Broad Haven UFO sightings
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The Broad Haven UFO sightings were a wave of UFO reports in 1977 around Broad Haven and St Brides Bay in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. The area was nicknamed the Welsh Triangle, Broad Haven Triangle or Dyfed Triangle, after the Bermuda Triangle. The best-known event was a sighting by 14 primary school children on 4 February 1977. Researcher David Clarke ranks the wave as second only to the Warminster "Thing" in British UFO history.[1][2]
The school sighting
During lunchtime on Friday 4 February 1977, 14 children at Broad Haven Primary School said they had seen a silver, cigar-shaped object in a field behind the school, and some said they saw a silver figure.[1][2] On Monday 7 February the headteacher, Ralph Llewellyn, interviewed the children, who made similar drawings of what they had seen. Some accounts give the number of children as 15.[3] On 17 February teachers at the school and others said they had seen the same craft.[1]
Other reports
On 19 April 1977 Mrs Granville, who ran the Haven Fort Hotel at Little Haven, said she had seen an upside-down saucer in a neighbouring field and two humanoid figures.[1][2] Her local MP, Nicholas Edwards, later Welsh Secretary, raised the matter with the Ministry of Defence, and an RAF officer from nearby RAF Brawdy visited the hotel.[2] Further strange sightings were reported by a couple at Ripperston Farm.[2]
Investigators and books
The wave was promoted by Randall Jones Pugh, a retired vet and investigator for the British UFO Research Association, who had predicted a spate of sightings in west Wales.[2] The events were described in three books, including Peter Paget's The Welsh Triangle, inspired by a Sun headline about a "terror triangle", and The Dyfed Enigma (1979) by Pugh and Ted Holliday, which linked the reports with Welsh fairy lore and ley lines.[2]
Explanations
A Ministry of Defence investigator found no evidence of a landing and suggested a local prankster might be involved.[1] According to Clarke, two members of a local Round Table club were responsible for the "spacemen" seen at the hotel and Ripperston Farm, wearing silver-coated asbestos suits borrowed from oil refinery workers, after the children's sighting. In 1996 BBC presenter Ray Gosling tracked one of them down for a Radio 4 documentary.[2] The local reporter who covered the events thought something military lay behind some of them.[2] The MoD file on the sightings was released by The National Archives in 2006.[2]
Later attention
The case was featured in the 2023 Netflix documentary series Encounters and in 2024 in the BBC Three and BBC Cymru Wales series Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens, presented by Sian Eleri.[1][2] Clarke criticised the BBC programme for getting the order of some events wrong.[2]
References
- Broad Haven — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- David Clarke, "Did the village see aliens?" (16 June 2024) · drclarke.substack.com · archived copy
- UFO sightings in the United Kingdom — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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