Introducing: Encounters
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UFO lands in Suffolk and that's official, said the News of the World. But what really happened across two nights in December 1980 when US servicemen saw mysterious lights in Rendlesham Forest and claimed to have had a close encounter with an actual alien craft?
Encounters, a new podcast available exclusively on Wondery Plus, takes a deep dive into one of the most famous and still unresolved UFO encounters to ever take place in the UK. Featuring shocking testimony from first-hand witnesses, journalists and senior military personnel... Hosts, journalist, podcaster and UFO researcher Andy Macmillan, that's me, and producer Elle Scott take us back to the nights in question and examine all of the evidence and conflicting theories about what was encountered in the middle of a snowy Suffolk forest 40 years ago.
I'm podcast producer Elle Scott and I've always been intrigued by that question. You know the one. Are we alone? The Rendlesham Forest encounter is often described as the UK's Roswell and does seem pretty unexplainable. But what actually happened back in 1980? If, like me, you're curious, come with us on this series and be prepared to question everything. Here's a preview of episode one. MUSIC PLAYS
Hello and welcome to Encounters. I'm Andy McGrillan.
And I'm Elle Scott. And this is a show that investigates that which is so frequently dismissed. I'm talking, of course, about UFOs.
UFOs indeed. And as the name suggests, we'll be deep diving into the most compelling UFO encounters history has to offer to figure out as best we can what it is we have been witnessing all these years.
But why are we doing this and why now? Well, whether you're new to ufology like me or more down the rabbit hole like Andy, we want you to be as clued up as you can be. And that way, if governments or agencies did ever feel the need to disclose what they know, well, we'll all be ready.
Yeah, I agree. A lot of the general public, Elle, have a limited to no knowledge or interest in the UFO topic. However, for those listening who have been ardent followers of ufology for months, years or decades, we hope this podcast you find something that is either news to you, a different way of looking at the topic, or maybe something you've heard about a bit before and forgotten about in the years gone by.
And on that note, what better story to begin with than the Vendelsham Forest incident? It's pretty much the UK's most talked about encounter event, isn't it, Andy?
Yes, Elle. It's essentially the UK's Roswell and it has that moniker for a reason. But before we get to talking about Vendelsham, I think we have to take it back a step. And this episode is an introductory episode to introduce some context, some background, some UFO history to bring folks up to speed to where we are now. And then we can jump back to 1980.
But speaking of introductions, if you're in the UFO know, my fellow co-host here really needs no introduction. He's the man behind one of the biggest UFO podcasts, That UFO Podcast, and he's a walking, talking encyclopedia for all things UFOs and UFO news.
Thank you very much. I think I know a little about a lot rather than a lot about a little.
Regardless of the ratios, you clearly are into UFOs. So take us back to the genesis, Andy. When did it all start?
I had my own sighting in the kind of mid-90s. How old were you? About 10, 11, something like that and we left the kind of winter's night, October, November time in Scotland and I remember looking along the road and to my left there's like a Chinese, a laundrette, a chip shop, you know, local shops and to my right just all houses, a community centre, there's no big fields, we're not in the middle of nowhere where a lot of UFO sightings commonly happen and And along the road, there is this massive object that you can't see the bottom of it because it's so close to the ground and it's spinning on its side. So if you imagine like a Ferris wheel at a carnival, it was like that, but tilted at a really acute angle and spinning incredibly fast.
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