Hello, and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about Broadhaven, the Bermuda
Triangle of UFO's. That's correct.
Broadhaven, the Bermuda Triangle of UFO's.
At least that's what some people are calling it.
And of course we're talking about Broadhaven whales now.
In early 1977 a group of children in the Welsh coastal
town of Broadhaven said they saw a cigar shaped UFO land in a
field behind their school. This sighting was widely
reported in the media and sparked a wave over 450 reports
of UF O's and alien encounters in the area over the next year.
The sightings were varied, but many witnesses described seeing
cigar shaped or disk shaped objects in the sky, often moving
at high speeds or performing impossible maneuvers.
Some people also reported seeing strange beings either inside or
outside the UF O's. The Broadhaven UFO incidents
were investigated by a number of organizations, including the
British government's UFO investigation unit, Project
Condon, but they claimed that there was no definitive
explanation. I think we could expect that now
some of the debunkers have claimed that the Broadhaven UFO
incidents were simply mass hysteria or that witnesses
misidentified craft. But the fact is a large number
of these witnesses were credible and experienced observers and
their reports remain unexplained to this day.
That Broadhaven UFO instance are one of the most well known and
well documented cases of mass UFO sightings in history and
it's something that we're going to take a look at in this
episode. I think you'll really enjoy
this. The first article that we're
looking at about this Broadhaven UFO wave comes from bbc.com.
The title says Alien and UFO Bermuda Triangle explored in
Netflix stocks. Got a picture of these young
kids back there from 1977 just very animatedly talking about
this UFO. The the articles by Axel de
Sourfield and Peter Shuttleworth.
It says a flying saucer seen by a guest house, A7 foot alien
figure coming out of a hedge and a cigar shaped UFO near a
schoolyard. These are just some of the 450
reported extraterrestrial encounters from one of the UK's
largest mass sightings in a remote Welsh village.
The village of Broadhaven has since been described as a
Bermuda Triangle of mysterious craft sightings and sightings of
strange beings. Residents who reported these
encounters across a single year in the late 70s have now told
their story to the new Netflix documentary series Encounters
made by Steven Spielberg's production company.
It all happened back in 1977 when the Cold War was at its
heights and Star Wars and close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Spielberg's first science fiction blockbusters, dominated
the box office. They've got an image here that
these one of these kids has created.
Really haunting that you see this space, this saucer shaped
spacecraft with the Dome on top. Looks like it's got some kind of
little, I don't know, radio antenna type apparatus on the
side and something in front of it.
I can't really make out what it is like a smaller ship and then
this creature staying there bipedal like a man with
extremely long feet and almost like a dog man.
He's got these pointed ears. I can't tell if it's a canine or
feline face, but it's definitely not human, the article
continues. It says there was a heightened
awareness of things from out of this world and the West Wales
Village made international headlines when 16 school
children claimed to witness a UFO in the Pembrokeshire sky.
It goes on and says what is the Broadhaven Triangle?
The spaceship looked like a cigar shaped with the 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 he couldn't see his 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 Broadhaven Primary School still insist this was no
childish hoax. 45 years later, they're sticking to the story.
Sounds just like what was had happened there in Zimbabwe back
and what was it? What, 92 or 93?
David Davies, 57, said he was initially skeptical when his
school friends rushed back into his 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 scifi
movies or in tabloid newspapers expecting to 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, cigarshaped and
about 45 foot long. And there was just this thought
that came into my head that I had to run away.
Mothers can tell you 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 the return to school by school headmaster Ralph
Llewellyn, who separated the children in to ensure there was
no copying. Pretty thoughtful.
And they've got these pictures here.
They're just amazing, these, these other all flying saucers,
they all have domes on top and a couple of them have some type of
creature that drawn along with the craft, he says.
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 BB C's children's current affairs
show John Craven's Newsround that all the descriptions were
similar. The school field spaceship
sighting was just the first of what another former pupil called
some pretty strange sightings going on as immediate descended
on the small village. Other locals also reported close
encounters with strange crafts and creatures.
A few months after the schoolyard sighting, hotel owner
Rose Granville, who lived a few 100 yards down the coast,
reported seeing a spacecraft just as she was going to bed.
