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Subject: Rosedale Case: Part 1
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The following was posted originally by Vladimir Godic to alt.paranet.ufo:

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Subject: Rosedale Case - Part 1
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With so much attention being focused on abductions these days, I think we are
in danger of missing something very important. Just because a case doesn't
involve abduction, it doesn't mean it can't be of great importance and yield
valuable information possibly even physical evidence. In the spirit of
getting our priorities straight, I am reproducing the following case which I
hope will be of interest to all. It was first published in the UFO Research
Australia Newsletter Vol.2, No.1 Jan-Feb 1981.  Then later in the UFORA
digital book "UFO Research in Australia and New Zealand."



               ROSEDALE, VICTORIA - A CLOSE ENCOUNTER
                 By Keith Basterfield & Bill Chalker

 A very spectacular event is reported to have occurred in the early hours of
September 30, 1980, on a property known as "White-Acres," some 8km from
Rosedale, Victoria, Australia.  Investigations were conducted by a number of
people and, in view of the apparent magnitude of the event, Bill Chalker,
Gary Little and Keith Basterfield co-investigated the case.

THE EVENT AS RELATED:

 The percipient, a 54 year old farm hand and caretaker of the "White-Acres"
property, 19km west of Sale, Victoria, went to bed at 2230hrs on September
29, 1980, and experienced no trouble in sleeping.
 At 0100hrs, September 30 (daylight saving), he awoke and immediately heard a
noise like a screeching whistle, unlike the noise of anything on the nearby
road. It should be said that the Princess Highway, a main road Melbourne to
Sydney, carrying interstate traffic, runs right alongside the house where he
lay sleeping.
 There were also noises of cattle bellowing and a horse running around in
apparent panic.  He looked at his bedside spring wound clock after switching
on the bedroom light and noted the time.
 He then went outside the back door, still in his night attire, to see what
was the matter with the stock.  From the back door the view is obstructed by
adjacent posts and sheeting, so, in order to have a clear view, he stood up
on a wooden rail just outside the door.
 Immediately he observed, out of the corner of his eye, an object moving from
his right to left.  Its estimated height was 8-10 feet (1) above the ground.
 As he stood there and watched it, it appeared to pass
between a shed and a Cyprus hedge (estimated distance about 500 feet) and
then between a silo and a tree.  When behind the shed he states that part of
the object was below his line of sight of the shed roof.
 At first he had thought it was an aircraft in distress, but when clearly in
view by the silo, he saw there were no wings and no tail, and he described it
as a domed object with a white top.
 It had orange and blue lights on its surface and he
estimated its diameter at about 26 feet.  Its height was given as about 15
feet.
 The object then progressed over a paddock, passed by a haystack and appeared
to rest over a distant, open-topped, concrete 10,000 gallon water tank for an
estimated minute before moving to a stationary position apparently on the
ground to the left of the tank as viewed from the house.  Total time between
initial view and on the ground was put at 2 minutes.
 He commented that there did not appear to be any illumination of the ground
as it passed over, but the object gave out light at its own height.

THE PERCIPIENT APPROACHES:

 The witness decided to investigate as there had been reports of rustling of
stock in the area and his stock were obviously disturbed.  He returned to the
house and dressed.  Within 5 minutes he came outside, got on his red coloured
Suzuki 100 motorbike, started it up and commenced to ride up a lane to the
area where the object was still visible on the ground, making an audible
whistling noise.
 Stopping to open a gate he saw a cow obviously disturbed and frothing at the
mouth.  This cow came through the open gate and, according to the witness,
proceeded to hide itself under an adjacent shed.
 Riding further up, to another gate, he entered into the paddock with the
object in it.

ON SITE:

 As he approached the UFO from 50 yards away, to the point where he stopped,
50 feet from it, he commented that he had an unusual body sensation, feeling
"like a jelly on a plate," everything was trembling.
 Having stopped 50 feet, or so, from the object, he sat on his bike with the
engine still running (there were no effects on his bike at all) and headlight
on. He rested the bike by placing his two feet on the ground.
  The UFO remained sitting on the ground, still making a whistling noise.
The witness maintains he could not go any closer to it due to the intensity
of the noise.  In fact he says he sat on the bike with his ears covered by
his hands. Duration of this portion of the observation was put at about 3
minutes.
 The object itself seemed to consist of two sections - a white dome on top
and a larger orange section underneath.  Around this bottom section there
appeared to be circular windows or lights.
 Suddenly, the noise level increased to "an awful scream," something like a
black tube appeared around the base of the UFO, and this seemed to inflate to
a tremendous size, just beyond the diameter of the object.  There was a
tremendous "bang," and a blast of air and heat came from it.  This blast
almost knocked him off his bike.  The UFO lifted up and gradually rolled off
the spot going eastwards.
 The bike's headlight illuminated the base of the object as it moved away,
enabling the percipient to observe that the black "tube" seemed to be
deflating towards the centre of the base.  Also around the rim of the base
were six
evenly spaced "spokes" or V-shaped "things."
  At about 30 feet out from where it had sat, and at a height of 8-10 feet,
the object fell silent.  At this stage the reporter states material fell away
from the underside of it.  This material looked like stones, cape weed and
cow paddies.
 The witness rode onto the spot it had left, and sat there stunned, watching
as the object left towards due east.  Gradually it faded away, becoming
smaller and smaller in angular size until it was lost to sight.
 The night was clear, calm and moonlit.  In the moonlight he could see a
marking, a "ring" of "black" grass, about 30 feet across.

BACK HOME:

 Still stunned, he managed to ride back to the house where he saw the time
was 0150hrs by the bedroom clock.  He had a cup of coffee.
 It was then that he noticed his 6-7 year old, water resistant, stainless
steel Taiwanese spring wound Timex watch had stopped at 0110hrs.  He took it
off his wrist and placed it on the table.  After a few minutes it started
again.
 However, when he put it on his arm it stopped again within 10 minutes.  This
sequence of stopping on arm, and going on table, happened on and off over the
next three days, then the watch returned to normal.  The witness commented
that
the watch had been reliable before and had been since.
 We saw that the watch hour and minute hands were marked by old style
luminescent paint and asked if he had noted anything abnormal about the
intensity of the paint's illumination in the dark.  He replied that there had
been no noticeable difference before or after the event.
 Following looking at the watch, he went to lie down on his bed, without
taking off his clothes, but was unable to get back to sleep properly, chewing
things over in his mind.  His legs were shaky.

Continued in part 2......