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1 AUGUST 1977 – BETWS MOUNTAIN, AMMANFORD

Mrs Janet Box, of Maes Grenig, Glanamman, and David Gravette, of Llwyn Celyn, Salem, Llandeilo, were on their way to work at the DVLC in Swansea. Janet Box said:

“We were coming across the mountain at about twenty to eight when I caught sight of something silver flashing in the sun. It hovered like a helicopter in one place, and was a brilliant silver.

Further on, after the road had changed direction, I saw it again – it must have travelled at a terrific speed to have got there. It looked flat but rounded.”

Mrs Box pointed it out to the driver, David Gravette.

“It seemed cylindrical,” said Mr Gravette, “It wasn’t a plane, and definitely wasn’t a bird. This thing was virtually stationary, but it disappeared by the time we had got up the hill. It was peculiar, like a big silver football.”

Local weatherman, John Powell said he knew of no weather balloons in the area, and a spokesman for RAF Brawdy said it was too low to be a weather balloon.

Source: South Wales Evening Post 2 August 1977.