Welsh UFO sightings from 1970. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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Winter
St Thomas

"A young girl, around 14-years-old was returning home after a girl guides meeting during a dark evening in the winter of 1969 or 1970. She was walking alone up Wallace Road, a cul-de-sac in the St. Thomas area of Swansea, a route she knew extremely well as it was very near her house. At the top end of the street there were the gates of St. Margaret's Nursery and she would walk through the gate on her way home. As she approached the gateway, she noticed a figure peering around one of the brick pillars at the end of a low wall.

All she could make out was its head, its right shoulder and the upper portion of its right arm. Its head was bulbous and shaped like an inverted egg, with a pointy chin and huge, vertically-oriented almond-shaped eyes which were white with a black dot in the centre. It had no hair, no ears and she was aware of no mouth or nose.

Its body, by what she could see of it was puny, like that of a child, with a narrow, spindly arm. Its hand was not visible as it was behind the pillar. There was no neck visible as it seemed to be hunching. It did not seem to have any clothing and its skin was grey and had a metallic look to it, which seemed to shimmer slightly. It did not move or make a sound but just stared straight at the terrified girl. She said it felt like an eternity, but was really only just seconds.

She was so alarmed by what she saw, she ran back down the road and across the junction with the next street to some neighbours who she knew, and after they had calmed down the hysterical girl, they went with her back up Wallace Road to the gateway, but no trace of the visitor was evident.

Now remember that was well before the image of the grey alien was widespread in popular culture, and furthermore, the girl had had a strict catholic upbringing and had no knowledge or even awareness of aliens or UFOs at the time. At the time of the encounter she thought that what she was seeing was a devil or demon. It was only years later after being exposed to the UFO culture and emerging public familiarisation with the 'grey' type extraterrestrial that she noticed the similarity, with one exception - the unusual configuration of the eyes, which were not black, but white with black irises.

Approximately two weeks after her experience, a catholic priest in her school asked the class if anyone had experienced something strange in their life [coincidenec? - or had he received reports from other witnesses in the area?]. She wrote down an account of her experience, which she still has somewhere. When found, the writing might shed some light on the exact date of the event. She had never told anyone of her sighting, except close family and friends, but came forward to share her experience with the Swansea UFO Network.

For the time being she wishes to remain anonymous, and we respect her wishes. This was a frightening experience for a young teenage girl which she has kept with her all her life. The location where it happened is at the edge of the built-up area of St. Thomas, on the southern slopes of Kilvey Hill - which has featured many times in UFO reports. I have on record one other humanoid report which I am looking at, from the northern side of the hill which I hope to report on soon."

Source: SUFON Files - Emlyn Williams.

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FSR
January

Flying Saucer Review Case Histories Supplement #1 (October 1970) published the following letter:

"Dear Sir, the following may be of interest. Should I awake at night, my view is unrestricted over the water and across towards the Snowden National Park of which many peaks are over 3,000ft. Twice during this last winter, in December and January, instead of closing my eyes to regain sleep, or switching on the light to read, I have instead observed the stars and the easily seen panorama. Most times there is nothing much to see, so eventually sleep returns. However, on the above mentioned nights I saw a yellow object pass over, going from south to north. It was visible only for a very brief time, perhaps three seconds. No noise, no trail, and height impossible to estimate.

It could have been anything, and its altitude ten thousand feet or ten miles, but obviously the speed was beyond our present known abilities for a flat trajectory. Not a descending, almost vertical, golden piece of meteorite, which quickly burns out. Not a widespread electrical flash which are usually white or blue. How could it be a man-made object like a missile? The missile take-off, and descent to a pre-arranged target would be very public, and moreover all the seas from Scotland to Iceland hold thousands of trawlers.

Also "Notices to Airmen" have to be given out as air lines are now converging from all directions, and anything below 40,000ft is a prohibited area. So what are these things? Not a sputnik or similar, as they are quite steady and slow, golden in the sun's rays, and very easy to observe. If it was a large "spaceship", very high, very fast, it would also reflect the sun's rays and this could very well be the explanation.

Yours truly, Charles M. Needham (Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North wales)
June 22, 1970"

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CONTACT
January 27th, 08:50
Abergavenny

Mr. R. Drew was standing in office doorway, when he saw this round object, colour was red. Its size was of a pea, held at arms length, its speed and height etc was unknown. Object was hovering and visible for about two minutes, when it suddenly "dematerialised".

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SUFON
February
Hopkinstown, Pontypridd

Early hours. Price Jacobs (46) a shift mechanic at Tymawr Colliery had a 'chilling sensation' and saw a cloaked 'ghost' peering into a coal bunker at the colliery in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd. He said it then disappeared into the darkness in the direction of St. David's churchyard nearby. 

Welsh UFO sightings from 1878. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
July 1878
Rhuddlan

The Cambrian News of July 12th reported on window breaking in Rhuddlan:

Rhuddlan has been disturbed by a very common-place ghost. Night after night the window in the bedroom of a servant girl has been broken, and the police, though they heard the breakage, were unable to discover the cause. A number of people assembled to hear the ghost's performances, and they also failed to see him, or her, though one man gave the alarm that "the ghost was at the gable end," and a chase ensued. The ghost must have had rare sport.

Welsh UFO sightings from 1969. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
February 1969
Flint

The Daily Mail of February 28th 1969 reported:

Naturalist Mr.Robert Hampson, aged 60, found huge footprints in the snow - bear like - as big as a spade. They led from the Courtaulds textile mill, where he works, at Flint, North Wales, into the sea. He said, "I am convinced the tracks were made by some sort of animal walking on its hind legs." The prints have started a scare among the mill's 500 women workers. Now some are insisting that husbands and bovfriends meet them at the gates.

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PRESS
April 25th, 21:30

Sightings of a fireball were reported across the UK, explanations ranged from meteorites to pieces of Russian satellite Cosmos 265. Spacelink V6/N1 stated:

As for details of the fireball's landing-ground, the newspaper reports were very contradictory. There were reports that it had landed near Belfast, accompanied by an explosion which was thought then to be saboteurs blowing up water pipelines. According to RAF experts, several objects, believed to be meteorites or space debris, had fallen in Wales. It was also reported that authorities in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire had been flooded with reports of strange objects seen travelling low in the sky, and that two fire engines and two ambulances were rushed to a village in North Wales after a mystery object had crashed. Other sources claimed that a gorse fire in North Wales (presumably the same incident) had been started by a fragment from the mystery object, but it was later said that the blaze had started 15 minutes before the object was seen. The postmaster of a nearby village said, 'We felt a sort of shock wave in the village.'

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UFOLOG
July 7th, 21:50
Between Usk and Severn Bridge

Cigar shaped object. The UFO Register categorised the sighting as A, aka genuine UFO.

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UFOLOG
July 12th, 04:05
Near Borth Bog, Cardiganshire

Oblong shaped object. The UFO Register categorised the sighting as B, aka probable UFO.

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UFOLOG
July 18th, 22:30
Near Talybont, Cardiganshire

Plain surfaced spherical object. The UFO Register categorised the sighting as A, aka genuine UFO.

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PRESS
August
Gorseinon

17-year-old Michael Davies, of Brynawel Road, Gorseinon was looking around at the sky from his bedroom window one evening in August 1969. He saw what he thought was an aircraft moving from what appeared to him to be the direction of the Townhill area of Swansea towards Pontarddulais. It had a white light.

He looked again a few moments later, but realised there were no red or green lights, and no sound. He had had the UFO under his observation for almost a minute when he decided to investigate and went for his telescope. But when he used it 15 seconds later, there was nothing to be seen.

Michael said that thinking back, the 'object' might have been moving fairly near the earth's surface, at between 20 and 25 mph. Its light was perhaps too bright for an aircraft, and just as he was getting his telescope there seemed to be something of a flash before the light disappeared altogether.

He thought perhaps the 'thing' was over enlarged when he first saw it, but admitted that the whole incident had rather surprised him.

Source: 'South Wales Evening Post' Thursday 7 August 1969.

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PRESS
Tuesday August 5th
Carmarthen

Two uniformed police officers were among several civilian witnesses to a UFO seen hovering over Carmarthen. Initially spotted by several member of the public a motor cycle officer turned up at the home of a farmer and confirmed the UFO through binoculars. It was described as being spherical in shape and silvery in colour. Later a second officer observed the object. Checks with the RAF proved negative.

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PRESS
Thursday August 21st, 12:45
Waunarlwydd, Swansea

A. C. Williams of Caergynydd Road, Waunarlwydd:

"At 12.45 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, while glancing skywards to estimate the weather situation, my attention was riveted on a small, but bright object at an elevation of approximately 80 degrees from the north western horizon (i.e. almost the zenith).

It appeared as a bright star or planet, except that it was set in a bright blue sky, and appeared quite stationary, well above the cumulus clouds travelling from a west or north-westerly direction. A pin head held at arm's length would have covered it completely and its altitude I judged as being very great indeed.

On observing it further with 8 x 30 binoculars, it appeared slightly larger, but no detail could be seen, except for a flash which occurred at irregular intervals from the lower left of the phenomenon. My view of the phenomenon was obscured at irregular intervals for about four minutes by the passage of a large cumulus cloud at relatively low altitude. When it reappeared it was apparently in the same spot.

