BRITAIN’s UFO epicentre once had an «alien» sighting at a school so mysterious it sparked a Ministry of Defence probe.
The picturesque village of Broad Haven in Wales attracted global media attention in 1977, after residents reported a spate of UFO and «alien» sightings.
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Locals who reported these encounters across a single year in the late seventies have seen their stories resurface thanks to recent Netflix documentary, Encounters.
Made by Steven Spielberg‘s production company, one of the four episodes is dedicated to the mysterious events that occurred in and around Broad Haven.
The most famous incident occurred on February 4 1977 when a dozen children from the local primary school claimed that they had seen a “cigar-shaped spaceship” take off from behind some trees during their lunch break.
Some also claimed to have seen a silver figure along with the craft which had a “dome on it”.
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After reporting what they had seen to their teachers, the boys were separated by their headmaster and made to draw exactly what they had witnessed.
According to the headmaster, each of the boys’ eerie drawings shared similarities.
David Davies was reading inside the classroom when the other children came in talking breathlessly about seeing a flying saucer moving in the trees beyond their playground.
Now 57, he told MailOnline: «From behind some trees this thing popped up in front of me – silver, cigar-shaped, about 45ft long.
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«This thought just came into my mind that I had to run away.»
He sprinted home and told his mother.
«You know what mothers are like – they can tell when you’re lying.
«And she was absolutely convinced that what I was saying was the truth.»
Another former pupil now in his 50s, Shaun Garrison, can also remember that day vividly. «I did go home and tell my mum and dad and they weren’t judgmental in any way.
«They believed me and believed that what I saw, I believed.»
A handful of the interviewees said they also saw a silver-suited occupant of the craft.
Many dismissed the accounts as the product of children’s lively imaginations.
But this was only the beginning of a plethora of strange sightings that would make Broad Haven the epicentre of the largest mass UFO sighting in British history.
Numerous sightings gave the area the nickname The Broad Haven Triangle – a spin on the Bermuda Triangle – a place historically associated with mysterious disappearances.
A few months after the school yard sighting, hotel owner Rose Granville reported seeing a spacecraft just as she was going to bed.
Rose insisted she had seen an «upside-down saucer» hovering in a nearby field and two long-limbed but featureless humanoid creatures briefly emerging from it.
«She looked through the window and saw this thing sort of hovering,» her daughter Francine recalled to Encounters.
«These two figures came out of it. They looked a little unsteady.»
A month or two later, and a few miles around the Marloes peninsula, Mark Morston claimed he saw not only a spaceship while walking alone – but also said he came face-to-face with a figure.
Claiming he saw an «upside down saucer in a glow» on a ridge near his house, he then described hearing a rustle in the hedge further down the road.
«This thing stepped out of the hedge,» said Mark.
«It was a good 7ft tall, it had a silver suit with a motorbike visor as a face.»
UK’s official UFO hotspots
THE UK’s official UFO hotspots have been revealed – including the city where almost one in five residents claim to have experienced a sighting.
The study found that cities in the north were much more likely to harbour UFO spotters – with just Bristol and London appearing in the top 10, from down south.
The research was commissioned by National Geographic.
The study of 2,000 adults found 18 per cent of residents in one Scottish city are convinced they’ve had a legitimate sighting.
They are also most likely to believe aliens exist somewhere in the universe, even if they’ve never spotted one.
Here is the top 10 in full:
- Edinburgh
- Leicester
- London
- Sheffield
- Newcastle
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Glasgow
Local farmers described similarly inexplicable phenomena, including mysterious moving lights and a herd of cows seemingly teleported into another farm.
Other cases investigated in the documentary series include 1994 claims by 62 pupils at a private school in Zimbabwe, that they saw a spaceship and strange humanoid figures.
There were also reports by 300 people of fast-moving lights and objects in the sky above the Texas town of Stephenville in 2008.
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Viewers will then be transported to the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011 to hear about the monk who saw a UFO just before an earthquake.
The earthquake then sparked a tsunami that set off the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
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