UPA - High strangeness in South Australia

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Australia, the sixth largest country on
Earth, an ancient, rugged and unforgiving
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land with abundant animal life, both
beautiful and deadly found within its all inspiring
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landscapes and natural beauty. Exists a
deep history of unexplained mysteries for anyone with
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the courage to investigate them. Tonight
we joined Ben on a journey across this
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vast island continent in search of answers
to events that have reshaped the lives of
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so many that have been exposed to
unexplained phenomena. All stress, Oh yeah,
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with your host been her. Yeah, everyone, Welcome to another episode
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of Unexplained Phenomena Australia. For this
week's episode, we would actually go to
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the state of South Australia. So
South Australia has a very long and rich
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UFO history, and this is something
that I already basically knew just through my
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general interest in UFOs cases around Australia, and I've seen that over many years,
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a long time researcher, Keith Basterfield, has done quite a bit of
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work on cases, and because he
lives in South Australia and he has a
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vast catalog of reports that have coming
from the nineteen fifties and right through every
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decade up into the more modern period. But I think a lot of the
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really interesting cases occurred back during the
during the sixties and the seventies and around
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that sort of time frame. It
was a very active time in UFO activity
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here in Australia. And I found
that there was two particular towns that I
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was having a look at that seemed
to really have something strange going on.
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And the first one was the town
of Gaula, which has had a history
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of UFO repeated UFO encounters in and
around that area of Gaula, and some
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of it moves out a little bit
further, some of it's quite close to
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the town, other little hamlets and
areas that live near it. So I
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thought we'd have a bit of a
look at that today. And also the
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other one that was of interest was
a town didn't actually occur in the town,
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occurred out of the town. But
when you're talking about South Australia,
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there's some vast distances between some lonely
places, and that's definitely the case with
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a little town called Kimber as well. And I think that Kimber has had
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one of the strangest UFO cases in
history, so it's a very unusual case
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and I've never come across anything like
it. There may well be other cases
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like it. It's not possible to
know every possible encounter on the planet,
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so if anyone's scene or knows of
something similar, then I'd be interested to
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hear about it. So Galla and
kimber a focus, and if we sort
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of get sort of had more time, I'll talk about some other stuff that
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I found in South Australia as well, which we'll see how we go how
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we go for time. And next
week's episode is going to be a big
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one too, so we're going to
be looking at or listening to a interview
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done by a gentleman called Ron Hydes
who had an extraordinary encounter in nineteen sixty
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seven, and his recorded interview it
hasn't been heard by anyone in fifty years.
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So I'm very excited to be presenting
that for you next week, and
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don't miss that episode because this has
not been heard in a very very long
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time and it's an extraordinary testimony and
I'll have a special guest joining me on
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the show to to dissect that.
So really look forward to that. So,
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yeah, the thing about about the
UFO history is that it's it's long,
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and it's and it's consistent throughout throughout
Australia, and South Australia really does
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echo that particular aspect of the phenomenon, the repeatedness of encounters in areas.
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Some people have repeated encounters. Individuals
do, but there's also regions, towns,
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areas that have got consistent UFO reports. They may be be quite now,
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I mean that's a that's an actual
fact at the moment. I think
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that that the UFO activity of the
past is not being reflected now as much
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in the twenty first century. And
that's an interesting question. Why why were
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all these high strangeness cases so prevalent
thirty forty fifty years ago, you know,
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and now we've got the cameras and
the technology to record it, and
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we're not capturing um those levels of
cases that in people driving in the outback
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in nineteen seventy were having some really
high strangeness, high intensity cases and they
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didn't have cameras to capture it.
So that's that's sort of one thing as
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well. So let's have a look
at let's have a look at the town
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of Gaula and see and see what's
been going on there. So this is
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where Gaula is. Let's let's orientate
first so that we know where Gaula is.
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So here it is. This is
Adelaide and Adelaide is the capital of
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South Australia. So that's for those
of you who are overseas and don't understand
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Australian geography very well. And South
Australia is next to Victoria, my home
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state, and where the little red
dropper is on that map, that's where
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Gaula is. So it's not actually
what you would call in the outback per
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se. It is just on the
you know, there's still in the sort
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of the fringe belt north of north
of Adelaide. So that's the location of
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it. And this is another shot
to give you a bit more of an
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idea of the size of the town. So it's just a typical country town.
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It's it's bigger than a hamlet,
certainly a full sized, full sized
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town. I've not been there yet, but over the last week I've taken
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a lot a great deal of interest
in what's what has been happening over there
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in the past. So if I
get to South Australia again. I'll be
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sure to head up that way because
one thing I really liked doing as an
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investigator is to go boots on the
ground and to look at the places,
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go to the places where the UFOs
have been. And I've been to many
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places doing exactly that, certainly here
in Victoria at this stage. So that's
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Gaula and it really it's sort of
the modern era for what happened in Gaula
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started around nineteen fifty nine. So
in January, a former pilot and his
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family walking along the beach at Port
Gaula, and there they saw what they
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described as a spherical object, so
around object which looked like polished aluminium.
