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Once the stuff of science fiction not anymore

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I do not have an explanation for what this object is but in the land down under

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UFO sightings aren't one-off events. They're happening almost daily. I have no idea what this thing is

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Australia and New Zealand

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Isolated countries floating in an ocean of blue are attempting location for first contact

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Called a flying saucer called a UFO called a UAP

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One thing's for sure is not applying

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Using eyewitness accounts

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And expert commentary that was physical evidence now for the first time the southern hemisphere's UFO encounters are under the microscope

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Seriously a UFO look is there's something going on that will change what we know about our universe

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Australia 1966 the world was changing

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And just outside Victoria's state capital Melbourne in a sleepy town called Westall

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Up to 200 people lay witness to an astonishing UFO encounter

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They were school children their teachers and nearby workers

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Their evidence was overwhelming but the attempted cover-up just as extraordinary

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My name is Shane Ryan and I am the researcher of the 1966 Westall flying saucer incident

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It was the largest daylight mass witness sighting of a UFO not just in the air but on or near the ground

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In Australia certainly and possibly in the world

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In 2005

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Shane Ryan began researching a fictional account of the 1966 Westall incident

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He soon changed his mind when he discovered not one but dozens of people who recounted the same event

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And most had kept what happened that day a secret

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When I called them on the phone

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They would say

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Are you kidding is it do you want me to talk about this story with you now because I haven't talked about this in the

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30 years for some of the witnesses they actually said to me

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We were told not to talk about it. So they never did

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Former Westall high school student Joy Clark who knew she'd be ridiculed if she spoke out

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We weren't hysterical. We weren't on drugs and we weren't drunk

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You know I had that lots of times over the years. I've been people don't what sort of drugs were you on how drunk were you?

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I was 12 and a half

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Terry peck was another witness who was silenced by the attitudes of the times

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Back then, you know, we were a friend of our headmaster and and the teachers it wasn't like it is now at school

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So we sort of basically just accepted that

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So what did happen all those years ago?

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Strap yourself in because it's a story that needs to be heard to be believed

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This is the spot right here where it landed. Um

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I came running in from where I do my cross-country run and this was like a little clearing here

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And then it started to take off up into the air

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So the whole thing was actually, you know, looking at this thing taking off and looking out in the sky

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It was a lot to take in

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Well, I was at the school in science class and a student had run in she flung the door open

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And said mr. Greenwood mr. Greenwood there's flying saucers in the sky these things in the sky

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And of course we all started laughing and giggling and carrying on

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Anyway, he told us all to come down and then the bell went so we all raced out and yes, there were flying saucers in the sky

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All of a sudden the kids all started pointing up in the sky. We saw

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three silver objects sort of hovering around and

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You know turning on this side and then they'd appear somewhere else. They seem to sort of disappear and then appear somewhere else

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I was absolutely like Terry transfixed. I just wanted to look

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To absorb and watch these things because I just couldn't believe what I was seeing

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And they were so quick one minute they were over there next minute

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They're over there then they're over the top of the pylons

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And they went up and down and zooming and hovering

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Surprisingly as Australia's smallest mainland state Victoria overrepresents on the country's UFO sighting register

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It could be because of the state's lush pastures

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Or its rugged coastline

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But one thing is for certain there are more people per square kilometer in Victoria than any other state

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So when incidents happen, many people bear witness

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Melbourne's Morabbin airport is in a neighboring suburb to Westall

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The locals were familiar with the air traffic that roared above them

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But these three craft were silent and nothing like they'd seen before

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One of the science teachers at the high school at the time

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very vividly recall seeing

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five ordinary looking

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Cessna like small aircraft coming into view

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and flying around these flying sources as if they were trying to get closer to them

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to observe them

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And they buzzed them and they were buzzing around and they'd come and they'd get really close

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And the craft would just go straight up in the air and just out of the way

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It was like they were playing cat and mouse with them

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It was just incredible and and this went on for quite about or about 20 minutes or so

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Then they all went up in the sky and they disappeared over the back down to here obviously

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The three craft disappeared behind a wedge of bushland known as the Grange

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Bordering the Grange about a half a mile or one kilometer from Westall school was a market garden

