The Lakenheath-Bentwaters Incident was a series of radar and visual contacts with unidentified flying objects over airbases in eastern England on the night of 13–14 August 1956, involving personnel fr
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The de Havilland DH 112 Venom is a British post-war single-engined jet aircraft developed and manufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. Much of its design was derived from the de Havilland Va
Lakenheath-Bentwaters incident
…Supervisor in the Lakenheath Radar Air Traffic Control centre, and who wrote directly to the Condon Committee in 1968. Perkins claimed that two RAF de Havilland Venom interceptors were scrambled and directed towards a radar target near Lakenheath. The pilot of the first Venom achieved contact, but then found that the…
Privately owned Venom FB.50 in flight.
de Havilland Venom FB 1
A Venom NF.3. Note the clear view canopy and revised tail surfaces of this mark.
A Venom FB.4, note the revised tail surfaces. This aircraft served Nos. 28 and 60 Squadrons of the RAF.