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Now how common is that in a
description brushed polished shiny aluminium. And they
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saw this sepherical object lift out of
the water at the beach, and interestingly,
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it created a curtain of white underneath
it, So there was a curtain
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of white coming down underneath it.
So I'm not sure whether that was white
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light or whether that was water,
so that's not clear and information that I
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have, but there was a curtain
of white light underneath it, and the
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object rose out of the sea to
a considerable height whatever that means, but
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obviously you know, a reasonable distance
up in the sky. And it was
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then joined by another object which came
in from the south, and both objects
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then moved off towards the south together
accelerating at great speed. So I was
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watching this video last night on UFOs
under the Water and it's such an interesting
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concept to think that that whatever tech
they've got, it's capable of going air
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ground water. I've heard them going
into the ground before too, so it's
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really a fascinating technology that's being used
here. And here in this early case
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from nineteen fifty nine, you've got
two objects that are that are appearing and
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this is the area where it occurred
with that particular siding is this is Gaula
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Beach, which is a little bit
further over from the town but basically takes
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you down and you can see that
that strip of sand there, that's basically
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the area where that encounter would have
occurred. And as you can see,
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there's really no buildings around there.
It's a it's basically farmland are butting up
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to the coastline, so it's an
isolated location. And there was another famous
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encounter that we will talk about on
this show, although I'm not going over
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today is Maslin Beach. That was
another famous beach based South Australian UFO encounter
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with photographs taken, so we will
visit that in another episode as well.
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I mean, there's literally that many
cases that, you know, I could
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talk for three hours about about all
these cases and still not cover everything,
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so just bear that in mind.
Out in Gaula, another siding occurred on
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the twenty eighth of June in nineteen
sixty three near the Sandy Creek Hotel,
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which is a little bit to the
east of Gaula itself by a man who
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was traveling towards Gaula on the Lendock
and Gaula Road and after coming around a
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bend, he saw on the road
a blood red colored object. Blood red
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colored object eight meters wide and four
meters high, eight meters wide, four
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meters high. Fairly big object at
least Plaine size, you know, or
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not even not even Plaine size,
but mid sized Plaine size, and had
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a concave top and a flat base, and the whole red craft extended across
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the roadway and that would be a
shock. So the man applied the brakes
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and he was within about three meters
of the object. Three meters is not
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far. That's from me here across
the room. It's not far, but
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three meters of an eight meter wide
object glowing red. Amazing. I could
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just I would love to have that
experience myself. So he's so, he's
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seen that there, So he got
within three meters and when it rose it
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suddenly it rose to a height of
about one hundred meters. So as he's
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approached, it got to within three
meters of it, which is virtually indicating
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a collision. You would have to
say the objects has lifted one hundred meters
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into the sky and then turned on
its side. Now that's another interesting facet
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of UFOs here quite often that it
can be a source of shape and it
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will then actually turn onto its side
and travel in a vertical position. And
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it then sped off and it was
steaming vapor of some description and changing to
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a light red yellow, light red
yellow as it accelerated and flew off towards
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the small town of Two Wells.
So that to me is an extremely interesting
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case. I mean, that's almost
implying that you're going to actually crash into
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this thing. And getting to within
three meters, So I've got some I've
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got some imagery here for you as
well, just on that particular case.
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So here is the Barossa Valley Way, which is the road, that's what's
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what it's called now, and you
can see where that reserve is. That
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little green droplet that indicates where that
little treat area is. So he would
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have been coming through that. He
would have been coming through that area there
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on that bend, because as you
come around that bend, you come onto
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the straight section of the road and
that's where you sort of start to head
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towards that little orange dropper on the
map, which is the Sandy Creek Hotel.
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So in that stretch of road there, that's where that would have occurred.
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And just for the interest, just
for interest sake, we've got a
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picture of the Sandy Creek Hotel.
So there you go. For people overseas.
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That's an Australian pub. They're ubiquitous
in Australia and although they struggle a
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bit since the COVID time has been
with us, you can certainly get some
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fantastic meals at any Australian establishment.
And that's a that's a good example of
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a country pub, right there and
I also grabbed this image too, which
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I thought may have been slightly representative
of what he had seen, that with
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the red lights glowing on it.
But that's sort of you know, object
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close to the close to the ground
on the road, all the all the
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magic that that brings up for us
all when we when we think about it.
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So it's a it's a fairly startling
case. M And during the nine
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and sixties and the seventies, many
sightings were reported, causing vigorous debate in
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the general public about the plausibility and
the veracity of these sightings. And in
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the late sixties Gaula was this hot
spot for sightings in South Australia, with
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quite a few being reported in the
Bunyip, which is an interesting name.
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That's the local newspaper for Gaula.
