One of Britain's top UFO hunters believes extraterrestrial life has invaded Wales - and has started killing its sheep. Helena Worth, 41, first became obsessed with UFOs since she first spotted one flying over her home several years ago.
Now describing herself as UFO-ologist and 'amateur scientist' she has reported numerous sightings. And she now claims alien-life form was responsible for the recent multilations of sheep close to her home.
The cause of sheep deaths in the Cambrian Mountains, which has often seen multiple carcasses spread several miles apart, has previously been blamed on 'big cats' and the presence of the ‘The Beast of Bont’. But Helena said the evidence points to this not being the case - with an 'other worldly' UFO explanation more likely.
She said: "With cattle and sheep mutilations it’s always very precise cut marks or something an animal couldn’t do. And there often aren’t any footprints up to the animal, so there is no evidence humans are responsible so maybe it could have come from above.”
For years, farmers in and around the Cambrian Mountains have feared a large cat is responsible for the brutal killings of livestock. Rumours of a large feline lurking in the Ceredigion area emerged as far back as the 1970s when a series of sheep were found eaten.
There have been numerous cases since including the killing of 12 sheep in 1981 in the village of 'Bont' - giving the beast its name - and the slaughter of 20 in 2012. Earlier this year local farmer Jonathan Davies also reported the killing of his sheep to cops.
He said: "Two of my sheep were skinned... there was no actual body left. Just the skin. It was so tidy – it was like someone had been there with a knife and skinned them.
“I’d never seen anything like that before. Only the head was left.”
Mr Davies claims he was told by Dyfed-Powys Police that a big cat could have been responsible for killing his yearling ewes. Reports of the latest incident is what has prompted Helena to come forward as she claimed the 'big cat' theory wasn't plausible.
And she said the time was now right to finally speak about her otherwordly experiences - as she has stopped caring what people think about it. She added: "In the US especially, you get a lot of cattle mutilations - more than sheep.
"With these cattle they are found the next morning by farmers and it has been only one or two in the herd. They are clean cut with all the inners taken out. No blood is left on the ground and there are no footprints leading up to the cattle. Animals would leave a mess.
"There are no inners and no blood. This is the theory that many UFOers have. That they may be experimented on from above. When I saw in the local newspaper about the recent sheep mutilations saying it was a big cat, I just knew it couldn't be. A cat would have left it a mess, which is why and others believe a UFO could be to blame for these sheep mutilations in Wales."
She claimed that previous sightings of orbs close to the attacks added weight behind her theory. She added: "There is something in Wales called the 'sheep mutilation corridor'.
"It is an area down Wales where these have occurred. We think UFOs are responsible as orbs have been seen about the time and in the areas these mutilations have happened, both in Wales and in the US. I haven’t really spoken outwardly until now but I’m reaching an age where I don’t really give a crap what people think anymore.”
Helena said she has spent her entire life looking up at the stars and now observes through her telescope. Recalling her first UFO experience in December 2018, Helen, of Ciliau Aeron, said: "It was six o’clock in the morning and, because it was winter, it was pitch-black outside.
“Then I noticed, at the other side of the valley – which is about three quarters of a mile away – a very bright white, yellow light. I knew there were houses there and my initial thought was that there was a house on fire.
“I wondered whether I should drive over and find out what was going on or phone the fire brigade. And as I was deciding, the bright light started to move. It was circular, like a sphere, and it was hovering until it started to move to the west very slowly but in a straight-line trajectory.
“Then it stopped above some houses, and it was there for a few seconds. I thought I was seeing things but then it started moving back to the east in the same straight line. It was moving at between, I would guess, 20 and 30 miles per hour.
“And as it was moving to the east it started dripping – like molten lava was dripping down from it. And just before it went out of sight, the craft turned a bright red colour and disappeared behind the trees.”
Helena, who works for Ceredigion County Council, said on another occasion she saw another similar orb-like spacecraft – which was bigger than a star but smaller than the moon – as she was driving back home from Aberaeron this year. She said it got smaller and smaller as it moved west and then blinked out.
She said it could not be a satellite because it moved freely rather than in one direction, couldn’t have been lightning in fair weather and couldn’t have been a meteor because it didn’t burn up in the atmosphere or descend towards earth.
She added: "So, in my mind I know it was something very, very unusual and if I were to take a guess it would be an extra-terrestrial craft."
Helena has logged all her sightings with the Swansea UFO Network (SUFON) – an offshoot of US group Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). She said: “I look up more than I look ahead,” she said. “The vast majority of people go about their day looking straight ahead, but I’ll be looking up.
“I’ve been interested in UFO-logy since a very young age. I’m very passionate about it. My friend and I got used to seeing shooting stars and satellites – and we got to know what was normal and what wasn’t. So, my interest all started from there.
"I believe there must be intelligent life out there. I just think it’s inevitable.
“And also, there’s a possibility of ultra-terrestrials – what we would think of as aliens – living on planet Earth but out of sight.
“The vast majority of UFO-logists believe that aliens are living under our oceans but out of sight."
