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A Cultural History of Art Bell

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John Burroughs

John Burroughs

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John Burroughs is a retired United States Air Force sergeant and one of the primary military witnesses to the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident of December 1980, widely considered one of the most significant and well-documented UFO encounters in history. As a guest on late-night radio, he has provided firsthand testimony of the multi-night event near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, and has advocated for the release of classified records related to his exposure to unexplained radiation during the encounter.

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September 17, 2015: Rendlesham Forest UFO - John Burroughs

Sep 17, 2015
2h 18m
Art Bell speaks with John Burroughs, the only military witness present on all three nights of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident near RAF Woodbridge in England. Burroughs recounts how he and his supervisor first spotted strange lights in the forest during a routine patrol on December 26, 1980, and how radar confirm...