Alien and UFO Encounters from Another Dimension (Part 3)

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- The story itself is very, very different from most UFO stories because it actually runs backwards. It works backwards, which is what fascinated me when I first heard the tale. And that is, that the majority of stories you have an absolutely cracking story with loads of visuals in it. People talk about these flying saucers descending in lights and you can imagine the special effects and all the rest of it. Most programs do a really good job of the reconstructions and they have all the eyewitnesses on, and when it comes to the end of the program it comes to the crunch they can't show you anything. There's like a bump in the ground or a broken twig or a burn mark on a tree or some blurred light in the sky and that's it. But this story's the exact reverse. What we had to do is we had to start with the evidence and the evidence are these fragments from the UFO. We've got three pieces of the green outer shell of some kind of vehicle. We've got the inside of the casing in the forms of pieces of foil, and there's at least a hundred other fragments scattered all the way around the country that we know of. So we're starting with the evidence. I'm actually sat there holding a piece of a flying saucer, a piece of a UFO. And I'm thinking what on earth is this. Here it is, how did it get here, what's the story? (soft music) (ethereal choral music) (rock music) In January 1983 a mysterious flying craft of some kind crashed in fields just outside Aberystwyth in mid Wales. Strangely, only one local newspaper was to run the story about this event, and yet it could prove to be as significant as the Roswell crash in New Mexico. Can we claim to have hard evidence of this craft? Well, watch on. - [Gary] From that day to this, it still remains unidentified. No aircraft was missing. No pilots were missing. No mechanical things were found on the site. We can only conclude that this remains debris from a UFO, an unidentified flying object. - In 1983 one of the world news clipping agency sent Gary Rowe a clipping of a crash near Aberystwyth in mid Wales. This is the story that followed. The report in a national newspaper was headed, "Strange Debris Out of the Sky." it was from the Sunday Express the 23rd of January 1983. It indicated that an unidentified flying object had crashed in Wales. The similarities with the famous Roswell incident became gradually too obvious. (upbeat music) While Gary was fortunate enough to be living in north Wales at the time, nonetheless the reported incident was some considerable distance. So he contacted the farmer and obtained his permission to visit the crash site. (water rushing) After hastily organizing a reconnaissance team and several hours of driving, the team arrived. As the team examined the damage, Mr. Evans recounted the entire series of events from the beginning. He began, "The incident must have happened in the dead of night "as there was no sign of the debris "late on the previous evening." Early the following morning as he trudged the fields to tend his newborn lambs, he was confronted with masses of scattered debris extending over an area of four of his fields. He telephoned the local police station. The local police arrived and after they conducted a brief examination, the RAF were called in. They removed every scrap of evidence that they could find and only one section taken away had what looked like part of a number on it. The pieces ranged in size from an inch to six feet. The men continued the search by torchlight as darkness fell. Mr. Evans described it as a scene straight from a James Bond movie. So thorough was the military clean up operation that both metal detecting and archeology were unable to shed any more light on the UFO crash. All of the fields and the forest had been completely cleared of all the evidence. Maybe the answer to all this rests with the civilian UFO crash recovery team who got there before the military clean up operation. Or is this just going to turn into another story of strange noises, vanished evidence and weird lights in the sky? It's impossible for us to be the only intelligent life. That is absolutely out of the question. I mean you've only got to gaze out to those stars and out to that star field and realize that there are countless, millions of planets out there. Any one of which could be the same as us. So there's absolutely no reason why there shouldn't be another life form that has developed further than we have. By further, obviously, that beggars definition. It's very difficult to say what further would be. Maybe they've survived, they've changed, they've got technology we haven't got. They're using things we don't have. Maybe there is something out there in the universe we don't know about and they've got it and we haven't. Travel in the light spectrum or something so they're able to jump from one place to another faster that we are. So they're doing something we're not. By virtue of the fact that we don't know what they're doing that's what makes them unidentified. That's what makes them a mystery. So I'm quite willing to accept that there is actually life out there. That doesn't present a problem. But the second alternative, which I find more intriguing and it's a lot harder to prove. There is a possibility that we are doing something now that seriously affects our future and those people who are out there in the future have found some way to come back. So maybe the flying saucers we're seeing are, in fact, time machines that are coming back from our own future to try to influence us and change us in some way, which means that maybe we do survive and we do develop on and we do come up with new inventions and new ideas. Maybe the physics is altered in some way such that we can break through and cheat time in that way. But I think it could be one of those two possibilities. If I was a betting man, if I was gonna lay odds, I would say it's either it's a civilization from another planet that's more advanced than us or it's ourselves or something we've created coming back at this time because it's an important time in our history. The second one's quite appealing because I'm an archeologist. In a very physical sense I'm involved in time travel. I'm picking things up that were dropped by people in the past and the possibility that something may break through from the future intrigues me. I mean people always look for a third way and it's a reasonable third way. I know that there are things out there for which we do not have an explanation. Not just in terms of UFO debris, but in other areas as well. When you start looking at things that turn up on archeological sites that shouldn't, which is termed alien technology, things pop up in places where they're not supposed to at times when they're not supposed to. Sooner or later you have to accept that there are mysteries out there, which are very difficult to pin on us. It's very difficult to actually say that it's us that's doing them. In the modern day and age I think a lot of the books that have been produced and things, it's actually easier for people to believe that it's not us. It's easier to say well, it must be something else. (upbeat music) It's interesting to note here that the RAF search team at the site were unable to recognize any of the debris that belonged to any known aircraft. They also admitted to being baffled as their radar scanners had not detected the incident or anything unusual leading up to the incident. In fact, two weeks later they admitted that they were still unable to confirm that it was aircraft material they had recovered, let alone offer an explanation. In their own words an RAF spokesman said, "The debris certainly had nothing to do with us. "We are examining the fragments "to try to piece them together in the hope of a clue "as to where it came from and what it is." (rock music) We dispatched, professional historian and researcher Scott Lloyd to the National Library of Wales to see if any other newspapers of the day carried the story of the UFO crash. - Well from the date you gave me I went to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, it's not that far away from the site, and I went through all the local newspapers the week before and a couple of weeks after trying to see if there's any reference to an object crashing in a field in Llanilar. The local papers deal with every minor event that happens in the local villages and I was very surprised to find no reference to it whatsoever. Which I thought was a little unusual. However, there was some correspondence in the Cambrian News between locals of the area, discussing the fact that Hercules aircraft had been flying very low in the area but that was the closest I could find to anything crashing. I find it very unusual that an event that could reach a national newspaper wasn't recorded in the local newspapers and this is in English and Welsh. So there's three or four local papers I looked at. So really I'd be interested to see what other evidence we can gather. This article here is a photocopy. So unfortunately we don't have the whole page which would give us a definite date line on the top. It's handwritten, the source, as the Sunday Express for the 23rd of January 1983. Which is the period I looked at in the National Library. Now we have to hope that the person who wrote this A, got the newspaper right and B, and probably more importantly, got the date right otherwise I've been looking in the wrong place. Really I'd like to continue the research by trying to contact the police in Aberystwyth to see what report they have of the incident and also there's a reference here to the secretary of the Cardiganshire Farmers' Union so I'd also quite like to see if it's possible to speak to him and then we can maybe narrow this down a bit more. And, of