The sheer reported volume of this wave, close to a thousand individual sightings over a period of roughly six months, makes it one of the most substantial concentrated UFO reporting events recorded anywhere in this wider register, considerably exceeding in scale the more isolated single-incident or small-cluster reports that make up the majority of comparable entries elsewhere, and its coverage by a mainstream BBC current affairs programme gives it a level of contemporary media attention and documentation unusual for a purely local phenomenon.
The specific, consistently described object, circular with a dome on top and accompanied by a distinctive high-pitched whistling noise, gives at least some portion of the wave a coherent, repeated visual and auditory signature, though a reported volume as large as this one inevitably raises the strong possibility that many individual reports may describe entirely mundane phenomena, aircraft, weather balloons, astronomical objects or other conventional explanations, misidentified amid a period of heightened local attention and expectation once the wave itself became a recognised local talking point.
No comprehensive official investigation or conclusive explanation for the wave as a whole has been traced in the sources consulted for this entry, and it is recorded here as a genuinely well documented and unusually large-scale piece of British UFO history, situated within the same broader early 1970s period of heightened national UFO interest that also produced the Stanford in the Vale sighting recorded elsewhere in this register.
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