Over 200 students witness saucer-shape object, physical traces left behind (Westall I
	
	
		There are incidents like this one, that could be very difficult to explain as a hoax.
Over 200 students witness saucer-shape object, physical traces left behind (Westall Incident) - Westall, Australia - April 6, 1966 - UFO Evidence
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Academic throws light on 40-year-old UFO mystery 
The Age 
October 2, 2005 
Just what did flash out of the sky and into the lives of hundreds that April day? Stephen Cauchi reports. 
A CANBERRA academic is investigating one of Australia's most compelling UFO mysteries, a sighting by hundreds of people in the Melbourne suburb of Westall on April 6, 1966. 
More than 200 students and staff from two schools watched as the object landed in a nearby paddock, lifted off and vanished. 
Shane Ryan, an English lecturer at the University of Canberra, is interviewing dozens of witnesses for a book he hopes to publish on the 40th anniversary of the sighting. 
Mr Ryan, 38, was alerted to the events in the 1980s by a housemate who was there. Unlike most UFO sightings, the Westall object had a large number of credible witnesses. It was viewed in daylight and attracted a forceful response from police and the RAAF. 
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Keith Basterfield Archive
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31 Aug 1954 Goulburn NSW
Lt O'Farrell was flying a Sea Fury aircraft, and noticed a very bright light closing fast from the "1 o'clock" position. The light crossed ahead of him, and continued to a position on his port beam where it appeared to orbit. At the same time he noticed a second and similar light at "nine o'clock" which made a pass ahead of him and then turned in the position where the first light had been sighted. The pilot contacted Nowra radar who confirmed they had 3 echoes on screen. The two bright lights reformed at "nine o'clock" and disappeared on a north-easterly heading. (1. Australian National Archives file number MP926/1 Control Symbol 3079/101/1 titled “Unidentified Objects (Flying Saucers sighted by Navy Pilot over Goulburn.) 2. Chalker, W. (1982). APRO Bulletin 30(10):7.)
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