Did the Clergyman Meet an Alien ET?

The sleepy village of Bodfari in North Wales

Was this an Alien abduction attempt?

Here is a strange tale indeed. Buried in the memoirs of a clergyman is a tale of his childhood and a meeting with (and a near abduction by), some "strange beings". One would assume that being a Clergyman, he is likely to be truthful in what he wrote. He does not claim to know what these "beings" were, other than the fact that they were terrifying and plainly not human. The incident is said to have taken place in the 1700s, so the thought that they could have possibly been Aliens from another planet would probably not have occurred to him, but the similarities between this story and modern day tales of UFOs and "Alien sightings" is plain to see.

The Clergyman in question is the Rev. Dr. Edward Williams. He was born in 1750, barely three miles away from where I live (North Wales in the UK), at a place called Glan Clwyd, Bodfari, and died in 1813.

The Village Church, Bodfari

Dr. Williams was well known and liked in the area, and later on in his life, he published his autobiography. The story it told of his life was unremarkable, and very much as you would expect a Country Clergyman's life to be.

However, amongst his childhood reminiscences is a tale so strange that it begs to be explained in rational terms. On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be a rational explanation for it. Modern eyes reading the story might assume that this was a UFO related encounter with extraterrestrial aliens. Back then they were perhaps perceived as Welsh Pixies - "Y Tylwyth Teg" (The Fair Folk), but whatever the truth of the matter, it nevertheless provides food for thought.

An early Illustration of "Y Tylwyth Teg" (The Fair Folk) - Welsh Pixies

The Strange Beings - ET?

The story is best told in his own words, so here it is, as he wrote it.

"On a fine summer day (about midsummer) between the hours of twelve at noon and one, my eldest sister and myself, our next neighbours children Barbera and Ann Evans, both older than myself, were in a field called Cae Caled near their house (Llanelwyd), all innocently engaged at play by a hedge under a tree and not far from the stile next to that house, when one of us observed on the middle of the field a company of - what shall I call them? - Beings, neither men nor women nor children dancing with great briskness.

They were in full view less than a hundred yards from us, consisting of about seven or eight couples: we could not well reckon them, owing to the briskness of their motions and the consternation with which we were struck at a sight so unusual.

They were clothed in red, dress not unlike a military uniform, without hats, but their heads tied with handkerchiefs of a reddish colour, sprigged or spotted with yellow, all uniform in this as in habit, all tied behind with the corners hanging down their backs, and white handkerchiefs in their hands held loose by the corners.

They appeared of a size somewhat less than our own, but more like dwarfs than children. On first discovery we began, with no small dread, to question one another as to what they could be, as there were no soldiers in the country, nor was it time for May dancers, and as they differed much from all the human beings we had ever seen.

Thus alarmed we dropped our play, left our station and made for the stile. Still keeping our eyes upon them we observed one of their company starting from the rest and making towards us with a running pace. I being the youngest was last at the stile, and though struck with an inexpressible panic, saw the grim elf just at my heels, having a full and clear, though terrific view of him, with his ancient, swarthy and grim complexion.

I screamed out exceedingly; my sister also and our companions set up a roar, and the former dragged me with violence over the stile on which at the instant I was disengaged from it, this warlike Liliputian leaned and stretched himself after me but came not over".

The Investigation

Following their lucky escape, the terrified children ran all the way back to the house, and gabbled out the story to their concerned parents. A small task force consisting of several men was assembled and sent out to investigate. They arrived en-masse at Cae Caled field, but found nothing. The field was empty. Whoever or whatever had been there was gone.

My Local UFO Crash - The Welsh Roswell

How it Started

It began on a dark blustery night here in North Wales - It was 1974, and about 30miles from my home, over the Denbigh Moors and crouching beneath the Berwyn Mountains was the little village of Llandrillo. It has to be said that Llandrillo is a very tranquil village, not many unusual things happen in Llandrillo - In fact very little ever happens at all.

Tonight however, all that was about to change because of an incident that would shock and intrigue people for decades to come. Something massive and puzzling would occur. Allegatons of conspiracy would be raised as the UK government first denied anything had happened, then produced changing excuses over the years. Some residents of Llandrillo still maintain today that the government's official version of events was not what they remember happening.

What really happened then?   Was it something ordinary, mundane? or was it something extraordinary? - Listen to the story - you decide for yourself.

In was a cold unwelcoming night in Llandrillo North Wales. The date, January 23rd 1974. The time was  just after 6.40pm. It was just another night and the villagers were going about their normal business. Two friends, Elgar Hughes and Geraint Edwards observed something strange in the sky, which they described as saucer shaped and glowing coal-red. the object remained still in the sky for at least ten minutes before suddenly darting off at high speed, along the horizon. The two puzzled friends  continued on their way to the pub to tell the locals what they had seen.

