WHETHER it’s alien activity or natural phenomena, reports of UFOs have flooded in this summer from across the county.
Whatever the explanation, experts agree that the number of suspected flying saucers has hit unusual highs this summer.
Philip Hoyle, of the UFO Investigation and Research Unit in Shrewsbury, has enjoyed a busy and exciting summer visiting people who have reported sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects.
In an exclusive interview with the County Times, he revealed: “There seems to be a concentration of Orange Sphere reports around the Newtown and the Llansanffraid area, many witnesses are reporting seeing orange spheres in particular over hill farms around Newtown.
“Other witnesses are describing not spheres but cigar shaped craft with lights or windows along the side.
“I met up with Frederick Kershaw, who was driving from Llanfyllin to Llansanffraid when he saw a cigar shaped craft flying very low over his car.
“A similar shaped craft was also seen just above tree top level and was described as looking like an illuminated railway carriage in size and sighted just outside Knighton.
“What is also very interesting is that farmers in these areas are observing odd lights in the sky at night above their farms and bizarrely discovering the next day their animals dead and mutilated with highly clinical surgical procedures performed on them.
“What is going on is there a connection to these strange animal deaths and the unconventional lights in the sky. If these lights are truly of an extraterrestrial origin why would they be conducting experiments on our livestock?
“Kay Jones, who lives on the outskirts of Welshpool saw three spheres appear in succession at 10.45pm on a Saturday night, but unlike the Newtown sightings, they were not orange, but an incredible shade of vivid green.
“The lights seemed to pulsate and were almost in the bedroom with her. She told me how it left her too shaken to move for a few minutes, and when she looked at her bedside clock it appeared to have lost an hour.
“Since that experience Kay has had a persistent headache on one side of her temple, which she is unable to get rid of.”
At 11pm on Sunday, July 12, Susan Blake, of Bettws Cedewain, told me how she witnessed a large shining bright light approach her house, and as it got closer she could clearly see a disk shaped object with a dome on top. She said it appeared to land behind trees and it was totally silent, definitely not a helicopter.
“I have checked with RAF Shawbury and Nesscliffe and they had no known operational flights at that time.
“Emma Richards, of Trehafren, Newtown, observed orange spheres in groups of three, which then tripled in size and became translucent. They then shot through the sky and disappeared above a field by her house.
“Her husband also sighted three similar orange spheres while driving on A470 over the Brecon Beacons between Builth Wells and Rhayader and managed to take photos of them.
“By examining these reports for colorations some times it’s possible to create a projected flight path of the spheres and many reports that the Brecon Beacons are a hot spot of activity and even might be the origin of some of the orange spheres.
“On May 28, another bloke I have met up with, James Hall, was travelling back from Dolanog towards Llanfair Caereinion with his daughter. It was approximately 11pm when they came across three orange lights hovering in the sky, two of the lights moved off very fast and disappeared, the other light was left just zig-zagging.
“Further afield, Ian Hawkins was camping in late May at Shell Island when he sighted three orange spheres coming over the sea towards him, they were totally silent before two of the three spheres ascended into the clouds.”
As more and more sightings are being reported a picture is developing indicating areas where the UFO activity is concentrated, if any reader would like to report their own sightings please contact Phil Hoyle by emailing phil.hoyle@yahoo.co.uk or phoning 01743 245574.