1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:07,040 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,040 In this episode we're looking at UFOs Down Under. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,480 That's correct, UFOs down under got some cases here from 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,040 Australia. Really strange stuff. 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,440 I found this article over at news.com dot AU. 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,480 I'll put the links at Kofi. As always, thanks to the folks 7 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,000 that contribute over there on Spotify. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,520 I really appreciate it. The title says giant triangle 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,040 Ozzie's mind blowing UFO encounter. 10 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,880 An Aussie real estate agent has revealed a mind blowing UFO 11 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,760 sighting that he says changed the course of his life. 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:37,680 This article is written by Frank Chung. 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,040 It's day of September 1st, 2024. It's got a pretty cool video 14 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,880 here with it too. It starts off as this. 15 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:48,680 Clark Watson has been interested in researching UFOs all his 16 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:54,560 life, but on February 1st 2023, what was once a casual hobby 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,000 suddenly became very real when he had a mind blowing experience 18 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,560 of his own. The real estate agent from 19 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,480 Albury and southern NSW was staying at a hotel in Wyong, 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,760 north of Sydney, to attend a training course when he had what 21 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,640 he claims was an up close and personal sighting. 22 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,600 It was around 9:30 PM when, according to Mr. Watson, he 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,400 watched a white blinking light come in from several kilometers 24 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,920 out over the ocean, moving in a way that was impossible to 25 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:31,120 explain, before being joined by a second light. 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,760 The objects darted around the sky and buzzed over the town at 27 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,560 incredible speed. They chased each other around 28 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,520 the sky like dogs at a park, he said. 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,040 These things instantly go from standing still to the other side 30 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,920 of the sky. The objects came in over 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,280 Tuggerah Lake from what he estimated to be around 1500 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,120 feet, then swooped down to the ground, probably as low as 200 33 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,320 to 300 feet. They came over the top of my 34 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,880 hotel, he said. I could have hit them with an 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,560 arrow. They came in and formed a Ferris 36 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,039 wheel in the sky and had a strange interaction with one 37 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,240 another. A 3 minute mobile film video 38 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,200 filmed from his balcony shows several indistinct flickering 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,400 white lights moving around the sky. 40 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:22,680 Wow, it's kind of like a big pinwheel rotating around itself, 41 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,320 Mr. Watson says in the video. That is the exitably wildest 42 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,360 thing I've ever seen. At 1.2 lights are seen dancing 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,560 around each other near 1/3 solid bright white light which does 44 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,680 not move before heading back the way they came once just sitting 45 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:43,160 there. He says, referring to the third 46 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,680 object. What's he doing? 47 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,240 It's actually a bit creepy. Look at him, just sit up there. 48 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,960 The short excerpt from the full sighting roughly shows about 10% 49 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,400 of what I could actually see with the naked eye, he noted in 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,600 the video description. The ones I saw were just bright 51 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,400 white, very different. Bright to a star, he said. 52 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,640 A lot brighter than stars. The brightest thing in the night 53 00:03:06,640 --> 00:03:09,080 sky. Crystal clear objects darted 54 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,120 around the sky. About an hour later, Mr. Watson 55 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:13,960 saw a triangle come in from the ocean. 56 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,480 It was about an acre in size. It was huge, he said. 57 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,120 It just hovered at an altitude of about 400 feet. 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:26,840 I had no idea what it was. It was absolutely mind blowing 59 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,560 to witness it. It was like nothing I'd ever 60 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,800 seen on Earth. My mind couldn't categorize it, 61 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,360 he added. The giant triangle, which had 62 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,760 dim lights on the corners and was not bright like the other 63 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,560 objects, looked organic. It looked like a snakeskin, 64 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:46,760 charcoal and Brownie, said. Mr. Watson said he had long been 65 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,120 interested in the topic. But it wasn't until 2023, after 66 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,920 20 years of being a researcher, that I find that I had my own 67 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,320 really profound experience, saw an object up close that changed 68 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,720 everything for me, he said. It became very real to me. 69 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,280 It was here, it was active, that's when I really got 70 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,520 involved. The strange sighting inspired 71 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,920 Mr. Watson to sign up as a volunteer field researcher with 72 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,120 the Australian chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, 73 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,200 AUS based nonprofit, which collects reports of UFO 74 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,040 sightings across the world. Interest in UFOs, or Uaps as 75 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,520 they are now known, has reached a fever pitch. 