ALIEN: Broad Haven School UFO

Summary

So Supernatural — "ALIEN: Broad Haven School UFO"

Host: Audiochuck | Crime House
Episode Date: July 24, 2026

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Overview

This episode of So Supernatural delves deep into the famous Broadhaven UFO sightings in Wales during the late 1970s, focusing on the mass sighting at Broadhaven Primary School in 1977 and unraveling decades of supernatural reports from the region. Hosts Yvette Gentile and Racha Pecorero revisit witness testimonies, government investigations, and persistent theories, while reflecting on the special sense children may have for the paranormal. The episode is richly atmospheric, blending unsettling facts, local folklore, and the enduring sense of mystery in the so-called “Welsh Bermuda Triangle.”

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

Children and the Paranormal

• Opening Reflection (01:30–02:19):
  • Yvette and Racha discuss how children experience fear and how adults often dismiss what can't be explained.

    “The problem is, sometimes adults are wrong about these things.” — Racha (02:06)

  • Narrators emphasize that “children can be more in tune with the paranormal than adults.” (02:19)

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The Broadhaven School UFO Incident

• The Sighting (04:17–06:56):
  • On February 4, 1977, over a dozen Broadhaven Primary School children claim to see a UFO land nearby.
  • Descriptions include a “long cigar-shaped ship with a dome on top ... and a bunch of flashing lights.” (05:18)
  • Some children report seeing an alien being with “pointy ears” and “silver and shiny” suit or skin (05:36–05:48).
  • Teachers initially dismiss the stories, thinking the children were being mischievous (05:54–06:00).
• David Davies’ Experience (06:13–07:25):
  • David Davies, a student, investigates the claims after school and personally witnesses the craft rising and moving erratically (06:13–06:59).

    “All he could think about was how cool this was. But for some reason, he still had a sudden, intense urge to run away anyway. Not in fear, but almost like something had taken control of his body.” — Racha (07:05)

  • His parents believe him and the news spreads, leading to major media coverage (07:35–08:01).

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Community and Official Reactions

• Evidence Gathering by the Headmaster (09:03–10:09):
  • Skeptical headmaster Ralph Llewellyn separates the children and asks them to draw what they saw.

    “They were all virtually identical. Each showed a silver or blue ship sitting in the grass. It was long and thin, other than the round dome in the center.” — Racha (09:28)

  • Teachers and police begin to take the reports more seriously (10:09).
• Other Eyewitnesses (10:18–11:39):
  • Dorothy Kale, cafeteria worker, and her friends also sight a similar craft months prior, lending further credibility.
  • A wave of additional sightings sweeps the region, leading locals to nickname the craft “The Thing.”

    “So many people were talking about it that Broadhaven locals gave the flying ship a nickname. They called it the Thing, and it wasn't leaving anytime soon.” — Racha (11:10)

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The Haven Fort Hotel Encounter

• Rosa Granville’s Story (11:39–14:02):
  • Rosa, a hotel owner, wakes to a blinding light and sees a “saucer ... like it was upside down,” emitting rainbow light and intense heat (12:25–13:15).
  • Witnesses two “figures ... with unnaturally long arms and legs” and no discernible faces emerging from the craft (13:23–13:51).
  • When she brings other guests, the craft disappears; but she later finds a burnt circle in the field.

    “This told Rosa that she wasn't just imagining things.” — Yvette (14:39)

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Official Explanations and Theories

• Government Investigation:
  • S4, a UK government unit, investigates but offers unconvincing explanations such as “maybe the kids ... had seen ... a sewage tank” (15:30–15:45).
  • RAF Officer suggests it may have been firefighters in silver suits, or a prankster in costume, but these explanations fall short (16:05–17:50).

    “There is no way Glenn could have pulled off that type of prank.” — Yvette (18:43)

  • US Navy posits experimental aircraft as a possible cause, but witnesses disagree (19:00–19:37).

