The Berwyns and the Welsh Roswell
On the evening of 23 January 1974 the ground shook in the Berwyn mountains of north Wales and lights were seen on the hillside. People assumed an aircraft had come down; police, a nurse and mountain rescue climbed in the dark and found nothing. Over the years the story acquired military lorries carrying containers away, and the nickname the Welsh Roswell. Seismic records show a real earthquake of about magnitude 3.5 that evening, and the lights fit well with a bright fireball seen across northern Britain in the same minutes. The coincidence of two events in one evening produced everything else.
Warminster and the Thing
At Christmas 1964 people in this Wiltshire town began complaining of a strange noise — a low drone and crackle that shook roofs. The local paper called it the Thing, and that was the beginning. By 1965 hundreds were climbing Cley Hill above the town every night with flasks and binoculars; on the best weekends five thousand came. Warminster became Britain's first place of UFO tourism, decades before crop circles. The noise most likely came from the Salisbury Plain training area, which begins a couple of kilometres away. The lights over the hill were attributed to everything from signal flares to planets, and never entirely explained.
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