who were the first to report seeing an object associated with the flashing lights gave conflicting accounts of the incident. One of them, Jim Penniston, who had not mentioned initially that he’d gotten up close and personal with the craft, later said he inspected the craft, touched it, and took pictures of it -photos that he said were later confiscated by the military. The other, John Borroughs, said he and the other men present, including Penniston, threw themselves to the ground when they saw the object, and then watched it rise up through the trees.
The nearby lighthouse has the second brightest beam of any in England, and the beam flashes through the forest in intervals of 5 seconds – the exact intervals in which a voice calling “There it is again!” appears on the original field tape of the incident.
The “landing marks” that Penniston saw were later identified as pine needle-covered digging marks from a rabbit. The “burn marks” on certain trees, which he said had been made by the craft’s landing gear (which he claimed to have inspected), were later identified as axe cuts that foresters had put on trees they planned to chop down.
The low-level radiation supposedly detected at the site was measured on an instrument not intended for measuring background radiation, and the supposed radiation finding is considered meaningless by UK radiation specialists.
All things considered (there’s more info available), the Rendleshem Forest incident sounds hokey to me. The belief factor isn’t enhanced by the fact that Penniston “revealed” under hypnosis that the operators of the craft were time travelers, not aliens. Hoo boy. 
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