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DATE OF ARTICLE: May 27, 1989
SOURCE OF ARTICLE: Courier
LOCATION: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
BYLINE: None

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SEEN ANY UFOS LATELY?

• A UFO investigator is seeking information from Ballarat people who may have seen unidentified flying objects in recent years.
• Paul Newman, a member of the International Committee for UFO Research, who was in Ballarat yesterday, said people should not be embarrassed about reporting a UFO sighting.
• Mr. Newman has been involved in the recent case when the Knowles family, traveling along the Nullarbor Plains, had its car "lifted" off the ground by an unknown force.
• He said dust samples from the car, which he took to the Phillips Institute, in America, contained potassium, carbon and silicon.
• "Ballarat has not been without its UFO sightings. In April, 1973, there were sightings of erratically moving lights over the area," Mr. Newman said.
• He said numerous UFO sightings had been reported over South America.
• "UFOs seem to be attracted to the isolation and large amounts of water of parts of South America."
• Eighty five percent of reports are cases of mistaken identity, like aircraft, space junk and meteorites.
• Only one in five cases are worthy of follow-ups, and five percent of these are hoaxes. He said the best reports came from airline pilots.
• Involved in UFO research for the past 36 years, Mr. Newman had no real opinion of unidentified flying objects until an experience while working as a superintendent at a hydro-electric power station in America.
• "I saw a UFO while working there, and have seen two since then, both in northern Victoria."
• He said there was a lot of activity in the sky over Australia.
• "There have been many reports about cigar-shaped objects as big as a house, with bright lights, over Melbourne and Canberra suburbs and west of Horsham.
• "These (UFOs) hover over farm dams, when water levels drop."

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