Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're looking at UFOs Down Under.
That's correct, UFOs down under got some cases here from
Australia. Really strange stuff.
I found this article over at news.com dot AU.
I'll put the links at Kofi. As always, thanks to the folks
that contribute over there on Spotify.
I really appreciate it. The title says giant triangle
Ozzie's mind blowing UFO encounter.
An Aussie real estate agent has revealed a mind blowing UFO
sighting that he says changed the course of his life.
This article is written by Frank Chung.
It's day of September 1st, 2024. It's got a pretty cool video
here with it too. It starts off as this.
Clark Watson has been interested in researching UFOs all his
life, but on February 1st 2023, what was once a casual hobby
suddenly became very real when he had a mind blowing experience
of his own. The real estate agent from
Albury and southern NSW was staying at a hotel in Wyong,
north of Sydney, to attend a training course when he had what
he claims was an up close and personal sighting.
It was around 9:30 PM when, according to Mr. Watson, he
watched a white blinking light come in from several kilometers
out over the ocean, moving in a way that was impossible to
explain, before being joined by a second light.
The objects darted around the sky and buzzed over the town at
incredible speed. They chased each other around
the sky like dogs at a park, he said.
These things instantly go from standing still to the other side
of the sky. The objects came in over
Tuggerah Lake from what he estimated to be around 1500
feet, then swooped down to the ground, probably as low as 200
to 300 feet. They came over the top of my
hotel, he said. I could have hit them with an
arrow. They came in and formed a Ferris
wheel in the sky and had a strange interaction with one
another. A 3 minute mobile film video
filmed from his balcony shows several indistinct flickering
white lights moving around the sky.
Wow, it's kind of like a big pinwheel rotating around itself,
Mr. Watson says in the video. That is the exitably wildest
thing I've ever seen. At 1.2 lights are seen dancing
around each other near 1/3 solid bright white light which does
not move before heading back the way they came once just sitting
there. He says, referring to the third
object. What's he doing?
It's actually a bit creepy. Look at him, just sit up there.
The short excerpt from the full sighting roughly shows about 10%
of what I could actually see with the naked eye, he noted in
the video description. The ones I saw were just bright
white, very different. Bright to a star, he said.
A lot brighter than stars. The brightest thing in the night
sky. Crystal clear objects darted
around the sky. About an hour later, Mr. Watson
saw a triangle come in from the ocean.
It was about an acre in size. It was huge, he said.
It just hovered at an altitude of about 400 feet.
I had no idea what it was. It was absolutely mind blowing
to witness it. It was like nothing I'd ever
seen on Earth. My mind couldn't categorize it,
he added. The giant triangle, which had
dim lights on the corners and was not bright like the other
objects, looked organic. It looked like a snakeskin,
charcoal and Brownie, said. Mr. Watson said he had long been
interested in the topic. But it wasn't until 2023, after
20 years of being a researcher, that I find that I had my own
really profound experience, saw an object up close that changed
everything for me, he said. It became very real to me.
It was here, it was active, that's when I really got
involved. The strange sighting inspired
Mr. Watson to sign up as a volunteer field researcher with
the Australian chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON,
AUS based nonprofit, which collects reports of UFO
sightings across the world. Interest in UFOs, or Uaps as
they are now known, has reached a fever pitch.
I still know them as UFOs. In recent months, following an
unprecedented push for disclosure by U.S.
Congress and a flurry of fantastical claims from alleged
whistleblowers and shadowy government cash retrieval
programs, we're averaging probably 5 to 10 cases per week
now that come through, said Mr. Watson, who stressed he was
speaking in his personal capacity and not on behalf of
MUFON. The role of MUFON investigators
is sorting the wheat from the shaft, attempting to rule out
any earthly explanations for sightings.
The field investigator looks for the possibility that the witness
misinterpreted what was seen, the group says on its website.
Common objects that a witness may consider to be a UFO include
Chinese lanterns, aircraft, drones, astronomical objects and
A and light reflections. I don't know.
I'm not so sure I agree with all that.
I mean, Chinese lanterns, you just don't really ever see them
around where I'm at. Drones, never.
