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That's alll bi rds 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: dot com. In February nineteen fifty three, a letter was 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: published in the national British newspaper The Times with an 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:23,279 Speaker 1: extraordinary revelation. The letter, sent by an associate of ample 22 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: Fourth Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, gave details of an 23 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 1: ancient manuscript that had recently been discovered in the abbey's archives. 24 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: The text, dating to around twelve to ninety CE, described 25 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: the various mundignities of the lives of the Benedictine monks 26 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 1: who were thought to have lived there at the time, 27 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: all fairly predictable, save for one startling detail. Whilst preparing 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 1: food for a feast, it was written that when Henry 29 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: the abbot was about to say grace, John, one of 30 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: the brethren, rushed into the hall, claiming to have seen 31 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: a great portent outside. The monks stepped out together, where 32 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: moments later they witnessed a large, round, silver thing like 33 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 1: a disk, flying slowly above them. It is a story 34 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:26,119 Speaker 1: often repeated in the animals of Eufology, right up there 35 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: with Ezekiel's biblical vision of glowing metal in the sky. 36 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: It was, of course a hoax fabricated by two schoolboys 37 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:43,119 Speaker 1: of Ample Fourth College. As it transpired, there had never 38 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: been an ample Fourth abbey as far back as the 39 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:53,800 Speaker 1: thirteenth century. In later iterations, to accommodate this minor contrary detail, 40 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 1: the story was changed, swapping ample fourth for the far 41 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 1: more ancient and credible location of nearby Violent Abbey. We 42 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: might say that the mutation of such a story is 43 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: evidence of its fictitious origins. And yet, as a species 44 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: of storytellers, we seem naturally predisposed to adapt our stories 45 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 1: in our endless retelling of them, regardless of their veracity. 46 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: Sometimes it is only in small ways, a slight change 47 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 1: of detail here or there, but never so much that 48 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: we lose the principal truth of it. Other times they 49 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: can become so reworked we are left to wander, much 50 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: like the Theseus paradox. If any of the original truth 51 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: remains at all, the stories become unmoored, creating realities all 52 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 1: of their own. It is as though the stories themselves 53 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 1: are alive, living, organic things to be handled with care, 54 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: which is why it is all the more compelling, particularly 55 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: for those tellers of stories of a fourteen in persuasion, 56 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: when their accounts remain stubbornly resistant to change. You're listening 57 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: to unexplained, and I'm Richard McClane smith. The rain had 58 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 1: been pummeling down for hours, though most of the children 59 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: had not been put off by the torrent, glad for 60 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: any opportunity to run around outside. Ten year old David 61 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: Davies had always preferred the comfort of the classroom, a 62 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: place to read and work while the wind rattled the 63 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: windows from outside. Aside from the unusually wet weather, it 64 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: had been a fairly average Friday in broad Haven, the 65 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: quaint coastal village overlooking the majesty of Saint Bride's Bay 66 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: on the southwestern edge of Cumrie, also known as the 67 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: Country of Wales. At the local primary school, however, Fridays 68 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: were always tinged with a certain magic, lifted by the 69 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,720 Speaker 1: promise of the approaching weekend. It was the perfect day, 70 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: you might say, for David's friend Philip to concoct the 71 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: story he was just preparing to tell him as he 72 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: burst into the classroom full of excitement, talking wildly, he 73 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: was barely able to get it all out as David 74 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: tried his best to keep up. They had seen something 75 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: at the far end of the playground, he said, some 76 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: kind of vehicle hovering above the ground. Soon others joined 77 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: in who had seen it too. A ufo, said one. No, 78 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: a flying saucer, said another. David listened incredulous as the 79 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,719 Speaker 1: tale grew bigger and bigger. They had watched it for 80 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: thirty minutes, they said. One boy had even seen a 81 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: man in a silver suit with spiked up ears climbing 82 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: out of it. David laughed it away, and, not being 83 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: one to believe such nonsense, resolved to expose the prank 84 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: at the first opportunity. And so it was that, at 85 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: roughly three forty five pm, David found himself making his 86 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,919 Speaker 1: way over the small concreted playground and out into the 87 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,279 Speaker 1: boggy playing fields beyond to where this apparent UFO had 88 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,679 Speaker 1: been seen. The playing area prised of about two acres 89 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: of land, bordered at the back by a small stream 90 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: and pockets of woodland, beyond which the surrounding fields merged 91 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: into a series of soft rolling hills. With the wind 92 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: and rain whipping at his face and his feet becoming 93 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: increasingly sodden, as he approached the perimeter fence, David was 94 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: beginning to wander why he'd bothered to make the journey. 95 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: Stopping at the fence, he stared out into the trees beyond. 