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UFOTERR
ON TRAIN
A KALGOORLIE rail"ay crew cringed terrified when a batdlilip-sized
UFO s"ooped OD their speeding train.
Thidl: wiUte smolle belcb- -__ _,........_ ......_.. ........ ..
ID& from the u-
bausts blacked out
passenger windows on the
Translloe espnss for se\-
eral minutes.
ADd that us Gilly tbe be--
ginning or the IDtruders'
chilling utics.
AD offidal coatp11ter rt-
port from Port Augusta Rail
Control Centre coanrms
that mysterious cran bazed
t1u'ee other trains wlddn a
600 kJD radias oa tbe same
night - September 9 this
year.
lotripingly, all the ... , .
tadts" happened at die same
time.' paa.
"''t-e li'Orked - the raiJ.
ways ror 25yars-and I've
FtC 1..--ntt< SYSTD1
YJEW t0.9!D<t" - S PIEI10
P.eg. iHulllllbe'l" '
UPCRTS F"R:H 3:'.1<;, OF
;;.f ._.,,. ,.. .
-- oON!) 2 CH n5l '""""" "
A(JVJRO T"'-" "><ESE TJO!.JNS &ED< BI..UE
:!2301'1JtS<C.Si),2108hR'S<s.J.ST>.THE CREW OfF._...,..-
THF< FOUOioiED A .... IL l!'rrD ZlfotrHUS
AUAILA&lE BY C>T At;GUSTA TRAI"'
* A TRAIN control report of the lltcldent.
9 pm wben I noliced a verti- "' goc oo ay to
cal, peacU-sbaped light in Greg Bourae1 'tile guard.
die watern 8;)'. He'd seen the tJFO too, as
"I quickly realised dlat had my co-drtWI' Mick Yu
lids was a wtaite exbaat trail rynich.
r,_ u object that-bur- "I stopped dlllnlln tort-
lliD& toward us at colossal port what w happenio&,
speed. but I did so, the
craft yan{st.e4,
.. WithJa aboat ZO sec-
ODds, It W1ll swoopillg at tbe
lnlia.
"However, illtft behiDd It
a TaSt cload Of esllaust
smoke.
This disslpatN Into a
huoe .. ... ._. ...,
wa> to z.ana .
Ra.ilwa) liMstigators are
deepl) puzJed by tile fad
that three oilier tniDs wen
buzzed b)' UFOs at pndsdy
9 pm - the same time as
the ZaadiiiS inddad.
"llae OCher rqJOrts came
rrc. crews and
at Baso. Wai.SOII and MaD-
curl - aD hundreds rlld-
Joetres apart," a
c:oatrol1er told me.
.. Tile wltaesses all de-
scribed the same thiag: huge
objects willa lights blaDag
aad poariD& smot.e.
ever seen anything re-
iCODtraptlon," Traasllne
craft was obYiously
lalefli&adly guided because
It deliberately pace
wltla 115.
thin, vapor-like mist wbldt
, er Lou 8ea:ardLi told
"' was the first to spot die
111ina-
.. " e were a boat 14 Jtf.
lomdres ease or Zanlhus at
thing was ringN
wllh about six wllite liglds
- each or lllem pourill&
5IDOke that made me c:oogb.
Despite iU colos5al size, it
was toCally -,., si== len = t __
g th June.
" ..,
From Tc\Atb Nrwspgper Of E)(=tfpC
''I'd to know wllat the
The IHir.ziags posed oo
pau:le lo a spobsnlaa for
Pertll Obsa-Yatorv.
"WWuulllilepeopie saw was
pi'OMhly space jWik rt-en
teriaa the abllcl5plleft," he
....
The expJaDation angered
driver Beccarelli.
"It's easy to sit at a desk
like tUt, .. he said.
"But we wen 011 the spot
- aad we know what we
saw."'
23B1> DE.c..t.MSER 1989,
'"
UFO specialist Bill Chalker in Padstow where an Undentilled Flying Qbiect
was recently seen
THEY are here!
Reports of Unidentified
Flying Objects (UFOs)
have come in from
Re,esby, Padstow and
Enco ers
Picnic Point.
A reseatch group, based in
West Pennant lhlls. dalm-
mg to be dedicated to scien-
tific investigations has been
looking mto the s1gblings,
wh1ch mdudc Oamtng
of fire \\1th wtng-llke projec-
uons of hght. low-fl}ing 11-
tummatcd ob;cct and even
a skm d1sorder asSOCJ.ated
wtlh close encounters
of second
l! FO I"' csugatJOn centre
ce>ordmator B11l Otalkcr.
an mdustnal chcmtst v. tth a
Unt\Crstt} SClt."tlOC: degree IS
lcadmg the JO\esUpllons.
kind,
Challcer said. -It sudden!}
dm:ctl} a"'"a) from
the pornt for another SOm
stopped mom.:ntarih b<!fore
mo,mg directly up.:.
On March 25 last }ear at
Sah Pan Creek an illumt-
nated obJect travclhng at
low altitude -wa, also
seen by l" o men
m:ar the rallY. a)' bndge.
The two bad
directed the group"s ancn-
"lt seemed lo have tYoO tion to another low level
unusual Y.1Dg-hke pro;ec- encounter at the P1cmc
tions about the light," Mr Pomt Power Statmn on
The most recent s1ghting
reported 10 htm v.-as on
December I at Pscmc Pomt
when two men satd tbe' sav.