course, the journalist who wrote the article, an Andrew Chapman, hopefully we can get hold of him and then maybe we can get closer to seeing why it didn't appear in any of the local newspapers. (rock music) Well that's the interesting thing, how did a journalist for a national newspaper find a story about a small village in mid Wales when none of the local newspapers seem to reference it. So that is quite odd. I'd like to speak to the journalist to see where he did get it from. (rock music) The other line of inquiry is also contacting the MOD to see what they had to say about the matter because, according to this article, they gave a statement saying there was no aircraft out at the time and their radar scanners picked up nothing unusual. So it'd be interesting to clarify that point. So I still think we have a few lines of inquiry left, - It's so long since the original newspaper article appeared that's it's author Andrew Chapman has no idea what was his source material for writing that article. Furthermore our researches at the National Library of Wales didn't reveal any other newspaper article on the UFO crash. So, once again, we've drawn a blank. The next best hope perhaps is to investigate the crash site itself. The absolute origins of the story, as Gary himself says, is this newspaper article here that says strange debris out of the sky. And it says this, the Sunday Express 23rd January 1983, strange debris out of the sky. An astonishing sight greeted farmer Erwell Evans as he trudged across his fields to tend his newly born lambs. Hundreds of pieces of honeycomb metal foil was strewn over an area the size of three football pitches. Huge twisted alloy plates painted green on one side and gray on the other lay everywhere and, in a nearby copse, branches had been sheared off trees. Mr Evans telephoned the police. Soon his farm at Llanilar near Aberystwyth Wales was like a film set from a spy thriller. Police took away fragments of metal for analysis. A team of uniformed RAF men with plain clothes officers combed the land and nearby woods using flashlights as darkness began to fall. And then it says baffled. Among the pile of debris taken away was an aerial and a large chunk of metal with part of a serial number on it. Everyone concerned was convinced that whatever it was that covered Mr Evans' field had fallen out of the sky at dead of night. But after two weeks, the riddle still remains. Police are baffled, so too are the RAF. No one in the close knit Welsh community heard a plane that night. Nothing unusual showed up on RAF radar scanner. Mr Evans, 29, who farms his 260 acres singlehanded said, "Whatever tumbled from the sky broke up on impact. "It must have been a fair size. "Wreckage was scattered across four fields. "Had it hit buildings, there's no doubt "the devastation could've been terrific." "It must've come down the night before I found it "for the area was clear in the afternoon "when I checked the flock. "Yet I heard nothing at all unusual. "Although the pieces themselves were extremely light, "they must've fallen with some force "to sever branches off trees. "It is all very disturbing." Mr Emir Hughes, Secretary of Cardiganshire Farmers' Union said, "I've asked the Ministry of Defense "for an explanation but so far have had no reply. "The RAF say they had no aircraft out at the time "this debris must have landed nor were there any maneuvers. "Not only that, their radar scanners "picked up nothing unusual." Meanwhile, villagers are still speculating about the debris. Could it be part of a large weather balloon? No say Aberystwyth police, too much metal. Part of a satellite? Unlikely, any remains would be charred. We have no explanation as yet, it's baffling. An RAF spokesman said, "The debris certainly "had nothing to do with us. "We are examining the fragments to try "to piece them together in the hope of a clue "as to where it came from and what it is." That is the only first hand account if you like, at the time taken just before, presumably before the 23rd of January 1983. So the obvious thing to do is to go and speak to that reporter. It's a chap by the name of Andrew Chapman. Now Andrew Chapman still works for the Sunda Express. So we got in contact with him over the internet, we had a number of discourses between us. At one point he said leave it with me and I'll see what I can do, I'll check the Sunday Express archives and my own notes and try and find the source. He then, himself Andrew Chapman, tracked back but you're bearing in mind, I mean at the time we were producing it it was 24 years so he had to go back 24 years to find the source. And basically he has no idea. He really does have no idea where that article came from. Other than the fact that obviously he spoke to the representatives of the Cardiganshire Farmers' Union et cetera and the local police. He did the research at the time so he knows that the contents of that story are factual. But apart from that, he was quite surprised to learn that nobody else had reported it himself. So that extra bit of research just served to deepen the mystery. In fact it's quite exciting really 'cos instead of having it all laid out before us and sort of having a beginning, a middle and no end you know, the whole thrill of doing this is the fact we've got the end but we don't have the middle or the beginning you know? The whole start of the story is not there. You know, it starts from one article, one newspaper article, one investigation team that made it to the crash, one witness in the form of the farmer, you know, one case containing debris and that's it. (upbeat flute music) They found the farm situated in a beautiful rural area of Wales near to Aberystwyth. The farmer, Mr Evans, aged 29 at the time, turned out to be very pleasant, helpful and sociable. He led the team across four of his fields indicating where he had earlier discovered hundreds of pieces of metallic foil and other parts of a crashed craft. He described how all the pieces had looked like shattered glass with jagged edges. Some of the shattered and twisted plates were over six feet in size. The overall impression was that some large aircraft must have exploded above the area. The 260 acre farm is bordered on the southwest side by a mixed wood copse owned by the Forestry Commission. As the team approached the boundary of the field and the trees, it became apparent that, whatever the flying object was, it had collided with the trees. After thanking Farmer Evans for his very graphic account of events, it was time to conduct a search of their own. That the authorities had done a pretty thorough job of cleaning the area became obvious when, after more than an hour's search, the team had failed to find a single scrap of material in any of the large fields. The team next concentrated their efforts in searching the wooded area. At first, without success. It was not long before the first piece was discovered. Other finds followed as they searched high in the trees and used the damaged avenue as a rough guide to the search area. We've traveled some miles outside Aberystwyth to the sleepy Welsh village of Llanilar and we've spent some time interviewing the local residents. Unfortunately, there are not many people left from 25 years ago and none of the ones who are remember the crash. So, it looks like we've hit another dead end. (haunting flute music) The most important story that's relevant to the DVD, The UFO, The Interesting UFOs, two UFO sightings. There's two times when I've seen them. One was in 1976 which is, in this country, the hot summer of 1976 which literally cracked the flags and baked the ground solid. And I was out camping with friends at a local farm and we couldn't put the tent up. So we literally just threw the tent on the floor, had it as a groundsheet and slept on that. Which means that you're then out in the open under the stars. Out in the countryside, there's no light pollution, it's a beautifully clear night. The heavens just went on forever, absolutely enormous sky and at some point in the early hours I woke up and noticed that coming from the horizon, the distant horizon, one of the stars was moving. So you've got this star that's moving through the star field fairly slowly you know? And I'm watching it coming and I'm thinking airplane, helicopter you know, maybe something like that. Anyway it keeps coming and, of course, you can see the full sky overhead and it comes 'til it's probably not far off central above us. And it's going at this nice steady, slow speed like that and then, all of a sudden, it goes wallop, wallop, wallop, wallop, gone. What on earth is that? What star, you know, at that distance 'cos it looked like part of the star field, is capable of bouncing literally left, right, left, right, gone? At that speed across the entire sky you know. And you sort of blink at your pinch yourself and you wonder if you're still awake. So that was the first if you like, the first encounter with anything like a UFO. Then a year later, the next summer, I'm up on top of a local hill which affords a particularly good view of the Mersey Valley. And, again, I'm not up there for any other reason than to enjoy the view. It's early evening, Sun's gone down but there's still a sort of blueness to the sky and you can see the steam coming off the local power station and you can see Warrington, it's beginning to light up. You know, there's a hint of light there. And as I'm looking up towards Liverpool, you can see a light coming up the Mersey Valley, following the river itself. The unusual thing about the light is it looks like a helicopter but it looks like a helicopter with three search lights underneath. So you've got these lights scanning the ground looking for something so you think, oh it's gotta be a police helicopter you know? There's a hint of color to the lights as well. It's gotta be a