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Schrödinger's alien: it could be extraterrestrial as long as you don't open the box (and examine the evidence).

Do we file that under research, food, or entertainment?

One possibility is that Halt took this note on his way back as he emerged from the forest and had a clear view of the base across the runway. Otherwise, I expect the forest would have prevented him from seeing the base in the first place. Speculative route:

Wrong direction entirely. From Halt's tape (via http://www.ianridpath.com/ufo/halttape3.html ): HALT: It’s coming this way. It is definitely coming this way. VOICE: Pieces of it shooting off... HALT: Pieces of it are shooting off. VOICE: At eleven o’clock... Diametrically...

From your Stellarium screenshot, base marked (approximate): Sirius fits the witness reports, Jupiter does not. Sirius is ~5⁰ up and approximately in the direction of the base; especially if Halt had wandered further North than your point. Jupiter is 30⁰ up, and 90⁰ off from the direction to the...

Well, they'd be high up, right? In my original investigation, I tentatively identified these three starlike objects as real stars: first-magnitude Deneb and Vega in the north, and Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, in the south. I reached my conclusion before Col Halt’s tape recording of...

1. this is off topic here 2. please be thorough, read Ridpath's site, and then quote what you want to address

We have no thread on Rendlesham; one can be of the opinion that none is needed because the incident has been so thoroughly debunked, yet .... @NorCal Dave wrote elsewhere: From Ian Ridpath's site: Summary and explanation Although the overall case is complex, the five main aspects can be...

For what reason do you call him a liar?

Seriously, hunting down quotes has saved my butt more times than I care to remember. The human memory is malleable—it comes up regularly on Metabunk when we discuss witness statements, but it also applies to ourselves.

AARO is actually doing something similar (obviously not in secret). Full transcript: https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3702219/media-engagement-with-acting-aaro-director-tim-phillips-on-the-historical-recor/

One of these is not like the others. ;)

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/VKDW8Ha "I have a physics degree, I've got this."

The power of Belief!

Well, the first thing I'd check here is a population density map: if the sightings cluster where the people do, that explains it. (This is also the reason why a Covid heatmap looks like a 5G heatmap looks like a McDonalds heatmap—they're all basically population density maps.) The second...

Not "March or April", January or February! The AARO report was supposed to come out in January and was delayed until early March, so I'm happy to cut him some slack, but it's been two months since then. Maybe Mellon's critique of the report in The Debrief is the thing Grusch was supposed to...

This is actually a field where people can develop expertise: I would expect bear hunters or rangers to develop skill in recognizing bears even at a distance or in poor lighting. However, I would also expect that expertise to express itself by stating which species of bears was (not) being...

I came to that conclusion when I turned on my radio. ;)

More precisely: electromagnetic or electrostatic fields have no "range". Normally, fields like e.g. radiation have a strength proportional to 1/d² (d=distance), but a magnetic field has 1/d³ and thus falls off more strongly with distance. Electrostatic force from a "dipole" would probably be...