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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

mal According to the men


gruelling days aboard a back. there -..-ere jou -
UFO where he was sub- ists from Au.stral.la.. New tbe fearsome rP.d glow up
Jf!Cl to a number of tests. zealand aJJd .Japan in ahead turned out to be -
"The memories of what our to-..n. So 1t 'i!."a.SD't not bummg forest as
happened were \'CT) diffl- something we could just they expected - but thP
th. b I put behind us. Steep emission from a UFO
cult to deal 11.1 ut t s And the curious
like being burnt In a Walton - out of thl"
sense: as soon as Its ..
over. Its done wtth. he truck for a closer lOOk.
said at the Park Lane ,, t was n 't the others say thf') saw
Hotel this 9.-eek hlm thro...-n by a beam of
"The talk and the h . llght in much the same
undercurrents. hov.e\er somet lng wayassomeonewouldbl"
Just never wem. awa:o; So throvm by a bolt or elec-
m that sense. It came to 1 d tricity
almost 0\ershadow the we cou Terrified. they
Pxpenence Itself off at high speed leavmg
with hindsight. sa)s keep q Ul"et t walton for dead.
the father ol four. if When Rogers got to the
there had been anl way maiD road, howe\er. he
to keep his unearthly says he had second
JOurney quiet he would NQ.5ireel But what. the thouehts about lea\ lug
ha\e taken tt. two men do hope is pass- his mate behind. so here-
But as Mtke Rogers - tble. 17 years on. as that a turned to the spot where
brother to Walton's Wife new feature :mm based be bad last se-em Walum.
Dana and one of tM six on their experience will Unfortunately, Walton
men who -..1tnessed the take t.he sting out of was no longer there
- points out. &e folks' reacuon The film goes on to Wll
crecy was Impossible by ghing them an inslght bow the men spent the
from the tart mto what It might next f1ve da)s as murdPr
Things lik th have bPen like. suspects - before t.hl"
happened to !Fire ln Th(' Sky to be then 22-}ear-old Walton
Je, but th y've been able released In Aust.rnlia this called from a telephone

Ftre In The Sk'f INSET T ravtS (nght) w th .wrfe Dana and brother n Ia " rv ke Rogers
.:::- .,.
he claims to ha\e been
returned the UFO
Par from taking the
tu>aa. off tne sltuauon.
hOWl'Ver. Walton S Story
of b,.vmg travelled deep
lnto wtLh strange
creatures JUSt fuelled the
true stoey hoax furore. It
has been simmering ever
stnoe
So much so. that alter
Walton "'rote a book
about hiS experience tn
1977 - so t"veryone
would me alone" -
he disconnected his
phon' for the next 10
ars
I ju got fed up with
th he said.
and people callmg n..,- up
all the e
TPn yeUs oo.
Wa ton S&J he figured
the fuss had .died do'i!m
enough to reconnect tht:'
phone
Just three s later. he
v;as contacted b} the Fire
In The S..-.y film-makers.
Although Walton had
turned down many other
thL'> ttme he 'i!.'aS
persuaded
'I was con\'lllced they
were interested m the
human story that .they
weren't gomg to gne tt a
Sl"nsaUonaiJSt trtat-
mf!nt.-
MONOF\Y tO MAY
BEING an
type I w d tx-
person to do b
tty of a UFO tgh
the northern be
Butlt doesn't h p w en
two wltnPsses reported
strange lights In the sk)
"'Vf hUe returning home
from a nightclub at
3.30am".
IUESDPLf. JUNE
1993
Sky light
becomes
star turn
A BRIGHT orange
light ln the northern
sky entertained
many Sydneyslders
last night
Richard Talbot
said from his home
at Eastwood. in Syd-
ney's north-west "It
'i!.'Cnt across the sky
in fits and starts. zig-
zagging a bit but
movlng generally in
an easterly direction.
"It was a very, ,-ery
bright orange and
''aS visible from
about 9.15 to 9.25.
"People were stop-
ping t.helr cars to
have a look."
Mr Talbot, who has
a blt of an lnterf'St
In ast.ronomy", said
he and his a
science teacher,
thought lt was a
satelllte burning up
after re-entering the
atmosphere.
WE. DNE5DAY,
Nabbed
by a UFO
LOllo"DON Po ce
have rounded up a
number ot \illalns bl
sending out a hoax
radio message
Officers reported a
Dymg saucer had
landed at Kearsley
Lane. Doncaster o.nd
then waited to see
whotumedup
The plan was to
catch people morut.or-
ing police radiO PA
TH\J R !' D A-:t: 2 8 __
DEC.(.Mf>E.R 19q3
.. 2.1 JULY 1993
UFO sightings
'planetary light'
A SPATE of UFO slghtings can be
blamed on nothing more sinister than
Venus and Jupiter waxing brighter
than usuaL
There were 200 sightlngs ln the first
two weeks of this month, compared
with a normal weekly average of 20 to
30.
But astronomer Rob McNaught, from
the Angio-Aust.ralian obsen-atozy at
Coonabarabran., said most of the slght-
lngs were attributable to the brightness
of Venus and Jupiter.
A !ireball rocketing across the NSW-
Queensland border three weeks ago
was also likely to explain the drama.t.lc
rise in slgbting:s.
EB\DA:f 24 JUNE. 199 4=
I
1947
A series of flying saucer stories begins in
the United States when pllot Kenneth
Arnold reports seeing nine dlsc-6haped objects flying
in Washington state.
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F R J D8Y 2 4- .TV
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)
,
,
,
Field of 'dreams'
The cows seem unperturbed by the mysterious
crop circles in a southwest Engtand paddock
Aliens? Drunks? Or energy from another
dimension? Theories abound, OOt the crop
cireles remain a mystery
WHAT causes strange
shapes to appear in the
wheated plains of south-
west England? Bored
drunks? Aliells? Energy
from anotber dimension, or
maybe Jusl an ent.er"prW.ng
tourist board?
The people wbo come to
view these prodigies of lawn-
mowinJ don't .really care.
"lt'a a piece of the magic to
let you know It's real," said
Shawn Randall. a Los An-
geles metapbyaics teacher
here for a three-day confer-
ence oo crop circles. UJI'Oa
and a&range visitors from
other planets.
Randall stood an wheat flat-
tened Into the shape of an
eye. Otber& spmwled on the
grain that CI'1Mtied under
blazlnc aun, meditated in the
lotus position. ar pursued
elect.romagnetic fields with
dowsina rods.
Parmer T1m Ca.raan said he
was certain that two of the
three crop circles an bia IJOOha
were boues bec:auae he
caught men with dl drums
From KARIN DAVIES
in Alton Priors, England
tamping down the wheat.
early one morning.
But he WOIIdered about the
atant eye - it appeared after
a bright moonlit night when
people were watching the
field but aaw nothing unu-
suaL
"I'm :not saying it's not a
hoax, but I won't say it is,'' he
said.
Neat swirls of flattened
crops. ranging from a few
metres to a few hundred
metrea, appear each summer
on the fann1anda of south-
west BniJand, IDainly in the
county of WUWUre. homr of
the preblator' .... and truly mys-
terious atone circles of stone-
henge.
Crop circles were first recor-
ded ln England in 1678. In
other countries. circles have
been reported in sand, snow.
rice paddies and fields. The
patterns have been attributed
to whirlwinds. witches. mag-
netic forces, animals. hoaxers
and spaoeships.
Sctentista who don't believe
SUNDAY I 4 AUGU SI 'q 9 4-
Tourists meditate- who knows, the aliens may be watching
in unnatural phenomena
think they are made by eddies
of wind sweeping over hWy
around
They say the recent complex
shapes of circles. bars.
aquarea and triangles were
made by hoaxers.
In 1991 two Englishmen said
they were bored one night in
a pub and decided to make
crop circles. They said they
made hundreds of hoax crop
c1rc1ea for 13 in the
aouth of England using
wooden boards. string and a
baseball bat.
Richard Andrews, an Ena-
Uahman who has studied crol'
circles since 19'19, conceded
aome were hoaxes.
.. But what makes the oth-
ers? We really don't know. We
know It is an intelligent force
- but tbia is not human intell-
ect," be said. 'Tm not talking
about aliena.. rm talking
about another dimension."
"Tbia year we've only bad
hundreds of visltors." Carson
said. "1990 was just out of
hand really - 10.000 people
came; the world and bia wife."
Making scooping motlorus
towards her cbat, Barbara
Lindsay of LondoD said: "'
think this is going to enhance
my healing."
Margaret Pinyan. a retired
book editor from Arblona. was
aearchlng for evidence of
aliens.
"It is frustrating to every-
one that you can't say, 'Hey
you guys, come on down and
Jet'a talk about it'," she aald.

ys ery o m1ss1ng
cr ft 1 dire Strats
0
N OCTOBER 30, 1991 a
RAAF Boeing 707, one of
the safest planes w the
world, took off from East
Sale air-force base. Nine minutes
later it nosedived and plunged
into the turbulent waters of Bass
Strait. It. had time to issue just one
Mayday calL
It was the largest aircraft to crash
in Australian aviation hisWry. None
of the five airmen survived
Like the notorious Bermuda tri-
angle mystery, the grim legend of
Bass Strait is based an plenty of
hard evidence.
It began last century with ship-
wrecks that included Austra.lia.'s
worst maritime disaster and has con-
tinued this century with some
strange incidents involving aircraft.
On August 4. 1845 a hunicane
drove the Catarqai onto a reef 500m
off King Island in the Strait.
The 802-tonne migrant ship h ad
saDed from Liverpool four months
earlier with 415 men, women and
chlldren on board. Only nine made it.
to the shore.
One of the earliest reports of air-
craft disappearance in the Strait was
made In 1920.
-=>trange, unexplained lights were
reported surrounding the ss Amelia
j ust before she vanished
The RAAP sent a plane to investi-
gate and it too V1Ulished. No trace of
either craft was found.
In 1.930. Squadron leader Geoz'ge
Jones - later AJr Marshal Sir George
- took off on a mlssion to investigate
reported sightings of strange a1rc:ratt
oft the Vlctortan side of the Strait..
A veteran or both world wars, Sir
George, who was awarded the DFC
in the First World War, maintained
a serious interest in UFOs for the
rest of his Ill e.
Qn retirement, the flying knight
became a member of the VlCtorian
u:i>O Research Society (VUFORS).
Although there were DO air battles
over Bass Strait in World War n. 17
all1ed aircraft went miasing without
trace.
One 1942 report - not from the
RAAF - told of an air-force pilot
being sent on a search mission f ol-
lowing reports from fishermen in
Bass Strait. of strange lights shining
an the sea.
The report said that at 5.50pm a
UFO appeared out of a cloud bank.
The pUot. described it as "a singular
airfoil of glistening bronze colour",
about 45m in length and 15m in di-
ameter. It had a dome on top that re-
flected sunlight..
This report came wen before the
current era of UFO sightings. which
began in 1947.
The ObJect flew alongside the plane
for a few moments, then turned
away and suddenly took off " at. a hell
of a pace", It eventually dived into
the ocean causing a "regular whirl-
pool of
There was another recorded sight-
ing in February. 1944. About 2.30am.
a Beaufort' bomber. flying a.t 1371.6m
over the Strait. found itself joined by
a UFO, described as a udark shadow"
wfth a flickering light and flame
coming from the rear.
The objeCt was about 30-45m away
and stayed '\\1th the plane fer a lang
Alleged UFO link to bizarre
disappearances in the Bass
--rile Cessna's petrol tanks are in
the wing and petrol flows to the en-
gine by gravity so it will not fly UJr-
side down for more than a few se-
conds." be says.
As wen as visual sightings, one man
took a series of six shots of the sun-
set off Cape Otway about 20 minutes
before Val.enticb disappeared.
t.tme for a UFO - 18 minutes. During
that time the plane's radio and direc-
t.ion-finding lnstrument.s failed. Even-
tually, the object took off at about
three times the bomber's top speed
(3'l'lkml h).
The Bass Strait legend became of
worldwide Interest when young pilot
Frederick Valentich vanished as be
reported being buzzed by a UFO. His
story is one of the world's strangest
allen encounters.
The 20-year;ilii flying instructor
disappeared in his Cessna 182 on
Sunday, October 21, 1978. Exact.Iy 47
minutes earlier he had t.a.ken off
from a Melbourne airport on a flight
to King Island.
Just before his disappearance.
ValenUch reported to a Melbourne
flight controller that he had sighted
an unidentified flying object..
Valentich said.: "'t is four bright
lights. It seems to me like landing
tights . . the alrcra.ft bas just
passed over me at least a thousand
feet above."
Asked if it was a large a.lrcra.ft, he
said: "Unlmov.'ll due to the speed it's
travelling. Is there any air-force air-
craft in the vicinity?"
He was told there wasn t.
"'t's approa.chjng now from due east
towards me (pause) it seems to me tha.t
be's playing some sort of game. He's
flying over me two or three times at
speeds I could not identify it's not
an aircraft it's flymg past.. It's a
long shape . identify more than . . .
before me right now."
Asked how large it appeared to be.
Valentich said: "'t seems like it's sta-
tionary What r.m doing right.
now is orbiting and the thing is just
orbiting on top or me also. It's got a
green light and sort of metallic. It's
all shiny (on) the outside."
After another long pause, he asked
the controller if it '\\'115 a mllitary air-
craft and was told there were DO
known a.lrcra.ft in the area.
Valenticb said t.he craft. had vanish-
ed. but a few moments later be spotted
it again approaching from the soudl-
west. He repcrt.ed his plane's engiDe
was roughing.
Two minutes later came his final
words: "That strange nlrcra!t is hov-
ering on top of me again. It. is hover-
Ing and it's not an aircraft."
Roy Manifold's camera was a 35-
mm Olympus on a tripod. Through
UFO research contacts. Manifold's
photos and negatives were passed on
to the Ground Saucer Watch in Ari-
zona. who found the "smudge" to be
a solid. probably metalllc. object.
Analysts described what was an the
film as a bona fide UFO about 6m.
across.
What is generally omitted in the
strange tale of Valentich. is the keen
interest he had taken in UFOs. from
the age of about 15.
The interest was fuelled by his ex-
periences as a member of the Air
N
0 TRACE of Valenticb or Training Corps when he visited
his ab'craft. was ever found, RAAF bases and heard stories from
deaptte a major sea and air pilots of stranae encounters
sean:h. The Cessna was w th ....tt "'- th th
equipped with a radio s urvival bea- ere e e tru or
con but for some unknown reason simply amusing themselves at tbe
this usually reliable piece of equip- expense of the keen young cadet?
ment did not. activate. In any caae. from these tales and
In May, l982, the Australian his own study of the subject, be came
Bureau of Air Safety (ABAS), re- to the conclusion that UFOs were
leased Its off c1al fmding on Valen- here and on friendly missions.
tich: The reason for the disappear- Valentl.cb's father, OuJdo. said r.hat
anoe bas not been determined. as a result of his san's last stay at a
Years later, Pa ul Norman, VU- RAAF base - about a month before
FORB vice-president claimed there his disappearance - he bad come
had been reports of erratic, moving home more convinced than ever of the
lights in the Bass Strait area from existence of UF'06. His son expressed
Six weeks before Valenticb had taken the hope be would be involved in a
off. These reports had reached a cJocse encounter.
peak on the day and night o! the dis- Whether or not Valent.lcb did en-
appearance. counter a UPO, or was the victim of
Norman soofts at claims the young his imagination. his disappearance
pi1ot. had become d.isrni.ented, was fly- provides t.be most mysterious of
tng upside down and saw his reflection chapters to the legend of Bass Strait.
in the water. KEN ANDERSON
'
5AJURD8'f, OC.TOSER
THIS has to be a joke,
but then agam ..
spotted in Sydney
magazine this week was
a notice for the
AssocJ.ation for
Humans Violated by
Unknown Entities. or
translated. people
who've been to bed with
UFO pilots. The annual
general meeting is
being held on the 21st
of this month, but. no
address was given.
Must be a telepathic-
invite-only affair.
199 4=
ffil\)B'( lfo DEC.EMBEB
J 99 Lf.
Wheat circle crops up here-
MYSTERIOUS crop circles - a
phenomenon that. has baffled
scientists around the voorld -
have arrived in Aust.ralla.
A huge tract of flattened wheat.
forming a precise circle in an
Adelaide field. ia the first ever
reported in Australia.
It has scientlsts and local far-
mers mystified. But the two most
popular theories say that crop
circles are either formed by UFOs
- or are a hoax.
The pat.t.ern was first not1ced by
Alison Light, 4.9, as she flew over
It on Friday. She then tra.cked it
down on Monday.
John Earl, the administrative
officer of the South Australian
Research and Development .Insti-
tute, which farms the land, is
baffled by the circle.
"There's no sign of people mov-
ing to or from the circle. None of
the stalks was broken. and if
somebody got in there with a
roller, they made a \'el'f good job
of it," said Aolr Earl.
Mr Brian Richards, research of-
.ficer with the UFO Data Collec-
tion Centre in Perth, said last
night the crop clrcle was unique.
..It is odd that this circle has ap-
peared out of the blue,a he said..
"There IS no history in this area
of crop clrcles. We haven't had
these in Australia before.
"But from what I have been
told. 1t does sound 1111:e a real one.
I tend to believe that it is the
work of a higher intelligence."
Mr Richards said there was a
high incidence of crop circles m
England. Wlt.h up to 200 appeanng
in the one night.
SA J \J Q 0 AY, 1] D!C.M6fR 1991f;.
British jet 'buzzed' by brighttUFO
A BIUTISB AJrways jet had a close encounter witb a 6st-
IDOYIDc UFO. It was claimed yesterday.
A Ctt1J A11&Uoa iD4uJ.r1 baa DOW bepn into tbe
tacWeat after Ute pllou reporied a lJrtcb&q-lit triaapJar
olljeet bDJ1.Jed tcnranJs them before veermr ott down tbe
... ol *be aln:ral&. i
Tlle7 iast.iDc&IYely dlldred before c:a11JDc air con-
&nl, llat were lolcl tbat there were DD other plaDes iD tbe
area.IDJUally &.bey did not lodge a formal report for fear of
belac ridlcaled.
Tbe Boeing m .... for Manchester's B.lngway
aJrpon from MIJaa on l1UI11&1')" 6 wltb 80 people on board
when &be plane wu "baued" by tbe object.
SUNDAY 29 JANUARY 1995 -
Close encounter for TV -
LONDON: A t{}JrSCCrct film allegedly showing
dead aliens will fonn the basis of a sensational BBC
TV documentary due to be screened in August.
The 91 minute film was shot by US military
cameramen in New Mexico allegedly after a flying
saucer crashed there in 1947
'I'he US Air Force scaled off the site and t he film
has been classiiied top secret e\ er since
The mm IS alleged to shovo scientiSts examining a
creature at the crash s1te
It is also saJd to show pan. or the spaceship

