Stay Signed In
Do you want to access your site more quickly on this computer? Check this box, and your username and password will be remembered for two weeks. Click logout to turn this off.
Stay Safe
Do not check this box if you are using a public computer. You don't want anyone seeing your personal info or messing with your site.
It must be recognised that possibly 99% of all aerial sightings by day or night, are mis-identified natural or man-made objects. It is CUFOG belief that extra-terrestrial visitation to Earth is a very rare occurance indeed. CUFOG will report any legitimate sighting given to it in GOOD FAITH. It passes no judgement and leaves conclusions up to the reader.
Where sufficient detail is provided by a witness, CUFOG will try to investigate the sighting further.
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING STRANGE WHICH CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A UFO - unidentified flying object, OR, USO - unidentified submarine object, then please report it to CUFOG.
The more information you supply, the more chance there will be of identifying (or not), the object.
You can telephone 07981 508297.
PLEASE NOTE, THAT THIS NUMBER IS ALWAYS TEMPORARY SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
PLEASE NOTE ALSO, THAT ALL INCOMING CALLS AND SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATIONS ARE RECORDED.
CALLER'S NUMBERS APPEAR ON A SCREEN AND STORE. NUMBERS NOT SHOWN AND DISPLAYED AS UNAVAILABLE OR WITHELD WILL NOT BE ANSWERED.
EX-DIRECTORY NUMBERS APPEAR AS WITHELD. IF YOU ARE EX-DIRECTORY, PLEASE EMAIL AND GIVE A LANDLINE NUMBER. CUFOG WILL TELEPHONE YOU BACK.
CUFOG does not ACCEPT CALLS FROM NON TRACEABLE MOBILE PHONES.
or you can email
CUFOG DOES NOT ACCEPT ANONYMOUS SIGHTINGS OR ANONYMOUS TELEPHONE CALLS. NOR, ANY INFORMATION HOWSOEVER SUPPLIED WHICH IS GIVEN TO CUFOG ANONYMOUSLY.
CUFOG will respect your confidentiality, but will not entertain you if you are not prepared to complete a sightings report form and/or be interviewed.
Unless you are prepared to identify yourself and put your name to anything you supply or claim, CUFOG is uninterested in what you have to say or offer.
THIS IS TO DETER DEBUNKERS, HOAXERS, RELIGIOUS FANATICS AND OTHER NUMEROUS MENTALLY IMBALANCED PEOPLE WHO SADLY PERVADE UFOLOGY AND ULTIMATELY FEED THE ANTI-UFO MEDIA.
THIS POLICY WILL NO DOUBT DETER SOME PEOPLE FROM REPORTING A SIGHTING, SUCH THINKING THAT THEIR INFORMATION MIGHT NOT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY.
REST ASSURED, IF YOU GENUINELY BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE OBSERVED A UFO/USO OR WITNESSED ANYTHING STRANGE, PLEASE DO REPORT IT.
TIME WASTERS AND MALICIOUS DEBUNKERS ARE SOON EXPOSED. GENUINE WITNESSES EVEN IF WRONG ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF THEIR SIGHTINGS ARE NOT A PROBLEM TO CUFOG.
Mr G Markendale of Prestatyn, North Wales, rang to report a sighting of a UFO near Denbigh at 20.10, on Wednesday 15th of March 2006.
He was travelling along the A543 near Groes and heading towards the village of Bylchau. There was low cloud, a touch misty but in the low light conditions where he could still make out the outline of surrounding terrain, he was stunned to observe a large black coloured triangular shaped craft moving from right to left ahead of him.
He describes the object as an 'equilateral triangle' with a fuzzy blue light on one point and a fuzzy red light on each of the other two points. The fuzziness could be attributed to the misty conditions. He observed that the craft seemed to be slowly rotating along its line of flight, suggesting that no one light acted as a 'lead' light (front of craft??).
The object appeared to travel in a straight line and was no higher than a two storey house over the otherwise undulating terrain. When first observed, it was guessed that it was about 1000 yards away. Upon sighting, Mr Markendale stopped his car and wound down a window to get a better look. The craft appeared silent and travelled about the same speed as a light aircraft. It passed through the air with ease.
