Case ID | #480 |
Title | WINTER 1957 - PONTYBEREM, LLANELLI |
Location | PONTYBEREM, LLANLLI |
Tags | Sighting UFO Saucer |
Date | Tuesday, 22nd of January 1957 |
WINTER 1957 - PONTYBEREM
9-year-old Tyrone Davies was living with his grand-parents in a terraced
house in the mining village of Pontyberem in the Gwendraeth valley. One
night in the winter of 1957, there was a storm blowing with thunder and
lightning and heavy rain. At about 8.30 PM Tyrone's grandmother asked
him to collect a bucket of coal from the coal bunker which was situated
at the side of the house.
Whilst filling the bucket, there was an almighty
thunder flash which lit up the sky above the house. As he looked up at
the sky, Tyrone could see an enormous saucer-shaped craft which was
partly hidden by the clouds. Further lightning flashes revealed the same
craft which seemed to be motionless in the sky.
"As I had never
seen anything like this before, I ran into the house and called my
grandmother to come and see this strange craft in the sky. She declined
and informed me that what I had seen was probably caused by the
lightning flashes. Knowing what I had seen I decided to open the front
door of the house and gazed out over the valley. As the lightning lit up
the sky, to my astonishment I could see four smaller saucer shape
crafts which again were motionless and looked to be in some kind of
formation. Again my grandmother declined to witness this sighting. As
she closed the front door, she advised me not to mention what I assumed
to have seen to anyone, otherwise I might end up in a mental
institution. I took my grandmother's advice and to this day I have only
mentioned these sightings to a handful of people."
Tyrone sent us some drawings, one of which shows the four smaller craft hovering over Pentremawr Colliery in Pontyberem.
Source: SUFON Files: witness correspondence spring 2018.
Case last edited: Thu 21st November 2019 13:44 PM