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Hello and welcome to the program
UFO Warning. 

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In this episode, we're talking 
about the West Hall UFO 

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encounter. 
That's correct, the West Hall 

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UFO encounter. 
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On the morning of April 6th, 
1966, in the Melbourne suburb of

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Clayton South, hundreds of 
students and teachers at West 

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Hall High School looked up to 
see something that would leave a

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lasting mark on their lives. 
More than 200 people reported 

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witnessing one or more large 
silver grey saucer shaped craft 

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silently maneuvering in the sky.
The objects, described as about 

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the size of two family cars 
placed side by side, moved with 

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an agility that defied 
conventional explanation, 

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descending into a nearby field, 
hovering for a time, then 

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suddenly darting away at great 
speed. 

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Some recall the craft changing 
direction sharply, unlike any 

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balloon or aircraft they had 
ever seen. 

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A group of students, braver or 
more curious than the rest, 

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spread it toward the paddock 
where the object appeared to 

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have landed. 
There they found strange 

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impressions on the grass, 
flattened circles that some 

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likened to crop circles. 
Soon after, men in uniforms 

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reportedly arrived, cordoned off
the area and removed or obscured

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the markings, leaving behind an 
air of mystery. 

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The atmosphere that followed was
just as unsettling as the event 

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itself. 
Several students and teachers 

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later recall being sternly 
warned by authorities not to 

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talk about what they've seen. 
Some say they were threatened 

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with expulsion or professional 
repercussions if they spoke 

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publicly. 
Despite the large number of 

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witnesses, press coverage was 
brief and minimal, as if the 

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incident had been deliberately 
pushed aside. 

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The official explanation offered
at the time was far more 

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ordinary. 
Authorities claimed that what 

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the children and staff had seen 
were simply experimental 

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meteorological balloons released
from nearby facilities. 

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Balloons, after all, could catch
the sunlight and appear bright 

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in the sky. 
They could drift, rise in, 

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eventually descend. 
At first, this seemed like a 

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tidy way to account for the 
reports. 

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Yet the balloon narrative 
quickly begins to unravel under 

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scrutiny because balloons do not
hover low over fields, nor the 

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did, nor do they accelerate at 
high speed or change direction 

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abruptly. 
Witnesses consistently describe 

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the objects as solid and saucer 
shaped, not the translucent 

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fabric like appearances of a 
balloon. 

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Balloons could not have left 
behind the flattened impressions

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in the grass that so many 
students swore they saw. 

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And perhaps most telling, it 
stretches belief to think that 

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over 200 people, including 
teachers, would mistake a 

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drifting water balloon for a 
structured craft performing 

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extraordinary maneuvers. 
The strong official presence 

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only deepens the doubts. 
Eyewitnesses recalled uniformed 

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personnel arriving swiftly, 
securing the site and 

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discouraging discussion. 
Such a heavy-handed reaction 

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seems excessive if balloons were
truly to blame. 

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Even decades later, many 
witnesses remain adamant that 

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what they saw was no 
misidentification. 

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The intensity with which they 
recall the event, combined with 

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the unwillingness to accept the 
balloon explanation, suggests 

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something far more profound than
a mundane atmospheric 

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experiment. 
From an open minded perspective,

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the West Saw Counter remains one
of the most puzzling and 

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compelling UFO cases on record. 
The sheer number of witnesses, 

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the detailed and consistent 
description and the secrecy that

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followed. 
I'll point to the likelihood 

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that something extraordinary 
unfolded in that Melbourne 

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suburb in 1966. 
Something not as easily 

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dismissed as balloons drifting 
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Wow, really something. 
And let's go ahead and get into 

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this a little bit deeper. 
So I want to get it into this a 

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little bit further. 
I found this article over from 

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the State Library of Victoria 
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It says April 6th, 2024 Strange 
lights in the sky, The Westhall 

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UFO event 1966. 
It's got some original 

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illustrations of these flying 
saucers from back then from the 

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Clayton calendar. 
Cassette must have been the 

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newspaper says Westhall High 
School. 

