Roswelsh: The Berwyn Mountain UFO Incident

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On January 23, 1974, villagers in the community of Llandrillo in the Edeirnion area of Denbighshire, northern Wales, experienced a tremendous jolt and noise a little after 8:30 p.m., akin to a magnitude 3.5 earthquake. Highly strange, colored lights were seen over the surrounding hills at the same time. Another unusual occurrence was that the British Military was immediately on the scene as if they were tracking the "geological event" in real time. The official Ministry of Defence conclusion was that the event was caused by a simultaneous earthquake and meteor impact, with the meteor being the cause of the freakish light show. However, a meteor impact that would cause a shock of that magnitude would have left a visible crater, which was not found. And of course, there were reports by witnesses on the scene of the military carting off bodies and wreckage. Does this sound familiar to you? It did enough to some tabloid papers at the time who dubbed it, "The Roswelsh Incident." What's your conclusion?

For more information on this episode visit our website!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Tonight's episode of astonishing Legends is brought to you by the Great Courses Plus,
0:03.2	Zip Recruiter, Quip, Blue Apr, and our contributors at Patreon.
0:08.2	44 years ago, on January 23rd of 1974, at 8.32pm, a loud explosion
0:17.0	rocked the small towns of San Dithlo and San Deo Fel and North Wales.
0:22.6	The explosion was accompanied by 999 calls to the police
0:27.0	with eyewitnesses reporting strange lights streaking across the sky.
0:32.0	This was the beginning of what has come to be known as the Burwin Mountain Incident.
0:37.0	At the time I was living by my own half from the village,
0:41.0	but I must have been very in 1974.
0:43.0	Going on for 9 o'clock, could hear a big rumble and kept coming closer and closer.
0:47.0	And actually everything started shaking.
0:49.0	We had an old washing machine, everything, everything chumbled all over.
0:52.0	I'm shaking so much.
0:53.0	I said somebody, and if they're not bed, I dropped it down.
0:56.0	The house absolutely shook.
0:58.0	They all ran out and looked towards the Burwin Mountain,
1:01.0	and he was up there.
1:02.0	And all because he was all these lights and looked like a fire.
1:05.0	But was it just a fire?
1:07.0	Witnesses said they had seen an egg-shaped craft fly past them
1:11.0	and described red and amber pulsing lights.
1:14.0	Whatever caused the earth to shake was felt all the way in the Isle of Man,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scott Philbrook, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scott Philbrook and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.