She looked through the window and saw this thing sort of
hovering, her daughter Fancine recalled to encounters.
These two figures came out of it.
They looked a little unsteady. Rose reported them having very
long arms and legs with no facial features.
The Granfield said the spaceship had left a scorch mark and a
Ridge on the ground where it had landed.
So it's almost like it's hot, apparently, and it's heavy
because it's leaving this imprint.
X-Files from the government later showed Rose had written to
her local MP on Haven Fort Hotel headed note paper, explaining
that the event left me greatly agitated and disturbed and not
the least bit desirous of another encounter a month or two
later and a few miles around the Marvels peninsula.
Mark Morrison claims he saw not only a spaceship while walking
alone, but also said he came face to face with a figure.
Now that would have to be terrifying I would think.
It's got a picture of this guy here claiming he saw an upside
down saucer in a glow on a Ridge near his house.
He then described hearing a rustle in the hedge further down
the road. This thing stepped out of the
hedge, said Mark. It was a good 7 foot tall.
It had a silver suit with the motorbike visor as a face.
I thought, that's not a man. No way is that a man.
It started walking toward me and I thought, this is not
happening. I was quite scared.
It kept walking so I legged it. The next day Mark returned to
the scene with his dad. We said they found a huge
footprint in the mud, too big to be an ordinary man.
Now this reminds me of two things, Bigfoot.
But it also reminds me of what was seen in there in Peru where
these villagers were talking about these things having like
visors or slits over their face, hiding their face.
Mark's uncle and aunt later told a TV reporter that they saw an 8
foot featureless silver figure outside their isolated
farmhouse. It's got a picture of this
little village there in the whales.
It's really picturesque, right on the edge of the of the ocean
or sea, whatever you want to call it there.
It's really neat looking. The police were called to that
incident and the officer who took the call from the family
later stated in all my 26 years service, that's the most
frightened family I've come across and these people saw
something. Now it goes on and says why are
Spielberg producers doing a Welsh UFO doc?
It wasn't so much the Welsh Roswell, but the multiple
sightings of flying saucers that give the area the nickname the
Broadhaven Triangle. The producers scoured Europe for
a story that was out of this world, but chose the incredible
Welsh story because it wasn't just one encounter.
There were hundreds and hundreds of people that said they
witnessed something set encounters director Jan Moskin,
who was approached by Spielberg's production house
Amblin Television. That critical mass with 450
people is huge and also entertaining.
Critics have suggested the unexplained aircraft for planes
heading to the former nearby rural Air Force Base at Brady,
but those who say they saw UF O's insists they were not jets.
He has to leave it to the debunkers and the nonbelievers
to always come up with some some kind of a nonsense explanation
when it goes on here, it says. Jan points out that many of
those who spoke publicly in 1977 about having a close encounter
didn't benefit from telling their story.
In fact, it impacted some negatively, including David
Davies. What I didn't enjoy was the
attention it brought me, Davies said.
My first four years of secondary school were horrendous.
I was getting physically assaulted on an almost daily
basis. Most of the time they wanted me
to say I hadn't seen a UFO and that I was lying, but I couldn't
go back to my principles and say I wasn't lying when I wasn't.
So this little kid reports a UFO.
He gets beat up and still refuses to refute his testimony.
I mean, that's about as convincing as you can get from
me. Now, there's another article
that I want to look at here because to me, this is just a
fascinating case. We have these people talking
about seeing these large UFO's, saucer shaped cigar shapes,
strange aliens out walking around on the, you know, near
the beach. It's just crazy.
This is from Walesonline dot Co dot UK the real story behind
Wales Bermuda Triangle Welsh village as UFO show comes to
Netflix and subtitle says I felt this uncontrollable urge to run
away from what I was seeing. I took one glance behind me and
I was running away to see it disappearing down the trees.
That sounds almost like someone's emotional intelligence
kicked in and said listen this is dangerous.
This article is written by Robert Harry's Scene Reporter
says September 27th, 2023. And then it goes on.
It says Broadhaven, an area that became known as Broadhaven
Triangle after primary school children claimed to have seen a
cigar shaped UFO in 1977. Very beautiful area here,
looking out, looking out over the sea.
