Welsh UFO Sightings 1855

Welsh UFO sightings from 1855. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
1855
Kilcan

The Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser of 22nd December 1855 reported:

A WELSH GHOST STORY.

A short time since, at a farm-house, at Kilcan, near Mold, the landlord had left a bailiff in possession of the furniture and stock for rent arrears. The man of law put in his son, a green lad, as his deputy, the latter being inordinately afraid of ghosts which circumstance, as the sequel proved, was known to the distressed farmer.

The young bailiff was put to sleep in the same bed with the farmer's son, and the moon being about the full, the bedroom was tolerably light. They had not been long in bed before there was a terrible clanking of chains, with groans and other "eldritch" sounds heard on the stairs and landing. The farmer's son exclaimed "O Lord! the ghost, the ghost!"

He jumped out of bed, followed by the young bailiff in a frenzy of terror, who seized him round the waist for protection against the spiritual intruder, who stalked into the room arrayed in white. He soon departed however, leaving the two youths in possession of the field; but when they were about to step into bed again, lo! all but the bedstead had vanished, apparently in the train of the ghost. Not only that, but the whole of the furniture and the out-door stock seemed to have likewise disappeared, and the landlord's claims for rent were met by an empty house.

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Autumn
Cardiganshire

Strange explosions in the sky occurred at intervals of weeks, accoring to Harold T. Wilkins 1954 book, 'Flying Saucers on the Attack'. Presumably this came from Charles Fort's New Lands (1923), quoting contemporary newspapers: In the London Times, Nov. 9, 1858, a correspondent writes that, in Cardiganshire, Wales, he had, in the autumn of 1855, often heard sounds like the discharges of heavy artillery, two or three reports rapidly, and then an interval of perhaps 20 minutes, also with long intervals, sometimes of days and sometimes of weeks, continuing throughout the winter of 1855-56. Upon the 3rd of November, 1858, he had heard the sounds again, repeatedly, and louder than they had been three years before. In the Times, Nov. 12, someone else says that, at Dolgelly, he, too, had heard the "mysterious phenomenon," on the 3rd of November.

Someone else--that, upon Oct. 13, he had heard the sounds at Swansea. "The reports, as if of heavy artillery, came from the west, succeeding each other at apparently regular intervals, during the greater part of the afternoon of that day. My impression was that sounds might have proceeded from practicing at Milford, but I ascertained, the following day, that there had been no firing of any kind there." Correspondent to the Times, November 20--that, with little doubt, the sounds were from artillery practice at Milford. He does not mention the investigation as to the sounds of Oct. 13, but says that there had been cannon-firing, upon Nov. 3rd, at Milford.