"What
makes this incredible and groundbreaking is that in January
of 2015,
the Veterans Administration has finally implied - after
many years of attempting
to get them to acknowledge that John Burroughs was injured
while in the Rendlesham
Forest, tying it together with the Condign document from
the U. K. - it was an
unidentified aerial phenomenon or vehicle that caused
the injury (to John Burroughs).
-
Pat Frascogna, Atty., for USAF Tech Sgt. (Ret.) John Burroughs
"By
settling this case in full, the U. S. Dept. of Defense
- because the V. A.
is part of DoD - they confirmed that the UFO phenomenon
is real."
-
John Burroughs, USAF Tech Sgt. (Ret.)
Computer illustration of sketch by John Burroughs of unidentified
aerial phenomena (UAP or UFO) in Rendlesham Forest, 3
AM,
December 26, 1980. Artwork by John Rackham.
February
27, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico - On Saturday night,
February 21, 2015, retired USAF Tech Sgt. John Burroughs
received the Researcher of the Year Award at the Open
Minds International UFO Congress in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
The award honored John's breakthrough by using Freedom
of Information requests to the U. K.'s Ministry of Defence
that finally provoked MoD admission that it was withholding
18 classified files, including 6 policy files, about the
RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge Rendlesham Forest events December
26-28, 1980, that involved Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP) that interacted with John Burroughs, then USAF Airman
1st Class.
John Burroughs receiving Researcher of the Year Award
2015, from Alejandro Rojas,
Director of Operations, 2015 Open Minds International
UFO Congress, on Saturday,
February 21, 2015, Fountain Hills, Arizona. Image ©
2015 by Open Minds.
See Open Minds video about John Burroughs below in More
Information.
In
2011, John began suffering periodic life-threatening atrial
fibrillation, also known as AFib, a quivering or irregular
heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart
failure and other heart-related complications. He filed
for Veterans Administration medical benefits but was denied
when V. A. staff said there was no record of his serving
at RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge. John sought legal help in
Jackson, Mississippi, attorney Pat Frascogna and then-Arizona
U. S. Senator Jon Kyl before his retirement. John's V.
A. case then went to the office of Arizona's U. S. Senator
John McCain.
Eventurally
the V. A. admitted knowledge of John's service at RAF
Bentwaters-Woodbridge in the 1979-1982 time period, but
found those medical records were "classified."
By 2013, needing open heart surgery to repair seriously
damaged mitral valve leaflets, John was angry and frustrated
at not being able to get V. A. medical disability coverage
when he was learning that a Top Secret U. K. Restricted
Project Condign - that had been quietly de-classified
in 2006 - contained information that directly linked exposure
to UAP radiation in the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest
"unexplained lights" phenomenon to bodily injury
and mental manipulation.
Finally
under pressure from Senator John McCain's office, the
V. A. arranged John's urgent open heart surgery for mid-December
2013. He began to recover to more normal health, but without
V. A. medical benefits or his RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge
medical records.
By
January 23, 2014, John began filing Freedom of Information
requests with the MoD and by the spring and fall of 2014,
the U. K. Ministry of Defence finally admitted it withheld
at least 18 classified UAP/UFO files. That is the FOIA
breakthrough for which John Burroughs received the Researcher
of the Year Award at the 2015 Open Minds Conference in
Fountain Hills, Arizona.
January 2015: V. A. Finally Awards
John Burroughs Full Medical Disability Benefits
"U.
S. Government's De Facto Acknowledgement of the Existence
of UFOs."
-
February 22, 2015, Press Release by John Burroughs and
attorney Pat Frascogna
The
day after his research award, on Sunday, February 22,
2015, John and his attorney, Pat Frascogna, announced
in a press release the "U. S. Government's De Facto
Acknowledgement of the Existence of UFOs." This breakthrough
came with the Veterans Administration finally granting
John Burroughs in January 2015 full medical disability
for bodily injury in the line of duty December 26 to 28,
1980, when John twice encountered mysterious aerial lights
in the U. K.'s Rendlesham Forest growing along RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge.