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My name is Paul Smith and I was a witness to the 1966 Westall incident

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On that Wednesday morning 16 year old Paul Smith was in the market garden pulling up carrots

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When I saw this object in the sky, I didn't just couldn't believe what was happening

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I had this feeling that someone had a way of projecting a film into the sky

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to make it look as if there was something there that wasn't really there

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because to my way of thinking what was happening couldn't happen

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It wasn't being propelled by anything

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It was just sitting there

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It was just sitting there

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Paul was struck by the UFO's size and color as it hovered

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The object was at least the size of a large coach that would hold 57 people

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And it was shimmering and it was changing its form

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It was changing colors as it was changing it became a translucent

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and kept fading away until there was almost nothing left

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and then it seemed to lower down and went into the pine trees which is the Grange area

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Paul saw the object disappear

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Meanwhile at the school an exhilarated young Terry had hopped the school fence

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and chased after the UFO's

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Floating in front of her was one of the three craft

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You know I could see this big oval round-shaped silver

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object in front of me looked like that that was the shape of it

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with the bluey purpley lights all around the bottom

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really a typical thing of what you would think a flying saucer would look like

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It was probably maybe three meters off the ground

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and I could feel heat coming off it

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as if you're standing in front of you know an old-fashioned radiator

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and I just stood there transfixed really looking at it

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and as I did it it lifted up off the ground probably about 15 meters into the air

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turned on its side vertically and it just went

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swim straight up into the sky and joined these other two

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it was so fast it was unbelievable

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and then they just appeared to disappear into thin air

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It was really amazing it left this huge patch around here

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eight or nine meters in diameter of all burnt swirling grass

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not burnt not black but yellow and all flattened

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because this grass used to be very long here

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Joy had stayed on the school grounds to see if they'd return

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but instead there was another surprise

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and there were three army jeeps that arrived that lifted up the back

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and there were men in green uniforms and there were also some men in camouflage

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and they were taking notes and talking to each other

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and then they stayed there for a few minutes and then they all disappeared

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and obviously went I think down to the grange

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Paul Smith soon realized his boss at the market hadn't seen it

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when the army jeep turned up

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these guys from the army came over and spoke to my boss

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and he told my boss that the school kids had seen a flying saucer

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and my boss was laughing so I never said anything to him after that

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I wasn't going to get involved in it and let him know that I'd seen it

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then I knew I wasn't the only one

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I thought oh good it's not just me

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Westall Public School was buzzing with the excitement of what happened

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the school was soon the focus of attention

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there was all sorts of commotion going on

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there was people with uniforms we had men in blue uniforms

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who were probably obviously air force we had army

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we had police we had men in black

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there are several witnesses who in addition to seeing people in

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obvious uniforms like police or military uniforms

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seeing people coming in suits they described them to me as being like dudes from the government

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a special assembly was called and the headmaster issued a stern warning to the school

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don't talk about it if you do there will be consequences

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Joy was one of several kids who had gathered out the front

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and did what they weren't supposed to do in terms of what the headmaster had said

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and started chatting to the media

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and when we were out being interviewed I was talking and a policeman had walked up to me

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and he put his hand on my left shoulder and he told me to stop talking

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and to go back inside the school grounds

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and then he turned his back on me and he pointed at the cameraman and said

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stop filming and go away

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the school was swarming with uniforms

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the UFO landing site became a restricted area

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and officials began door knocking in the neighborhood

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so what was the official line given at the time to explain what happened

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they said that it was some sort of a weather balloon

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which you know I knew was totally untrue

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because I've never seen anything even to this day

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the F1 jets they have don't move as fast as what this thing moved

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and it certainly wasn't a balloon

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respected UFO researcher and scientist Bill Chalker

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has investigated what could explain this mass sighting at Westall

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and a weather balloon just doesn't cut it

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the highball balloon explanation doesn't fit simply because

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it's pretty easy to differentiate between a balloon

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that has come down that's got large mass

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and an object that seems to be highly structured physical object that

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lands takes off then keeps moving backwards and forwards

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balloons don't do that

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then they changed that story and tried to tell us it was some experiment that

