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...

🧵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...