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Historical and Ongoing Phenomena

• Longstanding Sightings (20:13–22:47):
  • Reports of unusual aerial phenomena in Broadhaven go back to at least 1935, involving luminescent orbs, landed saucers, unidentified beings, and warnings about radiation (20:35–21:22).
  • In 1977 alone, police receive over 450 reports of supernatural events (22:11).
  • Journalists and researchers identify the coastal “Triangle of Terror” (a.k.a. Welsh Bermuda Triangle) as an epicenter for such activity (22:13–22:47).

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The Men in Black and Further Encounters

• Men in Black (23:17–25:18):

  • Rosa Granville reports a visit from two identical “men” at her hotel, with “smooth and waxy, almost inhuman” skin (24:02–24:39).
  • The men “vanished into thin air,” fitting common descriptions of the “Men in Black” (24:54–25:12).

• More Broadhaven Oddities (25:39–28:19):

  • Farmers Billy and Susan Coombs see an “8ft tall” silver-suited faceless figure outside their window (25:39–26:49).
  • Susan and Rosa later simultaneously witness a flying saucer, which is then seen disappearing into a “split” island on the ocean horizon (27:16–28:09).

    “It was almost like the island was an entrance to some secret underwater base.” — Racha (28:26)

• Local Folklore and Fairies:

  • The legend of fairies living beneath the islands, digging “deep tunnels ... down to the bottom of the sea,” weaves into modern UFO lore (28:56–29:22).

    “Maybe hundreds of years ago, the Welsh people were actually witnessing similar alien activity. But compared to what they knew at the time, which was fairies and magic.” — Racha (29:22)

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Broadhaven Today & Personal Reflections

• Continuing Allure (29:54–31:32):
  • The Broadhaven Triangle’s notoriety brings in tourists, with the area now hosting UFO-themed events and attracting ufologists (29:54–30:25).
  • David Davies, once a bullied schoolboy, becomes a leading expert on UFOs:

    “His sighting changed the course of his life. And David Davies isn't afraid of what's out there. That little boy who saw something behind the school that day spent his entire life searching for explanations ... Some [monsters] are worth studying because they may hold the key to understanding our place in this massive universe.” — Narrator (31:32)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On belief and witness:

  “The only way the art could be so consistent across the board was if all of the students had seen the exact same thing.” — Racha (09:28)

• On the government’s tank theory:

  “So the speculation was that 15 separate kids all mistook it for a UFO ... The students and their families objected ... They knew better.” — Narrator (15:56–16:11)

• On folklore:

  “Maybe hundreds of years ago, the Welsh people were actually witnessing similar alien activity. But compared to what they knew at the time ...” — Racha (29:22)

• On the transformation of a witness:

  “Some are worth studying because they may hold the key to understanding our place in this massive universe.” — Narrator on David Davies (31:32)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 02:19 — Children’s attunement to the paranormal
• 04:17–06:56 — First Broadhaven school UFO sightings
• 06:13–07:25 — David Davies’ personal encounter
• 09:03–10:09 — School’s drawing exercise
• 11:39–14:39 — Rosa Granville’s Haven Fort Hotel sighting
• 15:10–18:43 — Official explanations and public skepticism
• 20:13–22:47 — Historical and cumulative Broadhaven ‘Triangle’ reports
• 23:17–25:18 — Rosa’s “Men in Black” experience
• 25:39–28:19 — Broadhaven farmers’ and the vanishing island encounter
• 29:54–31:32 — Broadhaven as a paranormal tourism center and Davies’ legacy

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Tone and Language

Richly atmospheric, blending skepticism and wonder. The hosts are warm, empathetic, and curious, often openly questioning both critical and extraordinary explanations. Their reflections both honor witness accounts and contextually ground the folklore, creating a feeling of eerie intrigue threaded with hope for understanding.

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Summary

This episode peels back the layers of the Broadhaven UFO saga, shifting between children’s unfiltered experiences, adult skepticism, community folklore, and official investigation. It provides context for the “Welsh Bermuda Triangle” legend—connecting dots through decades of sightings, folklore, and personal transformations. Ultimately, it invites listeners to reconsider what we know about the unknown, highlighting the enduring sense of curiosity that keeps people searching for truth on the Welsh coast.

Transcript

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[Yvette Gentile]

Every single kid knows the feeling.

[Racha Pecorero]

You're lying in bed, the lights are

[Yvette Gentile]

out, and you are sure that something is beneath you.