It's called the Bunyard. And this was
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towards the end of nineteen sixty eight
and during nineteen sixty nine, so it
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was a very interesting time. And
this is a picture of the newspaper itself,
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because all these reports that I'm talking
about come from the Bunyip. So
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that's the the established newspaper in Gaula. So as you can see we'll see
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some more shops of some of the
town, the buildings in the town,
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and you'll get an idea of what
these little country towns are like. So
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Flying Sources in Gaula was the headline
of the front page of The Bunyip on
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December fourth, nineteen sixty eight,
just before I was born, and at
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least seven people claimed that they saw
two flying sources hovering over the Gaula Institute
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and High Street Hall at about ten
pm on November the twenty seventh, nineteen
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sixty eight, a few days earlier, and the two UFOs were said to
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be brightly lit by bright red and
blue lights which constantly changed from one color
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to the other, from red to
blue, red to blue, and according
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to the witnesses, the UFOs hovered
over the Institute and Hall for about twenty
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minutes reasonable amount of time before briefly
moving together, separating, switching off their
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lights and moving away. Five of
the witnesses so five, a woman and
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her family who lived in Gaula East, were reported to have watched from the
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car park at the rear of Harnett
and George's Chemists and after the initial sightings,
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which should be a drug store for
those in America. And after the
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initial sightings, the woman said was
said to have returned to the house and
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smoked a cigarette, so I imagine
that was to perhaps calm down and help
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process the experience of seeing two objects
in the sky. And two other witnesses
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confirmed that they had also seen the
UFOs, but no one was able to
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judge the height, size or distance
accurately, and Bunyip, the local newspaper
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appealed to anyone who had witnessed the
events to come forward and say, you
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know, we want to hear from
you. So that was on December the
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fourth, nineteen sixty eight. So
the gal Institute in the Civic center are
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here. This is what they look
like. So this is rather lovely looking
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buildings that that are built in these
country towns, and they've got a lot
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of character about them. On the
left is the institute and then on the
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other side is the actual is the
actual hall. So that's the buildings and
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also the rear which is High Street
there we go. That's the rear of
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those buildings where the objects were seen. And this is a little representation that
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I found that, you know,
maybe give us some indication of what the
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objects may have been with red and
blue lights something like that. So but
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yeah, these objects are appearing with
impunity really and obviously at a reasonable height
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where people can people can actually see
them. Another interesting little site. And
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then during the period of June to
August, so we've moved from November to
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June to August nineteen sixty nine,
more sidings of UFOs were again reported in
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the Bunya and the first headline was
UFOs Surprise the Gauy Post, which is
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the postman in Australian language. UFOs
Surprised the Gaula post And while clearing the
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Barnet Road letterbox at a little before
seven am in the morning on June eighteenth,
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nine sixty nine, the young postman
said or claimed that he saw in
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the sky a ufo which appeared to
be traveling north. He said that it
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was black inside and around the outside
was a bright white light, in fact,
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the brightest white light he had ever
seen. So that's an interesting report.
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Personally have heard of a ufo like
that before. He said. It
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was yeah, so black and with
a white light, so interesting. He
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said it was not exactly round,
and it had a white line running through
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the center. The white light stayed
on for about thirty seconds and then gradually
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disappeared to be replaced by a very
bright red light, which also stayed on
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for about thirty seconds. When he
was asked about the height, the young
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postman said didn't seem very high,
but admitted again that it was difficult to
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judge height and distance. And he
also said that prior to the sightings he
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did not believe in flying sources,
and now having seen one, he was
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convinced, and he only wished that
he had a camera with him. And
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that was an article in the Bunyip
newspaper June nineteenth, nineteen sixty nine.
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So you know, one thing I'd
just like to say to people is that
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height is very hard to judge.
It's extremely hard to judge. And what
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I recommend doing is on your phone
downloading the flight tracker app because that's very
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helpful for estimating height because you can
go outside. If you see a plane
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in the sky, you can click
on your local area on the app and
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it brings up the plane and it
shows you its actual real time altitude.
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And I've done that many times.
Just even if I'm at work, I'll
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run out if I see a plane
coming, I run outside and I'll get
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the app, and I'll check the
app and I'll see, yes, he's
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traveling at nine hundred miles an hour
at thirty six thousand feet on the way
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to Auckland, New Zealand, for
example, And I can see the size
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of the aircraft, the distance it
is, and it's very helpful even for
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smaller planes in the sky. You
might have an air ambulance traveling at five
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thousand feet and you can see the
air ambulance and you can see it's traveling
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at five thousand feet. So the
modern apps are very helpful to give you
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a bit of an idea on how
to estimate the height of objects at night
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is a different story because that's particularly
difficult at night to see because you've only
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got a black reference. It's a
lot harder at night to be accurate.
