Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Monday, December 28, 2015
Triangular-Shaped UFO Spotted Over Buttlins Holiday Camp | MY UFO EXPERIENCE
In pwhelli in North Wales uk 1979. This was sighted at 11.30 pm at buttlins holiday camp. West of North Wales. Triangle shape, craft, no noise from it. Approx height about 300ft above blocked out the stars, trajectory north going south. Had one dim light on middle of the top of UFO. A lot of sightings were happening at that time in West Wales in the now famous Welsh triangle.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Welsh Government Responds in Klingon to UFO Airport Query
Klingon was the chosen language for the Welsh government in its response to queries about UFO sightings at Cardiff Airport.
While English and Welsh are the usual forms of communications in the Senedd, it opted for the native tongue of the enemies of Star Trek's Captain Kirk.
Shadow Health Minister Darren Millar had asked for details of UFOs sightings and asked if research would be funded.
A Welsh government spokesman responded with: "jang vIDa je due luq."
The Welsh government statement continued: "'ach ghotvam'e' QI'yaH devolve qaS."
In full it said it translated as: "The minister will reply in due course. However this is a non-devolved matter."
It is believed to be the first time the Welsh government has chosen to communicate in Klingon. . . .
Monday, October 13, 2014
UFO Spotted Over Swansea in Convincing Video
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Have aliens invaded? UFO spotted over Swansea in convincing video
By South Wales Evening Post
10-12-14
Even the most sceptical viewer has to admit that something funny is going on in this video.
Evening Post reader Jason Williams spotted this unusual light display over Cwmfelin Club yesterday afternoon and managed to catch the hovering spots on film.
"I was in the car park of the Cwmfelin Club when I noticed them," Jason said.
"There was no reflection off my car or anything from me.
"They were hovering around in the clouds, and eventually two disappeared but one remained in sight, then it eventually went behind the clouds."
In what Jason has assured us is a genuine video, you can clearly see the strange sparkling lights high in sky. . . .
Thursday, October 09, 2014
UFO Spotted Over Clwydian Range
A DENBIGH man has captured a strange light in the skies over the Clwydian Range on his camera.Graham Evans, spotted a round light over the Clwydian Hills last week from his home in Denbigh.
The unidentified flying object was spotted at 7pm on Friday, October 3.
It was moving from left to right over the hills when it disappeared near the Moel y Parc mast.
Mr Evans said: “I spotted it from my top room. It was a really bright light about six miles away as the crow flies, moving from left to right. It was really strange, very bright and round. . . .
Friday, August 22, 2014
Sighting of Three UFOs Baffle Shropshire Resident
UFO mystery for aircraft enthusiast
By www.shropshirestar.com
8-15-14
It was banana shaped, with bright lights flashing around it – and it has become the latest UFO mystery to strike over the skies of Shropshire and Mid Wales.
A model aircraft enthusiast says he has been left puzzled by three unidentified flying objects he spotted over the skies near his home. . . .
. . .Mr Davies says what he saw were not stars, but lights acting in a manner he had never seen before.
Mr Davies, of Llys Rhysnant, near Four Crosses, said he spotted the first object at about 9.45pm from his bedroom window and after it rose into space, two other bright lights emerged, which shot at great speed around the sky.
He said: "I know what aircraft can do because I do the model flying club and I go to all the air shows such as at Welshpool and Cosford and these were definitely not normal aircraft. . . .
. . . "I then got my binoculars and the object was like an arch shape and it got higher and higher until it must have reached space.
"The best way I can describe it was liked a banana shape, with both its points facing down, like in an arch.
"Its light was very bright and the shape was nothing like I had seen before, it was certainly not a helicopter or a plane. . . .
Thursday, July 24, 2014
'Silent UFO' Over Swansea Amazes Witness
THIS is the early morning image of the skies over Swansea which left an ex-soldier staring in amazement.
The photograph, which was taken in the early hours of Monday, shows a shadowy object hovering several hundred feet in the air, over Llansamlet.
Witnesses say the object made no noise and soon disappeared.
The photograph was taken by quick-thinking Paul Lewis, who snapped the object from the bedroom window of his home in Mayhill. . . .