Attorney
Frascogna said in his February 22nd press release, "The
December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident in the United
Kingdom is arguably the most well documented and important
UFO encounter in history. A UFO was seen over three consecutive
nights by United States Air Force personnel stationed
at the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge, near Ipswich,
England - then the largest NATO air force base at the
height of the Cold War.
Project Condign
"Airman
First Class John Burroughs encountered the UFO at close
proximity on the first night. While for many years the
U.S. Government denied that this incident had even occurred,
in 2006 the UK Government declassified an intelligence
study on UFOs (codenamed Project Condign and classified
as Secret UK Eyes Only) in which the following statement
is found:
"The
well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an
example where it might be
postulated that several observers were probably exposed
to UAP [Unidentified Aerial
Phenomenon] radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting
periods."
Page
F-4, ANNEX F, Vol. 2, Pages 16-30, Project
Condign's "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
in the UK Air Defence Region: Executive Summary, Scientific
& Technical Memorandum -
No. 55/2/00," DI55, Defence Intelligence Service,
Ministry of Defence, December 2000.
The red underline section begins, "The well-reported
Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters
event is an example where it might be postulated that
several observers were probably
exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting
periods."
Interviews
with Pat Frascogna and John Burroughs:
Howe
022615 Pat and John.mp3
Joseph
Patrick Frascogna, Atty., Madison, Mississippi: "After
many years of trying to get the Veterans Administration
to recognize that John Burroughs was injured in the line
of duty in December 1980 in responding to what initially
was thought to be a downed aircraft in the Rendlesham
Forest near the twin bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge,
the injury that he received was immediate to his heart
- something that he did not have when he went into the
Air Force just a year or so before that eventually would
require open heart surgery.
THE
ESSENCE OF THAT DAMAGE IS WHAT?
The
damage was described as a shredded anterior mitral valve
component of his heart. I was there in Tucson with John
at the V. A. in late 2013 (December 18) when he had his
surgery. And I spoke to the cardiac surgeon, who performed
that surgery and he said that he did not know what could
have caused that damage.
WE
NOW KNOW THERE IS A CLASSIFIED U. K. DOCUMENT KNOWN AS
PROJECT CONDIGN THAT SPECIFICALLY TIES PEOPLE WHO WERE
IN RENDLESHAM FOREST IN THE DECEMBER 26TH TO 28TH TIME
PERIOD TO EXPOSURE TO UAP RADIATION, WHICH IS UNIDENTIFIED
AERIAL PHENOMENA RADIATION. CAN YOU NOW EXPLAIN TO A GENERAL
AUDIENCE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THIS UAP RADIATION
IS THAT CAN DAMAGE HUMAN BODIES AND MINDS?
Yes,
in reference to the document that was formerly U. K. Restricted
and I am just going to quote from it: 'The well-reported
Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event is an example where
it might be postulated that several observers were probably
exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting
periods. The unidentified aerial phenomenon" - or
referred to in the United States as Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFOs) or "anomalous vehicles" and when
these craft are operating, they emit a certain electromagnetic
field. That field is known to cause injury. That is what
was referenced in the U. K. document.
Groundbreaking
Implication of V. A. Granting Full Medical
Benefits to John Burroughs - UAPs Are Real and UAP
Radiation Injured John During Military Duty
What
makes this incredible and groundbreaking is that in January
of 2015, the Veterans Administration has finally implied
- after many years of attempting to get them to acknowledge
that John Burroughs was injured while in the Rendlesham
Forest, tying it together with the Condign document from
the U. K. - it was an unidentified aerial phenomenon or
vehicle that caused the injury (in John Burroughs).
WITH
YOUR PRESS RELEASE (February 22, 2015) ANNOUNCING THAT
JOHN BURR0UGHS HAS OFFICIALLY RECEIVED HIS DISABILITY
COVERAGE FROM THE UNITED STATES VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
AND THAT IT LINKED DIRECTLY WITH HIS INQUIRY TO GET HIS
MEDICAL RECORDS BECAUSE OF HIS HEART PROBLEMS AND THAT,
AS YOU SAY, THE U. S. GOVERNMENT'S 'DE FACTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF THE EXISTENCE OF UFOS THROUGH THIS MEDICAL COVERAGE,
LEADS TO THE ISSUE: WHY ARE HIS MEDICAL RECORDS STILL
CLASSIFIED?