At about 12.50 p.m. observing with the naked eye, the phenomenon became less bright and began to fade or disappear. On immediately using the binoculars I was amazed to find that there were now three smaller points of light instead of one, two above and one below, forming a sort of isosceles triangle arrangement with the points of light at the vertices. The points of light were not visible with the naked eye and remained more or less stationary save for a slight decrease in distance between the two above, which occurred in a few seconds.

After assuming a more comfortable position to observe the celestial trio of light points I inadvertently lost their position since even through binoculars they appeared small. There was no sign at all of the bright object I first observed, the sky remaining blue and clear in that spot. The object had apparently broken into three parts. The only explanation I have considered is that of a weather or research balloon that burst at high altitude.

Source: 'South Wales Evening Post' Tuesday 26 August 1969.

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SUFON
Late August
Landore, Swansea

Jean McDonald, 16, lived at 1206 Neath Road, Plasmarl with her mother. At about 10.30 - 11 PM one weekend night in late summer, she and her boyfriend, Frank, decided to walk down the road to Landore to a chip shop to get some curry and chips. It was dark, and very humid and warm.

They had only gone a little way and were passing St. Paul's Church on the corner of Cwm Level Road, and saw, to the south-east of their position at about 11 o'clock at 45 degrees elevation, up above the Landore Viaduct of the South Wales main railway line, an object hovering motionless not much higher than the top of that part of the viaduct which crossed over the River Tawe. She said to Frank, "Look at that! It's a spaceship!" but Frank was strangely quiet.

The object was described as being about 1 to 1 1/2 times the length of a bus, a circular domed disc, shaped like an inverted deep soup bowl but with a high 'spire' on the top which rose to a point. It's flat bottom had a lit central area of a pearly white colour, surrounded on its outer edge by a ring of rectangular panel lights of all colours, which constantly flashed on and off.

The body of the craft was of a silver colour, like metal foil which shimmered. There was no door, windows or markings or seams visible on the exterior of the object, which stayed motionless, not spinning, without a sound for about 60-90 seconds, while the two witnesses stared in amazement. Then the object moved upwards slightly before shooting off at incredible speed horizontally to the left towards the RTB playing fields and in the direction of Llansamlet and out of sight, without making a sound.

Jean remembers looking around and up Cwm Level Road, 'the black road', to their right to see if there were any other people who had seen the object. There was nobody else who had witnessed it, and indeed there was no traffic on the the roads either, and all was strangely quiet. Jean was blown away by the sighting and felt that the object wanted to be seen. They went to the chip shop as planned and when they returned to her home, her mother said she was mad - "must have been a helicopter" but Jean was adamant that it had not been a helicopter due to the fact it had made no sound. But Frank remained quiet and did not argue the point in her support. Jean made a drawing of the object shown.



Source: SUFON Files: Jean McDonald interviewed by Steve Drewson and Emlyn Williams 9 February 2017.

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CONTACT
October 3rd, 23:59
Prestatyn

Mr and Mrs Bate had just retired to bed when Mr Bate saw this object, he then drew his wife's attention to it. The object was elliptical in shape and coloured bright silver, it was the size of a penny. It hovered for about 30 seconds, then it suddenly disappeared to the right of its hovering. The object appeared solid and was sharply outlined. It was first seen in the N.W. and it disappeared in the N.E. (Awareness magazine, November 1969)

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PRESS
December 8th, 06:45
Pontarddulais

A woman in Pontarddulais saw a bright orange object. “It looked about the size and colour of one of those orange street lamps. With a red line behind it. I saw it for about four seconds,” she said.

Source: South Wales Evening Post Monday 8 December 1969

Welsh UFO sightings from 1881. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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An undated old Aberdovey ghost tale was related in the April 2nd edition of the Aberystwyth Observer and the April 8th 1881 edition of the Llangollen Advertiser:

ABERDOVEY. A GHOST TALE. Since time immemorial it is said that something is accustomed to break the peace of the quiet and lenely locality called Nantyglo, situated about two miles from Aberdovey, on the Machynlleth road. It got the name because in remote ages there used to be a very extensive coal mine. And, recently, when raising stones to erect new buildings adjoining Braichycelyn, they found a considerable sum of money, apparently hidden there perhaps in the times of the wars, and its possessor being unable to return to re-possess his hidden treasure.

Most of the coins were exchanged for a considerable amount of our present coin, and many of the old pieces are still in possession of the Rector of Merthyr, and Mr. Grffiths, Esgairgyfela. Any- one judging from the appearence of the place would hardly credit that anything would disturb the slumber of the owl, which since the writer can remember, is the sole occupant of the place. Morgan Evan, Esgairgyfela, was courting Mari Evan, afterwards his wife, then residing at Penhelig, Aberdovey. Evan one night stayed very late with his sweetheart, a habit not at all uncommon in those days. On his way home he heard some noise in Nantyglo as if the stones were rattling about. Onward went Evan, and when opposite Nantyglo the noise ceased all at once. Everything became quite calm, when to his surprise Evan beheld a tall lady walking calmly in the centre of the road. She was handsomely dressed in black, and from that day till now the mystery remains unfathomed.

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The Aberdare Times of April 30th 1881 reported on an assault case with ghostly references:

ASSAULT. -Mary Ann Rees was summoned for assaulting Thomas Morgans, a neighbour, on the 18th ult Complainant said his wife and defendant were quarrelling. He went out to stop them, when defendant tore his coat, pelted him with stones, and kicked on the leg. Defendant said complainant came to her window covered with a blanket and said he was a ghost. She denied having assaulted him. She was fined 2s. 6d. and costs.

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PRESS
August 1881
Cyfartha

Two unnamed witnesses were at Cyfarthfa ironworks at night, when the works suddenly sprang into action, seemingly through the power of ghostly hands. It was soon explained that it was just water accumulating and then powering the machines. The Western Mail of August 17th 1881 reported:

A CYFARTHFA GHOST STORY. STRANGE APPEARANCES AT THE WORKS. WHO WERE THE SPIRITS!

Our esteemed correspondent at Merthyr has sent us the following extraordinary narrative relating to the great ironworks at Cyfarthfa, which, he says, is vouched for on the most unimpeachable authority. Certainly the names he mentions as being the chief dramatis persona in the wonderful scenes related are gentlemen of the highest integrity and of unblemished reputation. They, we have no doubt, believe that their experiences were stubborn realities, but we sceptically incline to the belief that Merthyr respectability has, In this instance, been the victim of an hallucination occasioned by "spirits" emanating rather from the genial precincts of the "Castle" or the "Bush," than from any more supernatural region, However, the story is a good one, and ww insert it as it has been sent to us:-

"I had occasion," says the narrator of this most remarkable adventure, "to visit Cyfarthfa Works at night lately, and did so in company with a friend. What my business was must remain unexplained, enough that it was towards the gloomiest part of the night that we sallied forth, and made our way over tramroads and intricate paths to the scene. Cyfarthfa Works had been familiar to me for many years, but they were associated with the fullest activity, with the glare of furnaces, the whirl of the rolls; and that picture was vividly in my imagination when we stood at length before the works that were slumbering in thick darkness, and as silent as the grave. No change could have been greater, no stillness more profound. We were far enough from the town to lose its glare and its noise, and out of the way of the people journeying from one place to another. No place could thus be more isolated, even as no contrast from the wild dash of work to utter quietude could be more intense.

We stood a while just within the dense shadow of one of the mills, just tracing the ponderous wheels and the dimly outlined rolls, when suddenly the huge wheels creaked and began to revolve, the rolls to move, and in a moment there was all the whirl of industry again, only needing the glare of light and forms of men to assure us that the works were in full action. My companion, with an exclamation of profound astonishment, clasped me by the arm. Cool, iron man as he is, strong-minded and proof against the superstitions of the ago, I felt his voice tremble, as he said, 'This is most strange. There are no men here; the works are stopped; no steam, no motive power.' And the grip on my arm became severe. I, too, felt alarmed, and am not ashamed to confess it. My imagination, livelier than that of his, conjured up misty shades, and I saw shapes flitting to and fro, and heard the cry of men and boys amidst tho clanging iron. Involuntarily we stepped back into the air, and as suddenlly as the medley arose, so it died away; not a wheel moved, all was hushed, and at rest.

"We walked away a little distance, our purpose unaccomplished, and talked to each other about this extraordinary incident. My friend, better able than I to afford a clue, was, like myself, utterly at sea, and could give no explanation. 'But,' said he, resolutely, 'it must be fathomed, and we will find it out.' With these words he hurried back again to the works. I followed, and in a few minutes again stood looking into the silent mill. There was the same strange hush, the same weird gloom that appeared palpable did we but attempt to grasp it; but no sound. 'Was it fancy?' said my friend with his cheerful laugh. He had scarcely spoken when the great wheel again revolved, and machinery here and there, to the right, to the left, ponderous wheels and rolls, all sprang into motion, and the din of work was perfect in its fullness. With this came the clanging of falling iron, the rattle of trams sounded strangely alike, and again the impression was strong that puddlers and moulders flitted by, and ghostly labour went on.

