The Guardian article about Rendlesham Forest came up on my feed - here's what actually happened to my father

My dad has never wanted to go public about this, and he'd probably be furious if he knew I was posting, but The Guardian's recent piece on Rendlesham Forest (awful, dismissive coverage by the way) has brought it all back up and I need to tell someone properly.

In 1980 - yes, same year as the famous Forest incident - my father was a young RAF officer stationed in Norfolk. He was driving back to base late one December evening when his car just... stopped. Complete electrical failure. It was about 23:45, clear night, no other traffic. He said the sky got this weird greenish tint and there was a sound like nothing he'd ever heard - not a plane, not mechanical. After about fifteen minutes everything came back on. The car started perfectly. He drove straight to base.

What he never reported officially: he found a mark on his forearm that hadn't been there before. A perfect triangle, about 2cm across, completely painless. Faded within two weeks. He's never explained what happened in those fifteen minutes, and he genuinely can't remember.

The reason I'm posting this now is because I've inherited something from him. Things happen around me. Electronic things especially. My partner had to leave because she couldn't handle it anymore. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something linked to a family history of anomalous events?

This is exactly the kind of post we need more of. Your father's experience - the electrical failure, the time gap, the physical mark - matches patterns seen in other close encounter cases. The fact that it's generational is particularly significant. Some researchers (Budd Hopkins especially) have theorised that abduction/contact runs in families, almost like it's genetic or energetic heredity.

Have you ever been medically examined since the electronics issues started? Not to suggest anything sinister, but knowing baseline health and any unusual markings would be worth documenting.

Your dad should contact the researchers at the Anomalous Phenomena Research Society. They have ex-military contacts who might actually listen to his story, and more they have protocols for investigating cases with generational components. This isn't something you need to figure out alone.

The Guardian's recent piece on Rendlesham Forest (awful, dismissive coverage by the way)

The electronics thing is wild. Keep a log of it - dates, times, what devices are affected, how they fail. Could be psychological (stress causing EMF sensitivity is a real thing) or could be something more. Either way, documentation is your friend.

RAF Norfolk in 1980? That's interesting because there were several incidents in that region that year that never made public record. Your dad might actually be able to cross-reference with other personnel from the base. Just a thought.