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There's a new series on Amazon called Hidden History of Britain. (This is not to be confused with several other series with similar titles like this ingenious one, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqMwuB8gOk.) It is presented by Michael Portillo, a former government minister and present day TV journalist. The second episode is called Orford Ness- Defence of the Realm and it includes a tour of the abandoned secret research base on the Suffolk coast. People in the know will spot immediately that this was filmed a long time ago because the famous lighthouse is there. It has sadly since been demolished, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2020/09/orfordness-lighthouse-demolished.html. Indeed, the Amazon programme is a repeat and it was first broadcast on Channel 5 back in 2018. The intrepid Mr P walks around the now derelict base and tries to work out what really went on there by examining the ruins and interviewing those who served there. This is a bit of a puzzle because a lot of the scientific work done is still classified. Government organized experiments began there in the 1920's, but the area is best known for its project "Cobra Mist". This was allegedly an attempt by the British and Americans to develop more powerful and sensitive radar. It is famous for its giant landmark, the fan-shaped antenna array which covered more than three hundred acres and was two hundred feet high. There are also two buildings called "pagodas" because of their shape. They have very heavy and thick roofs indicating they were intended to contain explosions. One of the staff there says they were used to test H-bomb detonators and missile engines which were at the time, the early 1960's, the ultimate secret. Some buildings are half buried in sand. In the 1930's there was an attempt there to invent a directed energy weapon, a kind of "death ray". One of the guest contributors in none other than Dr David Clarke, better known for his UFOlogy work, for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/10/calvine-clowns-day-off.html. There are many scenes of Portillo creeping along dark corridors and unlocking old filing cabinets, disturbing the dust. He is using a torch in most of these scenes; and I expect this was done for dramatic effect because in other scenes you see that in at least one of the buildings there is electricity and lights could be switched on. Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8336646/episodes/?season=1.

The big questions my own readers will want to know is, did the activities at the Orford Ness laboratory have anything to do with the famous 1980 UFO close encounters in Rendlesham Forest? Without more information about what activities went on at the secret base it is impossible to answer with certainty. However, we have enough information to make a guess. UFO incidents are often associated with certain human activities; two are nuclear weapons and electromagnetism. Both can be found in Orford Ness and its surrounding area. The Scottish author Brian Allan suspects the very transmissions from the Cobra Mist operation caused the conditions by which UFO's could appear. In his book The Hole in the Sky, he explains how electromagnetic radiation, both artificial and natural, open interdimensional portals that release phenomena like UFO's, see: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hole-Sky-Brian-Allan/dp/B0CZM1S92C. This could be true. UFO's are often associated with thunderstorms too, which is a natural phenomenon that also causes huge electromagnetic charges in the environment; examples are some famous ones like the Roswell and Varginha incidents, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2022/11/moment-of-contact-watch-party-review.html. Possibly more digging by archaeologists or further government transparency will make Orford Ness give up more of its secrets in the future, in which case there will be a sequel, I'm sure; both of this article and Portillo's series. However, so far, Secret History of Britain does not mention UFO's at all.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/08/rendlesham-forest-non-human-tour.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2014/12/programme-117-podcast-brian-allan.html.