New information has surfaced in regard to the Berwyn Mountains (Wales) Incident of 1/23/74. I have also gathered narratives related to this incident from the past few years.
dailypost - The mystery behind the famous Berwyn Mountains “UFO” incident has deepened after a document revealed a major military operation was underway that night.
Dubbed the “Welsh Roswell”, on January 23 in 1974 locals reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky over the Berwyn Mountains.
Now a document from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has surfaced, which reveals a military operation – codenamed Photoflash – was scheduled for that evening.
It involved about 10 military aircraft and a series of powerful flashes across the North Wales coast and Liverpool Bay.
The MCA letter said: “During the late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an exercise from Jerby 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.”
There is no more information from official sources on that specific exercise and why it was commissioned for that night.
Although a spokesman at the RAF Museum Research Department suggested photoflash operations were used for training exercises to illuminate the ground below.
Over the years theories have been out forward to explain the events at Berwyn Mountains.
One suggested there was a combination of events, a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and misperception of poachers on the hillside with lamps.
But investigator Russ Kellett, who has been researching the Berwyn Mountains incident extensively, acquiring documents and witness accounts, is convinced UFOs were the focus of a military operation on that night.
He said: “The photoflash operation was used to light up the coast so they could see submerged craft in the sea.
“From my research, there were three separate craft that were flushed out of the ocean that night, military craft were involved and there was an engagement.
“I spoke to a fishermen who saw one come out near Puffin Island, his colleagues at the time told him to say nothing about it because it was considered bad luck, and he never spoke about it for years.
“I have correspondence with a group of men who told me they were moved on by military personnel on the roadside at Llandrillo where one of the craft came down.
“They said they saw aliens getting out the craft who were helping two of their own who were injured.
“They were then loaded onto the back of a flat back truck and taken away.
“The epicentre of the earthquake was at Bala Lake. That is where one of the craft came down.
“The other one smashed into the mountain side at Berwyn.”
Earlier this year files released showed the Government officially backed the meteor theory.
Then-junior RAF minister Brynmor John summed up the official position in a letter to North Wales MP Dafydd Elis Thomas in May 1974.
He wrote: “As suggested by the descriptions reported, it seems the phenomena could well have been caused by a meteor descending through the atmosphere burning up and finally disintegrating before it reached the ground.
“Such a hypothesis would also explain the absence of any signs of impact.
“It has also been suggested that at 8.32pm that evening there was an earth tremor in the Berwyn Mountains, which produced a landslide with noises like detonations. This latter aspect is however outside the field of this department.”
But the MoD’s conclusions did not convince many of those who witnessed the incident first hand.
One correspondent wrote in a letter preserved in the files: “That ‘something’ came down in the Berwyn Mountains on that night I am certain... It is certain to the minds of both my friends who came with me and to me that we were visited by an object that evening.”
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Berwyn UFO Incident: Combination of an Earthquake and Meteor?
BBC - A 1974 'UFO incident' in the Berwyn Mountains, dubbed the Welsh Roswell, was dismissed as an earthquake and a meteor combining, official files show.A huge bang and a brilliant light in the sky were seen over north east Wales and there were later claims a spaceship crash was concealed.
Comparisons were drawn with Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, where it is claimed an alien crash was concealed
A Ministry of Defence investigation said there was no Welsh UFO.
The files show it was explained a noisy earth tremor coinciding with a meteor burning up in the atmosphere.
A search and rescue team was scrambled from RAF Valley on Anglesey, but found no wreckage on the mountainside.
The MOD investigation found that there were five other reports of UFOs seen over the UK at about 10pm on 23 January 1974, when the Berwyn Mountains incident happened.
Three sightings were in the Home Counties, one in Lincolnshire and another in Sussex.
Witnesses reported seeing a bright light in the north west whcih seemed to fall towards the horizon.
It is certain to the minds of both my friends who came with me and to me that we were visited by an object that evening”
An expert who undertook independent research into the Berwyn Mountains incident for the British Astronomical Society reported that a "fireball" was visible over most of the UK that night.
Sightings were received from Somerset, Norfolk, Manchester and Edinburgh, the files notes.
The fireball descended from about 120km in the sky to about 35km before disintegrating over Manchester, the expert found.
Brynmor John, who was then junior RAF minister, explained the official position in a letter to Dafydd Elis-Thomas, then a local MP, in May 1974.
