The Broad Haven Schoolchildren

Several of the children said a tall figure in a silver suit stood beside a landed craft. Some accounts give it pointed ears. The craft was a silver cigar with a dome and a light that shifted from yellow-orange to red, sitting in the field behind Broad Haven Primary School during the lunch break. The narrator says the children's descriptions shared a common core. Decades later the witnesses remained certain of what they saw.

The headmaster, Ralph Llewellyn, collected drawings the pupils made separately, and the drawings matched. Children and parents went to the local police. Teachers and others reported a sighting near the school on 17 February.

What is on the record

The archive's telling puts the number of pupils at around sixteen. Outside sources give fourteen or fifteen. Three claimants are resolved and the list is mixed. One is the schoolchildren, entered as a single claimant and described by role because the witnesses were aged nine to eleven. The other two, Billy and Pauline Coombes, do not appear in the school telling at all.

The archive holds one document from the Ministry of Defence UFO files at the National Archives. It is classed as reporting rather than as primary corroboration. The MoD files released in 2007 mention the case.

The school sighting has never been resolved. RAF Police suspected practical jokers behind the wider Welsh reports of spacemen that year. Members of a local Round Table later admitted dressing in silver suits for some other Dyfed sightings in 1977. The children never retracted.

Why it sits where it does

The grade is L3. Its strength is a group of young witnesses whose separate drawings agreed and who held to their story as adults. Its weakness is a claimant list that mixes in names from outside the school telling. What the children saw behind the school is not resolved here.