18 MARCH
I
Jqqs -
N June UK7 a myste-
rious object dlsin
tegrated above New
Mexico and its pleres
scatt.el"Cd across the spec-
tacular desert near the
t.own of Roswell.
They never really came t.o
rest. Inatead they formed a
m.ost unsetUing and dis-
turbing event - known &II
the Roswell fnddent. - In
the Uves of dozens of people
convinced. t.he object WM a.
craft, from another planet.
piloted by aJlens
The) became True Bellev
ers 1n extraterresttalllfe.
For others, the event re
sulted in a llfetlme spent.
proc1almlng the UFO beUef
a case of phoney baloney It
wu act.ually a mWtary sur-
ve.lllanCf balloon whlcll
premat.urely fell Lo earth,
the) l&ld.
na.t; doesn't ring true t.o
peoplr like Major Jesse
11arce1. an Air Force officer
at the scene. rancher BUl
Bruel whose land It fell on,
or local realdent Loretta
Proctor who saw the scene
before the military cleaned
tt. up
To them the mWtary
shoUld be called Baloney In-
corporated, a body which
has spent. 48 years denying
the world a t.ruth It firllt. her
aided In a press
which oooked the globe's
newswires in minutes.
That happened after Lieu-
tenant Walter Haut or the
US Air Force b&ae at Ros-
well was ordered to write the
release and dlatribut.e It, by
foot. to local radio stations
and newspapers.
The prefl& release read:
"The many rumours regard-
Ing the flying di8c became a
re&llty yesterday when the
Intelligence O!flce ot the
509t.h Bomber Group of the
Eighth Alrforce. Roswell
Airfield, was fortunatfl
enough to p.ln pc:!IIJeBSion of
a d.l.sc through the co-opera-
tion ot one of the local
ranchers and the Sherriff's
Office or Chaves Countyt
the statement began.
l'bree hours later a correc-
.,SUNDA'1' lb
tlon was iasued. from a del-
uged regional headquarters.
The flying dJso W&fl a
weather balloon a more
senior Air ForcP. Com-
mander said.
The iasue was debated and
went to rest untn It flared
again in 197ft when a then
retired Major Marcel an-
nounced a true UFO cont.act
Incident was covered up by
the rnllltary which wanted
to exploit thP technology it.
found.
Now the Roswell Incident.
and the alleged cover up are
back In the mainstream
news after Engll.sh rock pro-
moter Ray BantiUy an-
nounced he'd purchased
secret 16mm film of the
craft. and Its dead allen pi-
Iota.
WhUe photos of the debris
were pubUstlcd no one was
allowed near t.he main bod)
or the craft or balloon which
tell more than a kilometre
away.
The film wUl be aired for
the first time at the Shef-
field ffallam UnJverslty In
. '
APR\ L l99S
August. and poBBlbly on the
BBC shortly after. Not onl,}'
has the upcoming event set
off Roswell speculation
acam, but It's divided the
True Believers.
Don Berliner, who
the book Crash At. Corona
(Corona being the nearest.
vUlage to the crash site), has
tried all year to view
film and offer his expertise,
but has not heard back from
Santlll,y or h.la supporters.
"U you had what amounts
to the most important piece
of film footage in human
hlatory 1n your poeaeaslon,
one whlch proves the e:dsL-
ence of allen life, why would
you walt. so long to show lt?"
asked Berliner, a director of
the Fund For UFO Re-
aearch In Wa&hlngton,
"1 peraonally hope these
iUYB have origb\!1.1 and
authentic footage, but from
what rve heard the quality
Is very bad and ambiguous.
They're not. shoWing It to
anyone who was at the site
or who lmowa the events ac-
curately and Intimately.
"A lot of us here In the US
want to be Involved to offer
our expertise In examining
the footage. I know I could
tell at a glance If the footage
of the craft Is correct, just
by t.hP. surrounding terTaln.
"But Mr Bantuly and the
BBC have been very evasive
about. this. Why?"
Philip Mantle or the Brit-
Ish UFO Reaearch Asaoda-
tlon has seen lt and ls con-
vinced t.he black and white
film, about two hours wort.h
in 14 cani8ters, is authentJc.
He clalmtllt shows the dlsc
and an autopsy or a slender
allen Ut by lamp Ught 1n a
tent set. up In the dCIICrt.
The allen has a slender head
with no n06C or ears. but it
does hav( larp oval eyes.
Much of It 18 obecured.
"We had heard stories t.hat
a photoirapher was flown
into the area after Ute
crash and was flown out
apln soon after," he told
British reporters two weeks
ago.
"Now it seems he was a
movlc cameraman. He :Is
allve and we know his name
and be 18 wUll.ng, in due
course, to testlty.
"He took his own copy of
the rnm. and wants to sell it
no'li becaUse he'a Uvin& Jn
poverty and wants Lo con
tribute to his grand-daught.-
er's wedding."
An unnamed 8(}-ycar-old
photographer. Secret. film
never heard of before in Ute
most high profile UFO lncl-
dent. on record. Doubt.lng
True Believers wfth expert
knowledge denied access
It. sounda aa fiahy as UU.Ie
green men travelllng to
earth from afar.
But fiahy the original Inci-
dent &ln't to people whc;>
were there at the time. They
saw materlala they'd never
seen before. picked up mel.al
with strange sym-
bols on them.
Are they Incredibly gull i-
ble, eaughl. up In a group ex-
citement transcending
logic? Proflt.eers? WhUe sus-
pldoua, author Berliner says.
Continued next Pllg

project
still
baffles
eFrom previous
Pa
they hope the rum
wW vindicate a belief
so long ridiculed.
"I have talked
many times to Major
Marcel, one of the
officers dlspatched
to Brazel's ranch l.o
collect samples of
the debris :Crom the
disc's crash site,"
Berliner said.
"To this day, he
has seen nothing
Uke it. It. was like
household foU, but
much , lJghter and
very, very much
stronger.
coul<1 not cut
It, tear It, bum It or
puncture it. When
hf' crumpled It up
lnl.o a ball. It
str&Jght.cned Itself
out without o.ny
wrinkles rema.inlng.
"He also collected
little I beams just
under an inch in
wldth and 18 inches
1n length. AC1'088 the
tnterfa.oe were raised
symbol& in odd pink
and purples. They
were reometno,
probablY allen, geO.:.
metric shapes."
From 1978 the Inci-
dent kept getting
b\gaer. untU o.n otn-
clai lnqulry WM
launched early last
year.
Con,reaaman
Steven SchUt lnlti-
ated the inquiry by
the government) in-
dependent. General
Aecountlng Office,
and the Air Force re-
leased a subsequent
report which only
added spice. .
WhUe the GAO's
overall report will
not be relcued untU
July, the Alrforce
llald It WBI flnally
comlng cleM: It was
a spy proJecL on tho
Soviet Union.
"The Air Force re-
search did not locate
or develop any infor-
mation that the Ros-
wall Incident was a
UFO event," lt said.
"The most likely
source of the wreck-
age was from ProJ-
ect Mogul balloon
trains."
These were early
of spy 11atel
lites which ca.rrlt>d
lnstrum<>nt.s that
were designed to
noat high above the
USSR and record
the early explosions
1n the Soviet. nuclear
bomb program.
The foil was made
In a New York toy
factory and was part
or an anti-radar
shleld, the report
said. The I beams
were plaln old pieces
of metal with codes
on them.
But the report's
language wns Cull of
'llkely' alld 'prob-
ably' and 'possibly'
which is petrol to t.he
UFO bellovers' flre.
The tum planned
ror August gives
them more hope.
They've waited 47
years, so they can af-
ford to wait just. lour
months more.
SUNDBY lb APRl L 19 95
I
_i Pce..'-J LO.\.l _S
. .SAT U R D A==( , 13 MAY
199 5
The popularity of the Channel1 0 program The X-FIIes has sparked an Increased Interest In
all things paranormal. As KATE de BRITO reports, the truth Is out there, but getting anyone
to believe you Is a different story.
FLASHING lights In the
night. sky followed by trag
ment.ed memories of a terrify
ing alien encounter Inside an
enormous UFO.
Jt sounds like a storyline from The
X-fo'ill'S but for thousands ot Aust
ralfans, paranormal experiences are
more than just fictional accounts.
Each year an overwhelming num
ber ol people contact Independent
UFO research centres and hotllnes
re;>ortlng contact with aliens.
Many others believe they have
had visits from the spirit world or
are experiencing poltergeist activity
In their homes.
Exorcisms are still practised and 11.
psychic recenl.ly claimed to channel
the spirit. of Elv1s for a weekly
women's magazine.
Last month hundreds of people
claimed to have seen a bright
orange, egg-shaped light uver Bris
bane and Canberra.
And around the same time an
unidentified flying object. was re-
port.edly sf'en over the Adelaide
suburb of Olrnelg.
UFOs and unexplained phenom
ena,lt seems, are more popular than
ever.
It's a trend that can, at least.
partially, be to another
amazing plumomenon - television.
According to researchers pro-
grams like 'fhe X Files are helping
to dispel myths and spawn a new
understanding of unexplained
phenomena.
Simon Turnbull. president of the
Ausl.rallan Psychic Association,
sad the group's membership had
Increased by 100 In the past 12
months.
"There's no doubt that shows like
The X Files have had an effect on
people, have made them more open
about experiences,'' Mr Turnbull
said.
One oll.he lew societies of its kind
listed In the Yellow Pages the Aust
ra!lan Psychic Association has be-
co:ne a liaison group for people
touched by the supernatural.
At the group's Woolloomooloo
hea<Jquarters, a team of psychics
answer phones. ready to give callers
advice on everyt hlng from their love
life to stopping objects mysteriously
moving around the room.
Most of the association's psychics
belleve people su Hering emotional
stress are capable of converting
thal to physical energy, strong
enough to move objects, create Ill
us:ons or convince them they are
possessed.
These people feel a sense of relief
that they can LaUe to somebody
about their experiences," said Mr
Tum bull.
we don't foster space cadets or
people who think they can nx the
world with a. cryst.a.l.
''The beauty of television pro
grams about the supernatural is
that they help take the mystery out
or the subject."
Enmore spiritualist minister Pat
Cleary says spiritual churches,
which use healing, meditation and
Intuition teamed with guidance
from the spirit world, have begun
taking the place o1 the traditional
churches.
She Is keen t.o point out that the
splrlLual debate has come a long
way since movies like The Exorcist
and Poltergelsl.
In this era of political correctness,
exorcisms are called rescues. and II
you're having trouble with a ghost
or spirit you will call ln a house
clearer to help with Its removal.
"I gl't people ringing me to tell me
they've .woken up In the night with a
presence In Llle room -sometimes
they're very frightened," f;ald Ms
Cleary.
"They need to tum.
"Commonsense must tell you
there Is something going on beyond
our ordinary experiences."
Henry Zarth,loundcrof the Aust
rallan Spiritual Association, agrees
interest In unexplained phenomena.
Is growing rapidly, albeit quietly.
Mr Zarth gets calls lrom about
five people a week asking for help or
referrals on matters paranormal.
"The last thing we are at
is little green men In Oylng saucers."
Leonarder says the public would
be surprised If they knew just how
many people claimed to have had
experiences with UFOs.
The trouble Is, most people don't
believe them unless they ve seen It
themselvt>s.
''The most Interesting features or
peopll' who say they've been ab-
ducted by aliens arc the le\els of
post trau matlc stress they're suffer
lng," M1 Leonarder said.
He adds that few people apart
from war veteranS' and disaster
survivors, expelienre such intcnst
stress.
Mr Lcona.rdcr :;uys governments
and security groups have know
ledge or alien visits but choose to
keep them quiet bPcauso lhey have
no answers.
Dispelling myths .. XFiles stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
Recently a man called to say he
was being psychically attacked by a
group ot people but. was unable to
get help from the pollee.
"We see lf we can do something
from the spiritual side," Mr Zarth
sal ct.
Although more people are commg
out of the closet about their out..of.
the-ordinary experiences, It seems
many, raced with the smirks of a
sceptical public, are reluctant to tell
of their encounters.
And wtth good reason.
Jamie Leonarder. a UF'O re-
searcher who runs the MuMeson
archives in Chippendale. an alter
nate sciences data depository, says
people who claim to have seen
UFOs or to have been abducted by
aliens, are often dubbed weirdos.
Leonarder, like most UJo'O re
searchers, Is scepUcal but not dis
missive or the bl&arre and oftell
unrealistic sLOrlls he hears.
"The thing with anomalies Is to
a1:cept everything but bl'lleve noth
lng absolutely," said Leonarder.
"It's not a com;piracy (to keep It
quiet). It's more that can't.
explain It so they move fairly
quickly to dismiss It"
Scientists, however, are taking
encounters ol the allen kind more
seriously.
A team are using the. CSIRO's
telescope In the western NSW town
of Parkes to search for Intelligent
life forms on other planets.
The proJect, which scans the
southern hemisphere tor sounds of
life in outer space, Is part of SETI ....
the Search for Extraterrestrial In
telligence.
Originally a $100 million NASA
project, SJoiTI is now funded by
private Investors.
So far there have been no whls
pers from the cosmos but the proj -
ect group Is confident.
Duncan RoadS, owner of alterna-
tive Issues magazine Nexus, believes
It is only a matter of time before
unexplained events, partJCulJI.rly j
- ................ __
.
UFO slghllngs, are dealt with serl
ously t>y Published In
Queensland Nexus ncldrrsscs Iss
ues ranging from health and sci
cncc to unexplained phenomena.
"The sheer quantity or people
coming lnt.o contact with UPOs Is
rising Incredibly. ld Mr Roads,
who bought Nexus fl\c years ago
SO much Is going on that It Is only
a matter of t ime the govcm
ment Is forced to go public on the
things they know"
"There are so many people wllo
have some sort or experience\\ lth n
aUon L'l alao a partial acept.ic de-
spite 30 years of research lnto the
subject.
He says most or the colour('(!
lights people sec ln the sk) arc
readUy explained, but admits o few
arc genuinely unidentified
Mr Chalker says people often
mistake Jupiter and Venus Cor
UFOs. Even seasoned a ir trntfic
controllers have trlccl to land Venus.
thinking lt. was nn aircraft., Mr
Chalker adds.
There arc also reported lncldcnt.s
or youths firing flares lns!Cic gnr
Unexplained researchers took this picture (above) of an alleged
UFO In Italy. Sceptical but not dismissive . . UFO researchers (right)
Anthony Maher, M1chael Williams and Jamie Leonarder
UFO or omc other thmg that Is
totally umxplalnable and they
think or arr tolct that they arc
nutcnses
"Whnl wt t ry to do Is give feed
back on new cases ancl new theories.
We don 'L try lo the unswers.
I treat. them all very politely and
very open mindetJiy 1 don't. rush to
bellcvfl or discredit. them."
Mr Roads srLya he hi!.B spoken to
retired military officers and mem
bers or pollee force "people
who I believe to be credible wit
nesses" who tell stories about
sightlngs or UFOs that have been
hushed up.
There Is even a sect.lon of the US
Airforcc manual telling you what to
do If you encounter a UFO," said
Roads
"I hMc spoken to people ln gov
emment and z;ecurlty organiSations
who arc dreadfully upset about the
secrecy being peflleLuated.''
bage ba.gs, producing a slow moving
orange dome in the sky.
But there Is enough convincing
evidence lo product a clandestine
lnletcsl from governmtnts and
NclcnUflc ctrcles. he says.
"It.'s such a controversial aca nud
despite a fair amount of lnvcst.l
gation In general, you dnn't sero a
great deal of evidence."
The Australian Skeptics roun
ded in 1980 to refute extraordinary
claims with logacal cxplanaUon
agree.
"Yes there are unf'xplaincd lights
In the sky but. whether that ts
evidence that they're coming from
another planet and abducting us Is
another matter " said skeptic Barry
WUIIams.
"We're not denying people have
had experiences but ror most of
these things there arc altematlve
explanations.
"Often the explanations are quite
mundant and that's not what
HIU Chalker, co-ordinator of Ute
NSW UFO lnvest.li.'tlt.lon Associ people want. Is It?"

Close encounters uproar
NEW YORK Little grev bug cvccl a.llcm: who
ktdn p human Cor xu I t:'Xpcrlmcnt8 arr at the
cntrl' or the latf'.st and unllktllr t. ncndcmk row
at Harvard Unh<'rslty
Harvard M('d cnl School t>sychology professor
John Mack featured the nllcns and their sexual
actlvltle In h be t. l'lllng book Abduction
Human Encounters With All!'ns
The upn ar follov. a dtml tnvc tl atlon into
v. It ther Dr Macks m olvPmct\t 11. lth tilt m has
brought the hool nto dl repute and he
had maint !ned Harv rd standards of scholarly
tnve t1 at on
SBJVRDA'{ b
l99S
Cigar-shaped UFO
lights up busy hotline
1' OUR pcoph hnw nportcd sceinK a. mystcri
ous and luminous "clgnr shape<! nbjcct" hover
In In the sky nenr their home In western
VIctoria
lt.ls t.hc late tIn an apparent. rash of unidentified
flying object CUI-'0) slghtlngs
Ch Moore and her boyrncnct nwchamc John
Vagg d thcv saw the object ahovl' their property
near B !lam west of Melbourne at 10 30pm on
Sunday
It shot rnpldly BCros tht !iky southwnrcls and
then It retumed and kind of looked like IL was
stopping, then lt I) to the we t, he snld
Its mo\ ement was soundle he said
In the p LSt we k the National Reporting and
Sighting Hotline has reccl\ed calls lrom Perth,
Melbourne nnd Brisbane
UFO light -
show on
videotape
A FAMII.Y con
tacted the National
UFO Hotline ycstcr
dny after seeing n
strnnge pattern or
lights ln the early
mon\lng sky.
Retired newsagency
worker May Waddell
first spotted the lights
just before Sam In the
Brisbane suburb or
Oxley.
Herson Alau.lB. nld
that. at first the object
appeared to be a n'<'
tangular while light
about three times the
slZe of a slar,
But atlrr passing
around the fnmlly bin
oculars, it was clearly
discernible as n con
figuration of lights
contltlnlng a cross In
an orange circle
rramecl by lines or
three smnll lights on
either side, he said
The lights were con
nectcd by white lines
lt lasted about an
hour, Alan said
The family vtdeo
taped the sighting
after t.alldng to UFO
hotllne operator Ro
Dowr
MON DA:f 15
SAIVRDAY 13
Close encounters
of the absurd kind
BAN JOSJo:: About 1500
people from around the
world gathered at a Costa
Rican resort at the 11. eek
Cor a meeting with
extrat.errestrtals. but the
event fniled to summon
allen visitors.
The first World confer
ence of People In Contact.
with Extraterrestrials
com rned In an arena at
Miramar de Puntarenas.
Organised by people
wlto claim to be In touch
with spaee allrns. the
Conferees linked hantJs
to lorm five concentric
clrcles around three wood
fires late yesterdny anti
Intoned a strange chant,
hoping the focused en
ergy would draw contact
with cxt.rntcrrcstrlals.
For 10 minutes they
chanted before entering
a medltath'C state.
The ceremony \\ta& sup
posed to last until the
fires naturally burned
out. But. after about 40
minutes a sudden down
pour doused the names.
Jt was dcscrlbcd as "a
sign from heaven".
I
gathering tJrew partici-
pants Jrom 10 countries
ror the cosmic encounter.

TUt$DA'i.
!\ :hiLi \995
Radar tracks UFO over Channel
I,QNDON: A sighting of a Ut'O mer the English
Channel will be investigated by the 1-.uropenn Parlin
ment. A British admiral endorsed claims thnl a fnst
mo\ Ing trmngular crnrt was seen fl)lng near the coast
or Kent It Y.SS rrported in the Sunda) Telegraph
yeslcr'day
A report prepared for the Research and
'I echnolo(:;) Committee also suggests the EC should
fund n pemmnent UI- 0 tracking centre.
Achnlrnl of the Fleet Lord Hill Norton aid 'I here
I no doubt that something happened The Bclgl n
Mini try or Defence 1s on to thl The object \\as
trncked by radar It Is a vel") cominclng l{)l)
MAY I 995

Call for UN to recognise aliens
151tA81LIA: 'I'llll Congress ul Bruzlhan t.Jtologlsts
the pP.oplc who study unidentified llymg obji'CIS
y,ants the Unltl'd Nations to admit that lilc exists on
olller planeLs.
The demand lor recognition of extraterrestrial life
will indude a compilation ol "all lht uncxplnlrwd
contacts", said Congress president Rafael Cury
Insisting that "ever')thlng will be handled within
scientific parameters".
9 S(PTt:MB E...fL_
(C\95
I> t :S PIT E a l'rGWd of
more than 1500 and the
best eflorC.s of thret
Hplrltualtsts, I regret to
Inform you that alll'ns
did not land In northern
llulgarla on Monday.
The mediums had lured
the people to a remote
airfield near Sofia,
promising eight
spaee11hips would land
and help pay the
$17 billion
foreign debt. Sadly, none
showed up and polke
e!l(:ol1.ed the wouldbe
allen ambassadors a wa)'
rroru the an cry mob.
WDNSDB'i , \3 SEPI-
E.MBE.R 1995
MAY 1995
I
MBY 1995
.MaN Del'( 4- SPICM8CR l!39S
;
How to build
a 'real' alien
A Hollywood special effects artist claims a TV documentary of a so-called alien
autopsy could have been more convincing, ADRIAN BERRY reports from London
Spaced out on
an ET highway
IF ET's looking for a place to phone
home, Rachel may be JUst the ticket.
Long a mecca for people who believe we are not
alone the town is the anchor for Ne\'Bda s newest
tourist attraction the Extraterrestrial Hlghwa_y.
It s even geUing off1ctal State highway Signs.
Folks here are com meed there are alien visitors
just over the mow1talns to the south, at. a top-
secret government base known as Area 51.
There are people and machines from other
planets there Our Government ts working
with them, Pa Travis said as me scrubbed
dishes at the LltUe A Le'Inn think allen ')
Area 51 is eUed n mystelj The heavily
guarded isolated base 137km north of Las Vegas
fs where the US Gmemment tested some of Its
most exotic aircraft including the U 2 SR-71
Blackbird and F 117A Stealth fighter and is now
belle"ed to be Oymg Aurora, a reconnaiSSance
State H1ghway 375 at Rachel Nevada a government base or a UFO land1ng strip?
A scene from the TV documenlary The Roswell Incident, claam ng to show an autopsy of a dead ahen
WHEN a television film show-
Ing the supposed post-mortem
examination of an alien visitor to
Barth was shown recently- the
''RosweU incident" -aU
those who saw it who possessed
any sense knew it must be a rake.
But the most interesting ques
lion, not answered until nov;, waa
bow It could have been faked
Now this Ignorance Is at an end.
Two fascmaUng reports In the
latest Skeptical Inquirer, that bi-
monthly scourge of hoaxers and
fakers, show exactly how It could
have been done and hov; . If their
authors had been at v; ork the
"aalen could have been consider
ably more convincing.
The background to this piece of
UPO folklore is well known.
At Roswell New Mexico, In July
1947, there was some kind of aerial
accident.
Probably a military sun. eillance
plane crashed and the US govern
ment naturally tried to hush It up
not wlshmg its scattered parts to
fall Into Soviet hands.
Bu UFO fanatics proclaimed
thai something very different had
happened; that an allen spacecraft
had crash-landed. killing Its occu-
pant, whose corpse the film pur-
ported to show.
I think It could ha\"e been a
'It could have
been a much
better f ake '
much better fake." says one of the
Inquirer's 'W1'Bers, Trey Stokes, a
Hollywood speci&J effects artist
who has crea&ed monsters and
alien creatures for such films u
The Abl Batman Returns Ro-
bocop U and The Blob
He then explains how he would
have set about faking it.
The film should look like a IMOs
documentary
The aUen lbould resemble the
popular conception of one -
human but not quite-and the dead
creature shoUld be seen under cll&-
sectlon bl adors pretending to be
medical lnftltigaton. who dis
cover" non human internal orpns.
The est approach ls to get a
person who In size and shape most
resemble the Intended alien and
build a plastic body cast around him.
Remo\ e the human subject and
you have the basic shape.
Then to give it an outlandish
appearance cover it with alginate,
MoNDf\X
S EE.BRUARX 199b
a paste-like substance uaed by
dentists to make tooth casts that
quickly soUdJfles into a rubbery
semi-solid.
Give the allen six fingers and six
toes - a normal human amount
would be much too ordinary.
To do this. wires should be In
serted in its "hands and feet" so
that these digits stick out.
Then redesign the head so that
Its face stares pecullarly.
Now the cameras ron and the
"investigators" cut up t he body.
They are likely to employ what
1l4r Stokes calls "one of the oldest
tricks In the book
One of them takes a scalpel and
attaches a small tube to its side
that faces away from the camera.
As the scalpel the allen
blood" flows through the tube so
that the scalpel lea\ es a trail of it.
The investigators then extract
from the abdomen sbltr.bly treated
Uvers or kidneys (from a butcher.)
So much for how a Hollywood
pro would done tbe job.
But the actual filmed perform
ance, says Joseph Bauer a surgeon
from Cleveland Ohio, showed
monumental Incompetence.
"Poorly advised non
professionals slash and hack at
the allen In a manner far removed
from careful clenUftc methods.
Tllt,._.,T ........ a...

