Left at East Gate: A First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest Ufo Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation [Paperback]

Larry Warren (Author), Peter Robbins (Author), Budd Hopkins (Foreword)

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ISBN-10: 159605753X | ISBN-13: 978-1596057531 | Publication Date: December 1, 2005

The astonishing story that has been featured in Sci Fi and History Channel documentaries! In December 1980, Larry Warren was a member of the Air Force security police stationed at RAF Bentwaters, a NATO base in Great Britain. On the night of the 28th he was on guard duty when he was taken by truck to join other Air Force personnel to investigate a disturbance in a Rendlesham Forest about five miles away, which turned out to be a landed UFO. This was the third night of UFO activity in the area and by far the most profound. When the men were debriefed the next day, they were warned to tell no one about what they had seen-as "bullets are cheap." And so began what would turn out to be the best documented and most significant military-UFO incident in history. This remarkable story, told with the help of investigative writer Peter Robbins, was the basis of the Sci Fi Channel's documentary UFO Invasion at Rendlesham and the History Channel's [title to be inserted later]. "Warren's firsthand account explodes with authentic detail. A riveting, fascinating, and important book." -Whitley Strieber, author of Communion "[H]as the force of a well-told mystery novel, yet it is all disturbingly true. A major contribution to the literature." -Budd Hopkins, author of Missing Time "[O]ne gripping version of the story of this classic UFO case and its aftermath." -Publisher's Weekly "This book is dynamite. Meticulously researched, gripping, provocative..." -Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed Minds "[Q]uestions on these UFO sightings are still being asked in Parliament. If you read this gripping book you will see why." -Focus, journal of the British Ministry of Defence

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"Warren's firsthand account explodes with authentic detail. A riveting, fascinating, and important book." -Whitley Strieber, author of Communion "[H]as the force of a well-told mystery novel, yet it is all disturbingly true. A major contribution to the literature." -Budd Hopkins, author of Missing Time "[O]ne gripping version of the story of this classic UFO case and its aftermath." -Publisher's Weekly "This book is dynamite. Meticulously researched, gripping, provocative..." -Nick Pope, author of Open Skies, Closed Minds "[Q]uestions on these UFO sightings are still being asked in Parliament. If you read this gripping book you will see why." -Focus, journal of the British Ministry of Defence

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• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Cosimo Books (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159605753X
• ISBN-13: 978-1596057531
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book of the bunch on Bentwaters?, June 9, 2010

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This review is from: Left at East Gate: A First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest Ufo Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation (Paperback)

This book, originally published in 1997, is one of several written about the famous Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters UFO incident in December 1980, and possibly the most interesting to read.

Repeated encounters with UFOs were reported over three nights (25-28 December) in 1980 at, over and near the twin RAF bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, large neighboring airfields in Suffolk leased for several decades from the UK Government by the US Government and at that time hosting USAF nuclear strike aircraft and nuclear weapons. Warren was at the time a young airman stationed at Bentwaters, and claimed to be present during the third night of encounters when an unknown craft actually landed at Capel Green and was surrounded by USAF ground personnel - incidentally off-base carrying loaded weapons, specifically against a signed agreement between the UK and US governments.

It is only fair to say that some controversy surrounds Warren and his outspoken claims, and he has been accused in recent years by some former Air Force colleagues of being "economical with the truth." In short, it's been claimed by some, like the Deputy base commander Charles Halt, that Larry wasn't on duty that night and personally witnessed nothing. Certainly his claims about being forcibly detained in an underground facility under the base and subjected to mind-indoctrination following the incident have been questioned with good cause. However, something very serious involving unidentified flying objects intruding over this nuclear-weapons holding NATO facility and "adversely affecting the ordnance", of long duration and with multiple military and civilian witnesses, did happen as reported beyond dispute. The sheer number of witnesses, the physical effects on some of the airmen (damaged retinas due to the brightness of the light in one encounter, including Larry Warren, medically certified) and the incriminating quantity of official paperwork generated between the base command and the UK government subsequent to the incident make this a certainty. Furthermore, multiple witnesses testify that some kind of formalised communication took place between "extraterrestrial biological entities" from the landed craft and senior USAF personnel, who seemed prepared for the encounter and to know exactly what to do.