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And I can see and understand why
these witnesses were having trouble with estimating the
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actual height. So that's just a
tip. If you want to get an
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idea on judging height, then download
flight Tracker or similar and you'll start to
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get a bit of an idea year
on estimating height. So moving on,
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another UFO sighting occurred near Balaklava on
the evening of June seventeenth, nineteen sixty
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nine, so we're still in the
same month. At about six pm and
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three people from Gaula and one from
Elizabeth were returning from a football carnival at
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Balaklava when they witnessed the landing of
a strange object in a large paddockt next
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to the Hamley Bridge Road. So
they saw a land which I find fascinating
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that you can actually watch a UFO
landing, you know, I'd straight over
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there. The witness stayed for some
time to watch the UFO where it had
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part close to a couple of gum
trees or eucalyptus trees is another way of
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describing them. One of the witnesses
described the object as unlike anything they'd ever
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seen before, So that's very interesting. And he sketched it, and he
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said, having spent most of his
life working in various fields of electronics,
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he could not equate the object with
anything he had seen before. But he
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supposed that it could possibly have been
some kind of experimental vehicle. And that's
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interesting that a lot of people are
will leap to the it's the government,
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it's the military. It's a military
vehicle and it's quite quite a logical way
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to think about it too, without
any dramas at all. So this is
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Gaula to back Balak Balaklava. And
you can see Gaula at the bottom of
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the map there just up from Elizabeth. There's Elizabeth at the bottom of the
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map. Then you've got Gaula and
then moving up to you've got Balaklava.
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That's where they went to the football
carnival and on the road where they've come
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back down. That tape makes you
down to the that takes you down to
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the area where they actually had the
encounter. So and I thought, yeah,
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here it is. So this is
the area where the sighting was.
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You know, it's like when you
download fifty pitches for a presentation and you
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wonder where one got to. I
just had one of those moments. So
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this is the town of hamley Bridge, so a lot smaller place. So
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you know, a little tiny,
little sort of sort of a town on
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the river there. And this is
the object that the witness actually actually or
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the picture that he drew of the
object that they saw coming back from the
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football carnival. That's the object that
they saw landed on the ground, so
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that almost looks to me like it's
light emanating from the top of it rather
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than a spiky haircut. So that's
that's the witnesses drawing of that particular object.
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So this is obviously in the Gaula
surrounding district area, So that's an
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interesting I always loved witness's drawings.
And the next reported sighting occurred in occurred
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on June twenty seventh, nineteen sixty
nine, at a round about four am,
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and this time on the Carlton Road. The witness, a woman,
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was awoken by a noise rather like
a loud motor car engine, and looking
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out of her window, she saw
a flat round object in the sky coming
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towards Gaula from the direction of the
Barossa Valley and the object, Now,
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the Brossa Valley is a huge wine
area in Australia, so just be there's
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a lot of a lot of Australia's
good wines are produced there. And the
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object was described as having white lights
around the outside and a very bright light
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was shining on the ground below it, and the object appeared to hover over
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the Carlton Road close to the witness's
house. But she said she could not
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judge distance or high. Very consistent
theme here, and after a few minutes
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the object left, apparently heading back
towards the Barossa Valley, and the witness
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was left wondering about what exactly she
had seen, and she returned to her
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bed. This is again in the
little local newspaper of Gaula, the Bunyip,
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on July ninth, nineteen sixty nine. So just another little quick picture
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there here. So this is the
it's the Carlton Road area. So if
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you look to the to the left
right hand side of that map, you
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can see Carlton Road. So that's
right on the fringes of Gaula, with
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perhaps sort of open land to the
south of that area. And Carlton Road
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obviously extends right back into the town
as well, so it's a it's a
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it's an access road to into the
Dance township of of Gaula directly. And
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backtracking for a moment, this picture
is the area where that postman had his
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encounter. So I went down Barnett
Road and he was emptying one of those
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street side postboxes. So this is
a long time ago and it may not
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necessarily have been exactly in that location, but logically, I think it perhaps
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would have been because that general store
looks like it's been there for an incredibly
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long period of time. So even
if that red box above the blue car
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was not the actual box that he
used, it could have been replaced at
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any time in forty fifty years.
I still think that this is most logically
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that area where a mailbox would have
been located, right next to the next
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to the general store. So that's
just another picture that I had. So
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I'm a real Google mapper. If
you've been watching the show, you'll be
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for any of that. I'd like
to get out there and have a and
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go to the locations on Google Maps
because it's just so hard to get there
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in person. When Australia is such
a big country, you have to use
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Google Maps to help you out in
that regard and heading into August. On
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the morning of August three, nine
sixty nine, a number of people reported
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a sighting what they believed to be
a flying saucer in the Sandy Creek Rosedale
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area. So again another sighting back
like the gentleman who had the one near
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the Sandy Creek Hotel. So this
is in the same similar area, and
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I think Rosedale is slightly north of
that area. And one witness, who
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was a resident of Sandy Creek,
said that he'd heard what sounded like a
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diesel engine on the railway line,
followed by a rumbling noise and a few
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minutes silence, and then a buzzing
noise which grew into a rushing noise.
