UFO Hughes

October 1978. Location – Denbigh, North Wales.
PC NEVILLE HUGHES and two uniformed colleagues (one of who was a sergeant) observed a UFO whilst in the grounds of North Wales Hospital in Denbigh.
UFO CLASSIFICATION – NL (NOCTURNAL LIGHT)
On Duty sighting. 3 Officers. Source – FSR Vol 25 No 2 Mar/Apr 79.

Late evening. 25/01/79. Location – Denbigh, North Wales.
PC NEVILLE HUGHES observed a UFO after responding to a call from a Denbigh family.
UFO CLASSIFICATION – NL (NOCTURNAL LIGHT)
On Duty sighting. 1 Officer. Source – FSR V25 No 2 Mar/Apr 79.

2045 hours. 26/01/79. Location – Denbigh, North Wales.
A member of the public, Keith Jones was about to go into the restaurant where he worked near Denbigh when he observed a UFO at an altitude of 100-150 feet. He went inside and asked his employer to go outside and look at the object. They watched a stunning aerial display by the UFO for several minutes before calling the police. A short time later two uniformed police officers, PC BERWYN JONES and PC NEVILLE HUGHES arrived at the scene where they too witnessed the UFO. The object was disc shaped with a dome underneath. There was no noise and it was described at being too low and too bright to be an aircraft. The object was last seen heading in the direction of Ruthin.
UFO CLASSIFICATION – CE1 (CLOSE ENCOUNTER 1ST KIND)
On Duty sighting. 2 Officers. Source FSR Volume 25 No 2 Mar/Apr 79.

http://www.nicap.org/waves/1979fullrep.htm

The Futura (Fleapit) Cinema, Denbigh, Clwyd.

I am very aware that this blog has been Cardiff centric thus far and it is ostensibly a farewell love letter to Wales' Capital City (Don't make me Laugh!) but as I might have mentioned before I was brought up in North East Wales, mostly in a village called Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd about a two miles outside Ruthin on the Mold Road. As an 11 year old in 1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out and we went to see it at the Futura Cinema, Love Lane, Denbigh. The Futura was known to everybody as 'The Fleapit'. I saw many films here. Grizzly Adams in a Saturday Matinee, Bugsy Malone, The Sting, Grease, Poltergeist, Blue Velvet. We always went upstairs because it was smaller and more atmospheric. The Pictures were a real treat in those pre-plasma TV and pre dolby surround sound days. That period 1977-1982 was an active period for UFO sightings in this part of North Wales and what we were watching in Spielberg's Bi-opic we might as well have been sat on top of the Clwydian Range of Hills to see the same things. As a teenager I was an avid reader of books about UFO's. It seemed that there was a sighting every other week. The local newspaper was the Denbighshire Free Press and I remember the headline was 'UFO Hughes'. PC Neville Hughes stationed at Denbigh was called out on so many occasions to sightings that he gained this affectionate nickname. When he received a call, he would venture out on to the Clwydian Range in the Morris Minor Police Car above. The Aliens looking down must have thought, he'll never catch us in that thing!

My own sighting came in 1982 as I travelled back with my mother in a Mini Clubman Estate to Llanbedr from Ruthin and there above Moel Fenlli was a silver orb floating high in the sky.

We watched it until we got home, my mother remembering to watch the road occasionally. Rushing inside, I grabbed the Binoculars and went to my room. Above the mountain you can see in the picture at 8.00pm I had a Close Encounter of the First Kind. The Orb moved across the sky or shall I say it dissapeared and then re-appeared in another part of the sky. It's colour changed from Silver to Gold to Green. It was like a tiny ball of Mercury. There was nothing else in the sky. Cloudless! It lasted for perhaps half an hour! It moved from one side of the mountain to the other! One moment I was observing it and then it re-appeared in a different part of the sky. Vast Distances covered in the blink of an eye.

Not surprisingly this very clear sighting confirmed in my own mind that I was a believer. I was a believer then because I wanted to believe. 

The following year I passed my driving test and as I drove my mother into Ruthin for a change I was stopped by a policeman in a Morris Minor like the one above. Stopped for Speeding, 32 miles an hour in a 30 mph  and the rotund little copper could tell I was not amused.

 His words ring in my ears down the decades.

" I'm doing this for your benefit Mr Williams, not mine"   

"Yeah Right" 

What I should have said was
" I am an undiagnosed Manic Depressive and I am going to have many more of these unfortunate little occurrences before I get my Membership Card"