Monday, June 09, 2014
'UFO Sighting' Over Wales Leads To Facebook Appeal for Witnesses
'UFO sighting' over Wales leads paranormal investigator to launch Facebook appeal for witnesses
By Sam Adams
The Irish Mirror
6-7-14
The object was described as being fast moving, with one larger bright light and two smaller lights around it
A paranormal investigator has launched a Facebook appeal for witnesses following a suspected UFO sighting over Wales.
Gavin Davies made the move after an unidentified cluster of lights was spotted in the night sky over west Wales on Thursday evening.
Davies said he was in bed when he saw the fast-moving objects over Haverfordwest.
He launched a Facebook appeal to gather information, photos and footage from anyone else who might have seen the same cluster of lights.
The UFO was described as being one larger, bright light, with two smaller lights around it and was heading east.
Gavin told the Carmarthen Journal: “My immediate suspicion was it was the International Space Station but I checked and it had already passed." . . .
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash, Still a Mystery After 40 Years
January 23 marks the 40th anniversary of the night many claim a UFO crashed into a hillside in North Wales. We look back at the 'Welsh Roswell'
On January 23, 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains. Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. As people ran from their homes fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside.
A nurse who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby. Although searches were undertaken, officially nothing was found – leading to claims of a cover-up.
In the four decades since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers. Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misperception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
Over the years more information has surfaced which has added to the enigma. In 2008 the Daily Post acquired official documents showing how Gwynedd Police were bombarded with calls and eye witness accounts of the strange event, with some convinced they had seen a UFO. They gave a fascinating insight into what was going on that night. . . .
Friday, December 30, 2011
UFO NEWS | UK | Zombie and UFO Queries are Wasting Police Time, Warns Police Chief
A police chief has hit out at cops being forced to answer "bonkers" questions from the public - such as how many werewolves, vampires and zombies have been investigated.
Chief Constable Ian Arundale is annoyed at officers being forced to spend hours answering "bizarre" queries instead of being on the beat.
So far this year his officers have also logged queries about witches, ghosts, demons, wizards, Big Foot and UFOs.
The rural Dyfed Powys force in Wales is legally required to spend up to 18 hours finding the information needed to answer each request.
Mr Arundale said: "We find ourselves not only dealing with the legitimate inquries but also the bizarre which are time-consuming and take a while to deal with. . . .
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Chief Constable Ian Arundale is annoyed at officers being forced to spend hours answering "bizarre" queries instead of being on the beat.
So far this year his officers have also logged queries about witches, ghosts, demons, wizards, Big Foot and UFOs.
The rural Dyfed Powys force in Wales is legally required to spend up to 18 hours finding the information needed to answer each request.
Mr Arundale said: "We find ourselves not only dealing with the legitimate inquries but also the bizarre which are time-consuming and take a while to deal with. . . .
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Open Records Request [For UFO Reports] to the Chief of Police of Cheyenne, Wyoming
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
"UFO Fever Continues to Sweep Mid Wales"
More UFOs spotted above Powys
By Richard Jones
County Times
8-13-09
UFO fever continues to sweep Mid Wales as Kerry and Machynlleth become the latest places where strange objects have been seen in the sky.By Richard Jones
County Times
8-13-09
The sight of glowing orange blobs sent shivers down the spines of a mother and daughter in Kerry, while in Furness, near Machynlleth, a couple spotted white flashes darting across the skyline.
Lisa Jones, of Kerry, was with her mum at approximately 10.15pm on Saturday night when she noticed the strange - and as yet unexplained - sight of orange lights in the sky.
Lisa said: “They were different sizes, all much bigger than a normal star. Most of them were travelling over our heads but some we’re going in a different direction. Some seemed to be going really fast, others were slower and some were not moving at all.
“We watched them for about 20 minutes until they all just disappeared.
“I really have no idea what these lights could be but do not believe they were lanterns, as some people said they were last time they were spotted over Newtown. They were too random in their movement and size.
“I’m not a firm believer in UFOs but I do think something must be out there, we can’t be the only planet with life on it, right?”
Sightings were also reported near Machynlleth on Saturday night, although this time the lights were bright white and darted quickly through the sky, making the shape of a horseshoe.
Ms Lesley Davies, of Furness, near Machynlleth, went outside to care for her dogs at approximately 10.20pm when she saw bright white lights heading from north to south.