76 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,440 I still know them as UFOs. In recent months, following an 77 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:33,120 unprecedented push for disclosure by U.S. 78 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,680 Congress and a flurry of fantastical claims from alleged 79 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,600 whistleblowers and shadowy government cash retrieval 80 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,480 programs, we're averaging probably 5 to 10 cases per week 81 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,920 now that come through, said Mr. Watson, who stressed he was 82 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,080 speaking in his personal capacity and not on behalf of 83 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,800 MUFON. The role of MUFON investigators 84 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,080 is sorting the wheat from the shaft, attempting to rule out 85 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,520 any earthly explanations for sightings. 86 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,320 The field investigator looks for the possibility that the witness 87 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,160 misinterpreted what was seen, the group says on its website. 88 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,360 Common objects that a witness may consider to be a UFO include 89 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,920 Chinese lanterns, aircraft, drones, astronomical objects and 90 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,840 A and light reflections. I don't know. 91 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:19,240 I'm not so sure I agree with all that. 92 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,760 I mean, Chinese lanterns, you just don't really ever see them 93 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,200 around where I'm at. Drones, never. 94 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:29,760 Aircraft, sure, but and if you can't tell the difference 95 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,840 between Mars, Venus and the satellites, I mean, it's pretty 96 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:38,760 easy to spot those. Mr. Watson said MUFON resolutely 97 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:42,200 stayed away from any speculation about alien bodies, crashed 98 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,000 spacecraft or shadowy conspiracies. 99 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,280 MUFON is in the skeptic game, he said. 100 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,200 We're not interested in anything we can't verify. 101 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,120 We're trying to collect good witness accounts backed up with 102 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,200 data. We will look at what was in the 103 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,880 air at the time. Any festival events over 70 to 104 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:03,840 80% are misidentified aircraft or planets or weather events, 105 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,480 any number of things. They're all UFOs until they're 106 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:09,440 not. Well, I would agree with that. 107 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,640 In July, there were 410 sightings reported to move on, 108 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,960 mostly in the US, with 327 reports. 109 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,840 Australia has just 7A quiet month for us. 110 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,480 The stigma in Australia remains. People are very hesitant to 111 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,320 speak about it because it's kind of a silly subject. 112 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,640 Mr. Watson said while the number of UFO sightings remains 113 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,440 relatively low, he said this may be partly due to reluctance to 114 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,920 report, but that this was beginning to change. 115 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,800 What's happening is a transition in Australia where people are 116 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,280 feeling more comfortable talking about this, he said, noting one 117 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:46,560 recent case he looked into was someone coming forward to report 118 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,960 a sighting back in 2015. People have been sitting there. 119 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:53,960 To be an experiencer without a support group can be quite 120 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,320 lonely. People see things they can't 121 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,000 explain but don't have anyone to share it with. 122 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,160 They can't actually ever talk about it with anyone. 123 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,960 They get labeled as crazy. People who have seen something 124 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,320 strange in the sky can ring us and get a bit of comfort and 125 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,080 sometimes relief if it can be explained prosaically. 126 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,000 Quite often it's the other way. Mr. Watson set of cases that 127 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,480 remain more mysterious. They feel justified, vindicated. 128 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,840 Australia has a few hotspots, including Gosford, South of 129 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,080 Wyong, where his own sighting occurred, which has a rich 130 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,360 history of UFO sightings. They are typically around the 131 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,160 coastal areas, although he noted this could be due to the denser 132 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,800 population. Other hot spots include the 133 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,200 noodle Bar plain or in 1988, a family claimed their car was 134 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,800 chased down the highway by a large glowing object and lifted 135 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,480 off the ground. The top secret Pine Gap US Wide 136 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,600 base in central Australia and the Lucas Heights nuclear 137 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,400 reactor in Sydney are also hotspots. 138 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,200 Now this case in 1988, I talked about that in the podcast a 139 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,320 couple weeks ago, I think, and I actually had somebody there 140 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,120 leave a comment from that area in Australia who remembered the 141 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,120 case and they explained how these people were just ridiculed 142 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,560 without mercy. They said it was just terrible. 143 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,400 Australia has a number of famous cases dating back decades, like 144 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,320 the mysterious disappearance of a 20 year old pilot, Frederick 145 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,880 Valentich over the Bass Strait in 1978. 146 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,240 Yeah, there's some really strange stuff going on there. 147 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,800 But Mr. Watson said the single most compelling sighting, and 148 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,240 probably in the top 10 globally, was the 1966 Westhall incident 149 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,720 in Melbourne, when hundreds of students at Westhall High School 150 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,320 and Clayton South witnessed one or multiple UFOs fly over the 151 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,240 school before landing in a nearby reserve. 