UFOs in Wales: police reveal locations of sightings from past 10 years

WalesOnline, Brendan Hughes, Apr 2 2011

THE TRUTH is still out there as new details emerge of the true  extent of UFO reports across Wales.

Police have released details of UFO sightings in North and West Wales over the past decade.

A total of 33 reports of strange crafts in the sky were made to North Wales and Dyfed-Powys Police services since 2002. A third of these were in 2009.

Only five of these reports were explained as human activity, such as army training exercises or night lanterns.

One man described how his car engine stopped working upon seeing a round unknown craft in the sky above Aberdyfi Estuary along the  est coast.

Another witness saw a UFO illuminated by three glowing green, triangular lights hover directly above their Colwyn Bay house last year before flying off.

The sightings show Welsh households are still looking to the skies in search of new forms of life.

But sceptics say people should think twice before claiming they have seen a real-life ET.

Former RAF electrical engineer Bill Bevan said he saw an alien aircraft on a clear night two years ago while in his back garden smoking a cigarette.

The 79-year-old said: I saw a big, white disk hovering over a tree. It  was about two thirds the size of the moon. It was a bright, shining light, and it disappeared in about four or five seconds.

I thought it must have been going up at a fair rate of knots.

Mr Bevan, of Builth Wells, Powys,  quickly called his wife to come and see it, but it was gone by the time she  got there.

He said: It left me a bit shaken, but it left me so intrigued that I have been standing outside night after night to try to see it again.

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Bill is adamant that he saw some form of UFO.

He said: It fully convinced me that there is life out there somewhere.

I saw it, it was there and it just disappeared, and until my death I will still say I saw what I saw.

I hadnt been drinking by the way, because I dont drink.

Bill also said his late father revealed to him that he and his neighbour saw a UFO over two decades ago in the Rhondda Valley.

Bill said: He was stood with his neighbour and across the other side of the valley they say a cigar-shaped object in the sky. He had never talked about it before because he didnt think people would believe him.

Theres something out there theres no two ways about it.

Phil Hoyle, of the UFO Investigation and Research Unit, has carried out numerous investigations into  paranormal activity in Wales.

The 54-year-old said he has interviewed many reliable sources, such as army personnel, who have seen unidentified structured crafts landing and taking off.

He said: I have interviewed people from the military and many reliable  people, and quite a number have  seen structured crafts leaving the scene.

Some people have said they have touched the craft.

I could tell you for days about these cases.

There must be other life forms and they could have been visiting us for quite some time.

Mr Hoyles 12-strong team has also been investigating the new phenomena of animal mutilation through its Animal Pathology Field Unit.

The father-of-one said: South Americans have come across cattle that have been clinically killed and dissected.

What has happened is that this  has moved over towards Britain, but  the majority of the incidents that take  place over here are sheep.

Mr Hoyle, of Shrewsbury, has been investigating UFO sightings for the past  30 years and is in no doubt that we are not  alone. He said: What people have to remember  is that they say there is no evidence. We dont  pre-judge anything, and we look at information from the most incredible sources.  How can you call all these professionals delusional?

Martin Griffiths however a senior  astronomy lecturer at the University  of Glamorgan is a hardened UFO  sceptic.

Mr Griffiths says strange objects in  the sky can be explained through  natural occurrences, such as ball  lightning and man-made sky lanterns.

The 49-year-old said: If people  think they see a UFO, be a bit more  critical about it. Its probably not  somebody visiting from the planet  Zog.

Dont think automatically that  something in the sky is an alien craft.  It is probably something else.

Joe McGonagle, who has researched UFO sightings for 12 years,  is also unconvinced by the reports.

He said: There is no tangible evidence that we have been visited by  aliens. Theres lots of speculation, but no evidence.

For aliens to visit here, they would have to have a very good reason to do so.

Mr McGonagle said police forces in  Wales were fuelling the UFO speculation by not making public  when an alien encounter has been proved to be something  else.

But Mr McGonagle still believes intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe.

