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Speaker 1: A Welch Triangle window area by UFO history buff and

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author Charles Lear. In nineteen seventy seven, there was a

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flap in the area of Saint Bride's Bay in Pembrokeshire,

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Wales that involved reported sightings of craft and humanoids. The

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most well known incident involved fourteen broad Haven Primary School

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students running inside to tell their headmaster that they had

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seen a yellow cigar shaped craft land in a field.

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On February seventeenth, These staff members reported they saw the

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same craft. The story made national news thanks to British

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UFO Research Association investigator and UFO Investigator's Network correspondent Randall

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Jones Pew, and a flat began that would result in

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the area being referred to as the Welch Triangle. A

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lesser known case involved an entire family that reported a

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series of strange events, which Pew covered in articles published

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in issues of Flying Saucer Review and The Bufora Journal.

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In April, while driving, Pauline Coombs and three out of

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four of her children were reportedly chased by a football

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shaped UFO. Later that year, in October, Coombs, her four children,

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and her mother reportedly witnessed a craft and humanoids that

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behaved in an especially bizarre manner. It came out that

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all sorts of strange happenings were said to have been

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occurring on the family homestead called Ripperston Farm. Journalist Clive

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Harold got close to the family and wrote a book

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about their experiences titled The Uninvited in the volume twenty three,

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number one, June nineteen seventy seven, issue, page six of

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the PDF of Flying Saucer Review. Page six of the pdf.

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Pew includes Coombs's report in West Wales Roundup. Just after

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his article on Broadhaven. He presents the details from an

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article in which he named as a local ufologist by

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Hugh Trumbull, that was published in the April fourteenth, nineteen

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seventy seven edition, page fifteen of the Peace of the

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Western Telegraph. According to the article headlined Chased by a

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Flying Football, Coombs had seen three UFOs that year. In

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this instance, she was driving near Littelhaven with her three

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children when her ten year old son Kieran saw a

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light coming down towards them. He described it as yellow,

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about football sized, with a beam coming out of the bottom.

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The object followed along the side of the car hopping

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over hedges for over a mile. When they reached the farm,

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the car's engine and lights died. They went to get

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Kumbs's husband, Bill, but the object was gone by the

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time he came out. Pugh wrote an article covering a

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sighting Coombs, and all four of her four children said

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they'd had along with her mother on October thirtieth, nineteen

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seventy seven. It's headlined stack Rocks Humanoid Display and was

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published in the volume twenty three, number six, April nineteen

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seventy eight, issue page eight of the PDF of Flying

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Saucer Review. According to Pew, they were pulling up to

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the farm in their car when Koumbs's mother drew her

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attention to something in the sky. Coombs stopped the car

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and everyone got out to look. They described it as

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a round, flat disc whitish in color, moving towards the

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sea at what Coombs estimated was at around two hundred

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feet at the speed of a motor boat going fast

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across the bay, or at about twenty to thirty miles

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per hour. It came down to about the height of

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nearby stack Row, maintained the same speed and then went

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into the side of the islet and disappeared. Kumbs said

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she and her mother expected an explosion, but there was none,

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and both women were quite adamant that it just disappeared

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into the rock. The entire group crossed two fields to

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get to the water's edge. The water between them and

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the islet at this point was only about four hundred

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feet wide, and as they approached they saw what they

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first thought were Impew's words, two skin divers going about

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their business and the deep waters around the stacks. They

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then realized that the heads of the figures were elongated

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and much larger than a normal human head. Koumbs described

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them as rectangular in shape, with the corners rounded off.

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When asked if she was sure they weren't divers or fishermen,

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Koum's said that while they were human in shape, they

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were definitely not human beings. They watched for about fifteen minutes,

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As in Pew's words, the silver clad humanoids moved about

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on the uneven surface of the stack rocks. Pew points

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out that the islet rises abruptly to a height of

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about eighty to one hundred feet, and that the surface

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of the rock is such that it would require a

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good deal of caution in order not to fall off.

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Koombs said they saw a door opening and shutting fairly

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rapidly on the right hand side the broad Haven side

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of the rock face. The door seemed to be about

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the same size as a normal household door, had a

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shimmering haze around it, and the space behind it was

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quite black. It opened and closed, in Pew's words, much

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as would the sliding doors of a serving hatch in

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a restaurant, and the group saw a silvery clad humanoid

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repeatedly come into view and leave, as if it was

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walking up and down some steps. The other figure moved

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across the rock face as if it was a smooth surface,

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and even seemed to walk on the water. Eventually, it

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went out of view behind the left side of the islet,

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towards the sea. The other figure then vanished abruptly along

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with the door, According to Pew, He and BBC News

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reporter David Allen interviewed Coombs and the children on December first.

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One thing that came out was that Coombs took a

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different road home that day and could not fathom why

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she decided to take that particular route. Pugh tells the

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reader that he is convinced that Kombs has a psychic

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ability to see things not normally visible to other people,

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and mentions there being a paranormal aspect to the farm,

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without going into specifics. As for Kombe's credibility, he reports

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that she stuck to her story and was prepared to

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take any test that would prove she wasn't imagining things.

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Pew ends his article relating a sighting of his own

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through his bedroom window overlooking Saint Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire. According

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to him, he saw a crescent shaped object with a

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tube sticking up about three feet and a dome on top,

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sitting in a field. As he pulled aside the curtain

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exposing the light from his room, the object took off

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vertically at great speed. The Coombs family shows up repeatedly

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in reports published and the Bufoora Journal throughout nineteen seventy

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seven into nineteen seventy eight. In the volume six, number

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two July to August nineteen seventy seven, issue page sixteen

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of the PDF, Pew says the family reported seeing a

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seven feet tall, silver clad humanoid looking in at them

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through their living room window. Cooms can be seen on

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YouTube describing this to a group of visitors at her farm.

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In the volume six, number one, January to February nineteen

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seventy eight, issue, page seventeen of the PDF, there is

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a report by Pew that on May seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven,

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Coombs's twin daughters, Joanne and Layanne, saw a silver suited

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being walking a round on the farm that then went

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through a hedge and a barbed wire fence and disappeared.

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He says they also saw a silver, white plate like

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object with a red light that landed, put out a

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stair ramp and ejected a box down it. The stairs

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then retracted, the door shut and the craft took off.

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The family investigated and found no box, but did find

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large footprints in the area. In the meantime, the twins

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and Coombs's eldest daughter, Katrina are said to have shouted

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out to the adults as they had seen a craft

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similar to the first one fly into the water by

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the stack rocks. Pugh wrote a book about the flap

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with Frederick ted William Holiday titled The divid Enigma, that

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was published in nightnineteen seventy nine. The Uninvited by Clive Herald,

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published that same year, focuses on the events reported at

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Ripperston Farm, which were said to have also included televisions

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exploding and a herd of cows being mysteriously transported from

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a locked field to a neighboring farmyard. Pew can be

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seen talking about the events he investigated at the YouTube

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linked below. Charles Lear is the author of The Flying

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Saucer Investigators in its second edition available on Amazon dot

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com