The book is co-written by Warren and respected researcher Peter Robbins. Warren's narrative in the first part of the book relates his life story up to, during and after the incident and is candid about his values and motivations. He was from an early age something of an anglophile and was delighted to be posted to Bentwaters in England, where he hoped to enjoy his tour. He also reports serial family encounters with High Strangeness and sounds like a serial abductee, the understanding of which phenomenon may require a certain amount of separate study by the reader and acquaintance with the published work of Harvard Professor John Mack, researcher Budd Hopkins, Professor David Jacobs and Raymond Fowler, to name a few. This situation complicates his narrative even more, as well it might.

Robbins' authored sections of the book are printed in italics to differentiate from Warren's, which are written in normal type. The narrative tells the story of their joint investigation, all self-funded from meagre resources, through some fourteen separate visits to the UK (both the authors were US-based by this time) and the journey which led to the writing and publishing of the book. The style is pacy, interesting and engaging, and the editorial decision to tell the tale in story form succeeds in making the book something of a page-turner as the reader shares their struggles, tribulations and the excitement of discovery. It's a very enjoyable read - the type of narrative from which film scripts are made. This is not to diminish the serious content, the thoroughness and persistence of the research, nor the disturbing conclusions. Larry and Peter invested a great deal of time, effort and personal resources in pursuit of the truth of this most important event, and the first edition of the book was famously brandished in the British Parliament during a session demanding answers from the government on the defence implications of the incident.

The hardcover edition contains 16 pages of relevant monochrome photographs and an extensive index of scanned/photocopied documents in support of the truth of the incident. There is also an interesting section about the employment of Wilhelm Reich's controversial cloud-busting technology (one of Robbins' areas of specialist research knowledge) at Bentwaters by the USAF.

Interesting postscript: in September 2009 I was honored to be given a guided walking tour of Rendlesham Forest and Bentwaters (now converted for civilian use) by Peter Robbins, on a splendid late summer Sunday afternoon, including the site at Capel Green where the landed craft had left a large circular area of dessicated soil on which nothing would grow for several years and from which Peter took his soil samples for analysis in Massachusetts. The local council in Suffolk now marks the walking trails with numbered square wooden marker posts, each of which sports the small image of a bug-eyed grey alien head. Nice touch.

Of the many books written about this incident, there is in the opinion of this reviewer one other which is definitely worth reading: the late Georgina Bruni's "You Can't Tell the People" (a direct quote from then PM Margaret Thatcher talking to the author about the ET issue). If you read both books, you'll have a good all-round understanding about the Rendlesham Forest Incident. I don't want to denigrate other books on this subject, but none are as good as these two.

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5.0 out of 5 stars LEFT AT EAST GATE, April 19, 2010

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This review is from: Left at East Gate: A First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest Ufo Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation (Paperback)

"Left at East Gate" by Larry Warren and Peter Robbins is an extensively documented account of the UFO incident that occurred in late December of 1980 on the American airbase at Bentwaters and Woodbridge located in the Rendlesham forest.

