The Largely Unknown 1983 Wales UFO Crash – Europe’s Roswell?
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Marcus Lowth
- July 26, 2019
- October 13, 2021
- 6 min read
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Sometimes referred to as “Europe’s Roswell”, an alleged crash in the small village of Llanilar near Aberystwyth in Wales in January 1983 is perhaps not as well as known as we might imagine. Especially as it boasts apparent proof of the incident in recovered material claimed to be from the otherworldly craft. Furthermore, according to the main witness, a local farmer, a discreet and professional “clean-up” operation took place on his land where the material was discovered.
Part of the alleged UFO wreckage
Despite the apparent seismic shift in public perception that such an event would result in, only one newspaper would cover the story, and even then, the coverage would dry up almost instantly. Was this a purposeful...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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Hi, how is it that if debris was scattered over four fields, there is no word on whether or not any of the sheep were injured or if there were any bodies located from the craft? Just curious!
Looking for Gary Rowe I met him once years ago in prestatyn nova center
Why is the military hiding the references…
Do we ever have a vivid explaination about the UFO’s existance than combining the pieces
The night this ‘ crash’ happened my own mother who was in her 60′ s then was pretty shaken because she saw some sort of craft directly above Bowring Park in Liverpool .My mother was trying to sleep and she described very unusual lights moving across the closed slate of the Venetian blinds in her bedroom..Mum had a pair of binoculars to hand and saw some sort of craft with undulating lights and then it shot off across the M62 motorway which runs directly next to the park.We also had am earth tremor around this time but can’t tell you exactly when and that was felt from the Midlands,across North Wales and Merseyside.I was just 15 in 1982 ,I have though since first hand seen a UFO above Snowdonia National Park when we where out walking in 1997 ,when we came down off the mountain everyone on our tiny campsite was excited and looking skyward because they too was the triangle shaped craft above Bedgellert Llyngwynant.( Please Welsh speakers forgive any poor spelling )
I remember the earth quake I was in Liverpool at the time
Sightings of that “thing” were witnessed over huyton, allerton, anfield, bootle, wirral peninsula heading toward north wales. Also that boom shattered windows far from there, the high-rises of lee park, netherley an example.
I’m Welsh and I have NEVER heard of the case. I’m not convinced. If you want to dig into a recent intriguing Welsh UFO case then google “The Pentyrch Incident” from 2016. Several credible witnesses, military involvement, trace evidence, ongoing cover-up etc.. very interesting.
I’m totally convinced that this case never happened. Watching the video made me very suspicious that it was nothing more than a money making scam by the video makers. There are no surviving witnesses, the object to my knowledge has never completely been made available for proper sctutiny. A hoax. Before you ask I am a total UFO believer. Just not in ths case.
Please read my comment above ,I am pretty sure it happened.Liverpool is no more than 60 miles or so from the Berwyn mountains