These photos were taken by SMSgt. Ray Gulyas, who investigated the alleged landing site on 26th December 1980 accompanied with Cpt. Mike Verrano and a British police officer. The photos only surfaced recently, but it appears that the Ministry of Defence already had copies, photos 2,3&4 were released into the public domain by the Ministry of Defence.
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- Night One Landing Site – Original
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- Night One Landing Site – Enhanced Wrongly
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- Correct location of ‘Landing marks’
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- Copy of original Landing Mark photo
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- Copy of original Landing Mark photo
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- Copy of original Landing Mark photo
Photo 1, is the clearest of the available photographs. The first two wooden stakes (far left and middle-top) are easily identifiable, as are the two related indentations. The third wooden stake (far right) however, is harder to make out and the associated indentation is difficult to identify.
Skeptics have suggested that the ground indentations were created by burrowing rabbits. However, with the exception of a police officer, the witnesses who visited the landing site just after the incident occurred maintain that the indentations were equally placed and uniform in shape. Even Chris Armold, who is extremely critical of the case, stated that the indentations looked like they had been left by a “three-pound US coffee can.”
This picture was on the old RFI site and correctly shows the position of the three sticks marking the triangle of supposed landing marks. The older versions are wrong. Do you still have this version in the archives?
http://www.ianridpath.com/landing-marks-original-photo-h.jpg
It’s quite clear from the close-up pictures what the marks really were but no one shows those!
More about the landing marks here
http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/rendlesham5.htm
Ian
Perhaps they WERE made by a 3 pound coffee can. How do you get 3 round depressions from a craft that is depicted as having helo skids?
ARMOLD: I’m quite confident that Burroughs pointed out these marks
before daylight. My opinion was that they looked like an impression
made by a 3 pound US coffee can.
EASTON: If Burroughs and the others located these marks earlier
that night, how did they do so in a dark forest, where the ground
must have had numerous small pits/divots, etc? What did Burroughs
suggest had made these particular marks? Presumably he must have
thought it was an object of some kind? Did he explain where he
thought it had gone!?
ARMOLD: Well James, that’s a very good point, I suggest you ask
Burroughs because in my opinion it would have been very difficult
to have found them. What he said at the time was that he saw
something that ‘landed’ in the forest at that position. I found
this to be quite unrealistic as there were no destroyed trees,
scorch marks or the like. I found it and still find it very fishy.