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Australian Story: The Westall UFO Mystery
Witnesses
100 witnesses
Duration
Unknown
Source material
3
Timeline
3
Source context
Limited context
Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.
Source provenance
r/UFOs
Live sighting record 294c8be4-617b-4ecc-ab9d-5883101f1c8e.
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Correlations
Field Intelligence
Sunlight window
Daytime — sun above horizon
Sighting occurred during daylight hours
Solar window
Weather
Open-MeteoArea activity
Context notes
Heavy cloud cover (98%) — limited visibility
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
Apr 6, 1966, 12:00 AM
Timezone
Australian Eastern Time
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Observers
100 witnesses
Witness account
Narrative
On April 6, 1966, a Melbourne school was thrown into chaos when strange objects appeared in the sky. It remains the largest mass UFO sighting in Australian history, witnessed by more than a hundred students in broad daylight. Sixty years later, through the eyes of the now-adult witnesses, Australian Story examines the enduring impact of that day and the efforts to make sense of it that followed. The episode features new first-hand accounts and investigates several theories about what might ha...
Case progression
Timeline
Witnesses place the encounter near Melbourne, Australia.
r/UFOs carried the report into the source network.
Grouped into the Westall UFO Encounter incident dossier.
Ledger
Source material
media
Cover image
Visual reference carried with the original report.
source
Original report
Direct source material from r/UFOs.
telemetry
Environmental pass
Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.