152 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:48,120 Australia officially stopped investigating UFOs in the 153 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,280 1990's. The Royal Air Force now refers 154 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,640 reports of sightings to civilian groups, according to documents 155 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,400 obtained under the Freedom of Information laws by the Sydney 156 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,640 Herald Morning Herald. In 2016. 157 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,640 During the Cold War, the RAAF collected hundreds of reports of 158 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:07,720 UFOs, which are now held by the National Archives of Australia. 159 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,720 But about 90% were later determined to be aircraft, 160 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,720 satellites, meteors, space debris, stars and planets. 7% 161 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:17,880 could not be investigated due to lack of time or information, 162 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,000 leaving 3% attributed to unknown causes. 163 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:25,920 In deciding to cease and investigate UFO reports in 1994, 164 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,760 the RAF reasoned that this 3% presented little or no threat to 165 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:33,800 the security, according to the NAA. 166 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,920 And that's one way to handle it. The previously secret Department 167 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:41,280 of Defense policy documents show the decision was not announced 168 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,480 to the public to avoid conspiracy theories and 169 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,360 controversy. While America and Brazil are 170 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,880 coming out and saying yes, these are anomalous objects, our 171 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,600 government stays completely silent on it, Mr. Watson said. 172 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,320 Australia is subservient to America. 173 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,360 I think we've just placed ourselves in a subservient 174 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,720 position and have been and have been instructed this isn't a 175 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,720 topic to talk about. This was the big problem for UFO 176 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,680 research in Australia, he added. The most credible sightings are 177 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:15,200 where you have multiple sensor data and witness data. the US is 178 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,840 presenting witness data from fighter pilots, sensor data. 179 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,400 Our government will not engage with the topic at all. 180 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,360 What you've got left is witness accounts. 181 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,800 And witness accounts you conceded, are just stories. 182 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,960 My case is a grand, profound moment in my life. 183 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,360 I saw something that changed the course of my life, but it's just 184 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,720 a story. There's no evidence it happened 185 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,680 other than me standing there. Mr. Watson said that he was part 186 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:41,040 of the driving force of MUFON. They say extraordinary claims 187 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,680 require extraordinary evidence, He said. 188 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,520 We say extraordinary claims require extraordinary 189 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,440 investigations. Absence of evidence is not 190 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,800 evidence of absence. That's pretty, pretty clever. 191 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,960 Yeah. A good article. 192 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,160 I want to take a look at this UFO saying that happened at 193 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,320 Westfall back in 1966. This is the one that landed and 194 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,000 you know, all the kids are at that school and it's fun to go 195 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,280 back and look at the actual reports that were done at the 196 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,640 time. I think kind of gives us the 197 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,000 best evidence of what's happening here. 198 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,320 So we'll take a look at this right now. 199 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,920 Now, as we mentioned, there's this article from 1966 talking 200 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,280 about this W Hall incident there in Australia. 201 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:17,000 It's got a lot of new details in it. 202 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:20,640 I'll have the link there at COFI and then I find another article 203 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,000 talking about it. And this is from the State 204 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,280 Library of Victoria, it says, dated April 6th, 2024. 205 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,760 Strange lights in the sky, the West Hall UFO incident, 1966. 206 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,240 When most of us think of unidentified flying objects, our 207 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:39,440 thoughts turn to faraway places. The World War 2 Battle of Los 208 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,520 Angeles or the infamous weather balloon that landed in Roswell. 209 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,200 You could kind of see where they're coming from there, don't 210 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,280 you? We know that's been totally 211 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,400 disproven, that that was ever a weather balloon New Mexico in 212 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,760 1947. What many Victorians don't know 213 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,000 is that we are home to one of the world's most famous UFO 214 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,040 events, one with as many as 100 witnesses, many of whom are 215 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,040 still telling their stories. Then it's got an illustrated 216 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,240 image here of these flying saucers coming down over the 217 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,320 school West. All high school. 218 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,520 The Clayton calendar reprinted in Australian Flying Saucer 219 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:16,000 Reviews, June 1966, page 13. Permission to reprint kindly 220 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,520 granted by the Secretary, Victorian UFO Research Society. 221 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,440 According to newspapers and reports of the time, on April 222 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,600 6th 1966, something strange happened at a patch of scrubby 223 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,880 pine ringed bushland called the The Grange and Melbourne's 224 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,240 sleepy southeastern suburbs. The Grange is across the way 225 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,320 from the Westhall Secondary School when Westhall high and 226 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:42,760 backs on to farmland. In the 1960s it was visited by 227 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,160 farmers looking for a place to graze their cattle and by kids 228 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,120 and teens looking for a place to explore. 