United Kingdom · 23 January 1974
Cader Bronwen, 1974
ReportedThree independent arms of the British state - police, MoD and the national geological survey - generated records for the same minute of the same night, and the seismograph trace is a hard dated instrumented datum.
- Where
- Cader Bronwen, Berwyn Mountains, near Llandrillo, North Wales
- When
- 23 January 1974
- Who reported it
- Mass witnesses across northern Wales and north-west England; a nurse who drove up the mountain; North Wales Police search parties
- Entities described
- UNKNOWN
- Described as
- NONE. No official document records any description of a body or being.
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
- Evidence class
- GOV-1
What the record resolves
The official file contains no description. What circulates comes from somewhere else.
No official document records any description of a body or being.
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
UNKNOWN
Part of the chain is attached. The rest is still being retrieved.
What is not settled
The official explanation is coherent and well evidenced: a magnitude 3.5 earthquake coinciding with a bright meteor, with possible earthquake lights; the quake was far too small to leave a crash crater. The recovered-bodies strand is entirely unsourced in official records and should be treated as folklore attached to a real geophysical event.