Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Colonel. Deputy base commander at RAF Bentwaters during the December 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident. His contemporaneous audio recording and memo to the British MoD remain primary documents.
Lt. Col. Charles Halt is a retired United States Air Force officer who served as the Deputy Base Commander at RAF Bentwaters during the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident. He is famous for leading a patrol into the forest where he observed anomalous lights and directed the recording of a real-time audio tape documenting the ongoing encounter. Halt's key contribution is authoring the official memo addressed to the British Ministry of Defence, which formally documented the UAP incursions over the dual military installations. He has consistently advocated for the reality of the phenomenon, noting that the objects directed beams of light into the nuclear weapons storage areas. His authoritative documentation provides profound military validation of the Rendlesham case.