Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the disappearance of pilot
Frederick Valentich. That's correct, the
disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich.
Now this is an old case, happened clear back in October
of 1978. Seems to be churning through the
news cycle again, so I thought we'd take a look at it.
The first title we get is from news18.com.
It says 120 year old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich
suddenly disappeared while flying.
It's written by the staff article.
It says the world is full of unproven claims about the
existence of aliens. There are many cases which often
make us wonder, do aliens exist? One such case which bewildered
the minds of Ufologists and supported the notion of aliens
inhabiting Earth took place on October 21st 1978.
A 20 year old pilot, Frederick Valentich was flying from
Moorabbin Airport in southern Melbourne, Australia to King
Island, but after 45 minutes the plane suddenly disappeared.
Just before it disappeared the pilot told the Aviation Traffic
Control team that is flying approximately 1000 feet altitude
and was being chased by an unknown craft.
However, after the investigation, it was revealed
that there was no aircraft which was following the plane at
Frederick Bellantitch. Ufologists claim that it was
aliens who hijacked Frederick's plane.
The aircraft has not yet been found.
Now of course 1000 feet's not very high off the water there.
You can look at this locations. The very southern end of
Australia seems like a pretty remote area actually it goes on,
it says. According to the Metro report.
Audio of Frederick's last conversation with the pilot
still exists in which his voice was heard and his last dialogue
with air traffic control who reportedly said that this is not
a plane followed by a long and loud noise.
The signal to the pilot was lost.
At the time the plane was flying over a straight triangle in the
ocean between Victoria and Tasmania, which was notorious
for the disappearance of ships and planes.
Frederick was a four-star rated pilot, hence the possibility of
not identifying the aircraft was negligible, was negligible as
experts claim. On the day of the incident,
Frederick left for King Island in a light plane.
He told the officers that he was going to pick up his friends and
we'll get a crayfish on his way back.
As per reports. At 7:00 PM he radioed Melbourne
Flight Services that an unknown aircraft was following him at an
altitude of 4500 feet. Four bright lights are also
installed in it, he added. Frederick told them that the
green light was reflecting from the aircraft and was moving
forward at a fast pace. Then air traffic control
officers told him that there were no other aircraft on that
route. Before losing contact, Frederick
told the aviation control that there was a problem with his
engine. After a few minutes, the contact
with Frederick was lost. Five years later, in 1983, an
engine cow flap was found floating on Flinders Island.
The serial number showed that it was a Cessna 182 aircraft which
had departed with Frederick. The investigation is still
underway. Yeah, kind of euphemistically.
They're saying the investigation is still underway.
I don't imagine this thing's been investigated in a very long
time. There's another article here
from metro.co.uk concerning this tragic case of this young pilot.
He went missing so many years ago.
The eerie final transmission of pilot who reported seeing a UFO
in Vanish Without a Trace was by Katie Boyd in March 28th, 2020.
Fourth The final transmission of a pilot who vanished nearly 50
years ago has caused debate about what really happened
amongst government officials and ufologists alike.
On October 21st, 1970, eight 28 year old pilot Frederick
Valentich was flying from Moribian Airport in southern
Melbourne, Australia to King Island.
Then he disappeared about 45 minutes into the flight.
This is a pretty young guy. He told Air traffic control that
he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1000 feet above
him and that his engine had been running roughly.
Now we've said that he was 45 feet off the ground, so about a
mile up he sees this UFO Audio of his final transmission still
exists, and you can hear Frederick eerily saying it's not
a aircraft with a long metallic noise following until the signal
cuts out. He was flying over the bass
straight triangles in area of sea between Victoria and
Tasmania, which was notorious for its ships and planes going
missing. Let's imagine he's going along.
He's just being stocked by this thing, says.
You can hear this low metallic screech, this noise.
It's almost like the plane's being loaded up into a UFO or
something. To this day, Frederick's freight
is still uncertain, but metro.co.uk has rounded up
everything we know for sure about his disappearance.
At the time of his disappearance, Frederick
Valentich racked up about 150 hours of flying time.
He held a Class 4 instrument rating, which allowed him to fly
at night, but only in visual meteorological conditions.
He had been rejected from joining the Royal Australian Air
Force twice because he didn't have enough qualifications.
He also was studying part time to become a commercial pilot,
but it also fell twice at all five commercial license exam
subjects. So maybe he wasn't like the best
pilot, but he still was able to get this thing off the ground.
But he was desperate to have a career in aviation and was a
member of the RAAF Air Training Corps.
The morning before his disappearance, Frederick failed
three more commercial license subjects and he'd also been
involved in flying incidents. He once strayed into a
controlled zone in Sydney, which got him a warning, and on 2
occasions he deliberately flew into a cloud with prosecution
considered for the latter incidents.
They have talked to guys that are skydivers.
They tell me those clouds can be extremely dangerous.
Frederick's dad, Guido, said his son was an ardent believer in
UFOs and was worried he would be attacked by them while flying
after. I wonder if he didn't have some
kind of previous experience. Maybe it's still not known why
Frederick set off for King Island and a Cessna 1821 light
aircraft. That evening.