Aircraft, sure, but and if you can't tell the difference
between Mars, Venus and the satellites, I mean, it's pretty
easy to spot those. Mr. Watson said MUFON resolutely
stayed away from any speculation about alien bodies, crashed
spacecraft or shadowy conspiracies.
MUFON is in the skeptic game, he said.
We're not interested in anything we can't verify.
We're trying to collect good witness accounts backed up with
data. We will look at what was in the
air at the time. Any festival events over 70 to
80% are misidentified aircraft or planets or weather events,
any number of things. They're all UFOs until they're
not. Well, I would agree with that.
In July, there were 410 sightings reported to move on,
mostly in the US, with 327 reports.
Australia has just 7A quiet month for us.
The stigma in Australia remains. People are very hesitant to
speak about it because it's kind of a silly subject.
Mr. Watson said while the number of UFO sightings remains
relatively low, he said this may be partly due to reluctance to
report, but that this was beginning to change.
What's happening is a transition in Australia where people are
feeling more comfortable talking about this, he said, noting one
recent case he looked into was someone coming forward to report
a sighting back in 2015. People have been sitting there.
To be an experiencer without a support group can be quite
lonely. People see things they can't
explain but don't have anyone to share it with.
They can't actually ever talk about it with anyone.
They get labeled as crazy. People who have seen something
strange in the sky can ring us and get a bit of comfort and
sometimes relief if it can be explained prosaically.
Quite often it's the other way. Mr. Watson set of cases that
remain more mysterious. They feel justified, vindicated.
Australia has a few hotspots, including Gosford, South of
Wyong, where his own sighting occurred, which has a rich
history of UFO sightings. They are typically around the
coastal areas, although he noted this could be due to the denser
population. Other hot spots include the
noodle Bar plain or in 1988, a family claimed their car was
chased down the highway by a large glowing object and lifted
off the ground. The top secret Pine Gap US Wide
base in central Australia and the Lucas Heights nuclear
reactor in Sydney are also hotspots.
Now this case in 1988, I talked about that in the podcast a
couple weeks ago, I think, and I actually had somebody there
leave a comment from that area in Australia who remembered the
case and they explained how these people were just ridiculed
without mercy. They said it was just terrible.
Australia has a number of famous cases dating back decades, like
the mysterious disappearance of a 20 year old pilot, Frederick
Valentich over the Bass Strait in 1978.
Yeah, there's some really strange stuff going on there.
But Mr. Watson said the single most compelling sighting, and
probably in the top 10 globally, was the 1966 Westhall incident
in Melbourne, when hundreds of students at Westhall High School
and Clayton South witnessed one or multiple UFOs fly over the
school before landing in a nearby reserve.
Australia officially stopped investigating UFOs in the
1990's. The Royal Air Force now refers
reports of sightings to civilian groups, according to documents
obtained under the Freedom of Information laws by the Sydney
Herald Morning Herald. In 2016.
During the Cold War, the RAAF collected hundreds of reports of
UFOs, which are now held by the National Archives of Australia.
But about 90% were later determined to be aircraft,
satellites, meteors, space debris, stars and planets. 7%
could not be investigated due to lack of time or information,
leaving 3% attributed to unknown causes.
In deciding to cease and investigate UFO reports in 1994,
the RAF reasoned that this 3% presented little or no threat to
the security, according to the NAA.
And that's one way to handle it. The previously secret Department
of Defense policy documents show the decision was not announced
to the public to avoid conspiracy theories and
controversy. While America and Brazil are
coming out and saying yes, these are anomalous objects, our
government stays completely silent on it, Mr. Watson said.
Australia is subservient to America.
I think we've just placed ourselves in a subservient
position and have been and have been instructed this isn't a
topic to talk about. This was the big problem for UFO
research in Australia, he added. The most credible sightings are
where you have multiple sensor data and witness data. the US is
presenting witness data from fighter pilots, sensor data.
Our government will not engage with the topic at all.
What you've got left is witness accounts.
And witness accounts you conceded, are just stories.
My case is a grand, profound moment in my life.
I saw something that changed the course of my life, but it's just
a story. There's no evidence it happened
other than me standing there. Mr. Watson said that he was part
of the driving force of MUFON. They say extraordinary claims
require extraordinary evidence, He said.
