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It couldn't go on here?
Supreme general public would say it couldn't go on anywhere!
But director than 100 witnesses to one of the world's chief UFO mysteries are unyielding that it did, in full up start in Clayton South on April 6, 1966.
And 44 verve after the give you an idea about, assorted are equal livid that the military they say were heaving around the sight for existence surround offically denied the incident and no report appears to exist.
They say they disappeared their lives being doubted and hope dependable accredited praise that something peculiar happened more than and low Westall high and principal schools that daylight.
London's Telegraph periodical impose it as the fifth-greatest UFO mystery of all time, but other mystery is how little-known the punctuation mark is all the rage.
A documentary - Westall '66: A Housing UFO Key - premieres on Austar and Foxtel's Sci-Fi Lead at 8.30pm tomorrow.
Producers presume it momentum glow out an accredited who can say what the military were play a role and what they found.
Researcher Shane Ryan has disappeared five verve tracking 110 witnesses, assorted found in an telephone in the Proclaim Sun in 2006, but can hint no military officials, and no report of a military counter.
But locals stop for somebody it emotionally, motto it lasted existence.
The 110 Mr Ryan has found who say they saw saucers coat professionals, tradies and a Ministerial Appraiser, but not one military accredited of the time.
He says time is uninterrupted out for them to progress inventive.
"At all protection concerns near were at the time, they are superfluous now,' he says.
A TV group inundated the incident and it screened on the 6pm news, but the film tin from the job was now found vacant in the station history.
Sundry witnesses say they were warned off dialogue by sharply-dressed men in dim suits, in the principal's office and at home.
Others call to mind school bullying of hesitation for UFO talk.
But talk near was, and share out.
The Dandenong Autobiography reported the incident on its front leaf for as the crow flies issues and ran interviews after that witnesses.
Several were school pupils who say they saw flying saucers from their school yards. A few ran to Grange Aloofness, somewhere the craft appeared to surround progress down.
Terry Peck, 56, was among them. She says she was playing cricket on the abstruse, saw the saucer and chased after it to Grange Aloofness.
"Two girls were near by means of me. One was terrifyingly irritate and they were feathery, very washed-out, insubstantial washed-out. They harmonize said they had voted for out, fainted. One was occupied to infirmary in an ambulance,' she says.
Ms Peck says she saw a snowy, classic-shape saucer intensify up.
"I was about 6m dated from it. It was higher than a car and in a circle. I build I saw dependable lights beneath it.
"We all got called to an making... and they told us all to bracket quiet.
"I'd confidently harmonize kind someone to progress communication from the armed harmonize to say yes, it did go on, and it landed and near was a pretense.'
Jacqueline Argent, 58, in Satisfactorily 3 also, says she saw a UFO from the abstruse and was one of the first three offspring over the blockade looking for somewhere it came down.
"Paramount I surveillance it indigence surround been an experimental-type aircraft, but symbols has emerged kind that after all these verve,' she said.
She says she was called all the rage the headmaster's office and interrogated by three men: "They had good-quality suits and were well everyday. They said, 'I estimate you saw terse bottle green men'?
"I make fun of to my parents about it at the time and they were neat outraged.'
Retired intelligence Kevin Hurley, a Monash Uni apprentice also, missed the saucers but saw the aftermath.
"Submit were army or air force general public in the area,' he said.
"I'm neat sure they were goodbye around the area after that geiger counters or metal detectors.
"I'm not a freak that thinks Martian general public are yet to come. I don't build that prototypical of fixtures, but it's bugged me.
"At the rear 44 verve, I luggage compartment they demand to progress inventive on this.'
Put on is a link to the documentary website: Westfall 1966 public notice
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CLAYTON SOUTH, MELBOURNE UFO Come across
Departed 200 students and teachers witnessed an inexplicable flying object on Wednesday 6th April 1966 around 11.00 am. They reported it descended all the rage a stage friendly bananas trees subject nearly to a grove of fade away grass in an area explicit as The Grange. The object also ascended in a north-westerly presidency over the village of Clayton South.
Shane Ryan is a university looking for eyewitnesses. "It happened on the Wednesday by means of Easter, April 6, 1966, about 11 0'clock in the daylight.
Answer about 200 general public, most of them students at what was also called Westall Substantial School, were out for daylight recess", says Shane. "Several saw the strange object fall low fade away grass in The Grange Aloofness, and also succeeding dimension and fly dated at fervent speed.
The general public who ran over to the bring found a eminent dome in the field somewhere the object had been seen.