She said: “I thought it was a star at first but then, all of a sudden, the prominent light made a horseshoe shape in the sky.
“The light then wobbled off behind a cloud before flashing twice and then shooting out from behind the cloud at a right angle.
“The sighting only lasted about 20 seconds but I definitely saw something. My partner is more sceptical than me about this kind of thing but even he has had to admit we saw something very strange, very spooky.”
UFO sightings have been flooding into the County Times office all summer.
From strange orange lights in the sky to cigar-shaped craft that speed off into the night sky, it seems readers are seeing something strange in the Powys night sky.
From Dolanog to Builth Wells, Bettws to Llansanffraid, readers have been sharing their experiences of things in the sky they just cannot explain.
And they’ve been sharing their pictures too - have a look at some of the images sent in on our website www.countytimes.co.uk
Philip Hoyle, of the UFO Investigation and Research Unit in Shrewsbury, has enjoyed a busy and exciting summer visiting people who have reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects.
In a recent interview with the County Times, Philip Hoyle, of the UFO Investigation and Research Unit in Shrewsbury, revealed: “There seems to be a concentration of orange sphere reports around the Newtown and the Llansanffraid area, many witnesses are reporting seeing orange spheres in particular over hill farms around Newtown.
“Other witnesses are describing not spheres but cigar shaped craft with lights or windows along the side.”
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Britain's Closest Encounters - Episode 1
Documentary series examining the most astonishing and baffling UFO stories from around the UK. In 1974, locals near the Berwyn mountain range in Wales experienced an earthquake and reported seeing green lights in the sky.
In an incident that would become known as the 'Welsh Roswell', some claimed that a UFO crashed into the mountain and that the government tried to cover up the truth. Originally aired on Channel 5 Television (UK) on Wednesday 2nd July, 2008
Editor's Note: Shortly after the airing of the a fore mentioned documentary, Scott Felton of the CONWY UFO GROUP (CUFOG [North Wales]) sent out the following missive-FW:
Dear UFO Enthusiasts,
I am sending out this account following the outrageous Channel 5 TV documentary on the Berwyn Mountain Incident on Wednesday July 2nd 2008, a programme created by Firefly Productions and part of a series on the UKs closest UFO encounters.
Please pass this on to as many of your fellow UFO enthusiasts as possible. This will go some way to showing just how much the programme was slanted in favour of the debunkers. It should also demonstrate a little the appalling methods used by these people to divert attention away from UFOs and in particular, away from this Berwyn Mountain incident and no doubt others in the series.
I will be ensuring that this information is given to as much of the North Wales population as possible through all channels and especially to the residents of Llandrillo who have once again been fed drivel and treated like idiots. I will be ensuring this too to keep the local populous interested in reporting their sightings to anyone involved with the Wales Fellowship Of Independent Ufologists, spearheaded by veteran Ufologist Mrs Margaret Fry.
Margaret has asked me to advise North Wales residents not to give their sightings reports to anyone not residing in the region and who cannot fully investigate such. She has concluded that often even well meaning people can inadvertently alienate locals and especially Welsh speaking locals. Following the programme, there is an atmosphere of resentment already appearing towards ‘outsiders’ who rubbish and belittle the
locals.
Anyone who watched it must have been shocked at the degree of imbalance and not with standing the fact that a decision had been taken by the programme’s commissioning editor to edit out anything and everything which while not proving the existence of a UFO on the Berwyn Mountain range on January 23rd 1974, would certainly have balanced the content or most probably, would have tipped the balance in great favour of something ‘exotic’ having occurred that night.
I am personally peeved because I was asked and filmed to demonstrate how all of the debunking literature so far produced was fabricated, the facts twisted and who had lied.
It is an open secret that I have been invited to write a comprehensive chapter in a forthcoming book of a well known British UFO researcher on the Berwyn event. The content is based on documents which I’ve received under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, some of which, no other investigator has managed to obtain and how I have discovered where exactly on Cader Berwyn the UFO seen actually rested.
What is significant, is that I have irrefutable proof that the debunking version of events portrayed by Andy Roberts in his ‘Welsh Roswell’ is based on lies, half truths and supposition. I showed some of this to the filming team and whilst filming up on the Berwyn Mountains range, I was able to show how the debunkers have tried to claim that Police, poachers, farmers etc were on Cader Berwyn and that Pat Evans and her two daughters, Diane and Tina, were mistaken, seeing Police torches surrounding a poacher’s lamp when these apparent ’criminals’ were stopped and spoken to by the Police.
