This is the most in-depth interview I've heard with Colonel Halt. He is an American Patriot. Great work as always, Ross

Thank you Channel 7 for having Ross Coulthart working on this extremely important issue. He is the best investigative reporter. Please continue to support his investigations, and play these programs on the free to air channels.

Thanks for releasing this unedited version of Colonel Halt’s interview. The difference between this and the final edited package that aired is night and day. There is no X-Files type overlay covering edited comments. Here we have a man reliving a life-defining moment in almost real time. Incredible.

Ross... Mr. Coulthart... You're the best we have. Your effort at keeping the journey to disclosure depoliticized and universal deserves far more praise than any single person can give. Still, for what it's worth, the good people of the U.S. thank you. Keep doing what you're doing.

Wow, Ross is working overtime for Disclosure! 💪🏻

Thank you Channel 7, I know you are supporting Ross's efforts. And there is good viewership in highlighting the UAP so keep at it.

For those that accuse Rossco of being a "ufo hack" this interview was performed more than a decade before he became invested in the subject upon approx 30 years since the incient while working for mainstream channel 7 (someone else calling the shots). This was during Rossco's extensive prime as a mainstream journalist. This shows his integrity as a neutral, highly professional journalist doing nothing but excellent reporting on a topic of interest. The inteview was performed with dignity and without ridicule. I highlight this to show Ross has long been a journalist of high professionalism and integrity and hasn't just jumped on the topic yesterday for views. He cares and does his research. I really hope this helps dispell some of the disgraceful and unwarranted opinions I've heared being put out there about Ross. He's simply a curious, professional, investigative journalist.

50:41 - 50:48: Coulthart: "You realize [what you're saying is] reflecting adversely on the place that you worked for for so many years." Colonel Halt, "Unfortunately." - Had there been any doubt in my mind regarding the integrity of Colonel Halt's report (there wasn't), the tone of voice and expression on his face when he spoke that one word, "unfortunately," would have erased it. He is righteously and understandably pissed-as we all should be. I salute you, sir, and thank you for your honesty. You have what they do not: Principled conscience.

The best summation of the Rendlesham incident I've ever seen and observed by a High-ranking Colonel with no doubts that the objects seen were under Intelligent control! Good on Ross and Channel 7 for this outstanding interview!!

Rendelsham, imo, is a top three most compelling UFO incedent in modern history. I notice it isn't discussed by anyone but the UFO enthusiasts. EVERYONE should know this story, so thanks for shining a spotlight on it!!

Thank you Ross, we appreciate your work

The Rendlesham Forest incident has always struck me as the most credible encounter, with the first-rate witnesses. Great report

Ross coultart really is levels above other journalists.

Thank you Australia for being real journalists. It’s something that we are missing here in the U.S..

This is an interview that I’ve never seen. It’s compelling ; convincing and probably the best information given by an obviously honest and decent gentleman!!! I’d love to meet him. I’ve been interested in the Rendlesham Incident for about 20 years. I’ve visited the forest many times. Sometimes (stupidly) alone !!! It’s an eerie and disconcerting place. Thank you for this video ❤❤

Went camping in Rendlesham forest and got speaking to a local retired woodsman....he confirmed it really happend and the authorities closed the area for 3 weeks after the incident. No one was allowed to enter the area after the incident and the area was sealed off by the police.

Thanks 7NEWS Spotlight for reposting this interview. I just visited Rendlesham Forest last week and hiked the UFO trail. Took lots of pics and tried to imagine what these airmen saw out there in the woods and the field. Fascinating story!

