Australia · 06 April 1966

Westall High School and Westall State School, 1966

Reported

Australia's largest mass-witness sighting is the one case in this region for which the government files are empty - the Disclosure Australia sweep of all Commonwealth UFO records found no Westall document at all.

Where

Westall High School and Westall State School, Clayton South, Melbourne

When

06 April 1966

Who reported it

100-200+ students and teachers of two schools

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

ARCHIVE-ONLY

Evidence class

NON-OFFICIAL

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

Absence of a file is not evidence of suppression: the RAAF only opened a file when someone submitted a report, and no one appears to have submitted one. The standing HIBAL stratospheric balloon explanation is unverifiable because the HIBAL flight records were destroyed. All witness detail is retrospective, gathered decades later.

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