As Maguire finally got his bearings within this massive underground domain, and as the situation was revealed to him in its starkest form, the reasons behind the blind panic became staggeringly clear. It seemed that some form of absolutely gigantic UFO was being tracked on the radar scopes high above the deep waters of the English Channel, and, as a specialist in radar, Maguire’s thoughts, analyses, and conclusions about what was afoot were immediately required. But, then, without any warning, something astonishing occurred: The gargantuan UFO split into three sections, all of which proceeded to zoom away at phenomenal speeds. One section went north, a second headed towards the French coastline, and the third was tracked until it finally disappeared in the Eastern Balkan region. Afterward, Maguire said, he was told by the superior officers present never to talk about the strange series of events, and he did not for almost half a century. (Whatever it was that Maguire, and a whole team of experienced radar operators, tracked from that vast, secret underground complex nearly 60 years ago, it is to Maguire’s credit that he eventually had no qualms about speaking out publicly.)
Aside from what may have been occurring in the sky all those years ago, what to make of the extraordinary world that Maguire encountered far below the surface? Can we, today, identify it? The answer is yes; or, at least, with near certainty we can.
By 1949, the tension that existed between East and West was worsening, and a catastrophic, civilization-ending atomic confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States was seen by many as being right around the corner. As a result, deeply concerned British authorities recognized it was imperative that preparations should be made to deal with the unthinkable, should such a terrifying situation ever come to pass. As a result, a highly secret program was launched by the British government to create a brand-new chain of radar installations throughout the country, with a significant number located on the eastern and western coasts. The classified program became known as Rotor, and it led to the careful construction of a wealth of secret bunkers that, in a national emergency involving a confrontation with the Russians, would work diligently to defend the nation from outright nuclear disaster.
One of those installations that played a significant role in Rotor was none other than the aforementioned RAF Sandwich. During the hostilities of 1939–1945, the base was termed a Ground Controlled Interception site. It was located at Ash Road, in the town of Sandwich (after which the base was named) and was comprised of nearly 400 active personnel. Eventually, however, its operations were transferred to a secret, below-ground, two-level installation in the nearby village of Ash. The Ash installation was not completed until May 1953, with operations commencing there in August 1954. However, there seems to be very little doubt that the classified bunker to which Bill Maguire was taken, from which the movements of the extraordinary aerial object were tracked (and which he clearly recalled was located somewhere extremely close to RAF Sandwich), was, at the very least, somehow inextricably linked to the secret Rotor program. To what extent the staff hunkered down in the Rotor bunkers may have tracked UFOs on other occasions is unfortunately unknown. But there is an interesting footnote to this particular matter and the saga of Bill Maguire.
Specifically commenting on the extraordinary underground complex to which Bill Maguire was taken via a hidden entrance in an innocuous-looking field near RAF Sandwich in 1952, the late Graham Birdsall of UFO Magazine had the following to say: “As recently as 1997, I learned how Communications Technicians were operating from supposed disused airfields and similar moth-balled bases here in the UK, whose location and means of access to underground facilities below must remain confidential. However, I can categorically state that one such access point was described as being in the middle of a plain-looking field.”[5]
Could it be that this is a direct reference to the underground installation to which Bill Maguire was dispatched all those years ago? If the answer to that question should be yes, then it may well be the case that to this day its deeply buried staff still continues to secretly monitor the skies for UFOs. And apparently, it’s not the only British-based underground installation with a Top Secret tie to the UFO conundrum. That’s right: There are more.
Rendlesham Forest
Between the nights of December 26 and 28, 1980, a series of almost science-fiction-like events occurred in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, a densely treed area adjacent to the joint Royal Air Force/U.S. Air Force military complex of Bentwaters-Woodbridge. Essentially, what many believe took place throughout the course of several nights was nothing less than the landing of a craft from another world, out of which small, humanoid entities reportedly emerged. The vehicle was tracked on radar, deposited traces of radiation within the forest, succeeded in avoiding capture, duly made good its escape, was the subject of intense secrecy on the part of both British and American authorities…and thus created a wild controversy that rages to this very day.
Equally profound are the rumors suggesting that far below the now-decommissioned installations exists a super-advanced base, possibly with an intimate connection to the UFO mystery. One of those who has commented at length on this particularly mysterious underworld is a man named Larry Warren, a U.S. Air Force witness to the UFO landing at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. Warren, at the time a member of the Air Force Security Police, has stated that his own, personal encounter occurred late on the night of December 28. It sounds just like something straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Warren’s experience was hardly Hollywood fiction, however; it was incredible, unearthly fact.
As the evening unfolded, rumors flew around the base about the nature of the UFO encounters of the previous two nights. Military personnel armed with sophisticated scientific equipment and hardware were reportedly swarming around the dense, dark woods, seemingly anticipating the return of the UFOs. Wild animals, such as deer and rabbits, were seen fleeing the forest in unbridled terror, clearly spooked to their collective cores by something menacingly unknown in their midst. And, at the height of these extraordinary events, Warren and a number of his colleagues and friends were ordered to head into the heart of those spooky woods. As for why? Well, they were just about to find out.
The mystified group carefully made its way through the trees, until a clearing was finally reached, on the other side of which was an open expanse of field…which, ominously, seemed to be illuminated by a form of weird, glowing fog. The tension began to mount. As Warren and his colleagues slowly moved closer, they could now see there were already approximately 40 personnel in the field, some armed with cameras, others weighed down with sophisticated motion-picture equipment, and a few even possessing Geiger counters.
The reason why suddenly became graphically and unbelievably clear: From the direction of the North Sea, a small ball of red light came flying towards the unearthly fog, and then stopped, hovering right above it. In an instant, there was a blinding flash. When Warren’s eyes acclimated to the situation, he could see that both the ball of light and the fog were now completely gone. In their place was something even more remarkable: At a distance of only about 20 feet from the shell-shocked Warren and his comrades was a pyramid-shaped craft that was clearly mechanical in nature, and appeared under intelligent control. That sight was nothing compared to what happened next, however.