- A sighting of a UFO was made in the 1880s by miners-turned
poachers at Padeswood, near Mold, who were disturbed by a "swirling
ball of smoke with tongues of flame". Richard Holland explains...
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- It's a common assumption that the UFO is a modern phenomenon
belonging to the Space Age, but this is not the case.
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- Strange lights in the sky have been causing conjecture
for centuries.
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- According to Buckley historian James Bentley some striking
coal miners encountered what today we would call a UFO way back in the
1880s. Mr Bentley heard the story from relatives of two of the eye-witnesses.
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- It seems that, starved of wages and therefore of food,
a gang of miners dared to risk poaching on land belonging to one of the
mine owners.
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- If they had been caught it would have meant eviction,
and possibly transportation which is why the following story was kept under
wraps for so long.
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- One dark moonless night the miners crept down to some
fields at Padeswood, near Mold, to collect some snares previously left
there.
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- Suddenly they felt tense and afraid, as if someone was
watching them. Glancing up, they saw a large, purplish-red luminous ball
hovering above them! Silently it descended into the next field.
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- At first the terrified poachers hid their heads under
their nets but shortly, on feeling a lessening in the tension in the air,
one of their number dared to peer over the hedge.
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- A "swirling ball of smoke with small tongues of
flame issuing from the base, was lifting off the ground".
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- The men ran home and vowed each other to secrecy. Several
days later the bravest of the bunch returned to collect the gear they had
left behind in their panic.
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- There was no sign of the UFO, but where they had seen
it land there was now a wide, black circle of scorched grass...
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- Reference: James Bentley and the Clwyd Oral History Project
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/guides/weird/ufos/pages/padeswood_ufo.shtml
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