Regional File · Wales · Coastal town
A small harbour town where the record reaches back to 1905.
Barmouth — Abermaw in Welsh — is a compact seaside town on the Mawddach estuary in Gwynedd, tucked between the mountains of southern Snowdonia and the open water of Cardigan Bay. Its place in the record is small but unusually long.
The most distinctive entry in Barmouth’s record is also the oldest single object report: on 9 September 1922, an object was seen moving slowly and then entering the sea. Reports of objects entering or leaving water — what later researchers would call “USOs”, unidentified submerged objects — are rare in the early Welsh record, which makes this a small but genuinely unusual account.
The SUFON chronology records an object seen going slowly into the sea at Barmouth in September 1922. It is recorded here as a specialist-archive account: a single-family source, not multi-source corroborated fact.
Explore the SUFON database →Barmouth’s record is short, but it spans more than a century. In March 1905, the chronology notes a humanoid “in black” at Barmouth — an early entry in an era before modern terminology. More than a century later, in August 2010, three small red lights were reported over Cardigan Bay off the town. Nearby, at Towyn, a striking account described twelve red/orange boomerangs flying into a large white light over the sea in August 2010.
This is a focused page, and it does not try to inflate a short record into a long one.
Reading the record: Barmouth’s entries come from the SUFON Wales chronology — a single specialist family — and are presented as such. This is a short, focused page; nearby Snowdonia and Cardigan Bay reports are wider context, not part of the town’s own count.