The TV programme itself was a litany of blatant lies.
The former Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts though relating his experiences was very conservative with the truth and lied at least once. He lied by saying at one point, that an officer(s) left the commandeered vehicle belonging to Huw Lloyd’s parents and flashed torches about. This was a pathetic attempt to try and prop up Andy Roberts’ assertion that Mrs Evans saw Police torches. Huw Lloyd the teenage farmer at the time, was filmed and testified that at no time did any Police officer leave the vehicle to look around nor, did any use of torches take place. That was edited out and the Police officer
given free reign to state otherwise. It was suggested that only two police officers were present at that point; there was at least four, possibly five. Huw could not recall exactly, but certainly more than three and none was local or known to him.
Andy Roberts stuck to his version of events, despite the fact that his ‘poachers’ who were not poachers at all, stated that they had packed in lamping by 9.15 pm. The Police were inspecting their vehicle partly blocking the track up the mountain at 9.20 pm. Please note, that Pat Evans and daughters did not arrive anywhere on the range until 10 pm that night. 45 minutes after the poacher’s departed. So whatever she saw, it was not a poacher’s lamp. Further to that, she has constantly
been portrayed as being somewhere near to the poaching and Police search activities.
The truth is, that Pat Evans was deliberately subverted by North Wales Police and that is why she ended up on the B 4391, and four miles from the Police search above Llandrillo, and thus four miles from any headlamp, torch or anything even if there when she arrived at her vantage point..
The Police were searching for a suspected plane crash on Cader Bronwen Mountain above Llandrillo, based on reports of an explosion sound accompanying the earth tremor rumblings and then seeing lights above the village over the ridge known as Cefn Pen Llety. Debunkers have continually tried to suggest that events occurred on Cader Berwyn Mountain where Mrs Evans and her daughters observed the UFO.
I will reiterate, that at no time whatsoever was any Police officer or civilian at large on Cader Berwyn and that there was absolutely no connection between the UFO and Llandrillo village. Also, no one in Llandrillo could possibly see anything on Cader Berwyn or even Cader Bronwen. Both mountains and peaks are obscured by lower hill slopes and ridges.
I would advise readers that the principle reason that Pat Evans now spends most of her time in Tenerife, was to escape the attentions not of debunkers, but of UFO buffs who totally disregarded her testimony and privacy, often knocking unannounced on her front door late at night and even arguing with her that she was lying, simply because her true experience did not fit the mindset of the UFO enthusiast.
Pat Evans was subverted by North Wales Police because she did not get through to them offering her medical assistance until just before 9.30pm. At 9.10 pm, the Police had already opened a major incident log and Police officers were in Huw Lloyd’s yard. Yet, when Pat Evans spoke to the Police, she was not directed from Llandderfel (where she lived) to Llandrillo. She was given no idea of where to go to assist and by her own volition, took the B4391 to gain a vantage point. This action was premeditated and supports other actions to deter civilian interest in events that night.
Thus, she stumbled upon the UFO purely by chance.
The irony here, is that Huw Lloyd has testified that Police Officers from Bala and from Barmouth too (over an hour’s drive in those days??), were in his yard at 9.10 pm, and had to pass Llandderfel where Pat Evans lived to reach Llandrillo and the route onto Cader Bronwen. One of those Policemen was Elfed Roberts. In that documentary, he must have known that Pat Evans was treated in this way.
The Police did not tell Mrs Evans to go to Llandrillo because her assistance was unwanted.
Elfed Roberts along with the other Policemen present saw nothing on Cader Bronwen, though all including Huw Lloyd saw for a few seconds, a bright white light south towards Cader Berwyn which lasted a few seconds and then subsided. Huw Lloyd testified to that, but that fact was omitted from the programme, and Elfed Roberts chose not to mention it!
Bearing in mind that the earth tremor which occurred that evening and which led locals and Police to believe a plane had crashed above Llandrillo, was at approx’ 8.40 pm, twelve hours would pass before it was light enough to continue any search the next day. In 12 hours, the Civil Aviation and Military Authorities would know if an air craft was missing, yet the search continued aided by, a three man search and rescue team from RAF Valley in Anglesey.
