The Schoolyard

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I was ten at the time, I was coming up to eleven. The school was very much like a small family, it was only 125 pupils. We were all close. It was a nice atmosphere to grow up in. It was a horrible day. It was drizzly, it was murky, it wasn't a good day for being out. Lunchtime came around. Thought I'd rather stay in and read a book than go out in that weather. But some of the kids went out. I was a very voracious reader at that time. The end of lunchtime they came in.

Groups of them were saying that they'd seen something out in the playground. A number of them were saying that they'd seen an object. They were describing it as a flying saucer. It didn't seem like they were having a joke. It really didn't. They actually sounded like they meant it. But I am a total sceptic. I have no belief system. I I don't believe in UFOs, that simple as that. The teacher at the time was the headmaster, Ralph Lou Ellen. He dismissed it as a joke.

The headmaster was dismissing it as some wind-up that was going on, some joke that they were trying to play. We finally broke up at the end of school. I'm still not believing it. There's no way that flying sources are gonna be happening around Pembrokeshire.

Twinal Bell went at the end of school. I went up to the top of the school to see if I could actually see anything. investigates a bit closer. And as I got one foot over, it literally rose up from I froze this thing. It was about forty-five feet long. Silver. It was just rising from behind the trees vertically. No sense of propulsion at all. What I'm seeing in front of me is real. I've got something in front of me that shouldn't exist, but does.

Yeah, I've no problem with accepting that somewhere out in the cosmos there might be other life. I didn't think it was a visitor. I was looking at this thing. Was gonna sand you and whoped it for as long as I could. And that's where the weirdness sort of starts. There was a thought in my brain I should leave. Was do you mean a thought? Something that wasn't mine. There was a suggestion there that I should leave the area.

So it wasn't like instinctual response. No no no no no. I had absolutely no fear at all. The moment that I appreciated what I had in front of me, I had that thought I should leave. It wasn't to run away out of fear. It was more like a caution, please leave the area. I've been told to get away. I did run. Something that didn't come to me until a few years later. I can remember getting in the taxi on the journey home. The journey home was done in complete silence. All of us

Including the taxi driver. Didn't say a word. Wouldn't you guys be talking about this crazy thing you just saw? That's the weird thing. I was in a car with another two witnesses. A group of us had just seen a flying sorcer. We said nothing at all. Why? I don't know. We should have been talking, we should have been excited, but it was like we were just staring blankly ahead going home.

The taxi dropped me off about 10 minutes later. I got out of the taxi, and the moment I saw my mother, it was like Mom, just saw a UFO. It was like suddenly I'd switched back on again. What'd you tell your mum? I just said, I'd just seen a flying saucer. I mean, my mother knows me. There was no disbelief. The moment I said it She instantly saw that I was being truthful.

We went back down to the school that night. To have a look. Obviously by then it got dark it was February. Saw nothing at all. Following day, we went back with a local reporter called Hugh Turnbull, who worked for the Western Telegraph. We went back down to school again, investigated the area in which I'd seen the object. What'd you say? There was a broken branch. Telephone pole had been dislodged, which had just been recently repaired.

The cross piece on the actual bowl had been knocked at about forty five degrees. They couldn't really put it down to anything other than something knocking into it. There was no reasonable explanation for anything that we'd seen. By Monday morning, the national press were already phoning the school. Monday morning we got into school. Instantly the headmaster pulled all of the ones who had claimed to have seen the UFO to one side and and isolated us.

About fourteen of us. He then put us in exam conditions. sitting apart from each other, with him observing. gave us all a piece of paper and said, I want you to describe and draw what you saw. We all drew the UFO that we'd seen, a brief description of it, then once we'd finished the headmaster went round, gathered up the pieces of paper, started looking at the pieces of paper. All of those illustrations depend on the same thing.

Same object. His kids had seen something. It totally blew his mind, and he didn't know what to think. They all determined. A silver scar shaped object, a dome that covered the middle third of the craft, with a red light on top. We all drew the same object. No collaboration whatsoever, no social media, no internet. Nothing. What does that tell you? It pretty much confirms that we all saw the same thing. Something

Came out of the skies and landed in the Welsh village of Broadhaven. It was spotted three times by children from the local school. I've just been on the phone to their headmaster. I know that that sixteen children saw it. And do they all see the same thing, do you think? I got them to draw and to write what they saw. Put similarity between all their descriptions. And do you believe it? I believe they saw something which is not common.

Media all around the world, TV crews arriving from everywhere. The children say the object. It was cigar shaped.

Senior officers. RAF ROAD and the US Naval Facility wanted to talk to us and find out what we'd seen. They looked at the illustrations we'd done, chatted with us as a group. They basically said, we have no idea what you've seen. But we can categorically state it has nothing to do with us. But we honestly believe you've seen something. Phones were being left off the hook at the schooling. The headmaster was completely losing his will to live. We were in trying to sensationalize.

The old clips are still on YouTube and all. the bushes up the top of the trees. That was me. I remember that bloody top. And that haircut. That was in the school playground. The spaceship it looks a cigar shape with a dome on it. It had a yellowy, orange to red light on the top of it. In Boardhaven in Wales, some extremely interesting pictures. Some of the things that time that I couldn't have known about, impossible.

My friend Philippier was trying to find a way over the stream and I was looking at the bushes up to the room. Trees and then suddenly this silver cigar shaped object seemed to pop up from behind the bushes, trying to take off, then it disappeared again. Yes. Now we got some younger people in the studio who claim to have had encounters of their very own. We just rang off. We were so scared. If there was a whole logic in the whole phenomenon.

It'd be a lot easier to pin down where you think this is coming from. Over the years as I've been researching, I've been led Well I'm thinking. Definitely aliens. It's got to be, yeah, yeah. And then all of a sudden there's some... Oh no. Some of these objects seem to be showing The ability to dimensionally changed in some ways It's almost like disappearing in a puffed logic. They don't seem to operate on the same physical plane as conventional aircraft.

We sort of get down on this, but I mean don't think I haven't tried perhaps there is a desire in me that I would like it to be aliens or an interdimensional Yeah. Because it confirms that there's a greater universe out there. However, if suddenly declassified documents were made available from the MOD or something that says, okay, sorry, it was one of ours. I would be happy with that. But it's been fifty years. Yeah. And Absolutely nothing.

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