Mr John wrote: "As suggested by the descriptions reported, it seems the phenomena could well have been caused by a meteor descending through the atmosphere burning up and finally disintegrating before it reached the ground.
"Such a hypothesis would also explain the absence of any signs of impact.
"It has also been suggested that at 8.32pm that evening there was an earth tremor in the Berwyn Mountains which produced a landslide with noises like detonation.
"The latter aspect is however outside the field of this department," Mr John added.
But the MoD's conclusions did not convince all those who witnessed the "Welsh Roswell".
The files also include a letter from one local who wrote: "That 'something" came down in the Berwyn Mountains on that night I am certain.
"It is certain to the minds of both my friends who came with me and to me that we were visited by an object that evening."
NOTE: "Welsh Roswell...dismissed as an earthquake and a meteor combining." Wow...that's some coincidence! Honestly, after all the hoopla about British MoD deciding to disclose UFO files, it seems that the flow of information is suddenly slowing or being altered. I have to wonder if something really is in store for us in the near future. Below are some previous postings on the Berwyn Incident...Lon
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Originally posted 7/2/2008
New 'Welsh Roswell' Witness Emerges After 34 Years
dailymail - One of Britain’s greatest UFO mysteries deepened last night after a new witness emerged after 34 years.
The Government allegedly covered up the “Welsh Roswell” incident, in the Berwyn mountain range in 1974, after scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and “Men in Black” scouring the area.
Claims that aliens crash-landed and their bodies were then transported by the Ministry of Defence to the top-secret research base Porton Down in Wiltshire were dismissed by Whitehall officials.
But suspicions about what really happened were re-ignited in May this year when hundreds of MoD documents about UFO sightings were released, with none containing any details about the Berwyn incident, reviving rumours of a cover-up.
Now, fresh evidence by retired gamekeeper Geraint Edwards, of Llandderfel, Denbighshire, has reopened the debate.
He told the makers of a new Channel Five documentary, which is being broadcast tonight, how he stood in amazement as a flying saucer hovered for 10 minutes above the mountains before it disappeared into space at impossible speed.
He said: “It was definitely a flying saucer. It was a pity I didn’t have a camera because it was there for at least 10 minutes, just hovering.
“We were on the way down to play darts when something caught our eye in the south-east, so we stopped.
“It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends of it were more pointy.
“When it took off, it just went like lightning on the same line as it hovered.
“It hovered back to the mountain, and (then it was) gone.
“I wrote it down in my diary. It was 6.45pm on the Friday night.
“If we were coming back from the pub, people would be saying, ‘they’ve had one or two (drinks)’ but we were going to the pub.”
His former neighbour, Pat Evans, a district nurse who gave a detailed eye-witness account of the phenomenon at the time, moved abroad to escape the mass attention she attracted from the media, UFO investigators and scientists.
But Mr Edwards has decided to speak out for the first time about his close encounter on February 15, 1974, for tonight’s television programme re-examining the evidence.
Three weeks earlier, on January 23, the villages of Llandrillo and Llandderfel, near Corwen, were rocked by a tremor measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale.
Reports of unexplained strange coloured lights and objects in the sky immediately afterwards and unusual military activity in the following weeks fuelled speculation that a UFO had crash-landed.
Sceptics maintain the explanation was an unlikely combination of an earthquake which struck Wales at the same time that a meteor shower passed overhead, and that “Men in Black” who residents reported seeing were actually seismologists researching the quake.
They also insist Pat Evans, who saw a “bright orb, the size of the Moon” with twinkling around the edges, was actually looking at a lamp carried by poachers on a nearby mountainside.
The absence of any material on the incident from the newly released MoD documents in May has roused suspicions from other eye-witnesses.
Farmer Huw Lloyd, 48, who was a teenager at the time, said: “Whatever it was, it was kept quiet. And things that have happened have been covered up.”
Retired North Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts, who was a sergeant at the time of UFO incident, was rushing to Llandrillo moments after the tremor with his superior when they saw the mysterious lights.
He said: “As we were driving, all of a sudden we saw this green light in the sky ahead of us and it seemed to be an arcing light, but it was very sudden, totally unexpected, different to anything ever seen before.”
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Originally posted 5/15/2008
New Information On Berwyn UFO Incident
The Berwyn mountains incident in 1974 has remained an enigma ever since, with reports of lights in the sky, an earthquake, claims of a crashed object and a cover up afterwards.
