The Welsh presenter ‘very proud’ her accent is heard by the whole of UK

North Wales presenter Sian Eleri has shared her ‘pride’ at being able to showcase her regional accent in new BBC series Paranormal. In the new series, which recently released on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer, Radio DJ Sian investigates the famous Pembrokeshire UFO sightings.

Speaking to Lucy Owen for BBC Sian, who is from Caernarfon, said: “We don't often hear the north Walian accent nationally, I feel very proud. Even though I can't take any credit for the way I speak.”

She added: "It's often interesting how I'll get comments from people saying 'oh, what accent is that? Where are you from?' And I like the idea that I can proudly say ‘well, I'm a Cofi, I'm from Caernarfon, and this is what we sound like'."

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The new series, called The Village That Saw Aliens, looks back at how 14 pupils at Broad Haven primary school, Pembrokeshire, claimed they had spotted a UFO in a field in near their playground in 1977. "The headmaster asked them a few days later to sit down in exam conditions and draw what they say they saw," Sian said. "They all had remarkably similar depictions of what they claim they saw in the field, and it became international news really quickly."

The first series of Paranormal, named The Girl, The Ghost and The Gravestone, won a Celtic Media Award for best factual series and has been streamed more than 2.7 million times on BBC iPlayer.It saw Sian investigate more than 300 allegedly paranormal occurrences at Penyffordd Farm in Flintshire, widely considered to be the most haunted house in Britain. Listen to In the Spotlight with Sian Eleri below.

Reflecting on series two of Paranormal Sian said: “It's been so cool with this series - we've gone above and beyond, talking to some amazing people all over Wales.We go to the House of Lords at one point to try and talk to the minister of defence. We go to the National Archives in London looking at classified documents. So it's a real journey.

"There's an enormous level of archive that I ended up sifting through in the course of a couple of months, trying to just unpick what exactly is going on. None of this is about debunking - it's about comparing fiction and fact, and what could have possibly happened or what could potentially explain what people saw - if there is any logical explanation.”

Paranormal: The Village That Saw Aliens is available to watch on BBC iPlayer now. For the latest TV & Showbiz news, sign up to our newsletter.