did the first patrol see on 26 December 1980?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/questions/QST0CQRZHVP1QJ8/what-did-the-first-patrol-see-on-26-december-1980)Answer

Answer · Rendlesham Forest, December 1980

# A structured craft landed in the clearing and was approached and touched.

A structured craft landed in the clearing and was approached and touched.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** One piece of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The 1981 statements of the three men describe a craft at close range.
- Physical traces (casts, radiation, tree damage) are inconsistent with rabbits, background and forestry.

## What would rule it out

- The 1981 statements of all three men describe only lights, and the traces have prosaic matches.

## Evidence 1 for · 2 against

[Penniston has described touching the craft since 1994 and produced a notebook and binary code in 2010.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/evidence/EVD0CQRZKT62BCN/penniston-has-described-touching-the-craft-since-1994-and)

Speculative

FOR

[Penniston's 1981 statement puts him about 50 metres from lights and mentions no craft; Burroughs and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/evidence/EVD0CQRZM204XBX/pennistons-1981-statement-puts-him-about-50-metres-from)

Established

AGAINST

[Police and the forester judged the depressions rabbit diggings; the radiation was at the meter's noise floor.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/evidence/EVD0CQRZM9T2C82/police-and-the-forester-judged-the-depressions-rabbit)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What did the first patrol see on 26 December 1980?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/questions/QST0CQRZHVP1QJ8/what-did-the-first-patrol-see-on-26-december-1980)

Most likelyThe falling lights were a fireball; the lights in the forest and the beacon were the Orford Ness lighthouse…

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A structured craft landed in the clearing and was approached and touched. [Answer ANS0CQRZKJC3HAY]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CQRZKJC3HAY
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**ANS** 0CQRZKJC3HAY

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