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The Welsh 'Roswell' UFO Controversy
By Bill Knell
It's been thirty-four years since an amazing and still unexplained
event occurred in North Wales which involved strange lights in the
sky, odd tremors, 'Men In Black' types sweeping the countryside for
information and something that crashed somewhere in the Berwyn
mountains. It's been called the Welsh 'Roswell' because just like the
event that allegedly occurred in New Mexico, USA, in 1947, the North
Wales case may have involved a crashed UFO, dead Aliens and a
government cover-up.
The story begins on January 23, 1974, when the villages of
Llandrillo and Llandderfel, near Corwen, were shaken by a tremor
measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale. Colored lights began to appear in
the sky after the tremor. During the next three weeks there was quite
a bit of unexplained military activity in the area and people dressed
in dark suits began asking locals a lot of questions about the lights,
the tremor and anything they might have seen on various dates.
Local First Responders like Firefighter Adrian Roberts experienced
the tremor and cover-up first hand. He says he was thrown off a sofa
where he was sitting when the tremor hit. Roberts also claims that the
military came into the area and declared several areas 'off limits' to
local authorities and the public alike. Retired North Wales Police
Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts was driving to Llandrillo just
after the tremor with his superior and claims that they both saw an
odd green light in the sky. He also says that the local police were
kept away from certain areas after the tremor.
Astronomers and skeptics went out of their way to convince people
that a meteor shower coincidently occurred during the tremor that
accounted for any strange objects seen in the sky. The lights were
explained away as 'earthquake lights' which sometime appear after a
major quake, although what people were reporting did not correspond to
the classic descriptions of those. The 'Men in Black' types were
explained away as seismologists in the area to research the quake, but
none of them made such claims.
Although the recent release of MOD UFO documents didn't shed any
light on what really crashed in the Berwyn mountain range, a new
witness has come forward that might be able to help fill in the
blanks. Geraint Edwards, of Llandderfel, Denbighshire, is a retired
gamekeeper. He recently gave an interview to Channel 5 in the UK and
said that he saw a classic "Flying Saucer" hover above the
Berwyn mountains for at least ten minutes on February 15, 1974 before
it shot up into the sky at "an impossible speed" (roughly
three weeks after all the bizarre activity began).
The interview is part of a Channel 5 (UK) Special about the North
Wales events set to air this month (June 2008) in the UK. During the
interview, Edwards told a reporter, "'It was definitely a flying
saucer. It was a pity I didn't have a camera because it was there for
at least 10 minutes, just hovering... We were on the way down to play
darts when something caught our eye in the south-east, so we stopped.
It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends of it were more pointy.
When it took off, it just went like lightning on the same line as it
hovered. I wrote it down in my diary. It was 6.45pm on the Friday
night.
If we were coming back from the pub, people would be saying,
"They've had one or two." But we were going TO the
pub."
According to other witnesses which include farmers, local first
responders, unidentified whistleblowers, residents and tourists, at
least one object and its Alien occupants were recovered by British
Forces and taken to the Wiltshire research base Porton Down, a
top-secret MOD facility. Local witnesses agree that whatever happened
back then, none of them had ever experienced or seen anything like it
before.
Recent sightings in Wales and the UK bring back memories of the
1974 event as strange lights and flying discs are again seen in these
areas, ridiculous cover stories are offered and the MOD is not anxious
to investigate the matters or provide any answers. In fact, several
UFO events in the USA include elements of both the 1974 and more
recent UK UFO sightings and encounters.
Over the past year (2007-2008), UFOs have been seen in conjunction
with loud explosions, minor earth quakes and unexplained military
activity in Texas, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, New Jersey and
Massachusetts in the USA. Strange spherical objects and debris have
been recovered, military jets have been observed chasing UFOs and
witnesses have been threatened by the authorities. For more, visit
http://Newsletter.UFOguy.com and visit our Past Newsletters area to
catch up on what's happened with all these cases during the past year.
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