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Sighting record / 1961

Mt Hale Station "angel hair" sighting

August 5, 1961 · Mt Hale Station, Murchison district, Western Australia, Australia
31Partially documented UAP Sphere 11 sources 4 videos

Saturday morning, 5 August 1961. Mt Hale station, in the Murchison district of Western Australia. A shearing contractor looked up when a colleague pointed at the sky. Two objects. Round in shape. Bright silver. They crossed fast, in pairs, and were gone within about two minutes. Then came more. By about 9.15 a.m., 12 objects had passed over the station. They left something behind. A white substance drifted down, taking on various shapes as it fell. The men picked it up. It looked like a fine mesh. It crumbled very easily. One witness said it vanished in his hands as it touched his skin.

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Context

Mt Hale is a pastoral station in the Murchison district of Western Australia, approximately 70 miles west of Meekatharra. In August 1961 a shearing team was at work there. A contractor, aged 37. Several station hands. Shearers he employed.

Sources (11, most influential first)

  1. A Catalogue and Analysis of Australasian "Angel Hair" Cases · Project 1947 (Keith Basterfield)· 2001 · Research organisation · org report
  2. A Catalogue of the More Interesting Australian UAP Reports · Project 1947 (Keith Basterfield)· 2016-06-03 · Research organisation · org report
  3. WA's UFO files: The bizarre sightings police secretly documented for decades · Perth is OK! · Press, book, documentary · news
  4. Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective · Haunted Auckland (Keith Basterfield)· 2014-01-28 · Wiki, blog, podcast · blog
  5. Focus: UFO · ABC Radio Perth· 2020-07-28 · Press, book, documentary · news