10 days before 'THE NIGHT OF THE TRIANGLES 19th Jan 1983' which was possibly the largest sighting of UFOs in the UK another event took place. A very strange event took place in the small village of Llanilar on the West Coast of South Wales near Aberystwyth in the UK.
 

 

On the 9th January 1983  a farmer awakes to find his field covered in strange metallic debris, at first looking rather like crumpled tin foil. The farmer Mr Erwel Evans assumed a plane had crashed so immediately called the police and soon an air-force crash investigation team turns up at the farm to investigate the material which is scattered across 4 fields.

 

This is not the famous 1947 Roswell crash but you would be forgiven for thinking it was. This strange event occurred at Llanilar, near Aberystwyth - yet you have probably never heard about it.

 

he air force team inform the farmer Mr Evans that the strange green-grey honeycombed metal pieces were not from any known aircraft and that no RAF planes had been reported lost.

 

Later that day another team of both uniformed and plain clothes personnel from the MOD (Ministry of Defence) turn up, they also start to investigate the debris in the fields but farmer Erwel says they seemed to take it far more seriously than the RAF team.

 

They create a cordon around the area and set up flood lights. They then began to collect all of the material, farmer Erwal described this material as ranging from chunks that were 6 feet across to tiny fragments.

 

Erwel described the scene as “something out of a James Bond movie”.

 

They stayed until every piece of material was collected late into the night

 

Two weeks after the event the MOD investigation gave a statement, it stated that the material had not been identified and that no RAF or private aircraft had been lost in the area. They also said that no other craft had been detected or seen on the radar.

 

This story has remained largely unknown despite the fact it seems to be so similar to Roswell

 

Only one newspaper, The Express, ran a story titled ‘Strange debris out of the sky’ on January 23rd, 1983, strangely never followed by them or any other media outlet in the UK - Also strange that they failed to mention a massive UFO event took place only a few miles away 10 days later and 2 days after the Express published the story a huge triangle was reported as hovering over RAF St Athan.

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Luckily for us and for the historical context the case did not die at this point a UFO researcher from North Wales, Mr Gary Rowe, saw the article in the press (The Express). He contacted his team of investigators and they travelled to Llanilar and spoke with Erwel Evans and what he had witnessed he gave them permission to recheck the fields they scoured his fields for any signs of the metallic material at first without success the MOD had done a great job of recovering the debris, nothing could be found.

 

The tops of the trees near the crash site had been damaged they decided to check amongst them to see if any material had been missed thankfully for us they started to find pieces of metallic debris.

Mr Gary Rowe would send some of the material samples off for testing with a metallurgist. Gary said the results returned were intriguing, the metal was an unknown alloy similar in properties to duralumin. Duralumin itself is a lightweight material like aluminium that is used in the manufacture of aircraft. Gary has stated that there appeared to be nothing identical to the material known anywhere on Earth. And that the green paint-like compound that covered the metal’s surface could also not be identified.


Gary and his team had planned to follow up with another trip to the crash site but Erwel told him that the forestry commission was cutting down the trees and also taking away the soil.

 

Erwel Evans also stated that even the soil was being removed and transported away.

 

Gary Rowe contacted the Forestry Commission, he asked what was going on, and they told him the trees needed to be removed due to storm damage. He found this hard to believe and pushed for a better explanation he asked if it was normal procedure to fell and remove trees (Even healthy trees were removed).

 

Gary says the man he spoke with said it was NOT normal, but that the explanation was what he had been instructed to say!

 

Gary Rowe has also stated that he was visited by men in suits who requested he turned over all the materials his team had recovered. He gave them nothing.

 

He says he also informed these men that he had already sent dozens of fragments of the material to his UFO contacts across the UK and they were wasting their time.

 

Gary also says his post was intercepted and opened for many weeks afterwards - we take it he means the post that was being delivered to him.

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This is what Gary has said about his crash debris 

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 " No amount of scientific testing can ever tell you if an object was made by aliens or not. Though it might be able to tell if it had been made in the vacuum of space or under a different level of gravity and by a special process, perhaps one we do not yet recognise. But It can never tell you who by.

 

All objects Alien or man made regardless of form can only be made of up of ingredients listed in the periodic table. (Unless it is a new yet to be discovered one.) Anyone, man or alien wishing to make any kind of flying craft will choose the most appropriate materials from the periodic table to make them from. So it should be no surprise to anyone that light strong Duralumin has been used to make both jet aircraft and UFO’s.

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I have in my collection an internal piece of a Russian Lunar lander. This went to the moon and returned with soil samples. It came from, and was certified by the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics Moscow. However there is no testing that could ever prove that it had travelled in space. Equally, I have samples of all types of meteorites, some from the moon and Mars. Again, it is still possible to identify exactly what components from the periodic table they are made from.

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Only one of the labs that tested the samples stated that, because “common sourced materials were observed” it is “ Definitely man made and terrestrial in origin.” Total pseudo scientific clap trap. "

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" By all means do whatever testing you want on the key ring samples. But please don’t bother to tell me their findings. None of them will be any better than my people. When I first got the debris I obviously wanted it testing and approached several metallurgical Lab’s.

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They all wanted three figure sums of money to do it.

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One of the members attending my courses was secretly a high status member of the British aero space industry. He had access to one of the worlds top metallurgy laboratories and it’s top experts. After having a word with them about our crash debris, they were very excited and could not wait to get a look at it. So it was that they agreed to conduct extensive tests free of charge, but they would only be willing to give me the results orally.

 

They were concerned with not having this world acknowledged authority associated with the general public’s persona regarding UFO’s and aliens. I eventually was contacted with the results. This is the gist of it. I was sadly asked not to record it. So I didn’t. Most of it was very scientific and went clean over my head.

 

But the things I remember most were, It is mainly made from a type of Duralumin. “ We wish we could make our planes out of this specific material , it’s the tops.” “It also contains some kind of honeycomb patterned resin that we can not identify though we can identify some of it’s components.” One side of the shattered metal plates is coated with (an unidentified) type of ‘green paint’ It would never be used on any known flying craft as it is not sufficiently aerodynamic”

 

“Given that this debris covered four fields and some of the reported pieces removed were as big as five foot, we find it incredible, there is no aircraft that could lose this much of its body in a crash and still fly away again” “ Go back out there and look for something massive sticking up out of the ground”. " 

 

This case UFO case at Llanilar West Wales should clearly be given more attention, is this another Roswell, and was it connected to another major UFO sighting only 10 days later and only a few miles down the road? Seems a huge coincidence!

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If you live in Llanilar and have further information or maybe you worked for the MOD and have further information please contact us.

 

The Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) team interviewed Gary Rowe VIDEO IS BELOW

 

 Image of the Farm is from 2006