1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:05,240 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:08,360 In this episode we're talking about the disappearance of pilot 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,960 Frederick Valentich. That's correct, the 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:14,240 disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,000 Now this is an old case, happened clear back in October 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,680 of 1978. Seems to be churning through the 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,320 news cycle again, so I thought we'd take a look at it. 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,880 The first title we get is from news18.com. 9 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,360 It says 120 year old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:31,920 suddenly disappeared while flying. 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,840 It's written by the staff article. 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,200 It says the world is full of unproven claims about the 13 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,840 existence of aliens. There are many cases which often 14 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,440 make us wonder, do aliens exist? One such case which bewildered 15 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,080 the minds of Ufologists and supported the notion of aliens 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,920 inhabiting Earth took place on October 21st 1978. 17 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:55,880 A 20 year old pilot, Frederick Valentich was flying from 18 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,200 Moorabbin Airport in southern Melbourne, Australia to King 19 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,239 Island, but after 45 minutes the plane suddenly disappeared. 20 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,440 Just before it disappeared the pilot told the Aviation Traffic 21 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,480 Control team that is flying approximately 1000 feet altitude 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,280 and was being chased by an unknown craft. 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,240 However, after the investigation, it was revealed 24 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,880 that there was no aircraft which was following the plane at 25 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:24,120 Frederick Bellantitch. Ufologists claim that it was 26 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,120 aliens who hijacked Frederick's plane. 27 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,840 The aircraft has not yet been found. 28 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,360 Now of course 1000 feet's not very high off the water there. 29 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,600 You can look at this locations. The very southern end of 30 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:41,240 Australia seems like a pretty remote area actually it goes on, 31 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,840 it says. According to the Metro report. 32 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,760 Audio of Frederick's last conversation with the pilot 33 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,960 still exists in which his voice was heard and his last dialogue 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,360 with air traffic control who reportedly said that this is not 35 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,520 a plane followed by a long and loud noise. 36 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:58,720 The signal to the pilot was lost. 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 At the time the plane was flying over a straight triangle in the 38 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,440 ocean between Victoria and Tasmania, which was notorious 39 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,360 for the disappearance of ships and planes. 40 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,040 Frederick was a four-star rated pilot, hence the possibility of 41 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,720 not identifying the aircraft was negligible, was negligible as 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,160 experts claim. On the day of the incident, 43 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,640 Frederick left for King Island in a light plane. 44 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,360 He told the officers that he was going to pick up his friends and 45 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,240 we'll get a crayfish on his way back. 46 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:32,080 As per reports. At 7:00 PM he radioed Melbourne 47 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,000 Flight Services that an unknown aircraft was following him at an 48 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,760 altitude of 4500 feet. Four bright lights are also 49 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,720 installed in it, he added. Frederick told them that the 50 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,720 green light was reflecting from the aircraft and was moving 51 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,320 forward at a fast pace. Then air traffic control 52 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,880 officers told him that there were no other aircraft on that 53 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,000 route. Before losing contact, Frederick 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,080 told the aviation control that there was a problem with his 55 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,960 engine. After a few minutes, the contact 56 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,280 with Frederick was lost. Five years later, in 1983, an 57 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,320 engine cow flap was found floating on Flinders Island. 58 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,920 The serial number showed that it was a Cessna 182 aircraft which 59 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,040 had departed with Frederick. The investigation is still 60 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:22,160 underway. Yeah, kind of euphemistically. 61 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,440 They're saying the investigation is still underway. 62 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,280 I don't imagine this thing's been investigated in a very long 63 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:29,040 time. There's another article here 64 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,920 from metro.co.uk concerning this tragic case of this young pilot. 65 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:34,840 He went missing so many years ago. 66 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,760 The eerie final transmission of pilot who reported seeing a UFO 67 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,880 in Vanish Without a Trace was by Katie Boyd in March 28th, 2020. 68 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,840 Fourth The final transmission of a pilot who vanished nearly 50 69 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,360 years ago has caused debate about what really happened 70 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,360 amongst government officials and ufologists alike. 71 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,920 On October 21st, 1970, eight 28 year old pilot Frederick 72 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,400 Valentich was flying from Moribian Airport in southern 73 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,800 Melbourne, Australia to King Island. 74 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,000 Then he disappeared about 45 minutes into the flight. 75 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:10,520 This is a pretty young guy. He told Air traffic control that 76 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:14,200 he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1000 feet above 77 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,839 him and that his engine had been running roughly. 