helicopter. So you see it coming up and it passes through the steam that's coming off the power station. Now steam is pretty jolly hot anyway you know and it's not the sort of thing a helicopter would do. The police certainly wouldn't fly through the steam coming off a power station. So at that point I'm thinking, this is not, it's not a helicopter. You know, it's something else. And it keeps coming up the Mersey Valley but each time it changes direction, it does so really quickly. So it doesn't curve like a helicopter, it jumps you know, when it changes directions. So it's moving and it's jumping back and to. And you can see the lights moving underneath and then you've got other lights on it. There's, I think there's blue lights, white lights, red lights and you can see that it's actually the wrong shape. It looks exactly like something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. You know, it really does. You've got that flare off the lights and everything and you can see it coming up the Mersey Valley. And as it's coming up, it almost reaches the bridge at Warrington so you can see it's coming very very close to the bridge. And, all of a sudden, it just goes out. The whole lot, all the lights just go out completely and you can just see a shape vanish at breakneck speed straight up vertically into the sky. Gone, literally wallop straight up. So all you saw is this blur. It looked like a black blob heading skywards. But everything just went off like someone had pulled a plug and then it just heads straight off. Now the interesting thing is, there's a book around called Mysteries of the Mid Mersey Valley. And on the cover it shows the lighthouse down at Hale with a flying saucer, with a light coming out from underneath and I noted at the time the date, 'cos I had a diary, I noted the date. I can't remember off the top of my head now what it was but the date is the same date as Jenny Randles, who wrote this book, included the story of this UFO doing exactly what I saw this thing do. The only difference being, the witness who saw it from that end of the Mersey, didn't see it disappear 'cos they lost sight of it before it arrived at Warrington. So independently, and we're talking probably 15 or 20 years after the incident, this book comes out, independently the incident's confirmed by a second viewer. So I've seen them. I've seen these things flying and flashes in the sky and other shapes and I've met people who have talked extensively about encounters they've had. So yes they're out there, I definitely know they're out there. (dramatic music) (haunting choral singing) Over the months that followed, Gary and his team had the metal analyzed by several experts. Especially experts in the aerospace industry. And their findings can briefly be summarized as follows, the metal is a form of Duralumin, which is not inconsistent with material used to build fighter aircraft. Although they expressed surprise at the high quality of the sample. They were unable to identify the green paint substance or the gray reflux surface but they were adamant that this green painted surface has not formed part of the outside skin of any aircraft. As the mystery paint is not sufficiently aerodynamic. (engine roaring) Associates in the Armed Forces and others in the aircraft construction industry were also asked to examine the samples and to offer an opinion. Their findings can be summarized, the only areas of an aircraft's construction that would normally require the use of honeycombed or sandwich strengtheners would be the control surfaces ie. the tail rudder or wing flaps. With a smile one expert said, "There is no known aircraft that could lose "that quantity of its control surfaces so as to cover "several fields with metallic debris and survive. "I suggest that you go back and look for something "big with engines sticking upright out of the ground." The investigation team returned to the site for a second time to search for debris but were unable to find any other scraps of the mystery foil or metallic plates. Undaunted, they made plans for a third visit, this time with more sophisticated equipment to aid their searches. However, they never made that third visit. For, just before they could return, the Forestry Commission arrived and promptly set about removing the wooded copse. They said it was necessary because of wind damage. It's going back quite a few years now, I think it was in Blackpool, I think we met in Blackpool. There was a conference there, not a very salubrious place Blackpool, it's got its nice interesting tower, famous the world over funfairs and casinos and things like that and there was a conference there. It's not essentially a UFO conference it's a conference called Probe and it's quite appropriate 'cos they look at world mysteries, mysteries of all different kinds and evidence is presented there of these mysteries so it's quite useful to stay tuned in to that community and Gary was one of the speakers and I was a speaker at the same conference and we were poles apart because I'm a sort of scruffy hippy type character and he's this older gentleman in a suit and as soon as we got talking, we realize we had an awful lot in common. At that time I ran a group, he ran a group, he was doing things in his life that I was doing in my life, we had the same interest in archeology and new parts and all sorts of mysteries and what have you. So it all started over a Chinese in a Chinese banqueting place in Blackpool and what really got my attention was the bit where he said, "Well I've got four pieces of a UFO in my garage," At which point I thought, mm I'm gonna file that one away and I did file it away, it took quite a few years to come back to him on that particular issue. I think it took about five or six years from us meeting. He'd had problems with people dealing with that as an issue before. I think someone had tried to produce a production of some kind to video or DVD for him and had gone down the flying saucer route, you know, full on which was not really what he wanted. He wanted more of a serious program and so, when I got to talking to him, he said, "Well yeah if you can do it seriously "then we'll seriously have a go at it." So although the production's relatively short in terms of DVD releases, the content of it took about two years to thoroughly investigate and then probably another six months to put the final production together. Consequently I've known Gary now for about eight or 10 years you know. - Well in '83 I was running a UFO group in Deeside so I had a lot of people very interested in UFOs with me and a team ready to go with all sorts of equipment and so on when all of a sudden, I pick a newspaper up one day, I think it was the Daily Express actually, and there's this article, strange debris from the sky and it tells of a story of a farmer down there near Aberystwyth on a farm at Llanilar and this farmer claims that he went out one morning and found all this strange debris on his land. Well obviously it had connotations to me of Roswell and I'm thinking strange metallic debris spread all over fields? So immediately I got a small team together and we headed off. We spoke to the farmer on the telephone and this very nice gentleman Erwell, was really helpful and he said, "Come down by all means." And we did and when we went down there, he led us out from the farm and he took us out across these fields and he said, "Here before me in the morning, "spread out over four fields, was metal fragments. "Metal plate, all convex shaped "and glistening metal foil all over the place "spread over an entire four field area." Obviously when I got there there was no metal because, as he explained, that morning, he got up and found the fragments and he immediately rang the police suspecting that he'd had a plane crash on his land. The police arrived and duly they walk around and they examine the fields and obviously they can't be of a lot of help. They recognize that there's this metal foil there so they contact the RAF crash retrieval. Gentlemen arrive from that and they walk over the land hearing the same story and examining this material and saying to each other, "Gosh this isn't an airplane. "We don't really know what it is." So they leave all this evidence in place and much later that same day, there's arrival of people from the Ministry of Defense. Now there are plain clothes people here directing uniformed officers. They've got all sorts of equipment and, in the words of Mr Erwell himself, he said, "It's like a scene here from James Bond. "They've got lights all over the place, it's barricaded off "and they're out there collecting these pieces of material." Well by the next morning, when Erwell got up to see to his lambs and so on, he went out there and it was gone. Every piece of metal and the MOD, completely gone. Much later, we arrived as a team to investigate. Obviously they hadn't left a fragment anywhere, we searched the fields, we were unable to find any of it at all. In fact, the three people that were with me were really despairing in the end. You can imagine how excited we were, the chance of finding some of this debris. So, I said to my colleagues, I said, "There's no way, I don't care how good they are, "the MOD, and what they used, "it would be very very difficult to clear "the forest that adjoined the land." So we set off amongst the branches and the trees and so on and it wasn't long before we started to find strange fragments of this metal and we recovered a number of pieces of this. You could see clearly where to look because there was a line right through the top of this wood or this forest if you like, where all the treetops had been sheared off, probably to a width of about 20 odd feet and all the tops of these trees were scattered straight in a line right across this field. So it was easy to find where we needed to look and we