.. a large dtSC of O:i'ming
ClCcular ltght'" about SOm to
60m av.-ay at an altitude of
200m. movmg m a northerly
duect10n
ose
September I 5 m 1978
On th s date a moton'>l
and v.oman passenger re-
ported secmg a huge rec-
tangular aenal obJect pass
m a tra)cctorvcon-
st tent v.1th the maJOr power
hnes m the v CtDlt).
The -w1tness also reported
findmg a strange skm dis-
orderon his knee v.htch had
not been tltcrc before the
sighung.
Others Wlth further mfor-
mauon about stghtmgs are
asked to phone 484 4680
TUE,S DAY J-.8 TH
T
JANVE\R'1 199Z.
I
STRIFE,
BEYOND OLD
PWIETEARTH
THE os1101 tf wlletiNr
illtflliteet 1ft exists elsewllere
wll ,... as ferev -
becuse I -.y tae tHt ....
to
ht "' .,, .........
.................
llflf clenltl've .... tlptsel
to Is lilt ltMe R .. slt..t
- wilt .... Col. '""' Jaltt
lord - 11ft lq.-1 l'lnet
&rtlr. M'1 C.tfifS Wlf6
S,IKel-.!&
Rathtt ilta11 take sides, tht
lords ex-'" tlte pletltora tf
ni4tiiCI tiMis far prtstlltid
alld ,..,., It wit letkal
, ..... ,, .,.._ Uke1ht
ellivene Itself, tilt slflltd ls
ceret.lly c ........... ctd.
Tlte val. lin Ia ... ft
tMI t .. -terfty tf deim af
, .. tiiCt
extraterrutrlelllfe ..
...... '""'"' .....
Tlltre's tH sttry tf lilt face
4 py,..Ws .a.n, ..,_as
tr .. .,.., IIJderitas
wrlthlp, ewWta<e ef ....,s,
UFO .&e.
.....ren, .Wmillls,
.... sltitas aMI .. Ripts
tf.f .. tasy.
l1tt ltr4s ....... tke
saltitct dilllally. ........
deilu .- cellltW 1
witltttt tvf4ftt ... - ad
Nsicaly !Hve it te tlte reodtr
t ...... ......
Jlley'vt IICCI ........ Stilt
fucillalilg staff. W as tlte
disctvtry of pr..r tf extnt-
terrestrlal vi51tatiM Ius of
IHasacls of years
la n.thi...We,..,
was ..... II a dink
ef CHI II I 883 - llkH fr
paiat 90111 .............
tertiery alld ,,.,...., layer.
colas ... IMis were
ftu4 I a qrry II fnlce,
.... ltacl he .. ,..,..
" atldtr 11 .. ef
-.,.ct ....
lat IS fltt laf4s ... tat,
...... fltt IIJSferfts MrnH
sed. .__ies, 1 .. J preSIIII
.. nhluce ef utraterrestrW
visitors - ....,., tilt
.... dvtllsatieaS .., ....
existed .. ,._.. hrtl! !eat
lttfere we tltellfllt it pessilile.
latrifailt wrlttea
fra Martlaas, left Wild
after ea olia Ylslt II 1965,
get a dec..t airing:
.,._ thint Is at Jest
a sialple salldlteti cede,
gys tlte - who M<iplttrecl
tile Martial scribhl.p, "Ht is
very c .... ated tlf.rt. To
_., ap a ce.plett 'lupage'
Ike this Wlllll see 18 '- O.t
ef al pro ... to a .... ,
.. wner ...........
Tile .... ,_II u..,les
of ....... ... , .... -
wit. ETs -t dtillt
exaples"' of wlsltors "-
=:c-
mysteryr.Are
Are they
trying lo ,.,,
us somethirtg
we should
know?
reel aa4 1....-., plaBets Md
talaxits as IV alieW as
MetM. leevl, Zata letiuli.
Yeaas, ZlnH, rteioHs,
Plloltes, Orlta ... r.. (eti.
It's fascillatlat. if
s ...... falldfwl stiff.
lat fie lor4s, wkse past
worb ildHe rsterios
,,._ Secrtt Clltrf, E11rtll
Illes _, Altciet Wters
_.eW.Iafaetl oat of o
sallft<t ltk is lillerofty
littered wit frlikakes.
It's a ltit pricey at 45
lttt wort
Crop circles
'a message
from UFOs'
LINKS between the
world's m,r;terious
crop circles and UFOs
are undeniable. ac-
cordmg to British crop
circle researcher Colin
Andrews.
ll4r Andrews told an
Adelaide audience last
wet>k he was convinced
the circles were a form of
communication from
UFOs.
He urged experts not to
scoff at the .. undeniable
evidence" of the strange
phenomenon but to heed
the warning siena that
the environment was In
"serious trouble".
Mr Andrews aald con-
tact with UP08 was not
far-fetched aDd a group
of private individuals in
Plorlda. us. bad con-
tacted UPOs .
The P'OUP bad at-
tracted five UPOs by
drawing a triangle in tbe
sky with a laser beam. ,
He did not release fur-
ther details but said
more private groups
would be earning out
further experiments.