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And another witness, another witness,
not only heard the sound but saw the
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object sitting in a paddock about a
quarter mile from his house. And the
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object was circular with a bright red
circumference and a moving yellow orb in the
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center of the circle. Now that's
interesting too, isn't it The fact that
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he's still describing it as red,
still describing it is yellow. Now,
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witnesses descriptions can vary quite considerably even
though they're looking at the same object,
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which is a constant problem for investigators. But he's describing a red object and
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the yelloject, so it's kind of
not without its parallels to the other gentleman's
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who saw the object on the road, So circular with a bright red circumference
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and a moving yellow orb in the
center of the circle. And the witnesses
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thought it might have had a diameter
his in estimated size of about twenty five
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feet and could have been hovering close
to the ground, and as he watched,
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the object took off slowly and gathering
speed before head south. And three
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other people also had a similar sighting
on that morning. This is in the
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Bunya August sixth, nineteen sixty nine. So another interesting, interesting encounter.
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And I'm just saying, if I've
got a picture of that area. Look,
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yeah, so it's just to the
north. That's the same picture,
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but it's it's up to the north
of that map is where that area was.
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Sorry, this is the right one. All these Google maps look the
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same. So yeah, so you've
got you've got Gaula here in the center
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of the map, and as you
move out to the east, you've got
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Sandy Creek out there, and the
Rosedale area is up to the north of
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that area. So you can see
that around Gaula, around that town.
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There was certainly some strange things occurring
at that time in ninety nine, and
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a few days later, two people
in the Rosedale area had a similar experience.
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While picking up a newspaper at around
nine pm, the witness saw a
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circular object with a reddish glow outside
and a white glow inside, so we've
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got red glow, white glow,
yellow glow being reported. And it was
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moving over a paddock near her house. The witness said she was frightened it
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would land, but it just hovered
for a few minutes, and she said
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she did not say anything to her
family as they simply would not have believed
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her. Or was sixth nine,
sixty nine in the Bunyard so interesting And
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since that spate of sightings in the
sixties, Gaula has been revisited again and
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on the evening and coming more into
the modern era. On March twenty seven,
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two thousand and four, a person
reported drying near Gaula and seeing a
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ball shaped object which glowed white like
phosphorescence. It flashed across the intersection of
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the road on which he was driving, at the top of a small rise
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from east to west, at about
twenty meters off the ground and made no
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sound. And later that same year, two thousand and four, at three
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forty five am, which is just
about the Devil's hour really, on December
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eighteen, two people traveling on the
Port Wakefield Road near wild Horse Plains love
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these names. Saw an enormous object
which is shaped like a large hamburger,
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and at the bottom it had a
bright red dome with a glow around it,
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above which were flashing lights that extended
all around the perimeter, seemingly recessed
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into the object. The lights were
yellow, red, white, orange,
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green, and blue, and they
flashed on and off in a sequence you
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know, think close encounters of a
third kind. And across the top of
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the object were what looked like bright
fluorescent blue building blocks staggered to different heights,
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So this is quite a detailed description. On the other side of the
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road was another smaller and different object. Two objects shape like the bright like
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a bright white candle, below which
was a ball of bright orange red with
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an aura surrounding it. Both objects
were moving in the same direction at about
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thirty meters off the ground and seemed
to be chasing the car, much to
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the horror of the occupants. At
after about thirty kilometers, both objects disappeared,
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much to the relief of the witnesses
who continued on their way to gall
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That's in two thousand and four.
Quite a high intensity encounter. So and
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this was the area where that happened. So you can see what are we
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looking at here? We can see
that Gore is down in the lower right
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hand side of that corner of this
map. Sorry, and then up where
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that red dropper is, so we're
still in that same vicinity. And this
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is the area in here where that
dropper was coming down. So they're coming
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down this road heading back towards Gaula. And just another representational object just to
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fuel our imaginations as we discuss these
very interesting and high intense cancounters. Okay,
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times moving on and it's time to
shift gears and locations. We're going
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to start looking at what I reckon
is one of the strangest encounters ever and
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this was in the town of Kimber, South Australia. Kimber is to the
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north of to the north, it's
further north and a little bit over from
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where Gauler is, and I think
I might have a map of that.
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So where are we so I'll just
have a look. This is the type
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of area where it is, so
it's much more desolate out there, and
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Gaula is down at the bottom half
of this map. Right down the bottom
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left hand side is where Gaula is. And as you move into that Brown
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territory. That's where this extraordinary encounter
occurred. And that that line is basically
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the distance that shows where the encounter
occurred. And I put it a lot
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of time to try and find that
location. And we've got some more interesting
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things to talk about that as well. So on the fourth of February nineteen
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seventy three, so you've got activity
happening in Gaula around nineteen sixty nine,
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flap occurring down there, moving across
to Kimber on the fourth of February nineteen
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seventy three. Four this has had
a very extraordinary encounter. All of them
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were in Four people in three separate
vehicles reported seeing an orange light in a
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clearing on a deserted stretch of country
road, an orange object in a clearing,
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and a young couple said they saw
a three meter high by one point
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five meter wide rectangle shape. One
of them said they saw a two meter
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tall man man in a white spacesuit
floating in the middle of the rectangular shape.
