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28 DECEMBER 1977 – PORTHCAWL

Daytime. Two 12-year-old girls, Delmar Lewis of Gwyrddgoed Road, Alltwen, Pontardawe, and friend Julie Davies, both pupils of Ystalyfera Comprehensive School, were walking along the beach at Porthcawl during the day, when they saw what they described as “a strange object exactly like a flying saucer”, above Porthcawl, roughly in the direction from which the Briton Ferry object appeared [see sighting from earlier in the day].

Delmar Lewis: “What we saw was a strange object exactly like a flying saucer. It was a silvery colour and it was going through the air slowly. We watched it in amazement for five minutes and then, like magic, it disappeared.

If it wouldn’t have gone we would have kept on watching. We were very excited and after watching it for a while we ran to tell my parents. I don’t think they really believed us.... but they are now convinced we were telling the truth.”

Source: South Wales Evening Post 3 January 1978.