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The letter, sent by an associate of ample 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:27.520 Fourth Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, gave details of an 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:32.080 ancient manuscript that had recently been discovered in the abbey's archives. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:38.039 The text, dating to around twelve to ninety CE, described 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.880 the various mundignities of the lives of the Benedictine monks 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.680 who were thought to have lived there at the time, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:52.880 all fairly predictable, save for one startling detail. Whilst preparing 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.559 food for a feast, it was written that when Henry 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.760 the abbot was about to say grace, John, one of 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.320 the brethren, rushed into the hall, claiming to have seen 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:10.560 a great portent outside. The monks stepped out together, where 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:15.400 moments later they witnessed a large, round, silver thing like 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:21.640 a disk, flying slowly above them. It is a story 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.119 often repeated in the animals of Eufology, right up there 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:32.000 with Ezekiel's biblical vision of glowing metal in the sky. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.720 It was, of course a hoax fabricated by two schoolboys 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:43.119 of Ample Fourth College. As it transpired, there had never 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.880 been an ample Fourth abbey as far back as the 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:53.800 thirteenth century. In later iterations, to accommodate this minor contrary detail, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.959 the story was changed, swapping ample fourth for the far 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:07.080 more ancient and credible location of nearby Violent Abbey. We 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.560 might say that the mutation of such a story is 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:16.160 evidence of its fictitious origins. And yet, as a species 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:21.200 of storytellers, we seem naturally predisposed to adapt our stories 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.200 in our endless retelling of them, regardless of their veracity. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.720 Sometimes it is only in small ways, a slight change 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.280 of detail here or there, but never so much that 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.880 we lose the principal truth of it. Other times they 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.840 can become so reworked we are left to wander, much 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.840 like the Theseus paradox. If any of the original truth 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:57.400 remains at all, the stories become unmoored, creating realities all 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.560 of their own. It is as though the stories themselves 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:08.880 are alive, living, organic things to be handled with care, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.880 which is why it is all the more compelling, particularly 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.240 for those tellers of stories of a fourteen in persuasion, 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:25.520 when their accounts remain stubbornly resistant to change. You're listening 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:41.960 to unexplained, and I'm Richard McClane smith. The rain had 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.600 been pummeling down for hours, though most of the children 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.600 had not been put off by the torrent, glad for 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.240 any opportunity to run around outside. Ten year old David 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:58.800 Davies had always preferred the comfort of the classroom, a 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.200 place to read and work while the wind rattled the 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:08.200 windows from outside. Aside from the unusually wet weather, it 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.640 had been a fairly average Friday in broad Haven, the 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.800 quaint coastal village overlooking the majesty of Saint Bride's Bay 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.359 on the southwestern edge of Cumrie, also known as the 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:26.600 Country of Wales. At the local primary school, however, Fridays 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.359 were always tinged with a certain magic, lifted by the 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.720 promise of the approaching weekend. It was the perfect day, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.520 you might say, for David's friend Philip to concoct the 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.640 story he was just preparing to tell him as he 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:47.280 burst into the classroom full of excitement, talking wildly, he 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.040 was barely able to get it all out as David 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:55.120 tried his best to keep up. They had seen something 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.680 at the far end of the playground, he said, some 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:05.000 kind of vehicle hovering above the ground. Soon others joined 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:09.960 in who had seen it too. A ufo, said one. No, 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:16.839 a flying saucer, said another. David listened incredulous as the 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.719 tale grew bigger and bigger. They had watched it for 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.200 thirty minutes, they said. One boy had even seen a 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.960 man in a silver suit with spiked up ears climbing 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:33.400 out of it. David laughed it away, and, not being 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.040 one to believe such nonsense, resolved to expose the prank 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.600 at the first opportunity. And so it was that, at 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.680 roughly three forty five pm, David found himself making his 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.919 way over the small concreted playground and out into the 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:56.279 boggy playing fields beyond to where this apparent UFO had 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:01.679 been seen. The playing area prised of about two acres 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.080 of land, bordered at the back by a small stream 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:10.280 and pockets of woodland, beyond which the surrounding fields merged 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:15.440 into a series of soft rolling hills. With the wind 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.440 and rain whipping at his face and his feet becoming 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:24.080 increasingly sodden, as he approached the perimeter fence, David was 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.520 beginning to wander why he'd bothered to make the journey. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:32.280 Stopping at the fence, he stared out into the trees beyond. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.200 It was only when he'd placed one leg over the 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.520 fence that something in an adjacent field caught his attention, 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:46.760 and then he saw it. It appeared to be attempting 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.440 to exit the woods, but had become stuck. At roughly 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:56.480 thirteen meters in length, it was evidently mechanical, but oddly shaped, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.640 with a central dome and a red pulsating light on 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.880 the top of it. Curiously, there was no sound, But 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.440 what struck David the most was the strange color of it, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.240 a swirl of soft but vibrant shades like mother of pearl. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.840 For a moment, he couldn't take his eyes off it, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.440 But as the craft moved back behind the trees, an 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:29.600 urge started to grow in his mind. He urge was 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:34.760 to run. Before he knew it, he was already halfway 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:39.280 back towards the school, running as if his life depended 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:54.040 on it. When he returned home that afternoon, David's mother 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:59.400 was immediately concerned by his distressed state. Quite unsure who 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:03.320 to contact, but convinced of his story, she placed a 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:08.080 call to Randall Jones Pew. Pew was a member of 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.040 the British UFO Research Association and well known in the 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.520 local area as something of an expert on the subject. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.880 Excited by the proximity of this latest apparent sighting, the 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:25.480 amateur investigator drove immediately to the Davis family home in 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:31.160 tears Cross to interview David. Not long after, the pair 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.319 was stood at the edge of broad Haven School playground 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.360 as David took him through exactly what he had seen. However, 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.040 with the light fading fast and the rain continuing to 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.559 pelt down, Pew decided to return the next day to 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:56.400 investigate further. The following morning, Randall returned with local journalist 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.280 Few Turnbull, but found no track marks in the ground 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.880 or any other evidence of a vehicle having recently been 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:10.000 in the area, until something peculiar caught their eye. A 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.160 wooden telegraph pole close to the area of the apparent sighting, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.880 listing at a forty five degree angle. The mud at 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.360 its base ripped up from the ground as if it 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:30.040 had only recently been knocked over that weekend. David, along 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.000 with the thirteen other children who claimed to have witnessed 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.200 the craft, tried their best to come to terms with 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.920 what they had seen, whilst parents did their best to 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.760 reassure them that it had all been a figment of 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:50.760 their imagination. The school's head teacher, Ralph Llewellyn, had been 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.160 the first adult to hear about the incident, after being 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.400 chased down by one excitable pupil shortly after lunchtime on 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:03.280 the Friday. Naturally, believing it to have been some kind 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.440 of joke, he had assumed it would all blow over 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:12.120 by the following Monday. However, when the children returned even 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.960 more adamant that what they had seen had not been 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.839 a mere trick of the mind, Llewellyn was forced to 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:25.320 think again. Now a little unnerved by their sincerity, he 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.880 invited all fourteen pupils who claimed to have witnessed the 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:33.320 peculiar event, under exam conditions, to draw for him what 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.440 they had seen. Perhaps it was the therapeutic process of 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.240 putting into pictures what they hadn't quite been able to articulate, 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.600 or merely the sense that they were finally being taken 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.080 seriously that brought a sense of calm to the school 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:54.160 that morning. But if her teacher Llewellyn was hoping for closure, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:12:02.040 he would be sorely disappointed. That afternoon, a strange atmosphere 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.600 descended on the staff room as one by one, The 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:11.080 teachers laid out the pictures side by side, despite not 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.240 knowing that they would be asked to draw what they 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.760 had seen and having little to no time to confer 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:21.800 on the matter. Each of the children's pictures were startlingly similar. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.640 After Hugh Turnbull's article about the apparent incident was published 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.240 later that day, the town quickly became a center of 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:37.040 national attention as journalists and news cameras flocked to the area. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.360 Few took the claim seriously, however, seeing as it was 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:47.560 after all, based only on the evidence of children, and 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.960 it wasn't long before the teachers and pupils began to 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:56.559 tire of the attention, With interview requests being increasingly declined. 