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So you've got this bright orange rectangular
shape and there's a man in a
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white suit floating in the middle of
it. The other saw an orange rectangle
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with a white blob on top of
it. Later, a semi trailer driver
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reported to police that as he passed
a clearing, he noted what looked like
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an open doorway and a figure standing
in the doorway. The police checked the
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clearing by going there within an hour
that found nothing to account for the observation.
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So that's extraordinary. And there's another
car as well, but we'll focus
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on the couple for now. So
the couple were a gentleman by the name
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of Hunt and his female female passenger
it was Finkler, and they were driving
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a car thirty four kilometers out of
Kimber, and that was when mister Hunt
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saw a strange light on the western
side of the highway, just off the
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road. The red and orange rectangle
of light appeared ten feet high by five
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feet wide and the two to three
feet off the ground, so it's quite
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large. And inside this light was
the figure of a person some six feet
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tall in a white spacesuit with a
mask over the head and the face.
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The female passenger, miss Finkler,
who was dozing at the time, woke
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to see the light but not the
figure of the person. Mister Hunt reported
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that incident to the Kimber police,
so when they got to Kimber. They
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returned to the site with the police. It's nine seventy three and Kimber's a
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small place and the police were took
him seriously enough to go and have a
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look. And the police regarded mister
Hunt as reliable and could not explain the
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event. And later the police advised
the Royal Australian Air Force that two other
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independent witnesses had reported seeing orange light
in the same location within a fifteen minute
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period, and the Royal Australian Air
Force advised the Kimber Police that a possible
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theoretical cause of the sighting was known
as igneous fatous swamp gas, which doesn't
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sound really like that plausible to me. So the story kind of got out
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into the Wiler News on February sixteenth, and Keith Basterfield was one of the
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investigators on this actual case, and
they didn't receive the case until the twenty
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fourth of February, you know,
so the times marching on by the time
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they received it, and the investigators
telephone mister Hunt in Kimber and he wasn't
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available at the time, and so
a reply paid telegram was sent and a
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reply was received and they made arrangements
to interview him and go up there to
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interview mister Hunt and Miss Finkler on
the third of March and four of them
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went up there so to do the
investigation from South Australia from Adelaide, and
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that was Keith Basterfield, Ray Brook, Dean Pervison and Peter Powell. And
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so the location was between Kimber and
another little blowhole called Iron Knob. So
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the investigation team stopped at the location
and the terrain was flat land three to
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six meter high trees and smaller scrub
set in a deep reddish orange colored dry
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barren sort of a soil. That's
what it's like out there. And there's
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a barbed wire fence that lay between
twenty to thirty meters parallel to the road,
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and the location and visibility was limited
to about fifty to one hundred meters
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into the scrub. So this is
the investigators looking at that location seeing what
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you could actually see depending on the
angle where you were in relation to the
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trees. And they went to Kimber
and they interviewed Miss Finkler and her father
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confirmed that on the night in question, the couple had returned home at about
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ten thirty pm, and he had
noticed that mister Hunt was white faced and
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trembling so much that he was unable
to light a cigarette for himself, and
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the couple had then related the occurrence
of what actually happened to her father,
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and as a result of which the
police then came over and they went to
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the location. The investigators called the
local constable, who was Constable Summerton,
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and his wife answered the phone and
suggested that her husband come over and joined
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the conversation the local policeman, and
when he arrived, the young couple again
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related what had occurred on the night
in question, and the events relating to
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the police's participation were confirmed by the
constable, and he advised the investigators that
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he had been out to the site
and inspected it, but he had found
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no evidence on which to base a
conclusion. So, but you've had three
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independent vehicles see this. We had
the couple, mister Hunt and missus Spinkler,
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who were traveling in one car,
and in front of them was a
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mister I which I don't have his
name, and following both cars was a
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semi trailer driven by a mister D. So two cars in front, followed
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by the truck. So now the
young couple were driving between Port Perry and
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Kimber, and the incident occurred some
kilometers out of Kimber, and mister Hunt
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said that he noticed what he'd first
called a red flare to their right and
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forward, just off the road in
the clearing, and as he passed,
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he had a brief look and he
saw that rectangular shape, orange red in
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color, three meters high by one
point five wide, with a sharply defined
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figure in what he called a white
spacesuit floating in the middle of this red
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rectangle. And this is what makes
this case really extraordinary in my opinion,
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is this is what he drew.
So that's the witness, the sketch of
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00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:19.320
the object. So you've got this
red and orange square, rectangular shape three
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00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:25.800
meters tall, floating in which you've
got this man or this humanoid in a
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white suit. So it's not even
like a flying saucer a UFO, a
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00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:37.760
UAP, it's not. It's an
a rectangle with this object in it.
