Australian Encounter - Westall 1966

[Trajanus]

I just don't see how this alleged cover-up is a viable idea anymore. We are too wired of a society for that now. There are cameras everywhere, Google Earth, instantaneous news coverage, etc.

But the real proof predated that by many years.

As we become more and more connected these notions get more difficult to accept. Instead of all this technology making for more inexplicable UFO cases the percentage of unknowns is drying up almost completely. We talk about old cases over and over again because new ones aren't nearly as compelling.

I don't think so. Look at that case last March involving two teens in a car, lifted and dropped by a UFO, causing damage.

And the media is even less interested now than they had been. I don't see nearly as many UFO documentaries on television as I use to.

Interest has always gone in cycles. I remember how in 1971-1973, it seemed that UFOlogy was half forgotten compared to the mid sixties. Then the '73 flap came...

 

[The Pair of Cats]

 

[Ron Collins]

I am always fascinated with multi-witness sightings. The debunkers will tell you that it is probably mass hysteria or something as simple as a weather balloon that a bunch of kids and an over zealous science teacher turned into a UFO sighting and embellished with other fantastic elements. I think that is a leap of logic. If this were 2nd graders I would be more likely to dismiss it. But these kids were teenagers. Teenagers have cliques, even in 1966, and getting those cliques to agree on anything is akin to achieving a lasting peace in the middle east. As I understand it, much like the Zimbabwe case, the things that differ are physical subtleties and perception. Its not like the chess club is screaming UFO, the jocks are saying balloon, and the greasers(was that more of a 50's thing?) were saying it was a plane. All the people willing to talk about the case tell of a craft, a landing, an ascent, and an exit. You also have a bunch of teachers saying that they didnt see anything. That being said, I have talked to pilots that say they didn't see anything either, at least officially.

Now comes the truly unbelievable part. The concept of a UFO sighting and possible landing of same, is the believable side of the story. The coverup/disappearing girl/khaki/camo/blue and green uniformed military... the all to familiar and totally human side of the story gets the lions share of the skepticism. At least for me.

Thus my proclivity is to assume that that the kids saw a UFO and then possibly a landing and ascent. Then the human BS engine took over.

 

[ALPHA ROMEO UNIFORM]

I am always fascinated with multi-witness sightings. The debunkers will tell you that it is probably mass hysteria or something as simple as a weather balloon that a bunch of kids and an over zealous science teacher turned into a UFO sighting and embellished with other fantastic elements. I think that is a leap of logic. If this were 2nd graders I would be more likely to dismiss it. But these kids were teenagers. Teenagers have cliques, even in 1966, and getting those cliques to agree on anything is akin to achieving a lasting peace in the middle east. As I understand it, much like the Zimbabwe case, the things that differ are physical subtleties and perception. Its not like the chess club is screaming UFO, the jocks are saying balloon, and the greasers(was that more of a 50's thing?) were saying it was a plane. All the people willing to talk about the case tell of a craft, a landing, an ascent, and an exit. You also have a bunch of teachers saying that they didnt see anything. That being said, I have talked to pilots that say they didn't see anything either, at least officially.

Now comes the truly unbelievable part. The concept of a UFO sighting and possible landing of same, is the believable side of the story. The coverup/disappearing girl/khaki/camo/blue and green uniformed military... the all to familiar and totally human side of the story gets the lions share of the skepticism. At least for me.

Thus my proclivity is to assume that that the kids saw a UFO and then possibly a landing and ascent. Then the human BS engine took over.

Bill Chalker would be a intresting guest again to discuss this event and the number of Western Australian UFO sightings down south?

 

[Tom From Hong Kong]

Bill Chalker would be a intresting guest again to discuss this event and the number of Western Australian UFO sightings down south?

Blowfish, good suggestion. These are the type of cases worth exploring, in contrast to Roswell and others which have been beaten to a pulp. A couple of the eyewitnesses could also be persuaded to join, I suspect.

 

[Kieran]

Interesting thing about those sightings. Is how fast those men in uniform got to the location of the sightings. According to a military historian speaking in the video. There wasn't a Army base for miles, so there was a suggestion by someone, can't remember who? That someone in "Higher Authority" knew this was going to occur, and that is why, the men in uniform got to Westall, so quickly? I believe this was a genuine UFO event. You can tell by their body language. Thanks for posting the documentary Pair.

 

[Tom From Hong Kong]

Either this was a: (i) unique manmade craft being monitored by a special military-like force in 1966, before we ostensibly landed a man on the Moon, or (ii) a non-manmade object detected earlier in the day that was being monitored/followed by the troops in question, giving the false impression that those troops arrived quickly from a standing start. In either instance this is a remarkable story. Given the number and apparent credibility of the witnesses, I doubt this was a weather balloon, Venus, a heliocopter, an airplane or swamp gas spotted in plain daylight.

This has the makings of an interesting show, particularly if a few of the witnesses can be convinced to join in to discuss what they saw.