Locals in a small Welsh village are still searching for answers to a possible encounter with a UFO more than 40 years ago.
In January 1983, Welsh farmer Irwel Evans spotted strange objects sprawled across an area of his family farm in Llanillar, Wales – he, and many others, saw a strange “flying craft” overhead hit a tree, but fly off without issue.
Having scoured the field, Evans found debris that looked like it was made of a strange metal . . . and the witness a hasty clean up job by special agents. At the time, Evans is quoted as saying: “It must have come down the night before I found it for the area was clear in the afternoon when I checked the flock.
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«Yet I heard nothing at all unusual. Although the pieces themselves were extremely light they must have fallen with some force to sever branches off trees. It is all very disturbing.”
The pieces of debris from the incident dubbed “Welsh Roswell” remained in the UK and have been tested by University of Chester lecturer Mark Olly – and they are said to be very similar to that of the ones collected from the infamous site of the actual Roswell in New Mexico. Speaking to The Sun, he said: “You’re talking about a lot of debris and the nearby woods had had the top of the trees sheared off to a width of about 20-25 feet, so it was obvious something had hit it and scattered debris.
“The thing that really shocked him at the time, and everybody else that was involved in it, is that whatever it was that scattered all this debris then flew off.”
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Mark had the samples sent to Australia and the United States, and the tests came back that it was “aluminium foam,” a material that didn’t exist in 1983. And to make matters more confusing, the United States experts were unable to identify the material at all – but guessed that it could be lanthanum.
He added: “»hey said they had no idea what the origin of this is but it’s lanthanum, which is an extremely exotic, massively expensive, difficult to find, difficult to produce metal. So we’ve got this idea that it’s possibly aluminium foam and it’s lanthanum. If you built some kind of flying craft out of lanthanum, it would cost billions of dollars to produce that quantity of metal.
“The rabbit hole’s gone deeper and we’re now less able to say what it is because you’ve got two substances now positively identified, that shouldn’t exist at that point in time.
My own opinion is that it’s possibly alien technology that’s been back engineered, alien in the sense that it’s not something that any of us are aware of.”
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