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By
John Pinkney

PECTACULAR NIGHT
photographs of a mysterious
unidentified flying object over rural
Victoria have baffled the FtAAF and
thrown a scare into the hundreds of
people who saw them.
Russell Henthorn, a 16-year-old
technical college student, took the
photographs at the height of the UFO
sightings which swept Bendigo in May.
The air force's intelligence officers
extensively tested Russell's negatives
on sophisticated aerial reconnaissance
equipment and then, passed me the
enlargements shown here.
"Eventually we'll produce a theory,"
said Flight Lieutenant Brett Biddington,
a special investigation officer.
"We know there was a temperature
inversion over some parts of Victoria at
that time, but not in Bendigo,
"So we are indeed puzzled
especially by the picture which seems
to have a structure in it,
"This picture is clear and crisply in
focus, and it appears to show three
panels."
This negative was also analysed by
Gerard Lie, senior photographic expert
of Melbourne University's higher
education department.
He called the photograph "the most
fascinating and seemingly detailed shot
of an alleged UFO l have ever seen."
It shows a circular object whose side
panels are ablaze with red, blue and
white lights.
From Castlemaine to Bendigo,
hundreds of people rang newspapers
and radio stations to report seeing

An artist's impression of the

honeycomb-shaped UFO
similar to those in
one of Pinkney's books.

Russell Henthorn: UFOtographer.

Were the strange

lights over Bendigo
a deliberate display
by alien spacecraft?
similar cone-shaped, silvery objects
with flashing coloured lights hurtling
across the night sky that evening in
May.
And many witnesses, including 3B0
announcer Mike Evans, said they had
seen "honeycomb patterning" on the
undersides of the UFOs.
An artist's impression of what Evans
saw was published in the Bendigo
Advertiser. it showed elongated
hexagons virtually identical to those
described by Leonard Ryzman and l in
our book Alien Honeycomb, published
in 1979_ The book described numerous
cases of hexagon structures on UFOs.
And Pat iIdea, the Victorian UFO
Society's research officer, now holds an
actual photograph of a honeycombpatterned UFO. The picture was taken
over Bendigo during the day by a
professional photographer and will be
published after US computer analysis.
Like the flying saucers which
presented themselves to a New Zealand
television crew in 1979, the Bendigo
UFOs appeared to be seeking publicity,
In three of the best documented
sightings, they hovered outside a radio

station, appeared to a professional

photographer and presented
themselves at a TV station.
Russell Henthorn had been playing
table tennis with his brother in the
backyard when he suddenly caught
sight of something spinning in the sky.
He rushed inside to grab his camera, a
Fujica STX, and yelled to his parents to
come and look at the spectacle.
"The object was round, with six huge
blue, yellow and red lights which kept
whirling around the base," he said.
"it was moving very slowly, so I set up
my tripod on the garage roof and left the
lens open for long exposure."
Russell got his best photograph after
his brother Gary rang from Melbourne.
Gary, a radiographer, urged that the
lens be left open for 10 minutes.
By Wednesday, May 251 scores of
Melburnians were ringing the media to
say they too had seen UFOs. And to
Channel 7's delight, head cameraman
Laurie Bowie caught one on film, He'd
been alerted by a cleaner who'd said an
object pulsating with coloured lights
was hovering far above the station's
studio block,
The resulting televised film showed a
brightly-lit body, changing colour from
white to green to red. And like the
Bendigo UFOs, appeared to rotate.
"I've shot a lot of night footage,"
Laurie said, "but I've never seen
anything like this before,"
Mike Evans was similarly bemused,
He said the station's lines were jammed
with calls.
"What got to me most was that people
wouldn't stop ringing and some of them
sounded dead scared." he said.
"One man was in total panic. He said a
UFO had tailed his car from Long Gully
into Bendigo about 5km, The thing
hovered directly above him, at about 70
degrees_ He drove flat out to Bendigo,
trying to escape it."
The UFOs had announced their
puzzling presenro 71 week earlier.
Several motorists told me they had seen
flashing lights over Lake Eppalock but
had thought little more about it until the
major flap began.
Such seemingly deliberate displays
are not uncommon in the history of UFO
sightings. French physicist Jacques
Vallee, who has probed the flying
saucer mystery for more than 30 years,
has an intriguing theory about them,
Vallee writes: "If a superior but benign
civilisation were trying to prepare us for
contact, might It not decide to cushion
our race from cultural shock by teasing
us for a long, preparatory period of time
. by playing jokes on us, to accustom
us to the idea that other intelligences
might share our universe?"
FOOTNOTE: If you have photographed
a UFO, please write or telephone me,
John Pinkney, at PEOPLE

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US 'examined bodies
of UFO crew in 1947'
LONDON: The bodies of four aliens
from a UFO which crashed in the
United States 40 years ago were
recovered and examined by a special
government team, according to topsecret documents obtained by a British researcher.
A report in a national Sunday newspaper in Britain said a committee
code-named Majestic 12 was Involved
in the recovery operation and the
subsequent cover-up.
The Observer newspaper said it had
seen the documents which claim the
then head of the CIA, Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter. reported that "
these creatures are humanlike in appearance, the biological and
evolutionary processes responsible for
their development have apparently
been quite different from those observed or postulated in homo sapiens".

In the briefing paper detailing the

discovery of the alien bodies, It was
reported that on June 24 1947 discshaped aircraft were sighted in the
US.
"Little was learned until a local
rancher reported that one had
crashed in New Mexico." the briefing
paper said.
"On July 7 1947, a secret operation
was begun to assure recovery of the
wreckage for scientific study.
"During the course of this operation, aerial reconnaissance discovered
that four small human-like beings
had apparently ejected from the craft
before it exploded."
Extensive searches of the archives
Of US presidents Truman and Eisenhower and the National Archives
have failed to turn up a copy.
But a White House memorandum
referring to a meeting of Ii4J-12 was
Hoax
found in the files of the Air Force's
The document purports to be a Director of Intelligence.
An American UFO writer said In
briefing paper for President Eisenhower on Operation Majestic 12, or The Observer that the memo and the
briefing paper could be part of a soMJ-12.
A leading British UFO researcher, phisticated fraud.
"There are some things that look
Mr Timothy Good, claims in his book
Above Top Secret: The Worldwide wrong with the White House memo,"
UFO Cover-up, that Majestic 12 was a the UFO writer, Mr Barry Greencommittee of senior US officials wood, said.
"For example it is unsigned. It is
which investigated and then covered
just possible that it was manufacup flying saucer crashes.
Some UFO experts believe the story tured by someone wanting to prove
could be a hoax involving the planting the existence of MJ-12 and then
in the files of Air Force Intelligence of inserted into Air Force Intelligence
a separate White House memo that records which had recently been
opened to the public.
supports the briefing paper.
,
The hoaxer could then have orThe Observer said inquiries had
been unable to authenticate the docu- dered a copy from the National Arment but evidence had been found to chives which would carry the official
support the existence of the mysteri- declassification stamp."
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of four "aliens" were
found 40 years ago in a
crashed ITFO, according
to a top-secret US government document
The highly classified
briefing paper reported Eisenhower on Operation
that "although these crea- Majestic 121 also known as
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appearance, the biological
book
and evolutionary processes responsible for their Above Top Secret: The
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homo sapiens".
The document, prepared then covered up news of
by a special American flying saucer crashes.
Other experts believe
government team, Le now
in the hands of Britain's the story could he a hoax.
The document reports
leading UM) researcher
Timothy Good, according that on June 24, 1947, discto The Observer news- shaped aircraft were
paper.
sighted in the US. One apThe document is under- parently crashed In New
stood to be a briefing Mexico and all four ocpaper for presidentrviect cupants were found dead.

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SAUCERS
SKIPPING
THROUGH
THE SKY
If you have any interest at all in flying saucers you will remember
Kenneth Arnold.
Forty years ago this
month on June 24 1947
Arnold, piloting his
own plane, saw a group
of strange objects moving "like saucers skipping across the water."
His description inspired the phrase "flying
saucers," later adapted
by a USAF intelligence
officer as "Unidentified
Flying Objects."
Arnold. an experienced
pilot who died in 1984, estimated the UFOs were
30 metres across and
moving at 1600 kph. an
Unheard of speed in
those days,
Since then UFO sightings have gone through
several phases. The 506
saw a wave near atomic
and rocket test sites, including the sighting of a
large UFO with a dome
at Maralinga in 1957.
In the late 60 and 70s
there were reports of
UFOs landing including the one sighted at
the Horseshoe Lagoon
at Tully, Queensland, in
January 1966 and of
contacts with aliens and
abductions.

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JUNE.

DAVID
EVANS
One of the most recent
sightings revealed
only this week oc
curred last November.
The crew of a JAL 747
over Alaska saw an object about the size of a
DC-8 jet "with numeroua exhaust jets varied
to maintain balance."
One who does not
doubt the sighting is
Former British defence
staff chief Logi HillNorton. He Selieves
governments are deliberately concealing information about UFOs.
"There are far too
many reports from reputable people policemen, airline pilots. doctors whose testimony
on any other subject
would be accepted without question," he says,
Lord Hill-Norton is
quoted in another but
similar context in a new
book shortly to be published in Australia, The
UFO Conspiracy. by
Jenny Randles (Blandford Press hardback,
Accorging to Ms Randles one researcher to get
rare official co-operation
is Sydney sightings co' ordinator Bill Chalker.
The RAAF has supplied him with a number
of files showing it logged
1258 cases between 1960
1980, of which 102 were
"unexplained."
She concedes that
there is no evidence that
I the RAAF has crashed
UFOs locked away, unlike the U.S. Government which recent reports claim had access
not only to a downed flying saucer but to the
bodies of its occupants.

