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UFOs don’t come to sighting hotspot in Wales for the sheep, expert says

An active network of ufologists and its abundance of space are why Wales is the UK’s UFO sighting hotspot according to an expert.

Wales is the most likely place to spot a UFO in Britain, with more sightings per capital than anywhere else in the UK, according to Podcaster and UFO boffin Ash Ellis, who reckons 21 of the 323 sightings across the UK last year were in Wales.

It’s also believed the only Earthly physical evidence of UFO comes from Wales, in the form of metal debris collected from a site near the village of Llanilar near Aberystwyth in 1983 where an object flying through the air crashed into trees, scattering pieces of itself across four fields before flying off.

And then there’s the sighting – or spate of sightings – around Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire in 1977 which was featured in Netflix documentary Encounters.

One of UK’s leading UFO experts Philip Mantle believes there are several factors at play behind Wales’ reputation, chiefly a robust network of ufologists whom public could report sightings to.

He said: “There are some very active UFO researchers in Wales. It’s a bit which comes first, the UFO or the UFO researcher. If you’ve got no one to report it to, then no one can report it.

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Witch hunts: Why were so few ‘witches’ killed in Wales?

Britain has a long and bloody history of burning people accused of witchcraft at the stake.

About 4,000 were sent to their death in Scotland and 1,000 in England, but curiously just five were killed in Wales.

In his new book, author and historian Phil Carradice tries to unpack this anomaly and finds several explanations.

He believes it is at least in part down to the Welsh language.

“Very few examiners or judges spoke Welsh,” said Phil, from Eglwys-Brewis, Vale of Glamorgan.

He also believes it could be explained by many of Wales’ small, rural communities being so reliant on their local wise women.

“They made potions and charms and were an accepted part of the community,” he said.

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10-foot mysterious metal monolith appears on remote hill, baffling locals

It’s steeling the limelight.

A strange and gigantic steel monolith was recently spotted on a hill in Wales — one of several mysterious Toblerone-like structures that have popped up around the globe in recent years.

They have evoked online conspiracy theories of aliens and extraterrestrial beings.

The latest futuristic-looking installation, found in Wales’ Hay-on-Wye region, was noticed over the weekend by area runner Richard Haynes. He didn’t quite know what to make of the unusual sighting.

“I thought it looked a bit bizarre and might be a scientific media research thing collecting rainwater,” he told Wales Online on Monday.

“But then realized it was way too tall and strange for that. Then I went up to it and it was about 10-foot-tall at least and triangular, definitely stainless steel,” Haynes continued. “It was hollow and I imagine pretty light. Light enough for two people to carry it up and plant it in the ground.”

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Police searching for four missing teenagers on a camping trip in North Wales find the Silver Ford Fiesta they were travelling in as village is cordoned off and air ambulance lands nearby – as boy’s worried mother says she ‘didn’t know he was going camping’

Police searching for four missing teenagers who went on a camping trip in North Wales have found the silver Ford Fiesta the group were last seen travelling in and sealed off the area around it.

Sixth form students Jevon Hirst, Harvey Owen, Wilf Henderson and Hugo Morris  were last seen in the Porthmadog area of Gwynedd on Sunday morning.

The teenagers, from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, were due home on Monday but none of them have made contact with friends and family or been active on WhatsApp. 

On Tuesday afternoon, the A4085 which runs through the village of Garreg was cordoned off following information from a member of the public. An air ambulance and forensics van are also on the scene. 

North Wales Police have not said whether the boys have been found or given an update on their condition, but are set to give a press conference later today. 

Locals reported that it had rained at the weekend, leading to rising river levels and ‘poor visibility’ in the mountainous area. One resident, Emyr Owen, told the BBC there had been ‘atrocious weather’ on Sunday, the day the boys went missing.

Crystal Owen, the mother of Harvey, a 17-year-old student at Shrewsbury College doing A-levels, said she was unaware her son had gone camping and thought he was staying at a friend’s grandfather’s house for the night. 

She said: ‘If I’d have known [where he was going] I wouldn’t have let him due to the winter weather conditions. They are all sensitive, intelligent lads and we are just hoping they parked up, got lost and are OK.’

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Why is the Welsh government funding Drag Queen Story Hour?

The Welsh government has clearly learnt nothing from Scotland’s disastrous flirtation with gender self-identification. Welsh ministers are still blithely pushing ahead to make ‘Wales the most LGBTQ+ friendly nation in Europe’, by which they really mean the most beholden to gender ideology. To this end, it has already produced an arsenal of mad policies as part of its LGBTQ+ Action Plan, from the ‘recognition of nonbinary’ identities to ordering public buildings to fly flags representing ‘asexual’ and ‘aromantic’ people. And this week the Telegraph revealed that Welsh government funding was used by Cardiff’s Labour-run administration to pay for a controversial drag act in a children’s library.

In August 2022, Cardiff council paid an undisclosed sum for a Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) event at Cardiff Central Library, using grant money from the Welsh government. The event was hosted by ‘Aida H Dee’, the drag persona of DQSH founder Sab Samuel.

According to DQSH’s website, the purpose of grown men dressing in drag to read stories to kids is ‘to show the world that being different is not a bad thing’, and to provide ‘imaginative role models for children to look up to’. DQSH has certainly proved a hit with many publicly funded bodies, which have booked it on a regular basis. But it has proved less popular with parents and others who argue the performances are inappropriate for youngsters and are trying to indoctrinate children into gender ideology.

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