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Now, this is a photo that
represents it at the location, one of
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Keith's pictures, and you can see
there that at the actual location you've got
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this to three clumps of trees,
and in front of it there is this
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00:43:54.920 --> 00:44:02.480
representation which I think is Keith standing
there and a little shape has been put
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over the top of him to represent
the rectangle. And the photo has been
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taken from the road as the three
vehicles have gone past. And this picture
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here gives you an illustration of it
drawn by the investigators. So overcast,
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dark sky, the rectangle is bright
and red. It's two to three feet
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off the ground, no illumination on
the ground. So this is this is
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another interesting point about this particular case. With all UFO sightings or many ing,
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they don't castle shadows. So it's
brightly lit, but it casts no
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shadows. Here's a floating rectangle with
a white humanoid suited being in it in
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the middle of this clearing. And
this is kind of like describing the showing
485
00:44:52.239 --> 00:45:00.920
you their views of it. And
this is Keith interviewing mister Hunt and miss
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Finkler at the time of deciding when
they when they visited it. And here
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we've got the investigators at the actual
location. So nineteen seventy three driving out
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there, and I did a lot
of work on this myself all the way
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here from Victoria, which we'll talk
about that shortly. So that's the that's
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the strange thing about this case.
That's why I think it's one of the
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strangest cases ever. It's almost like
a portal. This rectangle is almost like
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some sort of a portal, a
portal door almost, if you like.
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And something is there, but who
really knows what it is. That's just
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one possibility. And so the figure
looked like an ordinary human being. I'll
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00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:52.079
bring that back up for a tick. So the figure like an ordinary human
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being in respect of shape and outline, and appeared to be motionless a meter
497
00:45:55.880 --> 00:46:00.440
or so above the ground, with
a meter of orange color below him.
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His arms and legs were pointed slightly
downwards, covered all over in white.
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And there should be remembered that this
description is based at the most on a
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two to three second observation, because
they were driving past, so they didn't
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see it for that long. The
driver accelerated the car from ninety kilometers an
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hour he had been doing, and
at the same time he motioned to miss
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Finkler's attention that there was something out
there, and it was some seconds before
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00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:30.039
she understood, but she turned in
a seat to look, and she related
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that she saw a deep orange colored, rectangular shaped thing with a white blob
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00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:37.519
on top of it in the clearing, and she turned around to comment on
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00:46:37.559 --> 00:46:42.519
it, and upon turning back,
observed that the orange object, the orange
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glow, now appeared to extend right
across the road behind them, so the
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globe had come out behind them.
And several seconds later she looked again,
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but they had gone over a slight
rise and she couldn't see anything at this
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point in time, And at this
time the hunt had been concentrating on getting
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them out of there and driving,
and they drive to missus Finkler's house,
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told her father. The police came
and the couple went, and he took
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the couple back out to the clearing, and they right back out there at
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eleven pm at night and took a
good look around with torches, and the
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ground was searched for tracks, but
none of any kind which could be found.
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And that makes sense because the object
was hovering above the ground. It
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00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:29.880
wasn't actually on the ground, and
it didn't leave any blast marks or any
519
00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:35.239
landing impressions on the ground because it
actually wasn't resting on the ground. And
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in the days it followed a truck
driver he came and told the Kimber police
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that he had passed the same spot
at ten o'clock and he said, inside
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the fence line there was something which
appeared to be a brightly lit and he
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00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:53.239
described it as a caravan doorway or
an RV doorway, except that it was
524
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much taller than a normal doorway,
giving it a rectangular shape that was ice
525
00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:04.159
as high as wide. It had
a white outline shape inside it, and
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00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:07.239
he did not stop to take a
look, So he's indicating that there's a
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rectangle on the side of the road
with a white shape inside it. So
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and mister Hunt related that a car
had passed them just prior to reaching the
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clearing, and the driver of this
vehicle said that he passed the clearing,
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00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:27.840
he saw a glow of light,
rectangular shaped orange in color, which would
531
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have been a chain of about a
chain or two outside the normal fence line.
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00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:38.679
So pretty dramatic counter on the side
on the side of a lonely stretch
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00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:50.880
of road by three independent cars and
four witnesses. So that picture that I've
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00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:57.079
shown you there is actually drawn by
the policeman. So he noted down the
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00:48:57.159 --> 00:49:00.519
details, including a sketch of the
object and the sorry the man, mister
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00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:07.480
hunt. He drew it, and
two other people had reported to him that
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00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:10.559
he's seen this same object. So
the policeman's had one car, another car,
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00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:15.719
truck, and people have said this
this actually happened. No, this
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00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:22.519
is a really really weird, weird
event. So what do we make of
540
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:28.880
all of that? Now, this
is where it gets interesting. So I
541
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:34.360
thought, I thought I'll try and
find this take that down again. I
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00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:42.079
thought, I'll try and find this
particular location. Challenging, challenging, but
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00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:47.400
I love a challenge. Is nine
seventy three. This encounter occurred nineteen seventy
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00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:52.400
three, and I thought, I'm
going to get on that road and I'm
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00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:58.239
going to google Matt walk the road. Now, the witness has described it
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00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:05.760
as being about fifty to fifty two
kilometers north of Kimber and that's all I
547
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:10.639
had in terms of trying to find
this location. So I'll bring up that
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00:50:10.679 --> 00:50:15.400
other map again. So this is
showing you Kimber's down on the left bottom
549
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:19.119
side there, and this is the
way in the white line represents the road
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00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:25.719
and that represents the journey. Now
up to that point there is where mind
551
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:29.760
you, they were coming in the
other direction. But is this line is
552
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:37.280
to represent the approximate area of that
Kimber location. Now, I went out
553
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:40.440
there and I started, so I
thought, I'll go about fifty kilometers out
554
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:45.440
and I'll try and walk that road, looking at each side of the road
555
00:50:45.480 --> 00:50:49.400
to see if I can find that
location as it is on Google Maps today.
