My friend Christine Rowe of Rhyl has poor eyesight. She was taking her dogs for their morning walk in 1995 when she saw a strange Object gliding slowly just above the roof tops of the houses to the side of her. Rhyl, North Wales is a busy seaside town and one of the largest in North Wales. 

Christine could see it had huge windows. She stopped a road cleaner on a bike and asked him if he could see it, he refused to look up and mumbled that it must be a balloon, and the condition of these roads is shocking, potholes etc…  

Her husband, being my fellow colleague and UFO investigator got the local newspaper to print a small piece about it. A couple, who were on holiday in a caravan site at Prestatyn responded and said it was a dirigible; they had seen it, but no one else had apparently noticed. 

Gary went to considerable trouble to trace this dirigible to having been manufactured in the Isle of Anglesey. What Christine’s poor eyesight had mistaken for windows was huge raised lettering. This dirigible was travelling at a height of 70 feet off the ground, through several North Wales seaside towns, the Isle of Anglesey, Abergele, Rhyl, Prestatyn and as far down the coast as Holywell, yet only 3 people saw it! 

Few people bother to look up into the sky and note what is there, they then plaintively ask, ‘why don’t I see UFOs?’ So that when people do, they can easily mistake dirigibles for UFOs. On the other hand what a person might think is a dirigible turns out to be a UFO.

On Friday 17th March 1995 the Denbighshire Press printed an account about a youth from a village called Chirk near Corwen. He had been on his cycle, returning home from seeing his girlfriend, about 8.50p.m. 

On the A5 between Llangollen and Corwen, there are high-forested mountains, rising steeply from the road. At one point there is a distinctive scree, with a maintenance hut or building just below it on the road, above all this is a reservoir. 

It was here the youth stopped to watch a long strange craft descending from the top and along the scree down to the road. It was what he could only describe as a long car, which when it hit the road, let off sparks in the air. It then came along the right hand side of the road below the forested area, and stopped opposite him where he was standing at the lay-by. 

There were eight Beings in this of varying heights 6ft 6inches to 5ft 7inches. They had different types of faces as humans do. Large foreheads, smaller or larger noses, thicker lips etc. They were dressed in leather thigh-length jackets. From the excellent drawings the youth did, they all looked middle-aged, to elderly. Two Beings got out and approached him and spoke to him in their own language, but it seemed to be conveyed to him that they had lost somebody, and required his help to locate him. 

The events after this were hazy for the youth, at one stage he seemed to think the whole ‘long car’ went up into the woods in the mountain above the road. The trees are densely packed there, so did it shrink to nothing in order to achieve this? 

The young man then found himself and his cycle 50 yards further along the road, and he noted it was 10.30p.m. he was feeling shaken and went into Llangollen to phone his mother. He had lost 1 hour 50 minutes he could not account for. This occurred in September 1994. 

I do not get this local newspaper, so the first I heard of it was through The Cheshire UFO Studies Group. Eric Morris is a psychiatric nurse, and his Group members and he thoroughly investigated the case. They felt that as this youth was an unsophisticated village boy he would not have invented such a story. He did not refer to these Beings as Aliens, but as strange men. 

Later at one of our three monthly Social Evenings, Eric came and gave the Welsh Federation of Independent Ufologists, North Wales branch a full account of what transpired. Ron Lalek one of the Investigators, now our WFIU representative in Flintshire, discussed this case with me in depth.  He subsequently saw this youth on a number of occasions, and believes this did happen to him and thought I should write about it. 

Gary Rowe, long time researcher and co-founder with me of the Welsh Federation, and I felt peeved that we had not been invited at the onset to investigate this with the Cheshire Group, for they had come over the border to visit this young man. 

Since the advent of the Internet, more UFO Conferences in major cities of Britain, and glossy UFO Magazines on bookstalls, Ufologists all over Britain have more access to other county cases. It should still be a courtesy to contact the local Investigators and inform them of what has occurred in their own backyard, and offer to conduct the investigation with them. 

Even if the witness or abductee do not wish to see more than the initial person contacted, the courtesy to inform the local investigator should be extended before rather than after the event. 

The witness went out into his garden at 12.30am to call in his cats, and his attention was grabbed by a bright light zig-zagging going towards Liverpool Bay, where it stopped. The witness called for his daughter, and she went out with binoculars. 

The object was visible as a large triangle with many lights, which still remained stationary over the bay. The object remained for 45minutes until it ascended at tremendous speed.

*Think of the date - at 6. 48pm a brightly lit triangular UFO buzzed the now famous flight into Manchster. *

'Going outside to check on the sky, as I do most nights [Park Prospect, Graigwen]. I was scanning the night sky, when suddenly, to my right, approx South-West, I observed a deep blue spherical object heading vertically towards the ground leaving a bright yellow/white tail behind it. 

It appeared so large, vivid and close that I waited in anticipation for an explosion - but no untoward sound occurred. Due to the time of this observation, the night is naturally very quiet in this area. It was a clear starry sky and the sighting lasted approx 4 seconds.'

My neighbour knocked my door and asked me to come out and see something. my dog was howling which was unusual for him and lights started flickering. i went out to see most of the street outside in the street looking directly above into the sky. there were circular lights pulsating in a circular motion, it was hazy as there was a strange mist or fog between it and us, too low for natural cloud and it blurred out the outline of what was causing the lights. 

it had a very low bass tone humming, everyone (about 30 or 40 of my neighbours) were all asking what the heck it was - my immediate thought or feeling was of dread and a feeling of "oh not again" but was feeling safer due to everyone being out looking at it - we all watched this huge craft which seemed to fill the sky above us, it was dark colour and its outline was blurred by the fog/mist between us and the object. 

we all continued watching it for over half an hour (40 mins approx) when it suddenly took off in a 90 degree angle straight up and out of sight in less than a second. myself and many of my neighbours reported the sighting and we were all told that there was a local fun fair in the nearby town of aberdare and it was the lights reflecting from this funfair - not able to argue until i did research the fact, but found there was no fun fair in aberdare or any nearby town on that night, so we were left with unanswered questions.

Ruth Petherbridge of Swansea Road, Waunarlwydd, and her neighbours, Jonathan and Tracy Shepherd, were walking their dogs when they saw white lights over Waunarlwydd Rugby Club field. Ruth described it as a huge black object as big as the rugby pitch, with flashing lights around it and a circle of light in the middle. 

The dogs, Prince and Fudge, got excited about the lights and had to be put on their leads. They went to get a neighbour, Julie Wagstaff, to show her. Julie described the object as like a giant transparent jellyfish pulsating in the air. 

It was suggested that what they saw was a laser light show that was taking place in Crosshands, but this was about ten miles away.