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Are they or aren't they ours? To the best of our knowledge, no Australian researcher or group has suggested that "secret aircraft" have been the cause of any Australian UFO Are they or aren't they ours? To the best Some of the most interesting reports are been passed to the Committee which of our knowledge, no Australian researcher from air bases in all States, particularly has been set up to consider such or group has suggested that "secret aircraft" Pearce in Western Australia, Woomera in reports. The Committee desires to have been the cause of any Australian UFO South Australia, and Williams at Laverton express its thanks for such a well- reports. in Victoria. There are reports from TAA authenticated sighting. It was therefore with surprise that we and QANTAS pilots. There are hundreds This Committee actually seems rather came across the following report when _ of individual sighting reports, fully docu- _ pleased to get such a well-documented and reviewing an RAAF UFO file. mented, from every part of Australia, authenticated report, obviously because this A Department of Agriculture inspector including from personnel on oil platforms, is what they were there for. The report in reported a UFO sighting to the RAAF in cargo ships and naval vessels as well as _ question is on the Nowra Incident. May 1961. Following is a reconstruction of from police officers and the general public. the incident, based on the information locat- _ The list is huge. So what does the Government really ed in a digital copy of file series A703: I guess we will still plod through the know about UFOs? At 8.35 am on 25 May 1961, children enormous amount of information at the Not as much as they could, because they were playing in the backyard of ahouse in NAA, because in order for you to look at seem to do very little analysis on the reports Devonport, Tasmania. The children saw _ the files on their web page you have to __ they gather, but I'm only surmising this. I'm something in the sky which caused them to request each file to be examined and made _ quite sure that if they had a piece of alien geta"Mr Y." out of the house. This male available. bumper bar, they wouldn't have document- witness reported seeing one definite ed it in the Archives for us to look at. object in the sky. It wa: I think they know everything the not reflective" and was There are hundreds of need to know for now, and you ean bet thermometer or a pencil without a individual sighting reports, ney have tiles that wi never see the point". No detailed structure was ight of day. But one thing's for sure: noted, and there was no sound associ- fully documented, from every they would have someone, somewhere, ated with the sighting. The object's part of Australia, including who knows a damned sight more than speed was stated as "slow". It was i i we do. oo seen to the north-northwest of from pilots, personnel on oil Devonport, travelling in a straight line. platforms, cargo ships and naval About the Author: : Question *6 on the RAAF Report vessels as well as from police Debbie Payne, based in Adelaide, orm, which was filled in by e . . i . RAAF intswiewer. sake Torte | Officers and the general public. Sut usta, noted sie "Location of any air traffic in the industry for the last 20 years. Until vicinity at the time of sighting". Typed she had her first UFO sighting at close here are the words, "U2 aircraft over Great We have a master list of around 110 pos- range about 10 years ago, she was a Lake at approximately 8.15 am travelling in _ sibly relevant files. The RAAF has files on sceptic. a northerly direction, leaving a distinct UFOs from 1984 to 1994, so we need to From 1994 to 2002, Debbie was vapour trail”. take a look at these. involved with Colin Norris's Australian What were we doing with a U2 spyplane The aim is in two or three years' time to |nternational UFO and Flying Saucer flying over Tasmania in 1961? use our solid material to become politically Research Organisation, which has been active in seeking other information from the meeting since 1952. Since March 2002 The research journey Australian Government and then to lobby she's been participating in Lloyd Pye's During the course of our research, AURA _ the government to declare openly what their Starchild Project, and in mid-2002, has looked at hundreds of report forms, knowledge is on the topic of UFOs. together with ufologist Keith Basterfield, sketches, photographs and records on so she formed an eight-member, self-funded many different types of UFOs it's The mysterious "Committee" research group, the Australian UFO staggering. And we haven't even finished In all the files I reviewed, there were only Research Association (AURA). 10 per cent of what could be released. two references that I came across to "the This article is based on Debbie Payne's I have only recounted a few sightings Committee". Both were from very-high- presentation at the Australian National from the hundreds if not thousands of sight- ranking military personnel. UFO Conference in June 2004. The full ings on record. It would be almost impossi- I believe the Committee was attached text can be found at the webpage ble to present them all to you, so that's why originally to the Joint Intelligence http://disclosure.freewebpage.org/ we are putting all this information on CDs. Organisation and had firm ties to the Chiefs Article%20text%2022.6.04.htm. Under Crown copyright, I can only show 10 _ of Naval and Air Force Intelligence. Debbie Payne can be contacted at the per cent of any given file with names and It was set up to review certain interesting Australian UFO Research Association, details on them "for research purposes", so _ cases that were found to be either inconclu- PO Box 786, North Adelaide, SA 5006, that's why we want anyone with an interest sive or inexplicable in terms of "Earthly Australia; telephone 0413 800 143 in this subject to obtain a copy of the CDs Origin". Following is an extract froma let- (Mobile; Australia only), email disclo- to see for themselves what a goldmine of _ ter from the Director of Naval Intelligence: sureaustralia@yahoo.com.au, website information is now on record. 2. It is advised that the reports have http://www.disclosure.freewebpage.org. been passed to the Committee which has been set up to consider such reports. The Committee desires to express its thanks for such a well- authenticated sighting. This Committee actually seems rather pleased to get such a well-documented and authenticated report, obviously because this is what they were there for. The report in question is on the Nowra Incident. individual sighting reports, fully documented, from every part of Australia, including from pilots, personnel on oil platforms, cargo ships and naval vessels as well as from police officers and the general public. NEXUS = 63 There are hundreds of DECEMBER 2004 — JANUARY 2005 www.nexusmagazine.com