came away with this material. Obviously we planned to go back with more people and make a more thorough search, taking more equipment with us, well, you would not believe this but that very same week I had another phone call from the farmer and he said, "You're still welcome to come down and do your research "and so on but you might be wasting your time." So I said, "Well how's that then?" He said, "Well you know that forest? "As I'm speaking to you, they're actually removing it." I said, "Pardon, they're removing a forest?" "Yes," he said. So I contact the Forestry Commission and say, "Would you like to tell me why you're removing the forest?" And a Forestry Commission person and he sounded as if he was smiling although obviously I couldn't see him on the telephone, he said, "Well it's wind damage you know?" And I said, "Wind damage? "Do you usually remove a forest for wind damage?" "No," he said, "but we're removing this one." So I took it from that obviously the Ministry of Defense had decided that the best way to remove any evidence in the forest was to take the trees away and that's exactly what they did. - Or is this just going into another story of strange noises, vanished evidence and weird lights in the sky? - If you'd just like to come this way, I've got some of the pieces here to show you. And there it is. As you can see, this large piece is almost like shattered glass around the edge, in fact the only straight part of it is where we've had to cut samples for testing. On top of this gray material, this resin material, stood this sort of honeycombed metal. A sample of that in the case there that you can see almost like tin foil, giving it enormous strength across the outside. So, if you can imagine, we'd got this material sandwiched between two plates. You'll notice that it's all completely shattered around the edges, almost like shattered glass. (dramatic music) Well, as a matter of fact I've got a small sample of the material here. On the one side, as you can see, it's a green color and on the other side it's a gray color. The gray color is some kind of resin that's not been properly identified yet and obviously there's this Duralumin in between. You notice that all the edges of the material look as if it's broken glass, it's shattered. The only straight edge, in fact, is the one that I've actually cut to take samples from. All the pieces are of a slightly concave nature indicating that this has either exploded or imploded at some time. What's interesting though is the strength of this material. It's extremely strong given that it's so light. Very very strong, I can just bend it or flex it but it would take quite a serious amount of effort to put a crease into it. I think you'll agree with me that is extremely unusual. On the side that you can see that's gray, where the resin was, attached to this there was honeycombed metal foil that resembles baking foil but all neatly honeycombed and obviously the two pieces of metal went either side, sandwiching this honeycomb between them. The result is, of course, extremely strong material that can't even be crushed and yet extremely light at the same time. Quite incredible construction really. (dramatic music) (haunting choral music) - Well, he was very very clever because there's a story attached to this so I suppose I should really tell the story, that is a keyring, mounted at the back of this magnifying glass is a keyring, and he had 100 of those key rings produced. The reason being word got out through the authorities, probably through the farmer who who's land the UFO crashed on, word got out to the authorities that pieces of something had been recovered and the classic thing is you hear of these big black cars pulling up with all the windows blacked out you know, the doors open and the gentlemen get out and they're all in black with dark sunglasses you know, and passes hanging you know, there is a measure of truth in that because these guys actually did turn up and came knocking on Gary's door. But Gary's answer was, "Okay I'll do you a deal." And I thought this was incredibly clever, his answer was, "I've produced 100 of these key rings," he said, "with fragments of the UFO in and scattered them amongst people all over the UK." And the deal with the men in black was very simple, if you don't come after my pieces, I won't tell these 100 people to give their pieces to the media. And that was 25 years ago. So 25 years ago there were 100 of these little key rings knocking around and, of course, the gentlemen, the men in black, thought okay there's nothing we can do, the truth is out there, it's got out you know, he's allowed these pieces out, we can't possibly get all 100 pieces back because they're scattered around people that we don't know and they literally, in silence, got back in the car, drove off and were never seen again. But, as I said, that was 25 years ago. The atmosphere has considerably changed now in the UFO community and I was fortunate enough to acquire one of the pieces so there it is. I don't know if anyone can actually see that. - Now, following that, obviously we were very curious with these pieces of metal that we'd recovered, to find out what they were. And we were very lucky in the end to have someone who is a foremost metallurgist to take these pieces and investigate them. This person's associated with the aerospace industry and therefore had all the facilities to go ahead and do this sort of research. Well, eventually I got a report back. I must admit that most of it went clean over the top of my head, I'm not a metallurgist myself, but the gist of it is, the metal is some form of Duralumin. Which is not inconsistent with the kind of thing that you build fighter aircraft from. But there were strange anomalies in it that interested these people. They were talking about a strangeness to it. Its strength to volume ratio was extremely high and also they were talking about a sort of pure alloy. Now how you can get a pure alloy I'm not quite sure but the purity of it interested them. They were utterly convinced that they knew no one that could make this metal and they would very much obviously like to make it themselves, they thought this was just the stuff we ought to be making airplanes out of. The result of it was that we had to settle for that information and, to this day, nothing else has occurred that would indicate it's anything other than that. Although we have had separate tests done on a few occasions. It also had some kind of strange resin on one side of it. The nature of this has not been fully analyzed although we are aware of some of the chemicals this coloration that was on one side of it is not an aerodynamic material. (rock music) (electronic beeping) From that day to this, it still remains unidentified, no aircraft was missing, no pilots were missing, no mechanical things were found on the site associated with, there were no rivets in the construction of any of this material. And whatever this strange thing was that flew that night over that farm, it managed to explode all this material, cover four fields with it and then fly off again undisturbed, it appears. It's quite remarkable. And as this has not been identified in the last 20 odd years, we can only conclude, and this is as far as I'm happy to go, that this remains debris from a UFO, an unidentified flying object. (rock music) ♪ Everything is perfect ♪ ♪ And everything is bent ♪ ♪ When all you want is answers ♪ ♪ For all you'll come and spend ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine or just somewhere between ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Is this reality ♪ ♪ Living with you all the 21st century ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Time is always ticking ♪ ♪ Oh I'm not far away ♪ ♪ And the bullet's hollow ♪ ♪ Makes it all okay ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine or just somewhere between ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Is this reality ♪ ♪ Living with you all the 21st century ♪ ♪ What will it be ♪ ♪ Man or machine ♪ ♪ Man or machine ♪ - Why did we do the crash sequence? Well the crash sequence itself is interesting and it's interesting for two reasons. The first reason it's interesting is that the physical evidence that was there at the time of the incident was good enough to be able to reconstruct the nature of the craft okay? You could very clearly see, in the trees, a 20 to 25 foot wide channel cut through where the flying craft had gone through and, when it had exited the forest, it had scattered the debris forward across the four fields. So you could easily reconstruct from that exactly what had happened so when you see the reconstruction on the DV, you can see the craft coming down you know, we've done that, we've fudged that a bit and made it look you know, a bit, indistinct is the word I'd use, it's very indistinct. We haven't really made a meal of that. The bit we have made a meal of of course is where the thing actually turns in trouble, swings down and then smashes through the trees because that is the factual bit, we know it did that. The reason we went for this shape, 'cos I've actually got the model we used here. (metal ringing) Its quite an interesting one this. The reason we went for this shape is that this is what is standardly referred to as a flying saucer and it's about as bland and innocuous a shape as you can get. It's the same shade of green roughly as the original debris was so we're assuming the outside of the craft was that color and the other reason, the second reason why we went for this, is because it's actually got some writing on the bottom here and people might notice, it actually says Belling Bed Warmer and for 50 pence on a local car boot, I found this electrical apparatus that has a light bulb inside it, you plug it in and shove the thing into your bed you see and it