It struck me hard when he was talking about the object 'shedding material, like molten metal'... i had an encounter with about 6 of my friends around the year 2000 in Brisbane, Australia which was very detailed and prolonged, and had many similarities. It began with my mate Nick pointing up at the sky and saying 'hey guys what the hell is that!?' We all looked up and a few kms away we could see a large ball of red / orange light slowly moving from right to left and it was showering 'sparks' as it moved across the sky very slowly, while not losing altitude. The best way i can describe it was like a party sparkler but in a really heavy shower falling off of it. It then turned into a solid light, stopped, was joined by another light which began spinning around it and moved back the way it had come from.. and what happened after that was about 20 - 30 minutes of the most incredible phenomenon i have ever even read about. There was multiple crafts, a colossal triangular mother ship, a craft was flashing alternating grid patterns of light in what appeared to be some sort of code at us, one of the craft projected a massive spotlight on the ground that would have been hundreds of metres in diameter.. and eventually they all converged way up in the sky and slowly drifted away, so high it looked like a star and then just vanished. Until you see it with your own eyes you have the right to be sceptical, but when you have the experience in full detail for yourself, sceptics become a bit laughable really... theres not a person alive that could rationalise to me that what we saw that night wasnt extraterrestrial. Its just a fact that i know now.

I believe him. I am from the UK and live in a UFO hot spot area (Rossendale, Lancashire, England) I saw a UAP back in 1987. It was silent and circular. It had a rotating disk on the belly of the craft. It was also titled. The rotating disk had very small square windows - as if they had cameras or scanning equipment behind them. I would say it was a probe because it zoomed away so fast, no human would have survived the forces.

So glad to have a deep dive of this case.

I’d like to see channel 7 put this on their actual KZfaq account. 7News Australia is where this should be

Thank you for keeping the investigation of UFO/UAP current!! No better than Ross Coulthart to do this.

I've seen Col. Halt interviewed numerous times over the years, but never with this almost forensic intensity. Though it may be 15 years old, I learned some new things about the Rendlesham Forest Incident watching this. I also see something of the lawyer in Ross Coulthart's questioning...he is certainly tenacious! I guess that explains why he wins those awards!

I was a medical secretary (actually for the US Air Force for a couple of years) and then a legal secretary until I retired. Until computers appeared, my bosses would dictate their correspondence or medical reports or pleadings, and I would transcribe them. I can attest to the fact that each time the recorder was stopped and restarted, there was a clicking sound. I don't know whether UAPs are aliens or not, but unexplained things have been seen in the sky for hundreds of years, so.... if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it's probably a duck. This interview was great. Col Halt was clear, calm and positive about every thing he saw and did. I do believe him. And Ross Coulthart is an impressive journalist.

Nothing like a practical sceptic that is highly trained in current technology describing something so beyond logic that it shakes them to the core . Loved this Ross and you asked everything right and Colonel Charles Halt is impressive and very qualified to be interviewed.

Hands down the best interview of Charles I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen probably everything on this case there is out there. Outstanding!

7NEWS Spotlight & Ross, Great JOB!!

Ross you are amazing keep going mate and don’t give up the fight though it looks impossible. Just know that your work doesn’t go unnoticed by us all. If it wasn’t for you what else would we have. Legend 👍

Absolutely fascinating.. Thankyou Ross !!

Ross, you are just an amazing journalist. I was absolutely amazed how thorough your questioning was with Colonel Holt. Wow! Seriously, we need more investigative journalists just like you in the world. What a fine example of proper, good, honest journalism you are. Talk about a dog with a bone! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

My friend and I had an amazing experience in 1970 on the Yorkshire Moors. A 15 minute display of UFOS criss crossing overhead. One peeled off and hovered over our car, maybe 40ft away. She freaked out and made me drive away to my house a mile away, but I never felt threatened. I watched for another 10 mins with a housemate and then it ended. Amazing.

Well done Ch7 for leading the way on this monumental subject

Ross is an amazing interviewer. He exhausts every angle in a given time frame. That takes great skill. Fantastic work!

