Book review: ‘Encounter in Rendlesham Forest’ a look at a UFO by Nick Pope

And so, another book on UFOs. Have we not yet reached the saturation point? Rehearsed all the possible pros and cons?

Nick Pope, the primary author of “Encounter in Rendlesham Forest,” insists that this case is different: It’s definitive. He’s wrong. But that doesn’t mean the book is without its charms, offering, perhaps, an answer to the question: Why more flying-saucer books?

The Rendlesham Forest incident — known in UFO circles as Britain’s Roswell — occurred in the days (and nights) after Christmas in 1980 in a wooded area of England between two military bases then occupied by the U.S. Air Force. Pope recounts the eventsread more