He said: Im convinced that the probability is very high that there is life on other planets. 

Whether that life is visiting us here on Earth however, I very much doubt.

WHERE, WHEN AND WHAT WAS  REPORTED

• Dyfed-Powys Police reports: (The location, the date and the sighting) 
• Caersws, 2002 Bright light  in the sky over the mountains  towards Caersws. Did not make  a sound or have flashing lights. 
• Aberdyfi Estuary, 2004 Round craft of 200 to 300m in  length. When seen his car  engine stopped. 
• Whitemill, Carmarthen,  2004 Something strange in the  sky, like a streak of light. 
• Beguildy, Knighton, 2004 Lights that looked like a  lighthouse in the sky, and then  later it was round with black  spots with a ray of light. 
• Penybont, 2005Something  with two lights has landed in  field. Later discovered to be  orange flares from Army  exercise. 
• Llanyre, Llandrindod  Wells, 2005 Oblong shaped  bright yellow craft, going  horizontally across, about 10 to  15ft off the ground. 
• New Quay, 2006@ Spotlight  from across the hill thought to  be a UFO. 
• Meifod, Powys, 2007  Triangular shape in sky with  different coloured lights in each  corner. A pulsing pink light lit  up the vehicle. There was no  sound to the object. 
• Llanelli, 2008 Four low  flying brightly lit objects. 
• Newtown, 2008 Flashing  balls of light though to be two  UFOs. 
• Llanidloes, 2009 Three  orange lights thought to be  UFOs. Object seized and  discovered to be a night  lantern. 
• Beacons Reservoir,  Brecon, 2009 Report of a UFO  in the sky. 
• Llangattock, Crickhowell,  2009 Large, vivid orange  object, cylindrical in shape.  Later thought to have been a  night lantern. 
• Ffrwdgrech, Brecon, 2009 Three lights, travelling at 20  knots. 
• Glanamman, Ammanford,  2009 Report of large orange  sphere in the sky, looks like a  hot air balloon. Later clarified  to be Chinese lanterns. 
• Crickhowell, 2009 Report  sighting of a red flare, possible  UFO sighting. 
• Brecon, 2009 Reporting  sight of bright white light, then  two orange lights, not high up  and no sound coming from  them. 
• Newcastle Emlyn,  Ceredigion, 2009 Three large  orange lights in a triangular  formation with white light  around them. 
• Cardigan, 2009 Two waves  of UFO with red lights go past,  high up in the sky. 
• Llanelli, 2010 About 100  red lights in the sky. All very  bright, all slow-moving, going  from west to east. Moving too  quick to be Chinese lanterns  and too slow to be an aircraft. 

North Wales

• Beaumaris, 2004 Three  lights in a triangular pattern,  travelling East. 
• Denbigh, 2005 UFO in the  sky 
• Penmaenmawr, 2005 Two  sightings of immense white  light moving quickly and  silently across the sky. 
• Penmaenmawr, 2005 Intense bright light moving  swiftly in a South-easterly  direction. 
• Abergele, 2006 Caller was  suspected of being drunk,  claimed to have seen a UFO. 
• Blaenau Ffestiniog, 2007  Bright light witnessed  disappearing into the clouds. 
• Llangollen, 2007 Family  saw a flame shimmering in the  sky. 
• Pwllheli, 2008 Luminous  orange light with a white  circle  of light around it, making no  noise and hovering around the  area for 10 minutes. 
• Denbigh, 2009 Three large  red lights about the size of the  moon before flying off. Shortly  afterwards a fourth craft  appeared in the sky. 
• Prestatyn, 2009 Red,  yellow and orange lights  moving backwards and  forwards really quickly, with no  noise. 
• Wrexham, 2010 Very large,  orange in colour, but changed  to red, blue and green. 
• Bangor, 2010 A large, black  triangular shaped craft  appeared. It made a noise  similar to a lawnmower. It  hovered in the sky for just over  a minute before vanishing. 
• Colwyn Bay, 2010 Glowing  green triangles at the back of  the craft, which eventually  faded