78 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,839 Now we've said that he was 45 feet off the ground, so about a 79 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,120 mile up he sees this UFO Audio of his final transmission still 80 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,640 exists, and you can hear Frederick eerily saying it's not 81 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:33,440 a aircraft with a long metallic noise following until the signal 82 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,320 cuts out. He was flying over the bass 83 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,840 straight triangles in area of sea between Victoria and 84 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,440 Tasmania, which was notorious for its ships and planes going 85 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,160 missing. Let's imagine he's going along. 86 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,120 He's just being stocked by this thing, says. 87 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,480 You can hear this low metallic screech, this noise. 88 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,360 It's almost like the plane's being loaded up into a UFO or 89 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,200 something. To this day, Frederick's freight 90 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,480 is still uncertain, but metro.co.uk has rounded up 91 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:02,760 everything we know for sure about his disappearance. 92 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,320 At the time of his disappearance, Frederick 93 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:10,120 Valentich racked up about 150 hours of flying time. 94 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,040 He held a Class 4 instrument rating, which allowed him to fly 95 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,160 at night, but only in visual meteorological conditions. 96 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,680 He had been rejected from joining the Royal Australian Air 97 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,000 Force twice because he didn't have enough qualifications. 98 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,120 He also was studying part time to become a commercial pilot, 99 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,960 but it also fell twice at all five commercial license exam 100 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,560 subjects. So maybe he wasn't like the best 101 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,120 pilot, but he still was able to get this thing off the ground. 102 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,160 But he was desperate to have a career in aviation and was a 103 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,000 member of the RAAF Air Training Corps. 104 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,280 The morning before his disappearance, Frederick failed 105 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,640 three more commercial license subjects and he'd also been 106 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,920 involved in flying incidents. He once strayed into a 107 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:58,680 controlled zone in Sydney, which got him a warning, and on 2 108 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,360 occasions he deliberately flew into a cloud with prosecution 109 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,560 considered for the latter incidents. 110 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,280 They have talked to guys that are skydivers. 111 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,080 They tell me those clouds can be extremely dangerous. 112 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,920 Frederick's dad, Guido, said his son was an ardent believer in 113 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:17,840 UFOs and was worried he would be attacked by them while flying 114 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:19,720 after. I wonder if he didn't have some 115 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,920 kind of previous experience. Maybe it's still not known why 116 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,000 Frederick set off for King Island and a Cessna 1821 light 117 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 aircraft. That evening. 118 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,880 He told flight officials that he was picking up friends. 119 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,800 Well, he told others he was going to pick up crayfish. 120 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:36,400 Both of these accounts were found to be untrue. 121 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,560 He also had an informed King Island airport that he intended 122 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,560 to land there, which was against standard procedure. 123 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,280 So you see a guy here that maybe has some personal issues going 124 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,600 into this whole thing. Very strange, Frederick radioed 125 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,560 Melbourne flight service just seven after just after 7:00 PM 126 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,640 to say an unidentified aircraft was following him at 4500 feet. 127 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:03,840 He was told there was no known traffic at that height. 128 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,680 He described seeing a huge aircraft which appeared to be 129 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:10,680 eliminated by 4 bright landing lights. 130 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,280 Describing it as having a shiny metal surface and green light, 131 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,600 he said it past 1000 feet above him and it was moving at a high 132 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,400 speed. Frederick then said the craft 133 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,720 was approaching him from the east and suspected the other 134 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:26,920 pilot might be toying with him on purpose. 135 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:31,440 He then said he was experiencing engine problems and was asked by 136 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,800 the flight service to identify the aircraft. 137 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,000 He simply said it's not an aircraft. 138 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:40,360 Freddie's final transmission was interrupted by metallic scraping 139 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:44,360 sounds before contact was lost. That's the weird part there. 140 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,160 What would the scraping sounds be coming from? 141 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,320 A CN air search was launched and for four days shipping traffic, 142 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:55,680 a RAAF airplane +8 civilian aircraft search an area of more 143 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,800 than 1000 square miles. However, the search was scrapped 144 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:05,080 on October 25th without success. Five years on, in 1983, an 145 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:09,320 engine Cal flap was found washed ashore on Flinders Island. 146 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:13,560 The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation asked the Navy 147 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,720 Resource Department about the likelihood that could have come 148 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,920 from Frederick's plane wreckage and traveled to its final 149 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,200 destination. The Bureau noted that the part 150 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,600 was identified as having come from assessed on 182 aircraft 151 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,920 between a certain range of serial numbers, which included 152 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:32,559 Frederick's aircraft. So they're actually making kind 153 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:35,080 of an assumption there, I think. I mean, maybe it's from his 154 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,720 craft, maybe it's not. A number of potential 155 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,159 explanations for the disappearance have been mooted 156 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:43,720 over the years. One suggests that Frederick 157 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,120 stakes his own disappearance, potentially landing near Cape 158 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,840 Otway, located about a 45 minute flight from starting point. 