Mr Andrews and crop
circles been making
world headlines since
the late 1970s when they
were spotted in com
fields m Britain.
The circles have been
found in grain crops,
rice. sugar cane. pine
trees and snow, and re-
ports have come from
the us. Germany and
Prance.
World experts have
varying theories for the
pbenomenon. the three
most popular being UFO
landing sites. ball light-
Ding and miniature
wblrhrtnds.
Aa the circles have be-
come more complex in
tbelr pattems. specula-
tiOD has heightened and
many people have be-
come convinced tbat
they are wi'*'>Sing the
landing spots of UPOs.
'Ibis speculation was
dampened in September
last )'ear wben two Brit-
ish pranksten known as
Doug and Dave claimed
they had made several
circles in English crop
fields for a bit of a
laugh".
s v N D AY, 4- T H ApR I L I q'll.
Close encounters of
an unwelcome kind
EOPLE may
equate aliens
and extra-ter-
restrtals \\1th
Steven Spiel-
berg's cute cel-
lulOid h1t, E T,
or the earlier
fright. movie.
War Of The Worlds The
more dismisshe among us
equate them 9.1tlt madness
But tor an estimated 3 7
million American adults. a
close encounter with a life-
form from outer space Is an
all too real occurrence - and
these people are terrified of
1t happening again.
Two American academics
from prestigloua universities
are presently knee deep ln
studies about people who
claim to have been abducted
by aliens. And yea. they be-
lieve it could be true
"We are Just not very opti-
mistic about the whole busi-
ness," history professor and
author David Jacobs said.
"Jts extremely traumaUc
and de\--astatfng to their lives
Most of them pray it doesn't
happen again - but it does
We are very disturbed by
this. There is nothing good m
this and we don't. see any.-
thing good coming from ft..
Just what exactly is he tal-
king about? In Its most
sunple form. humans claim
they have been abducted by
aliens, taken to outer space
and been subjected to some-
times painful medical proc-
edures and CYnaecologlcal
experiment&.
Within seconds of being re-
turned to earth. most lose all
memory of what happened
to them - as 1f the aliens
have zapped their memory.
Professor Jacobs has inter-
viewed about 60 people who
claim they were abducted
several times each.
He says those "abducted"
teU incredibly similar tales
without knowing anyone else
has undertone the same ex-
penence..
About 70 per cent remem-
ber during hypnOSIS. the
other 30 per cent without
any help.
"The people are taken out
of their normal environ-
ment. They cannot scream.
pmnot Jtilta '-J
are out oi
theupu-. e home:r ofllce
IMAGINE someone - or something -
stanclng at the foot of your bed betDre you
are carried off in a bluish light towards a
spaceship. SANDRA LEE r.porb from New
York on a study of some of the mtlltOnS of
Amelicans who claim tbey have been
abducted by aliens.
and blto an object - possibly
a Sl*eShip. 'Ibeir clothes are
removed and they are wallted
dowD a hallway to a. room and
IMde to get up on a table.
'"'l'ben there is a. series ol
llleldal. phySical and repro-
ductive procedures done to
tbem." Professor Jacobs said.
Be adds that some people
baw Witnessed others being
flaMed through windows
lla& for the most pan, the
lllleDs seem to have invented
teclmology that renders
.. victims Invisible.
Mast of their procedures
- DOt painful. but during
llii'JDo6is, some of the ab-
cllle&ees become very agi-
tMell and end up physically
.ad emotionally exhausted
Aecording to those wbo
have been inside the space-
sblp and in contact With
aliens. the extra-terrestrials
are small grey beings with
Jarae bulbous beads. black
wrap-around eyes and a slit
tor a mouth. They ha''e
pobded chins.
!j
AVID E
Pritchard,
physics pro-
fessor and
an abduction
expert at
Massachu-
setts Insti-
tute of Tech-
- -:.. said the self-declared
abckadees all test mentally
normal. Venerable orpnisa-
tioaa Uke NASA and many
&dentiSts laugh off the alien
abduct.loD theory as pure
madnela
Ye' Professor Pritdlard
says &be victims' experiences
are "'Dcredlbly belieftble
aDd UIM's the acary tbjq".
"WWiD they ten these .....
rtea J'OU :Just see tbe fear.
a..e of Ulese people we
ONr" the edge beeauae it
lllats Cbem off from the
world tta lite being raped
and then being raped again.
L;!t's DO\ ;JA p!Jmtal- health
"'I"Jblem ... ruwe post
traumatic disorder fdlich is
u would In
thiS type of paranormal ex-
perience."
A recent national US poll
asked 6000 people whether
they had had allen-type ex-
periences like seeing ghosts,
lights and spaceships.
Pollsters found many had
- and Professor Jacobs sa d
a conservative eatimate puts
the figure at about two per
cent of the population.
Both professors Jacobs and
Pritchard beUeve the pbysJ-
cal procedures range from
aliens running their flnaera
over a person's body lite a
plano, and probing and prod-
ding. After the first stage. a
taller allen stares into the
eyes of the human from no
more than 7cm away and
"mentally"' examines the
person by exlra.cting infor-
mationfrom his mind.
The most extreme and. per-
haps. the most. unbelievable
are the reproductive proced-
ures. Sperm and eggs are
taken from men and women.
and in some cases. a type of
implanting procedure occurs
in some women.