We say extraordinary claims require extraordinary
investigations. Absence of evidence is not
evidence of absence. That's pretty, pretty clever.
Yeah. A good article.
I want to take a look at this UFO saying that happened at
Westfall back in 1966. This is the one that landed and
you know, all the kids are at that school and it's fun to go
back and look at the actual reports that were done at the
time. I think kind of gives us the
best evidence of what's happening here.
So we'll take a look at this right now.
Now, as we mentioned, there's this article from 1966 talking
about this W Hall incident there in Australia.
It's got a lot of new details in it.
I'll have the link there at COFI and then I find another article
talking about it. And this is from the State
Library of Victoria, it says, dated April 6th, 2024.
Strange lights in the sky, the West Hall UFO incident, 1966.
When most of us think of unidentified flying objects, our
thoughts turn to faraway places. The World War 2 Battle of Los
Angeles or the infamous weather balloon that landed in Roswell.
You could kind of see where they're coming from there, don't
you? We know that's been totally
disproven, that that was ever a weather balloon New Mexico in
1947. What many Victorians don't know
is that we are home to one of the world's most famous UFO
events, one with as many as 100 witnesses, many of whom are
still telling their stories. Then it's got an illustrated
image here of these flying saucers coming down over the
school West. All high school.
The Clayton calendar reprinted in Australian Flying Saucer
Reviews, June 1966, page 13. Permission to reprint kindly
granted by the Secretary, Victorian UFO Research Society.
According to newspapers and reports of the time, on April
6th 1966, something strange happened at a patch of scrubby
pine ringed bushland called the The Grange and Melbourne's
sleepy southeastern suburbs. The Grange is across the way
from the Westhall Secondary School when Westhall high and
backs on to farmland. In the 1960s it was visited by
farmers looking for a place to graze their cattle and by kids
and teens looking for a place to explore.
On April 6th it was reportedly the destination of some strange
and unusual visitors. Unidentified flying objects.
The Dandenong Journal of 14 of April.
Till Leeds, with the evocative headline Flying saucer mystery
school silent As reports of the April 6th incident flooded in
with no official word from the school, the team at Dandagon
Journal attempted to piece the story together.
So here you have these flying saucers landing in the back of
the school and nobody wants to talk about it.
It says Flying saucer mystery school Science school silent
What was it? And then it goes on and says.
Reports from eyewitnesses claimed that just before morning
recess, a series of dazzling silvery objects appeared over
high School Oval, moving toward the Grange.
One of the objects was larger than the others, with witnesses
describing it as round with a hump on top and round things
beneath, or as an object that was silver Gray and seemed to
thicken. Sometimes the thickening was
similar to when a disk is turned a little to show the underside.
Wow. And then the front page says
here flying saucer and mystery deepens who were 5 pilots.
So it wasn't just the people on the ground that saw this.
He had five pilots also spotted it.
The unidentified flying object reported over the Clayton area
on April 6th was almost certainly observed by the pilots
of several light aircraft which flew close to and chased the
object for a considerable time. And it says here, a detailed
description of the object given by a science teacher at Westhall
High School has discounted theories that the object was a
weather balloon, an aircraft or a flock of birds.
The descriptions obtained from the eyewitness students at the
school and reports of sightings from other nearby locations have
confirmed that an object or objects of inexplicable origin
have appeared in the sky over the district in the past few
weeks. This is kind of an ongoing thing
there. I mean, that's what gets me
about the whole thing. Very weird.
It says witnesses also described many private aircraft, many
Cessna, flying toward and around the UFOs.
A2 page anonymous report from the Clayton calendar.
That's the West High Journal, unfortunately not held by State
Library of Victoria. Goes into some detail about the
craft and speculates that they may have been military aircraft
coming from nearby Muraban Airport.
This account was republished in its entirety in June 1966 issue
of the Australian Flying Saucer Review, The Victorian Flying
Saucer Research Society, Later the Victorian UFO Research
Society, inspected the scene and interviewed a number of
witnesses, but at the time no exhaustive account was
published. The VFSRS had members across the
state and was based quite close to West all the southeastern
suburb of Moorabbin, the site of another famous event purportedly
tied to the paranormal, the disappearance of Frederick
Valentich in 1978. Then it goes on here.
