The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion
Astonishing Legends
Scott Philbrook
4.6 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2026
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in British history. What began with a glowing object hovering over Ripperston Farm escalated into months of unexplained phenomena: failing electronics, mysterious figures at the windows, silent visitors in a silver car, missing cattle that appeared miles away, and an encounter Pauline Coombs believed took place aboard an otherworldly craft. As sightings spread across the region — including the famous Broad Haven school incident witnessed by fourteen children — the area became known as the Welsh Triangle. With declassified government investigations, admitted hoaxes, and a mystery that remains unresolved nearly fifty years later, we ask: what really happened over St Brides Bay?
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| 0:16.0 | In the winter of 1977, on the Pembrokeshire coast in southwest Wales, a dairy farmer's wife |
| 0:22.9 | was standing at her kitchen sink when she noticed a light over the cliffs. |
| 0:27.1 | It hung above the field nearest the sea, a bright ball with a tail of flame, and it was moving, |
| 0:34.2 | swaying slowly back and forth like a pendulum. |
| 0:38.7 | A physical trait we've heard of UAP exhibiting before at astonishing legends. |
| 0:43.7 | To Pauline Coombs, whatever this was, looked like it was watching her. |
| 0:49.3 | That was the start. |
| 0:51.2 | Over the next year, the Coombs family Farm, Ripperston, alone on the cliffs above |
| 0:56.3 | St. Brides Bay, became the center of one of the longest-running UFO cases in British history. |
| 1:02.7 | And the location mattered. Within 20 miles, there was an RAF base, a missile range, army tank |
| 1:10.6 | ranges, and, though nobody knew it at the time, |
| 1:14.6 | the secret U.S. Navy station built to track Soviet submarines. |
| 1:19.1 | What the Coombs went through wasn't one sighting. |
| 1:22.7 | It was months of them. |
| 1:24.9 | Their TVs and cars burned out through wiring again and again, everything but the copper. |
| 1:32.5 | An electrician found power still draining from the house with a main shut off. One night an orange |
| 1:38.5 | light followed their car down a lane until the engine quit, and they ran the last half-mile home. |
| 1:45.3 | Then the figures started. Tall, silver, no face, standing at the window with a hand on the |
| 1:52.4 | glass and gone before the police arrived. The family dog never recovered from it. He became |
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