96 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: It was only when he'd placed one leg over the 97 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 1: fence that something in an adjacent field caught his attention, 98 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: and then he saw it. It appeared to be attempting 99 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: to exit the woods, but had become stuck. At roughly 100 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: thirteen meters in length, it was evidently mechanical, but oddly shaped, 101 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: with a central dome and a red pulsating light on 102 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: the top of it. Curiously, there was no sound, But 103 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: what struck David the most was the strange color of it, 104 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: a swirl of soft but vibrant shades like mother of pearl. 105 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: For a moment, he couldn't take his eyes off it, 106 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: But as the craft moved back behind the trees, an 107 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: urge started to grow in his mind. He urge was 108 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: to run. Before he knew it, he was already halfway 109 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: back towards the school, running as if his life depended 110 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: on it. When he returned home that afternoon, David's mother 111 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: was immediately concerned by his distressed state. Quite unsure who 112 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: to contact, but convinced of his story, she placed a 113 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: call to Randall Jones Pew. Pew was a member of 114 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: the British UFO Research Association and well known in the 115 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: local area as something of an expert on the subject. 116 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: Excited by the proximity of this latest apparent sighting, the 117 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: amateur investigator drove immediately to the Davis family home in 118 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: tears Cross to interview David. Not long after, the pair 119 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,319 Speaker 1: was stood at the edge of broad Haven School playground 120 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: as David took him through exactly what he had seen. However, 121 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: with the light fading fast and the rain continuing to 122 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 1: pelt down, Pew decided to return the next day to 123 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: investigate further. The following morning, Randall returned with local journalist 124 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: Few Turnbull, but found no track marks in the ground 125 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: or any other evidence of a vehicle having recently been 126 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: in the area, until something peculiar caught their eye. A 127 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: wooden telegraph pole close to the area of the apparent sighting, 128 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: listing at a forty five degree angle. The mud at 129 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: its base ripped up from the ground as if it 130 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 1: had only recently been knocked over that weekend. David, along 131 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: with the thirteen other children who claimed to have witnessed 132 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: the craft, tried their best to come to terms with 133 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: what they had seen, whilst parents did their best to 134 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: reassure them that it had all been a figment of 135 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: their imagination. The school's head teacher, Ralph Llewellyn, had been 136 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 1: the first adult to hear about the incident, after being 137 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: chased down by one excitable pupil shortly after lunchtime on 138 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: the Friday. Naturally, believing it to have been some kind 139 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: of joke, he had assumed it would all blow over 140 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:12,120 Speaker 1: by the following Monday. However, when the children returned even 141 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 1: more adamant that what they had seen had not been 142 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,839 Speaker 1: a mere trick of the mind, Llewellyn was forced to 143 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: think again. Now a little unnerved by their sincerity, he 144 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: invited all fourteen pupils who claimed to have witnessed the 145 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 1: peculiar event, under exam conditions, to draw for him what 146 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: they had seen. Perhaps it was the therapeutic process of 147 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: putting into pictures what they hadn't quite been able to articulate, 148 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:45,600 Speaker 1: or merely the sense that they were finally being taken 149 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: seriously that brought a sense of calm to the school 150 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: that morning. But if her teacher Llewellyn was hoping for closure, 151 00:11:54,800 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: he would be sorely disappointed. That afternoon, a strange atmosphere 152 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 1: descended on the staff room as one by one, The 153 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 1: teachers laid out the pictures side by side, despite not 154 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,240 Speaker 1: knowing that they would be asked to draw what they 155 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,760 Speaker 1: had seen and having little to no time to confer 156 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: on the matter. Each of the children's pictures were startlingly similar. 157 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: After Hugh Turnbull's article about the apparent incident was published 158 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: later that day, the town quickly became a center of 159 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: national attention as journalists and news cameras flocked to the area. 160 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: Few took the claim seriously, however, seeing as it was 161 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 1: after all, based only on the evidence of children, and 162 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: it wasn't long before the teachers and pupils began to 163 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 1: tire of the attention, With interview requests being increasingly declined. 