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the US were doing over here at the time

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and nothing that could move like this thing maneuvered

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there's nothing now that can do that

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the weather balloon explanation went down like a lead balloon

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at a new version of what happened was given

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one of the rare records remaining from that day was a photo of Joy Clark

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what I have here is a photo of me taken in one of the burnt out circles in 1966

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and the report which tells me there was a round on flat on the bottom

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and round on the top silver disc and that I was very excited

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next did these UFOs make another appearance

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could they have made contact with a driver on a lonely highway

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the headlights of his car were being drawn off to the right hand side

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is there a little known twist in the tail to this story

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in the direction of these lights

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in 1966 200 witnesses saw three UFOs at West Hall High School

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in a quiet community outside Melbourne

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they assumed they were the only ones to have seen the three objects

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however Shane Ryan uncovered something that came as a complete shock

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in the days leading up to the West Hall school incident

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there are more UFO encounters in the same region

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so just four days before the sighting at West Hall

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a businessman living in central Victoria by the name of Ron Sullivan

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who unfortunately has also recently passed away

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he was driving along a rather lonely country road

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he noticed a strange series of lights appearing in an otherwise very dark paddock

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and the lights were constantly moving up and down different colours

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but as he was noticing this at that very same instant

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the headlights of his car were being drawn off to the right hand side

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in the direction of these lights

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and as that happened of course he felt as though

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his car was veering off to the right hand side following the headlights if you like

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and so he remembers very clearly grappling with the steering wheel

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moving it to the left to right the car to get it back onto the correct side of the road

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and as he did so coming very close to colliding with this huge gum tree

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that was on the left hand side of the road

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and then moving off and seeing the lights still there on the right hand side

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but collapsing and so the lights collapsed and came down to this point

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where they formed this circle and then the circle just vanished

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he didn't want to stick around he of course was petrified

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he had almost crashed into this huge gum tree

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industrial chemist and scientist Bill Chalker is also baffled by this case

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how do we explain it?

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it's as if there was kind of some type of lens effect that

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the beam of light from the car headlight was actually bending through

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how do you get that was there some sort of atmospheric lens that was creating that bend

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it just is an unexplainable case in terms of our current fixes

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and but coming from a very very impressive witness

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the following morning after this bizarre event at Birks Flat

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Ron Sullivan had his car checked and there was nothing mechanically wrong

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I think it was the 7th of April so the day after the Westall incident

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he heard a news story about a young driver from Melbourne

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having crashed his car at Birks Flat having driven off the road

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and crashed into a gum tree on the side of the road and having been killed

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well Ron was very moved by this story of course

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and in his own mind he put the two objects the two incidents I should say together

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Ron returned to the scene and to his horror it was the same gum tree he had nearly driven into

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coincidence you decide

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and one of the reasons he could so clearly say that was because

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they did a walk into the paddock off to the right hand side of the road

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and discovered a circular depression in the paddock

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where something apparently had come down had displaced the soil

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and formed a circular pattern in the soil in that paddock

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was this the same circular pattern seen in Joy's photo

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taken at the Westall High School landing site

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and so he often described it as if it was a magnetic effect

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because that's how it gave the impression because as he observed it

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the lights came out of his headlights and then bent towards the object

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apparently sitting illuminated in the paddock

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now that case I looked at it in a lot of detail

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going to the site taking soil tests none of it seems to show up anything

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other than the fact that there was a mark found at the site

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when you start to dig down into the local area you start to find that

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the historically were rather strange sightings of objects coming out of

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water bodies like dams ghost light type sightings in the location as if

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Burke's flat got the local reputation of being haunted by strange light phenomena

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tradition associated with strange phenomena

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here is this very compelling sort of sighting

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since his research journey began in 2005

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Shane Ryan has been hunting for any document that showed there was an official investigation into what happened

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the honest truth is that since the event happened in 1966

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not a single word has ever been said or written publicly officially by any government agency

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including agencies that you would think would have had some sort of interest in an incident like this

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and according to the witnesses seem to have very much had an interest in the incident at the time

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such as the air force and of course like a good researcher I've made various freedom of information

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applications to the government agencies and all of those have resulted in pretty much

