UFO Hype

STORIES about fleets of UFOs invading the Territory have flooded in to us in recent weeks but UFO hunter Keith Douglas says the NT has been a flying saucer hotspot for decades.

The 57-year-old former cabinet maker now runs UFO Research Alice Springs - a branch of the Australian UFO Research Network.

“People are very heads down, arse-up, and ignore what is going on,” he said. “But I’ve got plenty of time. I go out for night watches all the time.”

Mr Douglas’ night watches start at 11pm and last until 7am.

“I know what I’ve seen and the stories I’ve heard. I’ve come across enough to be convinced there are UFOs,” he said.

“I just get amused as to why they spend so much watching us.”

Mr Douglas has had two “good sightings”, but has covered reports of abductions, crop circles and unidentified crafts. He said Central Australia had several “hotspots” - such as the Pine Gap joint-defence facility or Wycliffe Well, 1100km south of Darwin.

“There’s a lot of stuff coming and going from Pine Gap,” he said. “And you can see crafts reasonably well at Wycliffe Well - they generally look like a white light. But down south, near the South Australian border, they are orange lights.”

Mr Douglas said he was contacted once by an indigenous woman from a remote community who reported being followed by a UFO for several hours.

“She didn’t have a camera or anything, so she painted me a picture of it.”

The Northern Territory News has tracked down a sample of UFO cases dating back to 1970 (see below and also check out our related articles links at bottom of page for more recent sightings).
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The Sunday Examiner’s LUKE SCOTT looks into a disappearance that was never solved. Next month will mark the 30th anniversary of one of the State’s most bizarre aviation mysteries. On Saturday, October 21, 1978, pilot Frederick Valentich took off from Victoria’s Moorabin Airport in his single-engined Cessna 182, bound for King Island.

It was about 6.15pm, and conditions were ideal for flying, with fine weather, a mild north-westerly breeze and almost unlimited visibility. But Valentich never made it. No trace of the 20-year-old volunteer flight instructor or his aircraft was ever found, but the manner of his disappearance has fuelled speculation by UFO buffs for nearly three decades.

Some say Mr Valentich was abducted by aliens, some that his aircraft simply crashed into Bass Strait, some that he faked his disappearance and started a new life somewhere else. The extraordinary conversation Mr Valentich had over the radio with Melbourne Flight Service flight controller Steve Robey in the moments before he disappeared has gone down in UFO folklore.
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Maybe they were looking to make their weekly shop or perhaps they just ran out of milk? Whatever their reason, the extra terrestrial presence above Purley Cross Tesco prompted a call by UFO experts for a public inquiry. Sid O’Driscoll spotted the supposed spacecraft on August 28 at 2am. He said: “It was very weird. It was the most beautiful green and white light, moving quite fast, then stopping.

“It had to be mechanical, like a spaceship, because it slowed down and stopped. “It wasn’t making any noise. It disappeared in a flash. “I went home and told my girlfriend. She didn’t believe me, but the pictures speak for themselves.”

The 35-year-old former non-believer swore he did not dabble in drugs and had no idea what the aircraft could have been. UFO expert Nick Pope, who worked for the Ministry of Defence, examined the pictures. He said: “Green lights are unusual. “It rules out the so-called Chinese lanterns that accounted for some recent UFO sightings in the UK.

“The images and description of the movement don’t fit a list of things frequently reported as UFOs – aircraft lights, meteors, satellites. “This is a genuine mystery.” He added: “Given the sheer number of sightings we’ve seen this summer and the unprecedented number of photos and videos, it’s time for a full public inquiry.”

The last reported sighting in Croydon was in April, when a foreign

Source: croyden today.co.uk

Numerous calls from across the county about a fireball in the sky falling near the San Bernardino mountains came into San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch Tuesday morning, according to officials.

Countless people, including fire personnel, from the Nevada stateline to Temecula reported seeing a brightly colored streak falling from the northwestern sky at about 10:40 a.m., said County Fire Dispatch Supervisor, Tom Barnes.

Search crews from several agencies including Barstow, Arrowhead and Cal Fire have all attempted to track down a landing site, but have come up empty.

All of the calls described a fast-moving object falling near the San Bernardino Mountains area.

The original call came in from a Lake Arrowhead man who thought the object may have been an aircraft in trouble, Barnes said.

After sending out fire crews and not finding any wreckage, investigators began to look into the possibility it may have been a meteor or some other space rock.

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