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The Clayton calendar. 
Reprinted in Australian Flying 

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Saucer Review, June 1966, page 
13 Permission to repent. 

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Reprint kindly granted by the 
Secretary of Victoria UFO 

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Research Society. 
According to newspapers and 

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reports of the time, on April 
6th, 1966, something strange 

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happened at a patch of scrubby 
pine ringed bushland called The 

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Grange and Melbourne's sleepy 
southeastern suburbs. 

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The Grange is across the way 
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then Westhall High School and 
backs into farmland. 

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In the 1960s, it was visited by 
farmers looking for a place to 

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graze your cattle and by kids 
and teens looking for a place to

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explore. 
On April 6th, it was reportedly 

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the destination of some strange 
and unusual visitors. 

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Unidentified flying objects. 
The Dandenong Journal of 14 

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April leads with the evocative 
headlines. 

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Flying Saucer Mystery School 
silent as reports of the April 

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6th incident flooded in. 
With no official word from the 

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school, the team at Dandenong 
Journal attempted to piece the 

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story together. 
The Analog Journal April 14th, 

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1966 Page one. 
Permission to prevent. 

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Reprint kindly granted that it 
says. 

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Reports from eyewitnesses claim 
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a series of dazzling silvery 
objects appeared over over the 

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high school, moving toward the 
Grange. 

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One of the objects was larger 
than the others, with witnesses 

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describing it as round with a 
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underneath, or as an object that
was silver Gray and seemed to 

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thicken. 
Sometimes the thickening was 

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similar to when a disk is turned
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side. 
Witnesses also described many 

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private aircraft, mainly Cessna,
flying toward and around the 

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UFOs. 
A2 page. 

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Anonymous report from the 
Clayton calendar. 

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The W Ohio Journal, 
unfortunately not held by State 

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Library Victoria, goes into some
detail about the craft and 

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speculates that they may have 
been military aircraft coming 

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from nearby Moribah Airport. 
The account was republished in 

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its entirety in the June 1966 
issue of the Australian Flying 

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Saucer Review. 
The Victorian Flying Saucer 

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Research Society, later the 
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inspected the scene and 
interviewed a number of 

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witnesses, but at the time no 
exhaustive account was 

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published. 
The VFS Rs had members across 

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the state and one was based 
quite close to West Hall in the 

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southeastern suburb of Mormon, 
the site of another famous event

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purportedly tied to the 
paranormal, the disappearance of

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Frederick Valentek in 1978. 
Wow. 

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So a lot of weird stuff going on
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Then it goes on down and says 
while the event was heavily 

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reported in the local news 
outlets, it also hit the 

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Melbourne papers. 
The small write up in The Age 

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Object. 
Perhaps balloons deposits. 

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The witnesses may have in fact 
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noting the weather Bureau 
released a number at Laverton at

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8:30 AM and the westerly wind 
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area where the sighting was 
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We may never know a certain 
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What happened in Westfall that 
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The stories remain and the 
conviction of the witness has 

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not wavered. 
What we can be sure of is that 

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there are often mysteries where 
we least expect them. 

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Perhaps there's one in your own 
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Yeah, just the whole thing seems
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cover up on this. 
It just doesn't make any sense. 

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And the idea that these balloons
were involved, that really 

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doesn't seem plausible to me at 
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I've got I've got another 
article I want to look at that 

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goes into this a little bit 
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where they actually interviewed 
some witnesses that. 

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So I found this pretty recent 
article here September 3rd from 

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news.com dot AU. 
It says Australia's Roswell 

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calls for fresh inquiry into 60 
year old Westfall UFO mystery. 

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Was it aliens, a top secret 
government test ploon or just 

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hyped up kids Spreading a wild 
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This is written by Frank Chung 
begins by saying was it aliens, 

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a top secret government test 
ploon or just a hyped up kids 

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spreading a wild tale of flying 
saucers of a flying saucer 

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buzzing their playground. 
Nearly 60 years on from the 

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incident that has been dubbed 
Australia's Roswell, the federal

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government is facing fresh calls
to come clean on what it knows 

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about the world famous West All 
UFO mystery. 