[Racha Pecorero]

You heard a sound, you saw something move, and your heart is literally pounding out of your chest because you know something is there.

[Yvette Gentile]

So you call for your mom, your

[Racha Pecorero]

sister, or whoever makes you feel safe. They come in, flip on the light,

[Yvette Gentile]

look under your bed, and they show you there's nothing there. Maybe some dust bunnies and a lost sock. Go back to bed, they say. It's just your imagination.

[Racha Pecorero]

The problem is, sometimes adults are wrong about these things.

[Narrator 1]

If there's one thing that we've learned from doing this show, it's that the world is full of things we don't understand.

[Narrator 2]

And children can be more in tune with the paranormal than adults. It might be why they're often the ones to have these experiences. Take, for example, what happened on one

[Narrator 1]

drizzly February day in 1977. Over a dozen students at a British

[Narrator 2]

private school saw a UFO land just off the property. But when they tried to tell people, hardly anybody believed them. That is, until more eyewitnesses came forward of all ages. And soon there were hundreds of them. What they saw was something no child could make up, no adult could explain. The phenomenon became so prolific it earned

[Narrator 1]

the area a nickname, the Welsh Bermuda Triangle.

[Narrator 2]

And what happened there was far more alarming than than any monster hiding under the bed.

[Narrator 1]

I'm Yvette Gentile.

[Yvette Gentile]

And I'm her sister, Racha Pecorero.

[Racha Pecorero]

This is so supernatural. Broadhaven UK is a small coastal village in southeastern Wales. It has beautiful beaches and every summer

[Yvette Gentile]

tourists come to town.

[Racha Pecorero]

But on Friday, February 4, 1977, Broadhaven didn't feel like a picturesque beach town. Instead, it was rainy, overcast and cold. Still, that didn't keep most students at

[Yvette Gentile]

Broadhaven Primary School from wanting to play outside.

[Racha Pecorero]

10 year old David Davies, on the other hand, wanted to stay indoors and read. According to him, he got bullied a lot because of his weight and his interest in sci fi, which his classmates,

[Yvette Gentile]

I guess, didn't consider cool.

[Racha Pecorero]

So he stayed behind in the dry, warm classroom where no one would bother him. But when the bell rang and the

[Yvette Gentile]

other kids came rushing back in, they were a little more excited than usual.

[Racha Pecorero]

They all told David he'd missed something epic.

[Yvette Gentile]

They'd spotted a UFO in the sky.

[Narrator 1]

Poor David probably thought they were all teasing him at first. While he loved science fiction, he didn't believe UFOs or aliens existed outside of made up stories.

[Narrator 2]

But the more they spoke about it, the more David realized this didn't seem like a joke.

[Narrator 1]

One classmate named Michael Pugh said he'd seen a television special about alien spaceships

[Narrator 2]

just a few days ago and the

[Narrator 1]

craft looked exactly like the ones from the tv. According to Michael, it was a long cigar shaped ship with a dome on top. It also had a bunch of flashing lights. Another student, nine year old David George,

[Narrator 2]

said the craft came close enough for

[Narrator 1]

him to spot an alien on board.

[Narrator 2]

And he said the creature had pointy ears.

[Narrator 1]

A few other students claimed to see it too.

[Narrator 2]

They said it looked human, except its

[Narrator 1]

suit or skin was silver and shiny. The kids also told the teachers what

[Narrator 2]

they'd seen, but none of them believed them. In fact, they thought the students were

[Narrator 1]

making up stories to get out of their classwork. But the buzzing quietly continued and by

[Narrator 2]

3:30pm when the school day ended, David's

[Narrator 1]

curiosity had gotten the best of him.

[Racha Pecorero]

David grabbed his books and went out to the schoolyard, curious if anyone else had seen the alleged spacecraft. That's when he overheard another group of kids chatting about it. Apparently the UFO had landed just beyond the school grounds. Which meant David still had the opportunity to investigate it for himself. He climbed up a steep hill and slipped behind some trees. That's when he saw something he could not explain. There popping up from behind the trees was a cigar shaped craft, about 45ft long. And just like the other kids described, there was a dome over the middle of it. Then, as David was watching, the thing

[Yvette Gentile]

actually rose into the sky, moved a

[Racha Pecorero]

bit, and then dipped down again behind another tree.

