Colonel Charles I. Halt Former Air Force Col. Charles Halt was deputy base commander at a joint British/American airbase, RAF Bentwaters, in 1980. Halt saw a disc-shaped UFO directing beams of light down to the ground near him. Colonel Halts involvement in the Rendlesham Forest Incident Col. Charles Halt, who, in December 1980, was the deputy base commander at joint British/American airbases, Bentwaters and Woodbridge, in the Rendlesham Forest in England. Over the course of several nights, UFO activity was high at the base, including reports of unidentified objects near the nuclear weapons storage area. On one evening, Halt was summoned into the forest near the base to investigate a UFO sighting. "There was a glow in the forest near indentations from where a supposed object had rested two nights before," Halt told AOL News. "So we went into the forest, and we were examining things, and suddenly, we saw something. We looked out in the farmer's field and there was this