This was sufficient for us. We hurriedly left the scene, and on our way home met one of the old ironworkers of Cyfarthfa going to Cefn, to whom my friend related the circumstance. He knew the man as an old and respectable inhabitant, and made no secret of what we had heard. 'Ha,' said the veteran, stopping and leaning on his stick, 'I have heard it too'; and, sinking his voice, he continued, 'it always comes when the works are stopped.' It did one time before, many years ago, and when Mr Robert was living it came again. No one can say what is the reason, and perhaps it is best not to make any stir about it.' Our correspondent has not done the same as the overman, but gives the narrative. He adds: "This I know, that the hearts of the Crawshays have been bound up with their great iron industry. Richard was never happier than in his works, William never slept so well as in the sound of his great hammer. Robert's last look of keenest interest was on the old furnaces and mills. If omens are true in these secular as in Scriptural days, and to the degenorate Briton as to the Greek aud Roman, let us accept it as an augury of good, and these ghostly shadows forerunners of the big event, a genuine practical start at Cyfarthfa."

On August 19th, the Western Mail published correspondence explaining the experience:

THE GHOST AT CYFARTHFA. COMMONPLACE EXPLANATION

TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —The communication which appeared in your columns on Wednesday last has created no little sensation amongst the inhabitants of Merthyr, and the oft-repeated query, "Is it true?" regarding the "ghost" is answered by the seemingly appropriate epithet, "Bosh." Some people may wonder when I say that there is truth in the statement made by your correspondent and, as an explanation of this strange event is loudly demanded by all interested in it, I will try to throw a little light on the subject.

Having occasion to pass by the works on Wednesday afternoon I met a workman, whom I know to have been employed in the ironworks for a large number of years, and after the usual comments on the weather, I drew him into conversation on this absorbing "ghost story." I asked him if there was any truth in the story made by your correspondent, and expected to receive an answer in the negative. But, judge of my surprise when I heard him say that it was quite true, end that the works did start of their own accord sometimes. I aked him for an explanation, and he gave me one which I will state as briefly as possible.

He said that the big wheels which started the works were driven by water. A large trough descended to the wheel, and the water being propolled along this from pipes above, flowed over the wheel and consequently set it going, which would of course start the works. When the machinery is motionless a "gate" is placed at the top of the trough, which prevents the water from passing. This gate, being worn out as it were, does not fit the trough to a nicety, and consequently a quantity of water escapes down the trough. This water is continually dropping down the trough, and after a time a large quantity accumulates on the wheel, and being continually increased, it suddenly falls over the wheel and sets it going, which has a like effect on the machinery. -I am, &c., H.

On August 20th the Western Mail published an indignant response to this from the ghost theirself...

THE CYFARTHFA GHOST. AN INDIGNANT EEMONSTRANCE: TO THE EDITOR. I resent indignantly the attempt of your correspondent to put such a common-place interpretation on the cause of the mysterious events at Cyfarthfa. If we can move a table why not a wheel? If woecan start musical boxes and send them playing around the room, why not wake up the music of machinery, rusty as it is? Sir, no if one of us should appear to a benighted yokel, it is put down as ? or a turnip. If Jones looks up at night, out of his sleep, just in time to behold a ghost flitting away, it is "optical delusion," or Williams hear sounds it is "that pork sausage."

No one, or, at all events, very few, give us any ? or the Tabernacle savs, which is recommended like port or cheese, just use it has a fine old crust f., go about it. This doubtful bread and cheese and two-and-two--make-four age. In order to explain how the works go on at midnight under our unseen influence, "H," goes into details about this part of the machinery being worn, that gate off; and one is left to infer that "this screw is loose" and "that other screw defective." This is always the way; but the explanation of an old woman at Cyfarthfa may be taken as very much nearer the truth. The good old soul, who wears her spectacles on even in bed, and has never changed the position of her dress, opened both eyes and mouth, and lifted up her hands in astonishment when she heard of it, and then exclaimed, "I believe it, every word. Bless your heart, the Crawshays loved their works as a father does his children, and they would not rest easy in their graves to see them stopped." Good old woman. Wearing down this part of the machinery, and accumulating water on boxes! always, THE CYFARTHFA GHOST.

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PRESS
August 1881
Grangetown, Cardiff

The 'Man about Town' column in the South Wales Echo reported on a rumour of a female ghost haunting the area:

I hear that a "ghost" has lately been seen at Grangetown. It took the form of a cadaverous looking woman who was seen on the top of a wall. She has, it appears, been watched and pursued nightly, but being a mere phantom, she, as a matter of course, always eludes her pursuers.

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PRESS
December 1881
Newtown

Locals were said to be hunting a ghost that wore a white robe and a goat's skin, leaping easily over hedges and ditches. The Llangollen Advertiser of December 9th 1881 reported:

NEWTOWN. A GHOST IN A BRICKFIELD. —The inhabitanst of Newtown were alarmed on Friday and Saturday evenings last by the appearance of a ghost in the brickfield of a well-known brickmaker. The wet and rough weather that prevailed about the time did not seem to damp the spirits of this inasmuch, so we are informed, as this ghostly object, attired in a goat's skin and a white robe, leaps nimbly over hedges and ditches with wonderful agility. One night it was determined to catch the ghost, if such a thing was possible, but, of course, it was a vain attempt. The ghost appeared again on Monday, and attracted a mob of people to the place. The efforts of the police and others to catch this mysterious visitor has as yet been in vain. The sensation even rivals that caused by the appearance of the world-famed Church Stretton ghost.

Welsh UFO sightings from 1968. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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UFO REGISTER
January 31st, 21:50
Between Bwlch and Crickhowell, Brecknock

Oval shaped object. The UFO Register categorised the sighting as A, aka genuine UFO.

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SIGAP
April 23rd, 00:20
Newport

From SIGAP (Surrey Investigation Group for Aerial Phenomena) Newsletter #14, 1968:

UFO PAYS MIDNIGHT VISIT TO NEWPORT

Mr. Derek Toombs, a Welsh S.I.G.A.P. member, has sent in an extremely interesting account of a UFO which he and a friend saw over Newport in April. Mr. Toombs, a newcomer to our group who lives at 28 Clynmawr Street, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Wales, says in his report:-

"At 12.20 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, April 23, 1968, I was walking along Stow Hill, Newport, in the direction of the Hardpost [sic. Handpost?] Pub, with Miss Violet Burnap, of 160 Stow Hill. By chance I happened to look up at the sky - to see a brilliant white light moving from West to East. After a few minutes I came to the conclusion that it was a UFO. The behaviour pattern was of the usual kind exhibited by such objects - bizarre pendulum, zig-zag and curved movements of varying accelerations along its average West to East course.

>The UFO gave the impression that it was scrutinizing Newport town, and appeared to be travelling along the South Wales coastline towards the River Severn. At first the object looked like a bright moving star. But after continued observation both of us could define an outline. It seemed to be shaped like a tea-cosy with a light on top and a light underneath. Along the perimeter or the bottom part of the tea-cosy shape was a deep red band. At no time did the lights change in brightness. The object did not make any noise and we could see no vapour trails or emissions of smoke. The object, which moved very slowly, was first sighted approximately 85 degrees above the western horizon. It was last seen about 35 degrees above the eastern horizon. It faded into the distance behind the glare of Newport's lighting complex. Police and local newspapers were given details of the sighting".

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June 15th
Caerphilly

SIGAP (The Surrey Investigation Group On Aerial Phenomena) Bulletin #15 from August 1968 published details of the WUFORA (Welsh UFO Research Association) skywatch:

UFOS GALORE IN WALES

Although S.I.G.A.P. observers saw nothing more spectacular than low cloud and the odd star or two during the Pewley Down Skywatch on June 15, this it seems, was far from the case in Wales, where the Welsh UFO Research Association (W.U.F.O.R.A.) also held an all-night skywatch.

Welsh S.I.G.A.P. member Mr. Derek Toombs, who lives in Abertillery, Monmouthshire, was one of the 20 who took part in the skywatch - on Caerphilly Mountain. He has sent S.I.G.A.P. a tabulated account of the unidentified objects seen during the night: -

S.97.A. Time: 23.52 - 23.53

Whitish-yellow star-like object travelling from west to east. Its motion was zig-zag, pendulum and curved. Weather: semi-clear, patches of cloud.

B. Time: 02.10

Small white star-like object travelling from south to north in a zig-zag pattern. It made no sound. Ten people observed this UFO. Weather: clear.

C. Time: 03.04 - 04.15

One large object and five or six small green objects with vary luminosities observed. There was no sound and the objects behaved irregularly. The larger object was travelling from north-west to south-east. A formation of UFOs was also seen travelling from east to south in a diamond-shape formation. Weather: quite hazy; thundery.

D. Time: 03.48 - 04.04

An ellipsoidal-shaped UFO seen. Its length was more than three times its breadth. Colour: leading edge (facing north) green, trailing edge red-orange. It had a bright white central area sometimes appearing blue. The object was pulsating constantly. Weather: clearing.