The witness's car was unaffected by the event.
The object was in view for about two minutes and headed towards the English/Welsh border. It should have crossed that national boundary somewhere between Chester and Wrexham if the route was maintained. It seemed to the witness that it came from the Conwy town area and possibly beyond from Anglesey.
The craft was estimated by the witness to be about half the size of a football pitch.
Mr Markendale has no interest in UFOs but took the time to report his observation to Conwy UFO Group.
ADDENDUM.
Enquiries to other UFO groups etc in Cheshire produced no further witnesses to this event.
On August 8th 2008, a member of the public in Glan Conwy, North Wales, UK, took these seven images of an unidentified flying object at dusk. The object travelled from the direction of Colwyn Bay towards glan Conwy, then moved away in the direction of Deganwy and beyond. [that direction takes you across Conwy Bay, towards Anglesey].
A little later, the same object returned, retracing its movements. However, at that point, the witness claims that the light was duplicated - two off them. This fact was previously witheld by the webmaster when circulating an email about the sighting, which prompted another report from elsewhere in the UK a few days later of a seemingly identical object which was photographed. Hopefully, that image will be reproduced below for comparison in a few days.
The UFO(s) then disappeared from view.
Chinese Lanterns have been suggested so far as a possible explanation and this might be true. However it seems most unlikely that such an object would be so visible at a range of perhaps one to 1.5 miles from the witness and then return along the same route.
The witness and her husband have no idea what they saw. It was simply to them strange and prompted them to photograph it.
Any opinions at any time are welcome on this sighting. Email CUFOG.
Image of two UFOs as submitted by Winston Keech of Yorkshire, which is suggested could be the same object as observed above by a Glan Conwy, North Wales witness. This was observed a few days later and a similar object(s) has been filmed at other global locations.
Hawlfraint/Copyright Winston Keech.
From Monday 21st of September 2008, the Wrexham Evening Leader started taking reports from members of the public regarding strange lights in the mid evening sky. Images were posted on its website.
I must admit, that when I first looked at the initial image, the triangular formation as captured by a member of the public, I was inclined to think there was a terrestrial solution to the identity.
However, what became strange was that the same object(s) turned up nightly at approximately the same time and travelling in the same direction as previous nights, maintaining the crude triangle formation.
On Wednesday 24th, Peter Davies of Ponciau near Wrexham reported 5 objects seen at 8.15pm, travelling faster than a helicopter. On the 25th, Paul Griffiths also of Ponciau observed three of the lights at 8.10pm. The lights were observed by many people in the Wrexham area comprising Borras, Johnstown, Rhosllanerchrugog, Pen Y Cae, Rhiwabon, Bersham, Brynhyfryd and Gwersyllt
Of course immediately then, stories of so called sky or chinese lanterns were promoted as the answer to the mystery. This concluded with a farmer from Padeswood near Buckley discovering three lanterns yards apart on his land.
This immediately raised my suspicions, as these lanterns have a limited flying life span, but can cover many miles. Interestingly, there does not appear to be any sightings from Gwersyllt to the crash landing site at Padeswood near Buckley. Considering so many people saw them from several areas of Wrexham, it is most surprising that nothing was seen thereafter until a farmer discovered lanterns in his fields, some miles further on.
Taking into account the southernmost sighting on any night to the last point where anyone so far has reported the flying lights, a distance of some 6 miles is covered. They then vanish and turn up a further 6 miles (as the crow flies) without any other winesses along this latter half of the flight line. Note, that if the Padeswood lanterns were genuine, their altitude would be diminishing and I expect therefore, would be more visible to more people. But seemingly not.
I've studied these releases of lanterns of late, as well as balloon releases over many years, and it is apparent immediately, that no two balloons/lanterns are alike. As such therefore, they immediately disperse, the distance between each growing all the time, vertically and horizontally, even if generally travelling in the same direction. The weight of each device and the burn time of the heat source cannot be identical. That means that two would never come down together.