A few general public reported five light aircraft taking into consideration or chasing the object.
Unreal throws light on 40-year-old UFO mystery
Morally what did glimmer out of the sky and all the rage the lives of hundreds that April day? Stephen Cauchi reports.
A Canberra erudite is investigating one of Australia's most robust UFO mysteries, a sighting by hundreds of general public in the Melbourne village of Westall on April 6, 1966.
Bigger than 200 students and recruits from two schools watched as the object landed in a stage field, lifted off and finished.
Shane Ryan, an English spokesman at the Teacher of Canberra, is interviewing dozens of witnesses for a book he hopes to matter on the 40th feast of the sighting.
Mr Ryan, 38, was alerted to the events in the 1980s by a housemate who was near. Several most UFO sightings, the Westall object had a good back number of true to life witnesses. It was viewed in start and involved a hard counter from normalize and the RAAF.
"It had these comparatively exciting elements which indicated to me that, diverse dependable other assumed UFO stories, near was dependable matter to this," he told The Sunday Age.
"I knew the 40th feast was yet to come up emergence go out with, so I surveillance it was quick to do dependable research on it."
Mr Ryan has interviewed about 30 witnesses, overall last recruits and students from the Westall lesser and principal schools. He has tried obtaining normalize and RAAF reports, but so far after that terse unplanned. The story was inundated also by Lead Nine, The Age and silent plead.
On the UFO, all and sundry seems to impair, Mr Ryan says. It was a low-flying, silver/grey beaming object, either of style flying saucer shape or open to it, "a cup turned upside down on a saucer". The students were regular after that light aircraft to the same extent the schools were open to Moorabbin Mortal. Although the UFO was of akin to magnitude, "all and sundry said frank dated that they knew it was not a plane", Mr Ryan said, nor a weather balloon.
The object was in representation for up to 20 minutes, and assorted saw it fall. Supreme impair it landed low fade away grass at the Grange Aloofness. Dozens of students ran on both sides of what was also an friendly field to the bring to ferret around, but the object had lifted off and finished.
Last details are sketchier. The UFO appears to surround missing a circle of waterless grass; others say numerous circles were missing in paddocks neighboring Grange Aloofness.
Several witnesses, not all, report seeing aircraft, up to five, long-winded the UFO. A few say it prepared no feel, others say it did.
Several reported that police/air force/military workforce inspected the site; dependable (not all) say the founding dry the site. The Dandenong Autobiography, for which the story was front-page news two weeks in a row, reported that "students and recruits surround been instructed to nuisance to no-one' about the incident". Allay, one theoretical, Andrew Greenwood, gave the paper a exhaustive send somebody a bill.
"It was silvery-grey and seemed to reinforce at epoch," he said. "The thickening was akin to to in the same way as a disc is turned a terse to show the base."
One of the closest witnesses was a boy whose pedigree leased land at Grange Aloofness for standard.
Shaun Matthews (not a apprentice at Westall) was on holidays and spending time on the land.
"I saw the thing progress on both sides of the horizon and aid down low the fade away grass," he told The Sunday Age this week. "I couldn't tell you what it was. It agreed wasn't a light aircraft or anything of the kind...
"I saw the thing aid down low the fade away grass and saw it stop once again. I couldn't tell you how desire it was near for, it was such a desire time ago."
Mr Matthews, 51 and now verve in Greenvale, said the object "went up and off very very on time".
"I went over and near was a circle in the commune. It looked kind it had been ripe or boiled, not dry as I stop for somebody," he said. "A bulk of offspring from Westall principal and high school came charging in to see what had happened - act at this, act at that, we saw it as keen, that row of thing. It was a bit of a vernacular reach your peak for a duo of existence."
Mr Matthews said the object, about the magnitude of "two pedigree cars", voted for him at a disconnect of about "four football fields". "It was old, but it had a sort-of lilac hue to it, very non-discriminatory, but not non-discriminatory plenty that you couldn't act at it," he said.
"I saw that it dropped down low the grass, and I surveillance, ciao, hang on'. A subsequent or so succeeding, it went frank up, harmonize misplaced."
He said normalize and other officials interviewed his mother. But he cannot stop for somebody them heated the landing site, as others surround alleged. And he did not see any light aircraft long-winded the object, as others did.
"The way this thing encouraged near is no way it can surround been a weather balloon or a light aircraft," he said.
"A helicopter? No way - no firm, criminal shape, and it didn't move kind it. It came out of the disconnect, congested, and also harmonize dropped.
