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	1974 Jan 23 - Llandrillo. N. Wales, United Kingdom Play the video   ......"The event had occurred on a cold night in the winter of 1974. There had been a terrible bang. The entire village had heard it and thought something had exploded. Going outside, people saw blue and orange lights floating in a circle around Cader Bronwen, the mountain that rises to the east of the village. The old man also told me there was a peculiar buzzing noise in the air for a few minutes, like a swarm of bees. I had asked if he had gone to see what was happening before the lights disappeared, but he said no. They were told later in the night that a plane had crashed and the authorities had it under control....... ......"There was a huge explosion a few minutes after 8:30pm. From various accounts, this preceded (some say by up to two or three minutes) a violent shaking of the ground, like a medium-sized earthquake - objects inside houses were knocked off shelves.... ......"Certainly, the most curious feature of the story was the Press reports on 24 January (subsequently supported by what the man in the pub told me) that the authorities responded very rapidly...... ......"However, they responded in a remarkable way. They cordoned off the mountainside and sent up a team of police, followed by RAF experts with a helicopter. Then nobody was allowed into the area, not even the police. Given that this is one of the bleakest uninhabited regions in the UK, these seem extreme precautions. And the restrictions remained in force for several days...... ......"One woman had been working in a hotel at Bala in January 1974. She recalled the tremor well, because shelving fell down and glasses smashed. She also heard the explosion. She described how the police and army cordoned off the only proper road up into the Berwyn Mountains from Bala and the speculation that surrounded it. But, perhaps most interesting of all, she said that a group of strange men had arrived at the hotel a day or so later and stayed several days. They made trips to and from the mountain but avoided all questions about what they were doing up there. These men were not locals and they were noticed because they helped fill the hotel at a time when normally it was almost empty..... ......"However the best account collected so far comes from a nurse living at Llanderfel. She recalled the night of the explosion and earthquake and being telephoned by the police headquarters at Colwyn Bay and asked to assist at a plane crash near her home. She got her medical kit together and, since there was nobody to look after her teenage daughters, took them with her to the spot described by the police. The nurse took the B4391 road from Bala to Llangynog, which skirts the south of the Cader Bronwen area. There was no other traffic on it because it was around 10 o'clock on a winter's night. She took the track up towards the top of the range and came very close to something sitting on the ground that 'absolutely staggered' her. She described it as 'quite intact'; evidently it had not crashed, at least not in the way an aircraft would have done had it impacted on the mountainside. It was very large, circular and glowing orange. The nurse and her daughters were within a few hundred feet of it for 10 minutes and there was no possibility of mistaken identity. It was clearly a UFO. Police and military forces, who had been even closer to the object, passed her on their way down the mountain. She explained why she was there and asked what was happening. Nobody answered her questions, except to say she would have to leave; no one unauthorized was allowed up there. So they escorted her down to the main road. Because she was afraid for her daughters' safety, she did not argue and left. To this day she wonders what she saw up there. For several days afterwards, the road was sealed off. She heard complaints from local shepherds who were not even allowed to go up and tend to their flocks, which made them very angry. She is adamant that there was a massive cover-up of some still-unresolved incident on that barren hilltop." Jenny Randles "UFO Retrievals" Note: the accompanying earthquake gives all the indications of a possible scalar electromagnetic attack that brought down the UFO and also triggered an earthquake in a local fault zone. A new book by researcher Nick Redfern also alleges that two ET bodies were recovered at the crash site.
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