Rendlesham Forest incident - still the best UFO encounter on record?

Bit of a discussion question really: is Rendlesham Forest still the best-documented UFO encounter in British history? Or has something been eclipsed it since?

What gets me about Rendlesham is the witnesses - trained military personnel, credible observers, multiple accounts that largely corroborate, and it happened at an active US Air Force base with records (albeit heavily redacted). Unlike so many UFO sightings, you've got institutional validation rather than just "my mate saw something weird once".

But I'm curious whether paranormal research has turned up anything since 1980 that's even more compelling. The Skinwalker Ranch stuff is interesting but murkier. The Hessdalen lights in Norway are well-documented but unexplained rather than definitively anomalous.

What's everyone's pick for best UFO incident? I'm asking genuinely - not trying to be dismissive of anything, just interested in what the community rates most highly.

Rendlesham is impressive because of the witness credentials, sure, but some of those accounts have been questioned since. The timeline doesn't quite hold together if you look closely, and some of the radiation readings that were supposedly taken have never been properly verified. It's the best *narrative* we have, but not necessarily the best evidence.

I'd argue the Hasselblad photograph evidence from the 1960s-70s is more compelling from a pure evidence standpoint. Actual physical photographs of objects in the sky that have never been properly debunked. Rendlesham's interesting partly because it's become a cultural touchstone rather than because the evidence is bulletproof.

Rendlesham gets the most attention but honestly the Welsh UFO sighting wave of 2008 deserves more credit. Hundreds of witnesses across South Wales seeing the same phenomenon over multiple nights, lots of video footage, credible people. It just didn't get picked up by the international media the way Rendlesham did in retrospect.

The problem with ranking "best" UFO incidents is that we're usually ranking them on narrative coherence and witness credibility, not actual evidential weight. Rendlesham wins on story. But objectively, we haven't got clear, undisputed evidence of anything anomalous from any of these cases.

Rendlesham's still the gold standard because multiple independent military witnesses, physical trace evidence, radiation readings (even if disputed), and it happened over three nights rather than a one-off sighting. Yeah, the accounts aren't perfect, but they're better than most. Hard to beat it until we get something with actual physical artifact evidence.