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    From:  Bill Chalker UFORA Associ  Submitted:  19 Dec 91 22:58:00  

 Subject:  Recent New South Wales, A     Status:  Public

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RE: Recent New South Wales, Australia, reports

MSGID: 9:1040/8 c995e4c4

I have a number of reports under current investigation, beyond a

number of ongoing abduction cases.

Picnic Point, Sydney Suburb, NSW, 12.30 am, 1st December, 1991: A

man was standing in front of a friends house saying goodnight to

his friend who was standing on the verandah.

The following quotes from a statement from one of this man:

"Suddenly a flash of light travelling down and to my left flashed

into my eye. I turned left and looked upward and there about

50-60 metres away and about 200 metres up was a large disc of

flaming circular light which had continued down and to my left (northward).

"I immediately pointed at it with my right arm and I loudly said

to J., "What the hell is that?"

"The object immediately stoppped and I felt a shot of adrenilin

in my heart  It seemed to turn towards us.  It's large flat black

wings now facing us from therir back and they were curling up

above and behind the light....

"It momentarily hovered for about 2 seconds and it then suddenly

moved directly back and away from us about another 50 metres.  It

stopped there for about a second and it then went directly up,

turned away from us and headed up and away from us in a north

easterly direction.

"We watched it for about a minute and a half as it accelerated up

and away from us and I could see the airofoil like tops of the

wings fluttering (like a sail does) in the wind.

"We kept watching it until it quickly became just a twinkling

light in the distance and we then called C. (J.'s wife) to look

at it.  She could only see the distant flickering of the light

and was quite annoyed that we had not wakened her sooner.

"By this time a total of about 2-3 minutes had elapsed until we

could no longer see it in the distant high clouds."

Statement from witness M.

I spoke with M. later that same day.  Due to difficulties of

getting J. & M. together a field investigation was not undertaken

until December 9th.  On the 1st, I requested both men write down

as much as they could to keep the experience details clear to them.

I visited J.'s residence in the company of 2 associates, where we

interviewed M., J., and his wife.  We reconstructed the event on the spot.

Detail of the object: It consisted of "a disc of mainly yellow

with some light blue light.  It appeared to be clear in that it

seemed to have depth but you could not see through it....Attached

to the disc were very large, flat and black wings.  They seemed

to swivel on the disc and to bend towards the direction that the

object travelled as does a sail.   There was hardly any wind on

the night and only scattered cloud cover...."

No sound was heard.  The size of the disc was estimated at about

10 to 15 feet in diameter, and the "wings" were between 50 to 60

feet in height and between 30 to 35 feet in width at the top.  They were black.

The weather bureau indicated nil launches at the time.  No other

traffic details are applicable.

The object gives the impression of a large "intelligent" hot air

balloon device, but the nature of the sighting and its apparent

extraordinary movements appears to negate this explanation. 

Further investigations are underway.

This sighting was within a kilometer or two of 2 other

interesting events reported to me this year.  One of this events

involved a spectacular low level flyover of a massive rectangular

object in 1978 at the nearby Picnic Power Station area.  The

other involved 2 yound men (in their 20s) who witnessed a low

level "flyover" of a brilliantly lit disc at nearby Padstow on

March 25th, 1991.  This experience appears to be part of an

extended milieu contagion possibly involving possible "abduction

" like experiences in the past, with one of them having a

possible CE3 event at Bents Basin as a child.  Bents Basin

incidentally is the location of a spectacular CE3  "robot" type

event involving 6 young people back in 1972.  I investigated this

report with David Buching back in 1975.  The recent milieu

appears to have been a life long series of events.

About 1 am, December 13th, 1991 - between Tamworth and Werris

Creek.  A woman was driving home from work in Tamworth heading to

Werris Creek.  She reports being followed by strange lights. 

They appeared to been 4 red lights in a line with a green light

underneath.  The witness reports the light arrangement followed

her car for several kilometres, and apparently came over her car.

There was a whizzing noise at this point, whereupon there were 2

brief episodes of power loss and all lights going out. When I

interviewed the woman on December 15th, I determined that she did

not actually see the lights pass over her car.  She just presumed

this was the case when she heard the unusual whizzing noise.  She

also told me that at its closest observed point the light display

was in a adjacent paddock, ostensibly hovering above the grass,

but apparently in front of a small hill (but below the summit

line, ie. it clearly was below the skyline and apparently quite

close).  The experience terrified her and her fear was obvious to

those she met when she arrived home.

A possible explanation that needs to be properly evaluated is

that a new TV tower had its beacon lights switched on for the

first time on December 11th. This tower is located in the area. 

A man driving home that night reported to local TV st ation he

had probably seen the same thing as the woman, but he was sure it

was due to the tower.  There were at least 2 other seperate

witnesses who believe they saw something unusual.  One man

travelling to work at Werris Creek ostensibly  saw the same

display and apparently also experienced car effects.

This investigation has also brought to light other case details. 

More of this later.

This report was brought to my notice on December 13th, due to a

TV interview (local TV news).  An associate in the area

investigating earlier Barraba area sightings  on my behalf called

me straight after the news report was aired.

I have spoken to area police, TV news and local papers, along

with the main reporting witness, along with her husband and

mother in law.  She comes across as a sincere woman who was

genuinely frightened by her experience.

It should be noted that the direction of the tower was greatly

different to that of the close paddock position reported.  Light

drizzle was falling at the time.  Is it possible that some sort

of weather related relection of the new tower lights.  The

witness while prepared to consider this, did not think it fitted.

Field investigations are currently trying to be arranged.

Regards from Bill Chalker.

--- FD 1.99c

 * Origin: UFO Research Australia, UFORA Associate NSW (9:1040/8)

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