[Yvette Gentile]

Almost like it was trying to hide from him.

[Racha Pecorero]

David wasn't scared, though. All he could think about was how cool this was. But for some reason, he still had a sudden, intense urge to run away anyway. Not in fear, but almost like something had taken control of his body and

[Yvette Gentile]

was trying to force him away.

[Racha Pecorero]

David couldn't help it. He sprinted the entire way home. And when he got there, he told his parents exactly what he had just seen.

[Narrator 1]

And surprisingly, unlike his teachers, they believed him. They even called a friend of theirs, someone obsessed with UFO sightings, to see

[Narrator 2]

if he had any theories.

[Narrator 1]

And that friend shared the account with a journalist he knew. The reporter decided to cover it on the news. And over the weekend, the Broadhaven Primary School sightings blew up into a major story.

[Racha Pecorero]

In the meantime, David and his friends actually called the police, begging the officers to investigate and confirm the spaceship was real. And they did this all on their own, without their parents help. While I don't know if the police believed this story, I do know that they had to take every report they

[Yvette Gentile]

received seriously, no matter how outlandish it sounded.

[Racha Pecorero]

So a few officers agreed to contact school officials, take their statements and search for evidence on school property. As part of their investigation, they had to get in touch with the headmaster. His name was Ralph Llewellyn. And just like the other teachers, Ralph was a skeptic. He didn't believe in aliens, and he

[Yvette Gentile]

definitely didn't think one had visited his school. Ralph was also frustrated that things had gotten so out of hand.

[Racha Pecorero]

From his perspective, his students had gotten the local news and the police involved

[Yvette Gentile]

as a silly prank. He wanted to shut everything down right away.

[Racha Pecorero]

So the following Monday, before classes began, he rounded up all the kids who claimed to see the ufo. Each kid was sent to a different classroom. Then Ralph gave them a piece of paper, a box of crayons, pens and pencils. He told them to draw exactly what they had seen that day. Ralph figured he'd end up with 15

[Yvette Gentile]

wildly different pictures, but instead he.

[Racha Pecorero]

They were all virtually identical. Each showed a silver or blue ship sitting in the grass. It was long and thin, other than the round dome in the center. And many of the drawings included a row of dark colored windows or panels around the dome section. As Ralph flipped through the pile of drawings, he realized there was no logical explanation for this. The only way the art could be so consistent across the board was if all of the students had seen the exact same thing. He still didn't know if it was an alien ship, but he knew that the kids had seen something.

[Narrator 1]

And the students weren't the only ones in the area who saw it. Even more eyewitnesses came forward saying they

[Narrator 2]

had seen the craft too.

[Narrator 1]

And this included a woman named Dorothy Kale who worked in the school's cafeteria. But she hadn't spotted the craft. On February 4, she saw it two months before that, on December 9, 1976. She was driving around with her son and her two family friends and they

[Narrator 2]

all saw a yellowish white dome shaped

[Narrator 1]

light dance through the sky. At first, Dorothy and her friends assumed

[Narrator 2]

they were behind some kind of machine

[Narrator 1]

or farm vehicle, so they pulled over to get a better look, only for

[Narrator 2]

the light to vanish the moment they

[Narrator 1]

put the car in park. Dorothy didn't tell anyone at the time because she wasn't sure how to explain the encounter.

[Narrator 2]

But now, with so many students coming forward, she was comfortable enough to say

[Narrator 1]

she'd also spotted an alien spaceship.

[Racha Pecorero]

Over the next few months, other people from the Broadhaven area spoke up too. Throughout the spring, they also spotted spotted strange lights in the sky and craft that couldn't be explained. So many people were talking about it that Broadhaven locals gave the flying ship a nickname. They called it the Thing, and it wasn't leaving anytime soon.