I
think the reason we believe they are still classified
is because there is too much information in them. We don't
know to what detail things may have been recorded in them.
We don't know who all may have been involved in the construction
of those records that might be linked to them. So I think
keeping the records classified is still serving a purpose
for whatever that may be. But obviously, the door has
been finally opened when it never has been before. There
has always been denial after denial after denial. This
time it's different. This time there is an actual ability
to link up things that have happened, things that have
been said from officialdom.
V.
A.'s Action Is De Facto
Confirmation of UAP/UFO Reality
IN
YOUR MIND AS AN ATTORNEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK NOW IN FEBRUARY
OF 2015 IS THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN DISCLOSURE VERSUS THE
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION SEEMS TO BE A CONFIRMATION THAT
BYPASSES DISCLOSURE?
Yes,
confirmation. It does seem to be that and I think the
community has always known, the researchers and so forth,
that just a straight out disclosure at a press conference
in the White House, that sort of thing, was probably never
going to happen because there were just too many bad things
that would have to be dealt with if you did it that way.
Number One, why have you lied to the people of the world
for so long? Why have you done that?
Now, there are many, many, many questions to both countries
(U. S. and U. K.) and to find out what this means going
forward?"
John
Burroughs
Interview:
John
Burroughs, USAF Tech Sergeant (Ret.), Normal, Illinois:
"By settling this case in full, the U. S. Department
of Defense - because the V. A. is part of the Department
of Defense as far as they have to go through the DoD to
get this information and confirm it - it is confirmation.
They confirmed that the UFO phenomenon is real.
They
confirmed that I and others encountered it (UAP radiation).
And they have confirmed it (UAP radiation) has harmful
effects on me and more than likely other people, you know
that were out there. To me, confirmation trumps disclosure
because Project Condign confirms that this is what's going
on in the world and that the governments of the world
are aware of it. This report, Project Condign, was highly
classified - some of it has been declassified, but a lot
of it remains classified. The majority of governments
of the world are aware of it and working on it. And what
are they working on - the biggest part of it? Project
Condign did not say they were looking at it from a help-the-world-standpoint
as far as medical and all that other stuff. What they
are looking at it for and what they are classifying, the
parts that are being classified, is the weaponization
part of it.
It's
taken over three decades. There has been denial. There
has been disinformation. But finally, there has been a
real breakthrough and I think this is a victory for everybody,
not just me, but something that a lot of people fought
hard for and continue to fight for and I think it's something
that just confirms that this is really going on.
More
Pressure Needs to Be Put On
MoD to Release All Bentwaters Files
Obviously,
it's not THE smoking gun that everyone is looking for
where you have some kind of bodies and some kind of craft.
But you do have confirmation that the governments of the
world are: a) are aware of it and b) they are working
on it. I think more people need to push the MoD a lot
harder on Project Condign itself and what they are still
holding back and the documents they denied having in the
first place.
MOD
DI55 Document About Radiation
At UAP Site in Rendlesham Forest
Now,
before Condign, there was already through FOIA, through
the release of the British government, there was a document
in there that British MoD DI55 talked about where they
were looking over whatever documents could possibly be
the ones that have never been released that the MoD claimed
they lost.
But
it was clearly in that DI55 document that they said we
were exposed to above background radiation.
JOHN,
I HAVE THAT DI55 DOCUMENT IN MY HAND AND IT WAS DATED
FEBRUARY 23, 1981, ONLY ABOUT ONE MONTH AFTER YOUR RENDLESHAM
FOREST ENCOUNTERS NEAR RAF BENTWATERS. THIS IS COMING
FROM THE U.K.'S DI55. THE SENTENCE WAS THAT THEY ARE ADDRESSING
THE ISSUE OF BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY AT THE SITE IN RENDLESHAM
FOREST AND THEY, THE DI55, ARE SAYING, 'It seems significantly
higher than the average background of about 0.015 milliroentgens.'