Professor Jacobs said:
"The next day. they (the
women) feel the symptoms
of early pregnancy and they
test positive:
By 11 weeks, ho'i!.-ever. the
women will get their period
and put It down to a false
pregnancy "but they will aD
report another abduction"
about the same time wtUcb
Professor Jacobs said could tie
the "extraction of the foetus".
Profeaor Jacobs, wbo wrote
a book Secret We. liMed on
his inteniews with eo Amen-
can abductees. said nobody
knows What happens to the
"'alien babies".
Now the prest.igioua Har-
vanl University in Boston
has approved its psyChology
de]JUtment studying
abduettons And other aca-
demics are lookiog at similar
stories - and their
devastating efft'Cts on "tn
the abductees'lhes l'lS
SATUR DAY 2.3 BD
7
squad swoops
I
T WAS only a matter
of time before an
American mini-series
about allen abduc-
tions appeared on our
screens and here it is -
The Intruders.
The story is drawn from
actual accounta of more
than 600 case hJatorles of
alleged abduct.eea and UFO
investigators.
But 'Ibe Intruders is
some credibility by the fact
that Dr John Madt. Pulitzer
Prize-wtnning author and
former head of tbe
ment of Psychia&ry at Har-
vard Medical School, and
Budd Hopkina, respected
UFO invesUga&or, served as
consultants.
The story belfns when air
force officers at a high secu-
rity sun. elliance centre ln
Colorado see an unldentifled
obJeCt on their screens.
They v;atch as It moves in
strange patterns at impossi-
ble speeds, !ancis, takes off
and then disappears.
An air force offtd.al myste-
riously orders the radar
tapes to be destroyed and
PREVIEW
By RACHEL BROWNE
The Intruders. Nme,
Sunday and Monday.
8.30pm.
forces all those present to
swear to secrecy.
That same night In Ne-
braska. Mary Wilkes (Mare
Wmnmgham), a conserva-
tive truck driver's \loife with
an t>lght-year-old son. finds
l:erself 'l51tm from her home.
dressed only in her night-
gov.n \loith no idea how she
got there.
At the same time m Cali-
fornla, Lesley Hahn
(Daphne Ashbrook). a young
dhorcee. is 1o10oken in the
rJght by bright lights and
the sound of a telephone re-
pair truck outside her home
'Ibe repairmen, clad ln
JUmpsuits and (;Oggles,
knock oontlnuously at her
door. demanding to be let m
After the strange events.
both women suffer from
flashbadts lAOhich tngger
unbearable aruaety and begin
to quesUon thetr sanity.
Dr NeU Chase (Richard
Crenna) an oven;orked psy-
chiatrist In an overcrovo ded
hospttal, agrees to take on
their c:a&e5
Both womt>n. when under
hypnosis, describe slmUar
experiences: small
creatures with large heads
and huge black take
thPm onto a craft
are paralysed and then
operated on.
TheD Neil's colleague Dr
JennJ Baka1 (Rosaltnd
Chao) puts him in contact
\loith Addison Leach (Ste-
phen BerltofO, a unhemty
professor noted for his UFO
studies who bel eves NeU is
treating alien abductees.
The e\ents follow,
lnvolvmg alien love children
among other things, might
be too far-fetched for some
viewers.
But given the growing
evidence of life on other pla-
nets. The Intruders makes a
fascinating story. whether it
be fact. or fiction
MON D A:f, 29TH
lUNE 1992.
The aliens amon
PREVIEW.
H
OT from the
loony bin comes
this documentary,
In Advance Of
The Inct!ng, which looU
at UF'Oa. aliens and t.he
type of people drawn to
t.hem.
Definitely a iood one for
those queationiDg their san-
ity, In Advance Of The
l.&Ddlng is cert.aln to make
a viewer feel re!reshJnely
normal.
Made In America, tbls
documentary ill a mixture of
interviews with UPO afi-
scl-fi fUms and vox polls
with people ln the street.
Probably the most enter-
taln.inC parts are the inter-
views with UFO devotees
who follow astral eventa
wtth an e\-angelistic %eal.
Ruth E Norman - also
known as Princess Urlel- is
the 90-year-old
and director of the Un.arlus
Acadmey of Sdence based
in El C&jan, oalllomla.
Founded In 1959, the
organ on believes In
reincarnation and even has
Ita own )JI'OIIIOtional tum.
The Arrtval, showing how
tbe aliena made oontact
with cavemen In 180.QOOBC.
Then there Ia the Atherius
Sodety also. surprisingly
enough. based in California.
nus society, aa:ordlng to
oae of its priests Alan Mos-
leJ, is education-
al, non-profit orpnlsatlon
wbose le.der dlsaemlnates
informat.ioD recel\'ed from
CI06ID1c intelligences
In Arizona "'e meet Patrl-
ca. a medium wbo in the
past 29 years has gt more
Ulan 48.000 past-We read
lap to cllents. 90 per cent of
1IIIJiom are of ext.ra-terre&-
fltal origin. Maybe E T.
so far-fetched after
...
'!ben we go to The Dome,
structure built under the
IUidance of tbe space be-
tap by one George W Van
Tassal.
