The cases,
as they were filed.
6 of 135 catalogued reports, each one carrying what makes it interesting and what is wrong with it. Filter it down; every combination has its own address.
Country
The record shows
Report
Record
6 cases
1972
Mooraduc / Frankston, 1972
The Air Force wrote cannot be determined on her sighting and a policeman recorded her as a rational woman not given to great flights of fancy - and only afterwards did she start describing…
DocumentedNothing on record
1978
Bass Strait, 1978
A real accident-investigation file on a pilot who reported an object orbiting on top of me and then went off the air, and the department's own paperwork ends with no cause determined.
Documented
1966
Tullamarine, 1966
Three days before Westall, a civil aviation radar operator tracked an unidentified plot at 60 knots across Melbourne, and the file blamed a Laverton balloon - the same answer authorities…
Documented
1954
Near Goulburn, 1954
A naval fighter pilot's report and a ground radar operator's report were written independently two days later and filed together by naval intelligence, which recorded him as an entirely…
Documented
1952
Woomera Rocket Range and Woomera West, 1952
The observers were the staff of Australia's most secret weapons range, and their own security classification was SECRET.
Documented
1972
Clare / Burra district, 1972
This is what an entity report looks like when it reaches an Australian government file: a magazine clipping, no witness name, and a covering memo that says forwarded without comment.
Official chainA silhouette