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Next year will mark the 60th 
anniversary of the incident 

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known as Australia's largest 
mass UFO sighting. 

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It's been the subject of 
documentaries, books and 

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countless news articles and 
YouTube videos, with scores of 

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witnesses sharing their stories 
over the years. 

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But six decades on, the aging 
former students have never given

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an official answer about what 
they saw or what they were told 

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to keep quiet. 
They just want to know what it 

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was and they were told to shut 
up about it, said UFO researcher

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Grant Lavik, who has created a 
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calling an independent inquiry 
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Well, good luck with that. 
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at around 11:00 AM, more than 
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members of public observed 3 
metallic disc or flying saucers 

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with no obvious markings moving 
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Westhall High School and 
Westhall State School in Clayton

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South, about 25 kilometers 
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It was just before recess when a
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9 science class of a young 
teacher, Andrew Greenwood, 20. 

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This student bolted into the 
classroom and said Mr. 

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Greenwood. 
Mr. Greenwood, there's a flying 

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saucer outside. 
The recessed bell rang and there

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was a mass exodus of students 
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Levac. 
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his One of the objects descended
toward a wooded area about 

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kilometers South of the school, 
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The object landed among the pine
trees before quickly flying 

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away, leaving large circles of 
flat grass with well defined 

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discolored edges behind. 
Mr. Levac, who spoke to a number

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of witnesses for a 2023 YouTube 
documentary, noted they that 

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what they saw was not a weather 
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flying saucer in the shape of 
two saucers, upended and turned,

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facing each other. 
Marilyn Eastwood was 13 at the 

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time. 
She watched the three objects as

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she stood on the school sports 
Oval. 

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Kids were screaming and so 
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Get out onto the Oval and there 
was a flying saucers, she told 

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Mr. Levac looked up in the air 
and there was one just hovering 

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in the playground. 
She said she was among a group 

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of kids who ran over to the 
Grange. 

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I saw it where it actually 
landed. 

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The grass was flattened in a 
circular area, she said. 

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The speed that these flying 
saucers moved at was incredible.

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It was just unbelievable. 
Straight up and gone vertical, 

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horizontal gone. 
Just amazing. 

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Joey Clark was 12 at the time 
and vividly remembers the events

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of that day. 
I was in class when students 

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rushed in and told us the story 
she told news.com dot AU in 

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2016. 
We rushed down to the Oval and I

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saw three flying saucers on that
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My personal belief is they 
warned of this world. 

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They were definitely from 
somewhere else because I have 

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never seen anything like it at 
all, Miss Clark said the Army 

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and police then arrived. 
We were told we were hysterical 

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and it didn't happen. 
While Men in Black interviewed 

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some of the other kids, she said
men in black. 

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Those are exact words, Men in 
black. 

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Terry Peck was playing cricket 
on the school Oval when she saw 

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the saucer and decided to chase 
it to the Grange. 

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I was about 6 meters away from 
it, she told the Herald Sun. 

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It was bigger than a car in 
circular. 

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I think I saw some lights 
underneath. 

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The girls were there before me. 
One was terribly upset and they 

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were pale, really white, ghostly
white. 

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They just said they had passed 
out, fainted. 1 was taken to a 

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hospital in an ambulance. 
Now she's 20 feet away from this

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thing and she says it's a flying
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That doesn't sound like a 
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Every year on April 6th, a 
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gather for a reunion at the 
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They this is that pasture area. 
They were talking about what the

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sinks landed at. 
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share memories and keep them 
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frustration that the government 
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explanation for what they 
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Most importantly, they want to 
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up about it. 
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the area was flooded with the 
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personnel and media outlets. 
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response to some weather 
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I don't know. 
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coverage of the incident on its 
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issues, and 9 News also reported
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speaking to the Greater 
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Former 10 year student Ken 
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20m round craft fly over the 
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So you're talking about this 
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something. 
So many of us saw it. 

