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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CASE FILES · 1947 – 1969

CASE REFERENCE8722540

DATE OF SIGHTINGJanuary 1965

REPORTED LOCATION41S167E Between New Zealand Australia

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Mystery Vapor Teails |

The Melbourne, Australia Tlerald of 15
January 1965 carried an article about
seven unexplained vapor trails observed
250 smiles off the New Zealand Coast over |
the Tasman Sea at 6:45 p.m, on the 13th
(Wednesday) of January. “The RAAF
has failed to identify flying objects re-
ported over the Tasman Sea on Wednes-
day night", the lead ‘sentence read.

Czptain D. Shannon and the crew of
his Electra which was at 20,000 ft. alti-
tude reported seeing the trails at 25,000
feet, going west to east. The tralls
“seamed to split’, into seven directions, |
indicating a flight formation, Shannon
reported.

An RAAF spokesman in Canberra said
no aircraft cleared officially from Aus-
tralia was in the area at the time. Inquiry
had shown that no aircraft suthorized to
operate over or out of Australia could
have been in the area at the thne. The
The Australian radar station st Brook-
vale had turned in no reports of unidenti-
fied objects.

The initial story was sadly lacking in
detail but it is indeed strange that an
experienced pilot would tura in a report
on such a mundane item as contrails
when one would expect a pilot to expect
to see contrails.

Regardless, oa the same day the Syd
ney Sun carried an explanation, to wit:

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tralis seen by Qantas pilots (appayently
others besides Shaanon observed them--
Ed.) in the sky over Tasman were a
natural phenomenon. ,.a Qantas official
said that “the Electra crew sighted what
appeared to be contrails from high-flying
planes,”

Let us hope our Australian colleagues
were treated to 2 more detailed explana-
tion——_—_——-the planes shoulil have been
identified.

Aciiuonal information reaching this
office indicates a radar confirmation of
the s ghting but the location of the radar
Was not made expticit—it could have
been radar contact by Shannon's plane,
She clippings which divulged this Infor-
mation did not specify.

News sources siso saldethe report had.
been officially explained as “ice crystals”
although two top-ranking RAAF officers
seid the evidence indicated a formation
of “imititary aircraft capable of high
speeds and long-range performance. °

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