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“Australian Saucer Record”

Stories2

The Purnong Landing dome of coloured lights

March 13, 1959 · Purnong Landing, Murray River, South Australia

Australia

UAP · Other · 7 sources

13Thinly documented

The Bass Strait Beaufort pacing incident (T.R.H. "Ricky" Royal)

February 1944 · Bass Strait, between Victoria and Tasmania

Australia

UAP · Unknown · 12 sources

16Thinly documented

Names2

Mascot Place · 3 stories
Sydney's airport at Mascot had a tower, an airfield and radar screens that kept turning up in the archive's Australian cases.
Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society Organisation · 3 stories
A Melbourne research group with a long reach into Australian sighting history.

Documents8 · see all

Scientist Accuses CIA of World Plot to 'Debunk' UFOs FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2004-01-06· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …McDonald made tape records of the experiences of 70 Australians who claimed to have seen flying saucers. Some of hte…
Project Blue Book case file (combined PDF) Document

US Air Force, hosted by NICAP· 40 pages

…The report will eventually reach Washington. ## A Flying Saucer? Some people don't believe in flying saucers, but…
James E. McDonald statement, Symposium on UFOs, House Committee on Science and Astronautics Document

Princeton (kirkmcd archive)· 1968-07-29· 55 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 39 …The first UFO case to command general press attention in the Australian area seems to have been a combined radar…
- p. 40 …No explanation of this incident was offered by Naval authorities after it was widely reported in Australian and New Zealand…
Simulated radar data, colour photos Document

FAA via National Archives / The Black Vault· 19 pages

…The flying-saucer business was the big- gest public-relations headache in Air Force history. Finally, the Condon…
NZDF declassified RNZAF UFO files Document

NZDF / RNZAF via Internet Archive· 2010-12· 445 pages· 8 pages mention it
- p. 308 …recording and correlation of reports of this nature, so on July 31st 1952 singlehanded, he formed the Australian Flying Saucer…
- p. 370 …So the case stands, at present, one of the most puzzling and enigmatic unexplained Saucer Sightings recorded in Australian Flying…
UFOs and Related Subjects (Lynn Catoe, 1969) Document

Government Attic· 419 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 64 …Ancient records of UFO ir. Japan. Australian saucer record, v. 2, June 1962: 15-17. Material in ancient Japanese history…
- p. 323 …Ancient records of UFO in Japan. Australian saucer record, v. 2, June 1962: 15-17. Material in ancient Japanese history…

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