actually warms your bed up so this is a piece of archeology from the late 1950s. It was 1950s blue gray when I bought it and I just thought it was amusing that we should be using a 1950s bed warmer as the shape for the UFO you see, that crashed. The other thing as well that's worth mentioning, these bobbles on the bottom are very indicative of a book that influenced me fairly early on. Me dad actually gave me a copy of it when I was a child 'cos it's a book from the 50s, which is this one actually this is the classic, Flying Saucers Have Landed. Okay this is the George Adamski book that really pushed this forward. It's debatable whether that's a clever model or whether it really is a UFO but it's got these balls underneath it you see? So ever since this, UFOs have tended to take that shape so it fascinated me, I mean actually going through Flying Saucers Have Landed again recently, just going through this for research things really haven't changed you know since this book was done. You know, I can almost imagine Adamski sitting there you know, back when this was written and working on his research notes, banging away on his typewriter and putting this together. I wonder sometimes if he actually knew what effect this would have. 1953 that's when this was done. 1953. So you never know, '53, '83 who knows. (haunting choral music) If it's human, somebody out there has the answer, somebody. Somebody out there knows the answer and if they're not telling us then they've got a reason to not tell us, they've got their own agenda and therefore if it is human, then the rest of us, us mere mortals, will just have to continue with the limited knowledge we have. But if anybody out there does know any difference, answers on a postcard. (laughing) (dramatic music) (haunting choral music) (dramatic music) (haunting choral music) (rock music) In January 1983, a mysterious flying craft of some kind crashed in fields just outside Aberystwyth in mid Wales. Strangely, only one local newspaper was to run the story about this event and yet, it could prove to be as significant as the Roswell Crash in New Mexico. Can we claim to have hard evidence of this craft? Well, watch on. - [Gary] From that day to this, it still remains unidentified. No air craft was missing, no pilots were missing, no mechanical things were found on the site. We can only conclude that this remains debris from a UFO, an unidentified flying object. - In 1983, one of the world news clippings agency sent Gary Rowe a clipping of a crash near Aberystwyth in mid Wales. This is the story that followed. The report in a national newspaper was headed, Strange Debris Out Of The Sky and it was from the Sunday Express, the 23rd of January 1983. It indicated that an unidentified flying object had crashed in Wales. The similarities with the famous Roswell incident became gradually too obvious. (upbeat music) While Gary was fortunate enough to be living in north Wales at the time, nonetheless the reported incident was some considerable distance. So he contacted the farmer and obtained his permission to visit the crash site. (water rushing) After hastily organizing a reconnaissance team and several hours of driving, the team arrived. As the team examined the damage, Mr. Evans recounted the entire series of events from the beginning. He began, "The incident must have happened in the dead of night "as there was no sign of the debris "late on the previous evening." Early the following morning as he trudged the fields to tend his newborn lambs, he was confronted with masses of scattered debris extending over an area of four of his fields. He telephoned the local police station. The local police arrived and after they conducted a brief examination, the RAF were called in. They removed every scrap of evidence that they could find and only one section taken away had what looked like part of a number on it. The pieces ranged in size from an inch to six feet. The men continued the search by torchlight as darkness fell. Mr. Evans described it as a scene straight from a James Bond movie. So thorough was the military clean up operation that both metal detecting and archeology were unable to shed any more light on the UFO crash. All of the fields and the forest had been completely cleared of all the evidence. Maybe the answer to all this rests with the civilian UFO crash recovery team who got there before the military clean up operation. Or is this just going to turn into another story of strange noises, vanished evidence and weird lights in the sky? It's interesting to note here that the RAF search team at the site were unable to recognize any of the debris that belonged to any known aircraft. They also admitted to being baffled as their radar scanners had not detected the incident or anything unusual leading up to the incident. In fact, two weeks later they admitted that they were still unable to confirm that it was aircraft material they had recovered, let alone offer an explanation. In their own words an RAF spokesman said, "The debris certainly had nothing to do with us. "We are examining the fragments "to try to piece them together in the hope of a clue "as to where it came from and what it is." (rock music) We dispatched, professional historian and researcher Scott Lloyd to the National Library of Wales to see if any other newspapers of the day carried the story of the UFO crash. - Well from the date you gave me I went to the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, it's not that far away from the site, and I went through all the local newspapers the week before and a couple of weeks after trying to see if there's any reference to an object crashing in a field in Llanilar. The local papers deal with every minor event that happens in the local villages and I was very surprised to find no reference to it whatsoever. Which I thought was a little unusual. However, there was some correspondence in the Cambrian News between locals of the area, discussing the fact that Hercules aircraft had been flying very low in the area but that was the closest I could find to anything crashing. I find it very unusual that an event that could reach a national newspaper wasn't recorded in the local newspapers and this is in English and Welsh. So there's three or four local papers I looked at. So really I'd be interested to see what other evidence we can gather. This article here is a photocopy. So unfortunately we don't have the whole page which would give us a definite date line on the top. It's handwritten, the source, as the Sunday Express for the 23rd of January 1983. Which is the period I looked at in the National Library. Now we have to hope that the person who wrote this A, got the newspaper right and B, and probably more importantly, got the date right otherwise I've been looking in the wrong place. Really I'd like to continue the research by trying to contact the police in Aberystwyth to see what report they have of the incident and also there's a reference here to the secretary of the Cardiganshire Farmers' Union so I'd also quite like to see if it's possible to speak to him and then we can maybe narrow this down a bit more. And, of course, the journalist who wrote the article, an Andrew Chapman, hopefully we can get hold of him and then maybe we can get closer to seeing why it didn't appear in any of the local newspapers. (rock music) Well that's the interesting thing, how did a journalist for a national newspaper find a story about a small village in mid Wales when none of the local newspapers seem to reference it. So that is quite odd. I'd like to speak to the journalist to see where he did get it from. (rock music) The other line of inquiry is also contacting the MOD to see what they had to say about the matter because, according to this article, they gave a statement saying there was no aircraft out at the time and their radar scanners picked up nothing unusual. So it'd be interesting to clarify that point. So I still think we have a few lines of inquiry left, - It's so long since the original newspaper article appeared that's it's author Andrew Chapman has no idea what was his source material for writing that article. Furthermore our researches at the National Library of Wales didn't reveal any other newspaper article on the UFO crash. So, once again, we've drawn a blank. The next best hope perhaps is to investigate the crash site itself. (dramatic music) They found the farm situated in a beautiful rural area of Wales near to Aberystwyth. The farmer, Mr Evans, aged 29 at the time, turned out to be very pleasant, helpful and sociable. He led the team across four of his fields indicating where he had earlier discovered hundreds of pieces of metallic foil and other parts of a crashed craft. He described how all the pieces had looked like shattered glass with jagged edges. Some of the shattered and twisted plates were over six feet in size. The overall impression was that some large aircraft must have exploded above the area. The 260 acre farm is bordered on the southwest side by a mixed wood copse owned by the Forestry Commission. As the team approached the boundary of the field and the trees, it became apparent that, whatever the flying object was, it had collided with the trees. After thanking Farmer Evans for his very graphic account of events, it was time to conduct a search of their own. That the authorities had done a pretty thorough job of cleaning the area became obvious when, after more than an hour's search, the team had failed to find a single scrap of material in any of the large fields. The team next concentrated their efforts in searching the wooded area. At first, without success. It was not long before the first piece was discovered. Other finds followed as they searched high in the trees and used the damaged avenue as a rough guide to the search area. We've traveled some miles outside Aberystwyth to the