p ne
While the Go ernment wishes e"eryone would
go awa}. the Nevada Transportation Department
recently named a 148km stretch of desolate State
Route 375 the Extraterrestnal Highwa). It plans
to put up four signs at a cost of $US3 300 ($4 385).
Nevada Gowrnor Bob Miller quipped that
some of the sbould be placed flat on the
ground so aliens can land there".
Officials say It draws only about 50 vehicles a das
on average. though more shov; up twice annually
when Rachel holds UFO Friendship Campouts. The
cafe features UPO T-shlrts caps. books and photos
The photos were taken before the Government
last year banned public access to two ridges
overlooking the complex.
UFO burrs stlll seek out the black rruUJbox alonl!;
Highway 375 that marks the road leading
restncted land suJTOunding Area 51. But armed
guards keep observers more than lllcm away.
SVNoe:{ 10
I
MBRC. H I
Strip
in the
sky
ALMOST 100
people across Aust-
ralia. including nu
dists at a camp near
Brisbane, have re-
ported seeing a white
fluorescent stJip tn
the sky most nights
since Wednesday.
The strip, which
has been seen south
of Shepparton in Vic-
toria In Adelaide and
obseners from
Gosford in NSW to
Queensland s Whit
Passage ls
about 30 to 40 times
bigger than the
moon the National
UFO Reporting and
Sighting hotline said.
Spokeama.n Ross
Dowe said the organ
isation believed the
stnp waa the satellite
NASA lost recently.
He said callers to
the hoWne reported
the strip 'Ill. as between
and four stars
v;1de
In Queensland, he
sa1d it had been :::een
each night between
7pm and 7.15pm
while iL had been
seen near Adelaide
and Shepparton be
t ..... een 9 and 9.30pm.
We are asking
people to try to video
or photograph this
tomorrow rught," Mr
Dowesa1d
The hotline's
l)l)ne number is 190
224 3529.
SuN oe:t 3
RAF admits
UFOs exist
A SENIOR official
of Britain's Defence
Ministry has con-
firmed the existence
ofUFOs.
Investigator Jenny
Randles coaxed t he of
ficial believed to be a
member of the RAF,
into appearing on a
BBC TV documentary.
In a program to be
shown next month, the
official reveals how
some reports of UFOs
over Britain consfst-
entll defy rational ex-
planation.
A BBC so\U"CC said
last night the program
UFOs - Britain's Sec-
ret Files would shock
sceptics.
"It becomes apparent
that there are now
people at. the highest
e1s of the British
Go\emment who have
not dlSCOunted the
possibility of life on
other planeta," he said.
_.SUNDAY 31
I
The program also fea-
tures the former head
of a UFO monitoring
unit. who confirms re-
ports of craft moving at
unbelievable speeds.
"We had radar re-
ports of objects travel-
ling at 4000mph across
the North Sea into Brit-
ISh air space- objects
as big as batUeships,"

An incident In wWch
t\\ o fighter planes were
scrambled over East
Anglla on the night of
August 13,1956 to inter-
cept a UFO is in\"esii
gated.
Surviving crew mem-
bers Insist they had a
"close encounter".
A BBC spokesman
said: The MoD finally
concede that they re
main totaUy open
minded about extra
terrestrial Ufe forms."
The ministry, how-
e\ er baa poured scorn
on the claims.
M A t-\ 199 b
'
199b
UFOols --"1
THE UFO hot ne
was inundated With
calls reporting
strange occurrences
in s sides last
night - the eve of
April Fools Day
Three to four\\ bite
lights were een
heading north about
7pm
MON OA'f
j
3\
MARC\4 199b
The my,tery urround-
mg a resident's s1ghtmg
of a large orange.
name-coloured
cal obJect m the mght
ky o'er Rc\esby Ja,t
Thursda) at about 8
J he rcs1Jent, out walk-
Ing with a fnend tn
Polo Street, satd she
was mysttfied by the
tlcnt obJeCt whtch
!>ecmed to be noatmc
from east to west Her
cnqumes to pohcc and
the atrport fatlcd to
explain "'hat it could
bun She \\Ould
be most mtere:stcd m
a possible explanatiOn
Wt: DNESOAY 3
I
APR\L \99 b
M is not What it
migbt seem in the quiet
country town of Coonabarabran.
OH HUXLEY investigates UFO sigbtings, giant hairy
atures Utat roam Ute highways and vast expanses of
ink-black sky that confuse the senses.
forced to change his dally
routine after being scared nitless
b) liehts that repeatedly seemed
to folio"' him a he loaded his
truck for the regular, pre-dawn
run to Narrabri;
roam in certain parts or
Australia".
Pressed, local people .nu tcU
tales of Mar,'', or the
"Pilliga Pdncess.., Of how, a few
)ear:. back. truckles refused to
stop on tbe Ney,eJJ Higbwn) after
reports that one driver bad hffn
woken from a cat-nap to find his
truck being shaken 'iolently a
giant, hair) creature. "fbcy sim-
ply would not stop.'' said one man.
''Not C\en for punctures. Just kept
on running."
T AI I happened man)
months ago and the immedi
te dctan ncre d in
a m' terious computer
mi hap, but John Oa\\C
recall hi mo t puZ71ing
l F 0 sighting n ith clipped.
photographic darit) .... was
dri\ing back to l\1)
,nfe and daughter nere sit-
ting next to me on the front bcnC'h
seat of m) 'lln. \\c nerc going up
a hill ncar Merriwa, at the top of
the Hunter. "hen I happened to
look up at the sk).
fhcrc "as uniform, cloud
co,er, but sudden!) something
seemed to detach itself, hm er for a
"hlle, chen fall Hf)
quick!) bclo\\ the bro\\ or the hill.
I )elled an expletin, "hlch mode
t'\Cf)onc take no\lct:. \lfe .saw
the same thing, but b) the time \\e
got to the top \\e couldn't see an)
thing.
"My tentathe explanation was
that it \\OS a \\e&ther balloon. But
this was gre), rather than sihcr.
and \\as elliptical borizontall.). not
'erticall)."'
That is. fl)ing auccr shaped.
As soon as be arrh ed home.
John Oa\\ e excited!) tapped pre
cise detail of the sighting Into hi
electronic notebook: later. Y.hcn
be came to print a cop) to hou
\\ork colleagues, the program
'Unacc:ountabl) crashed.
Recalling the extraordinary
episode DO\\, he SD)S it \\as .. clas-
sic stuff."
l\lorc like classic, pic-lnthc k)
science fiction, C)nics might say.
But the l\ferrina spotter is no
starry-eyed dreamer or cosmic
comic. Dr John Dn\\c is an Inter-
nationally respected astronomer
and of the Australian
National Unhersitys Siding
Spring Obsen11tof), Mar Coona-
barabran.
The mall. central sw town is
not ju t the selfst) led 'astronomy
capital" of Austntlla. sittine on the
renamed Nenell .. highwa) to the
stars''. It can also Ia\ unofficial
claim to the nation 's No 1
centre for UFO
Each month, Dr Da,.e receiws
sc' eral phone calls from
Of the public, ar C\en the police
high\\ a) patrol, reporting
objects in the sk). In the most
recent publicic;ed incident. six
people claimed to ha\e seen a
t:FO on the Mendooran road. It
made front-page ne\\S in the
Coonabarabran 7imes.
a motorist was forced to make
an emergency stop when confront
ed by a brighU)llt object on a
remote road near Bugnldic. "The
poor bloke froze. thinking n<Hme
would beliC\e \\hat ... said
a uorkmatc. ''But a drinr behind
blm said, 'I kno\\,1 saw it too'."
tno men were returning
through the Pilliga Scrub from a
ball "hen they "ere stopped b) an
o\al object ... lt beamed a light
down on them, before mo\ing ofT
sidewa)' at incredible speed," said
the dose friend or one.
Nor arc such slghtings confined
to high-tech objects stalking the
If the people or the Pi!Uga
region arc to be belie' ed, earth,
too, is "nlked by m)
creatures. ..Ye , )O\\Ies," one
Coonabarabrnn
Tall tales. Or possibl)' true? Not
surprlsingl) local people are
rarely prepared to put their
name:- to sightings, for fear or
ridicule.
Certainly some reports arc rlsi
blc: one man, \\ho did not \\iSh to
be identmed, claimed to ha\e
encountered alien spacraft
which he said bad been guided to
their landing spot deep in the
Pilliga Scrub by subterranean
pointers laid through the
northern NSW "Police said witnesses saw
bright linhts directly across a
roadwa) and noticed a large
object ho,ering approxi
matel) 200m abole a
hou c. It was
described as a
large diamond
hape "hich
made no noise,
though C)e\\it-
nesscs heard a
loud roaring
noise as the
object acceler
ated ofT at
extreme!) hlgb
opalfield
B u t
C 'Yowies,' one
Coonabarahran woman says
confidently. Pressed, locals tell
tales of Hairy Mary or the
speeds.''
Such reports pass
almost unremarked local-
1), for in the pubs and dubs
of the area it is not difficult to find
people prepared to to hav-
ing had similar strange experi
enccs.
Most relate to mysterious lights
In Ute night skies:
a 8aradinc lag-cutter was
Pilliga Princess.''
woman
says confidently, referring to \\hat
the Macquarie Dictionary defines
a<o the "ape-like man, about two
tall, beUC\-ed by some to
w i 1 r
MacBeth, w bo
recently opened the ne
Sky\\atch Obscnatory in
Coonabarabran to the public
for star-gazing, dismisses sugges-
tions that "eye-witnesses'' arc
fabricating spooky
stories. ''You only ha\e to talk to
people \\ho say ha\e seen a
UFO to know the) are not making
It up. They arc shaken and gen-
uinely conlloced they haH! experi-
enced something they can not
expi::Un."
fortunatel), commonsense and
science do ha\c an explanatjon for
most - though slgnlflcantly far
from all - O)ing (or
objects.
Just as the )O\\ie appears io
Aboriginal legends about the cre-
ation or the cosmos, so It is tempt-
ing to suggest that many contem-
porary about aliens are so
much ''White man's dreaming''.
That is. a attempt by
settlers to come to terms Y.ith -
and impose some sort or pattern
on - a huge, and to many hostile,
en'ironmeot. For, hereabout:., the
bush Is not just big but mlndbog
gling- in the \\ ords of the
historical society exhibition, "out
or this world".
There arc the Warrwnbungles.
Q Jagged range or mountains - "in
et r,' and shape and Conn
that the wildest Imagination could
paint" said the explorer John
Oxley in 1818- throl\n c:kywards
by 'olcanic action some 13 mil
lion ) cars ago.
According to Dawe, a sinh of
the State can be set>n from
Siding pring peak.
There Is the Pilliga Scrub -
the 'Eillion nild acre;" of
Eric: Rolls' C\ocnthc book
title. \ast, Oat, eerie and
intimidating)) empty but for
small, isolated communities. "I
can see why some people would
find It scar,," SD)S 'e,ille 0\\en,
or Coonamble, \\hO has first
farmed and then
the scrub for more than 40 )cars.
"If )OU don't know it, it can be a
bloody maze."
It is also easy to imagine the
existence of yowics in the maze.
says Ke\in Head, wbo has lived in
Ceelnoys, a community of only
t " 0
families, for
half a centur,. Not
that he belie\es in them, prefer
ring to explain sightings in tenns
offeral animals. "If .)OU heard t\\O
big kangaroos fighting, you could
be forl!:hen for thinking it was the
yowie." he explained.
VY E 0 N s DAY, II JBNVAR'f 199$
many
U F 0-
spotters
may in a
suggestible frame
of mind because they
are olertired from either
working long hours or per-
forming monotonous or lonely
tasks.
"U tbe obsen't'r is under stress
or is agitated, by seeing something
they don't Immediately recognise,
the imagination can do all manner
or strange things."
For both says Dawe,
problems or interpretation are
exaggerated by the lack of fixed
points of \"bual
"Light:. may appear to hmer,
dance, mo\e this way and that.
The effect may be caused by air
turbulence,
but
Quite often polirt' officers ring
to S3\' the\ can cc tfO mO\
ing back and fonmrd across
the Y.e5tt'm horizon. \\e take
a look and U's dcfiniteJl
Venus."
MacBeth add that the
low:l)ing star Betelgeuse
can also cause confusion.
''It appear quite dramnt
ic, bccau It is bright red
'' ith o ellou tinge. and
appears to
Meteors, or shooting stars
- some of \\hlcb drop
spectacular!) to\\ nrds
earth as brilliant tire balls-
and satellites make frequent
appearance in the dark
night In abo\C central W.
But there i a categof) of
sightin that nrc less
explained. The) ma\ be
from meteorological balloons,
whlcb tend to behale CC'tttltrically
ifpunctured, or, more common!),
planes. Until a few )tnrs ago,
Oawe explained, f-111 strike
and F/A-18 fighters from
the Williamston n and Ambcrie)
air bases, In NS\\ and
Quernsland, used to swing lon
through the 'Bungles on training
exercises. Smaller plane still
occasionalh use Coonabarabran
as sighting points on night na\iga-
tion flights.
Be)ond that, car headlights
pointed up,mrds, cloud forma-
tions, e'en flocksofbird can cre-
ate confusion among watchers,
according to MacBeth.
Nor docs he rule out the
possibility or people seeing the
"min min", especial!) In the
Goorianana \\here in
certain atmospheric conditions a
phosphorous gas emis ion can
create a light that
appears to ho' cr
disconcert
And then there's the sky, bigger,
brighter and blacker than almost
an)'Yibere dse in Australia. That's
why so man} obsermtories nrc
located here, explains Skpnltch's
Wilf MacBeth. ''Theres a lou
horizon, little air turbulence,
only minor light pollution
and a l'el') high proportion
of cloudlcs! nights."
Probably as high as 90
per cent.
On sale at the
local newsagency Is the
local \"ariation or the
ubiquitous holiday
postcard sboY.ing
CCI would say most
reported UFOs tztrn out
to he classical things like
ingl),
close
t 0
''Coonabarabran b\'
night". It is all black. In
fact, says MacBeth, lisitors
from hea,ily light-polluted cities
such as S)dney are "blown dean
away" b) the spectacular, nightly
star show even bcrorc they start
looking tltrough the main tele-
scope.
Iatcrnatlonal astronomers at
SiO.ing Spring can see almost for-
peering through more than
7,000 million Hght )'ears to close to
where it is all belie'ed to hale
begun. Vision at SkywatC'h is more
limited but no less impres- h'f' for
'isitors. ''People come here and
their reaction is. 'Like. nou!' And
l\hy nouldn't You'd hale to
prctt) passionless not to be
a"' e-struck."
And herein lies one due as to
why it sometimes seems a dispro-
portionate nnmber of UFO head
for Coonabarabran (the
signlficanU), is Aboriginal
ioquisithe person").
'Many people ubo come from
the east coast of Australia ore real
ly seeiog a dark sk} for the first
time," Dawe explains. "It Is not so
surprising that at they can
not make c;ense of "hat they are
seeing."
Similarly, suggests MacBeth,
Venus or Jupiter. '' ground
It reallv Is
difficult to know quite what is
going on.''
Indeed. 3$ Dau's Siding
colleague Robert
explained, "The general system of
kno\\ledgc that makes the \\Orld
understandable to us can fail
\\hen presftlted \\itb something
extraordinal')." Thus, routine per-
ceptions of brightness and lclocit)
may serious!) mWead obsen ers
into understating the size and
proximit) of unusual objects such
as meteorites.
Thus, the expert achice: don't
jump to extraterrestial concJu.
sions. But what. then, are those
bright lights and furr,
figures that out-of-towners. truck-
ies, dri\ers, fanners and timber-
cutters are con\inced they ha' e
seen?
There are numerous possibili-
ties, say MacBeth and Dawe. "I
would say most UFOs
tum out to be classical things like
\'enos or Jupiter, seen dose to the
h<lrizon," says Oa"e.
lelel.
That still leans
much that can not be,
explained, much that remains
unidentified.
Australian nstronomcrs do not,
rule out the existence of
alien intelligence; indeed. they are
imohed in the current US-based
SETI ( carch for Extra
Terrestrial Intelligence) project.
I keep an open
mind about such matters." sa)s
Oa\\e. Man) months on, he
remains 'intrigued rather than
disturbed'' b) the memory or his
onn UFO.
''It \\&S something 1 still cannot
n]llain. But I am 99.99 per cent
certain it was nothing allen."
And the computer breakdown?
Did laptop, perhap , succumb to
some alien \irus? Oay,e laughs.
.. No. Not at all. I suspect It "as
more a reminder of the ps) cholog-
icaJ fartorc: imohed with UFOs.
People get all bet up about some-
thing they cannot explain and
start making .
"More likely human error than
alien 'irus."
Space-alien
victim wins
$2m payout
LOI>.'"DON An unusual
risks msurer has paid out
$2 1 mllllon to a pol
holder CO\"ered against
being abducted lmpreg
nated or eaten by aliens
Goodfellow RebeCca
lngrams Pearson Ltd
GRIP) announced
terda) the payment to
Joseph Car
penter v. ho provided the
underwriters with n
transparent webbed claw
as proof of his ordeal.
.GRIP whose bl7.arre
policies include one for
virgins concerned about
immaculate conception
handed over the cheque
on Christma Eve to Car
penter. 23 year-o d elec
tn n and self tyled
hardcorc UFOlogist
He sad h ordeal
be an durin a k)
search v. th fnends in
Wil h re on No\ember
14 when spotted a
trtangular craft which
Carpenter approached
while his colleagues
filmed him.
An mtense beam of
light shone on me I was
ph)slcally lifted off the
ground and passed out
When I v. oke up I was
back on terns firma.
Carpenter said he then
noticed the claw stuck In
his coat slee\ e.
MoNnBY
I
30
More UFO
stghtmgs
I'm "ruing in regards
to the ightings of the
l fO (Torch 30 4).
M hu band and I
\\ere a Bass Hill Dmc-
1 a recent Saturday
m ht I'm n t sure of
lhc t1me but 11 was
d fin tel) afier 9pm
\\ c noticed the red
un cd h ht also the)
were gomg at qmtc fa"
peed at first '"c:
sa'" a couple and then
the) uddenly all
pearcd hkc they \\ere
cha mg each other and
ye the) also fonncd a
\- hapc
It lasted m our
for npprmomatcly 5 to
10 mmutes \\ e d1dn't
really thmk anythmg of
tt the next da) because
I checked the papero;
nd n th g \vas wnnen
up about Jt
\\ e u t thought It
m ' h \C been a mth
tary exert" e
TA 1\A TADROUS.
Grt>enacre
wr{)NtSDAi, lS
MA'1 t9 9 b
DE.C.E M BiR.
I 991a,..
Strange iglit gives
police a real X-File
A HELICOPTER
earchlng for an emerg
ency beacon could be at
the centre of an unidentl
ed fl)ing object sighting
tn central Queensland
But a touch of mystery
remains
Police thought they
v; ere grappling with their
own X File about 7pm
Wednesda:r JUSt before
the popular television
how was going to air
hen two officers re
sponded to reports by
r tdcnts of strange
hts tn the
Senior Constable An
rev; Luhrs said he and
h partner saw a strange
r haped light on the
rizon over Gladstone
The r"PPrts ere of a
star-sized light above the
horizon whi h seemed to
change colour to red to
v; bite and then to blue
Constable Luhrs said.
The 1 ght v;ould throb
with an increased inten
stty prior to each change
of colour d rt and cover
large dlst.ances doing a
number of right-angled
turns at high speed."
An Air Sen1ces A ust-
ralla spokesv. oman in
B,risbane said a
ter was searching the
ocean off Gladstone be-
tween 7pm and lOpm
Wednesda:r after aircraft
reported a faint signal,
but it failed Co imd any
thmg
...SBTURt)A'( 2.5 M AY l99 b
traff1c h zard
t the 1ntersc:c-
\;JEDNtS lS.
MA'1. \ Ci9b
Yes, we are
not alone
LOVE it or hate 1t
IndePE"ndence Da> has
become the highest
grossmg e In his
tocy but It is due to
more than JUst Hall)
wood hype and promo
Uon.al dollars
No matter that the
aliens in the ftlm bear
no N!Sf!.mhlanrP til nny
l.hlng e\ er reported the
central concept that
our \ast universe har
bours other intelligent
life is a n Important fac
tor ln the films appeal
It's been some years
after 2001, ET and
Close Enrounters, and
we only have Scully and
Mulder to sustain us
nee 104 is the most
"is1ble of a dozen or
mo\1es based on nhen
contact (>es. folks,
more Is on the wn1
There are \ eJJ good
reasons for thinking
that v. e need not fenr
an im as10n of the type
depleted in Indepen
dence Day neverthe-
less man1 peoplea"lll.arc
of the incrensmg UFO
\\ orldv;1de now
conclude that at least
some are extra
terrestrial in origin
The UF 0 Sympo
tum at the Mercure Ho-
tel in Bnsbnne on Octo-
ber 11 to 13 v;111 gi\ e
Australians a chance to
consider the e\1dence
and to hear from lead
mg authorities and re-
searchers on the facts
about alien im asian
and what it mean
to our future.
WARREN ASTON
Brisbane
M ONI>e:i Z ,
.SEtrEM8ER. 19CU;
UFO line runs hot -
after mystery light
A FIREBALL was seen shoot
ing east over southern Australia
the National UFO Hotline said
>esterday
HoUine spokesman Ross Do we
said many people had reported a
bright light with an orange tall
about 50m long tra.'\-elllng from
eastern South Australia to
southern Vlctoci&. followed by a
sonic bOOm, on Saturda) night.
Mr Dowe said the light could
have been a meteor
The light was seen in Mt
Gambier, Hamilton, Ballarat.
Snake Valley, Geelong, Black
Rock and Avoca.
Mr Dowe said anyone with
photographic or video evidence
should contact 190 224 3529.
MONDA:<
I
J JANV AS:1
!991
By A. LEE-AN
Austral a is about to be
gripped by Maman fe\ er
after yesterday's release of
the first pictures of a UFO
landing. The photos above
have hetn raken from an
American film "hich is due
to be released to the
Ausrralian public today. It
is currendy being \ le\\ ed
b) rhe top level of
AuMralia's military and
soemific groups. fhe film
which clearly shows an
aCtual fleet of UFO's IS
(ausing '"tdespread
emotion t hroughom the
US. Our <;ources have
confirmed that in an
move, the
Amcncan Pretdenr has
orde.rcd that, due to the
histone importance of thts
film. ir js co be shown
throughout cinemas,
causing chaotic scenes to
glimpse what could be
the most important
piece of film an rhe history
of this planet.
This exuaordinary
foorage v.as capmred on
film by Professor Tim
Burton while on a roucine
location in...-esti9arion.
Prof. Bunon, well known
for his studies of exrra
terrestrials and
supernatural pov.ers
including the relationship
berween Man and Bars.
When confronted about
the film's aurhenricity at a
recent press conference,
Prof. Burton replied. "go
and see the footage and you
be the judge. I believe
you'll be amazed."
It 1S a fact that life on
Mars was confirmed by
NASA last year v.hen a
crashed meteorite revealed
a single cell organism.