159 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,040 Melbourne police received reports of a light aircraft 160 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:57,200 landing not far from the Cape at around the same time as his 161 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,560 disappearance. Another suggests that Frederick 162 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:02,720 became disoriented of flying upside down. 163 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,000 This could have explained the lights he saw, which would have 164 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,480 been his own lights reflected in the sea before crashing into the 165 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,040 water. However, this is less likely as 166 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,640 a Cessna he was flying had a gravity feed fuel system, 167 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:19,240 meaning it isn't capable of flying upside down for long 168 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,240 periods as the engine would have cut out. 169 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,600 Another theory of suicide. However, interviews with doctors 170 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,640 and colleagues who knew Frederick ruled this out. 171 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,200 A more recent interview in 2013, suggested that inexperienced 172 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,120 Frederick was deceived by the illusion of a tilted horizon. 173 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,760 He could have then try to compensate, sending the plane 174 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,600 into a graveyard spiral. The review by the astronomer and 175 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,400 retired United States Air Force pilot James Mcgaga and author 176 00:09:47,760 --> 00:09:51,760 Joe Nichols say the G force of the tightening spiral would have 177 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,240 decreased fuel flow, which would cause the engine problems. 178 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,760 The final potential explanation is aliens UFO logist speculated 179 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:03,520 that a UFO either destroyed Fredericks Plain or abducted him 180 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,880 and say there were reports of an erratically moving green light 181 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,960 in the sky around the same time of his final transmission. 182 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,960 Now that's interesting. The group Ground Saucers Watch 183 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,760 says pictures taken on the day of the disappearance show a fast 184 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:22,160 moving object exiting the water near the Cape Otway Lighthouse, 185 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,840 according to UFO writer Jerome Clark. 186 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,040 Ground Saucer Watch argued that they showed a bona fide unknown 187 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,320 flying object of moderate dimensions, apparently 188 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:37,360 surrounded by a cloud like vapor exhaust residue, although the 189 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,040 pictures were not clear enough to identify the object. 190 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,880 The Bass Strait Triangle is a area of shallow water between 191 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,440 the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania. 192 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,880 Its average depth is about 160 feet and the area is about 190 193 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,280 miles wide than 120 miles from north to South. 194 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,520 Prevailing winds and currents are westerly, but they are 195 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,800 divided by the King Island at the Western Interest to the 196 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,200 Strait, which can cause unpredictable sea conditions. 197 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,480 All shipping to the busy ports of Melbourne, Stanley, Burning, 198 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,840 Davenport, Bell Bay and Lanciston and the Bass Strait 199 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,520 Islands such as King Island and Flinders Island must pass 200 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,320 through the Bass Strait and this is also the route of choice for 201 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,200 many ships passing from the Australian West to East Coast. 202 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,120 Wow goes on. It says most air traffic between 203 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,000 Tasmania and Australia mainland flies at least in part over or 204 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,720 adjacent to it. And hundreds of vessels, from 205 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,240 fishing boats up to the size of boat carriers have been lost in 206 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,840 the vast street over the years. Reasons including hitting reefs 207 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,760 running the ground on the coastline or river bars are 208 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,480 foundering due to poor weather, so it seems like kind of a 209 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:46,080 dangerous area always gone through. 210 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,880 They have a whole list of ships have been lost here in 1858, it 211 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,480 says. The worship HMS 1901 The s s 212 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,200 Federal disappeared 1906 to Ferdinand Fisher. 213 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:04,560 The s s Simuna J Schooner it says looks like a 192019341935 214 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,320 Wow, just right on down the line. 1972, says A de Havilland. 215 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,000 Tiger Moth flown by Brenda Heen and Max Pierce disappeared. 216 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:16,320 1978, The yacht Charleston disappeared while selling to 217 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,120 Sydney. Yeah, lots of disappearances and 218 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,200 just strange happenings down there. 219 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,120 I found this an interesting case. 220 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:26,000 It's just a young guy. Does sound like maybe there were 221 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,680 possibly some emotional problems that were going on here. 222 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,840 His stated mind's question, but the fact that he's reporting 223 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,680 seeing this thing in real time and then the sound that it makes 224 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,560 before he disappears. Definitely a strange case in the 225 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:39,160 disappearance of Frederick Valentich. 226 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:41,520 Until next time, this is UFO warning. 227 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,400 Over and out.