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The sheer number of UFO sightings over the Blue Mountains in New South Wales has led many to believe in the possibility of an underground UFO base! Katoomba beyond the Warragamba Dam backwaters, have been woken late at night by the grinding of apparent subterranean machinery throbbing away. _ In that same region during the 1980s, disappearances of lone campers have taken place and mysterious circular 'UFO ring’ burn-marks have been discovered by others. It is a region where soldiers have vanished, where eerie glows have been claimed seen at night, weird high-pitched humming sounds heard, and mystery flying craft seen to vanish into the valley depths. These events persist into the 1990s. Indeed, there have been some very unusual happenings on the Blue Mountains over recent years and these date back at least to the early 1950s and they are yet to be given a proper explanation by the authorities concerned. Yet it is likely that no explanation, no matter how guarded, can be offered without it becoming obvious to most people that we are not alone in this universe. The unusual happenings of which I speak are the approximate 1,000 or so reports of Unidentified Flying Objects that have been seen over and on the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in the last several years or so. The Jameison Valley and its surrounding environs has been the scene of many spectac- ular UFO events. Nonetheless, there is something about the whole affair which becomes all the more intriguing when one meets with the wall of silence about Jameison Valley UFOs, set up by official circles. Some mysterious happenings have yet to be given a full explanation, such as the repeat- ed sightings of UFOs that seem to just appear as if out of nowhere in the almost impene- trable forest regions to the south of Mount Solitary and beyond the backwaters of Warragamba Dam. Hikers who have actually penetrated the region and who, while camp- ing at night, have claimed later to have heard the throbbing of some sort of machinery coming from below the ground. The implications of this, as far as ufologists are concerned, is that there exists in the far- thest reaches of the valley, a secret base inhabited by extraterrestrials. For many years there have been reports of mysterious objects or lights seen in the sky over the Jameison Valley from Kings Tableland, a favourite spot for UFO watchers. Many of these reports have been made at night. The most interesting point is that most of these objects have been seen to hover over the DGA (now DoT—Department of Transport) towers that stand on the edge of the valley on the road to Queen Victoria Hospital. More than once, caretakers at the DoT station have gone outdoors at night and found some strange craft hovering above them. One night during 1971 a young couple in a car while driving along the Kings Tableland road towards Wentworth Falls suddenly found themselves being followed by a saucer- shaped craft emitting a strange green glow. Emitting a humming noise the mystery object, which they estimated to be about 25 ft (8.3 m) across, flew over their vehicle, and flying swiftly ahead of them a mere 30 ft (10 m) above the ground, suddenly rose and vanished above them. Later it was revealed that numerous people on the other side of the valley along Cliff Drive, Katoomba, had observed the green glowing object in the distance. Not only have people been spotting UFOs above the Jameison Valley, residents out on Kings Tableland road have reported secing strange craft flying low over the valley floor as if coming in for a landing. They have observed the objects to disappear to the south of the Jameison Valley farms on the north side of the Warragamba Dam backwaters, as if having landed somewhere to the south of the backwaters in the heart of the Burragorang region. During 1971 a hiker, Mr Glenn Weston, penetrated some of this inaccessible terrain. One night while camping in a remote area to the south of the Warragamba Dam backwa- ters he was woken from his sleep by a loud humming noise. O=«: recent years campers far out in the Burragorang Valley to the south of an underground UFO base! Extracted from the forthcoming book: Mysterious Australia by Rex Gilroy Currently being published by NEXUS Magazine, PO Box 30 Mapleton, Qld 4560, Australia NEXUS ¢ 39 DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994