[Retweeted] Did "Australian government" official/s attend an AARO hosted event in the US in August 2025, this Reddit poster asks? Yes, they did, and even earlier: An intelligence officer from Australia'a Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO), the deputy DIO liaison officer with Australia's embassy in DC, an @Australian_Navy commander [B.T.], attended an inaugural @DoW_AARO briefing in May 2023 and Australians have attended multiple subsequent events since. https://t.co/9PJZTV54UR It's not s...

Did "Australian government" official/s attend an AARO hosted event in the US in August 2025, this Reddit poster asks? Yes, they did, and even earlier: An intelligence officer from Australia'a Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO), the deputy DIO liaison officer with Australia's embassy in DC, an @Australian_Navy commander [B.T.], attended an inaugural @DoW_AARO briefing in May 2023 and Australians have attended multiple subsequent events since. https://t.co/9PJZTV54UR It's not something @De...

8/ The Navy began checking whether or not any known aircraft could account for the sighting. The surviving file says that there were no Royal Australian Navy or Royal Australian Air Force aircraft operating in the area at the time. There was, however, a Trans Australia Airlines Convair flying north at 14,000 feet. That airliner has disappeared from some popular versions of the case, but it was there and belongs in any fair account. The Convair establishes that another known aircraft was somew...

3/ O'Farrell described a bright light closing quickly from his one o'clock position, ahead and slightly to his right. It crossed in front of the Sea Fury and continued around to his port beam. Instead of carrying on past him like an aircraft crossing his route, it appeared to remain in that position. O'Farrell was travelling at 220 knots, around 250 mph. He was flying one of the fastest piston engine fighters of its time, an aircraft which had recently been used by the Australian Navy during...

🧵THE TWO OBJECTS THAT FLEW ALONGSIDE A NAVY FIGHTER AND APPEARED ON RADAR (1/12) On the night of August 31 '54, Royal Australian Navy pilot Lieutenant J.A. O'Farrell was returning to Nowra in a Hawker Sea Fury when a brilliant object crossed ahead of his aircraft. A second light then appeared and moved into the same area. O'Farrell asked the naval air station whether anything else was flying near him. The radar operator checked his display and found three returns. One appeared to be O'Farrel...