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Australia's Credible Most UFO Abduction Case In the early hours of 8th August 1993, an extraordinary event occurred in the foothills of Victoria's Dandenong mountains that would forever change the lives of five ordinary people. "KELLY" y name is Kelly Cahill and, like many others in my situation, I, too, fear ridicule due to the strangeness surrounding my case. I would have preferred to remain anonymous, but due to the prompting of certain Australian researchers who continuously stressed how necessary it was that the reality of this event was revealed to the public, I eventually came to realise the importance of increasing public awareness. I have been involved in what is considered to be one of the world's and definitely Australia's first known UFO encounter involving non-human entities, wherein two sepa- rate parties unknown to each other have actively participated, enabling researchers to finally cross-reference an encounter case. This is not to say that it has not occurred anywhere in the world before; only that it is quite possibly the first recorded instance and is an extremely well-documented case. It therefore becomes a powerful tool in providing evidence that unknown lifeforms do indeed exist within our normal realms of existence. My story is a very personal one and is written as such. I want you to know the way I perceived things to occur, from a human rather than academic viewpoint. Scientific data and official reports are partially expounded in my book. As it is just you and I for now, I will begin by telling you a little about myself. I am twenty-seven years of age, married with three children, and was living what most people would consider to be an uneventful existence. Uneventful, that is, until the night of 7th/8th August 1993. On that day, the cosy little world of logic I had grown so accus- tomed to was turned inside out. Prior to the life-changing cxperience which took place, the subject of UFOs had never been of any particular interest to me. If they did indeed exist then I was bound to be the last person on the face of the Earth to actually see one. I tended to maintain a very scepti- cal view on all matters pertaining to physical phenomena, which was back then a perfectly natural attitude, not only held by myself but, as I have increasingly noticed, by most other people. What | did possess, however, was a keen belief in psychic awareness, but even this belief was not unduly founded. I have always thought the human mind a most fascinating area of study, being one of the few true mysteries as yet unravelled by our advanced sci- entific community. It provides an outlet to philosophical thinking which is not available elsewhere. As a housewife and mother I am usually too busy to devote a great deal of time to outside activities, but the one thing that even a housewife can do is think. RECALL On the early evening of Ist October, we again drove up to Eva's house in the mountains where | intended to spend the weekend. We took the usual route through the outer Melbourne suburb of Fountain Gate, on to Belgrave then up to Monbulk. It was a familiar course to us. Since moving to the country almost a year before, distance had become of little object where friendship was concerned. A few kilometres after the Fountain Gate shopping centre, we passed an open area where (although logic defies me an explanation as to why the thought would even enter my mind) I made a wisecrack to myself that this would be a great place for a UFO to land. All that silly business with Andrew must have struck a funny-bone somewhere. What happened next was not so amusing. by Kelly Cahill Extracted from her unpublished manuscript Willing or Unwilling: An Australian UFO Enigma by Kelly Cahill Willing or Unwilling: An Australian UFO Enigma NEXUS ¢ 59 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1995