I visited Rendlesham forest in April and followed the same trail from the east gate. Also came upon the area where the craft had landed and the field where the ufo was seen. Now, the molten bits falling off were very similar to what I had seen in sherwood Forest in the 90s. Although my description was more like flares falling off in various colours but rising back up once on the ground. Thanks for this fascinating interview, Ross and Mr. Colonel Halt

To me Colonel Charles Halt came across as an honest person who would have preferred to have retired like many others, without fuss or fanfare. Unfortunately what ever happened that night at the forest will travel with him for the rest of his life. He knows what he saw and I believe his account. The whole incident is a great mystery.. 15 years ago I suspect Ross may have been a bit more of a skeptic and it shows on the interview. That said the resulting interview (dare I say interrogation) was informative and direct. Well worth revisiting. 👍

Ross and George Knapp need to do a collaboration. Immediately. They would blow the whole story out of the water if they did a joint docu series going over all the major UFO stories in chronological order from the 40's and on.

Fantastic interview. For those that are not familiar, Professor Simon Holland has a KZfaq channel and has done lots of work with John Burrows who was one of the US military personnel and was injured with life changing injuries. There was a lot of strange things going on in that part of the UK, with radar and EMP weaponisation. Definitely worth a look.

An Australian video that actually allows comments ? Unreal 😊

He's telling the truth. Because I've seen what he has seen. No tricks. Zigzagging grid searching 2015 from Tokomaru Bay NZ old Wharf and there was 16 by my count out over the trench. Me and one other witness watched for a long time. Pencil beams of light 23/09/2023 • 3:15am a series of events began starting with a unreported power cut to a section of town ,4:05am pencil beams of light (like lasers) but not hitting ground after seeing tiles of the picture collapsing and vanishing along the horizontal above the ground. Electric redish glow 19/09/2021 • 11:22pm • Gisborne NZ. slipping through the night air (white in the center though not black) but I know why it would've been black and that's because they were closer. To me it looked about the size of a quad bike. The capabilities it has are mind blowing. Out there stuff.....but there's more.

When I was in middle school I woke up to pee and saw my open white door glowing blue. I thought it was strange and got out of bed and looked down the hall way and saw a blue orb that seemed to be about the size of a basketball hovering in the center of the family room and it lit the entire downstairs up blue. I got scared and went back in my room and shut the door. I waited about ten minutes and I re opened the door because I still needed to pee and it was just pitch black/ dark in the house. That was about 25 years ago and it was the first and last time I have ever seen anything like that.

Hi Ross one thing you should know about lighthouses is that they are not allowed to shine a light on land there is a metal shield to stop the light from shining on land and all lighthouses where appropriate land is adjacent on British light-houses and I think all others as well.

It's important that eyewitness statements be documented like this. It's just important that the public has access to it. We never know if a piece of information they divulge later becomes critical to someone.

My father claims to have been abducted by an UFO. I remember him clearly coming to tell my mom about the encounter & them stressing for me to be outside while they spoke. It wasn’t until I was an adult that my mom shared the story of that day with me. My dad never wanted to come out publicly to share his encounter. But he was forever a different soul since that moment.😢 Fear. Til this day I still see Fear living day by day in my father’s eyes.

Great interview!

Excellent as always from Ross Coulthart. He got every detail from the witness. His lawyer background will have helped. Thank you Colonel Halt.👍👍👍👍

Literally the most important ufo interview PERIOD.

I’ve seen this man interviewed several times and his story is always the same, is completely believable, and he seems honest and honorable (and very brave!)

Thanks Ross. You’re the man.

Fascinating. And there is a whole lot more to the story than that, too ! For heaven's sake release 'Capel Green' documentary, please. Also, can we finally now put to rest the Orford Ness lighthouse garbage please ? Thank you.

This interview is GOLD

G'day Ross, i was hoping that you would look into this. Thank you for all your work on this phenomenon.

When a pilot flies the airplane in an up and down wave pattern, it's called 'Porpoising'. I have seen two bright orbs porpoising above the trees just south of Chadwick End, Warwickshire. The cycle club secretary at the bike race saw them too. He was the one who exclaimed "UFOs".

in the Netherlands, Close to where this happend, in feb 1980. There was a similair thing on the army base where the nukes where. ( Soesterberg army base )

Colonel Halt is an honorable, genuine man. Thank you Sir.

Ross will be recognized as a key figure in disclosure for generations to come. Keep it up Ross!!!

Charles thank you for your service I am truly sorry you and your men were treated so badly you all deserve better.