It says the above story was written by a boy from the West
Hall High School, which is situated in the Melbourne
metropolitan area. The sighting occurred on April
6, and as a result of an advertisement placed in the
Melbourne Daily newspaper and our own investigations, we
pieced together a jigsaw puzzle resembling the story above.
Only some minor details were omitted, namely that the
headmaster of the school stated several organizations had
investigated the sighting, from the Air Force to the Victorian
Flying Saucer Research Society. Perhaps this is accounted for
the antagonistic attitude when we made our inquiries and for
the detaining of some of the children after school for having
spoken to the press. It is common knowledge that Air
Force helicopter, the Air Force Intelligence Service almost
rolled over, prefer people to remain silent on the subject of
UFOs. Nevertheless, the saucers remain
with us and are becoming an increasing source of interest.
Judith Maggie, wow, that is strange.
You have these Sasha show up at the school and they're punishing
the kids for talking. It goes on down here and
finishes up. It says while the event was
heavily reported in the local news outlets, it also hit the
Melbourne papers. The small write up in the age of
object pauses that the witnesses may have in fact seen merely a
weather balloon, noting the weather Bureau service released
a balloon at Laverton at 8:30 and the westerly wind could have
moved it in the area where the sighting was reported.
Of course, based on all the all of the eyewitness, that's not
what happened. We may never know with certainty
what happened in the West all that April morning in 1966.
The stories remain and the conviction of the witnesses has
not wavered. What we can be sure of is that
there are more mysteries where we least expect them.
Perhaps there's one in your backyard, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, really wild stuff that this just these things just
showed up and even in 1966 total total cover up.
The original article here is included in this news.com
article. It's really hard to read so I
won't go through the whole thing, but some of the
headlights say who were the 5 pilots?
Beam of light, like a disk. But what did the fishermen see?
So you have multiple people have seen this.
Pilots apparently saw it. The kids at school saw it.
Fishermen saw it. So this was a kind of a regional
mass sighting. And what they've done over the
years, they've tried to just tamp down all the information on
this and make it seem like, OK, well, this was just a situation
where you had a few kids at a school saw this.
It was probably just a weather balloon.
In fact, we have multiple adults that saw this and based on their
description we know that it wasn't a weather balloon.
It was some sort of UFO and possibly a group of these things
that came over. It's always more fun, I think
when you go back to the source material on this and you see
these things have been happening for years and years and years.
And you can also see a sign like this happened in 1966.
Look at the narrative control that was exercised.
Look how they punished the kids that came out and tried to talk.
They tried to deperson people. There was just they just circle
the wagons around this. They tried to retell the story.
I mean, they put out the parallel narrative.
The parallel narrative was OK. A weather balloon drifted over a
school, but in reality, what happened was you had probably up
to five UFOs seen changing shapes.
They're shape shifters. They're getting thicker and
thinner. They're moving over the school.
And they're not only seen by the students there, they're seen by
teachers and they're seen by pilots that are flying around.
And we can't explain why these guys are all around there all of
a sudden. Maybe these are undercover
pilots. Maybe these are just hobby
pilots. We don't know.
But they're there watching these things.
And they're also seen by fishermen in the area.
So you've got multiple reports from multiple different angles,
which makes and they're all agreeing.
So that makes these sightings even stronger evidence.
But that's not what you're getting in the mainline story.
The mainline story is, oh, some kids saw weather balloon.
And over time these old newspaper articles just get
buried. If you find reprints of them
like I found here, the print on them is so bad it'll take you 2
1/2 hours to read a 5 minute article.
So people just don't bother with it.
It just goes to show the same things happening days.
What was happening in 1966. You have a sighting and as soon
as you have a good sighting from multiple witnesses, and the
first thing that happens is the witnesses are tamped down.
They're deep person, they're ignored.
And then the government gets the parallel narrative out, the
story that they want out. And the truth is oftentimes just
forgotten and left on a shelf in a library somewhere.
Until next time. This is UFO warning over and
out.