164 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: The cameras soon left the incident, destined to disappear into 165 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: the mists of the strange but true. But all that 166 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: was about to change. Two weeks later. One broad Haven 167 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: school teacher, standing in the playground around ten thirty am 168 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: had just become aware of a peculiar electrical hum when 169 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: she caught sight of something moving in the distance at 170 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: the far end of the playground. She would later describe 171 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 1: it as being shaped like a saucer with a slight 172 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 1: dome and a silvery metallic surface. It wasn't so much 173 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 1: moving a shimmering behind the trees. Later that day, shortly 174 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 1: before lunch, two canteen workers, unaware of the earlier sighting, 175 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 1: also saw something in the exact same spot. They watched 176 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 1: as it moved up the slope towards the hills before 177 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:16,679 Speaker 1: disappearing altogether. As they explained their sighting to head teacher 178 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: Llewellyn moments later, they also described a figure of what 179 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: they took to be a man climbing into the vehicle 180 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: before it moved away up the hill. Only this wasn't 181 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: a strange, unidentifiable craft, they thought, but merely an odd 182 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: looking council vehicle, possibly attached to the local sewage works. 183 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: Convinced this was what the children must have seen, the 184 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: cooks determined to put an end to the story once 185 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: and for all, and returned to the location the following morning, 186 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: hoping to at least find some tire marks in the mud, 187 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: but when they got there, they found nothing. The council 188 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: were contacted soon after to try and shed some light 189 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: on the mystery, only to confirm that no trucks or 190 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: any other vehicle had been anywhere near the school in 191 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Although he would not go as 192 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 1: far as to confirm the wildest of speculations, The school's 193 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: head teacher, Ralph Llewelyn, maintained of his young pupils that 194 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: he did not disbelieve they saw something they had never 195 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: seen before. It was certainly a novel series of events 196 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 1: for the ordinarily down to earth community, and they were 197 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: only just beginning. 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The 214 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: sun had already dipped below the horizon by the time 215 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: Pauline set off for the farm house, and with only 216 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: the finest sliver of a waning moon above, darkness would 217 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: soon be upon them. Pauline and her husband, Billy, an 218 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: expert dairy farmer, had moved to the area in nineteen 219 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: seventy four to take over Ripeston Farm, located just four 220 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: kilometers to the southwest of Broadhaven Village. On that night 221 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:33,360 Speaker 1: in March nineteen seventy seven, Pauline was returning in her 222 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: car from the nearby town Saint Ismael, with her two 223 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 1: twin daughters beside her in the passenger seat and her 224 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: ten year old son Kieran in the back. They hadn't 225 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,439 Speaker 1: gone far when Kiran first caught sight of something in 226 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: the sky moving towards them. Oval shaped with a luminous quality, 227 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 1: It appeared to be lit up from below by a soft, 228 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 1: yellowish night that shone down to the ground. Pauline watched 229 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: with alarm as it drew nearer and nearer, until finally 230 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,480 Speaker 1: it looked as though it might crash right through the windscreen, 231 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: turning sharply into the next road. Pauline watched with relief 232 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: as the light flew straight over the car and off 233 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: into the distance behind. Moments later, Kieran, who had been 234 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: watching it out the back window, gave a sudden cry. 235 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: The light had turned around and headed straight back in 236 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: the direction of their car. Hurry, mummy, it's getting closer, 237 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: he shouted, as Pauline switched the lights to full beam 238 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 1: and pressed down on the accelerator pedal, trying to keep 239 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: the car steady as they sped down the narrow country roads. 240 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 1: After finally pulling into the entrance to the farm, Pauline 241 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: was convinced she had lost it until scanning the line 242 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: of trees flanking the road to the right, she saw 243 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: it again, just above the tree tops, as if it 244 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: were deliberately keeping pace with the car. Suddenly, the headlights 245 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: began to flicker and the car's engine sputtered. Pauline banged 246 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: on the dashboard, but it was to no avail. Moments later, 247 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: the children screamed as the lights cut out, plunging them 248 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: into total darkness, followed by the engine completely shutting down. 249 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: When the car eventually rolled to a stop just short 250 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: at the farmhouse, Pauline wrenched the crying and terrified children 251 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: from inside and raced them into the house. Another son, Clinton, 252 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: having heard the commotion, arrived just in time to see 253 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: the strange light flying off toward the coast. Husband Billy, 254 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:06,880 Speaker 1: who arrived a few seconds later, had seen nothing. While 255 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: Pauline recounted what had happened, Billy jumped into the car 256 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:16,120 Speaker 1: and turned the key. Head Lights flooded the yard as 257 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: the engine growled into life. Pauline could only look on 258 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: with confusion. Just five minutes drive from Rippeston Farm lies 259 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: the neighboring farm of Lower Broadmoor. Both properties were in 260 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 1: fact owned by Josephine and Richard Hewison, who lived and 261 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: worked at Lower Broadmoor. It was only ten days after 262 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: the incident with Pauline's car that Josephine awoke one Saturday 263 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 1: morning to find something peculiar parked up in a paddock 264 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: at the back of her house. Staring at it through 265 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: the bedroom window, Josephine struggled to process the incongruous, bulbous 266 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: structure with its smooth metallic surface, Guessing it to be 267 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: roughly five meters high and twelve meters wide, she watched 268 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: it for a few minutes before running off to wake 269 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: up her sons, but by the time she returned to 270 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:30,959 Speaker 1: the window, it had gone wandering into the paddock. Shortly afterwards. 