What we didn't know then
was how advanced is this
life form. The images
captured on film clearly
identify the existence of
complex ltfe forms; far
more advanced than our
own cnilis:lUon.
Since Prof. Burton
re\ealed these amazing
images to the v.orld, NASA
announced that they had
been usmg the Hubble
Telescope to monitor
increased acttvicy in the
region of MARS. They
\\ ere reluctant to comment
further. but clearly didn't
deny the Importance of this
spacecraft footage.
A funher twist to this
remarkable story the fact
that strange phenomena
have been appearing in not
T HVRSDaY, 40

the United States, but here
an Australia. Night skies
across the continent ha\c
prONided the backdrop for
a spectacular light show
Police emergency sentces
and the media have been
inundated with calls fiom
concerned citizens \\ho
have witnessed unexpained
orange light
emergmg from metalltc
saucer shapes in the sky
Meteorologists ha\e
reJected that ye5terday s
phenomenon \\as
anributed to armosphenc
conditions or weather
balloon activity.
A UFO landing sight was
discovered on rhe outskirts
of Werribee, near
Melbourne. Pilot Dean
Rankine noticed the
circular imprints with
diStinctive ground
depressions yesterday
morntng. Mr. Rankine
said, "the markmgs \\ere
perfect!} circular and
appeared at least 30 metrl'S
in diameter. UFO
investigator, Dr. Brian
Crotty, from .SJ..1 Warchers
AuStralia exammed the sne
and confirmed the
markings \\ere consistent
\\ith other known UFO
landings. He immediately
issued the site wtth a Grade
AI classification Further
studies are bemg condueted
at the undtsclosed location.
it is clear that we are set for
read Maman fC\ er.
Prof. Burton's film may be
vie,,ed by. the/ubltc at
contmue page 34
US denies
existence

ofUFOs
By GEORGE GORDON
and TOM SKOTNICKI
in New York
ET may be out
there but if he '\\ants
to make contact he
will have to land on
the White House lawn
and seek a change or
policy.
For the Pentagon is
certain there is no such
thing as extra
terrestrials and that
UFO sightings are all
e1ther f1gments of 1m
agtnaLion or natural
phenomena.
In fact, it has not in-
vestigated any sightings
since 1969, it was dis
closed yesterday.
The issue arose fol
lowing the mass suicide
of 39 members of the
Heavens Gab! cult who
believed they were link
lng up With a spaceship
tucked in the tail of the
Hale-Bopp comet.
Sect leader Marshall
Applev.hlte had per
suaded hla followers
that by shedding thelr
earthly "containers"
they could hitch a ride
on the spaceship and
live on another planet
at next level In
human e\olution.
They believed their
souls would be trans-
MarshaU Applewhite .
hitch nde on spaceship
ported to a spaceship
following the comet.
In recent years many
Americans have come
to believe a conspiracy
theory that the military
has covered up the de-
tails of a crash landing
of an alien craft at. Ros-
well, New .Mexico, and is
hiding the remains of
allen beings.
Pentagon spokesman
Kenneth Bacon refuted
the suggestions.
Mr Bacon said the air
force had Investigated
12 618 sightings between
19-17 and 1969 and found
no evidence of extra
terrestrials. exotic tech
nology or any threat to
the US.
He said most of the
reports investigated
over 22 years WE're
explained by meteoro-
logical phenomenon
like lightning.
He said Project Blue
Book was closed be-
cause just was not a
good way t.o use the
taxpayers money".
However Mr Bacon
admit.tro 701 of the re-
ported sightlngs remain
unexplained.
A Newsweek poll con
ducted last year re-
vealed that 29 per cent
of Amencans believed
contact had been estab-
lished between earthl-
ings and auen beings
while 48 per cent be-
lieved UFOS exist.
cannot substan
tiate the existence of
UFOs and we are not
harbouring remaiDS of
UFOs," Mr Bacon said.
"There is not, how-
ever, total disregard for
the possibUtty that ali-
ens might fly by."
America's Space Sur-
veillance Centre still
maintains a 24-bour
watch, although its
main duty laldenWytng
man-made space Junk.
In Brltaln, the .Minis-
try of Defence sun stud-
ies UFO reports in a
department called Sec-
retariat (Air Staff) 2a.
How suicide cult lived it up
LOS ANGELES. Beaven's Gate
cult members gambled In Las Vegas
and \1sit.ed Sea World, Mexico and
other tour spots In the weeks before
thE'y committed mass suicide, the Los
Angeles Times said yt!Gerday.
The newspaper said a meticulously
kept ftnanclal ledger, now in the
hands of San Diego County officials,
pro\<,des a glimpse into members'
final weeks before they killed them
hes In the hope that a spaceship
, ould take them to the "next level ...
Although celibate and non
drlnken; the c:ulUst.s satisfied their
cravings for candy, maple syrup
cookies. soda pop and pizza, the
newspaper said
When Investigators found the 39
bodies on March 26 at the Rancho
Santa Fe mansion the group rented,
they also found se\en tubs of Star-
buck's Java Chip ice cream in the
freezer, the paper reported
In Las Vegas. the cultists visited
the Stratosphere Hotel amusement
parte in late February and won S25 at
the slot machines.
The group may ha\ e been drawn to
the gambling mecca not b} the lure of
easy money but for a public meeting
to discuss Area 51, the part of the
Nevada Desert thought by UFO
buffs to be where the US Air Force
has kept an alien spacecraft. the
newspaper said.
ERl
1
PAY 4- APRIL !991
...
Anyone out there?
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O\er the world \\Ill attend a
spc:ctahst semtnar at
Rtverwood Legion Club this
weeketld, June 21 and 22
Jn\ cstlgators. SCIC:niiSlS,
, psychologtsls
and rcscarchen; on l fOs.
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-orid's unknown
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THVBSDAj'
I
_2b JUNE 19CJJ
,
The US Air Force concedes that bodies
fell from the sky near Roswell ... but
They weren't aliens
A 'dead alien' from the television documentary The Roswell Incident: Aliens Revealed
They were dummies
By TOll SKPTNICKI
n,_Vork
BODIB8 of alien beings
kept secret since a
UFO crash in l!H7 were
actually crash dummies
used tn a parachute exper-
iment., an extraordinary US
Air Foree report claimed
yesterday.
The 231 page document,
ca.lled The Roswell Report:
Case Closed, was released on
the eve of the 50th annlver
sary of the Incident In New
Mexico.
It lc; meant to close the book
on longstanding rumours that
the air force recovered a Dying
saucer and extraterrestrial
bodies near Roswell. New
Mexico, In July 1947. and then
co>ered lt up.
A previous attempt to quash
the rumour, which has in-
spired books. television shows
Dummtes used by the US Air Force for testing high-altitude escape equipment for pilots
and movies, failed In 1994. In
that report the US Air Force
revealed the craft that
crashed in the area of RosweU
in 1947 was part of a top secret
operation. MOGUL, which
was using high-allitude
probE's attached to balloons to
Lry and detect t.he sound of
Russian nuclear test.c;.
That explanation was re
peated in ye5t.erday's report,
but it also suggested the crash
dwnmy experiments provided
an explanation tor claims that
bodies were seen near the site,
along with military personnel
searching the desert and body
bags being removed.
But U the air force expects
the report v.111 end the contro-
versy, it is mistaken.
International Director of
the Mutual UFO Network,
Walter Andrus, described it
as the most absurd state-
ment I have ever heard In my
life". "II there is such a dum-
my experiment, and they say
it happlmed m the 1950s, that's
years aft!er the llswell Inci-
dent," he said.
"It is very embarrassing,
that the US Air Force would
release tills stuff."
Air force officials yesterday
showed photos of some of the
payloads carried by high-level
research balloons in the l!H<ls
which looked strikingly like
the HollywoOd image of fl)ing
saucers.
Air force Colonel John Hay
nes claimed that people who
recalled seemg the "bodies"
could not remember exactly
when they saw them.
He said he bad "no other
explanation" for the six-year
gap.
The air force said the life-
size dummies were used in
high-altitude parachute drops
from 1953 to 1959 as part of
projects code-named High
Di>e and Excelsior.
The object was t.o devise a
way to return a pilot or astro-
naut to earth by parachute if
forced to escape at extremely
high altitudes.
Balloons dropped 67 dum
mies throughout New Mexico.
The maJority landed outside
the confmes of military bases
in eastern New Mexico. near
Roswell. the air force report
says.
The dummies had a skel
eton of aluminium or steel,
skin of latex or plastic, a cast
aluminium skull, and an in-
strument cavity in the torso
and head. The air force said
the existence of such dum-
mies was not widely known
outside scientific circles and
"easily could have been mis-
taken for something they
were not".
A researcher examining re
cently unclassified material
came across the ..-. and
made the connecuon betweeo
them and repons of bOdlea In
the area, the air foi'CC' clalm.ci
The Roswell
gan wllh a local fanner who
disco\'ered the debris or a t'raft
that crashed in the desert In
late June or earJy July
The air foree was informed
and on July 8, 1947 Roswell
Army Air Field issued a statt--
ment that it had a
"flying disc".
Within hours this was con
tradicted by a statement Is
sued by a regional commander
who said on further analysis It
had been determined that 1t
was a weather balloon
The incident along with the
sight.lngs of "bodies" in the
area has spurred an lndustfl
of UFO enthusiasts who claim
it was evidence of a high le\'el
Govemment conspiracy.
ilot's UFO legacy
0
N the afternoon of June 24,
1947 the modern UFO era
V.'&S ushered in when a pri
\"Bte pDot Kenneth Arnold,
reported nine, sih er); crescent shaped
objects tra,;elling at high &peed near
H Rainier m the north-west us State
of WashingtOn.
Not that this was the first sighting.
Unexplained flying objects had bl"en
en in the worlds skies before. Dur-
Ing the cl lng days of World War D
combatants on bOth sides had seen
lov.1ng ball of nocturnal lights that
ould not be readily accounted for by
an) known fl)1ng de\1ce or natural
uhenomcnon
But it w the Arnold sighting and
Its consequences that captured global
ttenUon and still, 50 years later. show
no &lgn of abating. If anything, the
fnaclnaUon is greater than e\ec-.
But Arnold's experience seems rela-
tively modest by today's standards
although the objects he "sighted" had
some unu aal qualities including their
high spe<-d and lack of any \1slble
'erucal tall tructure.
A torrent of similar reports soon
surfaced - more than 1000 In the
second half of the year in the US alone.
In the process. the Arnold si"'ht ing
ga\e birth to the phrase flying
saucers".
Arnold did not flle his report until
three weeks after the event. It was
nt to the commanding general.
Wright Faeld Dayton. Ohio
At the time Arnold waa a keen
experienced and conscientious pllot
who had teamed to fly as a boy but had
been unable to keep it up because of
he cost.. Later he founded his own
lness and piloted his own pri\ate
ne to sen1ce his large number of
rat clients.
Arnold N'ported that on Tuesday,
J Ill 24 1947 WI had finished my \1; ork
r the Central Air Service at Cheha-
Wuhlngton, and at about two
k I took off with the intention of
\ to Yakima WashingtOn "
II h d decided to make a side trip to
f r C.fG Marine transport air
f hi h hn.d crashed on the ice-
,_.,,.,...., slopes of Mt Rainier
r h had made a short search and
to bout 3000m his attention
by a bright flash as if a
11. rc reflecting sunlight at me".
h w nine objects in "a chain
ed to me like the tail of a
ki kmd of 'ft'eaving and
a terrific speed across the
f M t Rainier"
po nt, Arnold described the
n of the objects as that of a
r thrown and skipping across
r
1 lines referred to mystery
r m iles but saucers"
' discs" (slang for
n records) qulckll crowded
r nnmes out because they
lves wen to ridicule.
wake of Arnold's story a
f people came forward with
unts. But. after searching
I r rds and newspapers, there
to be only a handful of 1947
0 k cs reported prior to his.
A n these. the most prominent
r the ghost aeroplanes" in Eng-
d tracked on radar and pursul"d by
AP irc:rnrt
I the US Air Force's file of UFO
rts called ProJect Blue Book-
an offlclal RAF account or n fighter
t. "ho chased a gho t aeroplane"
r 30 minutes states
"During normal night-fl}ing prac
tice at 2230 hours on January 16, 1947, a
Bntish Mosquito was vectored on to
an unidentified aircraft at 22.000 feet
A long chase ensued commencing over
the Nonh Sea about 50 miles from the
Dutch Coast and ending at 2300 hours
over Norfolk. Two brief AI contacts
were made but faded quickly. The
unidentified aircraft. appeared to take
effident controlled evashe action . . .
No explanation on thlS mcldent has
been fonhcoming nor has it been
repeated.''
Associated Press (AP) picked up the
story datelined April 30, 1947, and as
late as July of the same year lt was still
running in many weekly ne\\ spapers
across North America.
AP's article quoted the Yorkshire
Post to the effect that, "Radar has
plotted some strange things in Its time
from children's kites and raindrops to
formations of geese. but it surely never
plotted a stranger thing than this".
The j)lane" always flew from cast to
west with no return trips Indicated
One voas so regular that it was even
given Its own designation X362 X
being the RAF symbol for unidentified
aircraft.
In mid April meteorologists of the
US Weather Bureau at Richmond,
Virginia. released a balloon and were
tracking It with a theodolite v. hen t hey
spotted a !iiher, ellipsoid object just
below.
It appeared larger than the balloon
when \iewed through the theodolite
and appeared to be oat on the bottom
"'lth a dome on top.
They tracked the object for 15 sec-
onds before It sped away to the weston
a level flight path.
In 1946, an Iowa nev.spaper article
told of a close approach by something
that was unldentll\able
T
HE article said: On Thurs-
da) night an ObJect v.as seen
buzzing around the Lrees in
an east side neighbourhood,
gradually ascending all the while giv
lng off, or surrounded by, a cloud of
90hlte, radiant '-"apour and
disappearing high in the sky.
one person termed the object a
great whltet>ln:l, another a bomb."
Another witness, interviewed after
the Arnold sighting, sa1d: "'f I'd been a
religious woman, I'd ha\'e thought it
was a \1slon."
The result of Arnold's sighting and
the s ubsequent publiclt;> about UFOs
led to mans hoaxes and apparently
genuine sightings.
U F 0 proponents reading the histol')
ot the early UFO era said they
True tales or flights of fantas1es?. .
p1lot Kenneth Arnold {left) and UFOs
sighted over Yu'lnan provmce, China,
i n April1991 {above)
'Nine objects, kind
of weaving and
going at a terrific
speed across the
face of Mt Rainier
in Wasrnngton'
could not understand why UFOs were
not immedlatel) taken seriously.
Unfortunately most histories do not
portray the correct picture of the
outright foolishness that\\ as going on
Many ad\ ertlsers thought that flymg
saucers v. ere a godsend Leaflets and
paper plates with commercial mess
ages were dropped from planes or the
tops or buildings.
Many newspapers recruited prett:>
young women to form flying saucer
spotting clubs" v.1th the appropriate
"cheese cake photographs following.
Numerous people called newspapers
to say they saw a fl.}ing saucer just to
get their names In the paper.
A popular columnist. Hal Boyle, ran a
tw<rpart story about being kidnapped
from an Oklahoma bar by a big hairy
Martian. As a result. many subsequent
v.itnesses especially women appar
ently felt compelled to end their UFO
reports with a statement about their
alcohol consumption habits.
The above article is based on
extracts from the just published A
World History or UFOs: Fill) Years of
UFO Experiences described by experts
from aro110d the v.ortd. Introduction
by Bill Chalker. Red Sparrow Press.
Daffy a.od Snellgro,e. rrp $19.95. A,;aiJ
able from aU rood bookstores.
1
;JUN 1991
TV t:.S 0 6 '{,
I .IVLY f991
A red-headed herring
in the UFO conspiracy
MIAMI: Joe Kittinger
retired to Florida. took up
hobbies and until a }ear
ago never suspected he
'ft'as a kpy figure in a far-
reaching conspiracy
theory.
Then the air force
asked Mr Kittinger if he
dropped test dummies
from balloons near Ros
well. New Mexico.
"AbOut 50 times." Mr
Kattinger said.
With that, the Air
Force was one step closer
to closing its books on
of flying saucers,
alien autopsies and co\er
ups at Roswell.
Mr Kittinger, a captain
when he was stationed
there and sponing a thick
head of red hair, re-
covered lifeless figures
from the desert.
That made him a good
fit for the myst.ertous red-
headed captain, a nef
llrious figure in UFOiogy,
the man who believers
allege spirited away ali
ens In a flying saucer
crash in JW7
If you search the many
Internet sites devoted to
Roswell )ou11 find doz
ens of rl"ferences to the
red headed captain.
wus all a Mr
Kittinger said yesterday.
"We needed the data
trom the dummies and
we went to a lot or trouble
to reco,er them. U that
meant searching a \\'heat
field in the middle of the
night. that's v.haL hap
J>ened."
Although Mr Kittinger
fits the description of the
redheaded captain, he
was nowhere near Roswell
when the events of l!H7 dad
or did not take place.
But he was there In the
1950s, an expert In bal
loons and parachuting,
conducting experiments
on whether astronauts
could one da} survive
parachute drops from the
edge of space
Alien buffs beam up
SELF..STYLED alien abductees
and extra-terrestrials Star Trek fa
naUc:; and an intergalactic belly
dancer were among thousands who
From KIERAN MURRAY
1n Roswe I Now Mex1co
a UFO museum or the site where the
spaceship allegedly fell to earth shop
for allen T-shirts or tell their own
gathered yesterday to celebrate the A small group of scientists and
50th anmversary of an alleged allen UFO researchers said )esterday they
landing on Earth. had finally located n rock like silicon
NASA' s Pathfinder spacecraft piece of the alleged craft. They
touched down on Mars for an unpre claimed Isotopic ratio tests O\'er the
cedented exploratory mission or the last 18 months had proven it was
pl.a.net thought most likely to host extra terrestrial In orlgm.
some form of life UFO buffs ' This Is one of the most extraord-
swapped their ov.rn elaborate th o- inars disco' erie of our time " re-
ries of extra-terrestrial space tra"el searcher Paul Da\ id said.
Most of them a spa rafL He and the other scientists did not
slammed into the New Mexico d rt displ.a.y the sample and decltned to
near here on the ntght of Jul} 4 1947 sa) who had pro"tded them with it.
and that its alien crew killed In the Their presentation drev. an audt
was then taken for top- enee of about 200 but most people
s ecret tests by the US Air rce attending the e'e_nt preferred to visit
"'
SUNDA'(, b :JUtit 1991
tales of 'alien contact.
New Orleans resident Janet Mor
gan said she her husband and their
five children are all aliens and LhaL
many people on Earth have t-xtra
terrestrial genes.
Pointing to her 20-year-old daughter
who was dressed In a black lycra
bodysuit and was tr)'ing to sell an alien
bible to a passer by Morgan said
'April sees t hings different!) from
other pcoplt' of her age S he was
brought up to know h w an alien \
Organ h d predt ed t hat be
tv. een 60 000 nd l p pie might
attend the IX <by f ' 1 but the
final ftgure was about 000
f
Stars kle

