Last week the Free Press revealed that confidential Ministry of Defence files on Unidentified Flying Objects are set to be made public in the coming weeks.

Among these declassified papers is expected to be evidence of the suspected UFO crash on Cader Berwyn on January 23, 1974. Dozens of witnesses across Lancashire and Cheshire phoned the police earlier that evening after seeing a strange formation of green lights flying erratically over the skies.

At 8.38pm something impacted into the Berwyn mountains and the resulting tremor - which measured 4.5 on the Richter Scale - was felt in Wrexham, Chester, Liverpool and some areas of Manchester.

Reports at the time said a nurse who lived near the scene of the impact said a flying saucer 'the size of the Albert Hall' had smashed into a mountain, throwing debris and bodies for over a mile.

Now 34 years later the nurse puts the record straight in an exclusive interview with the Free Press.

"We heard this almighty tremor, the house shook, we thought an aircraft had crashed, and being a nurse thought we could help."

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