Why has the Ministry of Defence suddenly stopped responding to Rendlesham FOIA requests?

Right, I've been filing FOIA requests about Rendlesham Forest for about three years now. Standard stuff - sighting reports from December 1980, witness statements, the lot. Every single one came back within the statutory timeframe, usually with heavy redactions but still something.

Then in August, I filed three separate requests. Radio silence. Followed up in September. October. Nothing. My MP's office says they've escalated it but "it's in the system." That's what they said about my council tax query in 2019, mate. It's now November and I'm starting to wonder if someone's told them to stonewall.

Has anyone else noticed this? Either with Rendlesham or other Defence-related paranormal incidents? This feels coordinated.

Could just be the usual government inefficiency though, innit. The FOIA team at MoD are probably understaffed like every other department. I had a request about naval records take 8 months and it wasn't even about aliens, just boring logistics stuff.

This feels coordinated.

This is exactly what happened before the 2010 disclosure attempt. They clamped down for 6-8 weeks, then suddenly released a load of low-level docs to make it look like transparency. Classic misdirection. Keep pushing. Document everything you send and every non-response. Build a paper trail.

Have you tried the National Archives instead? Sometimes they've got copies of MOD files that are already released. Worth a shot before assuming conspiracy - though honestly, with Rendlesham, a bit of paranoia is probably healthy.