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Mr. Stallard said. 
It never occurred to us that it 

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didn't happen or was an optical 
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If it was, it was a pretty good 
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It was 1966, the space race was 
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It was mysterious time. 
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claimed they were told privately
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about the incident. 
Now, why would you bother 

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telling people that? 
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something. 
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ad hoc assembly was called and 
the headmaster told all the 

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students, you're not to say 
anything about this event, 

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you're not to talk about it, 
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Mr. Lewak said that was 
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number of students. 
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they thought were government 
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military. 
That has been a source of their 

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frustration for so long. 
Yeah, well-being abused by the 

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government and Australia is 
terrible about this. 

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I mean, they've confiscated 
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They had the lockdowns during 
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I don't think of Australia as a 
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And I think you can see this car
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to live. 
Jacqueline Argent said she was 

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one of the first three kids over
the fence to look for the UFO 

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landing site. 
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have been an experimental type 
aircraft but nothing has emerged

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like that after all these years.
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Miss Argent claims she was 
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office and interrogated by three
men immediately following the 

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incident. 
They had good quality suits and 

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were well spoken, she said. 
They said I suppose you saw 

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little green men. 
I spoke to my parents about it 

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at the time and they were pretty
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In 2021, Mr. Greenwood In 2021, 
Mr. Greenwood came forward 

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publicly for the first time, 
confirming he also witnessed the

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objects and claiming he was 
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Now listen, 1966, the Australian
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doesn't have anything like this 
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If they do, it's pretty 
criminal. 

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So they're either we have a 
government that is so criminal 

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if they're hiding the Super top 
secret stuff from us and you 

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know, we're suffering because of
it, or their inclusion with 

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whatever these things are 
telling us to be quiet about it.

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In 2021, Mr. Green looking 
forward publicly for the first 

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time, confirming also witness 
the objects and claiming he was 

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threatened to keep quiet. 
I can remember running into the 

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Oval, looking into the sky and 
seeing these things and just 

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standing there absolutely 
transfixed, Mr. Greenwood told 

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the 7th Spotlight. 
I haven't seen anything in my 

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life like it before, haven't 
seen anything since. 

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However, Mr. Greenwood, who 
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had a different regulation to 
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It was a grey, almost 
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object which moved with some 
degree of precision in the sky, 

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he said. 
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weeks later he was visited by 
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Force officers, one in a uniform
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suit. 
He claimed the men threatened 

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his job if he spoke about what 
he saw. 

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Absolutely I was threatened, he 
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I was told that I should not say
anything about it, Mr. Greenwood

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said. 
It beggars belief for me and 

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Australia. 
We've never had an official 

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investigation and flatly I think
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Of course there's been a cover 
up that are threatening people 

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to even talk about it. 
I think someone has buried the 

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Department of Supply report, 
which I know exists, he said. 

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In this petition Mr. Levoque 
writes the allegations of a 

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government cover up including 
the rapid responsive military 

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personnel, confiscation of 
evidence, witness intimidation 

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and non disclosure of a 
comprehensive report compiled by

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then Department of Supply 
warrant investigation. 

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Despite the risk posed to 
people, property and safety of 

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flight, no official explanation 
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government as to the source, 
identity and a tent of what was 

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observed at West Hall, he 
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Article Gozano says he has 
called on the RAF to revisit its

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long held position since 1996. 
That it sees no scientific or 

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other compelling reason to 
investigate or collect reports 

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of UFOs now refer to you as 
unidentified anomalous 

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phenomena. 
As this continues to be the 

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official position of the 
Department of Defence today, an 

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investigation may help inform a 
formal view of this long held 

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position, he writes. 
The petition has attracted more 

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than 350 signatures. 
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50 signatures, it is usually 
forwarded to the relevant 

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minister for a response. 
Defence Minister Richard 

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Murray's has been contacted for 
comment. 

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Hazel Edwards was an English and
math teacher at West Hall on the

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day of the incident and believes
it has been blown out of 

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proportion. 
The self-proclaimed skeptic 

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suggests overly excited kids 
made-up the story and were 

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responsible for the media hype. 
I think there were a lot of kids

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that were hyped up. 
She told thenews.com in 2016. 

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Look at the so-called evidence. 
Most of it is just hearsay. 

