Variety is reporting that Eleventh Hour Film and Sony are teaming up for a new UFO drama series based upon the real-life Rendlesham Forest incident, a.k.a. ‘Britain’s Roswell’.
The incident occurred in 1980, where a series of unexplained lights were seen outside of RAF Woodbridge, a military base occupied at the time by the United States Air Force. Several Air Force personnel also reported what they believed to have been UFO sightings.
The TV series will be directed by Joe Ahearne (Doctor Who), and “a complex family drama will form the backdrop to the series, which will also fast-forward from the height of the Cold War to 2020, the 40th anniversary of the incidents.”
“When Eleventh Hour Films drew my attention to this extraordinary piece of British and American history it pressed all my buttons, and I think it will do the same for a wide audience,” said Ahearne.
“Joe is a master storyteller with a long-standing fascination for science fiction,” added executive producer Eve Gutierrez. “Now working with Sony Pictures Television we are looking forward to bringing this timely, other-worldly story to the global market.”
