EVENT

North wales 1974

RAF Rudloe Manor, formerly RAF Box, was a Royal Air Force station north-east of Bath, England, between the settlements of Boxand Corsham, in Wiltshire. It was one of several military installations in the area and covered three dispersed sites. Parts of the site are now used by Defence Digital within the MoD Corsham complex; other areas are vacant and some have been sold, including the 17th-century manor house, Rudloe Manor.

A 2017 episode of Ancient Aliens speculated that a UFO crashed at Berwyn and its wreckage was likely taken to Rudloe Manor

TRANSCRIPT OF LETTER

Title: Mo D letter regarding 1974 UFO incident in

North Wales

Date: March 1975

Reference: DEFE 24/2045/1 (68)

Creator: Ministry of Defence

*alogue context: Digital copy of DEFE 24/2045:

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE

Main Building Whitehall London SW1A 211B

Telephone 01-218

(Direct Dialing)

Our reference

A2/7464/72/s48(Air)

Date

11 March 1975

103

Dear Mr Preston

Thank you for your letter asking for information about the incident that occurred in North Wales on 23/24 January 1974.

I should perhaps first explain that the ministry of Defence Investigates reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) solely to see if there are any defence implications.

We cannot normally pursue our research, other than for defence reasons,

to a point

where positive correlstion with a known object is established, nor to advise observers of the probable idontityy of the object seen.

With regard to the events of the evening of 23 January in the Berwyn Mountains; we did receive a number of reports of an unusual object seen in the sky just before 10.00 pm on the evening in question.

These came from Willesden, Greenford in

Middlesex, M11 HI11, Doston in Lincolnshire and Chlgiell Row in Sussex.

They described a bright light noch in the north-west which appeared to be falling towards

the borison.

One report gave the time precisely as 9.51 pm, and another said that

the object appeared to break up following a brilliant flash of light.

Later on

personnel of the Royal Air Force Mountain

Rescue Team participated in a search of the

area where the object was thought to have come down, but as you probably know nothing Was found.

These reports of a bright light apparently falling towards the horizon and then exploding could well have been caused by the descent of a meteor through the atmosphere burning up as it went and finally disintegrating before it reached the ground.

Such

a hypotheris would also explain the absence of any signs of impact.

It has also been suggested that about an hour and a half earlier at 8,32 pm there was an earth tremor in the Barwyn mountains which produced a landslide with noises like denotations.

This latter aspent of the affair however is outside the field of the Air Force Department and as how considered to be connected with the reports referred to above.

I hope this information will be of some help to you

Your faithfully

A. I MACKEY