Terrifying
look at an
alien world
MERICAN

author Whitley
Strieber's ac
count of his contacts
with alien creatures is
both appealing and
terrifying.

Strieber's aliens come

by stealth at night . repeatedly
kidnapping
their victlms, tampering
with their bodies and
minds before returning
Mem home. seemingly
intact. More like The Invasion Of The Body
Snatchers than Close
Encounters Of the Third
Kind.
On the night of December 26, 1985. Whipley
Strieber was to be the
victim of such a kidnapping. What at first lust
seemed like a bad dream
began to have physical
and emotional repercussions.
The incision the aliens
had made in his forefingfer began to fester,
14 experienced pain in
his rectum where they
had jabbed some sort of
probe.
Strieber had a feeling
that something weird had
happened to hint but his
memory was confused
Strieber. under hypnosis, was finally able to
recall the events of that
night. From the hypnotic
sessions it transpired this
wasn't his first encounter
with the aliens.
On several occasions
from. childhood, he had
either seen their craft or
had been taken by them.
He was able to record
conversations with them.
especially with one of
their number who

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seemed to be female and

who, in a way, offered
him some kind of comfort. When he protested
that the aliens had no
right to operate on him,
she answered: "We have
the right."
Under hypnosis, Strieber's wife proved to have
been a witness to some of
the events. But curiously
she seemed to know the
aliens had to take her
husband and that her
role was one of passive
support.
Strieber discovered others shared his experiences. Even his young
son. from whom he had
carefully kept the events,
had "dreams" of strange
creatures operating on
him.
Perfect strangers also
shared his experiences.
The author reproduces a
transcript of a meeting
with 10 fellow victims, or
chosen (depending on
your point of view).
Strieber has successfully taken lie detector
tests to give credence to
his story.
Communion appears to
be an honest account of
the author's experiences.
largely based on transcripts of hypnotic
sessions.
Strieber is obviously
deeply disturbed and desperately searching for
some explanation.
But, for the present.
the important questions
of who and why remain
unanswered.

UFO PHOMO. A, US adverti F g agency has

agreed to help promote
tini den tii led Flying Objects for believers who say
the whole matter (make
that anti-matter) is suffering from a poor image,
reports Omni magaAne.
But are the UFOs aware
of the promo? We ask because there don't seem to
be as many about lately.
Send sightings to mid,
The Daily Telegraph. 2
Holt St. 'Sum Hills, 2010,

. MONDAY 13rH JULY 198"]

ERIC'S UFOS. We asked

(BTL, July 13) if anybody
had seen a UFO lately. "I
have," Eric Risstrom, national director of the Taxpayers Association, responded yesterday. Be
said he saw two, from his
Allelhourne
suburban '
home last week, moving in
unison on the flight path
Tallamskrine airport
just before dawn. Airport
officials told Eric there
were no aircraft in the sky
at the time. "They weren't
just lights, they had
elongated tab," he told
BTL 'Vs his view that
fear of ridicule stops
many people reporting
such sightings. Is this why
we've had no other sighting reports?

VI_EDNIESDAII 15TH

TOYING WITH UFOS

UFO sightings over London have been sparked

by a tiny toy silver-foil
kite, the space-age invention of boffin Ken
Sams. Frightened residents flooded a television station with sightings and photos.

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Chinese pilots chase UFO

CHINESE fighter pilots tracked an
unidentified flying object that appeared
over Shanghai for seven minutes before
it vanished in the East China Sea.
The China Daily newspaper yesterday
said one witness described the UFO as
looking at times like an oval plate and
at others like a comet with an umbrellashaped tail.
The paper said military jets tracked
and observed the UFO but it disappeared before the pilots were able to
corroborate the descriptions of williesse-s on the ground.
Shu Jiaxin, chief engineer of the Shanghai Meteorology Bureau. said the UFO
was probably caused by meteoric ice.

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dimension, a dimension not only of
sight and sound but of mind; a
journey into a wondrous land whose
boundaries are that of imagination. That's
goo the signpost up ahead - your next stop,
the Twilight Zonal
Thus began one of the landmark television series
Of the fifties and sixties, a series that caused us to
stretch our imaginations and believe in the
pnbelievable.
it is probably no coincidence that The Twilight
1 Zone came into being during the last of the
Eisenhoweryears, when John Foster Dulles ruled
the US State Department and the Cold War was at
,its most frigid.
The Unidentified Flying Objects and Little Green
Men who populated The Twilight Zone were
synonyms for the sinister forces that many
feared would overwhelm
Our way, of life.
That was the feeling
at the time, anyway,
with the McCarthy cornrrilinist witch-hunt only nervously awaiting the
a few years in the past,
Big Bang. when many
111W.
Rod Serling, who cre- believed we were being
ated the series, was infiltrated by aliens of a
making a statement different ideology.
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about the hysterical
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spotting became a popular pastime.
Whole convoys of
them were spotted I'lying
all over America.
That noteworthy journal of record The
National Enquirer, a

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newspaper which specialised in stories about

unexplained phenomena
and interviews with a
long-dead Rudolf Valentino, told its readers that
a OF had actually
landed on the White
House Lawn and its occupants had stopped for a
chat with the President.
The President kept
quiet about it because he
did not want to alarm
the populace. Very
thoughtful of him.
Naturally the President in question was
also long clead, so there
was no way of checking
the story with him, apart
from utilising the newspaper's staff spiritualist,

who was probably too

busy talking to Elvis at
the time.
But the fascination
with UFOs and the
strange species of
beings who piloted them
has long held us in
thrall.
Now I have nothing
against UFOs. 1 think
they are good clean fun.
1 have read a lot of
Ray Bradbury and Isaac
Asimov and Frederik
Pohl and really admire.
the way the tell a story.
But if UFOs have
really been violating our
airspace for nigh oh 40
years, one would think it
about time they stopped
to say hello.

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majority of people
re rted to have seen
U s are or the rustic
country bumpkins,
lire, with little
do
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sightings
have been helped along
by a swig or two of the
local moonshine.
And most of them live
in the United States.
If UFOs are so thick in
the sky, then why have
they not made their
presence felt in places
like, say, Zarnaboanga,
or Tierra del Fuego?
They must be very
choosy people, these
UFO jockeys.
Of course most UFO
sightings have been easily explained.
What people have
believed to lbe flying
saucers have really been
air force weather balloons or car headlights.
In fact the US Air
Force disbanded its UFO
division many years ago,
because its investigations did not manage to
turn up one single sighting that could be taken
serBio
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thenagain ... as a
certain Lieut George
Jamieson of the US Air
Force once told me, that
still left more than 'OM
unexplained. UFO sightings.
Maybe there are peaple out there watching
us.
But if there are, I wish
they would hurry up and
let us know about it.

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MANY Australians have met aliens and

some have had extra-terrestlal sexual
encounters, a Sydney researcher says.

John Sword has been studying alien life and

UFOs for 15 years and has carried out extensive
investigations into claims of sightings and
meetings that have occurred both in Australia
and overseas,
He has interviewed
several Australians who
said they had been in
contact with aliens but
says they are too afraid
to give their names for
fear of public ridicule.
A 22-year-old
Mr Sword cites these Sydney student found
macs
himself "in a sort of auditorium with black figures approaching him
A 25-year-old carrying what looked
Sydney nurse was work- like medical instruing at a city hospital ments".
The student said he
when she "found myself
in a garden lying next to tried to fight the creaa 3136cm-tall humanoid tures but was overpowand 1 'mew rd had sex ered, put back on a table
and studied.
with him."
She described the
s A private increature as "man-like
but more ethereal less vestigator in Adelaide
au bstantial than most received a phone call
telling him to take cammen".

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era equipment to a
quarry and meet aliens.
He went with a group
of friends and vtdeoed
space ship about two
storeys high with humanoid figures waving
from the windows.
According to Mr
Sword the video was
printed and studied by
the RAAA who publicly
stated that as far as
they knew it was
authentic.
Mr Sword says most
people who have had
alien contact have no
recollection of how con-

tact was established or

how they escaped.
But his claims of
extra-terrestrial intelligence are based, not
Just on encounters, but
upon footprints left by a
spaceman in the famous
1952 Nevada incident in
which an alien vessel is
claimed to have landed.
Researcher Yul Verner, also of Sydney, documented the "language" left on the footprints, which were later
found to match sketchings in an ancient Incan
cave in South America.
Mr Sword says both
contain a map of the
heavens
which
predicted this year's
Supernova (exploding
star).
The map had the correct event, time and location of the explosion.

