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THE Free Press made an appearance on national network television last week!

Britain's Closest Encounters, a new weekly four-part 60 minute series aired its debut episode on Channel 5 on Wednesday, July 2.

The documentaries look closely at UFO sightings and incidents, the first- focused on the supposed flying saucer crash on the Berwyn Mountains in 1974.

The Berwyn incident has regularly been classed as the Welsh Roswell, with numerous speculation and stories over the years.

The Government allegedly covered up the incident after scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and "Men in Black" scouring the area.

Claims that aliens crash-landed and their bodies were then transported by the Ministry of Defence to the top-secret research base Porton Down in Wiltshire were dismissed by Whitehall officials.

But suspicions about what really happened were re-ignited in April this year after the Free Press exclusively reporter that hundreds of MoD documents about UFO sightings were to be released.

When they were finally released in May, there were none containing any details about the Berwyn incident, reviving rumours of a cover-up.

Channel 5 programme makers used the front cover of the Free Press from April, to help illustrate the story.

The TV documentary interviewed many witnesses.

"It was a very, very bright green light, different to anything I'd ever seen before," said former police sergeant Elfed Roberts.

"It was serious enough to get all the drinkers out of the local pub," he added.

Retired gamekeeper Geraint Edwards, spoke for the first time in 34 years about his sighting.

Mr Edwards revealed how he spotted a UFO in the Berwyn region three weeks after this sighting.

"It looked like a rugger ball, but the ends of it were pointy," said Mr Edwards.

"When it took off, it just went like lightning on the same line as it hovered."

Reports of unexplained strange coloured lights and objects in the sky immediately afterwards and unusual military activity in the following weeks fuelled speculation that a UFO had crash-landed.

Sceptics maintain the explanation was an unlikely combination of an earthquake which struck Wales at the same time that a meteor shower passed overhead, and that "Men in Black" who residents reported seeing were actually seismologists researching the quake.

During the programme UFO expert Nick Pope, who has previously spoken to the Free Press on the subject, gave his views.

UFO investigator, Jenny Randles has explored 10,000 UFO cases and is quick to point out that 95 per cent of them can be explained by terrestrial events.

"In truth, very often in UFO phenomena, the solution is very much of this world," said Ms Randles.

The programme comes after a number of recent reported sightings in Bala and Caerwys, as well as other parts of the UK.


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