In 1977, Welsh schoolkids s Their teacher didn’t believe other weird incidents spar
of what they’d seen – an Unidentified Flying Object.
Schoolboy David Davies, in the playground on that February Friday afternoon, stood looking at something that would leave him with a lifetime’s fascination and a drive to get to the truth of what that strange object was.
“It was pearlescent silvery-grey,” he says, “approximately 40ft long, torpedo, cigar-shaped, with an upper domed section that covered the central third of the vehicle and which was topped with a red pulsating light.”
Upset their claims were being ignored, David and his classmates handed in a petition to the police station.
In the end, the headmaster separated the children and asked them to draw what they had seen under exam conditions. He was amazed to find their drawings were almost identical to each other.
So last week, UFO enthusiasts made a pilgrimage to Broad Haven to mark the 40th anniversary of a phenomenon in an area known as “The Welsh Triangle”.
The incident propelled the tiny farming community into a media frenzy in what became the start of a major series of sightings. Weeks later, Pauline Coombes and her husband Billy were watching TV in their isolated farmhouse late at night, when a seven-foot humanoid figure in a silver suit appeared at the window. Where its face should have been, there was just a black space. The police officers called to investigate the scene later admitted the family were so frightened, they did not want to step outside. Perhaps the strangest incident of all occurred later the same year when an entire herd of cattle apparently vanished, only to reappear in a field, far away from the farm. The interest and the number of sightings continued to grow. Rosa Granvill a hotelier living near the school, wa woken late at night by a light comin from an object like an upside dow saucer in the field next to her hotel, emi ting flames and with two faceles humanoid creatures with pointed head
When Rosa reported the incident t the authorities, she was visited by Squadron Leader from nearby RA Brawdy. He told her there was nothin at the airfield which could account fo the strange craft, but mysteriously aske her not to tell anyone what she had see
It has left many people asking, ‘Wa there a cover-up?’. A number of high security military bases were situate nearby, including RAF Brawdy and, it believed, a top secret US Soviet sub