1974 – The Berwyn Mountains UFO 'Crash'
The
23rd January 1974 was a cold wet evening in the small North Wales town
of Llandrillo. A loud bang was heard and strange lights were seen in
the area of the nearby Berwyn Mountain range sometime around 8:30pm.
Reports from a number of witnesses described red and amber pulsing
lights on a sort of egg shaped craft.
At the time it was
feared there had been an aircraft crash of some sort. Local nurse Pat
Evans left home from the village of Llandderfel accompanied by her two
daughters and made the journey towards the mountains in the belief she
was going to help any survivors. She reports that she saw a red glow on
a slope of Cader Berwyn and then smaller, flickering lights lower down
the mountain. She assumed they were from a rescue team. That thought
vanished as it struck her that no rescue team could have possibly
responded as fast this. Becoming puzzled and nervous of what she was
witnessing Pat decided she could be of no assistance and turned round
for home. Some reports state she was flagged down and politely
questioned by a British military patrol on her return home to
Llandderfel.
In the days following there were reports of a lot
of military activity in the area and strange visitors to the
surrounding villages questioning people over what they had seen.
Scott
Felton, a local researcher, who also considered evidence given in Welsh
that Roberts ignored, believes that there was a UFO landing in 1974 and
some of Roberts evidence is flawed.
Author, Nick Redfern was told that
there was a retrieval operation by British military and that alien
bodies were recovered and taken to Porton Down.
Another UFO researcher,
Russ Kellet, claimed to have uncovered a paper confirming a military
operation called "Photoflash" was scheduled for the evening of January
23rd 1974. A Marine and Coastguard document details that: “During the
late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an
exercise from Jurby Range on the Isle of Man.
“The exercise was called ‘Photoflash' and coastguards were advised to
expect at least 10 aircraft taking part and at least 80 flashes around
the Liverpool Bay area and the North Wales coastline .”
The
Liverpool Daily Post of 25th Jan 1974 reported that many people,
especially in the Isle of Man, had seen an RAF night bombing exercise.
Kellet concludes that 3 USOs were flushed out of the Irish Sea by the
Royal Navy and RAF. One of the craft came down near Bala and aliens
were taken away from the scene by the military. Russ also claims to
have several fragments of one of the craft.
Berwyn has, for a
long time, played second fiddle to the Rendlesham/Bentwaters case and
remained low key outside of the United Kingdom. The story has grown
somewhat since the 1970s and there seems to be no real evidence for
alien bodies being taken on the back of a truck to Porton Down (or
anywhere else for that matter). However there does seem evidence that
military activity was going on in the Irish Sea on the night the UFO
was seen. There are also errors in the detail of Andy Roberts report
which throws doubt on the skeptical and officially accepted story that
it was all just a bolides and a tremor.
By mirageman
ATS abovetopsecret
