1 00:00:07,298 --> 00:00:09,592 Now, what do you make of this next story? 2 00:00:09,676 --> 00:00:11,886 An investigation has begun into a claim 3 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:14,514 that something strange came out of the skies 4 00:00:14,597 --> 00:00:18,435 and landed in the Welsh village of Broad Haven, near Haverfordwest. 5 00:00:45,754 --> 00:00:50,050 Whatever it was, was spotted three times by children from the local school. 6 00:01:01,728 --> 00:01:04,397 Is it all really a case of mass hysteria, 7 00:01:04,481 --> 00:01:06,941 or is there some reality in the unreal? 8 00:01:20,163 --> 00:01:22,457 The people who live around Broad Haven will tell you 9 00:01:22,540 --> 00:01:24,584 that what they have experienced is real enough. 10 00:01:31,591 --> 00:01:33,468 From the beginning of recorded time, 11 00:01:33,551 --> 00:01:36,387 men have been seeing unexplainable things in the sky. 12 00:01:36,471 --> 00:01:38,640 Are we alone in the universe? 13 00:01:38,723 --> 00:01:42,227 Somewhere in the data will be something worth real inquiry. 14 00:01:42,310 --> 00:01:44,229 We have not been hiding anything. 15 00:01:44,312 --> 00:01:46,314 There are such things as interplanetary spaceships. 16 00:01:46,397 --> 00:01:48,942 I thought it was an alien, and he had big eyes. 17 00:01:49,025 --> 00:01:52,028 There's something profoundly important going on here 18 00:01:52,112 --> 00:01:53,738 that is authentic and real. 19 00:02:22,225 --> 00:02:23,309 So, Kevin… 20 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:26,688 tell me a secret that you haven't told anyone 21 00:02:26,771 --> 00:02:27,939 about the phenomenon. 22 00:06:58,251 --> 00:07:00,753 Randall Pugh is a retired vet 23 00:07:00,837 --> 00:07:05,508 who acts as regional investigator for the British UFO Research Association. 24 00:07:06,217 --> 00:07:08,136 We have a phenomenon 25 00:07:08,219 --> 00:07:13,349 which I think will be with us for a very, very long time, 26 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,726 if we ever do, indeed, unravel it at all. 27 00:07:15,810 --> 00:07:18,229 Terry, if you take that sector over there… 28 00:07:18,312 --> 00:07:19,981 -This sector on-- -That sector there. 29 00:07:20,064 --> 00:07:22,108 And I'll go to, uh, northwest. 30 00:07:36,539 --> 00:07:39,459 Today, one group of children showed me the spot where they saw 31 00:07:39,542 --> 00:07:41,711 what they think was some kind of spaceship. 32 00:07:41,794 --> 00:07:47,049 Suddenly, the silver, cigar-shaped object seemed to pop up from behind the bushes, 33 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:49,635 and, uh, trying to take off, then it disappeared again. 34 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:01,481 The spaceship, it looked… a cigar shape with a dome on it. 35 00:08:11,699 --> 00:08:15,661 We have received many reports of UFO sightings over Mobile. 36 00:08:16,787 --> 00:08:17,747 Greetings! 37 00:08:17,830 --> 00:08:19,207 We come from France. 38 00:08:19,290 --> 00:08:20,708 - Yes. -Oh! 39 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:29,342 -The numbers of sightings were increasing. -Well, it was roughly over there. 40 00:09:33,614 --> 00:09:36,993 I saw a flying saucer, or you might call it a UFO. 41 00:09:37,076 --> 00:09:39,036 It was over in those trees over there. 42 00:10:55,488 --> 00:10:56,489 Well, to find out more, 43 00:10:56,572 --> 00:10:59,742 I've just been on the phone to their headmaster, Mr. Llewellyn. 44 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:02,995 I know that, uh, 16 children saw it. 45 00:11:03,621 --> 00:11:05,498 And did they all see the same thing? 46 00:11:05,581 --> 00:11:07,917 There's a common core of similarity 47 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,877 between all their descriptions. 48 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,755 I-I-I got them to draw and to write what they saw. 49 00:13:02,823 --> 00:13:06,076 Perhaps it's time to approach the question of UFOs again, 50 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,578 without bias. 51 00:14:14,812 --> 00:14:16,689 Are you sure it wasn't a helicopter 52 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:18,482 or an aircraft from the airfield near here? 53 00:14:18,566 --> 00:14:21,652 Well, a helicopter could land there, 54 00:14:21,735 --> 00:14:24,154 but it-- that's private property over there, 55 00:14:24,238 --> 00:14:26,532 and if they landed there, they could be prosecuted. 56 00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:30,286 And with an aircraft, the only thing that could get in there was a Harrier. 57 00:16:33,909 --> 00:16:36,787 We bought this place in 1967. 58 00:16:36,870 --> 00:16:39,415 It was an old smuggler's fort, 59 00:16:39,498 --> 00:16:42,668 and we converted it into a hotel. 60 00:16:43,669 --> 00:16:46,213 It mainly meant to be for my daughter. 61 00:17:57,534 --> 00:17:58,702 You were the person 62 00:17:58,786 --> 00:18:03,207 that Steven Spielberg modeled the character of a UFO researcher on 63 00:18:03,290 --> 00:18:06,710 in his classic movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 64 00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:10,798 One of my interests, as you know, has been to look at ancient sightings, 65 00:18:10,881 --> 00:18:12,841 before World War Two, for example, 66 00:18:12,925 --> 00:18:16,345 when there is really no confusion with modern technology. 