Stack Rock is a lump of stone in St Brides Bay, just off the cliffs below Ripperston Farm. In the summer of 1977 it had already featured in the Broad Haven reports: in the early hours of 26 June watchers said a sharply outlined orange ball with two dark bands across it rose from behind the rock and drifted towards the shore before shrinking and vanishing.
The story that made the rock famous came on the afternoon of 30 October. Pauline Coombs and her children said they saw a small silver disc flash across the sky and dive straight at Stack Rock, where part of the rock face seemed to open like a door and close again behind it. Later the same afternoon, from the clifftop fields, they described two figures in whitish silver suits with large rectangular helmets, one appearing to climb steps out of the rock and another bending at the water. A panel slid open and shut like the door of a dumbwaiter, one figure seemed to walk out over the water, and the rock itself looked to them as if it lifted. A woman named Rose Granville reportedly phoned in a report of figures on the reef the same day.
There is no independent evidence for any of this, and the sighting depends on the testimony of the family who were at the centre of the whole wave. It remains one of the most repeated images of the Broad Haven Triangle.
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