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