I guess you would call here. The Netflix documentary has
shown new light on a mysterious day in West Wales when a number
of primary school children looked up in the sky at playtime
and saw something amazing in front of their eyes.
Was it a bird? Was it playing?
No. According to them, it was a UFO.
The day was February 4th, 1977. It was a normal day at
Broadhaven Primary School in Pembrokeshire.
It was normal that it is until more than a dozen children
started telling their teachers they had seen something weird
flying around the school. What they saw was described as a
silver cigar shaped object around 45 foot in length.
It had a central Dome and a red pulsating light on the top.
It appeared over the trees around the perimeter of the
school. Now this reminds me of some of
the settings that we talked about in Foo Fighters yesterday.
The cigar shaped Sasha shaped in this red pulsating light.
What exactly was has been subject to debate and discussion
for more than 4 decades and it's a story which continues to amaze
those who believe in a life meal on earth.
One of the 10 year old boys who saw the object was Dave Davies,
Mr. Davies, now he's 50s told the BBC.
Throughout the day, children had come in from playtime saying
they had seen a weird object flying around their perimeter of
the school. The headmaster thought he was
having his leg pulled at the time so he wouldn't actually go
out and have a look. At the end of the day, the final
bill went and I thought I would investigate for myself.
So I went up to the top perimeter of the school and the
object popped up from behind the trees.
It was about 50 foot long, about the size of a bus with
fluorescence to it. So this thing's been hanging out
there all day. It's clearly to me trying to
show itself to these kids. This guy goes out, he's looking
around, doesn't see it, boom, pops up from the tree.
Definitely some kind of eyewitness interaction going on
here, Mr. Davis added. I felt this uncomfortable urge
to run away from what I was seeing.
I took one glance behind me as I was running away to see it
disappearing down behind the trees.
There was No Fear at all. It was just pure wonder and
amazement. I wonder if he's telling us that
there's No Fear because he's looking back and he's reliving
that moment in his head from a safe distance away.
But it says here he felt an uncontrollable desire to run
away. So I I'm a little confused here.
Unless this thing is just trying to get him out of there, I don't
know. It was just something I had
always thought of a science fiction fantasy and all of a
sudden I'm being confronted with her for real.
The children who saw it rushed home after school to tell their
parents. Soon enough, the incident
attracted national media attention and the area around
the school was dubbed the Broad Haven Triangle due to the
sightings at the school and others around the area.
Later in 1977, the Monday after the sightings at the school, the
headmaster understandably skeptically asked the children
to draw an image of what they had seen.
Amazingly, children who had seen the object at different times
all drew very similar depictions of it, Mr. Davis said.
The headmaster approached us, isolated the children and seen
the object and made us to all the pictures of what we saw and
also a written account. He was very skeptical, but the
accounts were so similar that there was this recognition that
hit him that we had in fact seen something and it's got some
pictures of these kids show with their drawings.
There's no doubt in my mind these kids saw something.
All in all, I think that there is a good case to be made that
Broadhaven is the Bermuda Triangle of UF O's.
As you can see 450 reports, many many reliable witnesses and
these kids, these kids just simply wrote down what they saw
separate from each other and the stories just seem to combine
together to Alltel basically the same thing.
And on top of that, you have all these peripheral sightings by
adults where it not only did they see the craft, but they
also saw these strange bipedal creatures emerging from the
craft walking down the road. Not sure if these things you're
here to do some sort of geographic survey, just checking
on us, or if this is just some sort of interdimensional space
crash these things had where they find themselves, you know,
tangled up in our reality for a bit.
And they seemed like they're just here wandering around,
sometimes almost aimlessly, until they're able to get their
craft back in working order and to go back to wherever they came
from. And This is why I think it's so
important that we don't just fire on these things Willy
nilly. They do appear to be real.
They are coming from somewhere. They are super advanced.
I think it's far better to have a wait and see attitude where we
observe these things before we start shooting at them.
Aarently we'll never know where the next Bermuda Triangle of
UFOs shows U. So keep your eyes open until
next time. This is UFO warning over and
out.