Can you tell the people?

Some years ago I was asked for an online interview about the infamous 1980 Rendlesham Forest case by the late writer Georgina Bruni (obit. FT234:30). It was for her book about the case, which she later called You Can’t Tell the People and, after she explained this unusual phrase to me, I agreed.

While I have my reservations about that book – not least that she got wrong basic facts about something I wrote, which ended up upsetting another researcher – I would not hold that error against Georgina Bruni. We all make mistakes when dealing with complicated, nuanced matters such as the UFO mystery – I have made a few of my