Just to correct something in your introduction, Ross, Georgina Bruni's question to Maggie Thatcher was not specifically related to the Rendlesham Forest incident, it was regarding UFOs in general. Georgina asked Maggie if she would offer an opinion on UFOs and alien technology. Maggie's reply was "you must get your facts right". Determined to pursue the questioning, Georgina persisted. Lady Thatcher allegedly responded, "You must have the facts and you can't tell the people". Also worth mentioning is the fact that retired police detective Gary Heseltine has recently written an extremely detailed investigation into RFI entitled "Non Human". It's well worth reading, and it includes interviews with witnesses who haven't previously come forward. Apart from Georgina's book and Larry Warren's "Left at East Gate" it is the most authoritative account of RFI to date. Finally, we are still awaiting the release of the "Capel Green" documentary. I have it on very good authority that it will finally be released in the summer of 2024, but we shall see.

It's midnight here in east coast US, so I'm going to watch this in the morning while working... 1:06:51 minutes of fun time ahead.

Again a BIG THANK YOU to Ross

Thank you Channel 7 and Ross for airing this! So interesting!

This is really compelling.

Col Halt's experience is one of the greats. Dude was brave as hell telling this story.

Once you start putting a list together of all these incidents in the last 100 years, there is no doubt we are being visited.

Col. Halt is an excellent witness. Just the facts, no unnecessary speculation, consciously knows he doesn't know what it was and won't be pressed into idle speculation. A disciplined and well-ordered mind at work.

Thankyou Spotlight chanel 7 fir your continued coverage of this subject. Please if possible to provide Ross with the resources to investigate this further.

Tip: The Forest was way less densely packed back then, nothing like what satellite etc maps show now. Some areas completely cleared (eg next to the AFB entrance from where the security guards reportedly first saw a glow/fire in the distance. Also quite a few bald patches here and there. If you go there today, it is (conversely) way thicker, and branches start lower to the ground (I have heard one of the relevant guards confirm). These points are important for visualising and interpreting / understanding the statements of the various witnesses. I wasn't there (unfortunately!), but have met and spoken with a few of the key witnesses, other base personnel, and investigators of the time.

An incredibly frustrating case in my humble opinion. Fascinating but it has caused me to drop it so many times and yet return to it. Visited the place twice and also Ordfordness which was a research site. I just don't know anymore about Rendlesham. I spent too much time on this case. The best way I can describe Rendlesham is divided in two camps : First camp Jim Penniston and his impression of a landed physical craft on night one (giving the landing marks). Second camp John Burroughs. John has teamed forces in more recent years with Simon Holland and others and is of the belief that what was witnessed was an EMP experiment being conducted from Ordfordness . I had the pleasure of meeting Colonel Halt some years ago in the U.K.. A most impressive chap.

It wasnt the lighthouse! The lighthouse had a metal cover in back of it! So the light only shined toward the water! So boats and ships could see it! It didnt shine toward the forest! The millitary base had planes flying in and out all the time! So the lighthouse light wasnt aloud to shine toward the base, because of planes! People that say its the lighthouse they saw! Are lying! And dont know how a millitary bases work! Remember it was 3days of u.f.o.s seen by over 100 millitary personal! These people were the best of the best of our millitary personal!

This interview of eyewitness Colonel Charles Hall conducted carefully by Ross Coulhart is an important piece of the jigsaw puzzle. Another important piece is the work that KZfaqr Professor Simon Holland (a retired BBC Science filmmaker) is currently doing with another eyewitness John Boroughs (who is briefly mentioned as being there in this interview).

Ross is such a great interviewer so underrated 😮

Thanx Ross and Charles, great work :)

Thank you Ross for keeping this topic alive! And thank you Chan 7 !

