Rendlesham Forest incident - has anyone been to Suffolk and experienced anything odd?

I went down to Suffolk last weekend (visiting family near Ipswich) and took a drive out to Rendlesham Forest just to have a look around. For those who don't know: 1980, American military personnel at RAF Bentwaters reported UFO sightings, the incident got covered up, documents came out years later proving something happened, but nobody officially admits what it was.

I walked around the forest for about an hour on a clear afternoon. Nothing obviously weird happened, but I had this persistent feeling of being watched and my mobile phone kept losing signal even though I was nowhere near dead zones. Could be coincidence, could be the forest just being isolated.

But here's the thing: I met an old bloke walking his dog who said his father was stationed at Bentwaters and witnessed something in 1980. Said his dad never talked about it properly, but he was clearly traumatised. The bloke reckoned there was a clearing in the forest where the incident was 'concentrated,' but he didn't want to say where.

Has anyone had actual experiences in Rendlesham Forest? Or in that area of Suffolk generally?

The Rendlesham incident is one of the best-documented UFO cases specifically because of the military documentation. Not because anything weird is still happening there - the incident was in 1980. You're probably experiencing normal forest isolation plus expectation bias.

That said, meeting someone connected to the incident is cool. But 'feeling watched' and phone signal loss are pretty common in forests. Both have mundane explanations.

I've been to Rendlesham a few times for research. Didn't experience anything unusual, but the forest does have a strange atmosphere - though that could be psychological knowing the history. The 'clearing' thing is interesting though. There are geometric patterns in the forest that researchers have attributed to the incident, but they're also just... forest patterns.

If you're planning to go back, worth checking if there's a local researcher community. Suffolk has quite active paranormal investigators.

my mobile phone kept losing signal even though I was nowhere near dead zones

Mobile signal in forests is dodgy anyway. Trees absorb radio waves. Not paranormal, just physics. That said, the Rendlesham incident itself is genuinely interesting - whatever happened, it was substantial enough to get documented by credible military witnesses.

The story about the old bloke's father is the most compelling part of your post. Military witnesses to something they won't talk about is more credible than your phone losing signal. If you meet him again, ask if he'd ever consider making a statement to researchers.

Rendlesham is genuinely haunted by history if nothing else. The whole incident is properly documented now (thanks to FOIA requests), so it's not like we're speculating into nothing. Something happened that scared military personnel enough to report it up the chain despite knowing they'd be ridiculed.

As for your experience: you went to a place with a paranormal reputation, felt a bit spooked, and had normal technical issues. That's not evidence of anything, but it's not nothing either.