Building commenced in
the late '50s and when and U
The Dome is completed. lt
will be capable of creating a
unique time field which will
restore missing limbs, an
experiment already proved
on animals Well. cut off my
lees and call me Shorty. alieDS. meaning he started
Gabriel Green. president in li'll .
of the Amalgamated Flying Let t.hla be a lesson to sub-
Saucer Club or America. st.aDce abu.sers..
tens us the extra-ter- PooCace from B-grade
restriaJs saw the Cuban claaaics such as The Earth
Oria1s on the horizon and Versus The Flying Saucers.
told him to vote for John 'Ibe Day The Earth Stood
Kennedy instead of R1chard StDl. The Man Prom Planet
Nbon, thus averting n war. X and Plan 9 FroJn Outer
Pe-hn- Jt the -"-ns Space make an Interesting
.__ GUr diversion to this open dis-
who really ldlled JPK. play of utter eocenmdty
Long-haired throwback While the f'll'St hour of this
from the '60s. Dan Shep- documentary Is entertain-
herd tells us how he has lng, the last half-hour d.rags
spent. the past 21 years tr)'- on a litUe once all the looni-
lnlt- to make contact. with ness bc<:omes commonplace
SAUCER SPOKESMAN: 'It is the sin of pride that
keeps us from believing, ' says Henry Winkler.
THE FONZ believes i n UFOs!
Henry Winkler, who played the leatherclad
biker on TV's Happy Days for 10 years, says
he's always felt that fl};ng saucers really ex
ist.
"Ever since I was a child. I've had a feeling that
a t fFO would land in my vicinity and would be
friendly," he reveals.
Life forms
"1 have no idea where idea comes from. But
1 believe there must be life forms other than us, and
they are not necessarily enemies."
Winkler was the man behind the special The UFO
Report, which aired on the Fox network.
The show grabbed high ratings and Fox is con
sidering another one hour special or possibly turn
ing it into a weekly series.
Says Winkler: wl really believe it is the sin of
pride that keeps us from believing that in all this
large arena, we could be the only life form out
there ...
AUGUST 1992..
MONO B'< 2..9TH
l\JNE \99 z..
Hundreds
see UFOs
head south
POLICE m t\1.0 States
v.-ere Inundated with calls
last night reporting
strange lights in the sky.
The slghtings ranged
from Molong m the NSW
central through to
Victoria
and down to Melbourne.
At Griffith. locals
thought they UFOs.
\lohile others thought the
lights came from a mete-
orite or space debris
breaking up.
The reports began
flooding In to country
pollee stations shortly be-
fore9pm.
At Griffith. frightened
callers reported seeing
three UFOs "shooting fla-
mes more than lOOm".
The lights
ling In a southerly direc-
tion at the height and
speed of a small plane,
Grifftth Constable Bruce
Canruchael S&Id.
All callers described a
large oval "mother" ship
leading two smaller crafts
with a beam ot Ught link-
Ing them together.
Residents at. the NSW
and Vlctortan border
towns of Albury and Wo-
donga rang local police
v.ith news of further
slghtl.ngs just after 9pm.
A Bureau of Meteorc..;IO'
spokesman in Melbourne
said about 40 people from
metropoUtan Melbourne
called to report the sight-
togs about 9.30pm.
M oN D BY 14-TH
SEPTEMt\ER '992.
1 all tales and true, snowman Larry sp1ns a memora
AUTHOR James Oram met Larry
Oulhunty in a hotel bar in 1965.
H. took up the outbodt showman',
invitation to travel with him and
his troupe to the remotest parts of
Australia - a trip that yielded
some fascinating yarns.
In his latest book, entitled The
last Showman, Cram taUs of a
man v.-ho was one of the last of hi5
kind.
OU KNOW," said l.arTy, lnterrupt.tng
the silenoe of the night., "it's been
twenty-three rears alnce I ftr5t saw a
UPO." "What?" "A flying saucer,
twenty-three years ago. Out "-est
Queensland way. We were playing
two-up at the Ume." One thing Larry
could do better than most was attract
your attention; it waa the showman ln
him. We were camped beside a "aterholc at Gregory
Down.c; Jn the Gulf Country at the Ume, five of us lying
on our swags around the fire after dinner looking t
Ute stars. hoping to see what only the gods could ex-
plaln..
In years of gazing at the heavens I bad seen nothing
but taW.D,g stars and a few satell.ltes. Larry, ot course.
bad seen so ID&Dl' UnldenWied F1ytng
Objects they were no longer cause for
awe or alarm. arousing inmad t.!le idle
cu:riostty one might feel on lighting a
S AI U R P B "t , __ _._ \
AUGVST 199Z.
loln-dothed U1mng1 tribesman stroU1ng
along George Street. Sydney.
On the day of his finst UPO sighting he
was playing t""'-UP In a dusty Jllace caJ..Ied
P11ckly Bush Plat. not far from
HugbeDden. Queensland. Everyone bad
money because It was ..,,. day for the
show people so a couple of hours of two-
up would be a nice break before Lhey
headed in the d.lrect1ons dictated by the
next count.ry show or seulde camlval
The centre was covered. side beta u,..
led. Up went the pennies up tbe eyea of
the players. "What's thatr exlalmed
.Jimmy Reed. pointing to the sky.
Now they were aUlooktng at the sky, the
pennies and the bets forgotten 1n the
dust. and what they aaw was a perfectly
round dl.sc, aptnnJn as It hovered and
glinted 1n the sun. "Bugger me. there's
another one, n someone &bout.ecl.
