Date: 12-30-91 9:14 From: James Hudnall Subj: Woodridge AFB incident I was an Airman First Class and my occupation was Security Police (official title: Aerospace Weapons Systems security). Basically I was a guard, like the men who saw the Woodbridge UFO. When I was at Woodbridge I was getting out of the AIr Force, so I was there for about three months. Before that I spent a year at Bentwaters, It was at Bentwaters I heard all the weird paranormal stories. The main story was about "East End Charlie" the ghost of a dead World War II pilot that supposedly haunted the east end of the runway. In WWII, Bentwaters and Woodbridge served as crash runways for damaged planes returning from combat over the English channel. East End Charlie was a pilot who died when his plane crashed there. Flight crews claim to see a man on the runway some nights in WWII aviator garb, but when they try to get close to him he's not there anymore. The base is surrounded by small forests, but no one could run from the runway in time to get away as there is a lot of open land. In the highly secured QRA (Quick Response Area) where fighter planes are kept on alert for immediate take off in case of war comes a very strange story. The QRA is surrounded by two 12 foot hurricane fences topped with lots of barbed wire. The gates are controlled by guards who check people's IDs coming in. They must have a matching ID on file to enter or they're denied access to the area. The outer fence has a motion detector that will sense any movement if it's touched. A cable underground between the fences also detects anyone passing over it. A tower in the QRA is manned 24 hours and has an alarm system that pinpoints the area where the alarm is traipped. The man in the tower can see the whole area and will radio immediately to security if the area is breached. Each plane has a guard of it's own in a gateshack near it's hanger. A gateshack is a booth with a seat and a heater where the guard can keep warm at night. He still has a view of his entire security area. In otherwords, the place is secured to the max. Okay, what happened is this: A guard was in his gateshack one night when he heard a tapping on the roof. He assumed it was rain. The tapping got louder. And louder. Until it finally became THUMPING like something banging on the roof. The guard leapt out of his shack with M-16 in hand to see a man standing on top of his gateshack, grinning at him. The man was not military. Our guard turns (for a second) to the gate to see if they are looking his way (it's a distance of about 400 yards) and radios for backup. When he turns, "the man" is gone. There is no where he could have run without being spotted. Another area is the WSA (Weapons Storage Area). It's where munitions are kept in armored shelters. It too has a guard tower and is patrolled by men with police dogs and a occasional truck with armed guards. The tower has metal steps so when someone comes up them, you feel the tower vibrate with each step. One foggy night a guard I knew told me he was in the tower and while scanning the area he saw three men approaching the tower in the fog. He radioed to see if they were ours. The gate said no one was in the WSA at the time. Like the QRA, it's EXTREMELY hard to get in without detection. Our guard calls for backup. Meanwhile, he hears steps as someone is coming up the tower. He jacks a round into his M-16, grabs a flashlight and steps outside to look down. He sees three dark shapes rising up the stairs (near the bottom) in the fog. The patrol truck rushes up to the tower and it's headlights hit the three figures. They disappear and the sound of steps stops. The guy who told me the story is not a B.S.er. When he told me his tale, he looked shaken like someone in rehab telling their darkest secrets. Those are a few stories. I have a few more which I will put in a textfile. Hope you enjoyed them.