1n
LOS ANGELES: A
of Hollywood
stars are claiming to
1tave had close encoun-
ters of the real kind
wlthUPOs.
Their suf1)f1sing revt>l-
ations encoun-
ters With men from outer
space are made in a new
book Hollywood and the
Supernatural
Author Brad Stetger
d "Their reports are
ghly credible and rep
,TeSent... nddit.lons to the
literature
X Files star David
Duchovn) Hollywood
wild man Cba.rlie Sheen.
car winner Cliff Ro-
bertson and Australian-
rn star OUVl& Newton-
John art' among the
many celebrt&les saymg
that they have had IIrSt
hand experiences with
mysterious space craft.
Ducho\ny was joggmg
t.long a beach In New
four years ago
when he a triangular
UFO OV('rhead that he
.elaimed was defmitely
nota plane
I don t know what tt
was " he satd I don t
think 111 e,; er mow.
Charlie Sheen, star of
Ute sclence-fict.ion thnll-
er The Arrival, saw a
UFO in the skies over
llallbu Califonua, in
1976
It carried out. complex
aanoeuvres. then from a
ll&andst.lll accelerated to
"' indescribable speed
ad disappean!d.
I witnessed an aircraft
. t.hings acrobatl
cally that I real!) don't
-.neve are possible With
>"thing we've reated
aeen said.
6 nger turned actor

a1 s
Alien sighting X-Ries star DaVId Duc:hovny
Newton John was driving
with a friend In Australia
on a Sunday afternoon In
1964
Suddenly, she was over-
come by a sensat.lon of
pms-and needles all OYer
her bod) as though she
were surround! by sta-
tic eJectndt.)
She gaud
saw a lh:ery triangular
object hurtling toward
her. Then It cbanged
shape mto a mutt.l-
coloured globe.
It started and aopped
in the atr seYenl Urnes
and darted from aide to
side before flying off
It VI8S able to change
llke no plane
I"d ever seen she said
J AUGUST !991
I
Don't look now, nothing's out there
Still hoping to see little green
men and unidentified flying
objects? Get over it
Arthur C. Clarke
Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey
I
T Is probably too much to hope that
t,he US Air Force's belated revelations
about the source of many UFO::slght-
tngs wtll put a stop to this tedious
nonsense. Could anyone ever have seriously
Imagined that Earth"s skies have been full
of allen \1sltors for the past half-(:entury
without the matter being settled one v.ay or
another? For decades the radars of the
great powers have been able to track all
objects not. much larger than a football
come anywhere near our planet.
or course, it may be argued that allen
spacecraft invariably use stealth tech
nlques - but it is hard to see wh)" they
should bother since they so willing to
make contact. In any case, that would
hardly help them to evade detection by
legions of amateur astronomers who con-
stantly scan the skies.
Though It Is perhaps unkind to do so, I
would like to remind the UFO fanatics how,
earller, widely accepted stories or alien
meeUngs turqed out to be ludicrous at:5ri-
catlons: DoeS anyone still remember
George Adamski's Flying Saucers Have
Landed
1
He reported cities on the other side
of tbe moon, and I believe there v. as onc.:e a
lady who made a good living lecturing about
her honeymoon on Venus. Well, "e have
seen the lunar far side (nnd I've never
forgiven the Apollo 8 crev; for resisting the
temptation to repon a black monolith
there) and we know that any Venusian
rivers are Ukely to consist or lead.
We wW t>.av... :.0 go further atleld than our
imn1ediate neighbours to look for lntelli
gent life - perhaps life at all.
What Is particularly ludicrous Is the
widespread idea (a 1a Independence DaY)
that for several decades some super-secret
branch of the US government has had allen
spacecraft- and aliens - in Its possession.
Anyone who wiD believe that. "ail! belleve
anything. I have known many or the people
who would have been invohed In such a
cover-up and I can assure you that It v;ould
have a half-life of about 48 hours. As one
Pentagonian once remarked sadly: "J wish
it was true - then all us majors v;ould be
colonels." J think that settles the matter;
but then of course, I may be part. of the
conspiracy.
Indeed. at least two of my friends were on
the CIA committee looking into the UFO

question when it seriously considered
that spaceships might be involved.
One member (Leis Alvarez, famous for his
theory that dinosaurs were exterminated by
an asterold 65 mllllon years ago) told me how
,.asy it was to dismiss most of the sightings
because the average observer simply does
not know how II'any remarkable things
there are in the sky.
Frankly, If you have never seen a UFO,
you're not very observant- or else you live
!Jl the city and don t have access to the sky,
which nowadays is an all-too-common state
of affairs.
I have seen at least 10 UFOs and several
bf them were velj cominclng; it took quite
an effort. to convert them into Identified
Flying Objects. And I stW can't get over the
fact that my most dramatic sighting was
from stanley Kubt1ck's penthouse on the
East Side - the very night we had
decided to make a little home movie
together. (I'm embarrassed to say that the
brilliant light we v;atched moving across
the sky turned out to be the Echo balloon
satellite, seen under rather unusual circum
1991
stances. Also, Kubrick and I were in some-
what exalted mood and perhaps not as
critical as we should have been)
One of the main reasons I have never been
able to take reports of alien contact seriously
is that no spacesbtp eYer contains aliens -
the occupants are always human! Oh yes,
they do show a few minor variations, such as
large eyes or pointed ears (Hi there, Mr
Spockl), but otherwise the) are based on the
same general design as you and me.
G
ENUINE extraterrestrials would be
reallyallen-asdifferent from us as
the mantis, the giant squid,
the blue whale.
Nature Is incredibly ingenious: just look at
the fantastic variety or creatures on this
planet. We are products of thousands of
throws of the genetic dice; If evolution was
restarted once again on Earth, at any point
the branches of the tree of life might take a
different direction - and we not be
here. But something would be ...
' The recent excitement about Mars bas
again focused public interest on the possi
billty (most expens would say tht> the
probabilitY) of life on other worlds. Howe\-er,
we should not expect too much even from
the fantastically successful Pathfinder mis
s1on.
Watch out for Mars Surveyor next month,
though I have considerably greater expec-
tations for life beneath the lcenoes of the
J0\1an sareillte Europa, for reasons given in
my book 3001: The Final Odyssey.
With any tuck. within the next few years
(what a millennlal pre:.ent. th!lt would be!)
we may have an answer to a qu>stion that
has haunted mankind since our first ances-
tors start-ed looking at the sides.
And let me ghe the last word to the
brilliant team or engineers and scientists at
the Jet Propuls!on Lab who have amazed
the world v.ith such detaUed close-ups of the
Red Planet. In reply to my message, '"Hope
Rover's hubcaj)S aren't stolen overnight,"'
they responded: .. But how exciting If they
are .. .''
And who says that scientists no
sense of humour?
Ti1e Times
U FOs were reported as far back as 1270. v. hen
terrified spectators In Rrlstol. l'.nrland. saw an
aerial craft abo\ e lheir cit).
The craft caur:ht an anchorin a l"burch
steeple and an occupant of the PFO scampered
dov. n a ladder to rn-e ll
The ocnapant v. a a phyxtated and burnt in
the earth salmo ph re
SUdOAY, S OC.I06ER 1991
A new book, The Oz Files, chronicles
first-hand accounts of close encounters
of the third kind in Australia. Compiled
by scientist BILL CHALKER, the book
Includes the following experience of a
young woman who claims she was
abducted by aliens
1 WOULD like to begin with one or
the most striking Incidents of the
Austmlian UI<,O story so far. This is the
case of a woman, who Is using the
pst'udonym Kelly Cahill to protect her
privacy, who may have been abdudec'l
uear Melbourne In 1993 u.nd whose
st-ory is, In important aspects, corrobor
nt.cd by a group of completely lndepen
dent witnesses.
,. ll ha.'i tLractcd great lnt.erest from
around the world becau e of the obvious
int('SI'Ii) of the woman the l)resence of
lndup ndent wltncsse and llu extraor(l
of Lhc tlant look placP.,
Kellv. has three- l'hllorNI Ahl' wns
lll[trrlc{l nl UJC thnc ot the Incident nllhongh
broke upafttrwu.r<lsns a rcsuiL
or l.hc tNunta he"&111ferc<.1 nd the prl's
sures thiS put on the relationship,
Her extraordinnr.) I'.XP'rlenee took place
early on August 8 1993 while driving with
her husband nt'ar the outer Melboumc
housing cst.ate nf Nanc Warren North, In
liHl foothills ol tiH' r>anch'nong Ranges.
Sorn" ol t.hc following Ul'count Is In Kelly's
own wm-cls
" My husl><tnd aud I were ctra\1ng to my
girlfriend's place up mlhe mountains. It was
her blrthda) . It was just nft.er
cl:lrk and we were nearly there, about half an
hour trom her place J m just busy looking
out the window. ! look over towards this field
ns we nrc going past and 1 see a ring of
Ol'nlliJC li(thtS.
"It was the first time I ever Lh<HII{ht I had
!lt'C'Il thai wo.sn t nor111al, you
knnw what r mean I wns going to $hut my
mouth. I thought: 'No [111y husband woul(l
J tl. hn\ c a go at me.' llut a couple of
m nut.es up the road I said, ' I swear I sawn
UFO' He said. ' Don't be stupid It wns
n hcllcoptP.r 1 said: 'H wasn' t
making an) noise. It was just s1tUng on the
ground ' Anyway, after n few Jibes nt me, lie
lurgot nil ahout il., and wl flnwetl.
"Whcll we were lhl're, wt t;tUrl talkhiK
whut I Uwught I hll.(l Sl'tlll, My lriencl's
luther snys, 'You think yclu've seen little
green men or something, Kcll)';)' and all this
sort of stuff. H was turned Into n joke, and
1 just totally forgot about It We 'llient out
nml nla)cd bingo, then we came back We
got back from bmgo about llpm and we
didn't sta)' for very long nltcr that.
"Anyway, we were dnvlng hack down the
saint ,o;tretch or rund I BdKMWP llnllam Hd,
just outsulc nelgTan Aoutlal when we aaw
sonwthlng silting there, hovf'rlng above I he
road In front of us. I couldn't tell what it was.
We were far away, but a we got closer ..
w'11, 1l wasn't llkt> the orange light In the
field lL was a round shape with some sort of
glass around, or what looked Ilk(' windows
nnd llsllt. around the bottom It was dark so
you ectuldn't really tell at llrst Uut as we got
closa and rinser, thme wns no noise or
anyl.hhK
"l<'ven my husband wa!l sn)1ng: ' You'rf'
righL
1
'I'IlaL's something lhut's nry, very
stmnge.' And I swear we snw pl'ople ua therl',
and then just as J said to him: ' I swear
thert's people In there,' It shot off to the left
as fast as It could go 1 mean It just
disappeared. Within a split second, it had
gone.
"Wo ktpt drl\'lnp: and ahout a kilometre
ahead, all ol n. suddtn, thern waR o really,
rt>ally hrlghlllght In front of us, nnd I've got
my hand up, up above my brow lo look out


River mystery
still unsolved
IN 1988 a Saulwick opmlon poll found that
42 per cent 01 Australian
believed In UFOs.
But Is there really anybody out. U1e.re? It
a question many Australians are more than
curious about.
On a wlnt.er's day In 1009, the )ear man walked
on the moon, Bill Ohnlk1rwas taking aswlm In the
Clu rtnte Hivtr IH'!U' Oro II on. The bu rgf'onhtH
r;rltnlist not.lcecllitreaaus ol whlt11 filament. cmr11ng
<lown the river anti wns last'inatwl, bclievlug It to
h1 lltf' natuml phenomenon ol a Wl'h ol
nugratory balloon spiders.
He also knew that In U.l-'0 lore. materlnl of a
similar nppearance, known as "Angel Hair" had
been linked to UJo'Os, some researchers saying It
might be a by product of the energy needed by
l'rart.
ChRlkPt' paddled ov1r to tlw rivf'r bank where.
ln.rgt runount,; ol !.hill "spfd!r web" Wf'rc to he
round and 1mys he was not preparecl lor the
ltnJlrobable. The llll\tPrlal'Wn& nothing hkc he had
ever seen. lfe rollecl up large <tuantllles in his
hauds and the filaments began to diminish ln size
and then cornpletel.) dlsaprwar as though they
went from a solid to n gas, but there were no
vapoun; or odour.
Afttr racJng to a ncahy nsiclPnce to get some
sample! jnrs. on his r('turn lhe large mass of
strange llhuuent.s hacl ctisnppearcd.
Ills f'XJlCI'icnC'e, lw says, hf't'allll' more nJincry
phal whtn he discovered later that a uumher or
peoplt In Graltou, inclucling hts parents, had
reported seeing a U.fo'O nt the so.me time, acscr1b
lng It as an elongated white mass".
Chalker says perhaps there was a natural
explanation for what. he had sef'n and touched
that day.
Now, Bill Chalker Is an lnrtuskial chemist with
an honours degrf'e In srun<'e. Uc Riudifd
UJo'Os lor more thun Utree dtades and ill mul ul
Auslmlta's foremost lH'O rest:'archers and cu
orclinntur of the NSW lJJo'O Investigation Ocntrf'.
fll'l primary locus is solid evidence, partlcula.rly
ph)lsieal. He wants to close the gap between Llle
superficial picture or Lhe Australian UFO expc11
ence as presented by the media and some SCCIItiCS
and the reality or thP. UFO experience and Its
profound effect on 111any Austmllans.
'l'ht Oz Files WI\S cmnpleltd alter alnaost
Uarce ch'tades of re1Warl'11, lncludhlK u<ee:;s
to Australian governmtnt UFO Illes and military
Ill telllgerHe.
Strange experience .. UFO researcher 8111 Chalker
8111 Chalker has nevar able to find
a nnturnl explanation for what he saw that day In
the Clarence River,
He is still searching for the answer.
the whulow, btcause IL's that bright, but
I cnu'L sec anything.
" I sulci to my husband 'Whatnre vou going
to do?' He said: I'm going to keep dri\lng'
" I knew I was going to sec a UJo'O I just
knew, because of what we hnd seen, I d seen
It twit'C already In one nlgl1t and hf' had seen
It OII<'C . , and tho nclrenalln was pumping,
U111 hctu't was thutu1ung, I was so txcltcd,"
All Ill llliUdden, whnL Sl'l'nled like cmly a
Kelly wns calm as ll nothing
had happened "Weren't we going to SI'C a
UPO?' she asked her husband.
" I don' t know. We must have gone around
a corner or something," he replied
Kelly thought she might have bla<'ked out,
lmL her husband disagreed. They arguPd
nbout what had happtntd lor part of the
way hn111e. where they arrived about
2.30nlll .
Kelly, who felt greatly dtsturbl'd, although
Slat' did not know why, \\Ill! certain they hncl
ll'lt their friend's plucc b1fore midniHhl (her
friend later ngreecl with this) and that the
Journey had tnken about nn hour more than
It should have Ber husbnnct Insisted ttwy
had left later, more likely around tam The
dlsngrcement was compllcaled by the lacL
that neither of tht'lll wore a watch
On the way hOilltl, Kelly could smell vornil,
although she could not Sl't' where it was. Slw
1\lso had stcHnadt pnlns. "When I got home
that night I lou ncl a triangular mark below
lilY navel, with who.t looked Uke a little
1a1'aroscopy cut, nnd l also star ted bleeding
that night. Thrce-amJ-,a half weeks later, r
ended up in hospital with anuueclionln the
womb. I hadn't stopped blef'dlng. 1 know I
wasn't pregnanl. as the doctor suggested. Ht
said t.llat. t.he only way you ca11 get that ldncl
of Infection In Uw womb Is if you've bPen
pregnan tor It's hNu Cl\used by an operation.
They put me on a ddp umJ fixed me up. 1 I Pit
f)l'ctly crook."
Kelly's memories ol that night's tvtnts
carne back to her gmdually, and l urn
presenting them In this way so the rcuclcr
can gain some Idea of the trauma she went
through as she struggled during the next
few months to recall what hnd haJll>cncd
to her.
One prohiPm was that htr husbancl ret
liSHd LO cliscUS8 Lhf\ night's CVf'lltS, even
lhough heagrl't'li that they hl1d sten a UF'O.
Kelly began to wonder If anything had really
happened to her. Then, two months latf'r,
lhey were driving along the same road on
the way home trom her friend's place again
and, as they came to the place where she
thought she had seen the UFO, she was
overcome by fear. ' l'he memories of that
night came lloolllng back.
She remembert'CI that 011 thl' larller
occasion they hac! come around n bend and
sl'euan erwnnous cralt about 150m from the
road, on the ground In a flt1ld. They
SATURDAY
I
20 JULY
199lo
,___ _____ I
SII)E
You wouldn't believe it, but .. weird lights in the n1ght sky confound sctentists and leave witnesses wondering whether there may be hie on other planets
had pulled over and got out of Ull'lr car, nne!
noticed thnt another car had JlUiled up.
about lOOm away
The Look up neatly our whole Ueld
or vision," suld Kelly. "It had a rnw of oro.np;t'
llghLS nnd \\hat .set>med to be either of
blue light nr blue gas arranged in a hRif
moon shape beneath it."
They went lnt.o lhe flt>ld and saw a blatk
being, more than 2m high, with glowinp: red
eyes, coming towards them. Tlwn other
b'1ngs approached rapidly allfl .smuot.hly
across lhr as If gliding. One lot. camr
\ er to K Plly and her husband, and the
her Lo the people who hau got out oi the
er car l'urLher clown tlw road
Its shnp was all wrong."
Kellll tried Lo use thought a rnean:> to
munlt'flte. She was lmrncdlaLtly over
elmed with fNt.r "Ilsounds Slupid, but it
great hiR round. red eyes. like huge flies
ami they were burning, like ... fluor
tslollllitbts, 1 suppmw, tlmt
mlng nd. All of n sudden l started
lng. They've JZOI. no souls ,and then I
cd louder, 'They'vt got no :;nuls!
e next thing I know 1 hlt umphltn
mach. I wu.s wtndrcl. nnd r wa.s thrown
back nnd I wa..o; on my baek on the
nd I sat up, with my head between my
kn I Wtl.S Ltylng to tnnscious. r
ldn &. ce. It was aU black. I'm
to my husband, '1 can't sec any1 bing
The next thing I heard was my husband
g Let go ol m>'. His voice wns all !iOrl ot
ra lted up with lt>nr. and I'd UC\cr heard
that from my husband. Tlt's not frightCJwd
or anything usually ...
Then this rnah voice said: we don l
ean ou nn) harm. My husbnnd replit>d.
did )Oll hH Kelly tlwn?' ThiLl'S the last
rd or mr huslmnd's vokc.
rd the strange rnale voice. then I
If saying, 'Oh, God. I'm r,oing to
I had my head between my kni'CI\,
J felL \'IOINtlly nau11eous. Tlwn l
ked out Cur a little while. I dont
ber btinv Then I rtmt>tlll)l'r
talk aboul a pt:wnful peoplt.
scrl'ltmlng nut. I said 'Don 1
lhem, 'n to steal yow
110 IL 1;0Unds rldkulous nnw, b11t. at
I \\as hyz.;lerically terrlflt>d. I \IMS
11) terrifl('(l. I huu never felt terror
not C\'en In my wurst nlghtumrl's.
ere's IIIII' mOI't' t.ltfng 1 nmem htr
d 'I wouldn't hann her. She's my
h r 1 took It sarcasm straight away
n uncled like There was evtm a.
mallt.aurch o.rter that.. 1 don't know.lt. didn't
' It had great big, round, red
Yes like huge flies' eyes that
burned like fluorescent stoP- lights'
se(m good to me. At this I 'larLI'cl
screaming, and going on about. llt>mtms
trying to steal people's . nuts. I know It
sounds sLUI>id, but r did.
" Next thing 1 lwnr him Raying. 'Woul<l
t;Otn<'body do sonwthlng about her And 1
felt. a hand touch my shouldl'r lL wasn't
hard, It was quitt gentle. Thats when I
absoluLely ttuckt,d. J'm sLHI siWng on Lh(
ground and I couldn 'L Set' a thing, hull madt
sure that ruy eyes were ju:;t fierce. Sonu
thinK SllllPJll'd In me. Bt>lore that I Wit.>
crying. But then something snapped In nw
and I got so angry . anyway, I started
scri'Rming out stupid thing!-!. told them t.o go
back where they came rrom.''
l lcr next memoty Is ol' b('lng bRt'k In tlu
car.
Kelly :;uhllequenUy had a number or
extmurdinary dr('arns comwcted wit h the
evl'ttts of August 8. rn one dream, she Is
standing Ina small room. with an alll'n and a
smnlll.able In front of her. In another dream
she saw a strange bring pr(scnt In her room,
Ill! t'YNI obscured by a cloak.
These dreams seemed very phyliical. The
.sensation Is I know I'm dreaming and I've
got to wake up. In this particular otw,1 JelL as
It my lep;s wtre being pulll'd orr the bt>d, ancl
I wal' from my w:ustdown and m;
legs wen btmg pulkrl over to the side, yet 1
could use the top ol my body.
''l'hen I'm a pillow, trying to hil.
my husband. to wake hun UJ>, because lw
wa.-, hesidl me Lh11t night. I'm flghllng lhls.
I'm uot go!tw t.o let lhls thing draK me oil tlH'
bNI my ICflll
1llen J woke up all(! saw II st.andlng there
agnlnl ThiS tIme tht' hood l'uvertd ej cs.
and It d1tln'l sn\rt 11111. r wns sllll tetrllletl,
but It didn't scare me quite as much because
each time It scared me, It was that sanw
pow r like I relt out Ill the titf!l t hnt mf(hl."
ln the next drl'am upon rrom u
strnnge dream" he &a\\ the same creaturt
before but It \\all naked ancl leaning
ovtr lll't looking w.lf nbout hfr navel
arta.
-Kelly Cahill
"It was tall, with n, head much larger 111
prop01'tlon Lo body tho.n a human's head
would be. very long nnd thin arms, with an
abdomen disproportionate tfl it::; t hln lranw,
liken child surrerlng from malnutl'lt.lon. rts
skin was like grey black plasticine."
Kc-lly woke up with a ::;cream
The final dream o1curred In January 1994.
ln lhe dream, the bathroom llitht !\ad blown.
Once again, there wns a sen:;e of presence.
Som1thing w11s J nil lent.ty trying to grab
Kelly's rlghL hand.
Jt]ventually, she lel her hnnd be taken. She
inmwchately woke up. Once again the crea
turt In the black mhe was standing at hrr
bedside. u. Wlnt away. H lurncd that the
light had. lndted, blown and the diamond
and :o;apphirc she wore on her right
hand had gunr. To clalt thty have nnt been
found.
If the 8, 199:1, emounter revolved
only around 11 could be arJttll'd Lhat
lht> t>xperlt-uce could ht explained ali sonw
sorl of psychological episode.
Howt>ver. the prtsP.nce of another, com
pletely tnclcpcndent group of wit ncsscs,
sugge::;ts oUwrwlsc. The ol.lwr group com
prlsed a married COUIJic and u woman C rlend
and once ap;ain It wns the wonwn who srt>m
to have played till' dominant part.
Bill. the male witness In the Lrlo llkt
Kelh s husband, apptars to have had Olll)
llmit.d invoh ement, or at limited
recnlleclion. The Lwo women have a con
sclnus retullection up LO nnd iududlng
onhuurd episodes. They recollecl the UFO.
and llw tnll black beings Sketches madt'
Independently by these wonwn and Kelly, ol
both Llle LWO and tlw beings, hear striking
rcsr 111 blantes.
Jo'or the trio, 1 he experience seems tn have
started M tlwy BPIJroachl'd the sll.t whlle
Rtlll driving, A II three could hear n strange
noise and started to feel ill
Bill felt as If he \loBS going to famt. I11
slartl'lllo lose control or the cnr, a.rul ran oil
the road, striking a pole Artrr checking Cor
datnal{c- they drove ofl and within minutes
werr Pl\S;:;ed by a :spl'etllng car wIth its lights
on high beam.
Tlwn nnolher car pussed them. Soon the
two women oaw the UI<'O and BHI stopped
the ear although now he docs not rcnwmber
Lhe UI<'O. The two women t'l't'ollect
the U fo'O clearly, and their descriptions
match I hose or Kelly CahilL ('I' he Incident
hal'! been closely Investigated by Phenomena
Research Australia's John Auchettl.)
Bill seems to have bet>n i-solated from the
central e..xperwnce which followed. He has
extensive memories ol smells and r;ounds
and rtmembcrs a lot of activity wa.q going
on. but does not recall seelny ltnythlng. He
subsequently underwent ,\ hlch
expanded hill recollecl.ions Lo thiny. .. thal
happenf'd on board tlw cran, but onct
these were through Uti' or :;mt.:lland
hearing only.
Tht two wnmcn renwmbcr I{Oing on lmnrd
lht emiL. Thi'I'C was no sense of this ht!lng
an abduction, thej fc-el they went ot their
own lrl'C will,
TherP was I'IOilHl sort of phyBical c.xl\mln
nUou, all hough details are vague. There was
no speech from the aliens. Neither of th ..o
women saw ctwh other, or nuy other hu
mans. while In lhc alitn environmenl.1'hc)
were. however, vagul'ly awan of
happening to <'ach other. bl some means
llkC..l.&IIY<'hlc connnunlcallon
After the Incident. the twn women had
mark!! that resembled pressure ring
around the ba:,e of their legs, and lh
last.ed for about two wtrk,s. l:nch had a rash
nrt lwr thighs and mw had or lhf'
vaginal area. Nothing more can be
about the experiences ot this varl) l l
moment as their story seems to hll.'ll bee
sold to an overseas nwdla, group
Certain physical trnce1< (including a m
netic nnomaly) detected at till' 15lte suggest
something unusual did ha.pptn t-here
Calull who bf'tm generous In her
willingness tn co-op<rule with Austrnli:m
UFO rl.'searchcrs. continues tn be ntrected
by till' str'llngll night back In Augul\t 1993
Tension mounted bt't.wccn her husband and
hcrselr with her husband rcruslng w talk
about. whaL hnd happcnttl to lhetn that
night
'I'ht couple have no" Sl'llfLrnJ..Cd The
extmordlno.ry nat urc or her experl n c
lnciudl11g Lhe lo.tt thnt II hall lwcn corrobor
ated lndt'JHrHlent. wltnemw.s. make lllls
one nf the most compelling Ut-'0 encounters
on recnrd lrom anywhl'rt in lhe world
Extrad from T he 0: l 'lles by UIU Chal ker,
To bt publls htd ntxt week by Duffy and
Snellgrove. $16.95r r l'
Four tiny space aliens captured when their
starship landed on a aircraft carrier in 1991
are being held prisoner at a top-secret hideaway
in Maryland - and we've obtained an official gov-
ernment drawing of one of the rr=====::::=:;:=;;;;:;;
creatures!
A high-ranking CIA agent who
personally interviewed the aliens on
three occasions in 1993 leaked the Speczal
report
sketch to Weekly World News late ___ _J
last week. I
The drawina _ be the first to have this Agency and President Clin-
made by a sketch. n the agent told a ton to do right by these guys
o . :vEWS reporter. and let them go."
ernment arust But he admitted he had The bizarre story beaan
as part or the an ulterior motive for leak- on Aug. 12, 1991. when 'the
official file on ing the drawing. creatures' starship landed
the aliens "These beings have shown on the flight deck of the
capture_ absolutely no hostile intent U.S. Na\'y aircraft carrier.
depicts a toward our country or planet Nimitz, in the western Pacif-
. Earth in general," said the ic.
_slightly agent, who requested ano- The NEWS carried an ex-
built, pug- nymity. elusive account of the en-
nosed crea- ..They've been friendly, counter in its issue of Feb.
ture \vith a they've been cooperative 18, 1992, along with a dra-
pointed chin and they've been as helpful matic photo of the 40-foot-
narrow black as can be. . . high starship shortly after it
. "In my op1mon. there's no landed.
and large pomt ed reason in the world they ''The UFO first showed
ears. shouldn't be set free and al- up as a small blip on the
"Your paper broke the lowed to return to their ship's radar screen shortly
story of the landing and the home. after 8 a.m.,'' a source said
aliens capture before any 'I hope if we can keep back then.
one else anything this story alive. maybe your 'When efforts to contact
about I t, so you deser1e to readers will ?ressure the I the craft by radio failed,
meir llves. And 'e've learned more from
them about the ence of interplanetary
travel than anyon can possibly imagine.
"Now thoug , they are.very homesick
and they want to leave, and it's only right
that we let them o.
"But since we've dismantled their
spaceship in the name of science, nobody
l!llows what the bell to do
With them."
I
The agent said first
President Bush and now
President Clinton have
been briefed weekly since
the aliens' capture - and
that Clinton actually visit-
'
ed with the creatures in
December.
"He's concerned about
1heir welfare," the agent
$aid.
fighte: planes launch- they allowed themselves to for hundreds and hundreds I "But truthfully, doesn't
ed to 1l be captured," Dr. Braun of hours by every agency im- t;now what to do with them
pilots _h<!-d orders to said. aginable and they've been than anybody else
shoot It doWD: if 1t refused to The aliens, all slightly less cooperative as could be," does. _.
land on the deck as or- than 4 tall, were taken to the agent said.
an military in- ''You have to understand,
Fortunately, the UFO where they were these are extremely bright
was. to .,the mterrogated and creatures, intelligent beyond
earner Without mc1dent. by a team of medical ex- anything we could even
German scientist Dr. Hay- perts, according to the CIA dream of.
Braun, who later agent who leaked the sketch. "You question them in
med _the spacecraft, scud 1t Days later, they were English, they answer in
earned weaponry so ad- whisked to a remote CIA fluent English. You question
vanced that the four beings secret compound in Mary- them in swahili, they an-
aboard could have shot our land, where they've been swer in fluent Swahili.
fighters out of the sky in a held under armed guard ev- "They smile, they joke and
matter of seconds. er since. they communicate as though
"But for some reason "They've been questioned they've lhed among us all
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Mary - this appeared on one of the email I am on at home. and I
thought it might give you a laugh. Then agal.ll, maybe the truth is out
chere ..... As for "Gordon well I *hope* he is an imaginary
person! Peter Sansom.
EL CAUSED BY UFO
by Mike Foster I Weekly World News
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Researchers have zeroed in on a possible cause
of El Nino, the mysterious weather system that returns
spawn natural catastrophes worldwide. Incredibly, they suspect 1t 1s
caused by hot exhaust from the engines of UFOs!
we compared the dates when El Nino has appeared to the dates
when the number of UFO sightings over the Paci f ic Ocean have
peaked, going back 200 years and we found there is a 100 percent
correlation, declared one of the researchers, meteorologist Gordon
Roth.
"Whenever flying saucers are aloft, El Nino returns.
This when El Nino is exoected to be the most severe in 150
years, 1s no exception, he added. "There have been a record
of UFO sightings in the Pacific.
El Nino, which materializes roughly every seven years, always
rises in the Pacific Ocean, when water temperatures suddenly soar for
no discernable reasons. The vast pool of abnormally_warrn water pumps_
more energy and moisture inca che and th1s s:ts. off a
reaction that disrupts wind and ra1nfall patterns arouna tne world Lor
months.
In the most severe cases, such as the one expected to cause havoc from
November through next March, the resulc .is
mudslides nnd beach erosion in Californ1a, torrent1al 1n
southern two thirds of the U.S., and killing droughts 1n
Indonesia, South America and Africa. "It also has a devascat1ng effect
on the mar1ne food chain. said Roth.
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El Nino, referring to the Christ Child, got its name from
fishermen who noticed unusually warm off the coast of p ru
around Christmas in 1795.
curiously enough, that same year several ship captains recorded
in logs seen enormous 'disks' rg1ng from the
water and flying up inco the clouds, said Roth.
El Nino was brutal in 1957 and 1972 . Those years
there were an number of confirmed UFO Slghtings in the
Paci:ic, at least 60, compared to 16 1n an average year.
The worst incarnation of El Nino, in 1982-83, was blamed for up
to 2,000 deaths wor ldwide and more chan 13 billion 1n property
damage, said the expert. "Sure enough, our research shows the
number of reported OFO sightings by vessels and aircraft in the
Pacific hit 162 that year, more than 10 times the norm.
Roth theorizes that visiting UFOs unload superheated hydrogen gas into
the water as they fire up their engines to go home -- inadvertently
boiling the sea. "There's no doubt that a squadron of such vessels
would have a significant impact on ocean temperatures .
If Roth's theory is correct, our planet is in for a rocky ride,
because this year there have been a whopping 211 UFO sightings
in the Pacific -- meaning El Nino could be the worst ever !
Said Roth, "World leaders must try to contact these OFOs and let
them know about the harmful effects their launches are having on
our environment-- or the consequences with be horrific .
Peter Sansom
AO, NCC (Ext. 4075)
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PROGRAM: sqrting UFOpedia
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11-IERE are an estimated 10.000 ll1flion stars and
planets tn our known universe.
With those sort of odds. it IShard to berleVe there is not
Intelligent e out there somewhere. The question is, has
II ever visited us here on Earth?
Man has been reporting strange Stghtings in the sky for
tunes. Many have a down-to-earth explanation but
some seem to defy everyting we know and can
genuinely be called urudenlified fiylng objects
Sightings takes an open-mind approach to some of
our best-known incidents and looks at the evidence
without claiming anything as a faa
It disCIISSeSfamous cases involving the alleged
abduction of people by extJ&.eerrestnals,layfng out the
circumstances and the tests that were later conducted 10
dlcck the truth of the claims.
ever been cla9aified as genwne but lhose
t With by have not been tot.:llly cJiscounled
Each case IS prefaced with statements such
as "there was a lack of conobolatiYc WitnesSes" but at
the same lime poses the question l;outd rt really have
happened?"
No UF()pecia would be complete Without an
examination of perhaps the most famous of all alleged
UFO sighting. !he apparent aash of a flying saucer at
Roswell in the us almosl50 years ago.
Sightmgs takes an irKiepth look at the 1ncident,
indud ng the aleged autopsy of aliens daimed to have
been killed 10 the aash.
Of course if you look at RosweO you also have to look
at the possbifity of government cover-ups and IS
covered too
10
Sightings uses video dipS, photographs narrative and
text It comes With a database contairung more than 350
entries on subjects ranging from angel hair to the
Bermuda Tnangle It irOJdes Austrahan sight'ngs.
An Internet site has been set up and users can Visit it
for regular updates and furlher nformatlon
Sightings does not atlemplto convmce you we are
betng visited from beings from outer space. It looks at the
evidence objectively to make you think.. It succeeds

