On Saturday, January 16, at approximately 11pm I went to draw the curtains and saw this huge round red object tinged with orange behind the trees on the crest of the mountain. It was very strange, it was there for a long while and it was really massive.

I told my family at the time, and made a joke about it, saying perhaps it was from outer space, but I didn't see any little men about. ... I hope Mr Parsons will now feel better, knowing someone else also saw it at the same time, same night.

At around 9.30pm, near the disused rail tracks at Trefnant, Roger Jones was travelling by car on the A525, in an area of scrubland, he became aware of lights where there were usually none. He noticed a pedestrian looking intently at the lights, but was unable to immediately stop due to another car being behind. Mr Jones had to turn the car round, and when he returned to the spot, he saw a self-lit helmet-shaped object approximately 30m from a farmhouse. 

The witness turned off the main road, and onto a farm track to get closer to the object, but he found two other parked cars in the way. Light rippled over this object, which had two rows of square windows in what seemed to be a darker main body. A bright searchlight scanned the ground beneath, going around the lower perimeter. Another car came into the lane, but Mr Jones did not attempt to speak to the other likely witnesses, as he was already late for a concert that he was performing in, so he reluctantly reversed back into the main road and drove off.

Wattsville

Mrs B from Wattsville spotted a bright red light flooding through the curtains. Her husband and her son saw it too. The object did exactly the same circuit around the mountain as that seen by Mike Parsons on January 16th.

Leyton Williams-Davies of BUFORA determined the object was Venus.

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CONTACT
Friday 29th January, 17:35
Bodfari Moel Parc, Clwyd

Mr and Mrs Evans, and their two sons were in a car travelling to Denbigh at about 5.35pm, past the TV mast on Moel Arthur, when the eldest son excitedly shouted from the back of the car. They all saw a very bright yellow object, slowly moving away from beside the mast, and moving up it until it seemed to position itself on top of the mast. They all had a very clear view of the object, which had very clear darker orange lines visible across it, defining an almost cockpit-like shape. The object suddenly vanished, as if it had been switched off.

*Margaret was unable to visit the site at night, but notes that it was the second sighting at the same spot in just over a month, and challenges the likes of Paul Devereux to explain the sightings away as ball lightning or earthlights. Unknown to the Evans family, there had been another car following, whose occupants also saw the object at the TV mast.*

Margaret Fry submitted her report to Awareness V21/N2.

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BUFORA
March 8th and March 9th, 18:30
Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran

Mr Cox, a retired gas fitter, spotted a brilliant light over Croesyceiliog, Cwmbran, with neighbours. The following night he saw it again, this time shooting 30 minutes of film with his video camera, including an aircraft passing in front and under 36x enlargement. The object remained in view until 20:00 when the sky clouded over and obscured it. He passed the video over to Gwent Police who admitted to being 'amazed' by the footage.

The video was then shown to astronomers in Cardiff who identified the 'UFO' as Venus. The same conclusion was drawn by Leyton Williams-Davies of BUFORA who was contacted by Gwent Police to look into the matter. Williams-Davies' short report on the affair was published in Northern UFO News #161, June 1993.

The Monmouthshire Free Press of March 19th 1993 also carried the story, as did the South Wales Echo (March 10th, March 11th) and the South Wales Argus (March 10th, March 11th, March 22nd, April 1st).

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PRESS
March
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MOD FILES
Wednesday 31st March, 01:10

Various Locations

Two bright lights were seen travelling in parallel across the night sky. Sighting reports poured in from across Ireland, Wales and the West Country, and is believed to have been the spent rockets from the launch of a Russian cosmos 2238 satellite.

Read on for reports - 

At Moelfre, Abergele, wrote Margaret Fry to Awareness V21/N2: "Harry Bartrum, and his friends Malcolm and Frank, were at a mobile home park near Moelfre, and had heard the radio reports, so were scanning the skies. They saw two large lights crossing the sky, which were reported as emitting blue beams."

 

Mr G had been metal detecting on the beach and was on the promenade leaning on the railings looking south west across the Dee Estuary towards Flintshire in North Wales.

It was 15.45 on a clear day when he spotted an object moving between fluffy clouds and heading westwards towards Point of Ayr. It had an elongated shape but was neither an obvious aircraft nor a helicopter and moved too fast for an airship. Suddenly, whilst over the estuary the object changed direction and plunged at a 40 degree angle into the sea. It fell into the water but left no trail of smoke.