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MUFORA
June / July
Anglesey

The witness, then 25, was camping with his wife in the north west of the island. He spotted the yellow object, size of 1p at arms length, through trees. It was the same brightness as the full moon. Object was seen in the east for between thirty minutes and one hour. Eventually it was obscured by trees. It is possible this WAS the moon, though the witness claims this is not possible because it hardly moved at all during observation.

Original clipping from NUFON UFO News #27 (August 1976):

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BUFORA
Summer, 23:30
Cwmbran

Large metallic UFO plus missing time!

Jill R was twelve years old at the time of her sighting and they were living on a new housing estate where building was still going on in Fairwater, Upper Cwmbran. It was between 11 and 12 o'clock and her father had just come home from a late shift. Jill and her mother decided to walk their dog prior to retiring for the night. They walked through the unfinished estate and were standing on a clear warm night looking toward the top of the nearby mountain when they became aware of two lights which appeared to be moving steadily closer to them.

Suddenly, right above them was a metallic oval object the size of a large car, which was hovering very low and they felt was no more than a height of 45 feet above them. It appeared to be very still and they were aware of a blur of colours, pinks and purples. It then appeared to be spinning and they felt as though things were in slow motion. They were then aware that it was moving away towards the valley and Cwmbran town centre. It suddenly shot up and Jill describes it as "going into the stars". They both felt very calm, but panicked later on and upon returning home Jill's father asked where on earth they had been for so long, although both mother and daughter felt they had only been away for several minutes.

This is an interesting area and there is another recent report from this area describing unusual light phenomena. Certainly many parts of Wales have generated some strange phenomena and anomalous events over a very long period of time. Have readers noticed how many UFO incidents occur over or near mountains and forests or copses?

Written by Gloria Dixon, then Director of Investigations at BUFORA, for UFO Times #45 (1997).

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UFO MAGAZINE
September, 1:30
Rumney

Welsh UFO sightings from 1883. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
March 1883
Caernarvon

A ghostly carriage is seen on multiple occasions, by multiple witnesses. The Cambrian of 30th March 1883 reported:

A WELSH GHOST STORY. A singular story is current at Canarvon, the facts of which rest upon the statements of several trustworthy witnesses. A few nights ago, at a late hour, an individual walked from the centre of the town to Llanbeblig Church, which stands on the outskirts. On reaching the edifice, he retraced his steps, and had proceeded about a hundred yards, when he observed ascending the hill towards him a very bright light. As it approached, the illumination appeared to proceed from a black-looking vehicle, something like a bier, to which one lamp was attached, and which was drawn by one horse. He noticed no occupant or driver as the vehicle passed him noiselessly, casting a bright and peculiar glare on the roadway.

Looking back up the hill as the vehicle went along he saw it apparently go through the carriage gates of a large house. Thinking that the occupant of the house was about to receive some guest of distinction, curiosity promoted him to turn back as far as the gate of the residence to see who was about to alight from the vehicle. To his surprise he found the gate fast shut, and the mysterious car and its no less mysterious light had disappeared. He thought the circumstance singular, but took no further notice of it at the time. Twice since, however, he has encountered the shadowy vehicle at the same spot, and on each occasion been equally at the loss to account for its silent passage along the roadway - even the horse's hoofs making no sound - and also puzzled as to its singular disappearance.

Several other persons have also had a similar experience, and one declares that after the vehicle had apparently passed through the gates of the residence referred to there was a sudden illumination of the place and the car vanished. This same witness also noticed that the lamp attached to the vehicle was on the wrong side; therefore, if it was arranged by ghostly hands, the ghost must have been one of antiquated notions, unless, indeed, he proceeded on the principle that the car was meant to figure in a funeral procession, and that in death the order of things would be reversed, as in the case at military funerals.

The particular. part of Canarvon where the singular incident occured is one where a ghost ought to be somewhat "at home." Not only has Llanbeblig churchyard been a place of interment for generations, but it is close to the site of the old Roman town of Segontium, the reputed birthplace of Constantine the Great, and of Helena, the daughter of Octavius, a noteworthy woman among the Romans. Of Segontium only a few remnants of walls and foundations are left, but nearly two thousand years ago it was an important Roman station, from which the legionaries were at once enabled to watch the Menai Straits and the Snowdonian range of mountains for the approach of their enemies, the then wild and barbarous Cymru. Those who argue in favour of the supernatural might plead, with some show of reason, that if ever beings of mortal mould are permitted to "revisit the glimpses of the moon," or, invisible to man's sight, to play fantastic tricks, it would surely be on a spot like that described, which is haunted by so many strange memories of the past, and which has so many weird surroundings calculated to inspire awe and wonder.

The North Wales Express of the same day also covered the story:

A GHOST STORY. A spectral horse and carriage, without a driver, are said to be haunting the neighbourhood of Llanbeblig Church. A correspondent in a contemporary, who assures us, to begin with, that he is not superstitious and does not believe in ghosts, tells the following story: One dark night I walked from the central portion of Carnarvon to Llaneblig Church, and on reaching that time honoured edifice, I retraced my steps. I had proceeded about a hundred yards when I observed, ascending the hill towards me, a very bright light. As it approached the illumination appeared to proceed from a black-looking vehicle to which one lamp was attached, and which was drawn by one horse. I could see no occupant or driver as it passed me noiselessly, casting a bright and peculiar glare on the roadway.

I looked back up the hill, as it went along, and saw the vehicle apparently go through the gates of a large house. I thought to myself 'The occupant of the house is receiving some guest of distinction to-night,' and curiosity prompted me to turn back as far as the gate of the residence to see who alighted. I found the gate fast shut, and no trace of the light of the vehicle which I supposed had passed through. I thought the circumstance singular, but took no further notice of it at the time. I have, however, twice since encountered this shadowy vehicle at the same spot, and on each occasion been equally at a loss to account for its silent passage along the roadway — even the horse's hoofs making no sound, and also puzzled as to its singular disappearance. I learn that several other persons whose truthfulness cannot be doubted had a similar experience." Our contemporary appends in a footnote the very sagacious opinion that the writer and the other persons alluded to, were the victims of an optical illusion or a clever trick!

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The Merthyr Express of August 4th 1883 published correspondence on the so-called Brynmawr Ghost:

THE GHOST AT BRYNMAWR. SIR, Your correspondent, "One Opposed to Superstition," in writing on the above subject, says, "Day after day I have listened to tales brought from all directions concerning the ghost, some contradicting each other, and all of them exaggerating what they supposed they had heard." Now, sir, if your correspondent were not foolish and untruthful he would never circulate what he acknowledges to have been contradicting and exaggerating tales.

He admits that the reason why he wrote was, because it had been reported to him "that no less than six Nonconformist ministers were conspicuously present on one of the nights." Now, he would have shown a little common sense if he had told us how much of this part of his contradicted and exaggerated story was true, for I only saw one Nonconformist minister presenttold us how much of this part of his contradicted and exaggerated story was true, for I only saw one Nonconformist minister present, and, by his efforts to discover the cause of what your correspondent calls "mysterious sounds," it was very clear to all that that minister was no believer in ghosts.

Again he says, "Now, sir, to put it fairly, did these gentlemen betray an overplus of common I sense in making themselves conspicuous by their presence on such an occasion?" To this I reply that they (if more than one) showed the same over- plus of common sense by their conspicuous presence as the church schoolmaster did, for no one made himself more conspicuous than he, although your correspondent ignores his presence, so that he might meanly traduce Nonconformist ministers.

He adds, "It may be said that they were there to endeavour to persuade the young woman out of her illusion. If so, they should have sought a more convenient as well as a more respectable time than eleven or twelve o'clock at night." If he were as anxious to have acquired facts as fallacies he would have known that the only conspicuous minister had visited the young woman for the purpose he names, at three o'clock that afternoon, and, concerning the late hour, why did the schoolmaster remain in the house so long after the minister had left?

He writes, "Only last Saturday night, I heard several of the superstitious saying that the ministers had laid the ghost for a hundred years. Well, by all accounts the ghost is gone." No it seems that the same mysterious sounds, as your correspondent calls them, are heard still but as the four policemen - the sergeant included — the conspicuous Nonconformist minister, and the church clerk and schoolmaster, all failed to discover the cause, the family are trying to discover it themselves.

Your correspondent signs himself "One Opposed to Superstition," but we all know how superstitious he is, yet we do not know that all his Church friends were equally superstitious, until he showed it in his letter. He says, "Day after day I listened to the tales brought from all directions concerning the ghost," and "I have listened to tales that have been told in the most serious manner, and, apparently, with the greatest confidence in their authenticity, the events of which occurred forty years ago." What a revelation for him to make! How very green he is!

Now, we all know that "birds of a feather flock together," and that as it was with the Jews and Samaritans, so it is now - the Church have little or no dealings with the Nonconformists — hence it is very plain that he got all his contradicting and exaggerating statements from his superstitious Church friends. It is well known that his master is a firm believer in ghosts, even down to the latest Llanthonv Abbey apparition, and it is just as well known that the Brynmawr schoolmaster is the vicar's man every inch of him. —Yours, &c., ONE WHO KNOWS. [In justice to the Brynmawr Schoolmaster we feel bound to state that the letter to which the above is a reply was written by a gentleman who is a perfect stranger to Mr. Tong. —Ed. M.E.]