[Narrator 1]

In April of 1977, about two months after the Broadhaven sighting, a woman named Rosa Granville was at the Haven Fort Hotel. It was only about a mile or so from the school. The hotel, which had been built in

[Narrator 2]

the 1800s, sat on top of a

[Narrator 1]

cliff right over the ocean, so the views there were incredible. Rosa happened to own the hotel as well, and she worked in it, and

[Narrator 2]

she also lived on site.

[Narrator 1]

That morning she was asleep in her

[Narrator 2]

second floor room when a brilliant light

[Narrator 1]

came streaming through her window and woke her up. She got out of bed and walked over to see what was going on.

[Narrator 2]

There was something flying in the sky

[Narrator 1]

just outside the hotel.

[Narrator 2]

Rosa had never seen anything like it before. The object almost looked like a flying saucer, except it seemed to be upside down.

[Narrator 1]

The flat part was on top and a dome was on the bottom, so it sounded similar to the one that appeared at the primary school.

[Narrator 2]

But it's hard to say if it was the same ship.

[Narrator 1]

Rosa watched as the saucer descended toward the ground.

[Narrator 2]

But before it could land, a different blinding light shot out of the craft.

[Narrator 1]

It was every color of the rainbow

[Narrator 2]

and it emitted this incredible heat. Even though Rosa was behind a thick pane of glass, she felt it burning her cheeks as though she was getting a really bad sunburn. It took a minute for her eyes

[Narrator 1]

to adjust to all of the light, but once she was able to see

[Narrator 2]

again, she noted that the ship was now sitting in the grass and it

[Narrator 1]

seemed to be engulfed in multicolored flames.

[Narrator 2]

Then she watched as two figures emerged from the blaze. They looked human, except they had unnaturally

[Narrator 1]

long arms and legs, basically like they'd been stretched out.

[Narrator 2]

They were wearing white suits that either covered their heads like masks, or they didn't have faces at all. Rosa couldn't see their eyes, nose or mouth. And the figures kept staggering around like they were off balance.

[Narrator 1]

They were also bending toward the ground

[Narrator 2]

as if they were trying to pick up something. The entire thing was so strange. Rosa needed someone else to see it too.

[Yvette Gentile]

So Rosa did exactly what I would do. She ran up and down the hotel's

[Racha Pecorero]

hallways, banging on every single door to wake up her guests. She gathered a huge crowd of people, then took them back to her room. But when they all looked out the window, the ship was gone. And so were the figures in white suits and the multi colored flames. So a few hours later, when Rosa went on her break, she walked out to the grassy field where she'd seen the craft land. She looked around and that's when she saw a circle of burned grass right where the saucer had come down.

[Yvette Gentile]

This told Rosa that she wasn't just imagining things.

[Racha Pecorero]

So she came forward with her story. Between her testimony, the statements from the primary school boys and the other witnesses like Dorothy, it was becoming clear that something odd was happening in Broadhaven.

[Narrator 1]

After that, the locals began demanding answers. So a federal department known as S4 sent a team to investigate. S4 was basically the UK's equivalent of Project Blue Book at the time, and

[Narrator 2]

there isn't much that's publicly known about them.

[Narrator 1]

But in the 1970s, their agents were consistently looking into UFO sightings, alleged abductions and other strange phenomena throughout the UK. After they investigated the Broadhaven incidents, the

[Narrator 2]

officials said they still didn't know what

[Narrator 1]

the locals had seen. But they had a few theories of their own, all of which were a bit ridiculous, if I'm being honest. First, they suggested that maybe the Kids at Broadhaven Primary School had seen, and

[Narrator 2]

get this, a sewage tank. So apparently the campus had a big cigar shaped gray metal tank not too

[Narrator 1]

far from the playground area.

[Narrator 2]

So the speculation was that 15 separate

[Narrator 1]

kids all mistook it for a UFO that was parked in the grass.

[Narrator 2]

But the students and their families objected to this explanation. Many of them had grown up on

[Narrator 1]

farms with their own sewage tanks. They knew better than to mistake it for the thing. So then a local Air Force official came forward with a different explanation. His name was Flight Lieutenant Cowan, and he was stationed at a nearby base called RAF Brody. Cowan never saw the ship for himself, but he'd worked in and around mines which were full of hazardous materials and chemicals. He knew firefighters wore special suits made of a metallic looking silver material whenever they responded to fires in mines. So Cowan thought maybe the hotel owner,

[Narrator 2]

Rosa, had witnessed some kind of industrial

[Narrator 1]

accident with local firefighters rushing to the scene in these silver suits to contain it.

