Career
After serving in Vietnam, Japan and of Korea, he was assigned to Bentwaters as deputy commander. The Rendlesham Forest incident of late December 1980 occurred shortly afterwards, and he was an important witness to events on the second night of sightings. In the late hours of December 27, and early December 28, 1980 then Lieutenant Colonel Halt led a patrol to investigate an alleged unidentified flying object landing site near the eastern edge of Rendlesham Forest.
During this investigation they witnessed several unidentified lights, most prominent of them being a bright flashing light in the direction of Orford Ness.
In January 1981 Halt composed an official Air Force memorandum listing details of the events. The memo was then dispatched to the Ministry of Defence.
Halt also made an audio tape recording of the incident. After retiring from the United States Air Force in 1991, Halt made his first public appearance in a television documentary, where he confirmed the authenticity of the Rendlesham Forest incident.
In 1997 he was interviewed by Georgina Bruni for a book about the Rendlesham event, You Can"t Tell the People.
He has also appeared in several television documentaries, including the three listed below. In June 2010 Halt issued a notarized affidavit in which he summarized the alleged events of the Rendlesham Forest unidentified flying object incident and concluded: "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 the United Kingdom have attempted – both then and now – to subvert the significance of what occurred at Rendlesham Forest and Royal Air Force Bentwaters by the use of well-practiced methods of disinformation."
However, there are some contradictions between this affidavit and the events as recorded by Halt at the time of the incident. Halt’s then commanding officer, Colonel Theodore (Ted) Conrad, has said “ should be ashamed and embarrassed by his allegation that his country and England both conspired to deceive their citizens over this issue.
He knows better.”.
Unsolved Mysteries - Bentwaters unidentified flying object
United States. Sciences Fi Channels "unidentified flying object Invasion at Rendlesham". - available to watch here - First broadcast December 1, 2005
United States. History Channels "unidentified flying object Files - Britain"s Roswell - available to watch here - First broadcast December 17, 2005
Galileo Mystery - Das unidentified flying object von Bendlesham Forest (German television show about the unidentified flying object landing in Rendlesham Forest).
