Now, what do you make of this next story?
An investigation has begun into a claim
that something strange came out of the skies
and landed in the Welsh village of Broad Haven, near Haverfordwest.
Whatever it was, was spotted three times by children from the local school.
Is it all really a case of mass hysteria,
or is there some reality in the unreal?
The people who live around Broad Haven will tell you
that what they have experienced is real enough.
From the beginning of recorded time,
men have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky.
Are we alone in the universe?
Somewhere in the data will be something worth real inquiry.
We have not been hiding anything.
There are such things as interplanetary spaceships.
I thought it was an alien, and he had big eyes.
There's something profoundly important going on here
that is authentic and real.
So, Kevin…
tell me a secret that you haven't told anyone
about the phenomenon.
Randall Pugh is a retired vet
who acts as regional investigator for the British UFO Research Association.
We have a phenomenon
which I think will be with us for a very, very long time,
if we ever do, indeed, unravel it at all.
Terry, if you take that sector over there…
-This sector on-- -That sector there.
And I'll go to, uh, northwest.
Today, one group of children showed me the spot where they saw
what they think was some kind of spaceship.
Suddenly, the silver, cigar-shaped object seemed to pop up from behind the bushes,
and, uh, trying to take off, then it disappeared again.
The spaceship, it looked… a cigar shape with a dome on it.
We have received many reports of UFO sightings over Mobile.
Greetings!
We come from France.
- Yes. -Oh!
-The numbers of sightings were increasing. -Well, it was roughly over there.
I saw a flying saucer, or you might call it a UFO.
It was over in those trees over there.
Well, to find out more,
I've just been on the phone to their headmaster, Mr. Llewellyn.
I know that, uh, 16 children saw it.
And did they all see the same thing?
There's a common core of similarity
between all their descriptions.
I-I-I got them to draw and to write what they saw.
Perhaps it's time to approach the question of UFOs again,
without bias.
Are you sure it wasn't a helicopter
or an aircraft from the airfield near here?
Well, a helicopter could land there,
but it-- that's private property over there,
and if they landed there, they could be prosecuted.
And with an aircraft, the only thing that could get in there was a Harrier.
We bought this place in 1967.
It was an old smuggler's fort,
and we converted it into a hotel.
It mainly meant to be for my daughter.
You were the person
that Steven Spielberg modeled the character of a UFO researcher on
in his classic movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
One of my interests, as you know, has been to look at ancient sightings,
before World War Two, for example,
when there is really no confusion with modern technology.
If nothing else, I think this is part of our folklore.
This is something that we should be studying as part of our folklore.
As soon as I got to bed,
I could see this huge big light was pulsating.
It was so intensive
that I could hardly open my eyes.
They had both very long arms
and very long legs.
But they had no features at all.
And as I did that,
the heat from the saucer hit me.
And this flying saucer went up in such a speed,
but as if it was just one big dream,
as if I was just imagining, you know?
Can you honestly say that people are not being hoaxed,
are not being spoofed, in this area?
I am absolutely positive
that no human being can simulate
the extreme agitation,
the extreme fright
which some of these people have undergone and have exhibited.
When you're an ordinary farming family,
and you're convinced you've seen spaceships
and creatures from another planet,
how do you persuade friends, neighbors, and the world in general,
that you've not taken leave of your senses?
That's the constant problem that's faced Billy and Pauline Coombs
since they became involved
in one of the country's most celebrated UFO sightings two years ago.
When it happened to me the first time, I thought, you know,
"I'm imagining things."
But there's been so much, you know, happening to this place
that I've gone to believe it's definitely happening.
- You had 120 cows-- - Yes.
…teleport from one field to another?
To another farm.
And then, after that came the silver-suited man,
which was the most terrifying experience of it all.
It was 10:00 on a Thursday.
I went to make a cup of tea to watch a late-night film.
The biggest thing I ever seen, like. I got up… I couldn't believe my eyes.
So I got up and went straight to the window
and looked up, and…
Well, he was above the window. It's at least eight feet. At least.
The police were called out the night of the incident
at the Coombs's farm.
Sergeant Ernie, of Dyfed Police, answered the call.
It's probably, of all the incidents
in my 26 years' service,
that's the most frightened family I've come across.
They didn't have a wrinkle or a mark on their faces,
as if they were made of wax.
I got a bit worried about this
because, I mean, they looked so odd!
Now, this time, I had to ring up Mrs. Coombs
to prove to me that I wasn't seeing things.
And she said, "Yes, we are watching it now."
"My mum, my dad, and all our children, we're all watching this."
She said that, from her direction,
the rock had opened like a door,
and they disappeared.
Now, you say you saw a man as well, did you?
And how clearly did you see it?
Well, I-- I couldn't see its face 'cause it was too far away.
The temptation is to think the Coombs family
must be either daft or mistaken.
Their continuing problem is that no one's yet been able
to prove or disprove
what must be some of the most remarkable UFO sightings ever reported.
More and more people are claiming that they are seeing things
which cannot be scientifically explained.
I just happened to look out, and I saw something in the sky.
It was a dome-shaped object.
Glowing with a pale cream light.
So, what sort of action are you looking for?
Well, I'm hoping that the government will step in,
scientists will step in to help us to understand what these things are.
The sky watchers seek one objective.
Yet another flying saucer
to add to the lengthening list of claimed sightings
over the Pembrokeshire countryside.
Are you all honestly going to say
that you think that the things you saw were,
shall we say, not of this world?
- Yes. -Right.
But did they really see an unidentified flying object?
Or was this what caught their eye?
This thing got up the hedge, and it jumped over…
jumped over this gate.
And I thought there was something wrong about it.
Like, no man could… no man could jump that gate.
Well, it had the clear cigar shape with the dome on top of that.
And we've got some young people in the studio
who claim to have had encounters of their very own.
…the gentleman. That's David, David, Philip, and Shaun down here. Now…
We were watching it for about five or six seconds,
and, um… we just ran off.
I saw, like, a door,
and all of a sudden,
this sort of person just sort of walked out.
Having done the work I have done,
I can give you every assurance on one point,
that if the public knew precisely what the presence of UFOs mean,
they would literally run for their lives.
Lots of people were calling them all sorts of names.
Well, now, I had to come forward and say,
"They are definitely genuine."
"What they have seen, I saw myself."
What were the figures like?
Well, they were very tall. Their arms were exceptionally long.
Their legs were exceptionally long.
And, for all, they looked as if they had boilersuits on.
Shiny boilersuits.
And they had sort of a pointed head, you know.
There's something, like, pointed going.
And they definitely didn't have a face.
They were faceless people.
They'd no eyes, no mouth, not even a hole or buttons or anything.
It's definite. It's here.
It's beyond us to know what it is, but it is.
Is it all really a case of mass hysteria,
or is there some reality in the unreal?
The people who live around Broad Haven
will tell you that what they've experienced is real enough.