Channel 7. You're amazing. You have by FAR the most competent investigative journalist out there. Brave is an understatement. Keep it up with this topic. It's only a matter of time now. ❤

MANNNN! Really "think" about it for a moment... how lucky all those men were to have been there to have actually witnessed that craft... that surreal scene! I imagine that would give one a natural high equaled only by a really, good session with a talented tarot card reader! Why I say that is because I did have my cards read and it took me 30 years to realize what actually happened to me that night. To note: I also saw "something" on the way home from work one winter evening... and I still have no idea what that was, either, as the good colonel here. I stopped my car on that 26 mile stretch of two-lane blacktop, totally alone, and with the silence all around me just stared at whatever "they" were until they basically "floated" off to my left, about 1-2,000 feet above me... away to nothing. This phenomena, imo, is as real as you and me. They are physical, they are spiritual, supernatural. This world and Universe is way more bizarre, surreal and truly beautiful than we could ever imagine. 😊🥰👽

Absolutely brilliant journalism.

Ufos keep close watch on nuclear weapons because of the damage they can cause.sighting are always near nuclear weapons locations

Awesome, Ross. This is the best interview I've seen with this witness. This is one of my favorite cases. All of the attempts to debunk or downplay this one fell way short, in my opinion.

Outstanding! Very thorough More like an interrogation than an interview.

Rendlesham was an alien warning to the kids-with-the-matches, in the dying days of hawkish Brezhnev, that nuclear weapons would be taken offline in case of conflict.

I'm at least somewhat relieved to know that the release of the pentagons official statement on UAPs was announced prior to this mans death.

Perfect timing to recall this incredible story. One of the best cases.

Excellent interview in Ross Coulthart style. Nice to see that he was already interested in the topic in 2009. How nice it would be if we could finally see and hear the complete interview with David Grusch that he conducted over several hours.

COL Halt was not aware that some of the US military who witnessed this were debriefed by the USAFOSI who had messed with the memories of these individuals through drugs and scrambling their memories. Officers were not subjected to this treatment. Radar personal had also picked up on this. Of course, whatever tapes and recordings of this event were taken by higher headquarters. It is alleged that some Nukes were messed with (those were taken away and/or replaced.) Keep in mind this base stored Nukes and at the time there was a fear that Russia would invade Poland. My belief is that certain Aliens have been interested in our nuclear weapons and related technologies.

The best documented UFO case in my book. Always loved to hear about it.

Excellent in depth interview...... Thank you....... to........ all...... ... Involved *

Ive read every book on this case from different witnesses, its for sure fascinating and Halt is an honest credible witness. We are not alone.

Keep up the good work Ross!👏👍

Absolutely fantastic and very well documented accounts of what happened in that forest thank you channel 7 NEWS for the effort in trying to comprehend what the hell is going on.

Such a great journo and narrator ... well done Rosco!

If...as some suspect -they- are interested in our human lineage, Rendlesham has a unique history going back many many years. The first king/s were 👑 crowned close to the forest. Early Celtic settlers!

They have always been hear on our Planet Earth. Yes.

Declassified? Ross, so were is the video footage? Which was taken that night. 🤔 I live in Saxmundham next to Rendlesham.

Ross coulthart is the best I ever seen for doing proper interviews he is professional different level

My best and favourite journalist in the world Mr. Coulthart.

Ross is making history and he is absolutely trustworthy!!! Keep up the great work, we definitely need your help towards the truth!!!

He is extremely convincing. Totally believable just from his confident delivery and unwavering eye contact. A great interview. A great witness and a fascinating event. If only we did have all the answers!

I'd always heard the name Rendalsham but I never never knew what it really was. So happy to hear and understand what the fluck happened. So so happy to hear about it all now and the interview was flawless and without one second of doubt or hesitation in the man being interviewed . I love it and I am here all day and all night for it!!! ❤thanks channel 7!!! I've subscribed ❤!!!

Nick told me at the last conference a couple months ago in eureka springs Arkansas that this incident was 100% real and in his opinion one of the biggest coverups. He is a stellar human like Ross Thank you!

If you're serious about this subject, how about digging into what happened right here in Westall Australia 1966 ? The coverup was blatant and ignored by the press

Very interesting interview. Thank you for re-investigating this event. I would like to see further investigation by you concerning what actually happened.