UFO?
I am a' to the
'iOUr{e Of 11 of
light that happens
abuut t \l.'r\ or 20
r r II Qf the
hotl!'.
I
r
.;trong ..:n
m) touch
II
has he
nnw fur
m mth' or s
Hopmg )' u
thiS nl) 'tC'I).
(Mnl OJ 1\ t
Gil MORt,
PadstO\\ Hrighh
WEPN e: s DA'i
I
RAFtracks
UFO the size
of battleship
By DAVID DERBYSHIRE
IOLondon
THE RAF t
tracked a UFO u big
as a battleship off t he
coast or Britain mill
tary sources rt \roled
yesterday
They said the
craft was track flying
in a zig zag pau ro at
30,000km h O\ cor the
North Sea.
It then rnted to
40,000km h and zoomed
off towards Atlantic.
The Du&eh air force
1so tracked the UFO b4t
two P 16
scrambled to lnten:epf.
the o were unable t()
keep , it Is claimed.
RAP officials are sald
to be baffled by the ob-
ject, spotted b) the Minis
try of Defence long-range
listening station on Fy
Ungdalcs moor In North
Yorkshire.
"It was definite)} under
control, judging bl the
various manoeuvres ex
ecu ted." said a source.
"'It appeared to be tri
angular and was about
the size of a battleship.'
Radar records of the
c:ratt will be presented to
science and military ex
perts from around the
world in June at a confer
ence hosted by the RAP at
Cranv;ell, in Lincolnshire.
Other UFO tapes -
made over the past two
years-are being withheld
as they give too much in
formation about the radar
bases scanning ability.
But military chtefs may
release a second series or
tapes believed to show 12
UPOs changing shape ln
mid flight.
WhUe the "battleship
UFO is most likely to be
JVE.SPB1' 28
I
APRIL
an expenmental IUrernft
or a sighting used by a
treaJc eath r effect.
UFO v;atch belie\"e It
is further e\ dcnce that
the Earth ls being visited
by alien craft.
The populanty of TV
shows like the X Piles has
rekindled interest in fly
ing saucers and con-
spiracJ theories in recent
)ears.
A spokesman for the
Fortean Times a JOurnal
de\"Oted to UFOs, psychic
phenomena and the para
normal, said: "The vast
majority of strnnge ob-
jects seen in the sky ha"e
a more down-to-earth ex-
planation. But most UFO I
investigators would be
very interested in seeing
these tapes."
The base at RAF Fy
llngdales has been watch
log the skies since the j
end or the Cold War
1
l998
-
Look, up in the sky

it's gas!
I am at a t o
an.;wer wh\ (Mr")
letter (15/4
Tore II) "a' titled
\""UFO'?\""
Tht: ob]<!Ct 'he
\\a' not- a \'"fl\lm:\'' ont'
More than likei\ "hat M r'
G1lmore 1' obscrvmg "
the rele:be of maf'h ga'
trom the Salt J>an Creek
area.
As or!!amc material
the natural pm-
ccss of decompn,uion
(1.e dead rot-
ung) methane 1 crt:ated
(along \\1th omc other
,1mple h)Jrocarbon,). .
Som.:times, m
mudth area' li'kc: tho-.e
around Salt Pan Creel.
bubble of th" ga'
become llllpped beneath
the ,urfuce (of the mud).
Md the: ga.-. bmld' up mer
ume.
Soan !he bubble grow'
bll! enough 'o that ih
buov:IOC\ C3U>-
C" 11 to ri--c tO' the ,urf ace
and \""pop\" - a mmi
cxpJo,ion occur-. along
wnh a fla.,h of light.
It j, the 'uddcn expan-
sion of the methane ga_, in
the pre!><!nce of atmo-
"spherk Olt)gen that cau'-
es the combu,tiun of the
ga-. and hence the lla-.h of
light
Such a small quantity of
methane \\ill not product'
enough heat to cau-.e a fire
nor"' ill it char the ground.
If you are clo..e enough to
the -.oun:e you may hear a
popping sound of the
\"expk'lling\'' ga.,.
I hope this help-. ..ohe
the 011\e YouP--
ISO "t the iir"t leiter to the
Torr:h to of th1' phe-
non
As for \OUr toud1 lamp
!!11111!! lin imd off. I bdic\c
tins j, an unrelated phe-
nomenon . a 'tn)llg clcc-
mc field '"II ..:;m'c tht:'t:
lamps w g)O\\ ... but
need 10 be !!rounded to
actually go ml and oft
'ou need to touch them).
You m"' have a I.Jult\
tamp. If." the
lamp'.;; ll:hhmg and tht
na,hmg hghL' in Pan
Creek are related then the
phenomenon conncctmg
tht:m I' bc\ond me .. con-
tact Mulder and Scull.>
for the
Tonll Salt Pan cr .... 1"
unhkel) to pia) ho"t to th<'
fir,t ahen dele2ation from
outer spacc,n-or be the
place a silent secret
mtlitaT) device will he
tc,tcd.
I luwever readen,, tht'
UfO in thi' ca'e ts. I
doubt. no more lll)Stcri
ous than that 'trange smell
from dad aftcr a heart)
meal of baked nod
toa,t .
LEI'TON
SCHRODL"iGER".
Padsto"
30 APR\L
!99 g
#
Mystery
deepens!
To ;ms"er Lipton
Schrodrigers letter or
29/.:U98.1 too am at a
a" to somebody
titled mv letter .. ? I
did not.
But Lipton 'a)
I descnbed an object., I
,aid I ...a\'< "a of
bright light e\ery 20 mm-
ute' or o"- that's not un
ObJCCl
l\' for hb cxpl:mation (lf
muddy pop". thai. rna)' be
scacnufic, but do.:-' not fit
ca..-.e.
funhcrmore. the onl)
'' trom ''h:u
hutldm!! doc' the h!!hl
I.."'mc
1
Someone- out there
kno\\'
B) the L1ptun.there
'' nothing \\ rong '' nh m)
lamp. it"' nc\\, and
11 I'> co1mcctcd \\ 11h the
<>urge of pO\\ er. a' any
logical mind will at"t"cpL
Ma\ l end th.- leuer b)
sa,>1ng I think UFO' ha\c
had their da' of unmlll!!al-
ed and I don't
hkc m\ namt" u..ed tn con-
nccuon \\ ith 'arne.
OLIVE GILMORE.
Padstow
W 1: D N (S I} A'( Z Q
I
MA'( 1998 ...
UFO webs
snare new
believers
MYSTERIOUS colr
webs fell to the ground
after unidentified flying
objects were seen over
northern NSW yes-
terday. the National
UFO society said
Spokesman Ross Dowe
said the NUFO hotline
had received about 20
calls from Quirindi, 70 k:m
south-east of Tamworth.
one t>f the caners, Eu-
nice Stanfield, 61. said
yesterday she first ncr
tired what she thought
were cobwebs on her
daughter-in-law Doreen
Mozelle. who had been
out in the garden.
..Later we saw about 20
silvery baubles In the sky.
When some of them ma-
noeuvred and Increased
speed this cobweb like
substance started to drop
to t.he ground,- :slu: said.
When they gathered
some of the substance it
disintegrated.
Mr Dowe said other
callers gave slmllar de-
scriptions of the unex-
plained sight.ings.
"Since we set up the
hotline six years ago, the
NUFO has received about
35.000 calls from around
Australia. and all but
about 15 per cent had
been explained logically,"
he said.
I\) E.$ DAY, l I 111)6-
U ST. 1998.
UFO spotted in Surfers
IS this proof that the truth is
out there - and hovering over
Surfers Paradise - or merely
elaborate photographic trickery?
The tourist who took tbia picture,
showing what could be a 'UPO over
Cavill Ave. swears he b.t no idea
he'd captured anything on 111m until
he received a call from a photo
lab.
Photographic experts. and the per
son who processed the pictures, claim
there is no trickery involved and the
negatives containing tbe images
have not been touched or altered.
And UFO experts say t.he photo
graphs, taken from an Ave
restaurant. could be among the most
important ever documented in
Queensland in the study C1f alien life.
The pictures. snapped by Ne\\
Zealand tourist Oswald Raeder earl)
on September 11, follow mass UFO
sightings in northern NSW over the
past month.
Mr Raeder. 58, accidentally cap
tured the images wit.h a $10 dispos
able Konfca Neo camera as be photo-
graphed the Dolphin Arcade
building from the res ----.......... .,_ ___ _
taurant of the nearby By CHR.,YAYLOR
Search Rescue Services
Club.
"My Idea was just to
take photos ofthe build
ing-asldoalot
where\ er I go. because 1
love to look at different
styles of BI'Cbitecture."
"The staff :&bere were
more excited than me.
"It's tasca..ting, but
I m not a UPO fanatic-
in fact. I'm
people will IJhink l"m
mad:
he said.
when I coll-
ected the prints from
the photo lab, 1
thought: "Strewth.
what have we got here?'.
Surfers Paradise
Photo operator
Roger Brown said rus
staff had closely exam-
ined the negatives and
found they had not
Myst ery
from space
SPACE experts are
puzzled by reports of a
bright object seen in the
sky along the east coast
on Monday.
Thought to be a meteOr
or space junk. it was seen
around 9pm from west of
Brisbane to the NSW
southern highlands.
Ross Dowe, operaUon
manager of the National
Space Centre and UFO
hotline in Melbourne,
said he has been lnun
dated with calls about
the object. which ex-
ploded about lOOm off
the east coast.
Mr Dowe said many
people reported an ob
jeet with "metal dribbl-
ing off it" moving to-
wards them at a great
speed for approximately
10 minutes before com-
Ing to a standstilL
"That's spanner
In the works for us be-
cause meteOrites gener
ally don'L do that.."
Look. up in the sky: The 'flying saucer' over Surfers Parad se
been touched "ILs just
a matter of an unas-
suming guy, not a pro-
fessional photographer.
who takes some pic
Lures and then finds
this." Mr Brown said.
.. It couldn't be faked.
especially with a dispos-
able camera.
"I'm convinced
they're legitimate.''
The image shows
what appears to be a
saucer-shaped black
craft travelling south.
$VNPAY Z.J
UFO researchers and
Mr Raeder bave dis
counted the possibility
that the object may be
an aircraft. and RAAP
Amberley spokesman
Wing Commander John
St.einbeck confinned no
.mllit.at"l' aircraft were In
the area at the time
Martin Gottschall,
the operator of UFO
Research Queensland
-a group that
as many as 800 reports
of UFO slghtings e\ery
SPTEM61:R
year said tht- tm
could be tmportanl In
the study or the
phenomenon.
"It's not surprismg
that such an object can
appear abruptly, but

ception rather than the
rule; Mr Gottschall
said.
"People who see such
things are usually flab.
bergasted and it
doesn't occur to them to
take a snap."
1998
The mystery behind a
TJFO sighung by a
Yagoooa resident in Saun-
ders Av--enue. at about 7.45
pm Monday week. the
woman. \\ho was driving
with her sister along Saud-
Rood said she saw a
huge. illuminated "1lying
saucer'' hover across the
nigbt sky. Some time ago
the Torch reported how a
woman \\itnessed a whole
squadron of hghls in the
same Yagoona area. It
there something really OUl
there. or wac; it .JUS1, one
coJ.Ieague suggested. the
Whitman's bliqJ which
was reponed to be over the
Sydney skies thollnigk
t: DNf$DA'(, I Z.
MAY 1999
s- are they out there?
to r's Ccntricate and to
ill 1993 e tablished the liFO
Support Asso-
ca on (UFOESA)
UFOESA ts a non-profit.
\oluntary orgarusauon
dL."<< ca.ted to helpmg wn-
nesses and those who ha\e
xp..--nc:nccd UFO events to
cope \\ ath and understand
the r cncounter<i
Peter has
by doctors
and was published m the
Mcdtca.l Observer. lntcma:
uonal magazmc UFO
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Compass programs and as
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In 1996. Professor John
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for hi' group PEER (Pro-
gram for Extraordinary
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For the first urnc DNA
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WEDNESQ9Y I2. _M.Q_'f 1999
I
UFO cover-up
says historian
WASHINGTON Many
CIA agents "ere con
vlnced that Earth 1\'as
being viSited by aliens in
the 1940s and 50s, a re-
port re,; eals
The 1m estigators also
believed that spaceship
landings were covered
up by the US Govern
ment claims CIA hist-
orian Gerald K Haines.
He tells ho\\ a Major
Jesse Marcel was sent to
Investigate wreckage on
a Washmgton ranch in
1947 after a pilot re-
ported seeing mne disc-
shaped objects travel-
ling at over 1600km h -
SUN DB:< l."l.
an incident v.h1ch ga\e
nse to the term flying
saucers. Marcel - a
real-life version of Agent
Mulder from The
X Files belie,; ed
markings on 1t \\ere ali
en writings, despite his
colleagues' insistence tt
was a lost radar balloon.
The mysterious bundle
of metal sticks v.as taken
for analysis. but
r umours fuelled by Mar
eel and other ex-agents
soon circulated about a
flying saucer containing
dead bod1es of small
humanoid aliens. This
ili1lS later known as the
Roswell Incident.
Gliyra hit by mystery fl