67 00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:19,890 If nothing else, I think this is part of our folklore. 68 00:18:19,973 --> 00:18:23,227 This is something that we should be studying as part of our folklore. 69 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:54,443 As soon as I got to bed, 70 00:19:54,526 --> 00:19:59,573 I could see this huge big light was pulsating. 71 00:20:10,834 --> 00:20:13,670 It was so intensive 72 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,382 that I could hardly open my eyes. 73 00:20:28,810 --> 00:20:31,647 They had both very long arms 74 00:20:31,730 --> 00:20:33,523 and very long legs. 75 00:20:34,483 --> 00:20:36,401 But they had no features at all. 76 00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:53,835 And as I did that, 77 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:58,215 the heat from the saucer hit me. 78 00:20:59,341 --> 00:21:05,389 And this flying saucer went up in such a speed, 79 00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:09,101 but as if it was just one big dream, 80 00:21:09,184 --> 00:21:11,645 as if I was just imagining, you know? 81 00:23:41,211 --> 00:23:44,423 Can you honestly say that people are not being hoaxed, 82 00:23:44,506 --> 00:23:46,675 are not being spoofed, in this area? 83 00:23:47,884 --> 00:23:50,178 I am absolutely positive 84 00:23:50,262 --> 00:23:54,266 that no human being can simulate 85 00:23:54,349 --> 00:23:56,560 the extreme agitation, 86 00:23:57,561 --> 00:23:59,104 the extreme fright 87 00:23:59,187 --> 00:24:03,692 which some of these people have undergone and have exhibited. 88 00:27:11,379 --> 00:27:13,298 When you're an ordinary farming family, 89 00:27:13,381 --> 00:27:15,216 and you're convinced you've seen spaceships 90 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:16,968 and creatures from another planet, 91 00:27:17,469 --> 00:27:20,388 how do you persuade friends, neighbors, and the world in general, 92 00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:22,766 that you've not taken leave of your senses? 93 00:27:23,266 --> 00:27:26,978 That's the constant problem that's faced Billy and Pauline Coombs 94 00:27:27,062 --> 00:27:28,355 since they became involved 95 00:27:28,438 --> 00:27:32,400 in one of the country's most celebrated UFO sightings two years ago. 96 00:27:57,258 --> 00:27:59,844 When it happened to me the first time, I thought, you know, 97 00:27:59,928 --> 00:28:01,554 "I'm imagining things." 98 00:28:01,638 --> 00:28:04,599 But there's been so much, you know, happening to this place 99 00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:07,227 that I've gone to believe it's definitely happening. 100 00:28:50,645 --> 00:28:53,064 - You had 120 cows-- - Yes. 101 00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,400 …teleport from one field to another? 102 00:28:55,483 --> 00:28:56,443 To another farm. 103 00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:07,370 And then, after that came the silver-suited man, 104 00:29:07,454 --> 00:29:10,165 which was the most terrifying experience of it all. 105 00:29:12,625 --> 00:29:14,627 It was 10:00 on a Thursday. 106 00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:17,630 I went to make a cup of tea to watch a late-night film. 107 00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:34,314 The biggest thing I ever seen, like. I got up… I couldn't believe my eyes. 108 00:29:34,397 --> 00:29:36,107 So I got up and went straight to the window 109 00:29:36,191 --> 00:29:37,734 and looked up, and… 110 00:29:37,817 --> 00:29:41,821 Well, he was above the window. It's at least eight feet. At least. 111 00:30:06,429 --> 00:30:09,098 The police were called out the night of the incident 112 00:30:09,182 --> 00:30:10,809 at the Coombs's farm. 113 00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:14,312 Sergeant Ernie, of Dyfed Police, answered the call. 114 00:30:14,979 --> 00:30:17,273 It's probably, of all the incidents 115 00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:19,234 in my 26 years' service, 116 00:30:19,776 --> 00:30:22,779 that's the most frightened family I've come across. 117 00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:22,547 They didn't have a wrinkle or a mark on their faces, 118 00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:25,425 as if they were made of wax. 119 00:31:36,060 --> 00:31:38,104 I got a bit worried about this 120 00:31:38,187 --> 00:31:41,774 because, I mean, they looked so odd! 121 00:32:40,583 --> 00:32:43,711 Now, this time, I had to ring up Mrs. Coombs 122 00:32:43,795 --> 00:32:47,006 to prove to me that I wasn't seeing things. 123 00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:52,261 And she said, "Yes, we are watching it now." 124 00:32:52,345 --> 00:32:57,350 "My mum, my dad, and all our children, we're all watching this." 125 00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:29,215 She said that, from her direction, 126 00:33:29,298 --> 00:33:32,135 the rock had opened like a door, 127 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:34,178 and they disappeared. 