The Welsh Triangle

Everyone has heard of The Bermuda Triangle, not the one in North Yorkshire but the triangular bit of ocean around Bermuda where things seem to vanish. Aeroplanes and ships mainly. I have no idea whether sperm whales and dolphins and things under the ocean vanish as well. I suppose they might but sperm whales and dolphins are not renowned for talking to the media so your guess is as good as mine. On that basis we assume all ‘vanishing things’ are either in the air or on the water rather than under it.

The newspaper headline “Haddock claims alien abduction” is not one that even the British tabloids would go with – I hope.

It has recently come to the attention of your intrepid MMA British reporter that the Bermuda Triangle has a relative. The relative triangle is in Wales which, for those most geographically inept, is part of Great Britain or The United Kingdom.

If you are still unsure look at a map or globe and it’s the bit on the middle left of Britain as you look at us. The bit that sort of sticks out towards Ireland and is a bit ‘squareish’ but has the odd pointy bit on it.

That’s what comes of having a daughter with a Geography degree. You get to know where things are. Even Wales 😉

Now. Whilst I adore ‘ET’ and love watching ‘Alien’ (mainly because you get to see Sigourney Weaver before she was in her 60’s in her knickers) – sorry – that sounds ‘ageist’ – oh what the hell it’s me – I am undecided about UFO’s and alien abductions and so forth. However, I am also ‘open minded’ about such things. Well, you never know do you?

Apparently there have been nearly 30 UFO sightings in a particular part of Wales in a decade. Aberystwyth to be precise and the Dyfed-Powys Police have investigated them all. Now I have no intention of using too many Welsh names here as Aberystwyth and the Dyfed-Powys Police is enough to make most people bite their tongues attempting to say such things and, let’s face it, any country that genuinely has a place in it called ‘Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch’ needs to be treated somewhat delicately in a verbal sense.

When it comes to latest flying saucer “sightings” reported to Welsh police, it seems ‘ewe’ couldn’t make it up because an alert about alien sheep abduction (yes, you read correctly ‘sheep’) was among the calls about UFOs received by one force over the past four years.

Newly released data shows that a caller to Dyfed-Powys Police claimed they had seen sheep being taken on board an unidentified flying object from a field in Llanybydder, near Lampeter.

In the same year, 2011, a caller from Aberystwyth reported they were previously abducted by aliens, experimented on, then returned to earth.

Elsewhere in the force’s UFO files, in Llandysul someone reported seeing a triangular-shaped object about 40ft in the air with orange lights and in Welshpool a caller reported seeing a UFO “dropping in the distance”.

In 2012 a caller from Carmarthen claimed they saw “a metallic and circular object in the sky”.

There were two reports of UFOs last year. A Carmarthen caller reported seeing three objects “the size of a small house” 200-300ft in the sky. And there were reports of a UFO moving erratically in Crickhowell also in 2013.

It brings the total number of UFO sightings reported to the force area – which is home to a sightings hotspot once dubbed “the Welsh Triangle” – to 27 since 2002.

Among the earlier sightings, a UFO was reported in the Aberdyfi Estuary by a caller who claimed his car engine stopped when he saw it. The driver escaped without harm. UFOs were also seen at New Quay, Ffrwdgrech, Brecon, Cardigan and Llanelli.

In 2009 a “large orange sphere in the sky” in Glanamman, Ammanford, was later confirmed to be a Chinese lantern.

So. 27 UFO sightings = 1 Chinese lantern. Even my faulty mathematics can deduce that 26 UFO sightings are still currently unexplained.

In an effort to get to the bottom of this mystery on behalf of MMA I will, on my next visit to the North of England meander into Wales and see if I can’t get MMA an exclusive interview with the sheep in question.

My findings will be sent not only to MMA but also to Mulder and Skully.

Clearly, the truth is out there and, in part, residing in ‘Llanfair­pwllgwyn­gyllgo­gery­chwyrn­drobwll­llanty­silio­gogo­goch’

Did you ever see the British sci-fi horror movie XTRO? As the advertising poster for XTRO claimed – ‘Not ALL ET’s are friendly’

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Well, if you’re a sheep in Wales anyway.

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