Former prison officers and inmates have told how Blundeston, Highpoint and Hollesley Bay jails were put on alert on December 27 in case a possible incident of ‘national security’ occurred that night.
The evacuation never took place, but these reports attracted the attention of former Chief of Defence staff Lord Hill-Norton.
He asked the Government on October 23, 1997 whether staff at Highpoint Prison in Suffolk received instructions to prepare for a possible evacuation of the prison at that time, and why?
In reply Lord Williams of Mostyn said prison records were not available. He added that the governor’s journal could not be found either.
But Ms Bruni says in her book: “I concluded they were preparing for the worst - a possible biological hazard posed by alien contact. In the event of such a threat, the prisons would be used as isolation units.’’
She believes the authorities were extremely concerned a UFO, which had been sighted twice, was about to return.
“They wanted to make sure the prisons were on alert in case something happened. Where you have a possible crisis, the first thing you want to do is to move the prisoners to a safer location,” said Ms Bruni.
“I think this was related in some way to the UFOs because there was nothing else happening in that area at that time.”
Ms Bruni only spends a few pages out of her 400-plus page book You Can’t Tell The People, the sixth book about the Rendlesham UFO, on this intriguing theory.
The title is a reference to what Lady Thatcher said to Ms Bruni when when they were discussing the UFO phenomenon. She said: “You must have the facts and you can’t tell the people.”
Ms Bruni, from London, first became interested in the UFO during 1997, the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident in New Mexico. It was believed alien bodies were recovered at a crash site in 1947, but 50 years later the United States Air Force said they were test dummies.
Ms Bruni said: “People were beginning to call Rendlesham the British Roswell and that is why I took a real interest.”
The book examines the claims by witnesses who saw an object on legs hovering over the forest for many hours. It apparently touched down and small beings came out.
A witness uncovered by Ms Bruni is Gary Collins, who lives at nearby Capel St Andrew.
He said: “I looked up to see what appeared to be a 30-foot object hovering about 60 feet above me.
“I can only describe its underside, which seemed to be triangular-shaped, black in colour, and dripping liquid.
“Suddenly it went at an angle, slowly, then took off at tremendous speed.”
New information also comes from Sgt Rick Bobo, who was stationed in the Bentwaters tower and watched the so-called UFO for five hours.
He said: “There were several lights and there was this huge ship over the forest. It seemed to be very low with lots of red and blue lights on it and I saw something come away from it and land in amongst the trees.”
The Ministry of Defence has constantly said there was never a threat to Britain’s air defences.
But Ms Bruni insisted: “We cannot be sure there was an alien crew, but the fact that a craft of unknown origin landed in Rendlesham Forest should no longer be in dispute.
UK Govt. Response To Alien Contact Threat Says UFO Author
Three prisons were placed on a red alert in December 1980 with the possibility all prisoners would have to be evacuated, claims Georgina Bruni in her book. [Original headline: UFO threat put our prisons on red alert]
East Anglian Daily Times | By Richard Smith - November 13 2000