sleepy Welsh village of Llanilar and we've spent some time interviewing the local residents. Unfortunately, there are not many people left from 25 years ago and none of the ones who are remember the crash. So, it looks like we've hit another dead end. (haunting flute music) (dramatic music) (haunting choral singing) Over the months that followed, Gary and his team had the metal analyzed by several experts. Especially experts in the aerospace industry. And their findings can briefly be summarized as follows, the metal is a form of Duralumin, which is not inconsistent with material used to build fighter aircraft. Although they expressed surprise at the high quality of the sample. They were unable to identify the green paint substance or the gray reflux surface but they were adamant that this green painted surface has not formed part of the outside skin of any aircraft. As the mystery paint is not sufficiently aerodynamic. (engine roaring) Associates in the Armed Forces and others in the aircraft construction industry were also asked to examine the samples and to offer an opinion. Their findings can be summarized, the only areas of an aircraft's construction that would normally require the use of honeycombed or sandwich strengtheners would be the control surfaces ie. the tail rudder or wing flaps. With a smile one expert said, "There is no known aircraft that could lose "that quantity of its control surfaces so as to cover "several fields with metallic debris and survive. "I suggest that you go back and look for something "big with engines sticking upright out of the ground." The investigation team returned to the site for a second time to search for debris but were unable to find any other scraps of the mystery foil or metallic plates. Undaunted, they made plans for a third visit, this time with more sophisticated equipment to aid their searches. However, they never made that third visit. For, just before they could return, the Forestry Commission arrived and promptly set about removing the wooded copse. They said it was necessary because of wind damage. - Well in '83 I was running a UFO group in Deeside so I had a lot of people very interested in UFOs with me and a team ready to go with all sorts of equipment and so on when all of a sudden, I pick a newspaper up one day, I think it was the Daily Express actually, and there's this article, strange debris from the sky and it tells of a story of a farmer down there near Aberystwyth on a farm at Llanilar and this farmer claims that he went out one morning and found all this strange debris on his land. Well obviously it had connotations to me of Roswell and I'm thinking strange metallic debris spread all over fields? So immediately I got a small team together and we headed off. We spoke to the farmer on the telephone and this very nice gentleman Erwell, was really helpful and he said, "Come down by all means." And we did and when we went down there, he led us out from the farm and he took us out across these fields and he said, "Here before me in the morning, "spread out over four fields, was metal fragments. "Metal plate, all convex shaped "and glistening metal foil all over the place "spread over an entire four field area." Obviously when I got there there was no metal because, as he explained, that morning, he got up and found the fragments and he immediately rang the police suspecting that he'd had a plane crash on his land. The police arrived and duly they walk around and they examine the fields and obviously they can't be of a lot of help. They recognize that there's this metal foil there so they contact the RAF crash retrieval. Gentlemen arrive from that and they walk over the land hearing the same story and examining this material and saying to each other, "Gosh this isn't an airplane. "We don't really know what it is." So they leave all this evidence in place and much later that same day, there's arrival of people from the Ministry of Defense. Now there are plain clothes people here directing uniformed officers. They've got all sorts of equipment and, in the words of Mr Erwell himself, he said, "It's like a scene here from James Bond. "They've got lights all over the place, it's barricaded off "and they're out there collecting these pieces of material." Well by the next morning, when Erwell got up to see to his lambs and so on, he went out there and it was gone. Every piece of metal and the MOD, completely gone. Much later, we arrived as a team to investigate. Obviously they hadn't left a fragment anywhere, we searched the fields, we were unable to find any of it at all. In fact, the three people that were with me were really despairing in the end. You can imagine how excited we were, the chance of finding some of this debris. So, I said to my colleagues, I said, "There's no way, I don't care how good they are, "the MOD, and what they used, "it would be very very difficult to clear "the forest that adjoined the land." So we set off amongst the branches and the trees and so on and it wasn't long before we started to find strange fragments of this metal and we recovered a number of pieces of this. You could see clearly where to look because there was a line right through the top of this wood or this forest if you like, where all the treetops had been sheared off, probably to a width of about 20 odd feet and all the tops of these trees were scattered straight in a line right across this field. So it was easy to find where we needed to look and we came away with this material. Obviously we planned to go back with more people and make a more thorough search, taking more equipment with us, well, you would not believe this but that very same week I had another phone call from the farmer and he said, "You're still welcome to come down and do your research "and so on but you might be wasting your time." So I said, "Well how's that then?" He said, "Well you know that forest? "As I'm speaking to you, they're actually removing it." I said, "Pardon, they're removing a forest?" "Yes," he said. So I contact the Forestry Commission and say, "Would you like to tell me why you're removing the forest?" And a Forestry Commission person and he sounded as if he was smiling although obviously I couldn't see him on the telephone, he said, "Well it's wind damage you know?" And I said, "Wind damage? "Do you usually remove a forest for wind damage?" "No," he said, "but we're removing this one." So I took it from that obviously the Ministry of Defense had decided that the best way to remove any evidence in the forest was to take the trees away and that's exactly what they did. - Or is this just going into another story of strange noises, vanished evidence and weird lights in the sky? - If you'd just like to come this way, I've got some of the pieces here to show you. And there it is. As you can see, this large piece is almost like shattered glass around the edge, in fact the only straight part of it is where we've had to cut samples for testing. On top of this gray material, this resin material, stood this sort of honeycombed metal. A sample of that in the case there that you can see almost like tin foil, giving it enormous strength across the outside. So, if you can imagine, we'd got this material sandwiched between two plates. You'll notice that it's all completely shattered around the edges, almost like shattered glass. (dramatic music) Well, as a matter of fact I've got a small sample of the material here. On the one side, as you can see, it's a green color and on the other side it's a gray color. The gray color is some kind of resin that's not been properly identified yet and obviously there's this Duralumin in between. You notice that all the edges of the material look as if it's broken glass, it's shattered. The only straight edge, in fact, is the one that I've actually cut to take samples from. All the pieces are of a slightly concave nature indicating that this has either exploded or imploded at some time. What's interesting though is the strength of this material. It's extremely strong given that it's so light. Very very strong, I can just bend it or flex it but it would take quite a serious amount of effort to put a crease into it. I think you'll agree with me that is extremely unusual. On the side that you can see that's gray, where the resin was, attached to this there was honeycombed metal foil that resembles baking foil but all neatly honeycombed and obviously the two pieces of metal went either side, sandwiching this honeycomb between them. The result is, of course, extremely strong material that can't even be crushed and yet extremely light at the same time. Quite incredible construction really. (dramatic music) (haunting choral music) - Now, following that, obviously we were very curious with these pieces of metal that we'd recovered, to find out what they were. And we were very lucky in the end to have someone who is a foremost metallurgist to take these pieces and investigate them. This person's associated with the aerospace industry and therefore had all the facilities to go ahead and do this sort of research. Well, eventually I got a report back. I must admit that most of it went clean over the top of my head, I'm not a metallurgist myself, but the gist of it is, the metal is some form of Duralumin. Which is not inconsistent with the kind of thing that you build fighter aircraft from. But there were strange anomalies in it that interested these people. They were talking about a strangeness to it. Its strength to volume ratio was extremely high and also they were talking about a sort of pure alloy. Now how you can get a pure alloy I'm not quite sure but the purity of it interested them. They were utterly convinced that they knew no one that could make this metal and they would very much obviously like to make it themselves, they thought this was just the stuff we ought to be making airplanes out of. The