Berwyn Mountain Incident

From The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project

The Berwyn Mountain Incident, widely referred to as the 'British Roswell' or the 'Welsh Roswell', is the world famous and most well known British UFO crash story to date, next to the Rendlesham Forest Incident of 1980, also referred to as the British Roswell. The incident took place on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, Clwyd, North Wales. Although, due to skeptical UFOlogist Andy J. Roberts, it is regarded as a hoax.

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Berwyn Mountain Incident

There is some dispute of whether this event took place on the 23rd or 24th of Januray 1974, but it is widely believed to have been the 23rd. However, the MOD refer to the event taking place on the 24th.*1 It has been alleged a UFO crashed, non-human bodies (EBE's) were found and that the British Government covered up the event.

The Ministry of Defence UFO records for this period are now open for public viewing at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Details of how to access information at The National Archives can be found on their website at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. A quick look at the archives catalogue (PROCAT) has revealed two files for this period that might hold relevant information. These are AIR 2/18873 1 (Unidentified Flying Objects 1973-74) and AIR 2/18874 2 (Unidentified Flying Objects 1974-75).

At 8.30 PM on 23 January, 1974, a large disc-like craft was seen to fall from the skies over Clwyd in Wales. Dozens of witnesses across Lancashire and Cheshire had phoned the police earlier that evening after seeing a strange formation of green lights flying erratically over the skies of the north-west. At exactly 8.38 PM, something impacted into the Berwyn Mountains in Clwyd, and the resulting tremor - which measured 4.5 on the Richter Scale - was felt in Wrexham, Chester, Liverpool, Southport, and even in some areas of Greater Manchester.

Police immediately converged on the Berwyn Mountains, expecting to find a crashed passenger jet, but what they did find, if anything, has never been divulged. A convoy of army trucks passed through Chester that night and made their way to the epicentre of the crash site, then the army threw a cordon around the area. Even the police and crash investigators were warned off. A nurse who lived near the scene of the impact told a local newspaper that a flying saucer 'the size of the Albert Hall' had smashed into a mountain, throwing debris and bodies for over a mile. She said she walked up to one of the bodies, and realised it wasn't human, but before she could describe what she had seen, the military intervened, and two Ministry of Defence officials ordered her to remain silent about the UFO because her comments 'would constitute a threat to national security and the defence of the realm'.

That nurse has never been seen in the area since, and the news reporter who visited the scene of the alleged crash refused to talk about the incident up until his death in 1979.

In 1980, an electronics engineer named Arthur Adams, who had worked on Concorde, visited the Berwyn UFO crash-site and found strange green coloured pieces of metal embedded in the rocks there. He took samples of the metal to his laboratory and discovered that a sample the size of a 1-inch cube gave off two kilowatts of electricity, when wired up to a volt meter. Mr Adams contacted the Daily Express, and they published a series of articles about the strange find, but the Ministry of Defence stepped in and killed the story.

Today, no one knows what crashed in the Welsh Mountains on that winter night in 1974; some think it was an experimental man-made top secret military aircraft (possibly a prototype Stealth bomber), others think it was an alien craft from another world. If so, what happened to the bodies that were seen scattered all over the mountain after the crash?

British Vet Claims UFO Crashed in Wales

A new book by researcher Nick Redfern makes the claim that a UFO crashed in a remote valley in the Clwyd district of Wales back in January 1974. *1, *2

The bodies of two dead aliens were reportedly recovered from the wreck.

"Farmer Huw Lloyd, 39, was a boy of 14 watching TV at home in nearby Llandrillo on the night of the crash in January 1974. He said he saw a large object followed by a train (luminous contrail--J.T.) and a blinking blue light. Huw recalled, 'I was amazed at how quickly the police responded and and how many people came here."

Among the arrivals, according to Redfern, were British Army units, one of which took custody of the two alien bodies.

"The mysterious craft came down in the Berwyn Mountains, Clwyd...In a chilling echo of the infamous Roswell incident in New Mexico (in July 1947 (or Kecksburg, Pennsylvania in 1965--J.T.), scores of troops were dispatched on a secret mission to retrieve the wreckage."

"One soldier, quoted in the book under the pseudonym 'James Prescott,' was ordered to Llanderfel with four others and loaded two oblong boxes into their armoured truck."

"The truck ferried the boxes back to the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down, near Salisbury, Wiltshire under strict orders not to stop for anything."

"Retired Mr. Prescott, who is too afraid of reprisals to be named" said that once they arrived, "'the boxes were opened by staff at the facility in our presence. We were startled to see two creatures which had been placed inside decontamination suits.'"

"'It was obvious that the creatures were not of this earth, and, when examined, were found to have died.'"

"'The bodies were about five to six feet tall, humanoid in shape, but so that they looked almost skeletal with a covering skin.'"

"'Although I did not see a craft at the scene of the recovery, I was informed that a large craft had crashed and was retrieved by other (British) military units.'"

"The incident has remained classified, and the (UK) Ministry of Defence has refused to comment." (See the Daily Mirror of London for October 22, 1999, "How Alien's My Valley?") [1]

Skeptics

Andy J. Roberts is a very well known skeptical UFO investigator, and he has gone to a lot of trouble to come up with answers to almost all the questions raised by this classic 1974 event. [2]

It is believed amongst a growing number of UFOlogists world-wide that anyone researching this event needs to read Andy J. Roberts articles relating to it to get a fair and balanced opinion.

According to his research there were no alien bodies nor droves of police in the area. This complicated case boils down to three simultaneous unrelated elements: prolific meteor activity that night; an earth tremor which shook a wide area; and poachers with very bright lights. For further information on this please see the below four references:

The Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash - A British Roswell? by Andy J. Roberts - extensive research into the reality of this event, not an alien craft. However, this article is fully expanded on in greater detail in the "Fire on the Mountain" article listed below.

["Fire on the Mountain: The Berwyn UFO Case - a British Roswell?"] by Andy J. Roberts (re-printed in "The UFOs That Never Were" by Jenny Randles, Andy J. Roberts and David Clarke - ISBN: 1902809351 - extensive research into the reality of this event, not an alien craft.

The UK's 'Berwyn Mountain UFO Crash' Remains An Enigma by Andy J. Roberts - extensive research into the reality of this event, not an alien craft.

According to an interview with Nick Redfern [3], Nick states that "Andy Roberts and I have a book coming out next year on an alleged UFO crash incident in Wales in 1974." This relates to the Berwyn Mountain Incident.