Nov 05 2007
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Another From The Archives
It’s been a while since I last made one of my “From the Archives” posts, so here’s a new one.
The following is extracted from an old Word document I found on an equally old floppy disk recently. I think I probably wrote this around late 1998, or maybe slightly earlier and, shamefully, never really got around to following up on the initially-received data from the sources. Maybe someone may be able to shed light on the events at issue. Anyway, here’s the extract:
“During the early 1950s, my father, Frank Redfern, had served with the Royal Air Force on radar. He had been involved in one particular UFO incident that occurred during September 1952 at the height of a NATO exercise called Mainbrace. It was during the exercise that a number of fast-moving and unidentified targets were tracked over-flying the North Sea by radar operators at RAF Neatishead, Norfolk, England.
“When my father related this to me as a 13-year-old in 1978, it was a key turning point in my life and ultimately led me on a still-continuing quest to determine the truth that lies behind the UFO puzzle. I made mention of my father’s experience in my first book, A Covert Agenda. Since the publication of the book, however, a number of sources have come forward to relate their own UFO experiences from September 1952 – including Ken, then a radar operator at RAF Langton, Lincolnshire.
“We would do shifts,” he told me, “and I would read out the plots and the girls would then plot them on a big map. Well, over the course of two days in 1952, something strange happened. On the first day, somebody said: ‘Look, there’s something happening on the screen.’ There were about three or four of us watching as something was speeding across the screen; and this was fast, very fast.
“It looked like there were actually two objects and they were approaching from the North Sea and flew across Lincolnshire, Peterborough and then up the country at about 2,000 miles per hour. Well, an officer was called and he made some comment. But then our commanding officer arrived and reminded us not to talk about this as we’d signed the Official Secrets Act. But this happened over a couple of days and the UFOs were tracked by several shifts – not just ours.”
A similar account came from a chap who served with the Royal Air Force at RAF Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. His field, too, was radar and he maintained that in 1952 he tracked at least six objects flying at a fantastic speed over the English Channel. Aircraft were scrambled, but to no avail: the UFOs - whatever their origin - were long gone.”
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November 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
What were your father’s thoughts on the event he experienced? Did he think the UFOs were natural phenomena, soviet planes, or something else?
November 6th, 2007 at 7:38 am
RPJ:
At the time he told me about it (and even today he says the same if asked) all he could say for sure was that over the course of several nights, very fast moving objects were tracked over the North Sea, the pilots who had been scrambled to intercept reported the UFOs playing a kind of cat and mouse game with them (slowing down, speeding up etc), and that he, his colleagues etc were all warned not to talk about what had occurred, and the radar tapes were taken to an office of Scientific Intelligence for analysis.
He heard no more about it and did not hear any of the analysis results.
If asked for a specific opinion on what he thinks was responsible, he admits he doesn’t know. He won’t say it was ET; although he’s highly doubtful of the idea that it was the Russians or some “secret weapon” theory.
To him, it was (and still is) a weird experience that was recorded on radar by independent radar people, that was the subject of aircraft scrambling, and visual sightings of weird lights by the crews, and a degree of cover-up in the wake of it.
He isn’t keen on trying to make a conclusion - chiefly because he hasn’t got much to go on.
He looks at it now as just a weird experience that happened to him 55 years ago and that he’s unlikely to ever get an answer as to what happened.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Makes one wonder, you know.
If one of the purposes of that event, was to be witnessed by YOUR FATHER, who in returned inspired in YOU the interest to try to dscover more about UFOs; like a big orchestrated theater that takes centuries-if not millenia- to unfold, and only the characters are the ones who come in and come out, but the play goes on and on.
Just a thought
November 6th, 2007 at 10:57 am
RPJ:
Interesting thought!
However, I suppose we could equally say that there were probably countless other people who were involved in these incidents, and who also told their families, but where that had no real effect on the people who were told.
Then again, ufology does seem full of odd synchronicities and fate-like happenings…