A little after 8.30 it started. There was a massive explosive bang and a huge brilliant light was seen above the Berwyn mountains. This was followed by a tremendous shaking causing objects and ornaments in many of the houses (including an Inn in Bala - 10 miles away) to crash to the ground. Fireman Adrian Roberts was thrown from his sofa by the violence of the tremor.
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Llandrillo Village

Source: John Clift

 

Was it a UFO Crash?

Villagers were dashing out into the street, they thought that there had been some sort of plane crash. Way up on the Berwyn Mountains odd lights could be seen.The local emergency services went into hyperdrive. A helicopter was scrambled from it's base at RAF Valley (Where Prince William is now stationed) and directed to the scene.  A retired North Wales Police Assistant Chief Constable Elfed Roberts, who at this time was a Police Sergeant, was speeding towards Llandrillo with his superior, shortly after the quake when they saw the strange lights on the mountain, he said: 'As we were driving, all of a sudden we saw this green light in the sky ahead of us and it seemed to be an arcing light, but it was very sudden, totally unexpected, different to anything we had ever seen before.'

Pat Evans, a District Nurse who lived locally at Llanderfel got an emergency phone call from the Main Police HQ at Colwyn Bay informing her that a plane had come down and asking her to attend the scene. She put together her medical kit and set off for the location she had been given. There was no one available to look after her two teenage daughters, so she took them with her. She drove there via the lonely B4391 road which skirts the south of the Cader Bronwen area. It was 10pm on a fridgid winters night and no other cars were to be seen.

Nurse Pat followed a track up the hillside towards the top of the range and halted within a couple of hundred feet of something astounding sitting on the ground which she said "absolutely staggered" her .It was an very large sphere, glowing orange which she described as "quite intact". She just sat there with  her daughters watching it for some ten minutes debating what to do - There was no chance of a mistake - it was clearly some sort of UFO.

The Military eventually approached her vehicle and ordered her to go away. She tried to explain that she had been sent there by Police HQ and asked what was happening. She did not recieve an explanation. The soldiers told her that she was unauthorised to be there and that she must go immediately. Fearing for her daughters safety she did as she was told and was escorted down the mountain.

 

Searching for UFO's ?

For many days afterwards, the whole area was cordoned off and only accessible by the military. The local sheep farmers were beginning to get angry as they were prevented even from attending their sheep on certain areas of the mountain. A few days after the incident, the same Bala hotel that had sustained breakages because of the quake played host to a number of "strange men" who stayed with them for several days.

They were certainly not local people and were noticed in the community because their presence helped to fill the Hotel which usually tended to be virtually empty during the winter months. They seemed to have some official status and made a lot of trips to and from the "crash site" on the Berwyn mountain, but refused to reveal what it was they were doing. Then as quickly as they came- they departed, leaving the locals none the wiser.

There have even been revelations by alleged military staff who say they were part of a lorry convoy called to the Berwyn mountain to box up and remove non-human cadavers which they transported to the Porton Down research facility in Wiltshire!
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Space Alien

 

The UFO Explanations

The UK Government deny that any activities of a military nature took place that night, saying that the local villagers are confusing that event with a plane crash that happened several years earlier. The original explanation for the event was that it was an "earthquake". The strange men were, they said, part of a geological survey, and the odd lights on the mountain were nothing more than poacher's lights. They offered  no explanation at that time for the phenomena seen in the sky other than "they could have been earthquake lights".

After a number of "tweakings" through the years, the official explanation is now that the light phenomena in the sky was caused by a meteorite which exploded above the Berwyn mountain creating the bang and flash. The aerial explosion, they say,  was the reason why there was no debris or impact crater at the site. The ground-shake was due to a landslide which just happened to coincide with the meteorite burst. The lights on the mountain continued to be attributed to the poachers.

However, many of the locals who actually witnessed the event continue to be unhappy with the "official" explanation. One of the poachers who was actually on the mountain that night insists that the lights they saw could not possibly have been their poaching lamps because they had already finished for the night by that time and all their lamps were switched off.

A local farmer Huw Lloyd, who is now 48, but was a teenager at the time of the event said: 'Whatever it was, it was kept quiet. I think there are things we should know about. And things that have happened have been covered up.

The District Nurse Pat Evans continues to be angry. She is adamant that there was a huge cover-up of some yet to be resolved incident on that lonely mountainside.

Geraint Evans is on record as having said  'It was definitely a flying saucer. It was a pity I didn't have a camera because it was there for at least 10 minutes, just hovering - If we were coming back from the pub, people would be saying, "They've had one or two." But we were going TO the pub"