The Police requested search assistance and the RAF sent a three man team which arrived late on the evening of the tremor and sighting.
In the programme, Andy Roberts played down that military presence and suggested that military ‘vehicles’ seen in Llandrillo by locals created the belief of a military presence and covert activities.
There was a three man team, in ONE vehicle.
Incidentally, all the details of every search and rescue operation conducted by the RAF Valley team for 1974 are missing. As far as the MoD is concerned, no RAF personnel was involved in an operation requested by the Police at any time in 1974.
I also presented to the film crew evidence that steps were taken to deny the use of civilian mountain rescue enthusiasts who knew the Berwyn Range intimately. Such had been used before but not on this occasion. Mr Roberts in his Welsh Roswell has insisted that the locals have it wrong and that they confused matters with large military presences at military air crashes in 1972
and 1982. Such a presence giving credence to the UFO fraternity claim that soldiers sealed off the mountain range in order to extract a crashed alien vehicle.
I could concur a little with the 1982 event, but I believe the 1972 event was invented to enhance the case against the locals. I believe this because I have in my possession a full listing of all military air crashes in North Wales in 1972 and I can state that no air craft crashed in that year anywhere near the Berwyn range. Three were on Anglesey and one near Llanbedr air field on the west coast. In debunking literature, reference is made to this ‘72 crash and this has often been repeated, but not one sceptic promoting this has so far published details of the craft, its occupants, airfield of origin etc. Nothing.
I also have details of all military and civilian air crashes for near surrounding years and again, nothing crashed anywhere near the Berwyn Range. In 1968 there was a crash near the summit of Cader Bronwen with several fatalities. Mr Roberts also attempts to elaborate the debunking case by suggesting that the air crash in 1982 involved a plane carrying top secret gear.
That is absolute rubbish. I have a full account of the event from the military and the pilot was a simple lone student flyer on a routine sortie in a training plane. I have the crash map reference number and details of the three farmers who received compensation from the MoD for damage to land during the text book recovery operation.
Indeed, Huw Lloyd’s father escorted the American pilot’s parents to the crash site at a later date.
As regards the earth tremor that night. It was quite violent. However, the programme tried to give credence to Jenny Randles and her earth light theory by overtly moving the epicentre of the quake 9 miles, to make it appear under Cader Bronwen. That is a blatant lie to the viewing audience.
Earth lights if they exist, would occur on the stress points of the fault lines. The epicentre of the quake was 5 - 7000 metres below Bala itself. Firefly editorship moved this to directly below Cader Bronwen to coincide with Jenny’s theory. Even the British Geological Survey which is involved in the official cover up of this event, knows the epicentre point and does not deny that.
Yes, all the big guns were dragged into this documentary to put down interest in the event. Ron Madison engaged the RAF to overfly the range to search for a meteorite impact crater - try and get the photos.
The programme claimed the team was there for four days, yet the next day, the BGS arrived having confirmed that an earth tremor had occurred. Ron Madison and associates carried on looking for a meteor impact crater despite confirmation that the explosion heard was linked to an earth tremor. That though didn’t stop there. The three man RAF team which officially ceased its search just after 2 pm, was then seen on Cader Berwyn later that day.
Of course the programme played down the search and rescue presence as officially, it did not take place.
As regards the guest appearance of Dr Roger Musson, well, what can I say? I have, just two days before the airing of the programme, received documents from the British Geological Survey following a formal complaint and internal investigation conducted by the Director of that organisation. Roger Musson is a personal friend of Andy Roberts, and guards the records regarding the Bala earth quake with a zeal unheard of. Much of Andy’s debunking literature is based on documents purportedly held by the BGS. Roger Musson has obstructed me for two years in my getting access to those BGS documents. And why?
Why indeed? I can assure readers of this, that those BGS documents do not show Police, poachers lights etc in the same small area of mountain side where Pat Evans saw them as claimed by Andy Roberts. Any references are on Cader Bronwen, miles from Pat Evans’ position on the B4391 road.
