Editing Rendlesham Forest Incident — Key Persons Directory (section)

=== Primary Witnesses ===

==== Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt ====
Deputy Base Commander, RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge. Primary witness for Night Three. Author of the Halt Memo and maker of the Halt Tape. The most institutionally significant witness. Signed sworn affidavit in 2010 asserting extraterrestrial origin and government cover-up. Has maintained consistent core account across 44 years. Full profile in dedicated article.

==== Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston ====
81st Security Police Squadron. Primary Night One investigator. Account has expanded from a brief glowing object to close approach of triangular craft, physical contact, symbol examination, and binary code receipt. Binary code interpretation emerged from 1994 regression hypnosis. PTSD diagnosis. Co-author of ''Encounter in Rendlesham Forest'' (2014). Full profile in dedicated article.

==== Airman First Class John Burroughs ====
81st LE. Night One witness. More consistent account than Penniston; focuses on light and electromagnetic effects rather than structured craft. Classified medical records controversy; congressional intervention; VA service connection for heart condition. Co-author of ''Encounter in Rendlesham Forest'' (2014). Full profile in dedicated article.

==== Airman First Class Ed Cabansag ====
81st Security Police Squadron. Night One witness. His contemporaneous statement is the most prosaic — describes following lights that turned out to be a farmhouse and a distant beacon light (lighthouse). His account is the most consistent with the conventional explanation.

==== Sergeant Bruce Englund ====
Present on Night Three with Halt. First to identify and point out the flashing light to Halt ("there it is again — look at the flashing light"). Has never gone on the public record about his experiences that night, despite being a prominent voice on the Halt Tape.

==== Sergeant Monroe Nevels ====
Chemical Defense Instructor. Operated the Geiger counter during Night Three. His unfamiliarity with the specific equipment he was using is audible on the Halt Tape. His radiation readings are central to the physical evidence debate.

==== Sergeant Adrian Bustinza ====
Security Police Commander. Present on Night Two and apparently Night Three. Described seeing the light "going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering." More detailed statement than Cabansag; less than Penniston.