229 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,440 On April 6th it was reportedly the destination of some strange 230 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,640 and unusual visitors. Unidentified flying objects. 231 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,480 The Dandenong Journal of 14 of April. 232 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:04,760 Till Leeds, with the evocative headline Flying saucer mystery 233 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:09,000 school silent As reports of the April 6th incident flooded in 234 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,120 with no official word from the school, the team at Dandagon 235 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,240 Journal attempted to piece the story together. 236 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,040 So here you have these flying saucers landing in the back of 237 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,400 the school and nobody wants to talk about it. 238 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,920 It says Flying saucer mystery school Science school silent 239 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,000 What was it? And then it goes on and says. 240 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,920 Reports from eyewitnesses claimed that just before morning 241 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,200 recess, a series of dazzling silvery objects appeared over 242 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:36,720 high School Oval, moving toward the Grange. 243 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,360 One of the objects was larger than the others, with witnesses 244 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:44,560 describing it as round with a hump on top and round things 245 00:13:44,560 --> 00:13:48,720 beneath, or as an object that was silver Gray and seemed to 246 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,840 thicken. Sometimes the thickening was 247 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,440 similar to when a disk is turned a little to show the underside. 248 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,200 Wow. And then the front page says 249 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,240 here flying saucer and mystery deepens who were 5 pilots. 250 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,400 So it wasn't just the people on the ground that saw this. 251 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,720 He had five pilots also spotted it. 252 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,160 The unidentified flying object reported over the Clayton area 253 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:13,160 on April 6th was almost certainly observed by the pilots 254 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,120 of several light aircraft which flew close to and chased the 255 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:21,360 object for a considerable time. And it says here, a detailed 256 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:25,240 description of the object given by a science teacher at Westhall 257 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,840 High School has discounted theories that the object was a 258 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,600 weather balloon, an aircraft or a flock of birds. 259 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,120 The descriptions obtained from the eyewitness students at the 260 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,240 school and reports of sightings from other nearby locations have 261 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,560 confirmed that an object or objects of inexplicable origin 262 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,680 have appeared in the sky over the district in the past few 263 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,960 weeks. This is kind of an ongoing thing 264 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,680 there. I mean, that's what gets me 265 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,400 about the whole thing. Very weird. 266 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,040 It says witnesses also described many private aircraft, many 267 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,200 Cessna, flying toward and around the UFOs. 268 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,720 A2 page anonymous report from the Clayton calendar. 269 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,120 That's the West High Journal, unfortunately not held by State 270 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,360 Library of Victoria. Goes into some detail about the 271 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,320 craft and speculates that they may have been military aircraft 272 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,560 coming from nearby Muraban Airport. 273 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:22,480 This account was republished in its entirety in June 1966 issue 274 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,920 of the Australian Flying Saucer Review, The Victorian Flying 275 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,120 Saucer Research Society, Later the Victorian UFO Research 276 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,720 Society, inspected the scene and interviewed a number of 277 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,880 witnesses, but at the time no exhaustive account was 278 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,840 published. The VFSRS had members across the 279 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,720 state and was based quite close to West all the southeastern 280 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,160 suburb of Moorabbin, the site of another famous event purportedly 281 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,320 tied to the paranormal, the disappearance of Frederick 282 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,680 Valentich in 1978. Then it goes on here. 283 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:56,160 It says the above story was written by a boy from the West 284 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:58,840 Hall High School, which is situated in the Melbourne 285 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,480 metropolitan area. The sighting occurred on April 286 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,720 6, and as a result of an advertisement placed in the 287 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,880 Melbourne Daily newspaper and our own investigations, we 288 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:12,360 pieced together a jigsaw puzzle resembling the story above. 289 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,480 Only some minor details were omitted, namely that the 290 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,720 headmaster of the school stated several organizations had 291 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,960 investigated the sighting, from the Air Force to the Victorian 292 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,400 Flying Saucer Research Society. Perhaps this is accounted for 293 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,080 the antagonistic attitude when we made our inquiries and for 294 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,600 the detaining of some of the children after school for having 295 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,520 spoken to the press. It is common knowledge that Air 296 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,720 Force helicopter, the Air Force Intelligence Service almost 297 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,800 rolled over, prefer people to remain silent on the subject of 298 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,400 UFOs. Nevertheless, the saucers remain 299 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,760 with us and are becoming an increasing source of interest. 300 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:51,520 Judith Maggie, wow, that is strange. 