# Memory, repeated retelling, books, television and the influence of other witnesses' stories elaborated…

> Most likely: Memory, repeated retelling, books, television and the influence of other witnesses' stories elaborated ordinary observations into a landing.

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[Questions](https://mysteriesdept.com/questions)[Rendlesham Forest, December 1980](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest)[How and why did the accounts grow?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/questions/QST0CQRZJBA2ZBF/how-and-why-did-the-accounts-grow)Answer

Answer · Rendlesham Forest, December 1980

# Memory, repeated retelling, books, television and the influence of other witnesses' stories elaborated…

Memory, repeated retelling, books, television and the influence of other witnesses' stories elaborated ordinary observations into a landing.

**Most likely** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Most likely** Its tests supported it: two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Each new element appears first in a commercial or broadcast setting, not in a record.
- Later elements contradict the same witness's earlier statements.

## What would rule it out

- An early private record (diary, letter) shows the later elements were present from 1980.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[Penniston says his notebook was written that night; its dates do not fit the event.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/evidence/EVD0CQRZQQ637PQ/penniston-says-his-notebook-was-written-that-night-its-dates)

Supported

FOR

[Penniston's craft appears in 1994 and the binary in 2010; neither is in his 1981 statement.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/evidence/EVD0CQRZQFC4Q08/pennistons-craft-appears-in-1994-and-the-binary-in-2010)

Established

FOR

## The questions it answers

[How and why did the accounts grow?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/rendlesham-forest/questions/QST0CQRZJBA2ZBF/how-and-why-did-the-accounts-grow)

Most likelyMemory, repeated retelling, books, television and the influence of other witnesses' stories elaborated…

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