Two silver discs were now In the out--
back sky. They both moved at tremen-
dous speed. stopped and hovered again.
What surprised Larry M he ltOOd head
Ulted back. eyes &t.raln1ng. was that. he
felt neither fear nor amazement He felt.
be abould have felt somehow perturbed
because discs in the afternoon sky, like
ghoats in the dark, are not. normal.
After the ln!Ual shock, the others felt about 200 metres when IL second l.ICht
much the aame. The two-up players did sprang up be&1de the first. Then It aU
not feel as U they were watching a great happened qukkly. As though a switch
had been thrown, the enUre hillside be-
mystery. "OK. back to the game." said came a mass of glo\m1g lights.
Larry, after a whDe. "Who's the splnnetr' No one 5poke. Sh.tvering in the cool air
After the t1nH!p slghUDp Larry's wan- they looked at the lfghta, bewildered. each
derlnp took him to Lhe old North a UWe scared "' reckon there's been a
Queen.slaDd mirl1n town of Chillagoe. It
was uno Lytng 1n the m.de t.hinking of ll'US fire here t.hla afternoon and a sud-
UWe except perhaps a nice cold beer, :!u= =:!= embers of
he was at peace with the 1IOI1d. when sud- Everyone knew it. was hnllshtt There
denly 1n b.1s appeared an off-white
d1sc. High in the Blcy, It loo ed about. the was no trace of charred wood or burned
slze of a dinner plate. moving slowly. grass but they were aD willing to accept.
"lley. Bet a look at this," l..any hollered rn::
to two of his travelllnr troupe, hta girl-
friend, country singer Paula Bmlth. and beD out
01
t.here.
rough-rider Dan Kohlar. LTHOUGH J somr.tlmes
"What do )'OU reckon It Ia, a flytna sauc- scoffed at Larry's stories.
er?" asked Dan, digging out. a pair of bin I actuaUy had no reason
ocularll from his swag. Aa he trlt'd to track to question them. He saw
the dinner Plat.e. matters got worse. what he saw. Further-
smaller dlres, cake plates more. he wu a bushman
perh shot away nt great speed from who realised the outback
the ncr plate. stopped. moved aaatn. held enouldt m.Yllteries
As(:hey watched, a tourist bua pulled up, without adding to them.
Ita passengers In Chillagoe to vlalt the And his &tortes were often supported by
tt.nest.one and marble eaves that. have other people.
,., lllll:l88 of human exlst.ence showtn Abo- We eventually got tot he Channel Coun-
.-J hifiia 1*88idtlt1Sfi1 30.000 ars ago. trY tietwecn BOuUi ana Winton, a laniJ or
"Whatchyalookine at?" asked a tourist. myths, mystery and ghosts - and the
"Flying saucers," said Larry. domain of the Min Min light.
The tourist smlled. It wasn't even dark. For around a hundred years the Min
Then he wasn't amlling anymore Nor Min Light. has been seen by many, a mys-
were the others from the bus. terious Ught described variously a
As they watched, the two cake plates luminous oval. a fluorescent football. a
merged with the dinner plate which t.hcn hurricane lamp with a dull appearance as
moved av.1ftly into the northern sky Md if shrouded by fog, a weak car Ught., a hug
out of view. No one spoke. No one could firefly. Whenever we t.ravelled in the aren
think or anything approprinte to say untU we heard reports or the Min Min Light.
one man mumbled: "WeU. rm a bcllcver." Perhaps the best documented slght.ing
On another occasion, Larry was on the was that of a policeman, a trained ob-
way to Top Springs In the Northern Ter- server not liven to seeing things that
rttory. n was 8pm and on his left was a wouldn't hold up in court.
rolling hl1J topped by a rocky rim. "Look, In h1B report to the Queensland poUcc
there's a llght up there." cruled a p&Men- commissioner Detective Sergeant. LyQU
ger In Larry's truck. Booth, of Cloncurry, carefully noted
Larry stopped the truck and wa.lkcd to- every detail of his slehtlng on May 2. 1981.
wards the Ught. followed by three young He sa.ld he had not hAd alcohol that
men from the show trouf)e. night and went to sleep around 9pm at his
Stumbling over boulders and stunted camp beside a shallow wat.trholo GOkll\
bushes in the darkneM, they hl\d covered from .Boulla.
At llpm he woke up and saw a light
which at first appeared to be a car head-
Ught about. 1500 metres away - althouch
t.he main road was too far away to see any
veh1cles or their llght.a.
It. was below tree-top height. wblte In
colour and its tntensfty seemed to nuctu-
ate a llWe. The seco..'"ld time the pol.k:e-
man saw Lhe light., later Lhat night., It was
not as brtght. but it illuminated Lhe
ground around it for minutes before
diving Into the ground and going out.
"l'U t.cll you what," said LarTy, during
another night. of star gazing. "I thb1lt
there's no such thing ns the M1n Min
Uabt.. It's Just another one of t hose unex-
plained things you see in t.he bush."
CLart':Y's explanation for those unex-
plained things centres on the food chain,
whkh. he a&.Yll. does not.11top with man.)
"You believe there's a superior torm of
llfe on earth that is using hunums for
food?" I saJd, trying to come to t.erma with
Larry's t.hlnklng. "Why hasn't cont.a.ct.
been made?"
