An Australian researcher who kept returning to the country's strangest cases, and often to their ordinary explanations. At Westall in 1966 he proposed a radiation-sampling balloon, HIBAL flight 292. Bill Chalker called it an incredible force-fit. With UFO Research (South) Australia he looked into the Knowles family's 1988 Nullarbor encounter. At first it seemed to him an extraordinary close encounter that had left physical traces. He later settled on a distant light, a burst tyre and a story that grew. He also judged the figure in the 1964 Solway Firth Pathé newsreel to be internal lens flare.
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Catalogued the 1868 and 1873 events among Australian cases before 1947
Compiler of the catalogue of pre-1947 Australian UAP
Researcher who corrected the date to 6 June 1931 in 2018 using contemporary newspapers
Researcher who reported the 2004 archive check in his 2005 aircrew catalogue
Researcher, co-author of the 2017 Project 1947 cold-case review
Researcher who catalogued South Australian reports from official files
Researcher who transcribed the witness statements from National Archives of Australia files
Researcher who located the archive files and reviewed the case in 2012 and 2017
Researcher; listed the case in a 1980 review of Australasian entity cases
Investigator who interviewed Briggs and catalogued the case
Catalogued the case from the RAAF file and summarised McDonald's 1967 tapes
Researcher who transcribed the statement and proposed a stratospheric balloon
Researcher; catalogued the case from the RAAF file and rated it a probable stratospheric balloon
Researcher who catalogued the case as Australasian angel hair case 8
Researcher who wrote on the case and Tyler's interest in UAP
Australian researcher who summarised the RAAF file and case record
Researcher who catalogued the case from press, society and RAAF records
Australian researcher who catalogued the case
Researcher who traced the National Archives of Australia files
UFO researcher who transcribed the archived message and catalogued the case
Researcher whose review of the RAAF files turned up the police report
Co-author with Dean of the 2016 Project 1947 stage one and stage two reports
Researcher who summarised the McDonald tape
Researcher who proposed the HIBAL balloon explanation
Researcher who catalogued the case with its National Archives file citation
Australian researcher who published the uncovered police report in 2017
Researcher who analysed the Blue Book papers and the Moon explanation in 2017
Researcher who transcribed the NAA file and interviewed Gardin in 2011
Researcher who transcribed the RAAF files in 2012
Lead civilian investigator
Researcher who reviewed the original forms in 2013 and proposed the flock-of-birds hypothesis
Researcher who visited the site in 1975 and published the full report in 2014
Australian researcher whose catalogue documented the case
Researcher, 1989 retrospective investigation and abduction catalogue
Cataloguer of Australian abductions and Nullarbor reports, published the full statement
Ufologist who catalogued the same-period sightings and reported on the released government files
Investigator, on-site investigation December 1980 and co-author of the main write-up
Researcher who catalogued the case for Project 1947
Investigator, UFO Research (South) Australia
UFO researcher who proposed the Jupiter explanation; compiler of the Project 1947 Nullarbor catalogue
Researcher who published the earliest dated account in 2015