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definitive proof it's
more real than sightings and meetings," he
say&
"The star which exploded is 170,000 light
years away, which
means the information
was sent faster than the
speed of light.
"The only way that
could happen is through
a vastly superior intelligence.
"As yet people have
little knowledge or concept of just how supe- ALIENS: John Sword a researcher for 15 years
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swamped with calls from people claiming to have
seen a UFO on Friday night.
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the window glass but then
All the reports described Sharon opened the 'winthe UFO as a sting-ray dow and the 'UFO was"
shape. he said.
clear as day".
People who saw the
Mrs Hellings described
UFO said it was travelling the UP O am a "
In a northeast direction ' saucer shaped object with
from Fairfield.
about half a dozen beams
The Sunday Telegraph shng downwards".
was contacted by two
She said the lights were
people who said they saw flickering on and off in a
the UFO, one from North series and then each light
Narrabeen and one from turned off one at a time.
Castle Hill.
"When the last one went
sonia. Hellings and ber out. it wasn't there an
daughter Sharon Haslam
she said.
said they saw the UPO
The UF10 hovered just
from their window at above the skyline for
6.45pm, hovering over about 30 seconds before it
Narrabeen High School.
disappeared, she said.
I thought I was going
Sharon, 20, said there
mad but then I called appeared to be two aerek:Sharon over and she saw planes with the ice, one
It too," said Mrs Hellings. above and one below but
At first she thought she she could not tell how
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At 7.30prn Luis Gonzalez but they had their lights
and his wife Alicia were turned off,
working on their milk run "I know they are not
In Castle Hill when they supposed to do that," dald
Mr Gonzalez.
saw the UFO.
Mr Gonzalez said he "I could only see them
thought It was street because the moon was out
lights at first then real- and I could see the light
ised the lights were flick- from the moon reflecting
ering on and off in the off the planes." he said.
same manner described
"I didn't believe in UFOs
by Mrs Hellings.
before this,"
"It turned the lights off
A spokeswoman for the
and then it went," he said.
11AAF said there were no
Mr Gonzalez said there airforce
planes in the
was a semi-circular set of areas of the
sightings on
yellowish-white lights.
"It was really big be- Friday night.
She suggested people
cause when it was far
away, you could BUD see might have seen an advertising aircraft. like a
the lights." he said.
He said airforce aeropla- small Cessna, with flashnes and helicopters "ap- ing lights and trailing a
peared from everywhere". banner.

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THE mystery surrounding
the UFO sighting over Svdnay on Friday evening. as
reported In The $unday Telegraph, deepened yesterday
when the Department of
Aviation was unable to confirm what a number of
people suspected that the

object sighted was actually a

light plane trailing aye deadeally lit advertising banner.
Even Nightflights of Australlay the company suggesled as having made the
flight was unable to confirm
or deny it had.

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TWO astonished shooters watched a
dome-shaped craft through their rifle sights.
as It hovered above dense bush.
Later, one of the witnesses was subjected
to hours of intense questioning by Army intelligence officers,
It happened In 1984, when I was hunting
north of Perth with a mate," recalls A.G. of
Cope' Beach, WA (full and name and address supplied). "While walking through an
area we both know well, we suddenly realised that the bush had gone silent. Ahead we
saw a strip of bright red and green lights,
"Immediately we studied them through a
high-powered rifle scope. They seemed to
be set in a concave base, tilted up towards
us, with a metallic dome above.
"The lights alternated, on-off, very fast
each colour In turn. The object hovered for
some minutes then slowly cruised away,
following the coastline to Fremantle.
'1 don't believe any earthly craft could
have generated such intense light, or moved
so slowly with no noise. My friend, who was
In the Army at the time, reported the
incident.
"He wished he'd kept quiet. Intelligence
officers questioned him for
hours showing him sketches and
photos of UFO's and generally
gave him a miserable time,
'For public consumption, the
military makes out that UFOs are
nonsense but behind closed
doors, they're taken very
seriously indeed."

0 Pilot Sandy Bremner with his Piper Cherokee 'flying saucers

The UFO pilot comes

down from the clouds
MEET the pilot of the UFO responsible for the flying saucer sightings over Sydney last weekend.
The very terrestrial pilot is 28-year-old
Sandy Bremner, of Cremorne, and his
flying saucer is a common light plane
vt:..th a unique lighting system attached
to the underside of the wings for advertising purposes.
Flights by Sandy last, Friday and Saturday night sparked dozens of UFO
sightings which were reported to The
Sunday Telegraph and the RAAF by
people anticipating a close encounter.
But all those people who swore they
saw a UFO and not a plane can
take heart. Both Sandy and the man
who designed the NiLe-Lites advertising, Western Australian Fred Hampton, concede the plane "could look like a
flying saucer" when viewed from an
angle or at long range:
In fact, Fred unashamedly admitted
he had designed the lighting so as to
create the illusion of a flying saucer.
However. he was emphatic that if
people looked closely they would see the
UFO was simply a light plane with a
lighting system underneath.
The system is remarkably simple. It is
a 2.5 metre wide. 12 metre long metal
and wire lattice with 360 tiny light globes attached. A computer inside the
cockpit of the single-engined Piper
Cherokee enables the pilot to flash any
message across the lattice.
Last weekend the system was being
used to promote Aeroplane Jelly and
radio station 2GB.
Fred, a 46-year-old who described
himself as an aircraft advertising man,
one up with the idea for Nite-Lites
seven years ago. after seeing a similar
system operating in the United States.
Although it took him four years to get
Department of Aviation approval to
operate Nite bites here. Fred said his

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system had been airborne for three
years, mainly over Western Australia.
"We've used it in the west, Adelaide.
Brisbane and the Gold Coast before,
but last weekend was the first time we
operated it over Sydney," he said.
Asked whether it had provoked similar rashes of UFO sightings when used
elsewhere, Fred said simply: "Always."
The Mill flying the plane last weekend was beside himself virith laughte
over the reaction his two flights caused.
q was on my way home (on Saturday
night) when I heard about the sightings
on the car radio," Sandy said.
"I knew I had caused them, but I
couldn't believe people actually thought
that it was a UFO."
The Mite-Mites plane the only one of
its kind in the country has been contracted to work over Sydney for the
next six months. so if you spot what you
believe to be a flying saucer make sure
it is not Nite-Lis in action,
FOOTNOTE: For those who doubt
this report identifying the UFO, the
times and locations of the sightings correspond ipvith Sandy's flight routes.
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It could be just a storm in an eggcup

AUSTRALIA'S down-toI earth boffins were yesterday
producing their own pet
theories about the Nullarbor eggcup UFO, now
tagged by police the Mundrat:dila Incident.
Theories on what caused the
Knowles family's night of terror
have begun flying around like
UFOs.
Explanations include a close
encounter with a dry lightning
storm or a direct hit by a
meteorite.
Another theorist has suggested the object might have been
nothing mote sinister than a
distorted view of the rising sun.
Faye Knowles and her three
sons are adamant the dazzling
object that landed on their car
on the Eyre Highway was extraterrestrial.

They say the smell of dead

bodies, the coating of ash and
dents in the car roof all point to
something not of this world.
Research physicist Glen
Moore of Wollongong University agrees.
But he believes ra.II the evidence and the bright object
spotted by tuna fishermen in
the Great Australian Bight add
up to a carbonaceous meteorite.
"I see no difficulty with what
they saw, only with the interpretation of what it was," Mr
Moore mkt
haven't investigated any
meteorite fall yet which didn't
at one stage have the UFO tag
placed upon IL"
Mr Moore said the fall of a
carbonaceous meteorite near
Murchison in northern Victoria
in 1969 bore a remarkable re"I

semblance to the events described by the Knowles family.

Several farms were showered
with black material from the
meteorite and people reported a
peculiar smell and a shock wave
as it entered the atmosphere.

Lightning
Professor Peter Schwerdtfeger, head of meteorology at
Adelaide's *linden University,
thinks an electrical Btonn could
also fit the bill.
"I've some doubts if the whole
thing Isn't on the fringe of
fairyland," he said.
"But my best guess is that Ws
an atmospheric electrical phenomenon manifested in the
form of dry lightning, in other
words, there was no rain.
"If somebody happens to be in
one of these electrical disturb-

Knowles
The
family (from left),
Patrick, Wayne,
Faye and Sean
adamant
encounter was
out of this world

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going to be a pretty thrilling, If
not eerie, sensation."
Allan Brunt, former head of
the South Australian Bureau of
Meteorology, believes the UFO
could have been an extremely
distorted view of the rising sun.
He said conditions on the day
were perfect for far horizon
mirages.
"ill go and jump in the lake if
that dust they found on the car
tarns out to be some sort of extraterrestrial material," he said.
A leading UFO researcher in
the US last night said the close
encounter could become the
most important sighting ever.
"I can't think of any other
case like it," said George Eberhart, from the .11.1. Rynck Centre for UFO Studies in Chicago.

FO
SCARE
Nullarbor is a
AS
LIGHTS
black hole for SHIMMER
tracking UFOs IN DESERT
By FRANK WALKER

THEORY 1

THEORY 2

SCIENCE may be able to give us

satellites which can read a
newspaper in Red Square from
outer space, but the Nullarbor
Plain is a veritable black hole
for bright, shiny UFOs.

