"UFO Crash Landing? Friend or Foe?"
Jenny Randles
Published by Blandford and priced £9.99

To call Jenny Randles a painstaking and tenacious investigator, is like saying the Pope's a Catholic. This is one of the best researched books on the Rendlesham enigma I have ever read. Have you ever heard of Cobra Mist or Cold Witness? No neither had I, but I have now, and it's as if the lid on a very nasty and dangerous can of worms had been lifted.

The reader approaches this book expecting to find an account of a particularly exciting and fairly recent close encounter with a UFO, but it soon emerges that a potentially more dangerous and sinister force was at work. This being that the American National Security Agency (which is a law virtually unto itself) aided and abetted by the British Government, carried out a lengthy series of highly classified experiments code named Cobra Mist, originally with the aim of developing over the horizon radar. This may have been the beginning (accidentally) of the Star Wars anti-missile and satellite programme of the Raegan administration, and even more incredibly may even have created a rift in the very fabric of space itself.

This is only the start of the mystery, when the Cobra Mist project was supposedly wound up, it was superseded by Cold Witness which built on the discoveries of the previous experiment. These high energy radar beams could have been the cause of mysterious equipment malfunctions on board aircraft over-flying the area, or even caused the premature re-entry of a Russian satellite.

Perhaps the most sinister of all the implications in this book, is the suggestion that the area was used to experiment on human beings using psychotronic warfare, this if true, has truly horrendous implications with regard to direct mind control, using the susceptibility of the human brain to various magnetic and electric fields. This with the possible addition of visual and auditory hallucinations, produce a scenario which has implications almost beyond belief.

For this reviewer, the UFO aspect of the book almost becomes secondary to the other startling and potentially alarming revelations in the book. The views expressed in the book also tend to reinforce a view prevalent among UFO researchers, that UFOs are trans-dimensional rather than an inter-planetary phenomenon, and that the Rendlesham Forest sighting was as a result of some sort of craft literally falling through a hole in the fabric of space, created inadvertently by a highly classified American military experiment.

So, in conclusion, an interesting and controversial book, which will generate much debate both inside and outside the UFO community. Well worth serious study and a valuable work of reference read it and enjoy.

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