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UFO affected TV reception - Wrexham woman claims



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Published Date: 30 September 2008
The Evening Leader has once again been besieged with calls and emails from members of the public reporting fresh sightings of strange lights in the night sky over North Wales.
The bizarre objects were spotted by numerous readers in different areas of Wrexham last Wednesday and Thursday evening.

One resident even claimed her television reception was affected as a result.

The sightings come exactly a week after the Evening Leader was handed footage of slow moving lights, arranged in a triangular formation, over Rhos.

The latest reported incidents add fuel to claims Wrexham is now the region's number one UFO hotspot.

Paul Griffiths, of Gwalia Terrace, said he had spotted three red lights over Pen-y-Cae on Thursday, September 25, just before 8.10pm, along with his wife and son.

He said: "At first we thought they were stars but when I looked around there were no other stars in the sky as it was cloudy.

"I believe we have viewed what others have viewed over the same area in the past week – unexplainable red lights in the sky over Rhos, Johnstown and now Pen-y-Cae areas."

Meanwhile Beverley Davies, of Ponciau, reported seeing the same lights over her village at around the same time.

She said: "I was letting the dog out into the garden when I saw a bright red light and when I looked up another two red lights were following it, so I called my husband Heath to come and take a look.

"We watched and after a few minutes as they started to form into a triangle.

"We did not hear a noise like it was an aircraft. It was the strangest thing we have ever seen. Then they just moved across the sky in the triangle."

The lights were also spotted the previous night – Wednesday, September 24 – by a number of residents in the county.

Peter Davies, of Ponciau, said: "I saw the UFOs over the Rhos village at 8.15pm on Wednesday, September 24 – they were travelling at the pace of a helicopter, yet there was no sound to suggest they were helicopters.

"Me and my sister-in-law watched as the glowing red lights, five in all, sped off across the Pen-y-Cae mountain."

Zoe Morris added: "We saw five flashing lights around quarter past eight around Ponciau.

"Three were making the V-shape and the other two were travelling much faster. We also lost reception on Channel 4."

Sceptics say the lights are nothing more than so-called Chinese lanterns, claims backed by rugby player Simon Hughes, of Rhos, who contacted the Leader on Wednesday evening.

He said: "To put everybody at rest about the UFO sightings – they are definitely lanterns. I saw four in total, three were in the triangle shape that everybody is seeing and there was one on its own only about 30 to 40 feet up.

"You could see very clearly the flame and the lantern shape. It went down in a field at the top end of Pen-y-Cae. There were several people that saw this as we were rugby training for Rhos."

What do you think of the UFO sightings over North Wales.

Have your say, and let us know of any more sightings, by leaving a comment below or emailing digitalnews@nwn.co.uk



Other recent UFO sightings over North Wales

>> 'Triangular' UFOs spotted near Wrexham - VIDEO
>>'Flying saucer' and other UFO sightings reported over Wrexham
>> Farmer's discovery could answer Wrexham's UFO sightings

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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 30/09/2008 09:54:24
The fact that someone claims to have seen a chinese lantern feet off the ground proves that these lanterns vary vastly in their heights and speeds.

I don't suppose the witness recovered the Pen Y Cae lantern. It could be compared with those allegedly and suspiciously found at Bistre Farm in Padeswood.

The fact this one came down in Pen Y Cae and was so low proves several points.

Firstly, it demonstrates that it probably travelled not too far and the person releasing it must be in the Evening Leader readership area. So he/she should come forward.

The fact that this one came down near Wrexham shows the statistical impossibility of three coming down in Padeswood.

Those Bistre Farm lanterns were deliberately put there to quell the UFO interest.
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Yachydda,

Wrexham 30/09/2008 12:09:28
Now I'm not saying there are no such things as UFO's but strange things have been happening since they clossed north wales hospital at Denbigh.. I lost my TV signal the other night..but it wasn't due to any UFO's,it was due to my son pulling on the satelite cable...hes only 8...his mam went daft as she was watching corronation street!
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Evening Reader,

30/09/2008 13:57:15
Have aliens affected my Channel 5? Ever its launch, the station has been 'snowy'. It ruins Natasha Kaplinsky!!
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taffie5,

wrexham 30/09/2008 16:29:34
oh good grief - its not aliens its somebody having a laugh at readers expense. then the hysteria and the urge to get amention n the paper sets in and people start exagerrating. get a grip!
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STocker76@hotmail.com,

Shropshire 01/10/2008 07:49:20
I've seen these lights and im not a believer into this sort of thing. Apart from there were at least ten of them,all in a sort of formation, there was no noise then all of a sudden they just dissapeared into thin air!! I couln't believe my eyes!! It was so eerie! At first we thought they might have been military, the were moving but then dissapeared, and there were no clouds it was clear as a bell, very strage, I was creeped out all night!!
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Adam2050,

Rhyl 04/10/2008 15:47:40
I am currently dating a girl from Wrexham, last night 04oct08... I also saw these lights, and these were not laterns as many american websites have been throwing them off as. I am not sure what they are and don't confess to, but I can't see them being a hoax.
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Carol Bellfield,

WXM 04/10/2008 18:17:58
Adam 2050.

Look up the postings about these sightings on the Conwy UFO Group website. You can't post up urls here, but search the group name and access the 'Report A Sighting Of A UFO.

There is a write up about the sightings and someone planting chinese lanterns on a farm to try and play down the sightings.

Most newspapers will not publish his stuff because he's blacked by the military because he's got proof of cover ups regarding the Berwyn Mountain UFO crash in the 70s. On the few occasions he has been asked to talk on radio and television about UFOs, he refuses when he is asked 'not to talk about the Berwyn UFO' and he's been axed several times from pre recorded radio and television programmes. His information is too hot to handle.

Rumour has it, that North Wales Police are breaking the law by stalling on handing over Freedom of Information data which will finger a bent officer involved in a UFO cover up. That apparently has been going on since the Spring and it has still not been handed over.
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