Why hasn't there been a proper inquiry into the Rendlesham Forest incident?

Genuinely asking - why is it that in 1980, multiple US Air Force personnel stationed at RAF Bentwaters reported a structured craft landing in Rendlesham Forest, and yet there's never been a formal, independent investigation? We've had inquiries into far more trivial matters. Parliament's held inquiries into worse things than a potential breach of UK airspace.

The US military has documents. The RAF has documents. British Ministry of Defence has documents. Yet whenever anyone files a Freedom of Information request, either the documents are "lost" or they're redacted so heavily they're useless. How is that acceptable in 2024?

I'm not suggesting I know what happened. But the lack of transparency suggests someone knows and doesn't want us to know. That's the definition of a cover-up, isn't it?

Because if they admitted something genuinely landed at a UK military base and they didn't know what it was, it would be an absolute embarrassment. Better to bury it and hope people forget. Classic government strategy.

Or maybe there's nothing there and they don't want to waste money and resources investigating something that was almost certainly a weather balloon or experimental aircraft. Not everything is a conspiracy - sometimes the boring explanation is correct.

The real scandal is that a US military base can have unauthorised airspace intrusion and the UK government just... lets it slide? Where's the national security angle? If the Russians had done it, we'd never hear the end of it. Why is it different when it's "unexplained"?

MPs could demand this information under parliamentary privilege if they actually cared. But most of them are embarrassed by the paranormal angle and don't want to be associated with "UFOs." That's the real cover-up - institutional mockery keeping this from serious scrutiny.

I worked in a government office for 12 years. Documents don't get "lost." They get marked as "sensitive" and filed away in the right folder. Someone knows exactly where the Rendlesham files are. The question is whether they'll ever be declassified or if they're waiting for everyone involved to die.

Fun fact: the US military has admitted in recent years that they take UAP sightings seriously and have formal investigation procedures. So why wouldn't they have investigated Rendlesham properly? They had the ability. The resources. The witnesses. The documentation. We're supposed to believe it just got ignored?