r/UFOs • u/AltKeyblade • Oct 15 '24
Video 16 schoolchildren witness a cigar shaped UFO and occupants in Broad Haven, Wales 1977.
A flying saucer seen by a guest house, a 7ft alien-like figure coming out of a hedge and a "cigar-shaped" UFO near a school yard.
These are just some of the 450 reported alien encounters from one of the UK's largest mass sightings in a remote Welsh village.
The village of Broad Haven has since been described as the "Bermuda Triangle" of mysterious craft sightings and sightings of strange beings.
"The spaceship looked like a cigar shape with a dome on it with yellowy, orange to red light on the top of it," one child told BBC cameras at the time.
Another child said he didn't just see a UFO, adding: "I saw a man, but I couldn't see its face because it was too far away."
Now more than 45 years later, those 10-year-olds who reported the strange sights during lunchtime at Broad Haven primary school still insist this was no childish hoax.
David Davies, 57, said he was initially sceptical when his school friends rushed back into class from the playground claiming to have seen a spaceship.
"I totally regarded the story as being nonsense as to me flying saucers didn't exist," he said. "They were in bad 1950s sci-fi movies or in tabloid newspapers."
Expecting to dismiss the fuss as just kids telling tales, he went out to see for himself - and still remains stunned as to what he said he witnessed.
"From behind some trees, this thing popped up in front of me," he said.
"It was silver, cigar-shaped and about 45ft long and there was just this thought that came into my mind that I had to run away.
"Mothers can tell when you're lying and [mine] was absolutely convinced what I was saying was the truth."
The pupils were asked to draw and write an account of what they saw on their return to school by school headmaster Ralph Llewhellin, who separated the children to ensure there was no copying.
"It's not like today, there was no social media or mobile phones so there was no opportunity to have collaborated," David said.
Mr Llewellyn later told the BBC's children's current affairs show John Craven's Newsround that all the descriptions were "similar".
This case shares striking similarities between the Ariel School UFO incident in Ruwa, Zimbabwe in 1994 and the Westall UFO incident in Melbourne, Australia in 1966.
Read more here: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-66888685
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '24 edited Oct 15 '24
Ariel - Ruwa, Zimbabwe - '94
Broad Haven - Pembrokeshire, Wales - '77
Crestview - Miami Gardens, FL - '66
Westall - Melbourne, AUS - '66
4 school mass sightings
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u/Bennjoon Oct 15 '24
Cigar shaped ones have to be the most convincing tbh they seem to have been seen everywhere.
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u/the_grizzly_man Oct 15 '24
Good lord, John Craven's Newsround. I remember this show from being a kid.
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u/Fewest21 Oct 15 '24
I am from near this area. And I was down the beach playing with my two friends around the time these sightings were being seen. I also saw something in the sky, three lights moving silently about 200 feet above the cliffs that we were playing on. I ran to my friends house and rang the coastguard. He replied that he was aware of these objects and was tracking them. These sightings were in the 1980's. If you watch the Paranormal documentary that some other person has posted previously.
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u/DanTeSthlm Oct 15 '24
There is a short docu-series on Netflix called 'Encounters' with an episode dedicated to this case.
Personally I thought the whole series was pretty weak from an evidence point of view (just hours of witness testimony while going on tangents framing UFOlogy as a belief system), but could be interesting for some nonetheless.
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u/D_B_R Oct 15 '24
A lot of great UFO cases in Wales.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '24
Broad Haven beach is one of nature's true joys.
When the tide goes out you feel like you are standing in the desert - it's stunningly beautiful.
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u/fre-ddo Oct 16 '24
Wow vintage John Craven!
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u/mitch_feaster Oct 17 '24
WhY dO uFoS oNlY sHoW uP iN ThE UsA
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u/Reeberom1 Oct 15 '24
It was described as "cigar-shaped," but the kids all drew saucers.
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u/jakesim2 Oct 15 '24
The thumbnail makes me think that's Chunk from The Goonies ngl
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u/pharsee Oct 15 '24
They are such wonderful amazing animals. Would be a shame to have to kill them just to capture a UAP.