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a nil response no documents found

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neither the Australian nor the Victorian governments have ever commented on the incident

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yes I think the Australian government it's about time that they admitted that you know

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there was there have been sightings and there've been things that have been covered up you know

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that would that'd be good to even just hear that you know they don't have to say who or where or

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what but they could say look over the years as a matter of national security we haven't

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wanted to talk about these things and they've been covered up

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I don't know if it was extraterrestrial or extratemporal or extradimensional

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and the jury is still out as to what it was we conclude that it was something extraordinary

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not something prosaic but we remain open keep an open mind because the answers still haven't

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been found and that's why it's a mystery and who doesn't love a good mystery

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and I look I feel actually quite privileged in a way that I have had this experience because of the

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the friendship we have with the other people that were there at the time we feel that we're all part

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of something a little bit special

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the Australian government has no plans to bring their citizens out of the dark anytime soon

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they have said they're not looking into UFOs and have no plans to do so

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in the Australian Parliament RAAF Chief Air Marshal Mel Hubfield stated as much

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regarding UAPs in an Australian airspace context and there's no air force led task force

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that looks into this phenomenon they seem to be at odds with many other countries around the world

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in Brazil UFOs are on the top of the government agenda

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and in the US the Pentagon has declared UFOs officially under investigation

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to establish a dedicated office to oversee processing analysis and reporting of UAP related data

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Australian UFO researcher Grant LeVac wants the government to be accountable

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I want Australia to be at the forefront with our US ally and other countries around the world

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that are now taking this topic seriously Grant claims his interest is more than just being curious

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about what's out there also from a potential national security threat perspective not just

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our military aviators but also our civilian aviators as well Harvard University is also taking

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things very seriously they are repurposing a cosmos gazing telescope to look for any

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uninvited visitors into Earth's airspace eminent physicist professor Avi Loeb is

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lead on this project called Galileo one research avenue of the Galileo project is

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to study unidentified and real phenomena that the government talks about in our case is whether

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we are unique as an intelligent species or maybe there is a smarter kid on our cosmic

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blood professor Loeb believes it's up to government to collect data and report on the data it's not

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up to them to solve the phenomena given that the government reports about the incidents with

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objects whose nature is unclear it's it's now the in the realm of science to figure out what

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that means because the government is not a scientific organization it seems Australian

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scientists won't be afforded the privilege of their government collecting data for the things to

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monitor this idea is that we should cut their budget by 50 percent the Australian people will

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have to rely on foreign governments for answers next on close encounters down under the man who

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can summon UFOs every day and every night I have had contacts and where in the world does he claim

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his best for contact experiences the Victoria area is a hotbed overall for UFO contact in the sky and

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even on the ground and you won't believe why

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from the coast of Florida to Coney Island New York

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to the Californian desert and finally in Melbourne Australia our next investigation

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focuses on the extraordinary skills of a former New York firefighter

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who believes he is in constant contact with UAPs and extraterrestrials around the world

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my name is Andrew Rasowitz

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after having his first UFO experience as a teenager working for the U.S. Coast Guard

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Andrew knew he was somehow connected to the extraterrestrial world

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12 years later one man helped him harness his special abilities

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in 2011 I fly out to the desert in California to meet Dr. Stephen Greer because he was holding

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what he calls ambassador to the universe training classes it's a week long expedition

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where about 20 to 30 people get together and he claims that through meditation in a group

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we could proactively communicate with these UFOs and the occupants that are on board

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and make them appear from that moment on every day and every night I have had contacts

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since 2011 till today this special communication is called CE5 or a close encounter of the fifth

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kind where through meditation you can summon extraterrestrial life

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Mary Rodwell is a qualified counselor who specializes in treating people who've had UFO

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encounters she explains Andrew's gift so what is CE5 it's a protocol it's a way of asking these

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intelligences out there would they show themselves and be filmed or have some kind of interaction

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and the way that many do that is they'll go to a reasonably isolated place they will sit and meditate

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and do you know maybe a visualization or a meditation of some kind so they're in a frequency

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that they can then send out this intent to whoever might be around because you know they're

