Royal Air Force
Agency / Organization· 2 declassified document(s)
Also: RAF
The Royal Air Force is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare service. It has monitored and reported unidentified aerial phenomena in British airspace, historically coordinating with the Ministry of Defence, which maintained UFO desk files for decades. The 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident occurred at the RAF-named Bentwaters and Woodbridge bases, though these were operated by the U.S. Air Force and the principal witnesses there were American USAF personnel.
RAF bases and personnel have been at the center of major UK UFO sightings, and the agency historically tracked UAP radar returns.