In fact some claim a UFO crashed, and “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers.
Now the Daily Post has acquired official documents showing how police were bombarded with calls and eye witness accounts of the strange event.
The “Welsh Roswell” incident happened one dark winter’s night on January 23, 1974, in the Berwyn Mountains between Bala and Corwen.
Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV, an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale.
As people ran from their houses, fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside above.
A local nurse, who believed an aircraft had crashed, drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby.
Searches were undertaken but, surprisingly, officially nothing was found.
Gwynedd Police received a number of reports that night from people claiming they had seen a UFO. The documents give a fascinating insight into what went on.
l Gwynedd Police Constabulary Major Incident Log – explosion – 21.10pm PC receiving 999 calls of UFO.
l A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
l A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I am speaking from... and can see the fire where I am.”
l Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
l At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
UFO researcher Russ Kellett has studied the event and is convinced something extraordinary happened.
He said: “There is conclusive evidence because of other documents I have that mention these objects on that night from Newcastle down to the Home Counties up to Coventry being seen in the sky.
“Five witnesses who were there on that night, who I know through a friend, said there was a crashed craft by the side of the road near Llandrillo.
“It became known as the Berwyn Mountains incident because there were two objects that came down at two separate locations.”
UFO sightings across the UK from 1978-1987 were released in eight MoD files to the National Archive yesterday.
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Welsh UFO Hunters Seek Clues to Explosion
It was way back in 1974 that shimmering lights of what is perceived to be a UFO were seen crashing into the Berwyn Mountain range near Bala.
Now Margaret Fry, the secretary of the Wales Fellowship of Independent Ufologists, is on the hunt for people who witnessed the ensuing explosion- and experienced the earthquake that coincided with the incident.
On the evening of January 23, 1974 there was an earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richer Scale, the core being at Bala and which was felt in the Berwyn Mountains area, after which there was a loud explosion.
According to Margaret: "People at Llandrillo village jammed the phones at Colwyn Bay police headquarters reporting strange lights on the Bronwen mountain range, which is a backdrop to the village set in a valley, immediately following the earthquake.
"The district nurse ... also phoned in and then with her two daughters went up on to the lonely B4391 which runs at the top of the mountains, fearing there had been a plane crash; planes had crashed in these mountains before.
"On arriving at a certain point the three saw an egg-shaped orange object sitting on a ridge of a mountain."
Margaret said she was told from 1979 until 1995, by numerous witnesses, that they had also seen the same thing: a large egg-shaped orange object sitting on a Berwyn mountain side.
Since 1995 Margaret has carried out annual investigations on the subject, visiting the area firstly with researcher Mathew Williams, then Alan Hilton.
Theories abound about other possible explanations for what happened, including a meteor shower and a stray missile, but Margaret says that diligent research has shown that "a UFO did descend slowly down on to a mountain ridge slope of the Berwyn range".
"By interviewing local farming community individuals at their remote homesteads and farms, we have been able to establish the exact locality," she added. "This UFO stayed on the mountains some one to one-and-a-half hours (and was) seen by various witnesses from different positions.
"As to whether a second UFO crashed into the Cader Berwyn mountain side we have yet to establish and are continuously researching to this day."
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Originally posted June 28, 2008
UFO Investigator: Lump of Metal Piece of Berwyn Mountains Alien Crash
If you think the existence of Martians is all nonsense, then here’s something you should know: alien hunter Russ Kellett has revealed a lump of mystery metal which he says was recovered from a crashed UFO 34 years ago.
The shiny one-and-a-half inch melted blob was found near Llandrillo in Berwyn Mountains, Wales, after reports of a spaceship plunging to earth.
Russ says it is similar to melted aluminium, yet heavier.
Police logs described a “terrific explosion” shaking houses on January 23, 1974, and locals said hundreds of cops and military personnel ordered everyone off the mountain.
It has been claimed that alien spacemen were whisked off to a secret military installation – all hushed up by the Government.
“That and this piece of metal from the spaceship proves in my mind the existence of aliens. The metal was picked up by someone who was on the mountain at the time. They have since died and it was passed to me about a year ago,” The Sun quoted Russ, as saying.
“I passed it to a jeweller who showed it to an expert but they have no idea what it is,” he added.
Russ, who started studying UFOs after being surrounded by inexplicable lights while on a motorbike in 1988, said: “None of these incidents surprise me. It is only a matter of time before we get conclusive proof.”
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