One of the more famous UFO
cases associated with Cannock Chase happened in the spring of 1964,
and involved an unidentified craft that reportedly blew up in the
skies over mainland Europe. A small part of the craft landed in West
Germany and another much larger part landed close to the small town
of Penkridge. It is alleged that three bodies were recovered from the
crash site at Cocksparrow Lane by both RAF and NATO intelligence
services.
Now, I feel it is necessary
for me to point out that the information only came to light fully in
the 1990's after Leonard Stringfield, a U.S Naval officer, released
the files of a retired third class U.S Navy source, who was stationed
in the Caribbean at the time of the incident and had intercepted a
secret Soviet transmission. He explained that the Russian message
mentioned a UFO malfunctioning and crashing to earth in the West
Germany and Penkridge locations. What makes the story even more
credible is that there have actually been some witnesses come
forward.
Paranormal investigator Lee Brickley has a new book available about the paranormal happenings on Cannock Chase. Read it here:
UK Link -
US Link or click the book cover below!
In
Nick Redfern's book Cosmic Crashes, we are told of an interview
undertook by Redfern with a local man who claims that, not only did
he see the object that night, but he even took photographs of it. He
went on to state that he had witnessed first hand, the craft being
covered in a tarpaulin and lifted on to an aircraft transporter. The story became even more
sinister when the man added that, as he drove up-close to the object,
he was stopped by a roadblock that was manned by police officers, RAF
personnel and the Army who duly forced the temporary confiscation of
his camera. The officers removed the film before returning it and
sending the gentleman off in the opposite direction.
Perhaps the most
astonishing revelation came just before Redfern met with him. On the
morning of the arranged interview the witness reported to have
received a phone call from a Ministry of Defence department, telling
him not to speak to the interviewers about the incident. Redfern,
cynical at first, managed to establish validity by directly tracing
the call back to an operator controlled by the military. The
informant had also been given a phone number to call, and this number
turned out to be from the MoD Guard service at Whittington Barracks,
Lichfield. Strange stuff eh?
You would expect perhaps
that an incident like this, that obviously involved many different
people from many different agencies, would have been recorded in some
way in Ministry of Defence files? - Unfortunately not. The only
references I can find in the released files are Freedom of
Information requests from members of the public asking for
information about the incident, to which they always get the same
reply - “the information you requested is not held by the Ministry
of Defence”.
We must remember however
that the MoD is very much a government department, and these places
have a long history of cover-ups and lies. Do you honestly believe
that if the British Government or Security Services had evidence of
craft from outer-space they would see fit to tell us about it? I
certainly don't.
In my view the whole
situation with MoD released files can be seen as crooked. If you've
ever read the book by George Orwell called 1984, you will recall the
main character Winston had a job in which he was tasked with changing
history and limiting people's reality by making certain adaptations
to their newspapers and books, to suit the current policy of their
oppressive government. He would change names, remove people and even
completely delete stories from public knowledge by editing the
limited information available to the masses.
I would like to propose the
argument that this could be what the Ministry of Defence, and indeed
all government departments for that matter, are doing under the
mechanism of the Freedom of Information Act.
There
is no doubt in my mind that something definitely did happen on
Cannock Chase in 1964, the U.S Navy files alone prove that, but with
our overly secret government, and their obsession with the
suppression of knowledge and technology, we may never know the truth.
Until next time .......
Written by Lee Brickley 2013
