WEBVTT - S05 Episode 10: In the Shadow of the Mountain 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.640 The Berwin Mountains have always been a liminal place, a 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.439 place caught between worlds, where prehistoric humans once roamed and 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.120 bizarre tales of high strangeness are woven into the land. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.280 Caught between the Welsh wilds of Snowdonia to the west 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.360 and the borderlands of Wales and England to the east. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:33.000 It is a place where myth and magic simmer beneath 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:38.240 the surface, where fact and fiction blur, hinting at something more. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.600 All cultures talk of other worlds, places beyond the one 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.080 we know, and Welsh mythology is no different. Often, such 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:52.040 places like Kur, the Sumerian land of the dead, or 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.120 Hades of Greek mythology, are distinctly separate from the realm 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.680 of the living. These were depictions of the afterlife, lands 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.319 that only the dead could truly inhabit. The other world 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.160 of Welsh mythology, or ar Noon, as it is known, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.560 is something quite different, not so much another plain, but 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:17.679 another dimension, coexisting with ours and populated with other living 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:23.600 creatures existing in their own right. Ar Noon, also called 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.399 an oven thought to derive from the Welsh word meaning 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.560 deep in English, features prominently in the four branches of 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.759 the Mabinogi, a collection of stories in prose dating back 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:39.039 to the eleventh century, considered to be the earliest of 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:43.360 its kind in British literature. In the first branch, ar 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.160 Noon is depicted as a paradisical land ruled over by 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.320 a king named our Own, and located somewhere in the 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.560 Kingdom of Deviad, a former region of what is now 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:59.400 southwest Wales. In the ancient poem prethee an Oven, the 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.560 spoil of an Oven, thought to have originated sometime around 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.480 nine hundred CE, an earlier iteration of the mythical legend, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:12.680 King Arthur travels across the sea to this mysterious place. There, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.840 during his quest in search of a magical cauldron, we 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.040 learned that Arnoun is also home to a race of 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:24.120 fairy folk, and in the Welsh epic Cadgothi, in which 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.040 the magician Guidion does battle with King Arrowne of Arnoun, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.920 the citizens of the mystical land are depicted as something 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:37.840 altogether different. They were wide moored beasts bearing a hundred heads, 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:42.080 and black groined toads bearing a hundred claws, or in 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:46.919 other cases, mottled, ridged serpents with a hundred souls trapped 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:52.080 inside the folds of their skin. Arnoon is variously depicted 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.600 as being located on an island or somewhere deep in 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.440 the earth, with a small number of gateways to this 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.000 other world said to be scattered across the four corners 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:07.359 of the land. Over time, however, it became increasingly associated 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:12.080 with the North of Wales. Writing in Wales and Arthurian Legend, 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.600 Roger Loomis declares, in Arthur's time and before that, the 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:20.560 people of South Wales regarded North Wales as pre eminently 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.600 the land of the fairy. In the popular imagination, that 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:29.680 distant country was the abode of giants, monsters, magicians, and 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.640 all the creatures of enchantment. Out of it came the 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.080 fairies on their visits to the sunny lands of the South. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.240 And curiously, there is one place more than any other where, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.040 it is said the bridge between our world and theirs 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:49.960 is at its thinnest. That place is the Berwin Mountains. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:04:03.800 You're listening to unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. In 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.400 the evening of May tenth, nineteen seventy three, a young 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.400 couple were sitting in a car in Pike Hill, near 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.200 Oldham in the northwest of England, when a strange craft 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:18.880 came into view in the sky. The couple described it 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.800 as being like a helicopter, complete with an exaggerated dome 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.440 shaped top and beams of red, green and white light 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.760 shooting out from underneath it. They watched it hover for 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.919 a moment over the hill before it rotated slowly, shot 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.840 up to a hundred or so feet and then disappeared. 