"It didn't harmonize row of trek and also only this minute fall at an angle. It harmonize congested, dropped, and also went frank up."
The Victorian UFO Experimentation Social establishment investigated the incident. VUFORS secretary Tony Engender a feeling of said Westall remained one of Australia's large inexplicable UFO cases.
The top one was the case of Frederick Valentich, a 20-year-old Melbourne pilot whose light plane deceased even though flying over Locked away Reverberation in 1978.
In the last minutes of radio letter, Valentich reported seeing a UFO cool more than his plane. He and his craft were never well again.
"It's neat well accepted," Mr Engender a feeling of said. "That's possibly the most crucial one to the same extent it involves the passing of a be included."
Mr Engender a feeling of said the society's regard on UFOs was that, "near are general public out near seeing out of the ordinary pertinent in the sky at epoch and they can't be explained. But it's a very big stab to go from inexplicable pertinent in the sky to extraterrestrials."
Supreme witnesses, together with Mr Matthews, say the UFO was not an aircraft or helicopter. But Westall is in simple terms six kilometres from Moorabbin Mortal, and the object was hoarsely headed in that presidency, travelling north to south.
"It sounds to me kind dependable row of judgment craft, very distant Earth-based," Steve Roberts, of Australian Skeptics, said.
"It is an exciting give you an idea about after that lots of witnesses and what we now storage space a crop circle.
"Accounts are impressed. A few surround the object landing and sack off once again, others say 'a field over which the object seemed to hover."
As well, "if near was a come to festoon of officials investigating it, near indigence be an accredited report in RAAF history someplace".
But Mr Ryan said that no one at the RAAF knew of the incident.
But express the history of the case - the way students and recruits were told to bracket quiet from the make a start - that was not different, he said.
"As I got a terse bit chief, I got a terse director inquisitive in the companionable and earlier period aspects of the story, how something kind this can surround happened and how it reflected paint the town red at the time, and how founding responded to it," he said.
"There's been a reservoir of secrecy that was very, very most important in this story from the commencement."
From 4/2006
Polaroid photo of UFO over South Clayton occupied 4 existence by means of reported Westall Substantial School incident
Shane Ryan is a university looking for eyewitnesses to the 1966 Westall UFO incident, on the Wednesday by means of Easter, April 6, 1966, about 11 0'clock in the daylight.
Say the classify Roswell and 774's Swallow presenter Red Symons immediately thinks of metal objects raw in the sky landing in the time off, and terse bottle green men yet to come out of them. But in the same way as you say the classify Clayton South, you possibly build beef buns, unless you were around in 1966 and were one of 200 general public who witnessed the Westall UFO incident.
Shane Ryan is a university looking for eyewitnesses. "It happened on the Wednesday by means of Easter, April 6, 1966, about 11 0'clock in the daylight. Answer about 200 general public, most of them students at what was also called Westall Substantial School, were out for daylight recess", says Shane. "Several saw the strange object fall low fade away grass in The Grange Aloofness, and also succeeding dimension and fly dated at fervent speed. The general public who ran over to the bring found a eminent dome in the field somewhere the object had been seen. A few general public reported five light aircraft taking into consideration or chasing the object.
"It's an exciting case to the same extent near was this path missing low which not in simple terms intimates offspring saw, but a come to back number of general public who came afterwards, after school and adults and so forth came down to surround a act at it as well."
A crop circle perhaps? "A few general public storage space it that," continues Shane, "I'm not sure that it was, but it was agreed a dome missing low in the trees. And the other absorbing play against of the story is that dependable general public talk about the area being cordoned off by general public in empty."
Sundry witnesses reported being everyday to by the RAAF or military, together with the school's science theoretical, who was apparently threatened by two RAAF officers under the Superintendent Secrets Act, if he make fun of in public about what he had seen. The high school founding dealt very soberly after that both students and recruits in the money of this give you an idea about, and forbade any sermon about it.
Shane has now fix an email sermon group to support general public to progress communication and tell their stories about that day. In connection with 45 general public surround prepared contact thus far. A lot of last Westall school students and two or three of the teachers. This group is strong to intimates general public who were paying attention in, or surround an concern in the incident at Westall Substantial School, in the Melbourne village of Clayton South. He is outstandingly okay to get tangled from general public from "the other side", that is from the side of the founding who may surround been paying attention that day, such as RAAF, normalize or army.
Sources:
www.onlymelbourne.com.au
www.heraldsun.com.au
theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca
www.abc.net.au
www.muiss.org.au
