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- Subject: COONABARABRAN REPORTS
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- Date: 13 Jan 95 04:45:07 GMT
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- SIDING SPRINGS ASTRONOMER SEES UFO!
- Further to my report on other Coonabarabran sightings, the Sydney Morning
- Herald of January 11, 1995 ran an article featuring a UFO sighting by Dr.
- John Dawe, the manager of the Sidings Spring Observatory, near Coonabarabran. Dr.
- Dawe is an internationally respected astronomer.
- The article states that many months ago he was driving back from Sydney with
- his wife and daughter.
- "We were going up a hill near Merriwa, at the top of the Hunter, when I
- happened to look up at the sky. There was a uniform, grey cloud cover, but
- suddenly something seemed to detach itself, hover for a while, then fall
- vertically very quickly below the brow of the hill. I yelled an expletive,
- which made everyone take notice. My wife saw the same thing, but by the
- time we got to the top we couldn't see anything.
- "My tentative explanation was that it was a weather balloon. But it was
- grey, rather than silver, and was elliptical horizontally, not vertically."
- Dr. Dawe was quoted as saying it was "classic stuff."
- "It was something I still cannot explain. But I am 99.99 per cent certain
- it was nothing alien."
- In light of my Coonabarabran area investigations (the article mentions the
- Mendooran road incident, but only in the context of the local papers story)
- I rang the observatory. I have not yet been able to speak with Dr. Dawe,
- but an associate there indicated that Dr. Dawe was rather embarrassed by
- the story and how it has been blown up.
- The rest of the article refers to other strange goings on including yowies
- (or local variants such as "Hairy Mary" or "the Pilliga Princess") and other
- UFO sightings.
- I've left messages with the journalist to follow up further.
- Regards, Bill Chalker.
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