1 - The Black Vault

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· double check basic information. One simple error can have a knock on effect and literally
fJeak years of havoc.
I should add that this is not a unique circumstance. A similar error occurs in an Irish
military file released (via IUFOPRA) in late 1997. This described a mid air encounter between
an Irish transport plane and a UFO at 1.10 am on 31 March 1993. The same event was
witnessed over the southwest of England by numerous people and was followed up by
BUFORA within hours. I was acting as Director of Investigations and it was, without
question, the result of a misperception of the burn up from a Cosmos satellite.
However, the official Irish military file on the case contains a second sighting backing up
the transport plane incident. This was by a Captain Cotter at Newcastle, County Dublin.
From his account there cannot be any serious doubt that he saw the same thing as
witnesses across the British Isles. Yet he clearly dates his sighting as 1.10 am on 28 March
- three days to the minute too early - and this was seemingly accepted by the authorities
because he was a credible, military witness and had signed his statement within hours.
You would not expect a military officer (here based with the Naval Support Squadron) to
misrecall a sighting so soon afterwards and get the date wrong by three days. But here, if
you decline to accept that this is what he did, you must assume that something remarkable
recurred in identical circumstances 72 hours apart.
Far more probable is that he got this date wrong and so we face the consequence of
knowing that if you were to make assumptions based on that error - as many did with
Rendlesham - you risk misjudging the entire case.
Dates clearly are vital and we now must always be aware of how they can mislead us.
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