301 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,760 You have these Sasha show up at the school and they're punishing 302 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,000 the kids for talking. It goes on down here and 303 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,200 finishes up. It says while the event was 304 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,760 heavily reported in the local news outlets, it also hit the 305 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,800 Melbourne papers. The small write up in the age of 306 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:08,680 object pauses that the witnesses may have in fact seen merely a 307 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,160 weather balloon, noting the weather Bureau service released 308 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,319 a balloon at Laverton at 8:30 and the westerly wind could have 309 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:17,599 moved it in the area where the sighting was reported. 310 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,920 Of course, based on all the all of the eyewitness, that's not 311 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:23,280 what happened. We may never know with certainty 312 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,560 what happened in the West all that April morning in 1966. 313 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,280 The stories remain and the conviction of the witnesses has 314 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,000 not wavered. What we can be sure of is that 315 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,520 there are more mysteries where we least expect them. 316 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,640 Perhaps there's one in your backyard, blah, blah, blah. 317 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,600 Yeah, really wild stuff that this just these things just 318 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,360 showed up and even in 1966 total total cover up. 319 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:49,560 The original article here is included in this news.com 320 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,160 article. It's really hard to read so I 321 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,520 won't go through the whole thing, but some of the 322 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:55,520 headlights say who were the 5 pilots? 323 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:00,320 Beam of light, like a disk. But what did the fishermen see? 324 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:03,960 So you have multiple people have seen this. 325 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,960 Pilots apparently saw it. The kids at school saw it. 326 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,360 Fishermen saw it. So this was a kind of a regional 327 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,280 mass sighting. And what they've done over the 328 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,200 years, they've tried to just tamp down all the information on 329 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:20,120 this and make it seem like, OK, well, this was just a situation 330 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:22,640 where you had a few kids at a school saw this. 331 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:24,120 It was probably just a weather balloon. 332 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,760 In fact, we have multiple adults that saw this and based on their 333 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,000 description we know that it wasn't a weather balloon. 334 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,480 It was some sort of UFO and possibly a group of these things 335 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,040 that came over. It's always more fun, I think 336 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,360 when you go back to the source material on this and you see 337 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,680 these things have been happening for years and years and years. 338 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,520 And you can also see a sign like this happened in 1966. 339 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:46,720 Look at the narrative control that was exercised. 340 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,160 Look how they punished the kids that came out and tried to talk. 341 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,280 They tried to deperson people. There was just they just circle 342 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,960 the wagons around this. They tried to retell the story. 343 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:56,520 I mean, they put out the parallel narrative. 344 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,800 The parallel narrative was OK. A weather balloon drifted over a 345 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,840 school, but in reality, what happened was you had probably up 346 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,360 to five UFOs seen changing shapes. 347 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,080 They're shape shifters. They're getting thicker and 348 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:11,040 thinner. They're moving over the school. 349 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,080 And they're not only seen by the students there, they're seen by 350 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,240 teachers and they're seen by pilots that are flying around. 351 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,960 And we can't explain why these guys are all around there all of 352 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,200 a sudden. Maybe these are undercover 353 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:23,280 pilots. Maybe these are just hobby 354 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:24,280 pilots. We don't know. 355 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,280 But they're there watching these things. 356 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,600 And they're also seen by fishermen in the area. 357 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,040 So you've got multiple reports from multiple different angles, 358 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,560 which makes and they're all agreeing. 359 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,560 So that makes these sightings even stronger evidence. 360 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,240 But that's not what you're getting in the mainline story. 361 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:43,200 The mainline story is, oh, some kids saw weather balloon. 362 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,280 And over time these old newspaper articles just get 363 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,440 buried. If you find reprints of them 364 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,120 like I found here, the print on them is so bad it'll take you 2 365 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,160 1/2 hours to read a 5 minute article. 366 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,000 So people just don't bother with it. 367 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,680 It just goes to show the same things happening days. 368 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,560 What was happening in 1966. You have a sighting and as soon 369 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,240 as you have a good sighting from multiple witnesses, and the 370 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,400 first thing that happens is the witnesses are tamped down. 371 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,960 They're deep person, they're ignored. 372 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,000 And then the government gets the parallel narrative out, the 373 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,840 story that they want out. And the truth is oftentimes just 374 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:19,440 forgotten and left on a shelf in a library somewhere. 375 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,160 Until next time. This is UFO warning over and 376 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:22,320 out.