Welsh UFO sightings from 1931. For sightings from other years please click HERE.
PRESS
Tuesday 26th May, c. midnight
Pontnewydd, Torfaen
"On the Tuesday following Whit Monday in 1931 at about 20h00, a violent thunderstorm occurred in Pontnewydd, Gwent. The storm lasted eight hours and caused considerable damage. At about 00h00, the witnesses (two boys) saw a bluish ball about the size of a football strike a brick wall and bounce onto the road, disappearing in a shower of sparks. Next morning, they found a hole in the wall and a small crater in the road."
BUFORA V7/N3 listed this as one of their likely confirmed ball lightning cases in 1978 - under the misspelling 'Portrewydd' - so it has since been included in various write ups of the phenomena.
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