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.279 Around fifty similar sightings were seen over the next few 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.840 months across central and northwest England. They were always the same, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.680 a helicopter seen moving slowly but with purpose, as if 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:56.640 it was looking for something. With no official record of 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.719 anything flying in the areas at the time, local police 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.600 force it speculated that the mysterious craft was likely part 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:08.560 of a criminal enterprise running illicted errands from London. Others 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:13.440 suggested the helicopters were in fact delivering undercover CIA operatives 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.760 drafted in by the UK government to try and destabilize 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.679 the British trade union movement. It had been a fraught 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.080 few years as the government battled with rising inflation and 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.799 a global oil crisis, in turn bringing them into conflict 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.240 with the National Union of Miners over stagnating wages in 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.560 the coal industry. After a series of strikes and stalemates, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.919 with coal power accounting for roughly two thirds of the 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:43.320 country's electricity, the government made the drastic decision to impose 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:47.080 a three day week, restricting the use of electricity to 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:52.000 only three consecutive days of the working week. It was 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.599 for many an unsettling and unusual time that seemed to 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:01.880 manifest even more unusual events. On January fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.520 police forces throughout Central and North England were put on 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.960 alert for a rogue helicopter seen moving about in the area. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.000 Three days later, police received a report from an anonymous 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.680 caller of a single bright light seen moving over the 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.279 moors to the south of the Peak district, but nothing 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.760 is found. Perhaps it is only in hindsight that we 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.720 might determine these sightings to have any significance, when in 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.640 fact such fleeting accounts were little more than overactive imaginations 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.080 tapping into the nation's troubled psyche at a time of 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.719 such unsettling uncertainty. But soon, up on the slopes of 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:47.680 the Berwin Mountains highest peak, something substantial would take place. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:54.039 A strange and mysterious event that remains to this day unexplained. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.280 In the evening of Wednesday, January twenty third, nineteen seventy four, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.200 Anne Williams was settling down to watch TV when she 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.960 spotted something in the darkness outside her front room window. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.920 Williams lived in brow Dinham, situated at the northern edge 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.400 of the Berwin Mountains, where its rolling foothills could easily 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.520 be seen from out the back of the house. It 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.080 was a reasonably clear sky that night, awash with stars, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.520 but only the slightest hint of the new moon visible. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.560 But what Anne had seen was a bright light high 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.440 up above the hills that was steadily dropping down from 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:43.640 out of the sky, a lengthy golden tail shooting out 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:48.160 from behind it. She watched, stunned for what seemed like 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.120 minutes as it fell closer and closer toward the ground, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:57.320 pulsing as it went, until finally it disappeared behind the hills. 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.440 It was followed by what sounded like an explosion, and 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:08.920 then the ground began to shake. Police Sergeant Gwynn Williams 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.480 was at home a few miles to the north in 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.760 the town of Corwen when he heard the explosion. Two 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.520 Moments later, he felt the floor shift underneath him and 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:23.239 watched with alarm as the walls began to shake, rattling 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.040 a large mirror that was threatening to jump off its chain. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.520 Seconds later, Williams was out of the house and running 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:36.520 into the street, convinced that a lorry must have crashed nearby. Outside, 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.240 Williams looked in vain for any sign of an accident, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.280 but saw only the deathly quiet of the street, then 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.680 the sound of another front door opening, and then another, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.000 as more and more neighbors appeared in their doorways, with 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.760 a mixture of fear and confusion in their faces as 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:58.640 they looked out toward the mountains behind him. Following their gaze, 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.800 Sergeant william turned to see a soft, yellowish glow cresting 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.600 a distant peak. It hung there for a moment before 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:12.640 it faded away and the night returned down. At the 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.800 Gwynedd Police station in Colwyn Bay, six officers and three 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:20.240 support staff frantically worked the phones as more and more 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.640 calls came in. One officer on duty calling in from 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.880 the Landithlo also reported hearing the huge explosion and that 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.959 lights were flashing on the slopes of Cada Bronwyn. Another 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:37.800 of the Berwin's peaks, It was his belief that something 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.400 had just crashed onto the mountain, with police opening a 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.840 major incident lock, a flurry of calls went out to 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:52.080 nearby Raf Valley airfield and air traffic control towers, while 0:09:52.160 --> 0:10:03.800 local ambulance services were put on high alert. In flander 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.920 Fell village. Just prior to the explosion, Pat Evans was 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.319 sat in her living room with her daughters Diane and Tina, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.320 enjoying the latest episode of alf Garnet sitcom Till Death 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.360 Us Due Part. It was just after eight thirty pm 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.520 when she got up to make a cup of tea 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.800 in the kitchen and was also startled by the huge bang, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.520 with the ground shaking beneath her. A distressed Diane and 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.240 Tina shouted through from the living room what the hell 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:38.240 was that? They asked. Running outside, the three of them 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.600 looked out across the hills but found only the usual 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.240 still night air. But as numerous neighbors began appearing in 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.560 the street, each sharing their own account of the bizarre event, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.800 it was clear to Pat, an experienced nurse, that some 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:58.640 kind of aircraft had just crashed. Realizing how long it 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.080 would take for any help to arrive. Pat jumped onto 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.800 the phone and spent the next hour trying to get 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.319 through to the police to offer any help she could. 