For she received four written accounts of brightly coloured rotating flying saucer-type crafts and numerous first and second-hand accounts in which witnesses did not want to give their personal details.

In brief, the multiple sightings occurred on a cold, but dry and clear night. In fact, it was in the early hours of December 28-29 from about 1.15am when residents on the outskirts of Meliden were disturbed.

From behind the curtains of their bedroom windows many people were woken from their beds as they were shocked to see bright lights that lit up the night's sky.

Several members of the same household saw the object (pictured top) and so did their neighbours. The second image shows the craft from a side position.

One of Margaret's UFO sighting reports - filled in by a witness - says the sky turned light during the time the UFOs were visible - but in an instant the crafts, of which there were at least two, disappeared from view. Nothing similar has been reported in the community.