Welsh UFO sightings from 1952. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
November 20th
Merthyr
A railway signalman and a police sergeant near Merthyr Tydfil saw a brilliant orange streamline object which had a disc shape speeding through the sky at 500 miles per hour.
This snippet was included in Space Review V2/N2 from 1953.
UFONS #139 via the UFO Newsclipping Service #140.
Dyfed SA67 8BE, West Wales, 8/3/81
Dear Mr Parish,
Thank you for your letter regarding my report in the Western Telegraph of January 15 about my husband's sighting of the U.F.O. near Castlemartin in 1952. I received it on Feb. 24th, a fortnight after you posted it.
My husband was taking an after lunch walk when he saw the U.F.O. shining very brightly in a sheltered spot amongst the sand dunes. Naturally, he went nearer to investigate; saw the occupants on the top of the "Saucer." One of them who was obviously the captain of the crew spoke to him in perfect English; told him not to approach any nearer because he was not wearing protective clothing like they were & therefore could be injured by the strong rays emitted by their craft which was then in the process of being recharged by the Sun's rays. Naturally, my husband was intrigued by that because, as you know not much was generally known about Solar Power at that time. Their interest for his safety discounted Mr. Pugh's theory that they were coming to destroy.
He told me that they looked just like we did & they said that they had been travelling to & around our Planet for 5 years & were then about to make their return journey. They told him the name of their Planet but I cannot remember it. It had a short name of about 5 letters beginning with an 'A', I think. They said that they crafts had been landing on the waste lands in America for hundreds of years because they were less likely to be interrupted there in their examination of the soil and terrain which is exactly what our craft have been doing on the Moon, etc., in recent years.
They were very concerned that our "Earth" was on a course of self destruction & wished that they could be allowed to help prevent this.
They said that as scientists their knowledge was far in advance of ours on this planet. My husband was very impressed with all the information which they gave him, especially as he had a brilliant brain himself & therefore could appreciate it. I am sorry that I cannot remember anything more & there is no written record unfortunately, but suffice it to say that many of their predictions at that time have been and are still being proved right with regard to our planet.
With Best Wishes,
Yours Sincerely,
(Mrs.) Nellie Thomas
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Tuesday 7th October, 05:17
Cefn Coed
Stanley Morgan saw a brilliantly orange coloured object with a long tail speeding across the clear sky on his walk to work. He reported it to the Transport Police who told him a man in Cardiff had seen something strange in the sky at about the same time. The Merthyr Express of November 15th reported:
MYSTERY OF BRIGHT ORANGE OBJECT. WAS IT A FLYING SAUCER? RAILMAN PUZZLED BY MORNING PHENOMENON.
Did signalman Stanley Morgan, of High Street, Cefn Coed, see a flying saucer at 5.17 on a recent Tuesday morning? Mr. Morgan, who was walking to work at the time, is convinced that the "brilliantly orange coloured object with a long tail" which he saw speeding across the clear morning sky was a flying saucer, or some such missile. He saw it on Tuesday, Oct 7, but was reluctant to say anything about it because he feared ridicule. Netherless, this phenomenon so puzzled and worried him that on Thursday, after five weeks, he asked the "Merthy Express" to appeal to others who may have seen the object.
"TRAVELLING TOWARDS ABERDARE" These are the circumstances surrounding Mr. Morgan's experience: Shortly after 5 a.m. on Oct 7, he was walking down the main road from his Cefn home to the Brandy Bridge signal box for his morning shift, which begins at 6 a.m. Middle-aged Mr. Morgan has walked this stretch of road for many years now. But the big difference on this particular morning was that he was approaching Pandy Farm on the Brecon Road he noticed a glow coming from behind the trees at Cyfarthfa Park. "I stopped, thinking it might have been a fire," said Mr. Morgan, relating his story to an Express staff reporter yesterday. "Suddenly, a streamlined object came into view. It was a brilliant orange in colour, with a disc-shaped front and a long tail, which was particularly prominent. It was not small and I had a clear view of it for several seconds before it disappeared from sight in the direction of Aberdare."
"KEPT HORIZONTAL" Unfortunately nobody else was about at the time, although Mr. Morgan stood dumbfounded for some minutes. At work, he reported the matter to the British Transport Commission Police and a guard from Cardiff also said he had seen something strange in the sky about that time. What makes Mr. Morgan believe the object he saw was a flying saucer? His "long tail" description fits in with the reports of hundreds of other people who have seen the "saucer" in Britain within the last twelve months, while he is emphatic that unlike shooting stars or other lunar objects, the missile kept perfectly horizontal in its flight as if on a plotted course. This is a most important characteristic of the flying saucer theory over a limited observation stretch.
Mr. Morgan agrees he has kept a passing interest in the subject through the newspapers, but he adds: "It would be wrong for people to think I have studied flying saucers so much that I have deceived myself into believing I saw one on this particular morning." Summing up, Mr. Morgan emphasised: "It was too brilliant in colour and streamlined in shape to have imagined it. Had more people been about at this hour - I timed it at 5.17 a.m. - they could not have missed it." Ever since, the mystery has been worrying Mr. Morgan more and more, and he hopes Merthyr Express readers might be able to solve it.
Thursday 13th November, c. 15:00
Ynysybwl
Multiple witnesses, including a police sergeant, saw an oval shape in the sky travelling at '500 miles an hour'. It was reportedly the colour of ice, highly reflective in the sun, then turned white and vanished.
The Western Mail of November 15th reported: FLYING SAUCER? While Police-sergeant D. Jones, of Ynysybwl, near Pontypridd, was patrolling Robert-street there on Thursday he looked up and saw "a bright object pass across the sky at 500 miles an hour." Sergt. Jones said yesterday, "It was shaped like an oval at an angle, appeared the colour of ice, and reflected the sun's beams strongly. It passed through three thin feathery layers of cloud at a height of about 10,000ft., west to east, turned dead white and vanished. It struck me that it might be a flying saucer. It was soundless, but I cannot say whether it was spinning." Sergt. Jones drew the attention of three bystanders to the object and they, too, were puzzled.
On November 22nd the Pontypridd Observer gave a few details of other witnesses: On Thursday last week at about 3 o'clock Police Sergeant D. Jones was patrolling Robert Street, Ynysybwl, when he saw a bright object pass across the sky at a fast speed. ... Several workmen at the pithead also noticed something unusual in the sky at the time. A Maesycoed lady also claims to have seen the 'saucer' passing over the area the same afternoon.
PRESS
15:10, December 12th
North Wales
From Meteorological Magazine (82:155, 1953) via William Corliss' 1986 Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena:
Ordinary mock suns sometimes display rainbow colours, but R. Scott has described a vivid, spectral, cometlike mock sun. Scott viewed this curiously shaped mock sun in North Wales, on December 12, 1952. "I first noticed a very brilliant patch of light at 15:10 on December 12, 1952, and was immediately impressed by its brilliance and colouring, the latter being most vivid and noticeable. The patch appeared, as indicated in the sketch, rather like a comet with a brilliant tail. The nose ranged 'rainbow' fashion from deep red to green; then followed an intensely blue-white tail which faded off into the background of cloud."
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