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The Department of Defence lists theatre and were seated together: Warrant And so a file is now born—RSO Woomera's possible activities as follows: Officer H., Warrant Officer W., J. A. (chief | 52/618—and becomes part of a greater file. « Air-to-air combat training; baker at the Department of Supply) and * Bombing camps; Sergeant P. Snow clouds don't do 90° turns * Remote area operations; In his report, Sergeant P. makes several This next report from Woomera is from a ¢ Airborne and ground testing of long- observations, and considering he was an __ radar officer who was on duty at the time of range weapons systems; officer at Woomera he would have this event. I have the original Defence * Rocket testing (including Scramjet observed test flights and been familiar with Department tracking map to back up these technology); rockets and jets. He saw that the cigar- statements: * Space vehicle launch and recovery, shaped object had two portholes and interi- At 1.45 pm while searching for a including reusable rockets; or lighting. (Now why would an unmanned Mustang on GI, a target was locked ¢ Parachute drops; rocket need portholes and interior lighting?) onto in the Shell Lagoon Area. On * Hot and dry equipment trials; It travelled faster than any jet aircraft he'd looking through the telescope on the ¢ Because electromagnetic interference is ever seen. And in his statement he says he radar dish, no target could be seen. extremely low, the area permits was not prepared to say whether this thing The signal-to-noise ratio was at least 5 EMI/EMC testing (electromagnetic inter- was an Earthly object. W. states it was not to 1, which is similar to that obtained ference and compatibility between guid- a falling star, and was faster than any air- from a large aircraft. Between 1.45 ance systems and aircraft electronic and 2.00 pm the target came to with - equipment, both on the ground and ina mile distant, and still could not in the air). be seen. At 2.05 pm I decided to +L plot the course of the target. At Today, Woomera still operates a Woomera Prohibited Area times during the movement of the deep-space tracking station. It has is now the size of England target, SMALLER targets seemed what they call "ears in space", listenin: to detach themselves from the main to noises from space, and it monitors and covers 127,000 square target and drift away. equipment on satellites in orbit. kilometres. In the early There are numerous contradictions Woomera has R&D connections with surrounding this event. The official NASA, the European Space Agency, 1950s, Woomera covered explanation, by the way, turned out to Kistler Aerospace, BAE (British i . be a snow cloud. However, the officials Aerospace) Systems, the Japanese 270,000 eavele kilometres shot themselves in the foot on that one. Cangaroo Project and other not-so- The report is titled "Flying Saucer public projects—like research into Phenomenon over Range G1"—not an nanotechnology and breaking the Mach 7 anomalous snow cloud! The file barrier (two years before the Americans, craft he'd ever seen. H. comments that he summary on the weather conditions is as who announced they had done so in March _ heard no noise, and that it was definitely follows, and I did check these conditions 2004) with its work on Scramjet something other than anything from the independently: technology. Incidentally, Woomera does _ heavens, meaning a comet or shooting star. Fine, high cloud @ 25,000 feet, warm have an area designated as Area 52a Evetts The other witness was the wife of a service- temperature, 84 degrees Fahrenheit Field. It was one of the sites proposed for man and gives the same description from [27 degrees C]. Strong, northerly wind the National Radioactive Waste Repository another location in Woomera township. (25-30 mph), which blew from the and probably still is. The interesting part is where the Chief inland desert. The Woomera Prohibited Area, as itis Security Officer forwards all the reports And this is where it gets strange (my now known, is the size of England and cov- _ from the investigator to the State Security emphasis in bold): ers 127,000 square kilometres. Youcan Office in Adelaide under the title "Flying In view of the foregoing weather report hide a lot of activity in a remote desert com- Saucer Observed Over Woomera". Ina and the absence of any visual sighting, pound the size of a small country. But in _ brief covering letter he states that the wit- the signals probably came froma the early 1950s, Woomera was a lot bigger. _ nesses are all reliable and sober and that a cloud. It covered 270,000 square kilometres. It cigar-shaped object, "whether man made or In a report put together two weeks later, was also the subject of some very interest- not", was observed. A copy is then on-for- after other radar operators were questioned, ing events. warded to the Deputy Chief Security the object is referred to as the "invisible Officer in Melbourne. A paper trail has — phenomenon"—and because no object was Military officers witness UFO begun. visible, there was nothing of security inter- On the night of Saturday 27 October It then transpires that the Advertiser est. (So if you can see it, it can't be all bad.) 1952, at approximately 8.00 pm, five per- newspaper also published reports of the But in the very same report, one paragraph sons witnessed a cigar-shaped object fly on same object, sighted by different witnesses above this one, it reads (my emphasis in a straight and horizontal trajectory, 40 to _ in other parts of the state. (Any news clip- _ bold): 45 degrees above the horizon from the wit- _ pings regarding flying saucers were cut out ...the fact that small portions were nesses’ right-hand side to their left. Four of and retained by the various defence forces. breaking away tends to show that the witnesses were at the Woomera open-air We found a lot of them.) whatever it was on radar was theatre and were seated together: Warrant Officer H., Warrant Officer W., J. A. (chief baker at the Department of Supply) and Sergeant P. In his report, Sergeant P. makes several observations, and considering he was an officer at Woomera he would have observed test flights and been familiar with rockets and jets. He saw that the cigar- shaped object had two portholes and interi- or lighting. (Now why would an unmanned rocket need portholes and interior lighting?) It travelled faster than any jet aircraft he'd ever seen. And in his statement he says he was not prepared to say whether this thing was an Earthly object. W. states it was not a falling star, and was faster than any air- And so a file is now born—RSO 52/618—and becomes part of a greater file. is now the size of England and covers 127,000 square kilometres. In the early 1950s, Woomera covered 270,000 square kilometres. NEXUS = 61 Woomera Prohibited Area DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com