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Does anyone know what CCU stands for? It doesn't seem to be explained in the article

Rbirkby 18:26, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "UAP Research and Investigation" section

This whole section appears to be a mass of POV, with its cited sources being UFO websites. I've removed it from the article and placed it below. It should either be radically revised to meet the neutral point of view and attribution policies, or deleted. -- The Anome 18:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree completely. I have also described Nick Pope as an "employee" rather than an "Agent". The word Agent lends an air of dashing secrecy and authority that is ... shall we say ... inappropriate. Jas 20:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] UAP Research and Investigation

Cover of the 1999 novel by UFO desk MoD operative Nick Pope. In this novel Nick Pope speculated that alien bodies (EBE's), had been taken to Porton Down.

Porton Down is also suspected of being a research facility for UAP studies, research and investigation. Some even believe it to be involved with UAP crash and retrievens.

It is believed that personnel from Porton Down [1] visited Rendlesham in 1980 after the Rendlesham Forest Incident. In 1999 Nick Pope, a UK Government MOD Agent, published a book, 'Operation Thunder Child', talking about alien bodies (EBE's), being taken to Porton Down [2] and in 1996, British researcher Tony Dodd surfaced with a story about alien bodies supposedly taken to Porton Down from the site of an alleged UFO crash on the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales most commonly referred to as the Berwyn Mountain Incident. [3] [4]

Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty's Government "Whether they are aware of any involvement by Special Branch in the investigation of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident [HL303]"

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean stated "Special Branch officers may have been aware ofthe incident but would not have shown any interest unless there was evidence of a potential threat to national security. No such interest appears ot have been shown." You Can't Tell the People

The Ministry of Defences's usual comment when describing the "alleged" incident is that it was merely "lights in the sky". But here we have confirmation that there was an incident and that Special Branch may have been aware of it.

Porton Down: Did they investigate the RAF Watton incident?

According to Harry Thompson, a former RAF secdurity police officer at RAF Watton, a team of four British Government scients had visited the forest after the Watton incident. Thompson suspected they were from Porton Down. On 25 January 2001 Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether personnel from Porton Down visited Rendlesham Forest or the area surrounding RAF Walton in December 1980 or January 1981; and whether they are aware of any tests carried out in either of those two areas aimed at assessing any nuclear, biological or chemical hazard. [HL301][5] [6] - You Can't Tell the People.

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean stated that "The staff at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) Chemical and Biological Defence (CBD) laboratories at Porton Down have made a thorough search of their archives and have found no record of any such visits." [7] [8] - [You Can't Tell the People]

Although, Georgina Bruni, author of the definitive account on the Rendlesham Forest Incident entitled You Can't Tell the People commented that "that should have been RAF "Watton" not Walton. According to my witness from RAF Watton, some agency, presumably from Porton Down, did visit Watton and investigate the area on the perimeter of the base. Then the question is, if they were not from Porton Down, which is the place one would expect it to be, where was the unit from? I expect like the first Answer, any reference to this event has been carefully logged elsewhere." [9] [10]

One has to ask, if it was not a unit from Porton Down, who were these men and where were they from? Recall also that Americans were seen in the forest on the perimeter of the Watton base. Could these have been researchers from Langley (the CIA research establishment)? Could this same group, who were said to have investigated the Rendlesham Forest landing sites, also have investigated the perimeter of RAF Watton. - You Can't Tell the People.