128 00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:23,389 Now, you say you saw a man as well, did you? 129 00:36:23,472 --> 00:36:24,807 And how clearly did you see it? 130 00:36:25,308 --> 00:36:29,520 Well, I-- I couldn't see its face 'cause it was too far away. 131 00:39:07,636 --> 00:39:09,930 The temptation is to think the Coombs family 132 00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:11,682 must be either daft or mistaken. 133 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,061 Their continuing problem is that no one's yet been able 134 00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:17,063 to prove or disprove 135 00:39:17,146 --> 00:39:21,150 what must be some of the most remarkable UFO sightings ever reported. 136 00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:25,780 More and more people are claiming that they are seeing things 137 00:39:25,863 --> 00:39:28,407 which cannot be scientifically explained. 138 00:39:58,854 --> 00:40:02,566 I just happened to look out, and I saw something in the sky. 139 00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,568 It was a dome-shaped object. 140 00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:07,196 Glowing with a pale cream light. 141 00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:09,824 So, what sort of action are you looking for? 142 00:40:09,907 --> 00:40:12,243 Well, I'm hoping that the government will step in, 143 00:40:12,326 --> 00:40:16,372 scientists will step in to help us to understand what these things are. 144 00:40:17,081 --> 00:40:19,583 The sky watchers seek one objective. 145 00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:21,127 Yet another flying saucer 146 00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:23,629 to add to the lengthening list of claimed sightings 147 00:40:23,712 --> 00:40:25,965 over the Pembrokeshire countryside. 148 00:40:50,573 --> 00:40:52,241 Are you all honestly going to say 149 00:40:52,324 --> 00:40:54,618 that you think that the things you saw were, 150 00:40:54,702 --> 00:40:56,203 shall we say, not of this world? 151 00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:58,247 - Yes. -Right. 152 00:41:04,962 --> 00:41:08,340 But did they really see an unidentified flying object? 153 00:41:08,424 --> 00:41:10,593 Or was this what caught their eye? 154 00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,546 This thing got up the hedge, and it jumped over… 155 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:29,880 jumped over this gate. 156 00:42:30,881 --> 00:42:34,718 And I thought there was something wrong about it. 157 00:42:34,802 --> 00:42:37,680 Like, no man could… no man could jump that gate. 158 00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:18,596 Well, it had the clear cigar shape with the dome on top of that. 159 00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:50,085 And we've got some young people in the studio 160 00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:53,005 who claim to have had encounters of their very own. 161 00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:03,766 …the gentleman. That's David, David, Philip, and Shaun down here. Now… 162 00:44:11,857 --> 00:44:16,445 We were watching it for about five or six seconds, 163 00:44:16,528 --> 00:44:19,573 and, um… we just ran off. 164 00:44:43,430 --> 00:44:45,015 I saw, like, a door, 165 00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,141 and all of a sudden, 166 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:49,561 this sort of person just sort of walked out. 167 00:44:57,820 --> 00:44:59,905 Having done the work I have done, 168 00:44:59,988 --> 00:45:02,783 I can give you every assurance on one point, 169 00:45:02,866 --> 00:45:08,580 that if the public knew precisely what the presence of UFOs mean, 170 00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:11,834 they would literally run for their lives. 171 00:45:28,475 --> 00:45:31,562 Lots of people were calling them all sorts of names. 172 00:45:33,605 --> 00:45:37,443 Well, now, I had to come forward and say, 173 00:45:38,152 --> 00:45:40,779 "They are definitely genuine." 174 00:45:40,863 --> 00:45:43,782 "What they have seen, I saw myself." 175 00:45:43,866 --> 00:45:45,826 What were the figures like? 176 00:45:45,909 --> 00:45:50,497 Well, they were very tall. Their arms were exceptionally long. 177 00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:52,666 Their legs were exceptionally long. 178 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,420 And, for all, they looked as if they had boilersuits on. 179 00:45:56,503 --> 00:45:58,046 Shiny boilersuits. 180 00:45:58,130 --> 00:46:00,966 And they had sort of a pointed head, you know. 181 00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:03,260 There's something, like, pointed going. 182 00:46:03,343 --> 00:46:05,137 And they definitely didn't have a face. 183 00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:06,638 They were faceless people. 184 00:46:06,722 --> 00:46:10,309 They'd no eyes, no mouth, not even a hole or buttons or anything. 185 00:46:10,392 --> 00:46:12,311 It's definite. It's here. 186 00:46:12,811 --> 00:46:15,063 It's beyond us to know what it is, but it is. 187 00:46:17,274 --> 00:46:19,860 Is it all really a case of mass hysteria, 188 00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:22,613 or is there some reality in the unreal? 189 00:46:22,696 --> 00:46:24,615 The people who live around Broad Haven 190 00:46:24,698 --> 00:46:27,659 will tell you that what they've experienced is real enough.