[Yvette Gentile]

Except if there'd been a major industrial

[Racha Pecorero]

accident that day, you'd think Rosa would have heard about it. But there was no record of any kind of chemical fire. Not to mention emergency workers wouldn't be able to put out the flames, clean up all of the wreckage and disappear without a trace during those few minutes

[Yvette Gentile]

that Rosa went to grab all of

[Racha Pecorero]

the witnesses in the hotel.

[Yvette Gentile]

Like makes no sense.

[Narrator 1]

Yeah, I completely agree with you, Rasha. Even Cowan eventually acknowledged that his firefighter theory didn't make much sense. Instead, he came up with a new suggestion. That maybe someone had borrowed or stolen one of those silver suits from the fire department and wore it to prank the locals.

[Narrator 2]

Except Cowan didn't give any evidence to back up this theory.

[Narrator 1]

At least not in 1977.

[Narrator 2]

But over 18 years later, in 1996,

[Narrator 1]

a local man named Glenn Edwards came forward with an old secret.

[Narrator 2]

He said back in the late 1970s, he used to play a lot of

[Narrator 1]

practical jokes on the people in town. And since he owned a silver bodysuit, he'd often wander around tricking people into thinking he was an alien. And why would you do this?

[Yvette Gentile]

That's a good question. But the problem is, this explanation doesn't

[Racha Pecorero]

fit the Testimony from the 15 students

[Yvette Gentile]

at Broadhaven Primary School.

[Racha Pecorero]

They might have seen Glen walking around, but many of the students said they'd

[Yvette Gentile]

seen the alien inside the saucer while it was flying.

[Racha Pecorero]

There is no way Glenn could have

[Yvette Gentile]

pulled off that type of prank.

[Narrator 2]

I mean.

[Narrator 1]

Agreed. I'm not buying Glenn's story either.

[Narrator 2]

But he wasn't the only one to chime in. Some officials with The US Navy also

[Narrator 1]

spoke out about it, and they were

[Narrator 2]

also convinced this wasn't a prank.

[Narrator 1]

Instead, they suggested that perhaps the British Royal Air Force was testing a new kind of airplane in the spring of 1977, and that might have been what had landed at the Broadhaven Primary School two months later.

[Narrator 2]

Maybe another experimental plane crashed outside of

[Narrator 1]

Rose's hotel and she may have seen the emergency firefighters response but mistaken it for a UFO crash.

[Racha Pecorero]

But every single eyewitness that came forward said they didn't believe they'd seen an

[Yvette Gentile]

experimental airplane or a prankster or a sewage tank.

[Racha Pecorero]

They all agreed they had spotted an alien spaceship. So the mystery prevailed. And later that year, in 1977, a reporter with the son began covering all the events in the Broadhaven area. As he dug deeper, he realized that this wave of UFO sightings was actually nothing new. Broadhaven had always been a hotbed for alleged alien activity. Some reports happened decades before the one at the primary school and many reports were very vague.

[Narrator 1]

But the journalist heard about a school child named Warren Davies. It's unclear if he was related to David Davies, but he lived about five miles outside of Broad Haven. One day in 1935, Warren and his sister were walking home from school when they saw a big yellow orb flying through the sky. At first they thought it was a

[Narrator 2]

balloon, but it started zipping back and forth, sometimes flying against the wind.

[Narrator 1]

Warren and his sister were so scared that, I mean, they ran away before they could even get a better look. Years later, in 1952, a man only known as Mr. Thomas was walking along the beach in the middle of the

[Narrator 2]

day when he spotted something half buried in the sand.

[Narrator 1]

It was some kind of metal disc shaped object. We don't know exactly how big it was.

[Narrator 2]

But when Mr. Thomas got closer, two

[Narrator 1]

strangers appeared out of nowhere.

[Narrator 2]

They warned him not to get too

[Narrator 1]

close because the object gave off radiation and he wasn't wearing a protective suit.