By SIMON BENSON
lllGuyra
IT FELL out of the sk-y,
without a sound or even a
flash of light.
But a "mystery object from
space which landed in the
Guyra dam has left the town
agog. Nobody is sure \\hat Jt IS
or where it came from, but the
locals certalnly believe It to be
extraterrestrial
This morning an excavat on
team will arrive m the north
em NSW to\1m to unearth
whatever it Is that has brought
the town into national focus.
Authorities are still at a loss
to explain the phenomenon
after a local counciJ \\"Orker
stumbled across a 15m circle of
flattened reeds on the banks of
the Guyra Reservoir at 9am on
Wednesda), prompting the
council to shut off the town's
water and call in everyone
from the Environment Protec-
tion Authority to the RAAF
The decision to retne\ e the
object was made yesterday
when police rs from Syd
n d ered a 20m long
e under the impact site
the dams edge. The object
. Oubbo
NSW
appears to have come out of
the north -east sky at a trajec
to11 of about 45 degree:; some-
time bet.wcen Monday mght
and Wednesday morning.
One of the fe\\, but gro\\ing
number of witnesses to the
landing truck Wayne
Peterson satd he sa\\ what
appeared to be a ran ng tar
abOut Ppm Monday
It was blue In ('Olour be-
l\\ een the size of a golf ball d
a tennis ball and ft. came from
an easter!) direction, Mr
Peterson sa d
Excitem nt gre\\ late

>ifNewcastle
'Syd
ney
ter.day when pollee d
emerged from the mud to ex
plain they had found a tunnel
abOut 40cm wide extending
mto the reservoir
Two consultant geologists
brought In from Annidalc
40km south of Guyra- e
it coUld have been a meteorite
\\ eighlng about 5kg about the
SIZe of a gmpefnnt..
Council worker and water
engmeer Peter Starr \\ ho !m;t
alerted authont!es said at U1e
time he was on a routme check
of the dam
"I \1."85 just walking
there and sa\\ this thing and
thought ob1.iously something
had lobbed ln there and obVI-
ously it had come from the sky.
I told general manager
and since then t.he) have kept
us awa) .
Local landOVi ner Dave
Bearup satd the first the tov. n
ne\\ of it \\as late Wednesday.
Many of the town s 2000
people w t're at a meeting "hen
sirens were sounded and pollee
made a pubUc announcement
of the dlsco\ery
The RAAF Vi bleb has been
conducting flight training in
the area er the past week,
ruled out the object being a
piece of one of Its F tits.
Other theorl s including the
impact being caused by a piece
of space junk or frozen efflu-
ent from an airliner were also
ruled out.
Last night the water was
given the all lear te t results
Indicating thf'r no con
t.aminaUon or rndloacthity
UneX"Jllained happenings are
nothing ne\\ to Guyra Tvio
F llls have cmshed there In
the past. ears and there is a
legend of the Guyra Ghost.
blamed for lnexpllcable occnr-
rences during t.he 1920S
Impact zone pol ce cfiVers search the dam
as other omaals walch rn hope of frndrng a clue
to what flattened the reeds P.cture MARK EVANS
S AIVR D.A:t;.tl. DEC-
EMBER 1999.
ew clue in
UfO mystery

By MARK DUNN
NEW e\idence in Aust-
ralia's most controversial
UFO mystery h as identified
the likely spot a young
pilot's plane may have
crashed into Bass Strait.
Researchers have gained
what they claim are fresh
eyewitness accounts of an
eerie green light that sur-
rounded Frederick Valent-
ich 'sill-fated Cessna almost
22 years ago.
Mr Valentich's dramatic
disappearance off Apollo
Bay on Victoria's south-
west coast on October 21.
1978, was recorded in radio
t.ransmissions he sent from
his rented Cessna 182L to
Melbourne airport.
Speculation about the
reason for Mr Valentich's
disappearance has ranged
from freak weather con-
ditions and pilot disorien-
tation to UFO abduction.
Eerie light A picture taken of Cape Otway 20 minutes before Mr Valentich's plane disappeared Fonner NASA scientist
IS 2000
Grounded: The prototype of the mystery Russian flying craft
SUNDAY, I& e P R l..._. L __ 2. _-= o--=- o--=.. o_
Stalin's
saucer
WITH its shiny sur-
face and distinctive.
flying-saucer shape. it
looks like something
from another world.
But this pioneering
aircraft was developed
by Russian scientists-
possibly to fool the
West into believing
that UFOs do exist.
These first. pictures
of the prototype, code-
named Ekip, were re-
leased 1ast week by
Russian scientists who
fear that lack of fund-
ing will mean the tech
nology ls snapped up
by China.
Research into flying
saucers in Russia be-
gan under Stalin.
By the late "lOs. there
was a centre for UFO
study at the Moscow
Aviation Institute. al-
though its findings
have been kept secret.
said famed oceanographer
Jacques Cousteau sought
government permission sev-
eral times to look for the
aircraft. but was refused.
Fishermen film UFO at sea
More than 50 people re-
ported seeing bright lights
in the Cape Otway region
on the night 20-year{)ld Mr
Valentich disappeared en
route to King Island.
PROFESSIONAL
fishermen yesterday sa.ld
they had taken \i deo
footage showing a poss
lble UFO sighting off t he
north coast.
Eden man Tony Bell,
33. and six colleagues
claim to have seen a
strange dome-shaped ob-
ject when they were
about six nautical miles
off the near cons
Harbour. thing
just appeared. It was
about 100 to feet up in
the sky," he said.
Mr Bell added that the
object had a bright or-
ange, shiny a pearance
and seemed to eep com-
ing closer to two boats in
their group.
"It would mo'l'e closer,
then move south of us.
then move closer again,"
he said. Mr Bell asked
one of the other fisher-
men to grab a \ideo and
fUm the object.
"It was a flying ship for
sure," he said. "You can
see clearly from the video
that it was some sort of
machine."
Mr Bell is sending the
\ideo to the Melbourne-
based. privately run Nat-
ional Space Centre.
Missing: Frederick Valentich
Richard Haines, who studied
the case. includes In his
theory the possibility of a
secret military weapons test.
The latest infonnation
comes from a man and his
two nieces. who are believed
to be the last to see the
Cessna They support the
description of a green light
hO\ering above the plane. as
detailed by Mr Valentich t.o
Tullamarine airport radio
controller Steve Robey.
II NOVEMBER. 1999
Now. new witness ac-
counts of the plane and its
position have sparked calls
from the Valentich family
and investigators for a sea
search for the aircraft wreck.
Mr Valentlch's mother, Al-
berta, has for two decades
maintained hope for some
answer to the mystery.
Mrs Valentieh. whose hus-
band Guido died this year,
''They saw both the lights
of a small aircraft and a very
large green light travelling
directly above it,'' Paul Nor-
man. of the Victorian UFO
Research Society, said.
"We have tracked it as far
as we can without an under-
water search,- he said.

Night flashes still a mystery
By WILL TEMPLE
SIGHTINGS of llghts. flares
and explosions in the night sky
along the NSW coast were yes-
terday under investigation.
Although no debris was located
and there has been no conclushe
explanation for the phenomenon,
experts yesterday said It was mos-.
likely caused by a meteor shower.
The reports of flying debris
started about 7pm on Tuesday in
Canberra..
Canberra resident Karen
Djordjenc said yesterday she saw
what like a piece of siher
tinsel shooting across the sky".
But the more spectacular re-
ports of explosions and lights
came between 8.30pm and 9pm
from along the from Eden to
Batemans Bay.
About the same time police
received sightings in Sydney and
as far north as the Entrance on
the central coast.
The csmo yesterday ruled out
any possible link with the troubled
Mir space station which is due to
be returned to Earth.
Late yesterday pollee said a
geological survey team at Braid-
wood. between Canberra and
Eden, had recorded an atmosphe-
ric disturbance between 8.30pm
and 10.30pm on Tuesday.
Pollee have referred the matter
to the Australian UFO Research
Network as scientists yesterday
speculated any meteorite to cause
the effects reported would have to
be the size of a coffee cup and
others the size of a fridge.
Operations ID8Ilager at the Can-
berra Deep Space Communications
Dc.M B8.
Complex Len Ricardo discounted
reports the debris had caused grass
fires off the Monaro Hwy.
He said the debris could be man-
made pieces of junk or rocks
in the Earth's gravitational pull
''It could be anything from man-
made space junk to meteorites,"
he said. "They are a perfecJ.ly
natural phenomena. We just hap-
pen to ha,e a nice thick atmos-
phere that burns them up before
they hit the ground."
Greg Bryant from the Astronom-
ical Society of NSW said meteors
burned 50km to IOOkm above the
ground and shooting stars were
often the size of a grain of sand
CSIRO director Julian Cribb
said yesterday there was little
chance the sightings and booms
were space junk, but more likely a
meteor storm.
z.ooo
THURSDAY 28
Little green men missing
LONDON: The Brit-
Ish Flying Saucer Bu-
reau which has been
hunting for extra
terrestrial activity for
a century, has closed
I doors because of a
lack Of unidentified fly-
' 1r objeet.s
he bureau, which at
no Lime boasted 1500
members worldwide, has
er the years received
weekly reports listing up
to 30 UFO "slghtings".
These days there are
rarely any such reports,
The Times newspaper
reported yesterday.
The bureau's monthly
meetings have been
scrapped due to a Jack of
participants. Denis Plun
kett, 60, a retiree from
Bristol, founded the bu
reau in 1953 with his
father Edgar.
.. 1 am just as enLhusi-
astic about flying saucers
as I always was but the
problem Is that we are In
the middle of a long. long
trough." he told Tbe
Times.
Mr Plunkett believes
that the end of the Cold
War was the catalyst for
the present absence of
UFO sightings.
"The number of sight-
ings always rises at times
of international tension
and declines in times of
peace; he explained.
Also the extraterres-
trials had probably fin-
Ished their study of the
Earth, he said.
Red planet
UFO frenzy
Mars makes close approach
AT midnight tonight, the
silly season officially begins.
Mars begins Its rush toward
earth - about lOkm a second -
and the UFO sightings will stan
to mount. Lucidly It only lasts
about a week.
The reality ofthe cosmic event,
which begins this week, is that
Mars comes the closest to Earth
It has been in more than 12 years
- about 67.6 million km to
be precise.
The result Is that. the planet
will appear as a bright red disc
just above the horizon in the
eastern sky after 7pm.
But the only side effect of such
an encounter Is the growing
number of UFO slght.ings -
which, according to the experts.
have already begun.
Cathy Clarke from UFO Re-
search NSW c1a1med that the
calls had been steadily growing
In the past. couple of months.
"It has been very active over
the past three months ... more
than normal," said Ms Clarke,
who takes calls from distressed
people " ho claim to have either
seen UFOs or had alien abduc-
tion experiences.
' I am sure that events like this
do have an Impact. People are
not wen versed about what goes
on cosmologicaUy."
Environment
reporter
SIMON
BENSON
Stargazers would have already
noticed our closest planetary
neighbour growing in size for the
past. few weeks.
Tonight Is when Mars will be
exactly opposite the sun wit.h the
Earth in between.
On June 22, Mars' elliptic orbit
wm reach Its closest. point to
earth since 1988. when it came to
57 ..5 million km.
An even more spectacular view
of Mars will occur in August 2003.
Then. the planet will be closer to
the Eanh than it has been for
about 6000 years - a distance of
just 56 million km.
Then. according to US re-
searchers. "they will e a ~ begin
to come om. of the woodwork .
PreVious close approaches by
Mars have been marked bl a big
increase in UFO slghtings.
Robin Scagell, \'lce-prestdellt
of the Society for Popular Al-
tronomy. sald: ~ u you're drtviDI
in a car and see Mars abO\ e tbe
tree tops, it can appear to be
following you. People wonder
what on earth it Is and think
they've seen a UFO."
Nick Lomb from Sydney Ob-
servatory said the best time to
see Mars would be in the early
evening looking toward the east.
With the naked eye. It would
appear as a big red star.
But a telescope with a magnifi-
cation or 40 or 50 Is enough to
reveal the planet's ~ o r fea-
tures, including polar ICe caps
and possibly even clouds.
The planet appears red be-
cause of Its rusty dust, caused by
large amounts of iron in Its soil.
"The next few months will be a
great time to look at Mars," said
NASA astronomy professor
George Lebo.
"You won't need a telescope to
see it.
''By early June Mars will out-
shine everything except Venus,
the Moon, and the sun itself.''
The European Mars Express
mission Is due to be launched
in 2003.
It will carry the mainly British
Beagle n probe, which will land
on the planet to search for signs
of life.
WDNESD8Y
I
13 lV E 200_1_
Sighting:
'He turned around and wa ed back towards
them d when he :vas a few metres
at them they just disappeared before his eyes'
As Mars gets closer to Earth and unexplained sightings rise, Adam Daff talks to UFO researcher ANTHONY CLARKE
""" .. ..., ... ""' llllnlothis?
I've ahraya bet'n Interested In thesubjecL
..... -. - .. 1
WU. the poastbWty of extra terrestr1al
\isltatlon 1o Earth. I guess. I"m 45 and I ean
remember the S..tty and Barney Hill
Incident, I tlllnk.ln 1961 or "62.
Wlllt... thlllnvoolw?
That was the flrst pubUclsed. supposed
abduction or people by extra terrestrial
\1sltors. It was claimed t.hey were taken on
to a spacecraft. and put on an operating
table .. the usual 1)-pe or thlng.lt"a very
famous. )'OU ShOuld Cind tt.on the Internet.
0.. Auslrllll hiVeI tang hiiiDry of URI
SWIIIngl1
Yeah, .. e ha\ e people whosped&ILSeIn the
hlslory sideof lt. Theres bet'n Aboriginal
account.sof people coming from
andcenaln rock drawings that look like
people ln BJ)&CeSults. But thne sorts of
reports ha\ e come right through history-
It 'a not l"t'&ll7a mOO.em phenomenon.
..-r '* lwllligllting dothey
Yes. but most people find the AustraUan
UFO Raearch Network Hotllne.lt"aa tree
24-houraadayseniceon I800m288 .
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................. ..,sinlsaor ..... ?
Iwouldn'taay sinister. but from time to
Ume I do get reports that freak you out.
They're mostly from pe-ople that have never
had a.ny Interest in UFOs or ghosts or
things Uke that. One that comes to mind
was about three weekaago when I got a call
from a chap In Centennial Parle At about
10.15pmhe saw some people tn the bushland
partotthepa.rk. Hew as walking for exercise
and v.-as attractt'd to them because or the
strange v;ay they were dressec::t
He kept .,alk:tng but the) came out of the
bush and started following blm and that
freaked blm out a bit boca use he thought
he mfght be mugged. So he decided
unbe-Uevably to turn around &nd wa.Dr: back
to'rds them and when he was ..-tthln a
few metres of them &heyJUSL disappeared
before hJs eyes. They wert>wearing the
classic extra terrestrial aults. you know &he
tight tiLting clothing.
That person was not interested ln ghost&
or UFOs. He had no lnt.cr<'3tln thesubject
but JUSLwanted to find answers to And
I've had other reporta of people rlngtng up
and having enerpes In the1r house
and Lhataortofthlng
liD....... ...ay just cal-. IDIll IIIII lnd

Oh aUsortsofreasoll.!. Weha\epeople
who thlnga.l&mlgbt hae
bet'n last year It might ha\ e bet'n last week
orltmlghtha\ebet'n IO)earsago.A good
reference would be the Australian
Ufolog/sl Ma/fiUine.
And...... doyougatlhllttram?
Most newsagenta
-""'-hid lilY ....... call-.?
No I haven t personally but I gut>SS with
the nature oft be subject you could get
them. But generally apeaking It 'a
who have seen things they can't explain.
Probably 90 per cent of the calls about
UFOsare just Ughts In the sky.
Butthlngs&hatreally lnterestusare
when people report otructured ttafL And
some of our aaaodatn have been \'er)" cJorse
to .structured aaftsorS<H:alled flying
saucers. rve one myself
SOmepeoplesaytheycouldbeJusta
reconnaissance. pUoUess aircraft, rna) be
run by computers. Tbe:re a a whole
spectrum of mater1alandpeopltnhotalk
about vtsltors from our future. You got to
keep a pretty broad outlook.
SOmetunE>s lhe media ge-t carried a.wa)
but there's really no crackpots In our group
lt"s a fairly serious thing to us. And aUof
our people are falrl) quallfled IVe got an
honours degree In science so I don"tjump to
things lightly In our group there are 60
members and there are probabl)
so met hlng close to about lOUt"O groups
throughout Australia. And they re all Usted
In theAustral.lan Ufologlst.
Whll_,... ...... ln-. .......... llle?
There s been a number of events bat one
Ofourpa.stmember&.'\lihO _.._h nhts
70Snow, recountedastorytomeand he
typed out a sighting reporL He saw. I thlnlt
ltwasln
street corner.
And the craft turned,. it was up to about
the second or third hetghLHe
loolced upandcouldn'tbolle>e his eyes. He
was trying towavedown cars but no one
s topped_ I guess thew hole tiling lasted for
about 30seconds. It Just slowlY gUded along
and It turned towards theellyand In an
Instant It disappeared
So.they-.egotsomeabilltylobeablelo
either cloak the.mselve:s or go into a parallel
unlvf'rseorsomethlng. But they definitely
ha e tbe abWtylo be there In one Instant
and just disappt"&r before JOUr eyes.
the oneS9lllng lilt-GUlesthe
--1
In my oplnlon 1t would be the 1959
by Rt\erend Wllllam Gillin
Papua New Guinea That...,..areaUybg
thing at the time and It regularly comes up
In books.
liDyou thinklt"sa c:eR-d jusli_.s IDo
mucll ... lt1DIIInatr111111
They could be Ught.s In the sty and
200 I
- - T111FYWS
they're certain I) ott.en planets Venus,
!\tara. Any number or thmgs.llke planes.
can be mlslnterpreled.
.......... ___ ,.....,.'-'!
- ,....,......,thllonedlly,... ..., ..
...,lly .. lllnn put., .. _..table?
In a way I wish ltv quid happen to me I
mean a lot. or the prlnclpaltnveztlgators
throughout the world haven't actually seen
a UPOthem...hes.aott v.ouldbenlcelo
reaUyseeaomthlng Butlfyouretallclng
about the D.orac:enarto, that
doesn't really worry me because If that...,..
going to happen then It would ha\ e
happened centuries ago.
1......-wllh I universeIS bigIS ft Isthen
caukl .. -.g going anoullln?
Well we thlnk we II:now what a going on
but things may be totally different from
what we think Ia theca.se
.J Mlhony Clat1<eIs SGCI8Byol AustrafianUFO
Reseatch jJ\ISI1I). Foro/her tefemnoos...,