Not one of the sophisticated

satellites or radars which dot
Australia is pointed at the poor
old empty Nullarbor.
The RAAF air defence radar
tracking stations at Williamtown
near Darwin and at Brisbane did
not pick up anything unusual last
week, but the Nullarbor is way
beyond their range. The new
over-the-horizon Jindalee tracking system is not yet in operation, but it looks north anyway.
II The civil air traffic controls at
Adelaide and Perth airports have
a range of 150 nautical miles and
do not stretch to the Nullarbor.
They would pick up a flying
metal object within their range,
but do not have the capacity to
identify non-metal flying
objects.
Willem Bouma of the CS1R0
Division of Atmospheric
Research said its satellite pictures of Australia had a resolution of one square kilometre so a
UFO would have to be very big
to be seen.
Telecom monitors lightning
strikes through directional
antentiae in most areas of Australia.Vnfortunately it does not
monitor the Nullarbor Plain.
Spokesman Ian Prime at the
hush-hush top secret Pine Gap
joint defence facility near Alice
Springs said the first they heard
of the UFO was when they read
about it in the papers. Asked if
Pine Gap were capable of picking up UFOs on the Nullarbor,
Mr Prime said he could not
comment.
0 Tidbinbilla deep space communications complex near Canberra tracks orbiting satellites
and looks into deep space, but it
couldn't spot a Li F0 if it was
hovering over Sydney Opera
House.
Mt Stromlo observatory can see
thousands of millions of miles
into space, but astronomers saw
nothing unusual on Wednesday.
Astronomer Paul Hardy has
been looking into space for 32
years and says he has never seen
a UFO.

Spooky sighting startles RAAF trio

SHAKEN air force officers told today of an
eerie encounter with mysterious green
lights on the ground.

OF

REFRACTION OF SUN

THEORY 4

Three RAAF colleagues watched in disbelief as

the "really spooky" lights whirled and spun just
metres from a desert roadside.
One, Flying Officer Lisa Dowling said: "It was
like nothing I'd ever seen before. It really shook
us up."
The bizarre sighting which has sparked a
UFO probe came as the trio were driving across
nom.
the South Australian outback in sup
RA AF marathon runner.
About 20km south of the township of Marla the
fluorescent lights suddenly began glowing and
-revolving in the darkness.
Lisa, 25, from Port
Augusta. said: When I
My it 0 um
looked out, the van's window I saw one large ring,
PAA R LA
anything from four to 10
metres in diameter,
SIGHT LIFO HERE
spinning around with
another smaller ring
POW AUGUSTA
inside it.
"WhilP w were watching the lights seemed to
be moving up and down
about a metre or so from
the ground."
Lisa was certain there
were no sounds or signs couldn't stop because we
of life connected with were following the runthe ghostly appearance. ner but it really shook
She added: "There was me up. It was really
no dome or anything spooky."
else. They seemed to be
The officers'. .,experilike rings suspended in ence on Tuesi, night
mid-air,
was today being considered by experts from the
Unusual
organisation UFO South
1Research
-If anyone was trying Australian
to play a trick by using Incorporated.
Investigator Ray Brooke
spectal lights we would
"At
the
said:
have seen them,"
Leader moment we are still
Squadron
Owen Hammond, who waiting to interview the
was dr iving. the van in witnesses to the sightings.
"We will decide today
the wake of the Darwin
to Adelaide runner, said: whether to send a team
"One of the girls pointed to the scene.
-But there have been
out the tights to me.
"it certainly looked several sightings over
unusual. though I'm the years on that stretch
sure
it
could
be of road."
explained by someone Mr Brooke said be
whirling a fluorescent could not rule out a link
light around or the like." between the RAAF inciStartled Lisa, who was dent and the case of the
riding in the bark with Knowles family from
fellow officer Sharon Perth, who claimed in
Noyes, described the January that their car
lights as "like two las- was sucked up. by a
saes, ringed around each spacecraft as they drove
other".
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THEORY 1: THE crew of a

tuna boat off Port Lincoln
also reported seeing a strange
light, but it is not clear whether
they reported this before or after
the Knowles' story was reported
on radio. The case is peculiar for
the number of witnesses four
in the car, and reported sightings
by other people on the road and
the fishermen off Port Lincoln,
who also reported seeing strange
lights. Evidence includes the
black dust on the car and dents
on the roof, where the Knowles
family claim the UFO picked up
their car. But sceptics note the
shape of UFOs has changed.
Twenty years ago, they had
portholes and usually rotated.
Funnily enough, they looked just
like the saucers Hollywood was
churning out in its cheap special
effects science fiction films.
These days people report seeing
bright shiny lights that move
around in the air, indistinct things
that hover and zip around. Funnily
enough, they look just like the
UFOs Hollywood is churning out
with its expensive special effects
science fiction films.
THEORY 2: THE Knowles
family was driving towards
the early morning sun. It is
possible in certain conditions for
light to be refracted vast
distances so the sun or car

METEORITE
headlights appear to be hovering
spaceships,. The dust, the
banging on the roof and the
feeling they were being lifted off
the ground could have been the
car tipping over, out of control,
and landing back on its wheels as
the driver tried to out-race the
mirage. In their panic, the family
confused the events. It is
understood they had been driving
all night from Perth and were
tired.
THEORY 3: IT IS possible for
a *mall, highly-charged
pocket of air to turn into a
mini-electrical storm. The air
becomes an electrical field and
the effects can be startling
engines cutting out, strange
lights, shaking of the car and
even the ash could be explained
by such natural phenomena. Balt
lightning, bright electrical balls
that race around. are a
recognised natural phenomena,
but little understood.
THEORY 41: IT MIGHT have
been a meteorite which
broke up above them. A piece of
it hit their car along with a shock
wave which forced the car hard
down on the road. This would
explain the sighting reported by
the fishermen and the strange
dust. Strange smells could have
been caused by the burning up of
the meteorite.

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NO UFO: POLICE I

THE BIG UFO SLAG CAPER

It says a lot for Hilary Evans and John

Spencer's objectivity In reviewing Unidentified Flying Object reports over the past
40 years that they Include a chapter on
the Maury Island Capers
On June 23, 1947, Harold Dahl, his teenage
son, his dog and another man were sailing near
a peninsula called Maury Island near Tacoma,
Washington.
All of a sudden their
boat was hit by slag faiBut, as contributor
ling from the air slag John A. Keel recounts
which later turned out in the excellent UFOs
to be radioactiv.
1947-1987 (distributed by
The dog was kWed and Capricon
Link $35)
Dahl's son injured.
were to get even
Later, with the help of things
mysterious as:
a radio journalist called moreDahl's
disapFred Crisman, Dahl tal- peared and son
Dahl himked of circular "donut self was warned
by a
shaped objects" spewing
the slag and the age stranger in a dark suit
of the Flying Saucer of dire consequences if
was well and truly he talked;
Crisman was shot at
under way.,

The slag dumped on

Dahl's boat came from
an Atomic Energy Commission plane on a
secret dumping run out
to sea. Dahi's son was
later found suffering
from amnesia.
Dahl and Crisman
made up the Flying
Saucer report. Crisman
was shot at by someone
while driving and later he had attempted to exsubjected to police har- pose. and Dahl moved to
avoid publicity.
rassment.
The two Air Force ofS Two Air Force officers sent to investigate ficers died because their
the incident died when engine caught fire. The
their plane caught fire man who visited Dahi
and other events were
and crashed.
Dahl himself finally explained by the AEC's
attempts to cover up its
disappeared.
The truth had nothing nuclear waste dumping
to do with UPC's, how- and by an unrelated but
ever, although it was al- major anti-atomic espionage effort.
most as bizarre.

Debunking the start of a craze

fr

A MYSTERY object
in the sky attracted a
barrage of reports to
police and radio stations early today.
Police said alarmed
residents from the
inner Newcastle suburb.
of Bar Beach to Blacksmiths at Lake Macquarie saw the object in
the sky north-east of
Newcastle.
They said it was stationary and glowed a
bright orange colour.
But police appeared
unconvinced the object
was a UFO.
"It was an exceptionally clear night and it
would appear it may
have just been a bright
star," a police spokestnan saldi

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JUNE 19_11L._

AMmingimiIMMENmiw

A new
encounter for
Strielber

WHITLEY Striebert a moon

faced, well-spoken American.
does not strike you as a person
who has experienced a terrifying
encounter.
Yet since his book Communion,
an account of a "visit"
By MATT WHITE.
from aliens on December 26, 1987, last year,
was published early the alien visitors it could be real," he
this year he has be- "haven't gone away' said.
"It was boxed in until
come a sort of mixture Strieber has written a
of celebrity and an sequel to Communion I met people who had
Aunt Sally for brick- called Transformation: had similar extraThe Breakthrough, ordinary things happen
bats flung by cynics.
which will be on sale to them and it was then
here this month.
I couldn't deny it any
Sequel
When I dropped in to more and I was forced
On a happier note, chat with Strieber at to take it as something
Strieber landed a $1 his Sydney hotel this real but unproven."
million advance from week he was, underAsked why he had not
his publisher and a standably, defensive told his wife, who was
movie has just been about his claims of hav- in the house when he
completed which he ing been abducted by had the visitation,
also wrote, called Com- aliens and subjected to Strieber said he did not
munion, starring Chris- some
unpleasant want to worry her
topher Walken and di- experiences.
because he thought he
rected by Sydney film"It was not a dream, might have a brain
maker Philippe Mora.
perhaps a horrible hal- tumor and wanted to
It is due for release lucination, but it was check it out first.
ere through Vestron something I felt very
He had three brainFilms next June.
deeply though at first it scans. The first two
Meanwhile, because never entered my mind revealed nothing but

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ttit' third showed he

had scars on his brain.
Strieber underwent
therapy, including hypnosis where his subconscious mind released more details
about his visitation and
SPOOKED: Strieber
a clearer picture of the
aliens which, he says, had undergone similar
had big eyes,
experiences.
"I think the film will
go further in changing
Evidence
the attitude of people
"There are a lot to such encounters."
sceptics, particularly in
When asked if there
the media," he said.
would ever be sound ev"And I was a sceptic idence that such aliens
too about such things and outer-space visitauntil I had this damn tions really happened,
scary encounter.
Strieber said quietly:
"That's why it was "I'm sure there will be
important for me to that evidence within
write what happened, the next 10 years and
particularly after I had things are not what
talked with people who they seem."