"Now. if we could converse with a bul-
lock would we tell him his ntce grassy
pacldoU was a means to fatten him tor
the abattoirs? I read somewhere that
.
Where to? Some could be murd r victims.
but not. aU."
"L&rry, It sounds a pretty honty theory
to mtl," I said.
"U you're so smart. come up with a
theory of your own."
Of course he's right. To dlsmlss as non-
sense all the sighUngs by sober citizens or
dlsc8 and Ugbta. to label them all tricks of
nature was unfalr. I abut. up
l..&rr)' 5lppcd h1B tea contentedly, happy
to let h1a explanaUon noat nround for a
whUe.
Then he said, "Did I tell you about the
night. a light swooped through the trees
above our camp. scaring the bejeezus out
of us. . ?"
ExtTact from The lAit Shourman, La1T11
Dtdhuntv' Larrlldn Life, bv James
bu 'SUn -AvstrtJlla
'
've seen
them
'
WilE 'ou're out and about
today, bear in mind that the
person standing next to ,. ou
could "ell be a to uri t {rom
. another planet.
Ut"' expe-rt Glenn
flnnly people
from this and other sow ) -
tems 'lllalk amonr; us r;athering
information. They do not reveal
most of the time for
of cansin: panic and lr.a\
themsehes open to
Bat Mr :-\teclllinr;, an airline
pilot 'Ill ho visited Bri bane to
meet other UFO he
ha.<; mf't several in hl<; time.
An.) one can, he says- it' just a
question of attitude.
or a start. don't e:qw:d an
extra-terrestrial beinr; to look
any difft'rent from )OU.
"Research has ho'llln our
s olar ;ystem is formed out or the
same components, o 'l'lh\
houJd 'l'le think the moment 'lll e
tep off oar t.:arth and into the
cosmos, all those pnncaples
should go out or the \\Indo\\?"
Mr Steckhng sa s.
.. Life created from
the ame conditions is going lo
look PN'th lmilar, o il' "'rong
to think else should
be 0 bizarre."
tr Sledding, 33, Is the son of
prominent uo expert and
author t"red Stecklin:, Viho died
last .)ear.
Ur. has een Cleral beings
from other planets In his time .
I sa'lll them as a child \\ith my
part'nt.s, and l',e seen them
naln;;-lln: with the cro9tds at
talks and conu:ntions," he sa s.
"'Occasionall). they "ill spt'ak
up during a debate and inject
or lnfonnaUon to
send us in the right direction - a
little bit likr tutelagr."
Mr o;ays he has been
made a'lllace of an an identifica
tion word as a 'l'lay of recogni
inr: extra-tern-stri:1l beings.
..1 have sN-.n demonstration
which pro\e they're from an-
othrr planet. t'or example, they
ha\'t' a small mechanic ...! de\ire
they use to bend light rays, eff-
ectively making them. or other
objects, invbible," he
But IDO,t of the Mr
relies on in!>tincthe
lie also has adrlce on
"'bat to do if an
makes itself known to you.
"]would be e.ry respectful and
'ery a 'Ill-are- I" ouJd not \\'ant to
a'lll'a} that type of confi-
drnce to put them in dangt>.r," he
says.
Mr Steckling says he wouldn"t
take a picture of an extra-terres-
trial \iii to:- it "ouJd
blow its cover and leave it preJ
to the "shoot it and put it in a
test tube" mentality.
Be added: "'Eve.n if I did take a
picture it would just look like a
man in the strfoet."
Mr Stecldinl' brought "it.h him
lots of e\idence or
u:.-o from aU o\er the
world. These include NASA pho-
of anuplained lights
and ,ebide marks on the ur-
face of the moon.
-CLAIRE WIIITE
5UN1)A'f \ IIH OC:IOBER \992.
I
.. ,...,,
a
off UFO sea
RECENTLhetumed
country which gave the
the
stretch limousfneand
other neceutties -
Dundas reader 0 Roberts
TepOTUon the l4tut m'JUt-
luweproduct, the UFO
detector An
advertisement tor the
Alien
whl>ere afraid oj being
kldncppetf bv alten.r ... If
J10U know that a UFO or
8paOe al ien fl nearbv NOll
ccn tTJI to get away or
P'PPtm! to defend JIOUrW/
'be/ore it u too late
Although it rel4il8Jor
US$29.95 the detector
doe3 come with a money
beck guarantee if you
lhl>uld be u:hfsked off to a
:marbJI planet Sounds
like an excellent
investment to me
WEDNES.C>A'i liTH
NOVEMSER 1991.
'4
I
Erooo Ngti oo g n9ure.r MaC)a"Z-ne
UFO abduction case is now
a movie - 18 years after
Enquirer broke the story
By JOHN SOUTH
Logger Travis Walton was made fa-
mous by The ENQum.ER after we re-
ported his story of being abducted by a
UFO - and now his mind-boggling ex-
perience has been made into a movie.
Travis, 40, even makes a cameo appear-
ance in the new film, "Fire in the Sky," which 1
starS James Garner.