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:03.120 The cameras soon left the incident, destined to disappear into 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.760 the mists of the strange but true. But all that 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:22.320 was about to change. Two weeks later. One broad Haven 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:27.160 school teacher, standing in the playground around ten thirty am 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:31.080 had just become aware of a peculiar electrical hum when 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.560 she caught sight of something moving in the distance at 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.840 the far end of the playground. She would later describe 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.400 it as being shaped like a saucer with a slight 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.600 dome and a silvery metallic surface. It wasn't so much 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:56.319 moving a shimmering behind the trees. Later that day, shortly 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:01.000 before lunch, two canteen workers, unaware of the earlier sighting, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:07.200 also saw something in the exact same spot. They watched 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.680 as it moved up the slope towards the hills before 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:16.679 disappearing altogether. As they explained their sighting to head teacher 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.920 Llewellyn moments later, they also described a figure of what 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.000 they took to be a man climbing into the vehicle 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.440 before it moved away up the hill. Only this wasn't 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.880 a strange, unidentifiable craft, they thought, but merely an odd 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:38.040 looking council vehicle, possibly attached to the local sewage works. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.120 Convinced this was what the children must have seen, the 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.960 cooks determined to put an end to the story once 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.480 and for all, and returned to the location the following morning, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.840 hoping to at least find some tire marks in the mud, 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:58.840 but when they got there, they found nothing. The council 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.840 were contacted soon after to try and shed some light 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.880 on the mystery, only to confirm that no trucks or 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.280 any other vehicle had been anywhere near the school in 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:15.520 the last two weeks. Although he would not go as 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.960 far as to confirm the wildest of speculations, The school's 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.160 head teacher, Ralph Llewelyn, maintained of his young pupils that 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.520 he did not disbelieve they saw something they had never 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:33.200 seen before. It was certainly a novel series of events 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.440 for the ordinarily down to earth community, and they were 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:45.200 only just beginning. 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Pauline and her husband, Billy, an 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.679 expert dairy farmer, had moved to the area in nineteen 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:23.560 seventy four to take over Ripeston Farm, located just four 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:28.920 kilometers to the southwest of Broadhaven Village. On that night 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.360 in March nineteen seventy seven, Pauline was returning in her 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:37.040 car from the nearby town Saint Ismael, with her two 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.160 twin daughters beside her in the passenger seat and her 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.560 ten year old son Kieran in the back. They hadn't 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.439 gone far when Kiran first caught sight of something in 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:55.320 the sky moving towards them. Oval shaped with a luminous quality, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.280 It appeared to be lit up from below by a soft, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:04.879 yellowish night that shone down to the ground. Pauline watched 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.000 with alarm as it drew nearer and nearer, until finally 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.480 it looked as though it might crash right through the windscreen, 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:18.159 turning sharply into the next road. Pauline watched with relief 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.600 as the light flew straight over the car and off 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:26.960 into the distance behind. Moments later, Kieran, who had been 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.800 watching it out the back window, gave a sudden cry. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:35.679 The light had turned around and headed straight back in 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:41.160 the direction of their car. Hurry, mummy, it's getting closer, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:44.800 he shouted, as Pauline switched the lights to full beam 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.880 and pressed down on the accelerator pedal, trying to keep 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.639 the car steady as they sped down the narrow country roads. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.720 After finally pulling into the entrance to the farm, Pauline 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.960 was convinced she had lost it until scanning the line 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.240 of trees flanking the road to the right, she saw 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.159 it again, just above the tree tops, as if it 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:13.560 were deliberately keeping pace with the car. Suddenly, the headlights 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:18.840 began to flicker and the car's engine sputtered. Pauline banged 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.680 on the dashboard, but it was to no avail. Moments later, 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.000 the children screamed as the lights cut out, plunging them 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:32.359 into total darkness, followed by the engine completely shutting down. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.600 When the car eventually rolled to a stop just short 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:43.560 at the farmhouse, Pauline wrenched the crying and terrified children 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:50.080 from inside and raced them into the house. Another son, Clinton, 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:54.400 having heard the commotion, arrived just in time to see 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:59.680 the strange light flying off toward the coast. Husband Billy, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:06.880 who arrived a few seconds later, had seen nothing. While 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:11.119 Pauline recounted what had happened, Billy jumped into the car 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:16.120 and turned the key. Head Lights flooded the yard as 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.720 the engine growled into life. Pauline could only look on 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:36.680 with confusion. Just five minutes drive from Rippeston Farm lies 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.520 the neighboring farm of Lower Broadmoor. Both properties were in 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.280 fact owned by Josephine and Richard Hewison, who lived and 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:49.720 worked at Lower Broadmoor. It was only ten days after 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:54.160 the incident with Pauline's car that Josephine awoke one Saturday 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:58.360 morning to find something peculiar parked up in a paddock 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.600 at the back of her house. Staring at it through 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:08.280 the bedroom window, Josephine struggled to process the incongruous, bulbous 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:13.439 structure with its smooth metallic surface, Guessing it to be 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:18.080 roughly five meters high and twelve meters wide, she watched 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.840 it for a few minutes before running off to wake 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.480 up her sons, but by the time she returned to 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:30.959 the window, it had gone wandering into the paddock. Shortly afterwards. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.520 It was hard not to feel a little stupid as 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.560 her sons asked her to explain what she had seen. 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:41.960 It was only then that one of them noticed that 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:48.439 their pony was missing. The pony was normally kept fenced 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:51.359 off in a small field bordering the paddock and a 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:55.320 nearby greenhouse, rarely straying from this side of the field. 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.200 They found it later that day, wandering about at the 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:08.520 edge of the adjoining field, half a kilometer away. Three 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.320 weeks later, shortly before six am at Ripston Farm, Billy 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.399 and Clinton herded sixteen heifers into an outside pen in 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:22.440 preparation for their first milking of the day. Leaving them 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.800 for a moment, Billy and Clinton headed off to switch 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:29.120 on the milking machines, returning only a few minutes later 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.760 to find that each one of them had vanished. Hurriedly 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.560 checking the gates, they found the more locked, bolted shut, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.840 with even the twine that Billy used to keep them 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:46.800 secure still wrapped around them. Hearing the phone ring in 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:50.520 the house a few minutes later, Billy was amazed to 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:53.520 find a worker from Lower Broadmoor Farm on the other end, 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:58.480 inquiring as to what Billy's cows were doing there almost 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:10.439 two kilometers. The quiet coastal hamlet of Little Haven is 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:15.520 situated just another few kilometers north of Lower Broadmoor. Its 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:19.520 pebbled shores and coal seams still visible in the cliff faces, 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.320 a testament to its previous life as a vibrant hub 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.680 for local fishing and coal mining industries that had been 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:32.639 steadily declining in recent years. When Rosa Granville and her 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:36.400 husband took over the running of the local Havenfort Hotel 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.000 in the early nineteen seventies, they were well aware of 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:44.720 its associated history, the talk of a mournful woman in 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:49.360 white who was said to haunt the building and nearby shoreline. 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:54.320 But not being one for superstition, Rosa hadn't given it 0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:58.119 a second thought until the strange events of that spring 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:03.400 in nineteen seventy seven. It was in the early hours 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.640 of Tuesday, April nineteenth, that Rosa finally made her way 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.639 to bed after a long night of cleaning up after 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:15.080 her guests at night. It was Rosa's habit to listen 0:24:15.119 --> 0:24:18.440 to Spanish music stations on the radio as she drifted 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:23.280 off to sleep. That night, however, her usual station was 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:27.399 playing up as she lay in the dark with her 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:31.800 husband fast asleep beside her, waiting for the signal to strengthen, 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.119 a crackle of interference was followed by a sudden burst 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:43.040 of static, before the radio finally cut out altogether. It 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:45.719 was only then that she became aware of a gentle 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:50.240 humming sound. Thinking she must have left the central heating on, 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:53.840 she made her way out of the bedroom down the 0:24:53.960 --> 0:24:57.280 long hallway towards the fire escape that led out to 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:02.120 the boiler house. But as she listened again, it soon 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:05.879 became clear that not only was the strange noise nothing 0:25:05.920 --> 0:25:09.600 like the sound of the boiler but also it wasn't 0:25:09.640 --> 0:25:14.879 coming from the boiler room. Unable to pinpoint it, she 0:25:14.960 --> 0:25:18.040 gazed out towards the lights bobbing up and down in 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:21.440 the distant darkness, assuming it to be coming from one 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:25.800 of the ships. Moored up in the bay. Returning to 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:28.880 the bedroom, she was surprised to see a soft blue 0:25:28.960 --> 0:25:34.280 light leaking through the gap in her curtains. She quietly 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:37.600 made her way to the window and pulled the curtains open. 