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The Wrexham Advertiser of October 6th 1883 reported on ghost that turned out to be a bat at Plas Power Colliery:

A GHOST AT PLAS POWER COLLIERY. For some time past the workmen at this colliery have been much disturbed by strange noises for which they could not account, but which were very audible to the men as they moved about the works some scores of yards below the surface. Various were the surmises of the colliers, most of whom had been several times startled by sudden noises, sometimes before, sometimes behind, and sometimes above them, as they traversed the dark passages through which they had fo make their way to their work.

Occasionally they had indistinct glimpses of something moving rapidly before them, but as to what was its shape or of what it was composed the feeble lights which they carried in their hands did not inform them. At length they became almost unanimous in the belief that the place was haunted, and that what they had so frequently seen and heard was a real ghost. The manager, Mr Reynolds, has however solved the mystery. Walking along one of the underground passages which was about 260 yards below the surface, he suddenly encountered the "ghost" which he caught and found to be a large bat. There was much laughter amongst the men when the capture became known. The bat was allowed to escape and it still haunts the lower portions of Plas Power Colliery.

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PRESS
1883

Towyn

Multiple sightings of a female ghost in black mourning clothes were reported on in the Cambrian of November 2nd 1883:

A GHOST AT TOWYN. SIR, Will you allow me sufficient space to relate what is told and believed by not a few people in this knighted part of the country. "About half a mile from Towyn, on the main road fading to Aberdovey, by an ancient stone style, on the left hand side, an apparition of the sort which was Common enough in the land some fifty years ago, is teputed to have appeared in the guise of a tall and comely maiden, to a gentleman who was on his way home late one night last summer. The raven-locks and melancholy expression of the spectre's face deeply impressed and frightened the lonely traveller, and he ran home and told his friends what he had seen. After this event the denizen of another world did not appear to any one for a while, and the sceptics began to redicule.

Soon, however, disbelief received another rebuff. Two young ladies were walking out one night, and when passing the ancient, lo there stood the apparently sunk in the same sort of melancholy everie as she was in the first night of her recorded appearance. The ladies swept past at a running pace, but the denizen did not appear to move, but by the time they reached the entrance to a lane that leads from the main-road at right angles some hundred and fifty yards from the style, there was the spectre clad in deep mourning, with a look of unutterable melancholy and grief on her beautiful face, but she never spoke a word. Perhaps words are not used in the region she belongs to. The ladies reached home in fear and trembling and fainted, if report be true, as soon as admitted to a candle-lit room.

After this gangs of young people strayed out several nights in succession, in hopes of seeing the pensive face, but their curiosity was not satisfied. Time went on as it always does, and the excitement was begining to subside when an elderly gentlemen, in his travels, at a close of a toilsome day, had to pass the haunted place, and there once more appeared the agonised face, the handsome form and sombre dress. The traveller gazed at the sight in astonishment and essayed to speak but his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth, and words failed him, and he was most reluctantly compelled to retire without having held parlance with the most beautiful and sorrowful looking being his eyes ever beheld. The young people recommenced their watchfulness, but nothing have they yet seen. Possibly the satisfaction of their desire will be denied them. Such are the tales old at Towyn, on the shores of Cardigan Bay, while valleys are refulgent with sunshine, at the close of the nineteenth century. There are in the parish of Towyn sixteen places of worship — ten schools, and a clergy preachers and teachers, yet there remains a canopy of superstitious darkness. WILL 0' THE WISP.

The Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser also made mention of this story in their November 9th edition:

A ghost has appeared in the neighbourhood of Towyn in the shape of a beautiful young lady, clad in deep mourning, and having a look of unutterable melancholy." The common belief is that this unwelcome visitor has been seen by several people by the side of the Aberdovey road, about half a mile from Towyn. present consisted of a bl

Welsh UFO sightings from 1967. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
March 14th, 17:20
Cardiff

Cigar shaped UFO. The UFO Register categorised the sighting as A, aka genuine UFO. Awareness magazine for 1967 wrote:

Cigar Shaped Craft Over Cardiff: Brian Wright, a zoology student, was admiring the view from the window of a university building in Cardiff at 5:20pm on the 14th March, when he noticed "an elongated brilliant white craft" in the sky. The colour, he said, "was similar to that of burning magnesium." The cigar-shaped object was approximately two miles away; he was unable to estimate its true size. After five minutes it began to move away, gradually fading and eventually disappearing over the television masts at Wenvoe. The object was in view for a total of eight minutes.

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APRO
May 13th, 05:45
Lavister, Wrexham

Disc like UFO seen for around five minutes. Judged by witness to be about 45 to 50 feet in diameter.

APRO Bulletin for March / April 1969 reported that Anthony Pace, their English rep, was investigating this case that had recently come to their attention:

Mr. Martin G. Williams was in his car when he saw a brilliant flash of light just beneath the clouds. He noticed that an object was approaching his vicinity very rapidly, losing altitude and following an undulating path. It stopped and hovered at about 150 feet altitude without making any sound whatsoever. After a few seconds, "a bluish white glow enveloping the object dimmed to almost nothing," but it still appeared to be surrounded by a haze "though its solidness was very apparent."

Mr. Williams calculated the object to be about 45-50 feet in diameter and about 15 feet thick. It appeared to be a circular, metallic disk-shaped object "with a sharp-edged ridge encircling its circumference just below its widest point." Its color was described as bluish-grey above the ridge and dull-grey below it. The witness did not observe any windows, doors or openings although he was about 300 feet away watching from the interior of his car (window lowered), which was stationary. "Suddenly, the object became enveloped once again with the bluish-white light which accompanied its arrival and equally as suddenly accelerated at tremendous speed towards the direction from which it first came," Mr. Williams states.

The object gained speed, and grew much brighter before it disappeared. Mr. Williams calculated the time of observation about 5 minutes and he points out three aspects of the object that impressed him most: its size; its silence, and its tremendous speed. This observation is typical of many others received throughout the years, but few have been so carefully described as in this report. The witness states that right after the observation he was able to flag down a truck on route to Wrexham, but the driver was only able to confirm seeing an unusual and bright flash in the sky.

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UFO REGISTER
July 20th, 00:05
Pyle, Glamorgan

Saucer shaped UFO emerging from clouds, the UFO Register categorised the sighting as A - aka genuine UFO. The Western Mail reported on the sighting in 1970:

Very warm, still night, overcast and dark. 35-year-old Clive Menadue, living in Beach Road, Pyle, was putting the cat out. It was a pleasant night and Clive stayed for a look around. His wife, Sylvia was in the kitchenette washing up.

He then noticed, fairly low on the horizon, "something that looked like electric light reflected off telegraph wires. I couldn't quite make it out. Suddenly a red object about the size of a star appeared from the horizon to the left of the thing I was looking at. It was going at a terrific pace blurred for a moment and then stopped a little to the left and below this object. The red object started to flash red, white, red, white, for some seconds - flashing like the light on top of a police car. I called Sylvia out then and we just stopped and watched. There was nothing else we could do. There was a kind of bright, white, silent explosion and the sky was lit up with the kind of light you get from magnesium. It was one of the most horrible moments of my life. It sounds ridiculous, but I thought someone had dropped an atom bomb a long way off.

"In the centre of this expanding light there was a cloud outlined. Then the spreading light started to contract and through-out the sighting it kept up a steady rhythm of expansion and contraction. The light diminished in brilliance so that you could see the ground beneath clearly and the clouds above. In the centre of the light, I clearly saw one huge roundish cloud and a similar one attached to it at the top-right hand corner.

"Now it begins to be really unbelievable....but anyway, both these clouds began to spin in a clockwise direction. The smaller, right-hand one moved away from the large cloud some distance, and they were both gathering speed all the time. They were spinning like two very thick smoke-rings. The smaller one went back above the dead centre of the other one and became part of it. Then as the object was spinning, it appeared to take shape very much like someone forming something on a potter's wheel. It became a classic saucer shape. It became solid to look at. It had an opaque, glassy surface that reflected light, and it was still slightly spinning.

"By this time I was shattered. Sylvia was frightened and trying to pull me indoors, so I asked her to go upstairs and give me an old pair of binoculars, because I thought it would give her something to think about and take her mind off things. Not that the binoculars would have been of much use, anyway. When she was away millions of coloured lights appeared under the rim of the saucer. They were very rich crimson, gold and blue, such as you get from a firework.

"They began dispersing and when Sylvia came back there were just a few sparks underneath the rim of the object. Next a broken red or crimson line appeared on the saucer very close to the rim and began turning with the saucer. It just hung there in the sky....a perfectly black sky with no moon or stars to distract you. After a few minutes the light which had been expanding and contracting behind the saucer began to get dimmer and dimmer. It became so dim in the end that you couldn't really make out what was there. Eventually the light disappeared completely, and there was no sign of the saucer at all.

"Then the red, star-like object appeared again near the saucer. It flashed red, white again for some seconds. Then, from a standing start, it just shot back in the direction from which it had come and disappeared over the horizon."

