2 U FO Lands in Suffol k and That ' s Offi cial ! RALPH NOYES Ralph Noyes was born in the tropics and spent most of his childhood in the West Indies . He served in the RAF 1940-46 as a navigator, engaging in active ser vice in North Africa and the Far East. He entered the Civil Service in 1949 and served in the Air M inistry and subsequently the unified M inistry of Defense. For nearly four years he headed Defense Secretariat 8 (DS8) which among other tasks logged UFO reports from members of the public . Ralph Noyes retired in 1977 , leaving in the grade of Under Secretary of State. He has since pursued a writing career, and has written a number of articles and science fiction stories . A Secret Property (Quar tet Books , 1985) deals largely w ith UFOs , includ ing-in fictionalized fonn-the Rendlesham case . In 1989 Country Life published several articles by him on the mystery cornfield circles .
" UFO Lands in Suffolk-and That 's Offi cial ! " These were the words i n which a British Sunday newspa per told us, in October 1983 , of one of the most remark able UFO cases in British history. The events they were reporting had taken place nearly three years before, in December 1980, in Rendlesham Forest in the English county of Suffolk. Now, almost a decade after these events , much more has come to l ight, and we have had time to draw conclusions . No apologies need be offered for re-
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