[Narrator 2]

Apparently, they also explained they'd come from another planet. And they told Mr. Thomas the name of the home world, but he supposedly forgot it afterwards. Mr. Thomas, how could you forget something so important as that? That would be etched in my mind. Would that not be etched in your head, Raja?

[Yvette Gentile]

It would definitely be etched in my mind. I wouldn't forget a fact that important. Well, on and on it went. This particular reporter found diary entries, newspaper articles and police reports going back decades.

[Racha Pecorero]

All of them were about people in and around Broadhaven seeing flying objects, visitors

[Yvette Gentile]

from outer space and other paranormal phenomena.

[Racha Pecorero]

In 1977 alone, the local police collected 450 separate reports on supernatural phenomena. The data was overwhelming, but the journalists grabbed a map and noted the location of each and every encounter. And he saw that all of the incidents happened within the same triangular region which ran along the coastline. He dubbed the area the Triangle of Terror. But in the years afterwards, other people referred to it as the Welsh Bermuda Triangle or the Broadhaven Triangle.

[Narrator 1]

It was clear to him that something strange was happening in this region of Wales.

[Narrator 2]

The reporter didn't know what was causing

[Narrator 1]

it, but later other researchers speculated that

[Narrator 2]

maybe Broadhaven wasn't just a pit stop.

[Narrator 1]

Some wondered if it was home to

[Narrator 2]

a secret alien base.

[Racha Pecorero]

Throughout 1977, the people of Broadhaven and the surrounding area kept calling the police to report strange, almost impossible events. These included UFO sightings and alien encounters. But for some people, it didn't just happen to them once. A few had recurring events that were hard to explain, like Rosa Granville, the owner of the Haven Fort Hotel. She had another encounter one morning around two o', clock, though the date is unclear. That day, Rosa was sound asleep when someone rang the doorbell of the hotel. Since this was a small family run

[Yvette Gentile]

operation, she didn't have an overnight receptionist. Instead, Rosa had to drag herself out

[Racha Pecorero]

of bed, walk to the front door and unlock it. When she opened it, she saw two men standing outside. They looked like they could have been twins. They had the exact same face and. And it was hard for Rosa to gauge exactly how old they were. Plus their skin looked smooth and waxy, almost inhuman. And each man had the same slicked back hairstyle. The men told Rosa they wanted to talk to her, but then they weirdly said they didn't have time to. Right then they had to go to

[Yvette Gentile]

a different appointment in the middle of the night.

[Racha Pecorero]

But when the men told Rosa they'd

[Yvette Gentile]

be back later, she.

[Racha Pecorero]

She felt very nervous, and rightfully so. Before she could argue, they turned to walk away. And then they vanished into thin air.

[Narrator 1]

Strange as it sounds, Rose's account fits with what we've heard from a lot of other UFO witnesses. It's common for strange men in suits to visit people after their encounters and try to talk to them or basically silence them. And they're often known as the Men in Black.

[Narrator 2]

They usually look odd, almost inhuman, and they often travel in pairs.

[Narrator 1]

They typically behave very strangely too, which

[Narrator 2]

is why some people think the men in black are actually aliens pretending to be human.

[Narrator 1]

As far as we can tell, the men in black never returned to the hotel afterwards.

[Narrator 2]

But strange things kept happening to Rosa

[Narrator 1]

and some of her friends.

[Racha Pecorero]

On April 23, 1977, a pair of Broadhaven farmers named Billy and Susan Coombs were watching TV before bed. But their eyes were drawn to the window when something reflective in silver began moving around outside. Billy turned and saw that the silvery reflective thing was actually a person in a metallic suit. And they were incredibly tall. Billy estimated that they were at least 8ft tall, possibly taller. Billy couldn't make out the intruder's face from where he stood. That's when Susan ran upstairs to her daughter's bedroom for a better look through the upstairs window. She realized the eight foot figure didn't have a face. There were no eyes, no nose, no mouth. It was just blank. So she and her husband called the police, and they arrived to find the couple in a state of absolute panic. Except the being wasn't there anymore. Billy and Susan were too upset to explain what had just happened, so it was impossible for the officers to make any sense of their story.

