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The saucer hung there for ages, and black hats and dark black sunglasses. once the car started I hooted up the hill The thing was that no one up there to find Margaret - as I drove into town _ wore clothes like this, so they stuck out everyone was out and looking up. like sore thumbs. At the time we were particularly We saw them around town for a day friendly with two newsmen of the N.T. or so, and then they simply weren't Times and raced in to tell them. there. Anyone new in town was always By now the saucer had slowly drifted the focal point of interest among the (almost) over the land, and out of town. locals, and these people were simply The men said that it was hovering over designated as “ah some government near the RAAF Base, so we all sped out bods”. to the base, which at that time was I remember one thing in the papers in about 12 miles out of town, and ina the day or so after the event that really sparsely inhabited area. Directly across ~ shocked me, it was the story of how our the road from the base was the Qantas entire front line air defence consisting airfield, and while the men were able to of § sabre jet aircraft, took to the air gain entry into the base, we were not. after the ‘thing’ - FIVE!!! _ The papers for the next two days car- They were scrambled when the sight- tied wonderful photos, write-ups and ing took place, and one guy still had interviews with the local residents. shaving cream on his face when he As it was in the area for over an hour, took off, funny how you remember the everyone saw it, everyone had opinions __jittle details (they photographed it). on it, and the paper covered them all. I would love to hear from anyone On the third day after the sighting, who was in Darwin at the time, or any- the paper went quiet on the subject. one who has any newspaper clippings I personally thought nothing more of the incident. about it. Indeed never gave it another (Send any info on this one to Nexus thought until quite recently when I Magazine, and we will pass it on to Roma. heard the tales of the Men In Black. Ed) Then it hit me. black hats and dark black sunglasses. The thing was that no one up there wore clothes like this, so they stuck out like sore thumbs. ever so slowly came over towards The Wangara and ourselves. It was still high up, and when it was roughly overhead of us, it stopped its horizontal flight pattern, and as we all stared directly up at it, it began to get bigger and bigger. Some of the guys on the ship shouted to get acamera. Margaret and I simply sat transfixed, until it suddenly occurred to us that it was becoming larger because it was coming down. Floating down, there was no speed to its descent at all. We saw them around town for a day or so, and then they simply weren't there. Anyone new in town was always the focal point of interest among the locals, and these people were simply designated as "ah some government bods”. We panicked, jumped to our feet, hauled in the lines in a most unfisher- man like manner, and raced over to the car, which was parked at the end of the huge buildings on the jetty. Margaret jumped in and found that the Singer wouldn't start, she jumped out and went racing up the hill towards tren town. I stood with the car looking up, the ‘thing’ tilted sideways, then front end down. It was circular, huge, bigger than a house, and we could all see the lights on the second and third deck. We did not see people, but we did see shadows moving from one porthole to another, back and forth and I don't ever recall thinking the figures would be anything else but perfectly normal human beings. Darwin was a close and reasonably small community in those days, and a few days after the sighting, some guys turned up in black suits, black ties, AN 'ARMLESS, SECOND- HAND STORY Police in Papua New Guinea, reunit- ed a man with his missing arm in July 1991. The unarmed man told police he had been travelling in the back of a truck, when another vehicle passed so close to him that his arm was severed at the elbow. So Tue is iT Moe 6 Tat Aun ARE SO you REreAT HE HOSTILE DUE To Aw Question ? ExTRcme CASE OF 5 SEKVAL FRUSTRATION? ws At the time he was so drunk that he didn't notice his arm was missing. It was only some time later that he felt any pain and went to hospital in Lae He appealed to police to look for his arm, but they did not at first connect the incident with an arm found on the same day in the tray of a truck over 150 miles away. ee io a The man was expected to be dis- charged from hospital within a few days. (Source: Radio Australia, Melbourne, 26 July 1991; Southern Cross 30 July 1991; and extracted from Fortean Times # 65) 52¢NEXUS DECEMBER-JANUARY '93