It was in December 1975 that Travis Walton
captured nationwide attention when The E.'l- FLASHBACK to December 1975 Encpllr-
QT.HRER broke the story- one er that broke the mind-boggling story.
of the most weD-documented that Travis disappeared be-
cases of liFO abductions ever. fore their eyes when struck by
We revealed that five wit- a dazzling blue ray from a hov-
nesses passed lie-detector ering saucer-shaped object.
tests confirming their claim Tra ...is and his fellow log-
lDggerciDimsheDwwie
in spaceship Slltf()untltt/
by 3-/otJttllH cretlfUIIS
with white skin Dtd
leDtureless IDees
robes, with white skin and fea-
tureless faces!
Of Abo'"'+ Lgte. f992 Oc
ZAPPED! Logger Tra-
vis Walton disappear-
ed before the eyes of
five coworkers when
struck by a dazzling
blue ray from a hov-
ering flying soucer.
gers say they were in a pickup
truck on a remote mountain
road near Snowflake, Ariz .,
when they observed a strange
and unusually bright light in
the sky. Ignoring warnings
from his coworkers, curious
Travis left the safety of the
truck to take a closer look.
Travis was ridiculed by a phone to avoid publicity. Rosy' about Travis and his ty-
skeptics who accused him of "He was marked forever by ing saucer."
Suddenly he was zapped by
a mysterious force and van-
ished, reported his compan-
ions, who fled in terror.
At first no one in town be-
lieved their bizarre tale- and
the logger s were even sus-
pected of murdering Travis.
But after five days t he
young man suddenly resur-
faced, dehydrated and bewil-
dered.
Initially, he was unable to
account for his missing time.
But under hypnosis Travis re-
called waking up in a space-
being a drug addict or con art- the incident ," said Tracy Eventually Travis wrote a
ist. In time, he stopped talking Torme, the movie' s screen- book about his "close encoun-
about his uncanny experience writer. "Local kids still sing a ter." Now married with fo:1r
and lived for 10 years without version of 'Ring-Around-the- kids, he's writing an updated
BIZARRE version.. including his involve-
ment With the new film.
TALE: "Fire in the Sky" is due out
Gamer (right) from Paramount this month.
stan os the Actor D.B. Sweeney portrays
sheriff who in- Travis, and Garner stars as
vestigates the the hard-nosed sheriff who b -
mysterious vestigates his mysterious dis-
disappear- appearance.
1993
TRA l'IS Walton, who
claims tha' be and
feUow workers .-ere
abdac&d by a UFO In
eastern Ariaona, &a)'l be's
belnc biMIDded by people
who doabt hb story.
TVSDA:f 23 BC
Aliens take their
lddays on earth
ALIENS travel Ught
years tn their UPOs to
reach Earth because it Ls
a good tourist destination,
It was clalmed yesterday.
The people from outer
space come here for
the same reason Sydney-
slders go to the Gold
Ooast. according to UFO
expert Bruce Dlxon.
"I lJke to think It's be-
cause Earth IS a fairly
nice place to visit, he told
t.hc NSW branch of UFO
Research at Katoomba
RSL at t he weekend.
"Perhaps It's nicer than
their h ome and they come
f or a bit of relaxation.
MARCH
MONDA"( 5TH APB 1 L r 9 9 3
1993
ship surrounded by five-foot
tall creatures in tight-fitting
once of Tro-
m, played by
D.B. Sweeney
In film fire
in the Sky.
UFO joyr i der is oft the planet
( E NJ E R E {) : -
I .ST
POOR TraVIS Waltcn.
Be's Just a simple logger
from Snowflake An-
zona. who was abducted
by a UFO. set doYill
again . and nov.
peoPle don't belle e
him
Well. that's not qmte
true. Some peop e be-
Uevehim.
SOme dltzy producers
from HOllf\\ood WlUl
lots of money haTe
made a film about
Travis' UFO Joyride.
It s called Fire In The
Sky. But now the film Is
shov.'lllg In America.
Travis Is belng hounded
by people who doubt
him. And e of his
logging rna: are giving
him stick.
The loudest criticism
is coming from Tl e
Comnuttee f or Scien-
tific Imestigat on of
aaims of the Paranor
mal, a group which de-
bunlai supernatural
claims.
They're saying that
Travis and another log-
ging crev. leader con-
cocted the hoax to v.-m a
National lnqUI.rer UFO
stgbtmg conte - and
because they needed to
fmd an excuse for miss-
ing a logging contract
deadline
Travis says he hope
the movie will make
people more open-
minded
He s standing by his
claim that tn 1975, when
he was loggmg In north-
eastern Arizona, he v.'aS
Utt.ed into the sky by an
extra-terrestrial beam
of light and then put
down fh e days later
Why Sounds
MARC.H 1993
credible, U you re from
Snowflake. Arizona
Maybe thats
happened to all those
Liberal Party \ oters a
couple of
back'
Five days
of terror
on a UFO
THERE'S only one Nothing could havt'
thing worse than being By VICKY ROACH prepared Walt.on, Rogers
zapped by aliens the 1'7 and the five otber loggers
racis 1 lei It to become a media With them In the pick-up
years ost m w
1
1
event. says Rogers. truck for the events that follows.
So sa)s Tra\is Walton In our case. there was unfolded on Novembers.
or Snowflake, Arizona a four-day search (and JJrlS. as they made their
ld kn In murder im esligation) for way back through the
And he shou Tra\ls. forest after a bard days
t f Before he even came work.
ger al Y spen