Welsh UFO sightings from 2023. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
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Friday 20th January, c. 19:00
Holyhead Mountain
North Wales Live reported on a video of three strange lights in the sky filmed by Justin Beilensohn from his bedroom window.
A baffled local filmed three mystery lights over Holyhead Mountain last night (Friday), through his window, which blinked out, as he and his son videoed them, at about 7pm.
Mystified what they were, Justin Beilensohn, posted them on Twitter to ask others, if they saw the lights and if they had any explanation for them. He said the videos have been shared elsewhere on social media, but there were still no answers this afternoon.
Mr Beilensohn, who works as a roofer, wrote on Twitter: "Did anyone see them 3 lights above Holyhead mountain at 7 ish tonight. Must be 50 ft wide" He added: "This what is was like but when it faced there was bright white light each side then they vanished."
Speaking to North Wales Live after, Mr Beilensohn said: "I live in Holyhead and my bedroom overlooks the docks and it was about 6.50pm. I was getting out of the shower and I went to the window to close it, when I could see this bright light in the distance over Holyhead Mountain - it was diamond white.
"I shouted to my son who came upstairs to the other bedroom and he said "What the hell is that?" It turned and then there appeared to be another two lights at the side of it. I thought, is it a fixed wing plane? but it wasn't moving - and as I looked at it, there was no way it was fixed plane and it was way too big to be a drone - I estimated it to be about two to three miles away, as the crow flies and about 50ft wide.
"I wasn't sure if the two side lights were attached to the central light, or if they were separate from it. The light was spinning, glowing and pulsating and it was really bright, but there was no beam from it, like say you would get with a search helicopter.
"The the two side lights seemed to fizzle out and I thought it was turning anti-clockwise, then the end lights appeared again, as if I was looking at it from a different angle. Then the light vanished, then reappeared after about five seconds and it did this three to four times.
"I have seen all kinds of aircraft in the area, we have RAF planes flying overhead all the time and helicopters - and I know what they look like - and this was like nothing I have ever seen. I am baffled by it and open minded to what it could be, but would like an explanation what it was."
Mr Beilensohn filmed it on his mobile phone, which makes it difficult to capture a clear images at distance at night.The Coastguard said they were unaware of any activity in that area last night.
'gonedutch' commented on January 23rd: I too saw the lights. Thought it was a helicopter on the range.
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July
Llanfair Caereinion, Powys
ITV Wales for Friday July 28th reported that a Powys family initially thought they might have seen a UFO when a large balloon landed in their garden.
"A family from Powys have been left stunned after discovering what they thought was a UFO in their back garden. Charlotte and Allen Buckley woke to see the seven feet long object bouncing across their garden. When they looked closely, they saw it was a white box attached to a balloon with cameras fitted. The couple checked the marking to discover it was made by space company Solenix 560 miles away - and was lost in their garden in the countryside. It travelled from Darmstadt in Germany to the market town of Llanfair Caereinion in Powys.
Mrs Buckley told ITV News: "It’s just so strange. At the time before we had a look, I joked with my husband that it’s a UFO because it’s an unidentified flying object. It’s probably six or seven feet long – it’s absolutely huge." Mrs Buckley said there was a German phone number on the balloon. "It had a name across the top of it, it had a go pro on top a camera on the side a camera on the bottom and it had solar panels either side."
It belonged to Solenix which is an international company providing software engineering and consulting services in the space market. Martin Tykal, Head of Engineering at Sokenix said: “We were excited and enthralled. We believed our payload landed in some forest 30 miles away. "As we did not hear back from our GPS tracker, we considered the mission lost and had little hope someone could find it and would call us. When we got the call and learned that Charlotte is calling us from 560 miles away, that was almost unbelievable."
The balloons are a pet project of some of the staff and they launch roughly one balloon per year as a team building activity. They travel up to 23 miles into the atmosphere which is up to three times as high as the average commercial flight. Martin said: "Mainly we take pictures and videos during the flight, as the perspective from this altitude is absolutely stunning. We measure temperature and density, as it is a different environment of what we have down there. We typically have small bottles of Whisky in the box that we sample after a successful return – stratosphere Whisky just tastes different. For space enthusiasts like us it is the easiest and cheapest way to come close to space."
"Typically the balloon rises quickly into the Stratosphere, where the ambient pressure is very low. This causes the balloon to expand until it pops. The styrofoam box with our cameras, on-board computer and sensors then glides back to Earth with a parachute. During the launch we had a little accident and a rope we used to slowly launch the balloon got entangled and started with the balloon. This increased the total weight. We believe that due to this the balloon rose very high, but not quite high enough to pop. As such it drifted with the winds in the stratosphere all the way from Darmstadt in Germany to Wales." A Solenix employee is set to pick up the balloon later this year when they holiday in Wales.
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