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Well, I hate to tell you, but 
it's called eyewitness account. 

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Although federal and state 
government agencies refused to 

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comment about the incident at 
the time, government documents 

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unearthed in 2014 offer an 
explanation for the sighting. 

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Now here you go with the 
parallel narrative. 

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The documents revealed a secret 
radiation testing project known 

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as Hibal HIBAL L Program, a 
joint US Australian initiative 

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developed to monitor atmospheric
radiation levels using large 

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silver balloons equipped with 
sensors between 1960 and 1969. 

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Each balloon was equipped with a
180 kilogram payload, So what 

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about 4 lbs, And was followed by
a light aircraft tasked with 

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tracking it and triggering its 
12m parachute via radio signal. 

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UFO researcher Kenneth 
Basterfield said examinations of

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the documents held by the 
National Archives and former 

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Department of Supply indicate 
the mysterious flying object may

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have been a test balloon that 
was blown off course after being

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launched from Mildura. 
My hypothesis is that the 

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incident involved not a UFO but 
a high altitude balloon, it's 

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parachute and large payload, he 
told News Corp in 2016. 

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The Westfall object was 
described as being a white 

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silver color, which could 
describe the color of the he 

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ball, balloon or parachute. 
Of course that doesn't describe 

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how these things moved. 
The one eyewitness, remember she

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said that they moved at very 
high speed. 

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Mitchell Vox said that 
explanation were true. 

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Surely it's classified 60 years 
later that is now not the case. 

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And if it's prosaic, however, it
was a high altitude balloon or 

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some other technology that was 
being tested. 

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Why doesn't the government come 
out and admit? 

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What it was, he said, if it was 
something that was maybe not 

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prosaic, it's a compelling 
reason for the RAF to consider 

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diverting resources to the 
investigation and reporting UAP.

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Well, this is this classic. 
I mean, you have this UFO lands 

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in this pasture, A bunch of kids
see it, a bunch of teachers see 

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it. 
They see it land, they see it 

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take off. 
Not really sure what's going on 

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with these things. 
There's multiple ones and then 

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they get visits. 
They get visits from military 

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people, they get visits from men
in black, they get visits from 

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guys in suits told to shut up 
and not say anything, basically 

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trying to intimidate them. 
But it was a little bit late 

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because the story I already got 
now. 

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So what do you have to do? 
Well, you have to create a 

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parallel narrative. 
That's what you do with all 

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these things to try to plant, to
try to plant seeds of doubts, 

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whether it's three years later 
or 30 years later or 70 years 

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later. 
Like with Roswell, you always 

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have to keep generating more 
lies to try to cover up the 

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truth because the truth never 
changes. 

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And right now this has been 60 
years. 

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They're just waiting for these 
people to die off and hoping 

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that the next one doesn't come 
along too soon, that they have 

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to lie about it. 
But I think this is overall a 

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good case and it shows that 
doesn't matter if it's the US or

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Australia or wherever. 
You have this classic cover up 

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that goes on with these things, 
whether it's flying saucers 

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landing in the United States or 
Australia or or or face peelers 

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in Peru. 
It seems like no matter what 

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happens, you have a observation 
and a counter attack on local 

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people. 
They talk about it, they report 

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the facts. 
Then you have the skeptics come 

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in. 
They think that their opinion is

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so much more important than 
anybody else's. 

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I guess it gets so tired of 
them. 

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They're just so annoying. 
And then you have the 

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government. 
Sometimes what you actually come

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in and try to bully people, 
intimidate people and threaten 

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people. 
But it just goes to show that no

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matter how hard you try, body 
always rises to the top man. 

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The people are always found out.
And I think with some of these 

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long held UFO cases that have 
been, that have been maybe 

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happened 40506070 years ago that
had become part of the UFO lore,

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that as time goes on, the people
that were so actively trying to 

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keep this stuff under wraps, 
they're losing power, they're 

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dying off. 
So maybe some of the stuff will 

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actually come to the surface. 
We can see what really happened.

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In my opinion, I think we can 
almost assume the worst. 

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Until next time. 
UFO warning over and out.