The Berwyn Incident

They made an improbable duo of UFO hunters— a plump Miss Marple and a gun-toting gamekeeper. The true story of their long-odds mission to solve the “Roswell of Wales.”

January 23, 1974

It was a cold, damp and moonless night in Llandrillo, a small village built around a broad stream at the base of the Berwyn Mountains in North Wales. The village postmaster was watching television with his wife when it felt like his house parted company from the foundations. The sodden earth beneath the village trembled and the grey slate houses shook as if Branwen the Giantess, a mythical goddess whose throne towered above the village, had risen again. Crockery flew off shelves and smashed onto flagstone floors. A deep rumbling accompanied the tremor, striking terror into the local community.

The postmaster rushed outside and turned to check on his post office, a low-slung, slate-roofed cottage in the center of the village whose front-room had been converted into a shop. But his eye was drawn…