Welsh UFO Sightings 2003

Witness was out on their patio on a clear still evening when they saw an orange circular object. They had seen the same thing the previous evening, but this time reported it to Gwent Police. The MOD report notes that it may have been Mars. 

(The object was also seen by their neighbours. I'm not sure if the RAF report is referring to the same witness, or one of the neighbours. Either way it states that the witness was a 96-year-old lady who rang the police '5-6 times' and stated that the object seemed to be moving towards her. She said other witnesses included a 92-year-old lady and a neighbour had seen it the previous night.)

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NUFORC
Tuesday August 27th, 22:30
Cardiff

Witness was in their back garden with their girlfriend and neighbours when they noticed a strange light in the clear sky. It looked like white, red and green lights stacked on top of each other. At first they thought it was a helicopter but it soon became apparent they were wrong. The light began to pulse bright and dim, and move from left to right at a medium speed but with no slowing or stopping between changes in direction for about 30 minutes until it became obscured by cloud.

Later, at around 23:15, the girlfriend's sister visited and they saw the object again, in the same area of the sky. This time two aircraft seemed to be approaching it and its movements became erratic before it vanished. The witness said, 'I come from an engineering background in the Armed Forces and have witnessed many aircraft in flight, this object was not something I can readily explain.' They reported the sighting to NUFORC on Monday 9th September 2003:

"Stacked pulsating lights. Very strange occurance viewed from my back garden by myself, my girlfriend and our neighbours. Approx 22:30, clear sky with approx 1/10 high level cloud. Noticed a strange light in sky approx NNE from our position at about 20deg elevation. Lights appeared to be white, red and green stacked ontop of each other. At first put this down to helicopter (live near to the Breacon Beacons and area used for military training). However soon became apparent that we were not witessing a known form of aircraft. Light began to pulse bright and dim and move from left to right at a medium speed but with no slowing or stop between changes in direction. This continued for about 1/2 an hour. Object became obscured by cloud. We all seemed to have seen the same thing but were lost for a sensible explaination. Girlfriends sister visited us at about 23:15 and object was again visible in same area of sky. This time two aircraft seemed to be closing and movements became erratic before vanishing. I come from an engineering background in the Armed Forces and have witnessed many aircraft in flight, this object was not something I can readily explain."

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September 24th, 19:25
Barry

Witness saw an unusual object, falling from a cloud, like it was burning, and was very fast. Was viewed for five minutes.

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SUFON
October 3rd, 19:45
Pontypridd

Source: SUFON Files via Michael Hopkins.

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Tuesday October 21st, 22:44
Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire

Lucy (25) was woken by a bright light outside her house, which lit the fields behind the house as if it were daytime. This soon disappeared and then she saw white lights flickering on the furniture in her bedroom. She looked out of the window and saw three oblong shaped lights in the sky, similar to stars but arranged above each other 'in a tower'. Possibly there was another light to the right, but none were visible for very long. Duration of sighting: 20 seconds. 

 Source: http://www.ufowatch.com/display.asp?id=1098

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Winter 2003
Pembrokeshire

Gavin L. Davies and his then girlfriend moved into a terraced Pembrokeshire house in September 2003. Strange things began to happen not long afterwards - missing then reappearing items, cold spots, shadow figures seen from the corner of the eye, footsteps, banging, etc. One night c. November '03 they heard a window smash and crashing and banging downstairs - when they ventured down nothing was out of place except for a pile of CDs arranged in a spiral shape on the floor. A spiritualist blessing quietened the house for a few weeks, but the phenomena only returned with greater intensity.

Their next door neighbours, visiting friends/family, and previous residents later confirmed that they had also been victims of a haunting. A nephew who had been about ten at the time said he heard the boiler cupboard door open in the room he was staying in, and small footsteps running back and fore. Two friends said they heard Gavin have a heated argument with an old woman - only to find him asleep and snoring when they went to investigate.

This section of a convo with their neighbour serves as a good summary of the type of activity:

Sarah: John [i.e. Gavin Davies] was talking about the rats in the shed and the woman obviously had misunderstood and she frowned and asked, “What, the council are taking care of it?” And John said that they were, that they were coming on Monday. The woman looked dumbfounded and John said, “Rats, we got rats,” and she went, “Oh! I thought you meant the ghosts.”

John: I said, “What do you mean?” I was shaking. It was like I had been punched in the stomach. The woman said that at one time our houses had been one house and that our side was haunted by a woman and possibly a child but on their side, in their home, they had a very, very powerful haunting. It was a man who was angry all the time; she believed that all the spirits did cross over into both houses. I couldn’t believe it. Part of me was relieved as we were not alone and we were not mad, but knowing that it was real made it more frightening, if that makes sense?

Sarah: She told us that when they first moved in, there was this weird blurry object moving around downstairs that you could not look at directly. The object was about six and a half, maybe even seven feet tall. I was stunned and I told her we had the same but it was small, maybe two or three feet tall. She said that we were lucky and that was probably just the child.

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John: She told us that one night her husband had been sat there on his own and he saw what seemed to be the outline of a very tall man very slowly come down the stairs, almost one step at a time, very deliberately. It then entered their living room area, stood there for a few seconds like it was surveying the room, and it just moved and sat in the armchair opposite him, like it was just staring at him. This thing had no discernible features, just a shadowy outline and this was with the light on! The poor guy freaked and ran out of the house, and called his brother and would not go in at all!

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November, 05:15
Port Talbot

Witness: Carl. 'While walking from Hafod Street, across Dan-Y-Bryn Road, towards Hill View Terrace (a walk I took every morning at the same time) I had a fearful sense. I looked over my left shoulder and saw two lights just above the gardens of 1 & 2 Hafod Street.

These lights although very bright to look at didn't shine on any surroundings like it should have with a light that bright. All I could see was a couple of bright lights which seemed to obscure an object that surrounded it. These lights were round, circular, approx. 10 feet apart and extremely bright. As I sensed this fear I didn't hang around. This object was too close to me, about 30 feet.

Just before I moved onwards I saw a cyclist coming down Dan-Y-Bryn Road towards Tan-Y-Groes Street and he saw what I saw above the gardens and he fell from his bike. I didn't hang about. I didn't feel safe and the cyclist made a quick exit as well. Wish we'd known each other as we seen this strange thing at the same time.'