He reckoned the whole episode took seven or eight minutes. Afterwards, they dashed over the road to his in-laws' house, but there was nothing to see by then. They were up until three in the morning, wondering what might happen. He made it clear that neither he nor his wife had been drinking. It was suggested that the red light was at the steelworks at Margam, but he said it was in the wrong direction and he was familiar with it anyway. He also ruled out the moon behind the clouds as he had seen that hundreds of times, and a helicopter.



Below is the same case as written up for A.P.R.O. (Aerial Phenomena Research Organization) Bulletin of November 1967. Based in Arizona, USA, the editor had no idea where Glamorgan might be and asked readers to clarify whether it was to be found in England, Scotland or Ireland...

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MUFORA
August 5th, 14:00
Blackrock Sands, North Wales

Report from NUFON #40:



CLOSE ENCOUNTER OVER WELSH MOUNTAINS: Report 6719  WUFOS/MUFORA  Level B

Mr D. Jones is at the present moment a solicitor, although at the time of the incident he was only 15. The details of this event were recounted recently to Jenny Randles and Paul Whetnall after the witness had heard a radio programme by Derek James of UFORA Staffs - in other words THREE NUFON groups were involved in the case!

He was with two others, Mr Garnett Alexander (a newspaper man) and his son John. They were travelling by car towards a caravan site at Blackrock Sands in North Wales and had just passed through Capel Currig heading for Beddgelert. It was a sunny afternoon (probably August 5 1967 at about 2pm) and they were at 1400 feet in a glaciated valley with hills rising some 600 feet further on either side. An object appeared to their left slightly behind them and some 50-100 feet above the peak. It swooped down in a gentle 'S' curve, crossed the valley floor ahead at about 30 feet and rose to disappear between a gap in the hills. The shape was described as like two Welsh hats stuck together with estimated dimensions of 8-12 feet high and 3 to 6 feet wide.

The object flew slowly (perhaps at 100 mph) and was made of chrome or polished aluminium like metal. It gave the impression of hugging the ground, as if to confuse radar cover (a standard aircraft manoeuvre). A peculiar factor of its motion is that its axis tilted at about 45 degrees as it moved. This tilt remained the same throughout the sighting. About fifteen minutes after the object had been seen three lightning jet interceptor aircraft flew overhead in approximately the same direction as the object, and the witness feels that they might have been following it.

It is of note that the witness claims a certain degree of psychic ability, having experienced precognition. There are also numerous legends of folklore connected with the immediate area in question. This description is, of course, very reminiscent of many others and August 1967 provided a massive flap the likes of which the UK has not seen again... until 1977!

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FLYING SAUCER REVIEW
August 31st
Near Prestatyn

The UFO Register listed it as sighting type #57 "grid-like: Can be square, round, closed or open" and categorised it C, aka possible UFO.

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SUFON
Saturday September
Treboeth, Swansea

Tom James, age 21, was at home in Heol Cnap, Treboeth one Saturday evening in September 1967. It was a clear night with no clouds. He was just leaving the house with his girlfriend and her mother, and from the garden spotted 8 or 9 lights or flat discs in close formation moving directly over them, travelling towards Mumbles direction (north-east to south-west). There was no sound and they continued on a straight course to the south-west until out of sight. Tom admits that they may have been lights on an object, but he could not see the object, just the lights.

Source: SUFON Files: Tom James interviewed 15 September 2015.

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UFO REGISTER
October 9th, 2:30
Rhuddlan, Flintshire

Oval shaped UFO. The UFO Register categorised the sighting B, aka probable UFO.

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PRESS
October 11th 1967
Near Maesincla School, Caernarfon

The Caernarfon Herald of August 14th 1987, while reporting on a contemporary UFO sighting, described how the witness Richard Parry had also seen something back in 1967.

"The last one, I saw on October 11, 1967, near Maesincla School. That one was a different light - very beautiful - and I thought it was the star of Bethlehem because some people believe Christ was born on October 11 and not December 25."

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PRESS
Saturday October 21st, 20:15
Anglesey

Mrs E. S. Dooney, of 13 Tanybryn, Holyhead, and her sister, Mrs Sygal, were on the road between Valley and Holyhead when they saw a large, star-shaped object in the sky. It was stationary for a short while, then disappeared out to sea at tremendous speed. The last plane to fly from nearby Valley R.A.F. station that night did so at 7.10pm.

Liverpool Echo 25/10/67 via Merseyside UFO Bulletin #1, Jan/Feb 1968.

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PRESS
Monday October 23rd, 20:50
Llandyssil

Newtown factory worker, Mr Edgar Evans, of Oak House, Llandyssil said he saw a bright golden ball fly past him on Monday night (23rd) going in a southeasterly direction. "I left at exactly 8.45 p.m. to close the fowl-house," he said. "I was walking along when suddenly this bright golden light passed me. It was moving silently in a south-east direction and then seemed to rise to get over a hill. It was uncanny as it was an illuminated ball travelling at a tremendous rate and making no noise." Mr. Evans saw his UFO 24 hours before the flap hit the headlines with the sighting of the fiery cross by policemen in Devon.

Source: Montgomery Express (28/10/1967)

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PRESS
Wednesday October 25th
Over sea, off Rhoose, Glamorgan

Cylinder shaped UFO reported in the Western Mail of October 26th 1967. The UFO Register categorised it as A, aka genuine UFO.

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PRESS
Wednesday October 25th
Lampeter

SIR. - Why all this fuss about seeing objects in the air? I saw a light on October 25, at 6.40 a.m. Travelling at a fast speed it turned away in another direction and I lost sight of it.

Something like this was happening nearly 60 years ago, when there were no aeroplanes or anything about. It was said at that time it was a star falling. It was a very bright light travelling at ground level very fast. It used to be called "Seren a Chynffon."

(MRS) H. M. PRICE LAMPETER.

Source: Western Mail Tuesday 7 November 1967.

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PRESS
Thursday October 26th, 07:00
Llandarcy

Raymond Harwood, a 14-year-old paper boy went into the newsagents shop in Morriston where he worked and told his employer that he had seen 'those crosses' in the sky, which had been in the news lately.

His boss, Mr T. Morgan said, "I thought he was pulling my leg. But when I went outside, I saw two crucifix shapes about 50-ft wide over the BP refinery at Llandarcy [east]. They were at cloud level, well below the stars which were still out and very much brighter. I went back into the shop to serve customers and when I came out again, they were still there."

56-year-old Mr Morgan said that the crosses remained stationary in the sky for at least 20 minutes. Then one disappeared and the other faded with daylight. "I was certainly very surprised to see these objects. I was sceptical when I read about them in the newspapers and thought that they must be reflections. Now I am quite convinced that they are some kind of flying saucer. I have never seen anything like them before - and neither had one of my customers whom I showed them to."

The paperboy Raymond, who lived at Heol Tirdu, Cwmrhydyceirw, Morriston, took the flying crosses in his stride. He dashed off to Pentrepoeth Secondary School, Morriston, to tell friends all about it.

Source: South Wales Evening Post Thursday 26 October 1967.

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PRESS
Friday October 27th, 02:15
Swansea

From the vicinity of the Vetch Field, Swansea, an unidentified flying object was spotted. It was described to the Evening Post as "a round, head-light effect with two rays shining ground wards." It was seen high in the sky in the direction of Port Talbot.

Source: 'South Wales Evening Post' Friday 27 October 1967.

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UFO REGISTER
October 29th, 14:00
Dyserth, Flintshire

Bar shaped UFO. The UFO Register categorised the sighting A, aka genuine UFO.

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PRESS
October 30th, 18:00
Gilwern, Breconshire

Round UFO. Reported in the Abergavenny Chronicle of November 1st 1967. The UFO Register categorised the sighting B, aka probable UFO.

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PRESS
Sunday November 12th, 21:30
Sully, Glamorganshire

Two girls, Heather Williams and Pamela Chamberlain of Smithies Avenue, Sully, were standing at the top of Burnham Avenue, Sully. They saw an object in the sky. It was described as a "huge silver-coloured object, far too big to be an aeroplane, flew at great speed across the sky in the direction of Ireland, or anyway, westwards."

Source: 'Barry & District News' Thursday 16 November 1967.

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PRESS
Monday November 13th, 18:20
Near Dyserth, Flintshire

Oblong shaped UFO. Reported in the Rhyl & Prestatyn Gazette of November 17th 1967. The UFO Register categorised the sighting A, aka genuine UFO.

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PRESS
Monday November 13th
Penarth

8 PM. Raymond Patterson of 20 St. Luke's Avenue, Penarth saw 'a very bright object flying above the trees.' He told his friend, Mr T. A. Hague of 27 Hickman Road, Penarth, who had his own sighting later that evening (see next report).

After learning of his friend, Raymond Patterson's sighting at 8 PM, Mr T A Hague went home to 27 Hickman Road, Penarth, set up his camera in an upstairs room and waited. "At about 11 PM, I saw a yellow globe of light travelling above the roof tops. It seemed to sway to and fro, a very bright yellow light which then changed to orange. The amazing thing about it was that it did not collide with anything, nor did it light up the buildings." The object made no sound but Mr Hague recalled a strong smell of chemicals after the object had disappeared. Mr Hague took a photograph of the object over Penarth-Leckwith area.

