UFO Sightings in Wales

Welsh UFO sightings: the Broad Haven landing reports of 1977, the “Welsh triangle”, and what the Ministry of Defence files hold.

Wales has one of the strangest chapters in British UFO history: the Broad Haven reports of 1977, in which schoolchildren and adults in Pembrokeshire described a silver object and lights over several months. The Ministry of Defence investigated and filed it away.

Today, Welsh reports follow the national pattern — dark coastlines and national parks produce satellite and fireball reports, while the M4 corridor produces aircraft ones.

What gets reported here

  • The 1977 Pembrokeshire wave: silver objects, strange lights and a reported landing mark, gathered around one village school.
  • Coastal lights: fishing boats, flares, and the occasional exercise over the Milford Haven waterway.
  • Satellite trains over Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons, where skies are darkest.
  • Drone activity over industrial sites in the south, increasingly common in reports since 2018.

Notable incidents

  1. The Broad Haven wave (1977)

    Children at Broad Haven primary school drew the same silver object repeatedly, and adults across Pembrokeshire reported lights over several months. The MOD’s UFO desk investigated, found no defence significance, and closed it — the files were released in 2008.

    Case file

Questions

What was the “Welsh triangle”?

The name given to the cluster of 1977 reports around Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire: schoolchildren, farmers and residents describing a silver object and lights, with a few reported landing traces. The files are public through the National Archives and remain unexplained for want of data.

Is Wales a good place to watch satellites?

Yes. Snowdonia, the Brecon Beacons and the Pembrokeshire coast have some of the darkest skies in Britain, which makes Starlink trains, the ISS and meteors easy to see with the naked eye.

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