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.400 In the meantime, the sightings coming in to Gwynedd Police 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:17.360 Station were beginning to get a little more unusual. One 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:21.200 witness described seeing a bright red light like coal fire 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.040 emanating from the object, as well as lights above and 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.400 to the right, but also a light moving to the 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.280 bottom of it that changed from white to yellow and 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.199 back again, while another claimed to have seen what looked 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:39.680 like a large fire burning on the mountain side. Finally, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.720 at roughly nine thirty pm, Pat was eventually patched through 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.680 to Colwyn Bay Police station, where she was thanked for 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.520 her offer of help and invited to drive up to 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.079 the potential crash site to see what she could do. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:57.280 Pat replaced the receiver and looked across to Diane and Tina, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.200 both of whom were also trained in first age. Right, 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:11.640 she said, let's get in the car. As Pat and 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.280 her daughters made their way up through the narrow, winding 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:20.040 country lanes as the darkling Berwin Mountains loomed up above 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.800 them to the east, Diane and Tina were suddenly gripped 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.160 with fear at what they were about to find. A 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.000 light rain had begun to fall as Pat did her 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.800 best to reassure them, keeping one eye on the pitch 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.360 black lane as she feverishly scanned the horizon for any 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.560 sign off the downed plane. It was approaching ten PM 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.920 when the car reared up into the top of the 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:48.040 hills and the road began to level out all about them. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.400 What in daylight had been a vibrant snow topped moorland 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.599 seemed now like a vast ocean of black underneath the 0:12:55.760 --> 0:13:01.080 star filled sky. There, said one of her daughters, suddenly 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.319 pointing out the windscreen toward a strange, diffuse light in 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.160 the distance. It seemed to be emanating from the slopes 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.600 of Kada Berwin, the mountain's highest peak, like a giant, 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:19.160 hazy ball that was glowing and pulsating. As Pat recalled later, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.040 there were no flame shooting or anything like that. It 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:27.560 was very uniform, round in shape, and there were other 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:33.080 smaller lights dotted around it too. Pat continued on for 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:36.480 a few hundred yards, but was unable to get any closer, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.480 and it was much too far away to attempt an 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.440 approach on foot. Across the treacherous moorland. 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Hugh's parents were out for the evening, having 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.440 heard the explosive noise and felt the earth shaking like 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.320 many others in the vicinity that night, Hugh's first instinct 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:06.440 was to run outside and check on the animals, Relieved 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:10.560 to find them surprisingly calm under the circumstances, Hugh stood 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:14.040 ponderously for a moment in the cold air, scanning the 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:19.760 surrounding hills, before making his way back inside. Thirty minutes later, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.360 there was a knock at the door, and anxious Hugh 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.320 opened it to find what he assumed was a police 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:31.200 officer standing ominously silhouetted in the doorway while another officer 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:34.920 sat in a part police car behind him. The man 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.800 introduced himself as a police inspector, explaining that he'd driven 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:42.360 up from Barmouth to investigate a possible air crash and 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.760 who was looking for a guide and a farm vehicle 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.480 to help get him close to the sight of impact. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.000 With a mix of trepidation and excitement, Hugh was more 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.080 than happy to offer up his parents' landrover. However, since 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.800 he was too young to drive, neighbor Enoch volunteered to 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:03.280 take them up to the farm road. It was only 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.760 later that Hugh and Enoch realized how strange it was 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:10.719 that the officer had arrived only thirty minutes after the explosion, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.400 having said he'd come up from Barmouth, a town almost 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:20.200 two hours drive away. A short time later, Hugh, Enoch 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.119 and the officers were making their way further up the 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.879 mountain through the pitch black, straining for any glimpse of 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:31.439 something unusual, toward a destination that none were entirely sure of. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.160 It was about twenty past nine when, just as they 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.840 were approaching the end of the public road, Enoch spotted 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.600 a car up ahead, blocking the gateway to the farm 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.320 track beyond. After briefly inspecting the vehicle, with no one 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.480 around to claim it, the group swiftly pushed it to 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:59.840 the side of the road and continued on their way, 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.399 with Hugh taking over driving duties. The landrover continued up 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.560 the track, its bright beams flashing across tufts of snow 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.560 and heather as they bobbled over the roof to rain 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:17.359 toward the slopes of Cadabronwyn. Despite claiming to be unfamiliar 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.480 with the area, The inspector pointed suddenly to a spot 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.399 up ahead and told Hugh to pull over. It was 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.080 just approaching ten p m when the four of them 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.399 stepped out into the freezing air on the lookout for 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.480 any sign of the apparent crash site, and that's when 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.840 they saw it, a strong white light down on the 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.639 edge of the valley below, glowing like a halo above 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:46.639 a small patch of woodland. The group watched it for 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.200 a good fifteen seconds before the inspector ordered them back 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.200 into the car and ordered Hugh to try and get 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.440 them closer. They'd barely made a few hundred yards, however, 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.679 when a sharp hiss came through the inspector radio, followed 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.119 by a voice instructing him to leave the mountain and 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:09.680 return first thing in the morning. It was odd, thought 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.920 Hugh that they would decide to turn back then, having 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.760 got so close to what they've been looking for, but 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.720 with no desire to argue, he turned the land, drove 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.879 around and headed back to the farm, passing a police 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.000 car on the way. Hugh pulled up and the officers 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.439 talked for a moment before that car also turned and 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.040 followed them back to the farm. With Hugh and Enoch 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.920 returning home, the police headed off back down the mountain 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.360 that night. A three man crew was also dispatched from 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:46.960 the RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team, arriving in Flandithlo just 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.600 after midnight. However, after speaking to local police, the team 0:19:51.600 --> 0:20:01.520 were asked to stand down until the following morning. Back 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.840 at precisely eight thirty eight p m. Just over three 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:09.320 hundred miles away in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Global Seismology Unit 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:13.240 of the Institute of Geological Sciences picked up an unusual 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.480 reading a tremor emanating from the region of the Berwin Mountains, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.600 registering between three to four on the Richter scale. The 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.560 following morning, as news of the strange event began to circulate, 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:32.440 a journalist contacted the Institute's senior scientific officer, doctor Roy Lillwall, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.520 asking for his thoughts or whether it was a meteor 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:40.159 that had crashed into the mountain. Doctor Lillwall was taken 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.160 back in surprise at the suggestion, since any meteor causing 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.120 that larger tremor would have had to have been several 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.320 tons in mass, and as such would have left little 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:55.320 doubt that it was responsible. The r A F Valley 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.679 Rescue team set out at first light the following morning 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:02.240 and were joined by a small group of local police officers. 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:06.480 With a fresh dusting of snow, the search party made 0:21:06.480 --> 0:21:09.240 their way toward the spot where Hugh and the inspector 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:13.439 had been searching the night before. Despite the assistance of 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:17.080 two aircraft carrying out a photographic survey of the area 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:20.720 from above, they find nothing to account for the mysterious 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:25.920 events of the night before. At shortly before two fifteen pm, 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.080 the search was called off. By this point it had 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:33.439 also been determined that no aircraft was spotted on radar 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:38.160 descending into the region, and none officially at least had 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:43.359 been declared missing elsewhere on the mountain. That morning, doctor 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:48.720 Ron Madison and Denia and Evans, scientists from nearby Keel University, 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:52.920 encouraged by reports of a possible impact of a celestial object, 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:58.080 stumbled across the moor in search of meteor fragments. However, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.359 despite uncovering science recent disturbance on the surface of the soil, 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.560 with the snow continuing to fall, their efforts also came 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:11.320 to nothing. Later that night, in the village of Gabowin, 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.160 located just to the east of the Berwin Mountains across 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.159 the border in England, resident David Upton had just stepped 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:22.320 out his back door when he noticed an unusually bright 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:26.840 object in the sky. After grabbing some binoculars from inside 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.840 and yelling for his sister and mother to join him. 0:22:29.920 --> 0:22:31.920 The three of them took it in turns to keep 0:22:32.000 --> 0:22:35.480 tabs on the object. It was only when they raised 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.199 the binoculars to their eyes that they were able to 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.280 