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Now that is a big challenge and
here's why. As you can see
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00:50:54.840 --> 00:51:04.039
in this picture, the Google truck
for some season does not travel in the
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00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:10.840
area of the sighting. The Google
truck was the camera was on coming from
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00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:19.159
the south and then from the north, but in the crucial area of the
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00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:28.599
location, the Google Map truck does
not work. It did not film the
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00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:37.280
road in that area. The entire
journey is recorded, but for that location
562
00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:46.440
it is not recorded. For that
location. That was interesting. Interesting,
563
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:57.760
come back to some other pictures.
This is the area where it actually occurred
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00:51:58.360 --> 00:52:01.960
on this stretch of the road in
there. Now, what I did was
565
00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:09.000
I went in and I walked the
road and I tried to find where these
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trees were. Because they're fairly distinctive
trees. They could well and truly be
567
00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:21.800
not standing anymore in the years that
have passed. But this is the terrain
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00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:29.599
that is very representational of that location
out there with this rectangular object appeared.
569
00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:35.719
And this is the furthest point where
the Google map goes to where it starts
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00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:37.400
to get interesting, where the trees
get a little taller and a little more
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00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:45.719
established, which we're looking like the
trees in their actual area. This is
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00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:47.840
where it starts to look. But
this is right where the Google map actually
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00:52:47.880 --> 00:52:54.440
cuts out, so and you can
see there on this image here where I've
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00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:59.199
got those two little white dots in
the center. That's that's that area right
575
00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:02.960
there. But I did find some
interesting things along the way. So that's
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the that's the center tree which I
took a close up of, and there's
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00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:15.320
the rectangular object with Keith representing the
knit up white being inside the rectangle.
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00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:22.639
That's it there. And I found
this tree which was sort of representational of
579
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:27.239
it, of what that tree may
have been like. The shape is very
580
00:53:27.880 --> 00:53:34.639
very similar, so you've got that
that distinct V shape and this tree is
581
00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:39.679
similar and in very much the same
way. Remember these estimations are only estimated
582
00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:45.960
areas, so I could still have
actually found that location, and this here
583
00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:52.119
is sort of relatively representational. That's
a view back from that tree. So
584
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:55.440
we are right in the zone,
right in the zone of that area.
585
00:53:55.639 --> 00:54:01.320
And here's another picture of it here
as well. So that was the location.
586
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:07.599
And I thought that this case,
I'd not heard of a case where
587
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:14.760
you've got a floating rectangle of light
with three independent vehicles all passing it,
588
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:20.679
all reporting the same thing. It's
a very strange case that you would have
589
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:28.840
this lit up doorway with a white
suited humanoid in there in the middle of
590
00:54:28.880 --> 00:54:32.559
nowhere, the absolute middle of nowhere, as you can see by those photos.
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00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:37.760
And I spent probably two hours hunting
up and down that road trying to
592
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:40.599
find that location, knowing it was
an incredibly hard task after all these years
593
00:54:40.599 --> 00:54:46.119
from nineteen seventy three to find that
area, but I did the best I
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00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:52.679
could, and it's right in the
zone. But isn't it interesting that the
595
00:54:52.679 --> 00:55:00.920
the Google Map truck does not go
into that area? So old note note
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I will leave you to contemplate and
think about this week's episode. And as
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00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:13.400
I said, next week is an
absolutely great show coming up when we bring
598
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:21.559
out this recording of the encounter by
Ron Hydes in nineteen sixty seven in the
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00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:28.039
Aubrey Wodonga area with a landed ufo
and two occupants. He was riding a
600
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motorcycle and this interview has not been
heard in all those years, and over
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00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:38.000
fifty years, fifty four years.
So I invite you to join me next
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week. Don't miss this upcoming episode. It really will be a very fascinating
603
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:46.639
and interesting one. This one,
this episode we've just done, has also
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00:55:46.719 --> 00:55:52.440
focused on some of the humanoid cases. That Kimber case is extremely strange.
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I hope you enjoyed the episode and
I look forward to catching up with you
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again next week and we will absolutely
do it all again, So see you then.