The Broad Haven UFO incident

In this episode, I talk about one of the United Kingdom’s most intriguing UFO mysteries: the Broad Haven UFO incident. In February 1977, the quiet seaside village of Broad Haven became the center of national attention after a group of schoolchildren reported seeing a strange craft near their playground. What began as an unusual lunchtime story quickly turned into one of Britain’s most famous UFO cases, drawing investigators, journalists, and researchers to this small Welsh community. The sighting occurred at Broad Haven Primary School, where fourteen children claimed they saw a silver, dome-shaped UFO hovering near a nearby field. When their headmaster questioned them individually, the children were asked to draw what they had witnessed. Surprisingly, many of the drawings shared similar features, depicting a structured craft with a rounded top and wide base. The consistency between the sketches helped turn what might have been dismissed as playground imagination into a story that captured wider curiosity. As news of the sighting spread, other residents in the area began reporting UFO experiences of their own. Some described bright lights moving silently across the sky, while others claimed to have seen strange objects hovering low over fields or drifting along the Pembrokeshire coastline. These reports seemed to cluster around the same period, leading some researchers to refer to the region as part of the so-called Welsh Triangle, an area where multiple unexplained sightings were reported during the late 1970s. Despite decades of discussion, no single explanation has ever fully resolved the Broad Haven mystery. The number of witnesses and the similarity of the drawings make the case difficult to dismiss. Nearly fifty years later, the incident remains one of the most talked-about UFO encounters in British history, and a story that continues to spark curiosity about what might have appeared in the skies above a quiet Welsh village in 1977. https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast https://simonbown.com/ My new book, Aspects of Alien Abduction https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.