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FIL, T MYSTERY
researcher Paul
EXTRA-TEI-1Si
Normarits beiptctacied eyes scrutinised
the heavens lid with a tinge of desperation he laughed: mil think I can see a vapor
trail right nowv"
Mr Norman. 70. is on a mission to Melbourne

to bring to the public eye the 10th anniversary

of Cessna. pilot Fred Valentich's still unexplained disappearance
over Bass Strait,
The vice-president of
the Victorian UFO Research Society said it is
one of the world's top
UFO MOS.
"We still don't know
whether he mint up or
down or dEsintegrated."
said Mr Norn-tan.

Eerie fire station

'encounter' led
35year career

STILL LOOKING: Mr Norman

encounters followed and
Mr Norman began UFO
research full-time.
He now spends up to
six months a year
travelling as far as
Norway and Chilvei. to
investigate sightings
with his state-of-the-art.
photo and stress-analysis techniques.
Only 15 per eel IL of

cases are worth pursuing, he said.

When earlier this year
a Perth family claimed
that. an strange orange '
object lifted their Ford
T'elstar into the Wei }--r
near Mundrablir_ _ Mr
Norman rusittd-termiter--Nullarbor Plain to study
dust found on the car.

`UFOs SPYING ON US
FROM DESERT
JIM POLLARD

ALIENS are using the

Nullarbor Plain to
study humans because

the area is so remote. a

UFO expert said ed" and tailed them for Norris said.

today.
Prominent australian
UFO researcher Colin
Norris said the latest
report of a "close encounter" near the
WA iSA border was further proof that extraterrestrials did exist.
Mr Norris said people
should accept the word
of the Ansett-Pioneer
bus driver and passengers who claimed a large
bright object had -buzz-

about 10km on Monday.

Driver Peter Chapman reported the
bizarre experience to
Eucla police - and his
story was backed by five
passengers who said it
had "
the life out
of us".
Mr Chapman said the
object was about 3m in
diameter and hovered
20m above the ground.
Mr Norris saki today it
wbas up to the authorities to disprove the latest claim, which occurred in the same area
as another UFO encounter in January.
Mr Norris said the latest sighting, near Mundriabilla, Justified a
Perth family's tale of
having their car lifted
from the ground by a
- I space vehicle.

"Public scepticism of
the family's story
' in
them and
shed them into recluse - they felt they had
male idiots of." Mr
scared

He races outside but is

stopped in his tracks - by a silver meta) object landing in a
paddock not more than 300
metres away.
The farmer jumps on his trail
bike and heads for the site,
But as he nears the strange
object, he is paralysed. Re can
only watch as it takes off into
the night sky. Moments later he
is physically ill.
Next day. the farmer
meets with the property
owner. All seems normal except for a ring
20m in diameter burnt
into the ground.
And scores of cattle
hudctled together the
previous evening are
rib's apart, seemingly
scared out of their wits.
The perplexed duo
begin wondering. They
have no answers.
More than 12 months
on, the mysterious ring
remained. Many thought
the ground contained
dangerous banteria but
scientific tests quashed
that theory.
.A.C. ,
IL is now more than
eight years since the
I
strange happenings at
Rosedale In Victoria's EXPERT: Basteriield
Gippsland area and the
at the time.
apparent UFO is still news
"I remember near
unexplained.
Taree in northern NSW
a couple of years ago
Imagination
there was a big sighting
Despite dozens of inter- which received nationviews, scientific tests and wide news coverage.
vlslts to the area, UFO But it turned out to be
the planet Venus risexperts are stumped,
urprisingly, they are ing.'
And the research
the first to admit nearly
95 per cent of reported group believe a mysteriIwo sightings are fig- ous tight spotted by a
ments of the observers coach driver near Munimagination or bright drabilla in Western
tights made unusual by Australia early last
the skyline or the move- week was the bright
planet Jupiter rising
ment of the universe.
and car lights.
Adelaide-based UFO
In January this year
Research Australia ex- the Knowles family
wrt. Keith Baster field from Perth travelling in
says at least nine nut of the family vehicie
10 reported sightings claitned they maw a
are mei, with simple UFO in the same area
exphin a.tions.
and were pulled from
-Some are just from the roadway.
the mind but a lot are
But this has now been
due to astronomical attributed to a tyre
objects.
blowing out. at high
"And, of course, it speed just a the light
helps if 'UFOs are in the from a rising planet was

Eight-year UFO mystery

Bizarre
He then played a 19173
tape of an Ohio he
pilot's supposed encounter with a green
flashing flying saucer,
"We compare this with
the Valentich case," he
said, launching into a
photo album showing a
bizarre object emerging
from BIM Strait.
Mr Norman's obse5sion with alien spacecraft began 3.5 years
ago when he was stationed at a Tennessee
FLIT station.
-1 saw in the sky a discshaped ob,m1ct which
travelled al the speed of
a helicopter: he said,
"It hovered and then
shot away as fast as a
jet bui with no noise."
Two further claimed

By NEIL EVANS
A FARMER wakes in the
middle of the night, disturbed
by a noise he =It describe.

"But I hope the driver

and 1:rassengers stick to
their guns and don't
accept any unreasonable excuses from the
authorities.
"Recent tests on the
(family's) car at Monash
University have found
chlorine particles deposited on the vehicle - a
curious substance in the
desert dust, which could
authenticate
their
story."
Mr Norris, director of
the Australian UFO Research group, said
extra-terrestrials were
attracted to the Nullarbor because the area
had so few people,
"I believe the remoteness of the area gives
extra-terrestrials the
opportunity to use their
equipment to anaiyse
people." he said.
-Their equipment is so
sophisticated, they doWt.
have to lay us down oil
the table (to find out
what, they want

at its brightest in the

desert sky.
Mr Basterfieici also
says the family had
been travelling throligh
the night and were suffering fatigue.
Every four or five
years the planets of the
universe rise at a
quicker speed, often
fooling people on the
ground and giving them
a "flash" image.
Basterfield believes
most UFO sightings are
nia.de
by
aged men in suer
months.
They occur in desert
land in central and
southern Australia and
happen at night just
before sunris-e.

Voluntari
Mr Ba..sterfield concedes
most people don't believe in UFOs - but
that doesn't worry him.
"We are an amateur
group working long
hours on a voluntary
basis.
"We do a professional
Job, studing astronomy
and picking up on the
physics side of things.
-Like some people go
out and play golf week
in, week out.. we put all
our spare time into this,
"There are so many
things to consider but 1
really think people now
accept us."
Eight members of the
group work from their
Adelaide headquarters
u
but experts are set up
in nearly every other
State,

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a ring burnt in ground 9
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UFO was
just a
plane

Anyone been
abducted by
aliens lately?

STARTLED Merrylands residents bombarded an after-hours

UFO number last night
to report sightings of
a strange craft with
flashing lights that
moved in and out of
sight for more than
half an hour.

SEVERAL hundred
people from all over the
world have come forward
to tell a story of having
been abducted by alien
visitors.
Recent books such as
Intruders by Budd Hopkins. Communion by
Whitley Streiber, and
Abduction by Jenny
Randies have documented and examined
this phenomenon.
have
Explanations
tl,,&aged from thoughts
that they are hoaxes,
mental disorders, some
psychological process, or
that there really are ETs
visiting us. Whatever the
cause, the very existence
of such a body of reports
deserves careful, scientific study.
In.0 Research Australia, PO Box 229. Prospect SA 5082. would like
to hear from anyone who
has had, or is going
through, such an experience. All such information received will be
treated In confidence.
KEITH RA5TERFIELD
UFO Research Australia

5ulliti

1 But air force Squadron

1 Leader Stuart Rushton,
who was manning the
phone. explained to Callers that what they had
seen was a plane advertising anything from condoms to cornflakes.
Rushton said an aircraft projecting advertisements towards the
ground through elaborate
computer-controlled
graphics had been flying
from BanksLown to Wierrylands between- 8 and
9pm since Wednesday.
"When you are underneath the plane you can
read the advertisements
clearly. but from a distance. all you see are
flashing lights," said
Rushton.
"A year or so ago a
North Sydney woman
rang me to say sherd seen
a UFO.
"Then half an hour
later she rang back,
rather embarrassed, to
say lihe was sorry for the
trouble she'd caused, and
that a plane had just
flown. over ad v'ertising
Lifeity1e Concloins. -

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`UFO' space Junk

SPACE junk is thought

to be the cause of a fiery
display In the sky over
parts of South Australia
last night.
Residents from areas
80km east 01 Adelaide reported seeing something
glowing flash =VIM the
sky around midnight.

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LONDON: Police yes terday reported calls from
Londoners baffled about
strange lights in the night
sky. Some observers
raised the possibility that
1 UFOs were responsible.

