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of people particularly sightseers who flocked to Echo Point _saucer-shaped craft among the clouds. Lookout to view the craft as it moved about over the Jameison The object emitted three lights—one green and two red—from Valley, disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared. The beneath it, and a white light shone from windows that appeared to events of those 1953 May holidays are still talked about by old surround the craft. It remained hovering for a minute and then residents, a Ae began moving off slowly in a north-easterly direction. The However, it is not the only spectacular event of its kind to have —_ Hintons judged the approximate speed of the craft at about 35 occurred on the Blue Mountains by any means. mph, Paes = -~ “4 — of — i i oem. was If incidents such as these were not enough to convince even the sitting in her backyard one afternoon at 2.30 pm when she saw a t tical Australian, 1 ai aciient spinning disc-shaped object flying at terrific speed across the sky ial — ae fo ee ey from east to west. Within minutes, residents over a wide area of F —_ P the Blue Mountains were reporting having sighted what must have Shay and jut west of te famous Explores Tree landmark paler ap anita! eR ah on stands nearby the cliffs overlooking the Megalong Valley. ina at abil xn ih ma wee sod ge ek gn 7, Me Katoomba in 1955 when a bright green object emitting an orange- Eddellbuttel was washing dishes in the kitchen sink about 8 pm. coloured flame, passed over the district from west to east at a | Chancing to glance through the window toward the south-west, height of about 10,000 she saw an orange light feet, making a roar- moving above the ing sound very much ; —— trees to descend like that of a diesel = among them to the locomotive. The “ “= west of the house object, which was too high to make any detailed descrip- tion, was seen by Carl Knox and his brother Leonard as it soared over their Katoomba home. Later that day they were among hun- dreds of people who heard over Sydney radio that a mysteri- ous object had crashed into the sea off Sydney Harbour. Then again in 1957 people once more flocked to Echo Point at a bath at the time. Katoomba for a sec- At this stage the ond UFO event. My old friend, the late Alderman Frank Walford brother-in-law had left the house, intending to investigate the of the Blue Mountains City Council, was among:the hundreds of strange glow. Walking up past the pig sheds, he moved towards other people who observed what must be agreed was a saucer- the trees. It was then that he got the shock of his life when he saw shaped object. It re-appeared over Katoomba and the Jameison —_ what was the origin of the strange glow. Valley on two successive nights, , . There amid the trees was a disc-shaped craft of considerable The object which appeared to have lights flashing on and off, size emitting the orange glow. The light was so bright that it lit up made manoeuvres that were impossible for any Earth-based air- the whole surrounding area. Later it would be revealed that many craft. The local police were called in and some of the police offi- otorists passing along the nearby Great Western Highway had “ae ae an ag bj ed i also observed the glow in the distance. en on the third night an entirely different object appeared in . a — the skies over Katoomba, this time as a clearly defined cigar- Tie i a —— —- ro ee as shaped craft which floated over Mount Solitary in the centre of the CREE. 1 was Cue Sees Spat ae ae pra Jameison Valley. ing glow. Then, as if aware that it was being watched, the glow The RAAF was called in to investigate the matter. And a mpidly pin one the mysterious craft almost invisible although dozens of people including Alderman Frank Walford ™ "© sg nee cpl ne 1 were able to verify that the object at times flew low over the, By this time, realising what he might be looking at, the brother- Jameison Valley (and over Katoomba township for that matter), in-law became seized with panic and ran as fast as he could from the official RAAF explanation was that the saucer and cigar- the craft until he reached the house. Perhaps equally panic-strick- shaped objects were the star Canopus! en, the family locked and bolted every door and fastened every One dark cloudy September night in 1969 Mr Robert Hinton _ window in the house, someone having enough presence of mind to and his mother were standing in the backyard of their home, situ- _ phone the local police. ated near the Old Bathurst Road, Katoomba, and overlooking the All this time the large number of pigs kept at the Eddellbuttel (then) Catalina racing car track. Directly ahead of them, and hov- _ farm, usually noisy in any disturbance like the dogs, had remained ering high above the centre of the track, they sighted a large oval _ deadly silent. behind some pig sheds. Summoning her brother and his wife who happened to be staying with her, Mrs_ Eddellbuttel pointed out to them through the window the eerie glow a cou- ple of hundred yards beyond the house. Thinking the glow to be from the lamps of spotlight shooters, they soon fetched her husband Bernard who had been taking The enormous craft as described by Mr Anthony Look at Blackheath in July 1958. 42¢NEXUS The enormous craft as described by Mr Anthony Look at Blackheath in July 1958. DECEMBER 1993 - JANUARY 1994