Speaker 1: A Welch Triangle window area by UFO history buff and
author Charles Lear. In nineteen seventy seven, there was a
flap in the area of Saint Bride's Bay in Pembrokeshire,
Wales that involved reported sightings of craft and humanoids. The
most well known incident involved fourteen broad Haven Primary School
students running inside to tell their headmaster that they had
seen a yellow cigar shaped craft land in a field.
On February seventeenth, These staff members reported they saw the
same craft. The story made national news thanks to British
UFO Research Association investigator and UFO Investigator's Network correspondent Randall
Jones Pew, and a flat began that would result in
the area being referred to as the Welch Triangle. A
lesser known case involved an entire family that reported a
series of strange events, which Pew covered in articles published
in issues of Flying Saucer Review and The Bufora Journal.
In April, while driving, Pauline Coombs and three out of
four of her children were reportedly chased by a football
shaped UFO. Later that year, in October, Coombs, her four children,
and her mother reportedly witnessed a craft and humanoids that
behaved in an especially bizarre manner. It came out that
all sorts of strange happenings were said to have been
occurring on the family homestead called Ripperston Farm. Journalist Clive
Harold got close to the family and wrote a book
about their experiences titled The Uninvited in the volume twenty three,
number one, June nineteen seventy seven, issue, page six of
the PDF of Flying Saucer Review. Page six of the pdf.
Pew includes Coombs's report in West Wales Roundup. Just after
his article on Broadhaven. He presents the details from an
article in which he named as a local ufologist by
Hugh Trumbull, that was published in the April fourteenth, nineteen
seventy seven edition, page fifteen of the Peace of the
Western Telegraph. According to the article headlined Chased by a
Flying Football, Coombs had seen three UFOs that year. In
this instance, she was driving near Littelhaven with her three
children when her ten year old son Kieran saw a
light coming down towards them. He described it as yellow,
about football sized, with a beam coming out of the bottom.
The object followed along the side of the car hopping
over hedges for over a mile. When they reached the farm,
the car's engine and lights died. They went to get
Kumbs's husband, Bill, but the object was gone by the
time he came out. Pugh wrote an article covering a
sighting Coombs, and all four of her four children said
they'd had along with her mother on October thirtieth, nineteen
seventy seven. It's headlined stack Rocks Humanoid Display and was
published in the volume twenty three, number six, April nineteen
seventy eight, issue page eight of the PDF of Flying
Saucer Review. According to Pew, they were pulling up to
the farm in their car when Koumbs's mother drew her
attention to something in the sky. Coombs stopped the car
and everyone got out to look. They described it as
a round, flat disc whitish in color, moving towards the
sea at what Coombs estimated was at around two hundred
feet at the speed of a motor boat going fast
across the bay, or at about twenty to thirty miles
per hour. It came down to about the height of
nearby stack Row, maintained the same speed and then went
into the side of the islet and disappeared. Kumbs said
she and her mother expected an explosion, but there was none,
and both women were quite adamant that it just disappeared
into the rock. The entire group crossed two fields to
get to the water's edge. The water between them and
the islet at this point was only about four hundred
feet wide, and as they approached they saw what they
first thought were Impew's words, two skin divers going about
their business and the deep waters around the stacks. They
then realized that the heads of the figures were elongated
and much larger than a normal human head. Koumbs described
them as rectangular in shape, with the corners rounded off.
When asked if she was sure they weren't divers or fishermen,
Koum's said that while they were human in shape, they
were definitely not human beings. They watched for about fifteen minutes,
As in Pew's words, the silver clad humanoids moved about
on the uneven surface of the stack rocks. Pew points
out that the islet rises abruptly to a height of
about eighty to one hundred feet, and that the surface
of the rock is such that it would require a
good deal of caution in order not to fall off.
Koombs said they saw a door opening and shutting fairly
rapidly on the right hand side the broad Haven side
of the rock face. The door seemed to be about
the same size as a normal household door, had a
shimmering haze around it, and the space behind it was
quite black. It opened and closed, in Pew's words, much
as would the sliding doors of a serving hatch in
a restaurant, and the group saw a silvery clad humanoid
repeatedly come into view and leave, as if it was
walking up and down some steps. The other figure moved
across the rock face as if it was a smooth surface,
and even seemed to walk on the water. Eventually, it
went out of view behind the left side of the islet,
towards the sea. The other figure then vanished abruptly along
with the door, According to Pew, He and BBC News
reporter David Allen interviewed Coombs and the children on December first.
One thing that came out was that Coombs took a
different road home that day and could not fathom why
she decided to take that particular route. Pugh tells the
reader that he is convinced that Kombs has a psychic
ability to see things not normally visible to other people,
and mentions there being a paranormal aspect to the farm,
without going into specifics. As for Kombe's credibility, he reports
that she stuck to her story and was prepared to
take any test that would prove she wasn't imagining things.
Pew ends his article relating a sighting of his own
through his bedroom window overlooking Saint Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire. According
to him, he saw a crescent shaped object with a
tube sticking up about three feet and a dome on top,
sitting in a field. As he pulled aside the curtain
exposing the light from his room, the object took off
vertically at great speed. The Coombs family shows up repeatedly
in reports published and the Bufoora Journal throughout nineteen seventy
seven into nineteen seventy eight. In the volume six, number
two July to August nineteen seventy seven, issue page sixteen
of the PDF, Pew says the family reported seeing a
seven feet tall, silver clad humanoid looking in at them
through their living room window. Cooms can be seen on
YouTube describing this to a group of visitors at her farm.
In the volume six, number one, January to February nineteen
seventy eight, issue, page seventeen of the PDF, there is
a report by Pew that on May seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven,
Coombs's twin daughters, Joanne and Layanne, saw a silver suited
being walking a round on the farm that then went
through a hedge and a barbed wire fence and disappeared.
He says they also saw a silver, white plate like
object with a red light that landed, put out a
stair ramp and ejected a box down it. The stairs
then retracted, the door shut and the craft took off.
The family investigated and found no box, but did find
large footprints in the area. In the meantime, the twins
and Coombs's eldest daughter, Katrina are said to have shouted
out to the adults as they had seen a craft
similar to the first one fly into the water by
the stack rocks. Pugh wrote a book about the flap
with Frederick ted William Holiday titled The divid Enigma, that
was published in nightnineteen seventy nine. The Uninvited by Clive Herald,
published that same year, focuses on the events reported at
Ripperston Farm, which were said to have also included televisions
exploding and a herd of cows being mysteriously transported from
a locked field to a neighboring farmyard. Pew can be
seen talking about the events he investigated at the YouTube
linked below. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying
Saucer Investigators in its second edition available on Amazon dot
com