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29 APRIL 1987 – KILLAY, SWANSEA

UFO BUZZED OUR HOME, SAYS FAMILY

By Anthony Harris

Swansea toddler Hannah bates today told of her close encounter with an unidentified flying object last night. After calmly drawing what she saw the bright-eyed four-year-old said: ‘It was ghosties!’

Hannah and her mother Mrs. Jenny Bates say they were ‘buzzed’ by the UFO which hovered silently 50 feet above their home in Curry Close, Upper Killay [actually Killay].

The child saw the object first and when her mother looked up she couldn’t believe her eyes. ‘It was just hovering there. It was tiny, about the size of my dining room table, and had four green lights on the bottom,’ said Mrs. Bates.

‘I was rooted to the spot and I tried to call out to my husband but I couldn’t speak,’ she said. ‘I must have stared at it for five seconds before it shot off. There was a rushing of air, but no noise at all. It was really weird,’ added Mrs. Bates.

She wasn’t convinced she had actually seen a UFO until Hannah sat down and drew the object. ‘Ghosties is her word for anything unusual and that is exactly what we saw,’ said Mrs. Bates.

The family had just returned from a long day out at around 10.30 pm last night and the encounter came while husband Nick was parking the car in the garage behind their home.

‘I saw the reflection of green lights on the bonnet of the car, but nothing else,’ he said.

Hannah missed school at Dunvant Nursery today but when she returns the youngster will have a tale to tell her classmates.

Swansea police said the airport authorities say they have had no reports of any UFO sightings overnight.

Source: South Wales Evening Post Thursday 30 April 1987.