The UFO Phenomenon

50 years on, incident dubbed 'Welsh Roswell' still intrigues

By T.K. Randall
January 30, 2024 ·  12 comments

The Berwyn Mountains. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 Llywelyn2000 The strangeness began quite unexpectedly on January 23rd, 1974 when the residents of Bala - a small town in the Berwyn Mountains of Wales - were disturbed by a sudden earthquake.

This wouldn't have been particularly notable on its own, but what made it stand out were the accompanying reports of strange lights in the sky and an alleged military coverup.

According to witnesses, "something came down" over the area and this seemed to coincide with both the earthquake and a loud bang that was also heard at around the same time.

Local police received multiple calls from residents about the sound of an explosion and sightings of mysterious lights in the sky, which prompted a search-and-rescue operation.The mystery seemed to deepen further still when witnesses observed an unexplained military presence and the sight of something large being loaded onto the back of a vehicle.

This ultimately lead to speculation that a UFO had crashed in the area and had been subsequently retrieved and covered up by the military.

Officially, the event was explained away as little more than a chance occurrence of both an earthquake and a meteor shower that happened to have taken place at around the same time.

This explanation was later echoed in declassified MoD documents concerning the incident.

Whether this was what really happened that night, however, remains a matter of debate.

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