How about covering the UK's Berwyn Mountains UFO incident from 1974? This is story is not too well known outside of North Wales and it's neighbouring areas even in the UK.
Here is a synopsis of the story:
23rd January 1974.
In the small North Wales town of Llandrillo that night a loud bang was heard and strange lights were seen in the area of nearby Berwyn Mountain range sometime around 8:30pm. Reports from a number of witnesses described red and amber pulsing lights from an egg shaped craft.
At the time it was feared there had been an aircraft crash of some sort. Local nurse Pat Evans contacted the police and was advised her assistance was welcomed after other reports of an explosion had been made around the North Wales area. She left home accompanied by her two daughters and made the journey towards the mountains in the belief she was going to help any survivors. She reports that she saw a red glow on a slope of Cader Berwyn and then smaller lights lower down the mountain which she assumed were a rescue team. That thought went in a moment as it struck her that no rescue team could have possibly responded that fast. Becoming puzzled and nervous of what she was witnessing Pat decided she could be of no assistance and turned round for home. In the days following there were reports of a lot of military activity in the area and strange visitors to the surrounding villages questioning people over what they had seen.
The official take on events is that a meteor entered the earth's atmosphere over Britain and this was accompanied by an earthquake registering above 4 on the Richter scale. The activity by strangers afterwards is linked to visits from the UK's Geological Survey teams. The lights seen were either from the meteor or earthlights created by the tremor whilst the smaller lights seen by Pat Evans were simply poachers lamps. There are also stories of military roadblocks on the night.
In four decades since the incident tales will not go away that this was a genuine UFO incident. It is even rumoured that there was a retrieval operation by British military and that alien bodies were recovered and taken to Porton Down research facility. Whilst that story lacks a reliable witness it has been revealed that a military operation called"Photoflash" was scheduled for the evening of January 23rd 1974. A Marine and Coastguard document details that “ During the late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an exercise from Jerby Range on the Isle of Man.
“ The exercise was called ‘Photoflash' and coastguards were advised to expect at least 10 aircraft taking part and at least 80 flashes around the Liverpool Bay area and the North Wales coastline .”
There is no more information from official sources and why it was commissioned for that day. Nor is it clear what the "flashes" were. But there are also rumours about a submerged USO in the Irish Sea as well.
In the months preceding this event reports of "phantom helicopters" were being made by the public in Northern England. The main fear was these were flown by IRA terrorists, drug smugglers or possibly foreign spies. Reports in early January were coming in from the Cheshire and Derbyshire areas of Englandof a helicopter being flown at night low over the hills and dangerously close to power lines. Although investigations went on into the autumn of 1974 the perpetrators were never found.
Richard Thomas covered it briefly on his blog here
http://binnallofamerica.com/rr8.1.8.html. Nick Redfern has also researched the incident.
However there is guy called Scott Felton who has done a lot of research into this which some may consider controversial by other more sceptical UK researchers but is still compelling.
His website is
http://conwyufogroup.piczo.com/aboutthe ... var=000044With his story of Berwyn here
http://conwyufogroup.piczo.com/?g=29868989&cr=5Maybe you'd like to get him on?
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