He told flight officials that he was picking up friends.
Well, he told others he was going to pick up crayfish.
Both of these accounts were found to be untrue.
He also had an informed King Island airport that he intended
to land there, which was against standard procedure.
So you see a guy here that maybe has some personal issues going
into this whole thing. Very strange, Frederick radioed
Melbourne flight service just seven after just after 7:00 PM
to say an unidentified aircraft was following him at 4500 feet.
He was told there was no known traffic at that height.
He described seeing a huge aircraft which appeared to be
eliminated by 4 bright landing lights.
Describing it as having a shiny metal surface and green light,
he said it past 1000 feet above him and it was moving at a high
speed. Frederick then said the craft
was approaching him from the east and suspected the other
pilot might be toying with him on purpose.
He then said he was experiencing engine problems and was asked by
the flight service to identify the aircraft.
He simply said it's not an aircraft.
Freddie's final transmission was interrupted by metallic scraping
sounds before contact was lost. That's the weird part there.
What would the scraping sounds be coming from?
A CN air search was launched and for four days shipping traffic,
a RAAF airplane +8 civilian aircraft search an area of more
than 1000 square miles. However, the search was scrapped
on October 25th without success. Five years on, in 1983, an
engine Cal flap was found washed ashore on Flinders Island.
The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation asked the Navy
Resource Department about the likelihood that could have come
from Frederick's plane wreckage and traveled to its final
destination. The Bureau noted that the part
was identified as having come from assessed on 182 aircraft
between a certain range of serial numbers, which included
Frederick's aircraft. So they're actually making kind
of an assumption there, I think. I mean, maybe it's from his
craft, maybe it's not. A number of potential
explanations for the disappearance have been mooted
over the years. One suggests that Frederick
stakes his own disappearance, potentially landing near Cape
Otway, located about a 45 minute flight from starting point.
Melbourne police received reports of a light aircraft
landing not far from the Cape at around the same time as his
disappearance. Another suggests that Frederick
became disoriented of flying upside down.
This could have explained the lights he saw, which would have
been his own lights reflected in the sea before crashing into the
water. However, this is less likely as
a Cessna he was flying had a gravity feed fuel system,
meaning it isn't capable of flying upside down for long
periods as the engine would have cut out.
Another theory of suicide. However, interviews with doctors
and colleagues who knew Frederick ruled this out.
A more recent interview in 2013, suggested that inexperienced
Frederick was deceived by the illusion of a tilted horizon.
He could have then try to compensate, sending the plane
into a graveyard spiral. The review by the astronomer and
retired United States Air Force pilot James Mcgaga and author
Joe Nichols say the G force of the tightening spiral would have
decreased fuel flow, which would cause the engine problems.
The final potential explanation is aliens UFO logist speculated
that a UFO either destroyed Fredericks Plain or abducted him
and say there were reports of an erratically moving green light
in the sky around the same time of his final transmission.
Now that's interesting. The group Ground Saucers Watch
says pictures taken on the day of the disappearance show a fast
moving object exiting the water near the Cape Otway Lighthouse,
according to UFO writer Jerome Clark.
Ground Saucer Watch argued that they showed a bona fide unknown
flying object of moderate dimensions, apparently
surrounded by a cloud like vapor exhaust residue, although the
pictures were not clear enough to identify the object.
The Bass Strait Triangle is a area of shallow water between
the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania.
Its average depth is about 160 feet and the area is about 190
miles wide than 120 miles from north to South.
Prevailing winds and currents are westerly, but they are
divided by the King Island at the Western Interest to the
Strait, which can cause unpredictable sea conditions.
All shipping to the busy ports of Melbourne, Stanley, Burning,
Davenport, Bell Bay and Lanciston and the Bass Strait
Islands such as King Island and Flinders Island must pass
through the Bass Strait and this is also the route of choice for
many ships passing from the Australian West to East Coast.
Wow goes on. It says most air traffic between
Tasmania and Australia mainland flies at least in part over or
adjacent to it. And hundreds of vessels, from
fishing boats up to the size of boat carriers have been lost in
the vast street over the years. Reasons including hitting reefs
running the ground on the coastline or river bars are
foundering due to poor weather, so it seems like kind of a
dangerous area always gone through.
They have a whole list of ships have been lost here in 1858, it
says. The worship HMS 1901 The s s
Federal disappeared 1906 to Ferdinand Fisher.
The s s Simuna J Schooner it says looks like a 192019341935
Wow, just right on down the line. 1972, says A de Havilland.
Tiger Moth flown by Brenda Heen and Max Pierce disappeared.
1978, The yacht Charleston disappeared while selling to
Sydney. Yeah, lots of disappearances and
just strange happenings down there.
I found this an interesting case.
It's just a young guy. Does sound like maybe there were
possibly some emotional problems that were going on here.
His stated mind's question, but the fact that he's reporting
seeing this thing in real time and then the sound that it makes
before he disappears. Definitely a strange case in the
disappearance of Frederick Valentich.
Until next time, this is UFO warning.
Over and out.