Mrs Evans must have had exceptional eyesight to see a non existent home made hunting lamp four miles away along with, Police torches - simple two cell affairs in those days. With Roger Musson guarding the documentary evidence that Andy Roberts has enhanced, there has been little chance thus far of getting to the truth.
Andy Roberts cannot now stand by the debacle of a debunking exercise he has written and published as to do so would show an unprecedented arrogance and contempt for genuine witnesses involved in a genuine event. To continue to stand by that false literature is to call the hunters liars, Huw Lloyd a liar and the Evans family liars amongst others.
The North Wales edition of the Daily Post ran a story about gamekeeper Geraint Edwards on July 2nd the same day as the programme aired. It meant nothing to me at the time, but seeing the programme made me realise that the quotes in the newspaper article by Geraint and Elfed Roberts the ex cop were identical to the wording used in the programme. So, someone had given access to the Daily Post to the programme content in advance of the airing a leak, by accident or design.
Yet I was specifically asked by the filming team representatives not to discuss the filming until the show aired.
Of course, the input from the former gamekeeper and also the camcorder shots taken in 2000, had no bearing whatsoever on the subject of a 23rd of January 1974 UFO incident. They were a poor attempt to show some input by witnesses as if coming from pro UFO people. No pro UFO people were given air time on that programme.
My input simply showed that the opposition to the UFO presence could not be allowed to be shown as incorrect or blatantly false. I demonstrated this in great clinical detail and then an editorial decision was taken to erase that input.
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Naturally Firefly got only snippets of information from me but it was enough. I can’t prove an alien craft was on the slopes of Cader Berwyn in 1974, but I can prove that most of the material used for years to debunk it is false. The sceptics have simply relied on apathy to get away with this and obstruction by friends and friends of friends.
This is my personal opinion of the programme which has now aired. I have been informed that another UFO enthusiast was approached about the South Wales Welsh Triangle and after some information was supplied, Firefly simply did not contact the guy again. I knew this, and on his behalf, sent several emails and text messages to Firefly asking them nothing more than to get in touch and inform the guy where he stood. Nothing. No acknowledgement to me or contact between them and the said
Ufologist.
Person linked to the forthcoming Warminster coverage are now gravely concerned about how their input will be portrayed. If however, the remaining documentaries are balanced, it will make viewers suspicious that concerted efforts have been made to quell interest in the Berwyn Mountain UFO event.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Man Breaks Silence Over North Wales UFO
By The Daily Post
7-2-08
ONE of Britain’s greatest UFO mysteries deepened last night after a new witness emerged after 34 years.
The Government allegedly covered up the “Welsh Roswell” incident, in the Berwyn mountain range in 1974, after scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and “Men in Black” scouring the area.
Claims that aliens crash-landed and their bodies were then transported by the Ministry of Defence to the top-secret research base Porton Down in Wiltshire were dismissed by Whitehall officials.
But suspicions about what really happened were re-ignited in May this year when hundreds of MoD documents about UFO sightings were released, with none containing any details about the Berwyn incident, reviving rumours of a cover-up.
Now, fresh evidence by retired gamekeeper Geraint Edwards, of Llandderfel, Denbighshire, has reopened the debate.
He told the makers of a new Channel Five documentary, which is being broadcast tonight, how he stood in amazement as a flying saucer hovered for 10 minutes above the mountains before it disappeared into space at impossible speed.
He said: “It was definitely a flying saucer. It was a pity I didn’t have a camera because it was there for at least 10 minutes, just hovering.
“We were on the way down to play darts when something caught our eye in the south-east, so we stopped.
“It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends of it were more pointy.
“When it took off, it just went like lightning on the same line as it hovered.
“It hovered back to the mountain, and (then it was) gone.
“I wrote it down in my diary. It was 6.45pm on the Friday night.
“If we were coming back from the pub, people would be saying, ‘they’ve had one or two (drinks)’ but we were going to the pub.”
His former neighbour, Pat Evans, a district nurse who gave a detailed eye-witness account of the phenomenon at the time, moved abroad to escape the mass attention she attracted from the media, UFO investigators and scientists.
But Mr Edwards has decided to speak out for the first time about his close encounter on February 15, 1974, for tonight’s television programme re-examining the evidence.
Three weeks earlier, on January 23, the villages of Llandrillo and Llandderfel, near Corwen, were rocked by a tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Reports of unexplained strange coloured lights and objects in the sky immediately afterwards and unusual military activity in the following weeks fuelled speculation that a UFO had crash-landed.
