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The Westall UFO incident (1966): New witness interviews and on-location documentary

Unknown200 witnessesVideoApr 6, 1966, 12:00 AMWestall

Witnesses

200 witnesses

Duration

Unknown

Source material

3

Timeline

4

Source context

Moderate context

64

The report has enough structure and source material to stay in active review.

Source provenance

r/UFOs

Open

Live sighting record ff7249bc-faef-40fd-8733-850a463a7823.

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Correlations

Field Intelligence

Sunlight window

Daytime — sun above horizon

Sighting occurred during daylight hours

Solar window

Sunrise6:38 AM
Sunset6:07 PM
Day length11h 28m

Weather

Open-Meteo
ConditionsLight drizzle
Temperature60°F
Cloud cover100% · Overcast
Wind11 mph
Precipitation0.2 mm

Area activity

Within 2 days3 sightings within 60 mi

Context notes

Heavy cloud cover (100%) — limited visibility

Extracted details

Observed facts

Occurred

Apr 6, 1966, 12:00 AM

Timezone

Australian Eastern Time

Location

Westall

Observers

200 witnesses

Witness account

Narrative

Hi everyone, I’ve just released on my channel, a second documentary on the Westall UFO incident, Australia’s largest mass UFO sighting, witnessed by more than 200 students, teachers, and local residents in Melbourne on April 6th, 1966. Here’s the link to the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqsbptVgHU&t=2073s For this project, I filmed on-location at both Westall and an area nearby known as The Grange, where witnesses claim one of the objects descended that day. The documentary i...

Case progression

Timeline

Encounter windowApr 6, 1966, 12:00 AM

Witnesses place the encounter near Westall.

PublishedJun 25, 2026, 9:09 AM

r/UFOs carried the report into the source network.

Linked event

Grouped into the Westall UFO Encounter incident dossier.

Signal attachment

Tracked inside the The Westall UFO Incident: New Documentary Features Witness Interviews and On-Location Footage signal.

Ledger

Source material

media

Primary footage

Open

Playable video asset embedded from the original source record.

source

Original report

Open

Direct source material from r/UFOs.

telemetry

Environmental pass

Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.