[ A unit of exposure to ionizing radiation and is 1/1000th
of a roentgen.]
February 23, 1981, "Loose Minute" memo to DI55a
about the subject of "Unexplained Lights"
phenomena in Rendlesham Forest near RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge
December 26-28, 1980, that
emitted "significantly higher than the average background
(radiation) of about 0.015 milliroentgens."
Right,
they actually call it the 'phenomena' right away. They
(MoD's DI55) had already reviewed whatever they had reviewed
as far as whatever has been sent to them. And right away,
they were calling it a 'phenomena'!
THAT
IS IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS DI55 DOCUMENT.
Right.
IT
SAYS, 'UNEXPLAINED LIGHTS. REFERENCE DI55/108/15/1 FIRST
PARAGRAPH: LIKE DI55, DI52 (they) DO NOT KNOW OF ANY SERIOUS
EXPLANATION FOR THE PHENOMENA DESCRIBED AT REFERENCE.'
THAT RELATES TO UNEXPLAINED LIGHTS IN RENDLESHAM FOREST
DECEMBER 26-28, 1980.
Now,
that was one of the documents that was submitted to the
V. A. The fact that there was an MoD document saying that
we were exposed to above background radiation. Then, when
you get into Project Condign, which is a huge report that
has a lot in it, but it's one of the few things in the
report when you go through the report - and it's over
400 pages long (460 pages) - there's a spot in there where
it goes: 'The well-reported Rendlesham/Forest Bentwaters
event is an example where it might be postulated that
several observers were probably exposed to UAP (Unidentified
Aerial Phenomenon) radiation for longer than normal UAP
sighting periods.'
WHAT
IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING TODAY IN FEBRUARY 2015 ABOUT WHAT
EXACTLY UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA RADIATION IS?
I'm
not a scientist, but it's the type of radiation that if
you go into the documents itself, they are actually working
on it - a lot of it is redacted in these documents. If
you look at the Project Condign report - and a lot of
it was classified Secret or above. So, if none of it is
of defense significance, if none of it matters, why is
some of it still redacted? A lot of it is still redacted.
Why was it all classified first as Secret?
The
phenomenon itself, they talk about it on and off within
Condign, but there is no definitive answer of exactly
what the phenomenon is other than it exists. It is clear.
And then they go into what it is capable of doing and
that there is high interest in it, even from a defense
standpoint."
"I
wish to make it perfectly clear that the UFOs that I saw
were structured
machines moving under intelligent control and operating
beyond the realm of anything
I have ever seen before or since. I believe the objects
that I saw at close quarter were
extraterrestrial in origin and that the security services
of both the United States
and England were and have been complicit in trying to
subvert the significance
of what occurred at Rendlesham by use of well-practiced
methods of disinformation."
-
Col. Charles Halt (Ret.), June 25, 2009 Press Release
Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt described a mysterious aerial
light above
Rendlesham Forest that emitted several thin, white beams
down to the ground,
including one right in front of his own feet as he stood
next to Staff Sergeant
Monroe Nevels in the early morning hours of December 28,
1980. Illustration
by Jan Roth at www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk used with
permission.
Project
Condign Hot Links
Click
purple hot link (takes a few seconds): Page
F-4 and 14 other pages,
Vol. 2 ANNEX F - "Non-Ionising EM Effects On Humans"
and "Potential Mental Effects On Humans"
Click
purple hot link for May 15, 2006, declassified and released:
U.
K. The National Archives, for hot links to UAP Executive
Summary; Volume 1; Volume 2; and Volume 3.
October
30, 2014 Earthfiles: "Updated - USAF Tech Sgt. (Ret.)
John Burroughs Has Forced U. K. Ministry of Defence to
Admit It Withheld At Least 18 Classified UFO Files":
https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2243&category=Environment
Also
see: May 4, 2011, Earthfiles: "8,500 More UFO Pages
Released by U. K. Ministry of Defence - But RAF Bentwaters
Files Are Missing":
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1822&category=Environment
Continued in Part
2.
More
Information:
Video
- 2015
Open Minds Researcher of the Year Award to John Burroughs.
Source:
https://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2285&category=Science