Slop/len a.-wro 1sI1)1Figto pu$/1 111eAmeriawJ
W
UFOs a safe bet?
ll't iJOJ&rr your bl'nl thf'D
I u ou p elk ) our bac s
and Jump o n a plane t o
!lOUth we.&t: A
An American ps) <blc. The
Amazt nr Kreslr.Jn,ls.so
eon\rl.nted that. p, m jor l VO
breakout Is about t o happen
In SO\-ada. that he Is beltlar

The world reno..-ned
mtntalht dalms that thr
!arrest slrhtln,of u I'Osln
more than a century will
occur in May or Jane over
the !'tiel"&da desrrL If bes
"IHonc, the SUSSO.OOOthat be
ha<J handed to a tele,tsfon
n etwork to hold will be
c harities.
12.
Z.OO\
If the past few weeks are any
Indication. TTYM said Llthgo,.
home of John Do) trs alter ego
Roy Slaven could lay claim to
being Australia a o"n Bermuda
Triangle
Lithgow residents ha\'e not
onl7 been report ng llghtlngs of
the btg cat. but also a number or
UPOs he&al
Strange Ughts bouncing
around he Sky halie been re-
ported by 23 resldenta with one
local bushman e\ en capturing
the bizarre Ughta on video
What has The Yowle M n qui
etly out Is the UFO&are
being spo ted In exactly the same
location as the black panther
slghtlngs.
Not Lhat he v. as prepared to go
out on a Um.b by declaring the
h t pt ere linlr
W lin e1 'A&
2b .J'V Ni '2001
Unknown quantities
UFO lnvesti
gator Mike WIIUams has added
DJESDAY 30
I
his two bobs '"rorth to oar recent
debate over the orlgm or UFOs.
The allen aficionado cut
tingly claims. ""There Is a mil
APRIL 2.002
SUNDAY"; 14- APRIL
'2.00'2.
Uon t1mes more evidence to
support the presence of some
thing alien to us UFOs.
than there Is to SUPPOrt the
existence of un.kno9aon homlnids
such as yowtes.
Ouch'
Red herrings
in Red Centre
,......,.._ Tim the
Yowie
Man
jett.'" Mr Far.<.as says.
Then theres the case of a
,. oman at a nearby mission who
llllcgedl)" had a close encounter
hen a number of "silvery
people emerged from a trlangu
lar ObJect m a nearby paddock
UFO manta lsn"t nev. to
Whycli!!e Well.
In 1997. a UFO apparently
crash-landedon a htghay near
&he roadhouse. Dozens of tour
lsts subsequently claimed
extra-terrestrial encount ers.
These events sparked Inter
national interest and, In an
attempt to collect some e\l
dence. I made &he long t rip out
to the desert to investigate.
But apart from a couple of
shooting stars and a h a ndful of
aateiUtes. nothing Inexplicable
occurred in the skies
A!though I am often regarded
as a champion for the un
explained phenomena cause.
when It comes to UFOs I"m a
little more sceptical.
Don"t.getmewrong thepros
pect of allens chalking up
trcq ent- filer point o er our
c nUnent on a basts
d "" tem
But until I m pr en ted with
evtdo &o Lht' contrary I have
lo that m t UPO rePOrts
&pJ>e1<1" to bo J u that object.!
that cannot be Identified
As far as I'm concerned.
UPOs pUoLed by Hfe forms alien
lo this planet are purely fig.
ments of the Imagination.
And I anyone to
prove o t herwise.
'UFO' in
jet crash
KIEV: A previously un-
Identified flying object may
have caused the deadly
crash of a Ukrainian fighter
into an air show CI'Ol\'d a
week ago, the Russian :t."TV
television company re-
ported t>.sterday.
Slow-motion videotape of
the July 27 accident show a
dark object rlstng in an arc
from a wood near the Lviv
airfield close the fttght. path
of the Su-27, whlch went on
to crash into the cro\\ d.
It was not. clear what ex-
act.h the object. was. or
whether It struck the air-
crnft. The crash killed 84
and left 199 hospitalised.
Evhen Marchuk of the
Ukrainian National Bee
urlty Council said lnltJal in-
nstigatlons "almost cer
tainly" ruled out technical
problems \\1th the aircraft
or a poaaibte bird strike.
b AU6\JST 2Q02
Come In, spinner
UNDETERRED by last \\eek's
confession by the hoaxer re
sponsible for one of Sydne.)'s
most famous UFO cases. true
believer Garry Atkinson
writes: Very soon I v. ill be part
of a d1 closure proJect to get the
GO\ emmcnt 1.0 tell the Austral
ian public the truth about
UFO and extraterrc trtnl hft>
Earlier circles
ITS v. dely accepted that the
f t modern da} crop circle
pp r d m reeds 10 a sv.amp
near the Queen Ia d town of
Tully m 1966.
But Leonard Buckland of
Mayfield serious!} question
this long standing belief
One night on a farm near
Condobolin in the late 1940s a
veT} bnght v. hite light ho\ cred
o-.er a wheat field, puzzling Mr
Buckland an<'l his
The next morning, thel found
a c1rcle of flattened tubble
about 20m in diameter. all sv. ept
in an anti-clockv. lse direction.
4 o cr O.B f3> z..o o 2.
ll JANUARY 2.003
Close encounte of
Evidence of extra-
terrestrial life may have
been discovered in the
paintings of Old Masters.
Michael Hanlon reports
from London.
I
s it an angel? Is it a cherub?
No, it's a UFO coming In
fast and low over the
landscapes of Renaissance
Italy. That s the incredible
theory of one respect ed archae-
ologist v. ho is t.rling to explain
the more bl7.arre objects seen In
some Old Masters' works.
Roberto Volterri. of Rome Uni
versity. says paintings
dating from the 15th century de-
pict strange objects in the sks .
Volterri has wntten an extra
ordinary book in which he
claims !.hat aliens have been
visiting Earth throughout Its
history - and the proof is in the
great Renaissance paintings.
As his examples show, the art
ists certainly have a tendencs to
include peculiar objects In their
works: lights in the sky; odd
flying blobs; even swarms of disc
shaped clouds that look like the
extra-terrestrial battle fleet In
the sci-fi film Indepen<'lence Day.
"I appreciate it may seem some
what difficult to comprehend but
Its my firm belief that these
painttngs are testimony of UFOs
visiting Earth even before the
well-documented cases of the
mid 1950s' Volterri
I believe the painters put these
objects in because they knew
they were of great importance
and wanted to leave a record."
One painting that has been a
focus of UFOlogists for years is
The Madonna And St John. by
Filippo Lippi (1406-1469). The pic
ture, in the Palazzo Vecellio in
Florence, shows a man and his
dog looking at a fuzzy disc In the
sky, over the Virgin's shoulder.
"They're by this
object - and why else would
they be looking upwards at it, if
not in amazement at some
UFO?" Voltern says.
The Independence Day-style
alien invasion force'' Is a feat
ure of The Miracle Of The
Snow, by Masolino da Panicale,
painted in 1429. It shows a fleet
of disc-like objects swarming
over an idealised Rome.
According to Volterrl. it's simi
lar to accounts of cigar shaped
UFOs reported over Belgium in
the 1950s.
nee kind
Imagination takes flight Lippi's The Madonna And St John shows a fuzzy drsc that has captivated UFO buffs
Another work The Gloriftcat
ion or The Eucharist, by Bona He claimed Earth had been UFOs in the earl} 20th cent some mas have been depicted m
ventura Salimbem (1567 16l3) \lsited aliens for millennia. ury, the objects they saw were stylised form by artists. The
shows God and Jesus sitting be and that they left their mark m alv.ays described as cigar- Bayeux Tapestry of 1066, for ex
si<'Ie a sphertcai object from the gigantic statues of Easter shaped - in other words, some ample. sho\1is Halley's Comet.
which two spikes and a knob Island and strange patterns thing like Zeppelins that Taylor says it's likely that
protrude. To Volterri. this IS the carved into the Peru\ian desert. were the technology of the day'' many people would ha,e inter
artist's attempt to illustrate The scientific v. orld poured Taylor says. preted them in religious terms
"what looks like a satellite, such scorn on von Daniken's thesis- It's possible the Renaissance seeing lights as angels for
as the Russian Sputnik'. so what do the experts make of painters would have seen example. lt's harcl to believe
This is not the first attempt to Volterri's claims? strange objects in the sky - they would have seen them as
prove our ancestors received Dick Taylor, of the British shooting stars and flreballs. \'lsi tors from other planets. ,
extra terrestrial visits. Interplanetary Society, says They v.ould have seen far On closer inspection, some of
The most famous proponent people have always interpreted more than we do today, because Volterri's clauns do seem dubi
of ancient UFOs v. as Erich strange objects in the skies in the night. skies of 15th centur} ous. The "UFOs'' in The Miracle
\on Daruken n S\\ 1 hotelier different ways, depending on Italy were free of the light poll Of The Sno\\ for example ap
who made a fortune v. ith hi the t>ra tn v. hlch they lived. ution of the modern v. orld pear to be little more than cloud
1968 best eller I he Ch riot Of It mtcrcsting that when Tbcs object would ha\e been albeit perfectl.} circular on
The GOd ,, ople n t b n t !kin about a ource or bern ement and rranged In perfe t J:mmct

UFO over Lismore
EARLIER this v.eek Michael
James claims to ha\e spotted a
UFO "the SlZe or a bus" ho\er-
1ng over Lismore.
"It wns cylindrical, and had a
light at either end," he says.
THIS sounds like a
lot of fun. The UFO
Expenence Support
Association pre ents
'UFOs & Aliens
Among Us' in the
Udcombe Catholic
Workmen':. Club on
Saturday, April 26, 24
John Street, Lid-
combe, at 4pm. The
speakers and their
are Peter
Khoury, UFO Abduc-
tions: the case 4-
4.50pm: Rex Gilroy
discusses his latest
book, 'Through the
window of time' and
presents e\ idence of
a large underground
secret ba e Ill the
Burragorang Valley
in the Blue Moun-
tain , 4.50-5.40pm:
Bill Chalker di cuss-
es Australian UFO
cases, DNA analysts
and other caentJfic
smestigations and
Joann Kanda discuss-
es her involvement
with the 'Di closure
Project' and relates
the true story about
"'itness John May-
sudden recall
to the USA, 7-
7.30pm. Cost $15 and
$10 cone. If you want
more information
about this presenta-
tion call Peter
Khoury on 0412 649
428.
Mr James v. atched the appar
ition for seven seconds before It
faded over the western horizon.
9 MARC.H 2.003
Wierdo
of tlie week_
Tt:lt mayot of a Brew an
to\ he cancelled a
lanamgbyana en
spaceship .soas not to
clash\'llith the recent
Brazt v Peru soccer match.
Mayor 8cio Berti told
I cancelled the
Lmdlng6ecause1 was
womed tliey m ght abduct
one of the footba!lers.
Berti, who had been
allen
lnva5lOfl for some tune.JS
the Mayor Of BocaiUVado
Sui and da rm men from
Mars are helping to fund a
UFOlanding pad he's
buildingm the town.
30 2003
The first lady of alien encounters
'Aliens'
found in
Siberia
these UFOs were photographed by Mexican Air Force pilots
MEXICO CITY A Mexican air force
plan hunting drug smugglers has
captured Images of 11 UFOs.
At first the pilots t.bought the UFOs
'\\ere planes carrymg drugs.
The Image hown on MeXIcan tele-
\ision > estcrday u ere snapped O\ er
southeast Mexico In early March and
appear as white spots in the sky.
Then the infra-red camera re\ealed
another 10 luminous spots mo\ing at
great speed The com ersatlon lndi-
cnted the UFOs followed the plane for
some time then quickly disappeared.
13 MB:-1 2004=
Saucers over Iran
IS Iran about to be invaded b;s little green
men or are t he Americans racing through
the night sky in spaceships to spy on the
Islamic republic'
Flying saucer fever has ..;npped Iran after
dozens of stghtings ill the past fe\\
da:ss. and fanciful cartoons of alien
spacecraft have adorned Lhe front pages of
local newspapers
f State t.ele\1sion has shown a sparkling
white disc iL sa}s \\as filmed over Tehran on
ue, clay night
More UFOs ha\ e been spotted beaming
out green red blue and purple rays O\ er the
northern Citie of Tabnz and Ardebil and ill
t he Caspian Sea province of Golestan
tribes of
sydney
Eacll s.turday we peel bact .. well to...-.
Sydney's societies. From grogpa rlf jast a
dozali ID organised dubs wftlllluDdnds of
............ lbese 8ISOCiaUons go (!'!1ll(l!lbd ..,
tbe majority of Sydney resid IIlli Unlll DGW.
Is Betty Hill, dead at 85,
meeting her maker or
remaking acquaintance
with the UFO that
changed her life?
Elaine Woo reports.
0
N TiiE night of September
19, 1961. Betty Hill and her
husband Barney were driv-
ing home through the White Moun-
tains from Niagara Falls. They were
travelling on a nearly deserted two
lane highway when Betty noticed a
steady glow in the sky that was get
ting bigger and brighter.
She thought it was a planet or a
star. Barnet irritated at her billow-
ing exCitement, said it was probably
just a stray aeroplane. Whatever it
was, it appeared to be following
them.
They stopped the car for a clpser
look. Whai they said happened next
changed their lives. The flying ob
ject was noiseless. It appeared to be
spmning. It was as big as a jet but
shaped like a pancake.
So begins the tale of Betty Hill, a
New Hampshire social wodcer who,
with Barney, a postal worker,
claimed to have been abducted by
aliens from outer space on a moorilit
1 night 43 years ago.
Carl Sagan. the Pulitzer Prize-
winning astronomer, one of their
debunkers, called their tale "the first
alien abduction story in the modern
genre". and it became the template
for countless subsequent accounts of
earthlings encountering intelligent
beings from the outer limits.
After reluctaody going public with
her experience, Hill, who died this
month of cancer at her New
Hampshire home. aged 85, became a
c.elebrity on the UFO circuit and was
known as the "first lady ofUFOs", the
"grandmother of all abductions".
Intriguingly, at: the time of the in
cident, the Hills remembered noth-
Ing except that they had spied a
strange object in the sky. Later, beset
by nightmares and other stress
related ailments, the couple under-
went hypnosis where the full story
emerged. in sessions with Boston
psychiatrist BeJYamin Simon, an ex-
pert in medical hypnosis known for
his success helping World War II vet-
erans overcome combat trauma.
On their nigltt of contact the Hills
arrived home at Sam, unable to ac-
count for two lost hours. They were
also baffled by a broken strap on
their binoculars, deep scuff malks
on the tops of Barney's best shoes,
Betty's stained and tom dress and
strange circular markings on their
car that made the needle of a
compass jump wildly.
After seeing them for six months.
the psychiatrist concluded the Hills'
amnesia about the hours they lost
on that night in 1961 "appeared ro
encompass an incredible experience
on the part of both of ':he Hills".
Whether the expenence h d been
fantasy or reality Simon could not
but he Sllld he was convmced
they h d not been lying He specu
lated that It had been a kind of
shared dream, something that
Sagan, after listening to recordings
of their sess.tons v.ith Simon, be-
lieved was a likely explanation.
The Hills had reported their ex-
perience to UFO invesngators. but
had no interest in going public until
a Boston newspaper obtained ttan
scripts of their sessions with Simon
and published a series of articles in
1965. The stories were so sen-
sational that the Hills decided to co-
operate with the author John G.
Fuller in a 1966 book The Inter-
rupted Journey and in a 1975 1V
movie. The UFO Incident.
Sagan noted that reports of aliens
capturing humans and taking them
aboard oddly shaped spacecraft
were "compamtively mre" before
1975. After the movie about the
Hills came out, however, such ac-
counts proliferated. Sagan, who in-
terviewed the Hills, was impressed
by their sincerity.
Betty Hill, in particular, also
could be acerbic and, in her own
way, a sceptic. She scoffed at people
who insisted they'd had multiple
visits from tmvellers light years
t!Wa'f "Don't be afraid," she wrote.
'"They don't hurt anybody. If they
wanted to conquer us, they could."
Los An;eles Times
MOSCOW: Russian
scientists claim to ha.e
diSCO\'ered the wreck Of
an allen de\ice at the site
of an unexplained explo-
sion In Siberia almost a.
hundred years ago.
lnterfax news agency
said the scientists '\\ ho
belong to the Tunguska
space phenomenon pub-
lic state fund. said they
round the remams of an
e.'ttra-terrestrial devu:e
that allegedly crashed
near the Tunguska river
In Siberia.
They also claim to have
discovered a 50kg rock
which they have sent to
the Siberian cicy of Kras-
arsk for analysis
The Tunguska blast, in
a desolate part of Siberia.
remains one of the 20th
century's biggest scien-
tific mysteries.
On June 30. 1908 what
is \\ ldely belie\ ed 1.0 be a
meteorite exploded a fe\li
kilometres above the
Tunguska river. In a
blast that was felt hun
dreds of kilometres away
and devastated over 2000
square kilometres of Si
berian forest.
. . . -- ...
12. MAY Z.OOlf
0 C.TOBE R. 2.004-
But the exact nature of
the body tha[ exploded
and Its ongln remain a.
mystery which has
spurred countless theo-
ries and controversies.
UFO YSTERY
Great balls
of ight
MEXICO CITY: A
cluster of mysterious
object.s that
surrounded a Mexican
Air Force plane,
alarming the pilots and
sparking a UFO scare.
could be a \\Cather
phenomenon known as
ball lightning a
sclentistswd esterday.
The pilo grew
nen ou during a recent.
routme drugs

'\\hen an infrared
camera hO\ ed u blobs
of light invistble to he
eye hoverlngordartmg
about their aircraft.
But nuclear science
researcher Julio
Herrera said the blobs
oflight have been
nothing more than
giO\\ lng spheres of ball
Ugh nmg. common in
thunderstorms.
lb M A'( 2..004
DougMoffett knowSthe answer ISott there
those who think otherWise need to have their
read. Hesays of the many reports received of UFO
sigll!ings to UFOResearth NSW: "' amCbmiincad
:thereISa mystery. We have our theories but we
are still searching tor the answer "
J. The clubacts as a r1lSE!3f1:h
centre for people vmo had lFO or "eXtra-
terresllial experieriC8S" or are Just interested In
cfisalssing these phenomena EEh month they aun
to solve as many ofthe mysteries as possible
among Hs60 members, with most meetings
averaging35 The majority ofsl!tdings are of lq1ts
il the sky and some 10-15 per cent of :those
reported of some form of aaft. Some
may be able to be explained as simplya satellite.
helicopt8l or star, others remain lncondu5lve.
"More1Im 99 per cent of peoJE wOOcontact us
are geqn.lt Is Q1i19 easy to tell if the cat1er IS
delusional because they wl report a sirniB' si!jlting
COIISi&eirlly Formost callers It Is just a one-off
IMI1l." QJeSl speilkei'S are OCC&'illlllill) caled In to
oo al things exbatetre:.1rial
2,9 MB:t 2.00 S'
ERE: The cbl was ori!jnaly formedIn the
1950s as the s:ecoodpWi: 10 crplisation i'l1he
wortd lll1d suvNed i1varioUsrenanarions to
become lFO Resean:h NSWi'l1991, mee6ng at
Sydney'SNSWMasonic WI.
WHY: Moffatt's club is commitled to finding the
answers. Hesays: "If even only one of these
out to be an extra-terrestrf craft,
It's the biggest siDry i'llle history ofmriild.
Many of the people wOOcoract his cbl wHh
siglrtir IQSare not avidsd-fl fans- they have slmpfy
B seen sorne!hingthat they WIXi:l like explained. For
a llherotion cl other ife]
/ We have a really 11at we were IJr'ol9rt
141 With and ft comfortmle-Mih in (U society and
extrataadrial craft are not part of that raaity We
Pf'OIIIdea 8VIce tor people to not teet embarrassed
about dsaJII!ing Whatthey say 1heyhave seen."
WHEN: Tile cttm meets on the first Saturday of
1hemon1hat the NSWMasonic cam, 196
St, Symey from 1-5pm Next meeti1g
to be heldIs next Salll'day (JI.IIe 4).
u Contact Doug Moffett on 0428 985 050 or
go www ufor.asn.au.
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A POSSIBLE UFO sighting at Mar
alinga '\\ hich was the subject of l\
government inquiry and until now
had remained
Acting exhlbttions manager Zoe
DArcy said the Beatles' incommg
passenger cards were a surpnse fmd.
"John Lennon may not have signed
it himself - we re not sure " she said.
Thel first came Into Darv.in then
they flew down to Sydney on an
internal flight. Then they fie\\ over to
New Zealand then flew back and did
one final concert In Brisbane. '
They were greeted at the airports by
thousands of screaming fans. cap-
tured ln images now famous.
Of the UFO,Ms Darcy said: "lt v; as
a pretty dull file It was about miscella
neous stuff, mcludJng what sort of
trees were planted at Maralinga, and
'\\ bo '\\ ns mowing the lawns
'Then halfway through the me this
cnme up. They obvtously had no Idea.
'\\here to fUe a UFO stghting so
they've thrown it m misceiianeous.
An unexplained bright light '\\as
seen at the site of the Vixen A weapon
tests and '\\as reponed by a police
officer on July 15, 1960.
The report left an open ding
suggesting it could have been the
result of a meteor or static electrtdty
but could not rule out the possibllit It
was a saucer .
AUGaVST 2 005.
13
2005
Aliens all in the mind
ALIEN abduction is probably all In the mind,
according to new research.
A UK study supports the theory that people who
claim to have contact with aliens are psychologically
vulnerable to false memories.
Compared with other people they also believe more
strongly in the pa.ranon:nal. and report experiencing
more X files-type activity.
Professor Chris French, head of the Anomollstlc
Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths College in
London compared 19 alleged abductees and 19
random volunteers.
He found that in psychological tests, S<H:alled
experiencers" scored more highly in a number of
arew; Including belief in the paranonnal and a
tendency to hallucinate.
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0CTOBEB. 2.005

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