Having staged many balloon races, I've learned that it is statistically most unlikely for two balloons having travelled even just a few miles, to crash in close proximity to each other. For three, almost impossible.
As such, I immediately concluded that these three lanterns were placed on the farm deliberately to create the scenario that the objects witnessed by dozens of residents, nightly, were lanterns.
Bearing in mind, that these were observed nightly over a week period, even if they were lanterns, at £30 - £50 per pack for large varieties, it would be an expensive do to make nightly releases.
The images adjacent show them to be commercially made lanterns, not home made affairs, which can be constructed from a plastic carrier bag, some thin wire and a small candle or tea light.
Then, they'd need to travel in the same formation, in the same wind direction, speed and height and pass over south Wrexham at the same time - nightly!!
The public was not taken in by the lantern theory, so of course three miraculously turned up in Padeswood, conveniently in the Wrexham Leader readership area to ensure the discovery was publicised in that area. Had the lanterns come down elsewhere, a find would have little relevence to Wrexham sightings.
Remarkably, no one in the Wrexham area has come forward to claim that they'd released such, suggesting that if they were lanterns, they came from elsewhere, making it even more improbable that three could crash land together.
I know of only one way that two or more lanterns or balloons could come down together and I know that is not the case here.
The Wrexham Evening Leader website published a pic' of the objects and also, images of the farmer holding the lanterns.
A piece similar to what I've written here was posted on the Leader website that the lanterns had been planted on the farmland to scupper interest in the sightings, so remarkably, someone else came forward and claimed they'd seen the three lanterns alongwith a fourth, which was only 40 feet above the witness's head and this crashed into a nearby field near Pen Y Cae.
Of course, there was no account of how the lights were seen at considerable altitude by many other witnesses on different nights and as might be expected, this witness did not have the common sense to retrieve the lantern as evidence.
I wrote to the farmer concerned at Padeswood and asked if I could examine the three lanterns and I also advised him not to give them to any other third party, friend, relative or anyone claiming they were entitled to seize them in an official capacity.
No response was forthcoming and the Padeswood lantern story 'died' immediately. I've since tried to telephone the farmer to no avail. Thus at the moment, I've no idea where these lantern remains are. I suspect they'll vanish.
As usual, I've made my views known to the newspaper, but in line with its unofficial policy, nothing I submit will be entertained by this or any other newspaper circulating in North Wales and elsewhere.
I'm well aware of the news 'blackout' on myself especially in relation to the Berwyn case*.
The evidence thus far suggests that attempts have been made to use sky lanterns deliberately to debunk a sighting or diminish interest in something observed over Wrecsam, be it alien or man made.
Sadly for Ufology, the existence of these lanterns has proved a God send for the sceptics and debunkers. However, it seems now that there are more lanterns in the night sky than sightings so it seems, many, many 'unidentified' people literally have money to burn.
I'm not sure if this is the first time evidence has appeared which suggests that attempts have been made to blame lanterns for sightings of unusual aerial objects.
If anyone out there is aware of other attempts to 'plant' lanterns to subvert a sighting or large public interest, please let me know.
NB*
I'm aware that on over a dozen occasions now, various individuals across North Wales have directed news reporters towards myself to obtain my opinion on some sightings and also, the Berwyn case. Despite this, no reporter has actually followed up such suggestions.
It is pointed out elsewhere on the site that following the release of the MoD files on UFO reports and particularly those classed as Top Secret, I was invited to chat on the BBC Wales Roy Noble Show. The researcher requested that I must not mention the Berwyn case.
I objected to this, and was dropped at the last minute to speak. I was told someone else would speak. That someone was veteran researcher Margaret Fry. It seems, that the researcher was unaware that we knew each other.
Mrs Fry said yes to the interview. Before the show aired, she rang me to ask about some Berwyn facts. I then discovered that it was she BBC Wales had approached, and she learned that she was not the first to be contacted by the researcher.
She too had been specifically asked not to mention the Berwyn case.
Of course, the show was live and she did just that. The stand-in host Jason Mohammed was at pains with this.
.
Image of the three lights in a triangular formation.
The find of three sky lanterns held by the farmer.
