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...

A newly surfaced Australian government memorandum from 1968 documents one of the more unusual official UFO reports I've come across in some time. The memo states that three Bureau of Meteorology observers, along with a Royal Australian Air Force controller, watched an unidentified object while Sydney radar reportedly tracked it. The witnesses also recorded its position using a theodolite, allowing investigators to estimate an altitude exceeding 45,000 feet. Its reported appearance is what imm...

In 1966, 300 schoolkids saw a UFO in Melbourne. Why did the government response vanish from the archives? "The government authorities, the Royal Australian Air Force, the army, the civil defense organization, all responded on this day. Why did they respond and why, in addition to that, is there no information about this incident publicly available in any of the government archives?" [Quoted] The Westall witnesses: https://t.co/3yN1LG7lBz

One of the most compelling publicly documented UFO reports comes from 1954 at the Woomera Test Range in Australia. During a weapons trial, an unidentified object was tracked by radar and multiple trained observers using binoculars. Witnesses described a dark grey, perfectly circular object with a translucent appearance hovering directly over the flight path of a Canberra bomber during the test. Radar operators timed the object travelling 15,000 yards in just 10 seconds, giving it an estimated...