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- Article #: 1
- From: UFO INFO SERVICE
- Date Sent: 06-17-1986
- Subject: 1978 AP PILOT DISAPPEARS
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- SOURCE: AP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
- DATE: 25 OCTOBER 1978
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- AUSTRALIAN PILOT DISAPPEARS AFTER REPORTING CHASE BY UFO'S
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- Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot who
- disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being
- chased by a UFO. Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in his
- single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air
- traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4
- bright lights about 1000 feet above him.
-
- Controllers said his last message was taped and was: "It's approaching from due
- east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game... flying at a speed
- I can't estimate. It's not an aircraft. It's...It is flying past. It is a
- long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It's coming for me right now."
- A minute later: "It seems to be stationary. I'm also orbiting and the thing is
- orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and a sort of metallic light
- on the outside." Valentich then radioed that his engine was running roughly.
- His last words were: "It is not an aircraft."
-
- The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along the
- coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department
- was skeptical. Ken Williams, a spokesman for the department, said, "It's funny
- all these people ringing up with UFO reports well after Valentich's
- disappearance. It seems people often decide after the event, they too had seen
- strange lights. But although we can't take them too seriously, we can never
- discourgae such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance."
-
- Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became disoriented
- and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island,
- while flying upside down.
-
- Valentich's father, Guio, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using
- information he had received from the Air Force. He was not the kind of person
- who would make up stories. Everything had to be very correct and positive for
- him. The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact
- that UFOs could have been there." Guio Valentich said he hoped his son hadn't
- crashed but had been taken by a UFO.
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