Source: 'Penarth Times' 24 November 1967.

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PRESS
Tuesday November 14th, 19:50
Sully

Mrs M. V. Harfoot was in her garden at 2 Raglan Close, Dinas Powys, pegging out some clothes on the line when she saw what she described as "a big orange ball" in the sky over the Distillers in Sully [SW]. At first she thought it was a flame burning off excess gas at the Distillers, a sight with which all local inhabitants are familiar. Then as it moved she realised this was not possible, and called her husband. Mr Harfoot thought the object was too low to be an aeroplane; it descended lower and then moved upwards again, forming a semi circle.

A third person, Mr J. Davies of Barry, who was working at the Harfoot's house at the time, also witnessed the incident.

"The whole thing lasted only 2-3 minutes," said Mrs Harfoot, "it was just like the colours you see in the fire, yellow and orange intermingling but in a huge ball. I immediately rang the BBC and they phoned Rhoose and St. Athan, but they could not give an explanation as to what this strange object might be."

Barry Police were also contacted but apparently there had been no other reports.

Source: Penarth Times Friday 17 November 1967.

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PRESS
Sunday November 19th, 07:30
Llandudno

M. Harbord-Campling of Llandudno Junction wrote into the North Wales Weekly News, published November 23rd:

At 7.30 on Sunday morning I was at my front door and saw a "flying saucer" lighted up and moving over the sky from Conway. It was so silent yet clear, and gave me a deep thrill as to where it would end up. I wonder if anyone else saw this object; I should be very pleased to hear.

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SUFON
November, 22:30
Coedpenmaen, Pontypridd

'Upon arriving home from an evening at the YMCA, I was surprised to see my parents and about eight of our neighbours standing on the corner of Pleasant View and our road, known only as Off Merthyr Road. As I approached, my father pointed to an orange coloured light hovering over the north-eastern part of Coedpenmaen. My father told me that they'd been watching the object for nearly a quarter of an hour. 

I stood there with them and watched it for another 5 or 6 minutes, when suddenly the object turned a silver colour and silently exploded into hundreds of silver pieces, then it was gone. About a minute later there was a noticeable smell of sulphur in the air. the object/light appeared to be about 100 feet above the rooftops and trees, and estimate of size would be approx. 10 to 15 feet in diameter. It had a similar appearance to a flare, but without the tail, the circumference edge being undefined. It had not moved position from when it was first observed until it disappeared. the night was clear and the weather conditions were mild for the time of year, with barely noticeable breeze.'

Source: SUFON 2018.

Welsh UFO sightings from 1890. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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PRESS
September 1890
Merthyr

Cosmos' column in the South Wales Daily News of September 27th reported on a ghost seen in Merthyr:

A GHOST ON THE BACKSTAIRS? A LITERARY friend at Merthyr writes as follows:— Some Cardiff people seem to be devoting much attention just now to "Shadows," as such. Perhaps their present state of mind not without reason leads them to picture these crafty caricatures. Were not the minions of Balfour waiting about the town lately with idle hands? And was not the war dance they executed in Queen-street highly calculated to leave its mark upon the impressionables?" As there are people waiting to be frightened, I take this advantage of informing them that in their Town-hall is (er was) a back stairs. One night, when, in the brilliantly-lighted assembly-room, many lightly clad couples were threading their way in the usual delirium and delight of the mazy dance, something white was seen on that staircase and it remained large and suggestive in the comparative gloom. Is it possible that this Uncanny figure comes forth from its hiding place? Perhaps those who know something of alterations and repairs in and about the Town-hall may be able to throw light upon the subject; or, perhaps, the custodians of this resort of the wise men, and otherwise, of Cardiff, may be in a position to clear up the point beyond the Shadow of a doubt.

Welsh UFO sightings from 1966. For sightings from other years please click HERE.

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BOOK
Thursday 6th January, 18:30
Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire

"....I was on the wall of Saundersfoot harbour in Pembrokeshire fishing for whiting. The night was cold and still with a slight sea mist. Along with other fishermen I then saw something moving out in Carmarthen Bay. Across our front, from left to right, a luminous object was travelling over the waves at about a mile range and no more than a hundred feet above the water. It seemed to be a glowing, spherical mass giving out a white light which pulsated with a periodicity of about two seconds. Each pulsation lit up the surrounding haze for several times the diameter of the object. It was on a level course and moving at about 250 mph, which soon took it out of sight behind Monkstone Point heading south. The display was in total silence.

Although I worked for several years at an R.A.F. Experimental establishment and took part in numerous airborne experiments and also worked at Cambridge Airport and with Cambridge University squadron as an engineer, I felt unable to categorize the object as anything mechanical. I decided it must have been an electrical phenomenon of the atmosphere."

Source: 'The Dragon and the Disc'- F. W. Holiday (1973), p. 108

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MUFON
Friday June 10th, 04:30
Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire

Dave B. was 16-years-old and living in his parents house in Trimsaran. He got up in the night to use the upstairs bathroom. From a window, he saw a pulsating, round, spherical object that "looked like the sun," flying slowly at a low altitude of under 500 feet,passing over a coal mine, which was followed by 3 black helicopters. Dave said the UFO was bigger than the helicopters and he watched them slowly pass by for ten seconds. Reported by witness 23/06/2017.

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FSR
July 22nd, 21:00
Llandrindod Wells

Flying Saucer Review V12/N6 (Nov-Dec 1966) reported:

Mr. W. J. Norton, Curator of the Ludlow Museum, Shropshire, has submitted the following account of a UFO seen by himself, his wife, and his young son, together with a local farmer at 9 p.m. on July 22 over Penybont Common, Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire.

"My little boy aged 5 was the first to spot the object," writes Mr. Norton.  "It was then at a considerable distance and appeared to be near the horizon in the east. It was shining very brightly for a short while, then vanished. We stopped to eat a snack and see if it would reappear, and after a minute or two we heard a local farmer, Mr. Reynolds of Taffryn, Dolau, Knighton, calling our attention to the object which appeared almost overhead but still towards the east. It could be very clearly seen hovering for perhaps 30 or 40 seconds."

"The shape of the object was that of an isosceles triangle or low cone, and it was like highly polished silver shining brilliantly. It seemed to 'drift' out of sight in a very strange manner, vanishing suddenly as it moved without decreasing in size, though not into the distance or into clouds. The farmer said he heard no sound, but both my wife and I heard a low humming whilst the object was almost overhead."

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PRESS
Wednesday 14th September, evening
Neath

Margaret Davies, a trained plane spotter during WW2, wrote into the Sunday Mirror (25/09/1966) to describe a UFO she saw from her garden along with six neighbourhood boys. The object was "completely immobile", made no sound, and changed colour between blue, white and orange. It then "went off at great speed towards the sea."

On October 2nd the Sunday Mirror published a letter from Gwyn David Jackson of Morpeth Road, Bristol, who claimed to have identified the object:

On Wednesday, September 21, three members of Bristol Balloon Club, including myself, launched a balloon from the centre of Bristol at 12:15pm. It was 6ft, by 4ft 6in, by 2ft, and was painted partly red, green-blue and silver.

It headed towards Newport, turning over and flashing white, red and green-blue in bright sunshine. It landed at Glyn Neath (about six miles from where Margaret Davies lives) and was picked up by Mr. S. Diplock, who found my address in it and wrote to me.

It was most certainly this balloon Margaret Davies saw.



SPOTTED. It seems a coincidence after reading the Sunday Mirror article on flying saucers, but last Wednesday evening six boys in our garden called me outside. In the air completely immobile was this thing changing colour - blue, orange and white, but there was no sound. Finally it went off at great speed towards the sea. I know I was not seeing things because I was on a gun site during the war and I was trained in plane spotting. - Margaret Davies, Neath, Glamorgan.

IDENTIFIED. About that object seen in the sky by Margaret Davies, of Neath, Glamorgan, whose letter you published last Sunday. On Wednesday, September 21, three members of Bristol Balloon Club, including myself, launched a balloon from the centre of Bristol at 12.15 p.m. It was 6ft by 4ft 6in by 2ft and was painted partly red, green-blue and silver.

It headed towards Newport, turning over and flashing white, red and green-blue in bright sunshine. It landed at Glyn Neath (about six miles from where Margaret Davies lives) and as picked up by Mr. S. Diplock, who found my address in it and wrote to me. It was most certainly this balloon Margaret Davies saw. - Gwyn David Jackson, Morpeth-road, Knowle, Bristol.

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BOOK
Saturday October 8th, 19:30
Tenby

F. W. Holiday writes: "I was again fishing, this time in Tenby Harbour. It was about 7.30 in the evening with the sea calm and the sky clear. Presently I became aware that several nearby fishermen were watching the sky directly overhead. Looking up, I saw what can only be described as a small, luminous blue-grey cloud. It was orbiting slowly in a circle equal to about three times its own diameter. Since it was opaque and blotted out the background stars this motion was plainly visible. It resembled a lump of shiny blue-grey cotton-wool.