271 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: It was hard not to feel a little stupid as 272 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: her sons asked her to explain what she had seen. 273 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: It was only then that one of them noticed that 274 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: their pony was missing. The pony was normally kept fenced 275 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: off in a small field bordering the paddock and a 276 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: nearby greenhouse, rarely straying from this side of the field. 277 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: They found it later that day, wandering about at the 278 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: edge of the adjoining field, half a kilometer away. Three 279 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: weeks later, shortly before six am at Ripston Farm, Billy 280 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: and Clinton herded sixteen heifers into an outside pen in 281 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: preparation for their first milking of the day. Leaving them 282 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: for a moment, Billy and Clinton headed off to switch 283 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,120 Speaker 1: on the milking machines, returning only a few minutes later 284 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: to find that each one of them had vanished. Hurriedly 285 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: checking the gates, they found the more locked, bolted shut, 286 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: with even the twine that Billy used to keep them 287 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: secure still wrapped around them. Hearing the phone ring in 288 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: the house a few minutes later, Billy was amazed to 289 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: find a worker from Lower Broadmoor Farm on the other end, 290 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: inquiring as to what Billy's cows were doing there almost 291 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: two kilometers. The quiet coastal hamlet of Little Haven is 292 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:15,520 Speaker 1: situated just another few kilometers north of Lower Broadmoor. Its 293 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: pebbled shores and coal seams still visible in the cliff faces, 294 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 1: a testament to its previous life as a vibrant hub 295 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,680 Speaker 1: for local fishing and coal mining industries that had been 296 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: steadily declining in recent years. When Rosa Granville and her 297 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,400 Speaker 1: husband took over the running of the local Havenfort Hotel 298 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: in the early nineteen seventies, they were well aware of 299 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: its associated history, the talk of a mournful woman in 300 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: white who was said to haunt the building and nearby shoreline. 301 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 1: But not being one for superstition, Rosa hadn't given it 302 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 1: a second thought until the strange events of that spring 303 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:03,400 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven. It was in the early hours 304 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: of Tuesday, April nineteenth, that Rosa finally made her way 305 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: to bed after a long night of cleaning up after 306 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: her guests at night. It was Rosa's habit to listen 307 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: to Spanish music stations on the radio as she drifted 308 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: off to sleep. That night, however, her usual station was 309 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: playing up as she lay in the dark with her 310 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: husband fast asleep beside her, waiting for the signal to strengthen, 311 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 1: a crackle of interference was followed by a sudden burst 312 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: of static, before the radio finally cut out altogether. It 313 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,719 Speaker 1: was only then that she became aware of a gentle 314 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: humming sound. Thinking she must have left the central heating on, 315 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 1: she made her way out of the bedroom down the 316 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: long hallway towards the fire escape that led out to 317 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: the boiler house. But as she listened again, it soon 318 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: became clear that not only was the strange noise nothing 319 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 1: like the sound of the boiler but also it wasn't 320 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: coming from the boiler room. Unable to pinpoint it, she 321 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: gazed out towards the lights bobbing up and down in 322 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: the distant darkness, assuming it to be coming from one 323 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: of the ships. Moored up in the bay. Returning to 324 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: the bedroom, she was surprised to see a soft blue 325 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: light leaking through the gap in her curtains. She quietly 326 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,600 Speaker 1: made her way to the window and pulled the curtains open. 327 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: There in the field opposite was a peculiar light, like 328 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: the cold blue flame of a blowtorch, pulsing on and off. 329 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: Concerned that someone was breaking into their outhouse, Rosa grabbed 330 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 1: a pair of binoculars from the window sill and stared 331 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: out into the night. Picking up the light, she saw 332 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: that it was coming out of an object about two 333 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: meters wide and oval in shape. Moving the binoculars to 334 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: inspect the space beyond, she gasped. Standing between the object 335 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: and the far side of the field, she could clearly 336 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: see the outline of what looked like two humanoid figures, 337 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: but there was something deeply uncanny about their appearance. Not 338 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: only were they unusually tall, but their limbs seemed oddly distended. 