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.280 There in the field opposite was a peculiar light, like 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:46.920 the cold blue flame of a blowtorch, pulsing on and off. 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.040 Concerned that someone was breaking into their outhouse, Rosa grabbed 0:25:53.040 --> 0:25:56.000 a pair of binoculars from the window sill and stared 0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:01.720 out into the night. Picking up the light, she saw 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.120 that it was coming out of an object about two 0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:09.399 meters wide and oval in shape. Moving the binoculars to 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:14.920 inspect the space beyond, she gasped. Standing between the object 0:26:15.119 --> 0:26:18.119 and the far side of the field, she could clearly 0:26:18.119 --> 0:26:22.120 see the outline of what looked like two humanoid figures, 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:28.480 but there was something deeply uncanny about their appearance. Not 0:26:28.640 --> 0:26:33.680 only were they unusually tall, but their limbs seemed oddly distended. 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:38.920 Looking closer, she saw they were dressed in what looked 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:44.120 like white plastic boiler suits. She watched as they bent 0:26:44.200 --> 0:26:47.800 down to inspect something on the ground, before turning to 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.640 look in her direction, as if having sensed her presence, 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:56.240 and where their faces should have been, she saw nothing 0:26:56.600 --> 0:27:03.520 but a blank and empty space. Rosa continued to watch 0:27:03.760 --> 0:27:06.280 as they made their way up a short bank that 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:12.800 boardered the field before disappearing from view. After hurriedly switching 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:15.600 on the lights and waking her husband with a start, 0:27:16.520 --> 0:27:19.159 she ushered him over to the window, but when she 0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:22.800 looked out again, there was nothing but the darkness of 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:26.080 the field, with no sign of the figures or the 0:27:26.200 --> 0:27:39.240 light anywhere. Back at Ripstone Farm, Pauline had barely left 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:43.320 the house since her encounter with the strange light. Though 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:45.679 she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was 0:27:45.720 --> 0:27:49.280 that worried her exactly, she couldn't shake the unnerving sense 0:27:49.760 --> 0:27:56.160 that somebody or something was watching them. Three nights after 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:59.480 the events at the haven Fought Hotel, at some time 0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:04.040 around six twenty pm, Pauline and the family had gathered 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:07.280 around the kitchen table to eat when all the lights 0:28:07.359 --> 0:28:14.160 simultaneously cut out. As the children nervously huddled together, Pauline 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:17.800 and Billy found a torch and lit some candles until 0:28:17.880 --> 0:28:23.720 power was inexplicably restored twenty minutes later. Thinking little more 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:27.360 of it, with the children having gone to bed, Pauline 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:30.160 and Billy retired to the living room to watch television. 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:35.120 It was past one am when Pauline, struggling to stay 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:39.600 awake in the armchair, noticed through the window a silvery 0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:43.280 light flickering from a distant part of the adjacent field. 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:48.400 Not wanting to bother her husband, lying on the sofa opposite, 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.360 conscious of his skepticism about the incident with the car, 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:57.320 she did her best to ignore it. Twenty minutes later, 0:28:58.040 --> 0:29:02.200 a sudden burst of interference the television was followed by 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:07.200 a cry from Billie. Pauline turned to find him sitting 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:12.640 straight up staring at the window. What the hell is that, 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:18.000 he asked, Pauline cried out in terror when she saw 0:29:18.000 --> 0:29:24.600 it too. Pushed up against the glass was the figure 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:28.400 of what she assumed to be a man, standing at 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:32.280 least seven feet tall. He was dressed in a silver 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:36.080 all in one suit which covered the entirety of the head, 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:40.680 including what seemed like a large, square shaped helmet underneath, 0:29:41.520 --> 0:29:44.960 and in place of her face, a jet black visor. 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:50.520 The figure appeared to be lit up from behind, and 0:29:50.640 --> 0:29:55.440 though it remained stationary, Pauline noticed that the window was rattling. 0:29:57.160 --> 0:29:59.880 She rushed to grab the children from their beds, leaving 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.360 Billy to keep watch on the figure that remained staring 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:08.040 back into the room. After securing the children in the 0:30:08.120 --> 0:30:11.480 living room, Pauline ran to the phone and called the 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:16.920 police when she returned shortly after the figure had gone. 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:22.840 Terrified by what was happening, Pauline kept the children together 0:30:23.280 --> 0:30:29.440 while Billy made his way outside to investigate. However, after 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:34.320 an extensive search outside the building, Billy found no sign 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:45.880 of the intruder. In the weeks and months that followed, 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:49.840 a host of similar sightings were reported up and down 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:53.680 the south coast of Wales, including one made by Pauline 0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:58.040 and Billy's twin daughters a few weeks later. They had 0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:01.320 been out playing by the cliff tops one morning when 0:31:01.360 --> 0:31:04.560 they claimed to have cited the peculiar figure once again 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:08.840 walking about the fields before vanishing in the long grass. 0:31:10.960 --> 0:31:14.320 The collective incidents have since become known as the West 0:31:14.360 --> 0:31:21.040 Wales UFO flap of nineteen seventy seven. Haven Fought hotel 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:26.080 proprietor Rosa Granville was so sufficiently shocked and moved by 0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:29.160 what she had experienced that she even wrote to her 0:31:29.160 --> 0:31:33.680