[Narrator 1]

Then, at a later date, not too far in the future, Susan saw something else incredible. Once again, she was at her farmhouse, but this time it was in the middle of the day and her entire family was around.

[Narrator 2]

At one point, they all looked out the window, which had great views of

[Narrator 1]

the surrounding countryside and shoreline in the

[Narrator 2]

distance, and they spotted a flying saucer

[Narrator 1]

racing through the sky.

[Narrator 2]

Almost immediately after she saw it, her

[Narrator 1]

phone rang and it was Rosa.

[Narrator 2]

Rosa explained she'd been eating in her hotel's restaurant when she'd also seen the flying saucer out the window.

[Narrator 1]

She was presumably calling because she knew

[Narrator 2]

about Susan's previous sighting and that Susan would believe her. But Susan interrupted to say she was watching it right now in real time. So the two stayed on the line

[Narrator 1]

and kept narrating its movements, confirming they were observing the same thing. Eventually, the saucer raced out toward the ocean, and Rosa admitted it had disappeared

[Narrator 2]

and she couldn't track it anymore. But Susan could still see it. As she watched, it flew over the

[Narrator 1]

water, then paused to hover over a small island that was barely visible on the horizon.

[Narrator 2]

Then she said the island split open and the saucer flew inside, disappearing underground.

[Yvette Gentile]

Just like our Unidentified Submerged objects, right? Our USOs.

[Racha Pecorero]

If you haven't listened to that episode, you need to. It was almost like the island was an entrance to some secret underwater base. And most of the UFO sightings in the Triangle happened in or near the ocean before. We told the story of Mr. Thomas, who reportedly found a buried flying saucer on the beach in 1952. But it's worth mentioning that for centuries, local lore has Talked about fairies that live on islands just off the shore.

[Narrator 1]

Or to be more accurate, they lived

[Narrator 2]

under the islands because legend said they dug deep tunnels that reached all the

[Narrator 1]

way down to the bottom of the sea.

[Narrator 2]

And they had the magical ability to.

[Narrator 1]

To turn invisible or even make their

[Narrator 2]

whole island vanish if anyone got too close to them.

[Narrator 1]

It may sound like something basically out of a storybook, but some ufologists believe

[Narrator 2]

those tales weren't actually about fairies. Maybe hundreds of years ago, the Welsh people were actually witnessing similar alien activity. But compared to what they knew at the time, which was fairies and magic.

[Racha Pecorero]

Unfortunately, we don't know enough to say

[Yvette Gentile]

why aliens may be so interested in this particular stretch of the shoreline or

[Racha Pecorero]

this particular part of the uk. But it's not just aliens that are

[Yvette Gentile]

attracted to the area.

[Racha Pecorero]

Today, the Broadhaven Triangle is a major tourist destination. People flock there from all over the world, and not just for beach vacations, but also to hunt for evidence of life on other planets.

[Narrator 1]

The local hotels host UFO themed events

[Narrator 2]

and they encourage visitors to come out on particular weekends.

[Narrator 1]

Then they bring in professional ufologists to

[Narrator 2]

teach guests what to look for in the sky and how to tell unidentified

[Narrator 1]

craft from ordinary satellites and airplanes.

[Narrator 2]

Those experts include David Davies. After he saw the saucer when he was 10 years old, he became obsessed

[Narrator 1]

with aliens and paranormal phenomena.

[Narrator 2]

He read every book he could get his hands on until he owned the

[Narrator 1]

largest collection of UFO text in all of Wales.

[Narrator 2]

His sighting changed the course of his life. And David Davies is isn't afraid of what's out there. That little boy who saw something behind the school that day spent his entire life searching for explanations. And now he's the one helping others make sense of what they saw too. So if you asked David Davies, I think he'd say, not all monsters are worth fearing. Some are worth studying because they may hold the key to understanding our place

[Narrator 1]

in this massive universe.

[Yvette Gentile]

This is so supernatural. An audio Chuck original produced by Crime House.

[Racha Pecorero]

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[Yvette Gentile]

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[Racha Pecorero]

for an all new episode. I think Chuck would approve.

[Ashley Flowers]

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