SPLIVAID A7, I I TH_

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%Keeping tabs on ET and his mates

WANTED: people with extra-terrestrial contacts and

an eye for flying saucers.
A group ofd enthusiasts has

set up its own information network to track those elusive

little green men from Mars.
The group, UFO Research Australia, wants Australians to
report any ET sightings.
Member Pony Godic of Adelaide,
says she wants to get to the
bottom of UFO mysteries.
Pony won't say that little green
men and flying saucers exist,
but she believes there have

By JOHN ELLICOTT

been enough weird incidents to

warrant more than a simple
explanation.
"We believe something is going
on and we want to know
what," she said. "There is
something more to these incidents than a mundane explanation."
One of the eases
buster
Pony is tackling is a sighting
by a Victorian farmer, who said
he saw a large lit object hovering over his darn.

%JAE_ 382._

"When he went to investigate

one of the dairy COW8 ran past
him and hid in a shed," Pony
said.
The group takes UFO's so seriously it has had dust analysed
from a car at the centre of a
flying saucer controversy in
South Australia.
A family alleged the flying
saucer had lifted their car into
the air.
But an analysis of soil on top of
the car failed to detect any
strange elements.
Pony says some people had re-

ported experiences where they

had "lost time". several in cars,
and suddenly ended up driving
on a different road.
A typical Martian according to
Pony, has these characteristics: short, very large black
arms and eyes, small nose and
mouth, pear-shaped head and
a pointy chin.
If you have seen anyone like this
you might like to write to UFO
Busters, PO Box 229. Prospect,
South Australia and the busters will get on to your case.

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creatures
with tiny heads which
emerged from a UFO
co go for a midnight
j stroll in the central
Russian city of Voronezh have been identified as aliens by Soviet
scientists. The scientists said they found
traces of footprints,

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UFO buzzes
Lenin's town
`It's all Gorbachev's fault'
MOSCOW: A dazzi;ng
UFO like "a riverboat
from space" has been
sighted hovering over the
home town of Russian
revolutionary hero Lenin.
And some experts are blaming President Mikhail Gorbachev's reform campaign for
the latest sighting of visitors
from outer space.
People are becoming receptive to strange phenomena in

By DAVID ZIMIVIERMAN

of Reuters
an uncertain new era of plasnatit and economic turmoil,
authorities say.
Tass correspondent Nikolai
Milov said the UFO was reported last week by residents
of Ulyanovsk. on the Volga
River.
He added there was "hardly
any reason" to doubt
their story.
Tatyana Bednyakova
first saw the eerie spaeehip from her window
and called out tom' two
neighbors. They all say
they saw ..something
strange."
Their attention was
drawn to three odd
points of light in the
sky

Fiery ray

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Two, situated on one

level of the craft, radiated yellow light; the
third point, above the
first two, radiated red
light.
"This 'something' then
sent a fiery ray which
moved up and down,
seemingly sending undecipherable signals."
said Miley,
"After that the object
illuminated from the inside. turning into something like a river vessel
with windows.
"After making a
sweeping manoeuvre,
the ship disappeared,
leaving a glowing spot."
Milov said local police
reported a similar sighting two weeks earlier.

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_APRIL 1990

CALLS to the Richmond

RAP base this week
about a UFO, which.
been seen fleeting11,1 above
the town, have revealed it
was actually the sun.

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1990

failed in his bid to buy

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Man. Michael Jackson has now turned to UFOs. Michael Luckman. who
runs the New York-based Centre for
UFO Research, claims the gloved singer's representatives are searching
for locations in the Nevada desert for
a high-Lech landing pad for UFOs.
The strip will include a signalling
device to guide any alien visitors and
hidden .video cameras to film touchdowns. Luckinan said Jackson planned to sell the footage as a TV special.

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Flying saucers
haven't landed

as began
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to sway before our eyes and
laid itself flat in a clockwise

spiral, just tike the opening of a

lady's fan. A perfect circle was cornWeted in less than half a minute, all

the time accompanied by a high

pitched humming sound. It was still
there the next da y_ ''
This eyewitness account was by one
of a number of people who saw an extraordinary phenomenon: an almost
periect circle of flattened grass developing before them one summer evening in a field in Wiltshire. England.
'his circle is just one ul the many
reported in recent years in England
and other countries. Almost perfect
circles of flattened wheat. grass and
even spinach have been found.
One of the most puzzling aspects of
this phenomenon is that. the circles
are very clearly defined. Inside the
circle the stems are completely flattened, while outside it they are untouched. At the edge. horizontal stems
stand side by side with vertical ones.
The bizarre (Top flattening doesn't
stop at the simple circle. Circles surrounded by one and even two rings
have been seen. Large circles surrounded by up to tour equally spaced satellite circles, forming a pattern like the
5 6n dice, can also occur, Even
circles with a single straight
spur pointing radially out6
wards have been observed.
The first time I save pictures
of this strange phenomenon.
an explanation seemed obvious they must be some sort
of hoax. But as I learned more
about them I realised that if
the circles were a hoax, it was
an extremely elaborate one.
They occur in many countries. including Australia. and have done for
many years. As well, many new ones
appear each year_ In England alone.
more than 100 occurred in 1988.
It a hoax is the explanation, there is
also the problem of trying to explain
how some of the more elaborate features could be arranged.
Other explanations have varied
f rom hovering helicopters to mating
animals. None seems able to account
for all the features of the circles,
drawing some to speculate that they
might have an,extraterrestrial cause_
Many UFO enthusiasts believe crop
circles might be the first really hard
evidence tliaI Earth is being visited by
144 from another world. They cite the
fact that unusual lights have been
seen often hovering over fields in the
Lys before We tthieovery of a circle.
Terance Meaden. director of the
Storm and Tornado Research Organisation in Britain. Ls not prepared to
leap to any paranormal conclusions
yet, He believes there is a purely Earth-bound explanation, although not
one at present understood by science,
His theory hinges on an as-yet-un-

SCIENCE

RI. lAtvi PHILLIPS

citscovPred atmospheric phenomenon

he has called the plasma vortex.
Like a whirlwind or a tornado. Ideaden's plasma vortex is a column of
spinning air but one in which air and
moisture within the vortex itself are
electrically charged to such an extent
the mixture forms a plasma. In his
book. The Circles Effect And Its Mysteries. he describes how this could account for the features of the circles.
The theory. very much in its preliminary stages, leaves a number 01 questions unanswered. But if these circles
are not hoaxes and you don't favor a
paranormal explanation. Dr bleaden*S
theory, or something similar. seems to
be the only alternative at this stage.
Meaden says the few eyewitness accounts reported are consistent with
the plasma vortex theory.
His plasma vortex, for example. accounts for the bright. Lights often reported before a circle is discovered. At
night. a plasma vortex would glow and
make a crackling, hissing sound.
Although a plasma vortex Is not yet
known to science, a related phenomenon
the tornado certainly is.

If the circles were a

hoax, then it was a
very elaborate one 9
Some of the effects caused by these
vortices of air can also be bizarre.
The fierce winds in the core, for example, have been known to lift a 70.tonne railway carriage and blow it
more than 20 *res. There have also
been tales of tornadoes stripping the
feathers off live chickens without killing them, accounts of downpours of
fish and frogs, many reports of exploding houses and storms with hailstones the size of grapefruit, and even
instances where blades of straw have
been found embedded in fence posts.
Tornadoes. of course. can also kill, In
1925 a single twister, as they are called
in the USA, passed through Missouri.
Illinois and Indiana killing 689 people.
Tornadoes are very different from
cyclones. Cyclones typically affect a
region 80tikni across, while the concentrated whirling winds of a tornado
are only a few llitudred metres across.
Usually tornadoes last about only
half an hour, carving out a path of destruction 25km or so long. But there
can be major exceptions to the rule.
The 1925 tornado in the US tore a
track 350kin long and in sonic places
up to 1.5km wick.

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LONDON: A corny mystery has baffled

Britons going round In circles.
Scientists are stumped by strange circular
patterns appearing in cornfields all over southern England.
Theories range from earthworms to
spaceships as the problem of the giant crop
circles preoccupies a nation sweltering through
a most un-British heatwave.
They have conjured up a silly season enigma
on the scale of searches for Scotland's legendary Loch Ness Monster.
The circles are no midsummer night's dream
and a $2 million aroundtlie-clock watch has
been mounted to try to
solve the mystery of
flattened grain stalks.
swirled into precise,
symmetrical patterns.
Meteorologists and
farmers saw the circles
first but found no
explanation.
MYSTERY: Pattern in Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire
Now the nation's
imagination is running days of summers gone
wild after newspapers by when mini-subma- believed by some to be
published photographs rines probed the murky caused by paranormal
activity,
of the strange shapes.
depths of Loch Ness,
Using more than $2,3 teams from Britain,
Engineers on the promillion worth of equip- Japan. the United ject have ruled out
ment, engineers and States and West Ger- whirlwinds. hooligans
camera operators will many will zoom in on on motorbikes, fighting
watch fields in Wilt- the fields with advanced deer or helicopters as
shire for the next three sound and light technol- possible causes.
weeks to try to capture ogy.
Si mi3ar
manifestaon film whatever is
Heat-seeking cameras tions have been recormaking the circles.
will try to find the
in England since
Just like the good old source of the circles, ded
1678.
But the incidence of
the circles has increased
va DA E. SD
in the past few years.
Circle watch co--ordinator Colin Andrews
said today: "This is a
AUTHORITIES were unable to explain sightings last
determined effort to
night of a big blue dIsc-shaped object in the. skies ,
secure on high quality
above Wollungong and Sydney.
film the full event.
Wollongong residents first noticed the silent UFO
whatever that event will
a flat vessel with red rear lights hovering about 300m
ultimately turn out to
above the ground_pout 10.25pm,
be."
Reuter
Peter HociOng...--of Slakehurst. said the UFO seemed
taionow the course of the Georges River,
"litn a real sceptic but I believe it," he said
RAAF and Civil Aviation Authority officials said they
knew nothing of the sightings.

