Strange Tales from Wales & UFO School Days

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

So many popular culture misconceptions abound with stories of UFO sightings; that it's always some farmer, alone in his fields when an unidentified flying object appears. The "hayseed farmer" is an easy target to dismiss with ridicule and hubris. Sure, sometimes it is a farm, as it was in 1977 at the Coombs family farm in southern Wales, but it is far from the norm. And it wasn't a singular farmer who witnessed a UFO then, prominent townsfolk and a group of schoolchildren also saw bizarre craft and phenomena during a series of events that would become known as the Broad Haven incident. The Coombs family would also go on to experience High Strangeness that would rival the happenings at Skinwalker Ranch. If you still think that remote farms are still the most likely places for such incredible tales to emerge, you might be surprised that schoolyards also seem to be just as common for alien interactions, with notable cases happening all over the world, in countries like Australia, Zimbabwe, and Russia. Decades later, questions about these cases emerge: Were the goings on in Broadhaven, this "Flap," connected to the incident at Berwyn Mountain, three years prior? Does a "Welsh Triangle" exist? Why do otherworldly visitors want to communicate with our children? Is it because they are more likely to learn lessons we adults are too proud or stubborn to heed? Join us tonight as we examine these cases with a friend and fellow podcaster, Rob Kristofferson, host of Our Strange Skies, as we go in search of answers to these fascinating questions.

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0:00.0	Tonight's episode of astonishing legends is brought to you by the Great Courses Plus,
0:03.6	Quip, Audible, and our contributors at Patreon.
0:07.3	On the last episode of astonishing legends, we brought you the strange and unusual tale of the
0:12.7	Berwin Mountain UFO incident that took place in Wales in January of 1974. It turns out that was
0:21.4	only the beginning of a series of events that would unfold over the next several years in the area,
0:27.4	giving rise to it being known in some circles as the Welsh Triangle.
0:32.8	Berwin is a fascinating case, lights in the sky, earth-shattering explosions, a
0:39.5	sudden military presence, but no trace evidence of any kind, only hearsay.
0:46.6	It was not, however, the only location that saw unusual air traffic and strange beings during
0:52.4	this time. Just a few miles away, something unfolded only two months later that drew striking
0:59.3	parallels to events that took place at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. In fact, this story will leave
1:05.7	you wondering if the two locations aren't connected in some way. The intrigue continues with
1:11.6	eye witnesses observing what would appear to be a base of some kind, situated on the impossible
1:16.7	to reach stack rocks and nearby Pembrokeshire. Tonight, we look at all of that and then prime you
1:23.3	for the Broad Haven school incident. Next week's episode, where an entire class of 10 to 11-year-old
1:29.2	school children more witness to a strange craft just a few hundred feet outside of their school.
1:35.0	We'll do this by looking at other similar school yard UFO incidents from around the world.
1:47.6	Welcome back to Estonishing Legends. I'm Scott Philbrook and this is Forest Burgess.
2:00.8	The thoughts came from the man. From the man's eyes. Elsa, a student at the Ariel School in Zimbabwe,
2:08.4	describing a close encounter with an alien that 62 people witnessed in 1994.
2:13.6	Join us tonight as we take a deeper look into the Welsh Triangle and other stories of UFOs
2:18.7	appearing at schools.
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