339 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 1: Looking closer, she saw they were dressed in what looked 340 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,120 Speaker 1: like white plastic boiler suits. She watched as they bent 341 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: down to inspect something on the ground, before turning to 342 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 1: look in her direction, as if having sensed her presence, 343 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: and where their faces should have been, she saw nothing 344 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: but a blank and empty space. Rosa continued to watch 345 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: as they made their way up a short bank that 346 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: boardered the field before disappearing from view. After hurriedly switching 347 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: on the lights and waking her husband with a start, 348 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: she ushered him over to the window, but when she 349 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: looked out again, there was nothing but the darkness of 350 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: the field, with no sign of the figures or the 351 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: light anywhere. Back at Ripstone Farm, Pauline had barely left 352 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: the house since her encounter with the strange light. Though 353 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 1: she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was 354 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: that worried her exactly, she couldn't shake the unnerving sense 355 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 1: that somebody or something was watching them. Three nights after 356 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: the events at the haven Fought Hotel, at some time 357 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: around six twenty pm, Pauline and the family had gathered 358 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: around the kitchen table to eat when all the lights 359 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: simultaneously cut out. As the children nervously huddled together, Pauline 360 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: and Billy found a torch and lit some candles until 361 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: power was inexplicably restored twenty minutes later. Thinking little more 362 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: of it, with the children having gone to bed, Pauline 363 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: and Billy retired to the living room to watch television. 364 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:35,120 Speaker 1: It was past one am when Pauline, struggling to stay 365 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: awake in the armchair, noticed through the window a silvery 366 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: light flickering from a distant part of the adjacent field. 367 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: Not wanting to bother her husband, lying on the sofa opposite, 368 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: conscious of his skepticism about the incident with the car, 369 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: she did her best to ignore it. Twenty minutes later, 370 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: a sudden burst of interference the television was followed by 371 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: a cry from Billie. Pauline turned to find him sitting 372 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: straight up staring at the window. What the hell is that, 373 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 1: he asked, Pauline cried out in terror when she saw 374 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: it too. Pushed up against the glass was the figure 375 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: of what she assumed to be a man, standing at 376 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 1: least seven feet tall. He was dressed in a silver 377 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: all in one suit which covered the entirety of the head, 378 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: including what seemed like a large, square shaped helmet underneath, 379 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: and in place of her face, a jet black visor. 380 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: The figure appeared to be lit up from behind, and 381 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: though it remained stationary, Pauline noticed that the window was rattling. 382 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: She rushed to grab the children from their beds, leaving 383 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 1: Billy to keep watch on the figure that remained staring 384 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,040 Speaker 1: back into the room. After securing the children in the 385 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: living room, Pauline ran to the phone and called the 386 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: police when she returned shortly after the figure had gone. 387 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: Terrified by what was happening, Pauline kept the children together 388 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: while Billy made his way outside to investigate. However, after 389 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: an extensive search outside the building, Billy found no sign 390 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: of the intruder. In the weeks and months that followed, 391 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: a host of similar sightings were reported up and down 392 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: the south coast of Wales, including one made by Pauline 393 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: and Billy's twin daughters a few weeks later. They had 394 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: been out playing by the cliff tops one morning when 395 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 1: they claimed to have cited the peculiar figure once again 396 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: walking about the fields before vanishing in the long grass. 397 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: The collective incidents have since become known as the West 398 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 1: Wales UFO flap of nineteen seventy seven. Haven Fought hotel 399 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: proprietor Rosa Granville was so sufficiently shocked and moved by 400 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: what she had experienced that she even wrote to her 401 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: local MP, Nicholas Edwards, demanding that the British Ministry of 402 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: Defense make an investigation of the area. Squadron leader J. A. 403 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:44,440 Speaker 1: Cohen of nearby Broady Royal Air Force Base was able 404 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,680 Speaker 1: only to confirm that whatever had occurred had no connection 405 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: with operations at the base, though it has been speculated 406 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: that a number of the sightings of men in silver 407 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: suits may have been the work of local practical jokers. 408 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: Any such sightings were recorded some time after the initial 409 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: event at Broadhaven School. Of the fourteen children who claim 410 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,440 Speaker 1: to have witnessed the mysterious craft on that wet and 411 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: stormy afternoon of February the fourth, not one has changed 412 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:25,680 Speaker 1: their story or admitted to perpetrating a hoax of any kind. 413 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 1: As David Davies recounted many years after the event, I 414 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: did see something unexplained that day, and I will stick 415 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:48,000 Speaker 1: to that story for the rest of my life. If 416 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: you enjoy listening to Unexplained and would like to help supporters, 417 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: you can now go to Unexplained podcast dot com forward 418 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: slash support. 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