result of it was that we had to settle for that information and, to this day, nothing else has occurred that would indicate it's anything other than that. Although we have had separate tests done on a few occasions. It also had some kind of strange resin on one side of it. The nature of this has not been fully analyzed although we are aware of some of the chemicals that it's composed of and I'm told that the color, this coloration that was on one side of it is not an aerodynamic material. (rock music) (electronic beeping) From that day to this, it still remains unidentified, no aircraft was missing, no pilots were missing, no mechanical things were found on the site associated with, there were no rivets in the construction of any of this material. And whatever this strange thing was that flew that night over that farm, it managed to explode all this material, cover four fields with it and then fly off again undisturbed, it appears. It's quite remarkable. And as this has not been identified in the last 20 odd years, we can only conclude, and this is as far as I'm happy to go, that this remains debris from a UFO, an unidentified flying object. (rock music) ♪ Everything is perfect ♪ ♪ And everything is bent ♪ ♪ When all you want is answers ♪ ♪ For all you'll come and spend ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine or just somewhere between ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Is this reality ♪ ♪ Living with you all the 21st century ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Time is always ticking ♪ ♪ Oh I'm not far away ♪ ♪ And the bullet's hollow ♪ ♪ Makes it all okay ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine or just somewhere between ♪ ♪ Are you man or machine ♪ ♪ Is this reality ♪ ♪ Living with you all the 21st century ♪ ♪ What will it be ♪ ♪ Man or machine ♪ ♪ Man or machine ♪ - Well in '83 I was running a UFO group in Deeside so I had a lot of people very interested in UFOs with me and a team ready to go with all sorts of equipment and so on when all of a sudden, I pick a newspaper up one day, I think it was the Daily Express actually, and there's this article, strange debris from the sky and it tells of a story of a farmer down there near Aberystwyth on a farm at Llanilar and this farmer claims that he went out one morning and found all this strange debris on his land. Well obviously it had connotations to me of Roswell and I'm thinking strange metallic debris spread all over fields? So immediately I got a small team together and we headed off. We spoke to the farmer on the telephone and this very nice gentleman Erwell, was really helpful and he said, "Come down by all means." And we did and when we went down there, he led us out from the farm and he took us out across these fields and he said, "Here before me in the morning, "spread out over four fields, was metal fragments. "Metal plate, all convex shaped "and glistening metal foil all over the place "spread over an entire four field area." Obviously when I got there there was no metal because, as he explained, that morning, he got up and found the fragments and he immediately rang the police suspecting that he'd had a plane crash on his land. The police arrived and duly they walk around and they examine the fields and obviously they can't be of a lot of help. They recognize that there's this metal foil there so they contact the RAF crash retrieval. Gentlemen arrive from that and they walk over the land hearing the same story and examining this material and saying to each other, "Gosh this isn't an airplane. "We don't really know what it is." So they leave all this evidence in place and much later that same day, there's arrival of people from the Ministry of Defense. Now there are plain clothes people here directing uniformed officers. They've got all sorts of equipment and, in the words of Mr Erwell himself, he said, "It's like a scene here from James Bond. "They've got lights all over the place, it's barricaded off "and they're out there collecting these pieces of material." Well by the next morning, when Erwell got up to see to his lambs and so on, he went out there and it was gone. Every piece of metal and the MOD, completely gone. Much later, we arrived as a team to investigate. Obviously they hadn't left a fragment anywhere, we searched the fields, we were unable to find any of it at all. In fact, the three people that were with me were really despairing in the end. You can imagine how excited we were, the chance of finding some of this debris. So, I said to my colleagues, I said, "There's no way, I don't care how good they are, "the MOD, and what they used, "it would be very very difficult to clear "the forest that adjoined the land." So we set off amongst the branches and the trees and so on and it wasn't long before we started to find strange fragments of this metal and we recovered a number of pieces of this. You could see clearly where to look because there was a line right through the top of this wood or this forest if you like, where all the treetops had been sheared off, probably to a width of about 20 odd feet and all the tops of these trees were scattered straight in a line right across this field. So it was easy to find where we needed to look and we came away with this material. Obviously we planned to go back with more people and make a more thorough search, taking more equipment with us, well, you would not believe this but that very same week I had another phone call from the farmer and he said, "You're still welcome to come down and do your research "and so on but you might be wasting your time." So I said, "Well how's that then?" He said, "Well you know that forest? "As I'm speaking to you, they're actually removing it." I said, "Pardon, they're removing a forest?" "Yes," he said. So I contact the Forestry Commission and say, "Would you like to tell me why you're removing the forest?" And a Forestry Commission person and he sounded as if he was smiling although obviously I couldn't see him on the telephone, he said, "Well it's wind damage you know?" And I said, "Wind damage? "Do you usually remove a forest for wind damage?" "No," he said, "but we're removing this one." So I took it from that obviously the Ministry of Defense had decided that the best way to remove any evidence in the forest was to take the trees away and that's exactly what they did. Well, as a matter of fact I've got a small sample of the material here. On the one side, as you can see, it's a green color and on the other side it's a gray color. The gray color is some kind of resin that's not been properly identified yet and obviously there's this Duralumin in between. You notice that all the edges of the material look as if it's broken glass, it's shattered. The only straight edge, in fact, is the one that I've actually cut to take samples from. All the pieces are of a slightly concave nature indicating that this has either exploded or imploded at some time. What's interesting though is the strength of this material. It's extremely strong given that it's so light. Very very strong, I can just bend it or flex it but it would take quite a serious amount of effort to put a crease into it. On the side that you can see that's gray, where the resin was, attached to this there was honeycombed metal foil that resembles baking foil but all neatly honeycombed and obviously the two pieces of metal went either side, sandwiching this honeycomb between them. The result is, of course, extremely strong material that can't even be crushed and yet extremely light at the same time. Quite incredible construction really. Well you can imagine, when we'd got this metal, how keen we were to find out what it was. Well we were very lucky in the end to have someone who was connected with the aerospace industry and he very kindly took a sample along and unofficially it was tested for us. Unfortunately we couldn't afford to send it ourselves, they wanted about four, five thousand pounds just to test this sample. Anyway we had it tested, we're told by one of the leading metallurgists and his findings were very interesting. Although much of it, of course, went clean over my head. His report indicated that the metal basically was a type of Duralumin. Which is not itself inconsistent with being that of a fighter aircraft but they were talking about a strangeness to it. It's strength to volume ratio was extremely high and also they were talking about a sort of pure alloy. Now how you can get a pure alloy I'm not quite sure but the purity of it interested them. They were utterly convinced that they knew no one that could make this metal and they would very much, obviously, like to make it themselves, they thought this was just the stuff we ought to be making airplanes out of. The result of it was that we had to settle for that information and, to this day, nothing else has occurred that would indicate it's anything other than that. Although we have had separate tests done on a few occasions. It also had some kind of strange resin on one side of it. The nature of this has not been fully analyzed although we are aware of some of the chemicals that it's composed of. And I'm told that this coloration that was on one side of it is not an aerodynamic material and therefore would never have been painted on anything that was an airplane even. From that day to this, it still remains unidentified, no aircraft was missing, no pilots were missing, no mechanical things were found on the site associated with, there were no rivets in the construction of any of this material. And whatever this strange thing was that flew that night over that farm, it managed to explode all this material, cover four fields with it and then fly off again undisturbed, it appears. It's quite remarkable. And as this has not been identified in the last 20 odd years, we can only conclude, and this is as far as I'm