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The truth could be out there in Swansea on Saturday.

Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) is holding it’s summer Conference on Saturday at the New Lodge, Alexandra Road, in Gorseinon, with an invitation to come along and hear about some local mysteries.

There will be three visiting speakers, David Cayton, David Hodrien and Colin Woolford, all of whom are well known in the UFO field, and who will be speaking on a variety of subjects, from UFOs seen over Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, cases involving UFOs and the RAF, how the subject and personal experiences has influenced notable names in the music industry, and the controversial alien autopsy film.

Tickets for the conference, which runs from 11am to 5pm, are £10 each and available on the door.

Emlyn Williams, a spokesman for SUFON, said there would be plenty of local sightings to discuss.

He said: “This year sees the 40th anniversary of one of the most famous UFO flaps in Britain, that coined the Welsh Triangle, and SUFON organised a conference last February at Broad Haven in Pembrokeshire , site of one of the best known cases during that flap when a group of school children saw a landed craft just outside the school playground.”

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Here are some of the unexplained UFO cases in Swansea:

The Night of the Triangles:

“One case which is being looked at by SUFON is the one which occurred on the evening of January 19, 1983, when dozens of witnesses in the Swansea and Port Talbot area (over 60 recorded so far), saw huge black triangular-shaped craft, some the size of jumbo jets, some the size of a family car, hovering silently just over roof-tops, two of which moved slowly and silently over Swansea Bay, and one possibly causing a power failure in Bishopston.”

“We call it The Night of the Triangles and we are tracking down many of the witnesses, and filming interviews which have been put on SUFON’s YouTube channel. Two witnesses were CID inspectors making a house call in the Trallwn area of Swansea who saw a huge craft ‘about the size of a football pitch’ moving over the valley and heading towards the coast.”

The refinery incident:

“Another sighting that evening, from a family at home in Skewen , was of a gigantic triangle - which moved from Kilvey Hill to Llandarcy in an instant, and which then hovered over the BP oil refinery. The size was truly huge, covering much of the refinery!”

The vanishing cigar:

“Another large and very strange case was of a massive black cigar-shaped object which hovered silently over the newly-built Singleton Hospital in Swansea, on a November evening in 1965, causing the lights on all the floors to flash on and off. A green line appeared in the middle of the object, which spread right around it, and the whole thing just disappeared in an instant in front of witnesses’ eyes.”

Mr Williams added: “It is safe to say that there have been and still are, very strange things going on in our skies.”

Anyone who can’t make it but has a sighting they wish to share is invited to get in touch with SUFON.

“Anyone with experiences of their own, please get in touch, identities will be kept confidential if requested. Call 07954 806402 or 07399990985, or email swanseaufonet@yahoo.com. SUFON also has a Facebook page - Swansea UFO Network.”