Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens

BBC Three HD

12:55 AM to 1:25 AM

Monday 1 July

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In 1977, 14 schoolboys from a village in west Wales made headlines around the world after they claimed to see a UFO in the playground. The media frenzy was fuelled by the fact the boys had been placed under exam conditions and asked to draw what they saw. All depicted a large silver craft with eery similarities. However, their 'close encounter' was only the start as it triggered a wave of unexplained phenomena along the coastline. Natural sceptic Sian Eleri delves into reports of the sighting, beginning by tracking down those whose 'alien' encounter triggered what was dubbed the biggest mass UFO sighting in Britain