Larry Warren was on duty and claims to have seen not just flying UFO's, and "funny-lights", but an actual landed craft with occupants. In addition he claims that he and other security personnel were ordered to surround the craft while the commanding Air force officer in charge of the detail seemed to have some type of telepathic communication with the occupants of that craft! This story and or, numerous parts of the incident were subsequently corroborated by over 20 witnesses who were somehow involved either directly or in a peripheral manner. Shortly thereafter, Warren claims he was escorted into a huge underground complex of the base and "de-briefed" by special sections of the CIA, and NSA. While in the complex, Mr. Warren also claims to have seen aliens working with and alongside Air force and Intelligence personal. In the interim, he is subsequently discharged from the service for his outspokenness, and becomes totally obsessed in his personal mission to prove that..." he really saw what he claims to have seen."
Normally, when I hear stories about the infamous Government underground secret complexes with and without alien co-workers, I can't help but have a rather "tongue and cheek" attitude about such things. However, even if, Mr. Warren was confused about his "tour" in the underground sanctuary of the Air force bases, there is a certain ring of truth regarding his UFO encounters and what followed.

Was Mr. Warren a victim of some dark sided Government experiment using psychotropic drugs, or, hallucinogenics? Did Airman Warren become a real live laboratory subject as portrayed in the 1990 movie, "Jacobs's Ladder" wherein, the Government allegedly used some experiential drug known as "BZ" (Glycolate anticholinergic) on its Vietnam troops in the field? The reader must make his/her own determination. Personally, I believe that Mr. Warren may have fallen into both arenas.

His description of the craft, the occupants, and the on-going trauma that he has experienced since that incident are without a doubt, totally and unequivocally believable.
The use of drugs and or, psychological manipulation as a "masking factor" to enhance the art of disinformation is also apparent in this case. In addition, the intense accumulation of documents, copies of tape recorded conversations, photographs, and admitted confessions of this individual's personal problems during these events and years that followed only serve to bolster his claims.

As in most high-profile UFO cases, there are always repercussions to the witnesses and or, their families. (I.e. Sgt. Lonnie Zamora case 1964). What ever Mr. Warren witnessed (and he did witness "something" of gigantic importance), his story... is worth reading! I'm truly sorry for the on-going sadness that he has endured because of this historical event, but... I am also impressed with his courageous efforts to share his experiences with the public at large.

A frighteningly good read!!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Story from Bentwaters Eyewitness, September 17, 2010

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This review is from: Left at East Gate: A First-hand Account of the Rendlesham Forest Ufo Incident, Its Cover-up, and Investigation (Paperback)

I came across this book as a result of reading Leslie Keans' terrific "UFOs...", and looking for more information on The Rendlesham Forest UFO. I hit gold with this account of not only the incident, but a decades long investigation by one of the USAF Security Patrol people who was an on the scene witness to events that are corroborated by several other participants - and challenged by others. Larry Fawcett provides a personal account of the case from his perspective as an Air Force SP, while author Peter Robbins gives a higher level perspective as one who is no stranger to the UFO phenomenon. The two accounts are woven together and it makes for a compelling read.

The account of the incident is embedded in a back story that gradually unfolds about the Bentwaters-Woodbridge NATO airbase that was the forward storage area for tactical nuclear weapons to be used in an anticipated cold war tank attack across Europe by the Soviet Union. A-10 Tankbuster aircraft and missile silos figure in the events, with weapons disabled in hardened silos by strange light beams from above. Penetration of the bases airspace by unknowns over a long weekend was a very big and disturbing question for the USAF, and the armed patrols of US Security Police into the UK countryside made this a sensitive diplomatic issue as well.

The story of this unsophisticated airman over several decades trying to sort out the truth from fiction or delusion, and the NATO related history of the bases provides ample opportunity for X-Files speculation or just plain good reading for those interested this sort of thing. As the authors become minor celebrities (or villians) in the ufo community, the reader gets some apprecdiation for the complexities not just of the phenomenon, but of the entire ufo subculture that has grown up around these incidents.

I confess to having been frustrated for a time with the narrative structure, number of characters and details, but got sucked into the fascinating background information about Bentwaters, NATO, Security Protocols, and the Cold War, and found myself reading on in spite of myself. When I finished, I felt that I had spent my time well. Recommended for those with the patience to overlook the book's structural problems and multiple narrators, and willingness to go back and forth a bit to stay on track. Great book for a long and snowy afternoon in front of the fire.