Broad Haven and the Schoolchildren's Drawings
On 4 February 1977 a group of primary school pupils in this Pembrokeshire village saw a silver object with a dome in the field beyond the fence during break. Their headmaster, not believing them, sat them apart and told them to draw what they had seen. The drawings matched. Over the following months west Wales produced so many reports that the period was called the Dyfed Triangle: lights, figures in suits by farmhouses, cattle unsettled. The Ministry of Defence received complaints and replied that there was no threat to the country. Part of the wave was later put down to trials and exercises in the area, and part to newspaper excitement that fed itself that year.
The Lubbock Lights
On the evening of 25 August 1951 three professors from Texas Tech were sitting in a garden in Lubbock when a semicircle of bluish lights passed silently overhead. Over the following weeks the formation came back dozens of times, and a student, Carl Hart Jr, photographed it — five frames that went round the country. Project Blue Book examined the negatives, found no sign of a fake, and offered a plain explanation: plovers flying in formation and lit from below by the town's new mercury-vapour streetlights. The professors objected that they had seen the formation before the lights were installed. The argument was never settled, and Hart's photographs remain among the most reproduced in the subject.
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