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everywhere and you may not know they're there when Andrew moved to Australia after mastering the CE5

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technique his UFO encounters became more frequent and more intense one night I was outside and I was

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looking in the north direction and it was just I believe it was just after sundown and I saw a

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satellite coming down but I had a feeling that something else was there now what also happens

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I look in one part of the sky I do not sky search I do not spin around my head like the

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exorcist and look around the whole sky looking for an object I look in one spot and in that one

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spot I meditate I set my intention on that spot and then all of a sudden an object zips across the

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sky oh there comes another one look at that holy look at that and this thing rips and moves at such

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an irregular pattern it wasn't normal you know a satellite just glides this wasn't gliding it was

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this thing was vibrating up and down up and down this thing is just so fast and so irregular

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wow look at the speed on that I hadn't seen that and I don't think I've ever gotten anything

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like that on recording ever before so I trusted that feeling inside I had a feeling in my heart

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that something was there waiting for me so I continued to just trust that feeling and the

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object appeared boom it was there look at that wow every time I watch I relive that emotion that's

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coming through that thrill it's like being a kid on Christmas morning when you're opening the presence

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it's that feeling I get every time I make contact the tips of my fingers will tingle same thing with

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my toes our chief investigator and director of MUFON Roger Stangevich has looked at Andrew's footage

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this footage was taken in country victoria in 2020 so you can see here this is an unusual footage of

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of an unidentified here because it's it's the focus is not to infinity so the craft is the size

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that it is because you can see the trees in the foreground are not out of focus and it's it's

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actually traveling not in a straight line it's far too big to be a satellite it doesn't look

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anything man-made it's not flashing it's a bit unusual to see something like that in the night

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sky that size and the speeds slow it's just moving rather slowly there's no sound in comparison to

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the plane that went by it's not the moon it's not bright enough to be the moon and it is moving you

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can see it moving relative to the branches of the trees it's not reflections of anything

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it's not lens flare no one can be projecting anything because it's clear sky so it's not a

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laser it's not a flash I can't find any prosaic explanation for this particular object here

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I've classified that as an unknown Andrew is used to seeing unknowns

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he knows encounters can happen at the most unexpected times

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I don't normally take my camera in my pocket when I'm walking my dog on the beach

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I had a feeling something was gonna happen the thing was pink and it did what we call powered up

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oh the moly what is that it got really really bright it illuminated warm

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it illuminated up it got really really bright a flash really bright warm a quick acknowledgement

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just saying hi boom I could have taken a baseball and thrown a baseball and hit this object there's

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nothing in the area and a pink ball of light just appeared when they illuminate and they and they

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light they look huge they look gigantic sometimes they look like they're the size of a beach ball

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or even you know the size of just a vehicle a car but when they come close to you

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sometimes they can change from the size of what looks like a car or a beach ball and they get

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close to you they are the size of a tick-teck if my dog is threatened or something is around

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she doesn't like she'll growl when these things are around and they've come really close to us

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she's silent as a whisper I've seen her look at them she'll look right at them

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and she doesn't make a noise I know I said those things are good they have a good intent

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because if they didn't my dog would be yapping at them

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Andrew's had UFO experiences all over the world but he rates Victoria as one of the best places

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for contact I would say that the Victoria area is a hotbed overall for UFO contact in the sky and

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even on the ground I've seen shadow figures walking on the ground I've seen UFOs come down

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I've seen that on the beach so they're doing it because they feel safe here and if they didn't

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feel safe they wouldn't be doing it here they'd be doing it somewhere else so it's because of the good

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climate overall of the people that are here we have good solid people here and that's why they'll

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show up here but some people are more cynical than others people still judge you they still say

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you're crazy they still will turn on Netflix or war the worlds or these negative type films

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and they want to sensationalize UFOs and aliens but the reality is if anyone would like to sit

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outside with me at night and see what really is going on their perception would change instantly

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and they would see that Hollywood is just Hollywood movies and the stigma should not be what it is

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it's actually the exact opposite

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next on close encounters down under a man there's either UFOs or ghosts above our house

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his sister and she said they're out to the south of our house and an hour-long UFO display they would shoot out into the sky