make out the shape of it, like a disk that 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:46.879 appeared to be split into four distinct colors red, green, yellow, 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:52.080 and purple. After ten minutes spent observing it, the object 0:22:52.200 --> 0:23:02.440 eventually disappeared behind a cloud. Over the next few days, 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:06.199 as confusion reigned amongst local residents as to just what 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:10.520 exactly had taken place, six strangers slowly began making their 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:14.040 way through the many local villages, keen to get first 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:18.320 hand eye witness accounts of the event. Traveling door to door, 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.680 the individuals introduced themselves as part of a British geological 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:26.640 survey team and spoke to over two hundred locals, asking 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:30.000 what exactly they'd seen or heard, and whether they'd been 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:34.960 alarmed or frightened by the experience. Taking together the size 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.520 of the seismic activity, the sightings of a burning object 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:42.400 seen falling from the sky, and the lack of aircraft debris, 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:46.560 scientists eventually came to the conclusion that the explosion and 0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:50.359 resulting tremor had been the result of an earthquake, which, 0:23:50.480 --> 0:23:54.239 in a feat of extraordinary coincidence, just so happened to 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.880 occur at precisely the same time that a meteor had 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:02.880 fallen from the sky. Many sightings of peculiar light seen 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.040 on the mountains that night were later passed off as 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:09.640 witnesses confusing the lamps of a group of poachers whose 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:13.400 abandoned car had been found by police with something more 0:24:13.440 --> 0:24:19.639 other worldly. Before long, however, British usologists were beginning to 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:24.560 question the likelihood of those explanations, and more strange stories 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:28.800 were beginning to crop up. Reports of soldiers entering a 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:32.960 local farm yard surely after the explosion was heard requesting 0:24:32.960 --> 0:24:36.120 to use the phone because their radio receiver had broken, 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:39.800 despite the fact that no military personnel was said to 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:43.679 have been involved in the search that night, and one man, 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:48.159 Ken Houghton of Better Sir Koyd in North Wales, claimed 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:50.960 to have watched what he described as a luminous sphere 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.959 roughly five hundred feet across, traveling at speed at around 0:24:55.040 --> 0:25:06.720 fifteen hundred feet, drop straight down into the sea. It 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:10.760 was some months later when prominent UFO researcher Jenny Randalls, 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:14.080 who had later become director of the British UFO Research 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:19.000 Association or BOUFORA, received a peculiar package in the post, 0:25:20.000 --> 0:25:23.080 consisting of a typed letter and a cassette tape. It 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:26.600 had been sent to her by a mysterious organization calling 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:31.520 itself the Aerial Phenomena Inquiry Network or ARPEN for short. 0:25:32.240 --> 0:25:35.840 The letter outlined the alarming suggestion that what had crashed 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:39.080 in the mountains that night was actually a flying saucer, 0:25:39.520 --> 0:25:43.560 and both it and its crew, described as tall humanoid aliens, 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:47.000 had been extracted from the area by a specialist ARPEN 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:51.520 team who arrived at the scene soon after. After loading 0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:55.080 the tape into her cassette player, Randalls sat and listened 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:58.840 to the bizarre contents, beginning with an introduction from a 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:03.040 man with an American accent calling himself J. T. Anderson, 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:07.520 Supreme Commander of ARPEN. It was followed by a series 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:11.840 of TV and radio broadcasts about UFOs, spliced in with 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:16.040 terrified voices warning about the dangers of UFOs and their 0:26:16.080 --> 0:26:21.480 hostile nature. Over the next few years, as the UFO 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:26.439 idea gained traction, Randall's interest also grew, so much so 0:26:26.640 --> 0:26:28.800 that she even moved to the area in the nineteen 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:33.880 seventies to find out more for herself. There, she encountered 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:37.960 locals who claimed, despite written evidence to the contrary, that 0:26:38.080 --> 0:26:40.880 there actually had been a military presence on the mountain 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:47.440 that night. In the early nineteen nineties, Margaret Fry, working 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:52.119 for the bufora magazine, interviewed nurse Pat Evans about that 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:56.320 most peculiar of nights. But this time there was a 0:26:56.400 --> 0:27:01.040 new detail in her story. Shortly after seeing the strange 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:04.560 light at the top of the mountain, Pat allegedly now 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:08.119 claimed that she and her daughters were confronted by soldiers. 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:11.960 Having told her that the road was closed, Pat was 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:17.240 ordered to turn round and leave the area immediately. Shortly 0:27:17.280 --> 0:27:21.560 after the article was published, a panicking Pat called Margaret, 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:24.800 demanding to know why she'd added this extra detail to 0:27:24.880 --> 0:27:28.399 her story, because she hadn't said anything of the sort 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:33.640 to her. Confused, Margaret consulted her notes from the interview 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:38.640 and was surprised to find clearly written there Pat's recollection 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:42.879 of the soldiers. Worried that she might have got something wrong, 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:46.760 she then spoke to another researcher who'd accompanied her to 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:50.920 the interview, She was also convinced that Pat had indeed 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:55.320 included this in her story. Could they both have imagined 0:27:55.359 --> 0:28:00.320 it somehow, some kind of wish fulfillment perhaps, where as 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:04.560