$2m watch
on corny
mystery

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UFO's mystery tour

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Martians may be
all in the mind
OT long ago I
was given a
book containing
the most striking Tlon
photographs I have
ever seen.
The spacecraft shown
in these pictures fit the
classic descriptions given
by many UFO witnesses.
The objects are round
and saucer-shaped with
clearly visible portholes
and two rings of glowing
tights around the base.
According to witnesses
the craft moved very
quickly through the air,
making no sound at all.
When I first saw the
photographs I thought
to myself: "If I saw a
sight like that there's no
doubt about It. I would
become a UFO believer."
There is no way these
ghostly craft can be explained away as weather
balloons or as an optical
illusion caused by the
moon partially obscured
by cloud. These definitely
look like spacecraft.
The book, UFOs: The
Gulf Breeze Sightings
(published by Transworld), is written by the
two main witnesses. Ed
and Frances Walters. I
use the word sightings in
the plural, because bet ween November 1987
and May 1988 Ed and
Frances Walters saw
these unidentified craft
on 20 separate occasions.
Ed Walters even claims
to have been abducted
by the craft.
At the beginning of the
book there is a testimonial from research physicist and photography
expert Dr Bruce MacCabee. who concludes:
"There is no evidence of
a. hoax... ..The photos in
this book are authentic.
They show unconventional aerial craft. that,
have appeared over Gulf
Breeze, Florida. and surrounding area a '
On the surface, these
Etta if Breeze sightings
might seem like watertight evidence the Earth
is indeed being visited by
life from elsewhere in
the universe.
Despite this and all the
rest of the UFO evidence, most scientists
still don't believe extraterrestrials are here.
The main reason scientists don't believe our cosmic neighbors are visiting
us is because they, almost
certainly live a- very long
way away.
The enormous distances between stars
and gala)des and the fact
that conditions required
for intelligent life are
probably 'very rare

SCIENCE
P HAM PHILLIPS

makes it unlikely any extraterrestrials will ever

make it to planet Earth.
Most scientists won't
be convinced we are
being visited until really
hard evidence turns up.
A piece of spacecraft
might do. or perhaps a
landing at the annual
general meeting of the
Astronotnical Society of
Australia.
This might seem like
an arrogant, even pigheaded attitude.
After all, scientists debunked the existence of
meteorites for a long
time before they were
forced to accept that
they were real.
The fact is. weather
balloons and a moon
obscured by clouds can
look like unidentified
flying objects.

t acts can't be the ex-

'The first time I saw this

puzzle, I couldn't make
any sense of the symbols
no matter how hard I
tried. Once I was told the

planation for Ed Walters'

photographs: they are
far too clear and show a
great. deal of detail.
There is, of course. the
possibility the photos
have been faked. I am
certainly not saying this
is the case, but even a
guarantee of authenticity from a photographic
expert does not exclude
the possibility of fraud.
The case of the Cutting
ey fairies is a good example. In 19i7 two young
girls, Frans Griffiths
and Elsie Wright, amazed
the world when they produced photographs of
fairies at the bottom of
their garden, The two
took a number of pictures
featuring themselves sitting and standing alongside fairies and elves.
The photos were
deemed genuine by expert photographers at
the time and for more
than 50 years no one
could show the photos
had been faked. Finally.
detailed computer analysis found the fairies in
the photographs ' were
not three dimensional
creatures. in other words,
the fairies were almost
certai nly
two-dimensional cut-outs superim.
posed onto other photos.
Contrary to what many
UFO believers say. it is
not that scientists are
trying to explain away
UFO sightings at all
costs.
On the contrary, Idm
sure many would be
quite excited if proof

word I should see, I could

no longer look at the
symbols without seeing
this word, It is FLY.
The power of Li uggestion allows you to see
things you otherwise
can't, and it also allows
you to see things that
aren't there.
The link blot test used
by psychologists is a
good example. Here the
pat lent describes what
lie sees in an effectively
random blotch of ink.
But misinterpreting the

could be found that extraterrestrial life was

with us.
Scientists are simply
saying that before they
believe, they first need
some bard evidence.
Like meteorites, it may
turn out that the UFO
phenomenon is real and
the Earth is being visited
by extraterrestrials.
But in the case 01
meteorites, hard evidence was the thing that
changed the beliefs ol
scientists.

Misinterpret
There is no doubt
many OF sightings can
be explained as a misinterpretation ol the facts
in this way,
The untrained human
mind is not the good impartial observer we often
believe it to be.
The power of suggestion can have a great influence over what we
see.
For example. see if you
can recognise a word in
the following symbols:

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orange lights which lit up
the Sydney skyline early
yesterday.
Members of the UFO
Investigation Centre are
still baffled as to the
origin of the bizarre light
formation,
The Police Air Wing,
the RAAF and Mascot
Airport, officials were all
questioned about the
lights.
No one could give an explanation
Residents in the eastern
suburbs reported seeing
the 12 brightly colored
lights travelling high
across the sky just after
midnight,
The lights, which looked
like flares, were not random but were in a distinctive "S" formation.
Onlookers told how the
weird light show "lasted
for at least five minutes".
moving across the sky
from the north shore and
over the city.
UFO Investigation Centre spokesman Bill Chalker said yesterday the
light display "sounds very
unusual".
Mr Chalker said investigations of the speed,
height and bizarre shape
of the lights ruled out the
possibilty that the lights
were the navigations
lights of a plane or a natural occurrence.
"At this stage, we have
no direct explanation for
it," Mr Chalker said.
"We have ruled out the
possibilty that. it was an
aircraft, a satellite or a
meteorite."

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FLATTENED circles round recently in a Victorian wheat crop could have

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Pinkney; How would YOU know?

TRUTH writer John Pinkney, Australia's most
famous UFO investigator,
has challenged Mr Roberts
or anyone else to duplicote the circles found in the
lollys' wheat crop.
"It can't be done by
humane

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hind wheat over like that

when it i dose to harvest,Mr Pinkney said.

"The stalks snap. and that
Is the amazing thing with ail
of these circles not a
single stalk is ever snapped.
"We have proven that it
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have taken the

trouble to study thew circles

and to conduct some tests."
Mr Pinkney said there
had been "dozen.s" of similar circles turning up all
over Victoria and reports
from all over the world of
huge amounts of stored
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Stephen Roberts, Melbourne UFO spokesman for

Australian Skeptics, contacted Truth after our world
exclusive story reported
possible UFO activity that
has frightened farmers in
western Victoria's Malice
district.
Our report featured pictures of large circles of
wheat flattened in an anticlockwise direction. possibly where a craft landed,
and told of water tanks mysteriously emptied.
Wheat fanners Max and
NaliCee Jolly and their son
Stuart believe a gigantic
UFO landed on their 9000hectare property early this

that hovered above them before speeding off.

In November 1987, following sightings of eerie
aerial lights, Nancee Jolly
found the farmhouse's
4000-Hire water tank had
been totally drained.
"Nonsense," said Mr
Roberts, a Melbourne computer systems analyst with a
PhD in chemistry.
"Water doesn't get
sucked up by UFOs and it
only disappears from a tank
when someone steals it or
the tank springs a leak.
"What would a spacecraft

month and claim HIP landing

din with thruisianrk drki'

climaxes two years of UFO

activity in the area.
in August this year sheep
on the farm were terrified
by a huge orb of yellow light

of water? A water propelled

spacecraft? l don't think so.
"Where's the hard evidence of a UFO? There have
been so many of these circle

By RIC TURNER

markings found that surely

there would he some hard
evidence by now.
"The thing that makes
these marks is never seen.
"We widely believe these
strange circles are made by
men: Men with a stick arid
even the largest ones could
easily be made in about half
are hour."
Mr Roberts said claims or
UFO activity gained ere.
donee because '`people
really want to believe there
are UFOs".
"1 would like to believe lit
UFOs and make contact
with other beings myself,
hut until there is some hard
evidence and a fuzzy
photograph or a patch or
ground that anyone could
have trampled just isn't
good enough we have to
conclude the obvious: There
are no UFOs."

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In a blockbuster confirmation
that UFOs from other planets
really do exist, a supersecret
NATO report concludes Earth has
been under surveillance by alien
beings for years.
The incredible document is even
illustrated with mind-boggling pietures of space creatures killed in
crashes on our planet!