Sceptics maintain the explanation was an unlikely combination of an earthquake which struck Wales at the same time that a meteor shower passed overhead, and that “Men in Black” who residents reported seeing were actually seismologists researching the quake.
They also insist Pat Evans, who saw a “bright orb, the size of the Moon” with twinkling around the edges, was actually looking at a lamp carried by poachers on a nearby mountainside.
The absence of any material on the incident from the newly released MoD documents in May has roused suspicions from other eye-witnesses.
But the Daily Post has gained access to documents on the Berwyn Mountains mystery which we have published on our website at www.dailypost.co.uk.
Farmer Huw Lloyd, 48, who was a teenager at the time, said: “Whatever it was, it was kept quiet. And things that have happened have been covered up.”
Retired North Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts, who was a sergeant at the time of UFO incident, was rushing to Llandrillo moments after the tremor with his superior when they saw the mysterious lights.
He said: “As we were driving, all of a sudden we saw this green light in the sky ahead of us and it seemed to be an arcing light, but it was very sudden, totally unexpected, different to anything ever seen before.”
UFO researcher Russ Kellett has asked anyone with information to call him on 0560 2826901.
Britain’s Closest Encounters is on Five tonight at 8pm.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Welsh UFO sighting to feature on US show
By Nathan Bevan
Wales O Sunday
6-29-08
A MYSTERIOUS UFO seen hovering in the sky above Wales is set to be the subject of a US TV show.Wales O Sunday
6-29-08
International interest in little green men was sparked after it was reported earlier this month that a police helicopter had almost been involved in a collision with a flying saucer while waiting for landing clearance at the Ministry of Defence’s base in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan.
The alleged incident saw the whole of Wales gripped by extraterrestrial excitement, prompting the phone lines in the office of Media Wales to jam as floods of readers rang in to tell of similar experiences with strange sights in our skies.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
More UFOs Spotted Over Wales
By redorbit.com
6-24-08
MORE UFO sightings were reported across Wales after a mystery craft threatened a police helicopter over Cardiff this week.6-24-08
The UFO zoomed straight at the chopper as the three-man cop crew prepared to land - and the pilot veered sharply to avoid being hit.
But experts revealed airline pilots have also spotted many UFOs over the nearby Bristol Channel this year.
And it seems the extraterrestrial beings may have made an appearance earlier in the week.
Clive Ward from Bridgend said he thinks he saw the same UFO days before it was spotted at St Athan.
He said: "At about 1am last Sunday morning I saw two aircraft flying over Bridgend, one at about 200ft and the other at about 1,000ft.
"The lower aircraft had a bright white light at the front and flickering red and green lights at the rear, the other showed just the flickering red and green lights.
"The lower aircraft was completely silent as it flew towards me, but emitted a faint drone as it turned and flew away.
"I watched these aircraft for about five minutes - I thought it was an unmanned surveillance aircraft operating out of RAF St Athan. But now wonder if our 'UFO' was one of these."
Expert David Coggins, who has studied UFOs for 30 years, said: "I'm told that in the past three months airline pilots have been reporting at least two or three encounters a week with UFOs over the Bristol Channel.
"Many of them will have rational explanations, but the probability is around 15 to 20% can't be identified."
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Wales' History of UFO Sightings
By Tryst Williams
ICWales
2-20-07
Wales has had its fair share of UFO sightings over the years.ICWales
2-20-07
In the '70s an entire class of primary school children in Broadhaven, West Wales, claimed to have seen a UFO landing and aliens get out.The pictures they drew of what they had seen - a cigar-shaped object - appeared uncannily similar.
In 2006 however, James Carlson of New Mexico, a serviceman based at Brawdy, West Wales, in the '70s and '80s, told paranormal magazine the Fortean Times in a letter that
the Harrier vertical take-off jet used in the UK from 1969 might explain the cigar-shaped object sightings because it did not move like a conventional aircraft.
In October 2005, the Ministry of Defence admitted they had investigated 28 UFO reports in Wales in the previous three years.
They included a giant black object seen over Rhyl, a flying disc with legs seen over the Rhondda and a flying disc seen over Newport.
