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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)
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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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:
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.
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What the hell has David Kelly's death got to do with Porton Down? He wasn't working there at the time, hadn't worked there for years, and the events leading up to his completely non-mysterious suicide (unless you are a crank) were political and not military/CBRN. Tin foil hat brigade been here again? Removing until inclusion is justified. 86.17.211.191 ( talk) 22:54, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
It's not factual and it's been removed and reinstated before. I tried to remove it myself but it promptly got reverted and I got a ticking off for not explaining my edits properly. Make of that what you will... 194.74.227.66 ( talk) 15:02, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Is Porton Down the laboratory that the activists tried to free the chimps from in 21 Days Later? If so should be added to popular culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.39.2.182 ( talk) 04:52, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
Well, 28 Days Later is a well known fictional film; I am not sure that it wise to admit knowledge of the 21 Days Later incident involving Porton Down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.7.158.223 ( talk) 11:00, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
This story, of a government report about biological weapon trials between 1940 and 1979, perhaps originally reported on The Guardian in 2002, is not mentioned. I wonder why? Does that government report not actually exist? [11] [12]
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Mention how the land was originally acquired. Jidanni ( talk) 13:25, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
This new section may be too much for this article, so I'll place a copy here just in case:
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