Review: 'The Rendlesham Forest Incident' audiobook narrated by Mark Carwardine

Just finished the unabridged audiobook version of 'The Rendlesham Forest Incident' narrated by Carwardine (Audible, about £8.99). It's a properly detailed account of the 1980 events at RAF Bentwaters, with lots of primary source material and interviews that I hadn't encountered before despite reading around this topic for years.

The narration is excellent - Carwardine does different voices for the witness interviews which sounds gimmicky but actually makes it easier to follow. The book itself is well-researched and doesn't jump to conclusions. It presents the evidence and lets you make up your own mind. There's a good section on the declassified documents and the various attempts to recreate the phenomenon.

Only criticism: it's quite long (about 14 hours) and some of the technical analysis sections get a bit dense if you're not into that sort of detail. But overall I'd recommend this to anyone seriously interested in the incident who hasn't read it yet. Better than a lot of the sensationalist UFO docs out there.

Is this the revised edition with the newer witness statements? I read the 2015 version and apparently they've added some stuff from interviews done in 2018-2019. Might be worth grabbing if you already have the older version.

Carwardine is excellent for narration. Did a BBC nature podcast for years so he knows how to actually read properly, unlike some audiobook narrators who sound like they're reading a phone directory. Will give this a go - cheers for the rec.

The book itself is well-researched and doesn't jump to conclusions

Have you looked into the Halt memo stuff? That's basically the smoking gun of the incident and I'm curious how the audiobook handles it - whether it presents it as definitive or whether it acknowledges the gaps in the evidence.