happy to go, that this remains debris from a UFO, an unidentified flying object. If you'd just like to come this way, I've got some of the pieces here to show you. I've brought them over specially for you to see. The larger piece had the resin on the top and here you can see a sandwich piece with the metal foil in between and the edge on a sample of it and you can see from this how this sandwich is really compact. It has enormous strength, rigidity across the outside without ever having to give up it's secrets. - The report in a national newspaper was headed, "Strange Debris Out of the Sky." and it was from the Sunday Express the 23rd of January 1983. It indicated that an unidentified flying object had crashed in Wales. The similarities with the famous Roswell incident became gradually too obvious. While Gary was fortunate enough to be living in north Wales at the time, nonetheless the reported incident was some considerable distance. So he contacted the farmer and obtained his permission to visit the crash site. After hastily organizing a reconnaissance team and several hours of driving, the team arrived. They found the farm situated in a beautiful rural area of Wales near to Aberystwyth. The farmer, Mr Evans, aged 29 at the time, turned out to be very pleasant, helpful and sociable. He led the team across four of his fields indicating where he had earlier discovered hundreds of pieces of metallic foil, large alloy plates that were green on one side and coated with hard gray substance and other parts of a crashed craft. There were also enormous quantities of metal foil, some still neatly honeycombed between two layers of the hard gray substance. He described how all the pieces had looked like shattered glass with jagged edges. Some of the shattered and twisted plates were over six feet in size. The overall impression was that some large aircraft must have exploded above the area. The 260 acre farm is bordered on the southwest side by a mixed wood copse owned by the Forestry Commission. As the team approached the boundary of the field and the trees, it became apparent that, whatever the flying object was, it had collided with the trees. In almost a straight line running right through the woods, it was possible to see an avenue of damage. The damage was considerable, starting at the opposite side of the copse to the field, several trees were knocked down and uprooted. They were all lying in the same direction, pointing towards the field. Further into the copse, the top section of many of the trees was sheared off in a corridor of some 25 foot width. Other, thinner tree were simply stripped of their bark. Broken branches and twigs extended right through the copse and onto the very edge of the field itself. It was obvious that something of considerable force has collided with the trees to cause this amount of damage. It was equally obvious that the light alloy material described could not have caused this amount of damage simply by falling. As the team examined the damage, Mr Evans recounted the entire series of events, from the beginning. He began, "The incident must have happened "in the dead of night as there was no sign "of the debris late on the previous evening. During the night of the crash, he hadn't heard anything unusual. In fact, no one questioned in the close knit community had heard or seen any aircraft. Early the following morning, as he trudged the fields to attend his newborn lambs, he was confronted with masses of scattered debris, extending over an area of four of his fields. Fearing a plane crash, he quickly searched for the main body of the aircraft but failed to find it. In fact there were no engines or mechanical components of any kind. None of the debris had any rivets or resembled anything that he had ever seen before. He telephoned the local police station. The local police arrived and, after they had conducted a brief examination, the RAF were called in. During the remainder of the entire day, teams of police, uniformed RAF men and plain clothed individuals giving orders thoroughly searched the fields and the nearby woods. They removed every scrap of evidence that they could find and only one section taken away had what looked like part of a number on it. Another piece resembled an aerial but, apart from those, all the remainder of the pieces looked very similar and were either extremely light metal foil, alloy metal plates or honeycombed foil sandwiched between alloy plates. The pieces ranged in size from an inch to six feet. The men continued the search by torchlight as darkness fell. Mr Evans described it as a scene straight from a James Bond movie. It's interesting to note here that the RAF search team at the site were unable to recognize any of the debris that belonged to any known aircraft. They also admitted to being baffled as their radar scanners had not detected the incident or anything unusual leading up to the incident. In fact, two weeks later, they admitted that they were still unable to confirm that it was aircraft material they had recovered, let alone offer an explanation. In their own words, an RAF spokesman said, "The debris certainly had nothing to do with us. "We are examining the fragments to try "to piece them together in the hope of a clue "as to where it came from and what it is. After thanking Farmer Evans for his very graphic account of events, it was time to conduct a search of their own. That the authorities had done a pretty thorough job of cleaning the area became obvious when, after more than an hour's search, the team had failed to find a single scrap of material in any of the large fields. The team next concentrated their efforts in searching the wooded area. At first, without success. But morale remained high as the team of investigators continued to search, heartened by the certainty that the woods could not have been totally cleared of all debris given the density of the undergrowth and especially as the searchers from the MOD had searched mainly through the night. It was not long before the first piece was discovered. Other finds followed as they searched high in the trees and used the damaged avenue as a rough guide to the search area. At the conclusion, they had secured several pieces of the strange flying craft which were representative of the different materials described by Farmer Evans. Mindful of the importance of the samples that were found and the fate of poor Mac Brazel, who was the farmer in the Roswell Incident, and the way his few samples had been taken away from him, they set in motion a scheme to ensure the complete safety of the Welsh crash fragments. When they got the fragments home, just as they'd been told, all the pieces that were found were jagged around the edges like shattered glass. One honeycomb foil section was as light as a feather and found to be so strong that it could not be crushed. A small section of thin alloy plate measured roughly two and a half inches across and was little thicker than 100 gram paper yet it could only be bent using great force. Its jagged edges were so hard and sharp that it could be used like a craft knife to cut things. Both the specimens and several other thicker plates looked as if they had been painted on one side with a rough dark green paint. The obverse was thinly coated with a skin of hard gray plastic looking material in which there was a fine, uniform, indented pattern that resembled the edge on view of a bee's honeycomb. It was consistent with having originally had honeycomb foil attached to its surface. They noted with interest that the edges of all the samples were slightly bent outwards ie. concave towards the green side. Because it would require very considerable force to cause this durable and hard alloy to disintegrate and shatter into fragments, it was concluded that the flying object had struck the trees and exploded, exuding large amounts of debris but somehow it had survived to continue on its flight. The team had the metal tested by their own appointed expert metallurgist associated with the aerospace industry and their findings and opinions can be briefly summarized as follows, the metal is a form of Duralumin, which is not inconsistent with material used to build fighter aircraft. Although the team did express surprise at the high quality of the samples. They were unable to identify the green paint substance or the gray reflux surface but they were adamant that this green painted surface has not formed part of the outside skin of any aircraft. As the mystery paint is not sufficiently aerodynamic. Associates in the Armed Forces and others in the aircraft construction industry were also asked to examine the samples and to offer an opinion. Their findings can be summarized thus, the only areas of an aircraft's construction that would normally require the use of honeycombed or sandwich strengtheners would be the control surfaces ie. the tail rudder or ailerons, which are in fact wing flaps. With a smile one expert said, "There is no known aircraft that could lose "that quantity of its control surfaces so as to cover "several fields with metallic debris and survive. "I suggest that you go back and look for something "big with engines sticking upright out of the ground." The investigation team returned to the site for a second time to search for debris but were unable to find any other scraps of the mystery foil or metallic plates. Undaunted, they made plans for a third visit, this time with more sophisticated equipment to aid their searches. However, they never made that third visit. For, just before they could return, the Forestry Commission arrived and promptly set about removing the wooded copse. They said it was necessary because of wind damage.
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Length: 107min 25sec (6445 seconds)
Published: Fri Jan 21 2022
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