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UFOs OVER AUSTRALIA'S NORTH OVER UFOs AUSTRALIA'S NORTH People around the world wonder whether UFOs are seen across Australia. This collection of eyewitness accounts reveals that Australia indeed has a rich history of sightings and close encounters. he year was 1979, a remarkable year for the number of UFO reports from the vast area of Australia's far north. The following two reports from that year are of spe- cial interest. : It was a dark, moonless, hot January night on Dave and Rita Turner's lonely cattle sta- tion on the Kimberley Plateau north of Halls Creek, Wester Australia. Dave had driven off to visit a neighbouring property owner for a short meeting, while Rita stayed home and watched television. As she watched, the screen flickered badly. At the same time the cattle dogs began barking wildly. Rita could hear the cattle, horses and fowls going mad in their enclosures out behind the farmhouse. Leaving the lounge room to investigate the disturbance, she could hear a high-pitched humming sound coming from outside the house. As she emerged from the back door she found the whole farmyard lit up by an ionised blue glow coming from above. As she looked up she was shocked to see a large circular object, at least 20 metres across, emit- ting the ionised blue glow while hovering directly over the farmhouse barely 30 metres above the roof. Then, as she stood speechless, the humming sound faded along with the ionised blue glow. The eerie craft grew dark and rose silently into the sky to be lost from sight. Regaining her senses, Rita phoned up the neighbour and asked Dave to come home at once. She also phoned the police. By the time they arrived the next day, many other property owners over a wide area of the Kimberley had reported seeing the same mystery craft that night, Dave was mystified by the whole incident when Rita related her experi- ence to the two startled constables who visited the station. A week later she received an explanation from the authorities. The RAAF's conclu- sion? What Rita Turner had seen was nothing more than the “flashing blue light of a police car”! Obviously she had been visited by the flying squad! And what of Andy Quirk and his girlfriend Sandra in his four-wheel-drive Land-Rover in that February 1979? Driving late one night toward Derby, WA, their peaceful journey was interrupted by an ionised blue glow and accompanying high-pitched humming sound. Andy then lost control of his Land-Rover as it seemed to lift off the road and become air- bore a good two feet off the ground. Terrified, Sandra screamed; Andy was panicking. Suddenly the glow and sound faded. The Land-Rover hit the ground with a thud, its occu- pants too shaken at first to move. As they recovered from their frightening experience, they could see in the distance in the moonlight, high up in the sky, a dark object flying off at great speed to the south. Weird mutilations of cattle and horses were reported over a wide area of the Kimberley and coastal districts of Western Australia all the way down to Port Hedland between 1977 and 1980. The animals appeared to have been systematically dissected as if for scientific purposes. Numerous ‘flying saucer’ reports were also made in these districts throughout this period. Aborigines claimed these strange craft and their "culture hero” occupants from the sky world had been here long ago in the Dreamtime and that men and lubras had been carried off by them when they left. In 1933 an Aboriginal woman claimed she had been, how should we say, ‘experimented with’ by several strange, grcy-skinned manlike beings out at lonely Discovery Well. Her tribe had been frightened off when a “large shining egg" suddenly descended from the sky and flew slowly above them in broad daylight. The woman claimed she had been “stunned” by an object wiclded by one of several beings who emerged from the “egg”. She had been carried aboard and strapped to a shining table. Around her, the craft's interi- or was aglow. are seen across Australia. ©1995 by Rex Gilroy Extracted from his book Mysterious Australia Australian Unexplained Mysteries Investigation Centre 120 Robert Street Tamworth, NSW 2340, Australia Phone +61 (0)67 62 2357 Extracted from his book Mysterious Australia Australian Unexplained Mysteries Investigation Centre 120 Robert Street Tamworth, NSW 2340, Australia Phone +61 (0)67 62 2357 NEXUS ¢ 43 © 1995 by Rex Gilroy FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996