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