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Lucy John

The world-famous UFO sighting by a group of schoolchildren in Pembrokeshire 45 years ago

February 4, 1977, should have been a normal wintery day for pupils at one west Wales school. However, what they experienced that day instead hurled them and their unassuming community into the worldwide limelight, changing many of their lives forever.

It was the day that 14 children - aged just 10-years-old - found themselves at the centre of a UFO sighting case, which remains one of the UK's most prolific. One of those boys is Dave Davies who, now in his 50s, has spent more than four decades on a quest for answers.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4 podcast, Uncanny, too host and journalist Danny Robins, Dave outlined exactly what happened that day. He said: "Throughout the day children had come in from playtime saying they had seen a weird object flying around the perimeter of the school.

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