#74 Dr. David Clarke - Lakenheath UFO 1956 (Never before heard interview clips with RAF Personnel)
Analysis Summary
Summary
The encounter involves RAF servicemen during a military duty on the night of August 13-14, 1956. They were stationed at RAF Lakenheath and Bentwaters in East Anglia. They began receiving reports of unidentified objects on radar, which were moving at incredible speeds. The radar operator, Freddy Wimbledon, observed these objects behaving erratically and ordered fighter jets to scramble for interception. The pilots, including John Brady, reported seeing a bright light but could not intercept it. The incident was later classified and remained largely unknown until the late 1960s. The encounter had a lasting impact on the servicemen, as they felt it was an unexplained event that was not adequately addressed by authorities.
Program Intelligence Analysis
The video discusses the Lakenheath Bentwaters case, a significant UFO incident from 1956 that was covered by the Official Secrets Act until the late 1960s. Multiple radar stations detected unidentified objects moving at incredible speeds, and RAF pilots reported unusual encounters during interception attempts.
The Lakenheath Bentwaters case was one of the 700 unexplained cases out of 12,000 examined by Project Blue Book.
Dr. David Clark
“This case, the what was known as the Lakenheath Bentwaters case, which happened in the same area of East Anglia, as the Rendlesham Forest instance, it was probably the best known or the best most evidential UFO incident.”
Freddy Wimbledon
“We began to notice a return on our primary radar which was acting rather strangely.”
John Brady
“I had to say, 'You cannot intercept something that is stationary.'”
Graham Scofield
“The radar at that time was sufficiently good that if you got a blip, you knew what it was.”
Managed by: RAF
Investigation of unidentified aerial phenomena
The Lakenheath Bentwaters case was effectively covered by the Official Secrets Act until the late 1960s.
The Lakenheath Bentwaters case was one of the 700 unexplained cases out of 12,000 examined by Project Blue Book.
RAF Lakenheath was a base for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
On the night of August 13-14, 1956, multiple radar stations detected unidentified objects moving at incredible speeds.
Freddy Wimbledon, the chief controller at RAF Neatishead, tracked an object on radar that moved at speeds unlike any known aircraft.
RAF pilots reported seeing a stationary object during their intercept attempts, which was unusual for an aircraft.
The British Ministry of Defense destroyed files related to the Lakenheath Bentwaters case.