burned up over southern England at 3 a.m., which was exactly when the security guards first reported seeing lights flashing between the trees. They entered the forest and followed the lights until they realized the flashes were coming from the lighthouse. A couple of nights later, Col. Holt said he saw a flashing light coming from the direction of the lighthouse, but he said he couldn’t identify the source of the light. 
Col. Holt also said he saw hovering lights that twinkled for a long time, and that the brightest one appeared to send down light beams. It just so happened that the position of this bright light coincided with that of Sirius, the brightest start in the sky.
An extremely bright fireball – probably a meteorite – burning up over southern England
Beams from the nearby second brightest lighthouse in England flashing through the trees
Stars
Misidentify some or all of these, add a bit of imagination plus a few out-and-out lies on the part of at least one of the witnesses, and there you have it – the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident.
What's left to explain? I'm not being a smart-ass. I'd really like to know.
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