Rendlesham Forest 1980 - declassified documents still don't add up

I've been reading through the official RAF statements and FOIA releases from Rendlesham Forest (the American airmen incident, December 1980). The official explanation is that they saw Venus, misidentified a lighthouse, had a mass hallucination... pick your narrative.

But here's what bothers me: Why would trained military personnel mistake Venus for a landed craft? Why are the declassified documents still so heavily redacted? And why do the initial witness statements contradict the later official explanations?

I'm not saying little green men landed in Suffolk. But I'm saying the cover-up story is worse than the truth, which is how you know they're hiding something. Thoughts?

The Rendlesham documents are textbook government obfuscation. The initial reports describe a legitimate UAP incident - unusual craft, physical traces, military radar contact - then suddenly everything gets reframed as Venus. It's insulting to the witnesses' intelligence and ours.

Why would trained military personnel mistake Venus for a landed craft?

I've read every available document on this. The redactions are consistent with Cold War protocols - they didn't want the Soviets knowing their radar capabilities or response procedures. Doesn't mean aliens landed, but doesn't mean Venus either. Likely explanation: classified military test.

The best part? The FOIA releases include witness sketches of what they saw, and it looks nothing like any natural phenomenon or Venus. If the government had just said 'classified test aircraft' from day one, nobody would've cared. Instead, they lied and created a conspiracy goldmine. Self-inflicted credibility disaster.

Rendlesham is fascinating because the cover-up is verifiable. The claims that witnesses lied or misidentified things are documented in released files. So either the documents are real (cover-up true) or fabricated (deeper cover-up). Either way, something doesn't fit.