Mr G was at first convinced he had seen a plane go down but there were no such reports in the media and now he is baffled by what he did witness. Readers of 'Alien Contact' (the first book with that title in 1981!) will recall that Gaynor Sunderland - star witness in these Flintshire close encounters that this book describes - had a rather similar experience from near her home in Flint as a child. 

However, she was able to see that the object that fell into the estuary clearly was an aircraft. Checks later revealed that a plane had indeed gone down here - but during World War Two. This provoked the speculation as to whether Gaynor had witnesses a timeslip replay of this historic event. On the other hand - as the book further shows - this part of the North Wales coast is awash with UFO activity.

Intriguingly, there are obvious similarities here with the UFOs seen (and March 1997 'sky crash') above Dark Peak east of Glossop. As we have reported in the last two issues this area is also filled with sightings of a crashing aircraft that 'replays' a May 1945 event.

The orange light passed directly over the house, humming and vibrating the window frame. It travelled north slowly. I was unable to get out of bed. An orange light moved over my house from south to north, there was a low humming sound, the object moved quite slowly... perhaps 20mph.

The memory of this only surfaced recently, after I heard a conversation between two other witnesses. I have since heard a story about a ufo that apparently travelled through Wales, across the Bristol channel to Cornwall, turned around and retraced it's path back north. I have been searching for collaboration for months, this feels like a memory that is somehow partly erased, this I don't understand as I'm a very observant person.

At 11.30pm, the witness had finished work in a hotel, and had gone out into his garden to relax, and perhaps watch any aircraft flying from nearby RAF Valley, so he is quite familiar with low flying aircraft. 

On this occasion he noticed a bright light flying low, thinking it was a helicopter, but as it came overhead it was grey and totally soundless. The witness then saw the grey object was followed closely by a golden ball, and both flew over him and continued out of sight to the East. 

The witness wrote to Patrick Moore, and Jodrel Bank radiotelescope, to report his sighting, but perhaps not surprisingly got no response.

At 8.45pm, Ms Karen Armitage, and her friend Mr R Archer-Jones, both witnessed an object at the TV mast on Prestatyn mountain. Mr Archer-Jones was very precise in his report, which does differ from that of Ms Armitage, but it should be stressed that he saw it before her attention was drawn to it. 

The two witnesses had been in a car outside one of their houses, when Mr Archer-Jones saw an object something like an egg-shape, but with the top broke off, it was white with green streaks in it, and it was falling slowly. Ms Armitage was alerted by her friend's exclamation, and she saw a bright fiery red/orange ball falling quickly. Either they saw two different objects, and the sketches indicate they were in a different place, or the one object had changed shape dramatically within a couple of seconds. 

The two friends stayed up later in the night to watch the predicted Perseid meteor shower, which looked nothing like the object they has seen earlier that evening.

Ms Armitage had witnessed a metallic hatshaped object in 1970 while living in the Wirral.

*As a follow up to this event, Margaret Fry and Mr Archer-Jones were invited onto a BBC Wales programme, but the witness chose to call his sighting 'a meteor', being uncomfortable with the concept of it being a true UFO.*

7 PM one evening, conditions dark with street lighting on, weather, dry and partly cloudy. Mark Rayworth, aged 18, was standing in Powys Avenue, Townhill, and looking in the direction of Swansea city centre (south-east), when he saw a black triangular shaped object at a height of about 300 feet. 

It was travelling at a very fast speed, maybe 100 to 200 miles per hour, from over the city centre towards his location. It then veered sharply to its left towards the direction of Mumbles, disappearing into clouds. He stated there was no sound, and no trail left behind. The triangle had a white light on each corner of its underside. He could not estimate its size. He saw it for only a brief few seconds. He stated that he did not believe the object was of this planet.

Roy Lewis, of Pentwynmawr, was driving past in his car when he spotted two lights in the sky about half a mile above the council offices at 5:35pm on Monday. He stopped and watched what he believed to be a flying saucer flying away.

He said: "It seemed to be hopping, travelling about 500 metres each hop and flashing like a star. But there was no sound, so I don't think it can have been a helicopter or a plane. It was just so stunning to watch and so bright. It was something out of the ordinary, but I don't know what."

Victoria Davies, who was in the car with him, said: "I have never seen anything like it - it was so odd. The speed it travelled was incredible, yet it was so quiet."