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our final investigation moves from the city to the country

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Bernsdale in the east of victoria

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it's a gateway to the majestic victorian alps but also sits on the edge of the beautiful gibbsland lakes

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is it the wide open space that attracts UFOs here

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my name is ben ho i live here in Bernsdale east gibbsland country victoria

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Ben has had a lifelong interest in UFOs after two intense encounters Ben was determined to

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understand as much as he could about the phenomenon

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he is now a UFO investigator but his sister was of a different mindset

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until 2015 so this is a story and it's a ripper i was home here and my sister rings me

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and my sister lives about 15 minutes away from me out on her own farm and she rings me up and she's

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distressed and excited and she says to me Ben there's either UFOs or ghosts above our house

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now if my sister says that to you you can take it to the bank she is as straight as an arrow

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has no interest in anything to do with the paranormal no flights of fancy whatsoever

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and she said they're they're out to the south of our house there's a whole heap of them and

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they're moving across the sky so i jumped in the car and i drove

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drive across to her house in about seven minutes which would normally take you probably

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probably about 15 at least so i got there in record time to her house and i came in the driveway

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and i came around the back of the house and sure enough about probably not much more than i would

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say a baby a length of a football field out above their paddocks were these objects and they

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would sit there and they would dart instantly across and they moved about 600 meters to 800 meters

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in terms of distance and they shot straight across then they shot up again and shot back again

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then they would divide and then so one would divide into two or three and then they would shoot back

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and forth across the sky and they would move from point a to point b with with just cow it was like

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that it wasn't like a putting the accelerator down and you know we're going faster it went from

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standing still to to instant point and stopped and then it would go back again and then it would

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divide and there would be one two and even three and then that they would shoot out into the sky

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and they're all darting back and forth we watched it for an hour we tried to photograph it and we

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tried to video it but iPhones were not picking it up because they were not brightly illuminated and

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they had fuzzy sort of outlines around them this is where the dimensionality comes into it and it

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comes into an even bigger way so they had a kind of a fuzzy um that they had a fuzzy ill defined

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outline which which is a an aspect of some UFO reports and then they all lined up in a line

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together they flashed bright bright light flash and then they were gone my thoughts were what was

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this what had we what had we seen these were objects in the sky not not lights not lit up

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they were about as bright as a cloud on a moonlit night so they were kind of like a silvery color

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but not illuminated you could not photograph it with or video it we tried to do that and we're

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looking for natural explanations there's guys with torches down the road you know all that's

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nothing like that made any sense to it at all and then when they all lined up in a in a horizontal

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line across the sky one brilliant flash of light from all of them and they were gone

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scientist and UFO expert bill chalker agrees that UFO experiences often defy explanation

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and sometimes even the known laws of physics the overall impression one gains from i guess a

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surface viewpoint of a lot of these kind of close encounter type sightings is that they appear to be

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nuts and bolts sometimes but then the more you dig down at a lot of these sightings it gives

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you the impression that you're dealing with something far stranger that seems seemingly outside

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of our understanding of physics you know you you're getting into the cutting edge of i don't

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know dimensional physics and that kind of stuff and therefore it's a very interesting area to

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trawl through particularly if you're an advanced physicist yeah this is kind of an interesting

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stamping ground because people seem to be having experiences that interact with these kind of

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these kind of diverse domains and and so it's an area that warrants a lot of serious scientific

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attention and it's something that a lot of people particularly in a scientific domain are starting

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to play catch up with it was a very very much a what i would call something that seemed to be playing

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with the playing with reality this was a different experience where where these things were were

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moving with pinpoint speed stopping interacting with each other lining up blinking with a massive

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bridal show of light and then off for ben this was a once in a lifetime experience you could go out

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and you could look at the night sky night after night for an entire month and see nothing but

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satellites the international space station and a couple of planets wandering around you could do

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that quite easily this is not how the phenomenon works phenomenon appears when the phenomenon

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wishes to appear and you just have to be lucky enough to be in that spot at that time and that's

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why i feel like well how come people don't see UFOs how come one man saw it or two people saw it or

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or or those people how come other people didn't see it remember to always look up because you never

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know what might be looking down

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you