Ten minutes went by in which interest diminished when, quite suddenly, there was a spectacle as vivid as it was unambiguous. Out of the south-west side of the cloud had emerged a dark object which beamed an intense ruby light down on us. At that point I remember feeling a slight shock following the realization that, whatever were the nature of the U.F.O.s, I was at that moment looking at one. Very slowly the red light object moved away towards the south-west. A moment or two later the blue-grey cloud began moving east. In a short time both objects were out of sight on their respective courses."

Source: 'The Dragon and the Disc' F. W. Holiday 1973 pages 108-109.

Holiday also wrote about this sighting for Flying Saucer Review V18/N4 (July-August 1972), in a piece exploring the ideas of premonition and foreshadowing in relation to the Aberfan disaster.

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BOOK
Sunday 16th October
Preseli Mountains

F. W. Holiday writes: "I was driving up the A478 road near Foel Dyrch mountain [South of Crymych - E.W.] in the early evening when I noticed a moving light in the sky. I had now taken to carrying binoculars around. The object was moving north, nearly parallel to the road, and was about 500 feet above the floor of the valley to the right which brought it almost level with where I was standing. It was about half a mile away when I got it in focus and travelling on a level course at no more than 50-60 mph.

I had a very good look at it. It was large but not enormous - perhaps twenty or twenty-five feet long. It was a flattened oval in shape. As the night was clear and starry I was able to look all around it and make quite sure it was not, for example, a window in an aircraft. It was an oval object with a firm outline. No trail was visible nor anything to indicate how it was propelled. I saw no surface details. In colour it was yellow-gold and it had the appearance of being constructed from a glowing, translucent substance. The effect was both beautiful and majestic. I watched it travel through an arc of about 70 degrees before it passed out of sight over the hills to the north." He added that it was completely silent.

Source: 'The Dragon and the Disc' F. W. Holiday 1973 page 109.

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SUFON
?, late evening
Ynysforgan, Swansea

A young couple, Brian and his fiancée, Carol (18) (not real names), were in a car driven by Brian on a rough track on the east side of the Swansea Canal at Ynysforgan, and north of the Swansea District railway line which crosses the Swansea valley here on a viaduct. They had been out for the evening, and Brian was expected home at 395 Clydach Road, by his mother for 11 pm. It was near this time that they had arrived back in Ynysforgan. They then encountered a craft, and their memories of what follows become patchy.

Brian had driven off Clydach Road down a lane between two houses on the east side, over a small bridge which crossed the Swansea Canal and followed the lane a little way along the canal (now on their right) to where he had a garage in which he kept his car. The garage was one of several located here for people living nearby.

After getting to the garage he can remember seeing the craft up above the Swansea District railway line on the embankment and viaduct which crossed the canal a little way further south.

Carol remembers a huge round craft, with many lights hovering a few feet above the ground with an open door from which there descended a stairway, the steps of which had their own lighting. She described seeing a small being with large head standing in the open doorway. The being had skin the colour of putty, and it had large black eyes. The being had no clothing, and she remembers being told not to be afraid. She was told to climb the steps and enter the craft, which she then did. She remembers thinking as she climbed the steps that it was great that the steps were lit so she could see where she was stepping.

Inside the craft, which was all white, she can remember seeing a control panel, and saw a being - whether or not it was the same being as before she is uncertain. It was clothed this time, in a white coat. She lay on a metal table or bed, and she was struck by the fact that the metal did not feel cold. She had some kind of examination or operation, but remembers no details of this, nor of what followed until being back in the car with Brian. She cannot remember seeing Brian on board the craft.

Brian put the car away, which was his next memory after seeing the craft, and when they got to his house, his mother asked him why they were so late as he had to be up early for work the next day. Brian said, 'It's only 11 o'clock'. His mother corrected him by saying, 'No it's not, it's 12 o'clock.' They were missing an hour.

The site of the landing, and also Brian's house were later swept away in 1969 by the construction of the M4 motorway and its junction here. The house was demolished to make way for the west on-ramp of the motorway, and the site where the craft was seen by Carol is occupied by trees and bushes on the west side of the dual carriageway (A4067 Morriston By-Pass) on its approach to the M4 roundabout.

Source: SUFON Files: witnesses interviewed 2016.

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BOOK
?
Mynydd Hiraethog Moors, Clwyd, North Wales

Ernie, then 16 or 17 years old, was walking five miles home from his job in Ruthin, where he worked at R. Ellis & Sons. It was his habit to call in the off-licence of The Bridge Hotel in Bontuchel to collect a packet of five Woodbine cigarettes every evening before continuing on his homeward walk. He noted the time, it was 7.05 pm by the clock there. It took him about 10 minutes to reach the lonely stretch of road from The Bridge Hotel, Bontuchel, leading to Cyffylliog. The chance that you will pass another car or vehicle at any time of the year is pretty unlikely.  If you do, it is an event and generally one of your fellow villagers or some farmer you know.

Beyond a small bridge is a straight stretch through the valley which, as far back in time every Villager can remember, strange paranormal things have happened. Even though this mile stretch of road is fairly wide for North Wales rural areas, flat, straight and well maintained, vehicles have frequently gone off the road at this spot for no apparent reason. Engines cut out. Ernie’s own sister-in-law saw a figure crossing the road at it. A brother-in-law’s son Ron was in his small Mini on the same stretch of road one evening, when his lights cut out as a big figure on a horse passed him by; he was so afraid, he abandoned the car and raced all the way home to the village. The whole District knows about this and it is important to note, that because of this, what happened to Ernie and Gwylim was accepted by people. Nobody disbelieved them or made fun. 

When he got to the spot where there is a small tree the other side of the low hawthorn hedge before the bridge - he was startled to see a small George Adamski type craft come over the forested area into the valley.  As it approached it was swaying gently from side to side, like a falling leaf.  This thoroughly alarmed him and he ran into the centre of the road looking wildly about for some means of escape.  To his immense relief he saw and heard a wagon approaching down the road, he flagged it down and jumped in without looking to see who was driving.  When he did look, he realised it was an acquaintance Gwylim, whom he knew had a wife working in Denbigh Hospital as a nurse.  With his finger shaking he pointed out the craft that was approaching, and now positioned itself right over the bonnet of the vehicle. They both yelled in terror. The next thing that either were aware of, was that they were miles past Cyffylliog towards the crossroads of the A 525/A5104 where Stephen was later abducted off his motorcycle in 1979. It was pitch dark there being no road lights in that remote area. Gwylim turned around and they went back to Ernie’s hamlet y Gyffylliog where his Mother was anxiously waiting, he being home so late back from work. 

When I met Ernie in 1988 and he described all this I took a lot of notes, he told me he though he had arrived home about 1 am or so.  When we [author and Margaret Hainge-Lloyd] later audio taped him in 1990 he thought it may have been 9 pm. They probably did not look at the time; they had been through a traumatising experience and were tired and afraid.  With the passage of years such exact details have been forgotten.  The point is they had lost several hours they were not aware of at the time. In addition a month later Ernie had a red rash from head to toe which blistered, itched and was painful.  He went to his Doctor, this rash then came and went appearing in spring, disappeared in summer and maybe reappeared in autumn /winter. He was given a smoothing ointment and it went after a year. He was left with a brown mark on his side towards the back, which he did not have before, and for awhile after he felt he had a stone just under the skin of his lip. This eventually went.

I have known Ernie from the l980’s; various Welsh friends from the same area have known Ernie since school days. So for the first few years after the experience Ernie did not follow the pattern of most people who feel they are abductees, he was still living in the area amongst friends and acquaintances, he was accepted, particularly in view of the fact that others had paranormal experiences in the same spot. Although he knew he had lost some hours of times, this aspect of it hardly was considered. By the time I met Ernie in about 1987/88, he had reached the stage of feeling he wanted hypnotic regressions, because he had again had a close sighting of a UFO, which renewed his desire to know exactly what happened the first time.  Unlike most people it was just a burning curiosity, not fear, he had never had nightmares, this I felt was because in his community he and his experience was accepted.  In later years he got a job in a Hospital as an ambulance man, and here for the first time his attitude changed.  He lived in fear of his bosses finding out and did not want to discuss the incident at all, at the time unemployment in Wales was particularly high under the Conservative Government, so his fears were justified. ...

A couple of years ago Ernie was driving an ambulance when a portocabin came loose from its moorings on a vehicle in front of them and crashed down to the side of the ambulance.  Ernie was very badly injured and had to get early retirement from work.  Since being in retirement he has had time to reflect on what happened that night so many years ago, he has by conscious regression felt he was in fact taken into this small Adamski like craft.  He vaguely recalls the smell of burning rubber, seeing Beings similar to humans, of his height 5ft 11 inches, or a bit taller, and they had grey skins.  He thinks they give him the usual medical type of examination, and conversed with him telepathically.  Whether this is a jumble of what he may have read since or seen on television, and a mixture of what may have really happened to him, who is to say.  All I know is we have known him for years, he is a perfectly sincere person, who like the dozens and dozens of others I have met and tried to help over the years, who are trying to find some answers to their own frightening experience, with only support from a very few UFO researchers and none at all from the professions in authority or arm chair researchers.

Source: Who Are They? by Margaret-Ellen Fry. [condensed account]