‘Britain’s Roswell’; Berwyn Mountain incident files published online

The UFO files are available for one month online (Photo: HTV archive)

A file which details the investigation behind a 1974 mass UFO sighting in Wales has gone online for the first time today. Detailing reports and numerous inquiries from ufologists, the Berwyn Mountain file is one of the highlights of the National Archive’s latest digital offering.

Described as ‘Britain’s Roswell’, the Berwyn Mountain incident of 1974 inspired decades of UFO hunters and numerous conspiracy theorists to speculate that intelligent life was out there – and it had, perhaps, crash landed on a mountain in north Wales.

On the 23 January 1974, residents of Llandrillo heard an almighty bang and felt the earth tremble – they then headed out onto the streets to witness ‘bright lights in the air’. Believing an aircraft may have crashed on the mountain, police and mountain rescue teams were deployed to search the area –…