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actually read the amazing document and now is
revealing its contents for the first
time ever.
"The eight-inch-thick official report took three years to complete,"
said Dean, a former U.S. Army
master sergeant who had top secret clearance while assigned to
the inner command of NATO's Su- people who had been abducted by
preme Allied Commander, Gen. Ly- aliens and questioned intensively
aboard flying saucers. It was full of
man Lemnitzer, during the 1960s.
The existence of the astonishing UFO incidents," Col. d'Arcier told
document was confirmed by retired The ENQUIRER.
Dean confided: "The document
French Col. Jean d'Arcier, formerly
a senior officer at NATO (North At- was entitled `The Assessment' and
lantic Treaty Organization) who was compiled in the early 1960s
by top-level military experts, sclenserved with Master Sgt. Dean.
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who were killed in1/F0 crashes here

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out on alien life
HENRY Winkler is absolutely convinced there
are other beings in outer space and he is not

afraid to say so.

There is a good reason for the former Font's sudden

outspokeness on the issue. He has just served as co-executive producer of The UFO Report which will air on
United States TV.
Winkler believes former presidents Jimmy Carter
and Gerald Ford and influential senator Barry Goldwater all tried to investigate the phenomenon but
were told to mind their
own business. And he
reckons the program will
prove his point.
"We have reports from
people all over the world."
he says. "Including astronomers and US servicemen.
"we also have a section
on abduction, with people
who are convinced they
were abducted for a certain amount of time.
-The looks of the ships,
the interiors, the beings
they describe are so similar, it's amazing."
Winkler says he has always had a feeling that a
UFO would land in his vicinity and would be
friendly.
'You can say Henry Winkler believes there has got
to be life forms other them
us arid they are not nece.
sanity enemies."

TUESD RY, IITH figSanifss.

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glans, sociologists and psychologists.

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_
ment authorities who concluded he
was telling the truth," said Dean, 62.
A Turkish Air Force plane was
being tracked on radar in 1963 when
an unidentified craft began following it and "swallowed it up," said
Dean. "Search and rescue missions
never found a trace of the plane or
its crew."
A UFO crash-landed near Bremen, Germany, British Army troops

"The report contains amazing

photographs of crashed UFOs retrieved by the military, pictures of
the bodies of alien spacemen and
scientific analyses of UFO metals. stationed nearby retrieved alien bod" *The Assessment' reported that ies inside and whisked them off to Enone of the alien cultures studying us gland.
After nearly three decades the rehad people who looked exactly like
port is still being kept under wraps,
human beings.
"This caused intense concern be- according to Dean, now emergency
cause one of these beings could walk service coordinator for the Pima
into NATO headquarters or even County (Ariz.) Sheriff's Dept.
"But now I've decided to blow
the Pentagon and no one would
the lid off the big secret and
know the difference.
"Other aliens were described as let the world's people know, through
gray, 3% to 4 feet tall, with big heads, The ENQUIRER, what our governlarge eyes that appeared to wrap merits already know. The people
around their heads and undeveloped have a right to the truth.
"The report was so sensmall bodies."
sitive only 15 copies were
NATO's massive UFO inprinted. One copy went to
vestigation was launched in
NATO's Operations Divi1961 after the organizasion, where I was a memtion's officials became
ber of the inner command
alarmed at a growing numstaff. That's how I got a
ber of UFOs spotted over
chance to see it.
the world's military instal.
"I spent many days readlations.
Dean says the report HE BLEW THE ing 'The Assessment,' and
it made the hair stand up
concluded:
WHISTLE .
11 Earth is being spied Former Army on the back of my neck.
upon by several extrater"Here was proof posiMaster Sgt.
restrial civilizations, and
tive that UFOs exist!"
Robert
Dean.
they've been watching our
A current NATO offievery move for thousands of years. curl, who asked to remain anon* These civilizations are so ad-1 ymous, confirmed the existence
vanced that if they were hostile they of "The Assessment" and addcould take over the Earth. But they
appear to be peaceful.
"The report's top secret status
The aliens are unfolding a plan will eventually be lifted."
in which they will gradually in STEVE PLAMANN '
crease contact with us and finally
land for meetings.
Said Col. d'Arcier: " 'The Assessment' greatly disturbed an awful lot
of senior officers at the time."
Here are some of the shocking encounters included in "The Assess..
ment," according to Dean:
In 1963 a farmer in Denmark
was invited aboard a UFO that
landed in his pasture and he was
taken on an hour-long ride by two
little gray creatures and two humanlooking men who spoke Danish.
"After the craft returned him to
the ground and disappeared, the
farmer was interrogated by govern-

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an eye
over us
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Outer space
visitors seen
more in north
By FELICITY GLOVER
(a)UE ENSLA NDERS
have reported more Unidentified Flying Object
sightings than any other
State in Australia,
Of the 150 sightings reported to the UFO Research Centre in Queensland lasi, year, more than
two thirds - or 110 - came
from folk living in central
Queensland.
NSW residents only reported about 40 sightings.
Former administrator
of the Australian Centre
for UFO Studies, Paul Sowiak+Rudej said yesterday he thought Queensland had the most sightings because the days are
longer there in summer,
and people spent more
time outdoors.
He said the most common stghtings were of
moving lights in the sky.
Iollowed by a disc in daylight, or objects following
trucks or cars.
But he added that the
number of sightings tends
to drop during a recession,
"When things arc a bit
depressed, people tend to
not worry about UFO's they are more worried
about paying the mortgagi." he said.
"But when times are
more afflu t, people
become more observant."

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PEOPLE in Nebraska
I
who think they have seen
ghosts, UFOs or other
weird things have an
Answer when someone
asks: Wh o you gonna
call? Firiff iivb tosophor
E A Kral has set up the
Nehra.ska Scientific
la rn5 Investigation
telephone line. The
service tells callers who
they should contact
about their sightings.
"

"THIS Is not a matter of

reinforcing beliefs." says
Mr Kral "lt is a matter of
t rpi rig to seek the truth."
He said he Safi' the need
for the phone line after
ills own experience
del ring in to reports of
UFOs during the 1970s.
Originally a believer, Kral
said he became a sceptic
after rears ref research,_

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TI I I!: first international UFO con-

ference in Australia has been called

to study intergalactic happenings
which indicate "something" is out
there.
Experts from the United States - including former NASA astronaut Brian
O'Leary - England and Australia, will
gather at tbe Bebel Townhouse on
September 7-8 to discuss theories explaining close encounters of the
extraterrestrial kind.
Alleged abductions, ET sightings, startling photographs of saucer-shaped objects and fuzzy alien beings will. be subjected to serious debate by earthlings
eager to determine the existence of intelligent life forms on distant planets.
The Martian face? A formation
Organisers Gerry Wiseman and Barry
On Mars photographed by NASA
Eaton have a long-standing interest In
UFOs and insist most
people believe other Intel- By FIONA CARRUTHERS and the 1988 -Nullarbor
Plain incident". when a
I igent life forms exist.
lights in the sky before family claimed their ear
The UFO Mystery Sem- discovering the flattened was pursued and tempoinar will comprise a panel circular rings in their rangy sucked up by a
white column of light.
cal experts drawn from paddocks.
Ian Walker. research asdifferent fields of study.
Mr O'Leary will also
They will canvass the show slides of NASA sistant at Mt Stromlo Observatory, said astronomtheories used to explain satellite
photographs ers
took the possibility of
strange happenings expe- showing inysterlous shaextraterrestrial life very
rienced by people all over pes on Mars.
the world.
The author of 14 UFO seriously.
"I try to explain such
Mr O'Leary, a former books.
English womai
NASA astronaut on the Jenny Randles. will con- things in terms of normal
phenomena, but if it can't
Apollo team 1967-68, Pro- sider UFO Abductions.
explained naturally.
fessor of Space Sciences
Australian speakers Bill be
at Princeton University Chalker. Antony Drew. I'm prepared to accept all
and author of Space 1999 Keith Hasterfield and possibilities."
For more information
and Exploring Inner And Brian Crowley will talk on
Outer Space, will question Australian cases that on the seminar, phone 971
the ability of "new sci- some people believe in- 1654 or write to The UFO
Mystery, P.O. Box 240
ence" to explain phe- volve UFOs, including the Manly
NSW 2o95.
nomena like crop circles.
disappearance of pilot
Crop circles - a series of Fredrick Valentich and
preetse circles etched into his Cessna aircraft, over
have Baas Strait 13 years ago
a field of grain
been found over the
t
20 years in downs of
countries. including Australia.
Plays iCi8 LS
explained
circles found in England
in July this year as the result of complex electromagnetie fields and
vortices. But Mr O'Leary
and other scientists believe UFOs could be responsible.
Shelley Winters
Farmers from Horse
MOVIE star Shelley encounter loilowed a yourShoe Lagoon, in northern
Winters has revealed how
imp pzikrty in. Malibu',
Queensland, in the 1910s
ire
made
Love
with
an
Calllorn
reportea seeing strange
alien from outer space.
"He emerged like a frogThe Oscar winner said man and I thought the
the red-colored creature Japanese n Lig ht be in vademerged from the ocean ing, but he was too tall to
and put his webbed hands be Japanese."
round her as she lay on a
She kept quiet about
beach bed.
Shelley recalled: "I said. the incident, in case She
was laughed out of work.
'Hello. there'.
The alien wrote her a
"I wanted to be friendly
- I was a very sexy cryptic message in the
sand then wandered back
woman then.
"So I looked into his into the ocean.
eyes and I am not sure
-I've had no contact
what, physically happened with him to SO years;'
next. but I felt all tingly - the mused.
a very special feeling."
"You'd think he would
Shelley. 68, told US tel- be able to write - or at
evision viewers that tier least phone."

Shelley tells:
I made love
with an alien

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