Case · UFO Afrinews No 2, June 1989
Broadhaven, Wales, 1979: evidence 'thrown out with the dishwater'
1979 ยท Broadhaven, Wales, United Kingdom
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
As a second example of over-zealous criticism, Hind recalls objecting some years ago to Hilary Evans's handling of the Broadhaven case in Wales, which she dates to 1979. She considers it one of the best British cases despite mishandling by various investigators. One witness, whose account involved cattle being teleported, had been charged, convicted and imprisoned in an unrelated police matter, and on that basis his testimony was discarded. Hind accepts his story may have been questionable but not for that reason. Worse, the evidence of other witnesses, some of them children whose statements were checked by their teacher Beth Morgan and accepted by headmaster Llewellyn, was ignored along with that of several reliable adults. The British, she says, were so busy running down witnesses that they lost the case's importance.
What Hind made of it
One of the best British cases; discarding a convicted witness and ignoring the children's verified evidence lost sight of its basic importance.
In their words
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his evidence was thrown out with the dishwater.
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the British were so busy denigrating the witnesses that they lost sight of the basic importance of this case.
Cross references
- Hilary Evans (co-editor of Phenomenon, reviewed pp 35-39)
- Rosmead Tennis Court Affair (same essay)
- Gulf Breeze (same essay)