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25 JULY 1978 - CHEPSTOW

A UFO was spotted over Chepstow Racecourse. The principle witness, Tony Rostenburg, a 32-year-old managing director of a catering firm, was staying overnight together with his staff at the racecourse in preparation for the weekend's 'Chepstow Spectacular Show'. It was early morning and Mr Rostenburg was the first up.

He described his experience: 'I saw this thing, so I decided to get the others to take a look at it. It was just like a ball with three lights on it.

I could see it distinctly as it moved sideways up and down and it was spinning clearly. There is no way an aircraft could have looked or moved like that.'

The UFO hovered over the course for five minutes while Mr Rostenburg aroused the other members of staff, and they also witnessed the strange, spinning saucer. Fifteen-year-old Stuart Denks said: 'Seeing is believing. It was real and pretty frightening.'

Finally the UFO took off and vanished at high speed up into the clouds.

Source: The Welsh Triangle Peter Paget 1979.