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- Subject: Rosedale UFO siting - update (sortof)
- Date: 29 Dec 94 14:39:32 GMT
- Organization: Monash University
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- The recent 'Rosedale Case' posting spearked my interest enough to
- find out a little more about it. I found one of the local libraries
- have archived the "Gippsland Times" issues, and so I managed to get a
- photocopy of the UFO siting report of the 18st of October 1980.
-
- Here is what it said:
-
- ---quote---
-
- KILMANY MANY SEES UFO
-
- An unidentified flying object shaped like a huge top landed at
- "Whiteacres", a cattle property on the Princes Highway west of Sale
- early yesterday.
-
- Veteran farm hand George Blackwell got withing 150 yards of the
- aircraft before it took off with a "Whoosh."
-
- Later, the property owner Mr Ralph Anderson and Mr Blackwell found a
- large burnt circle on teh ground "and cow pats overturned by the air
- rush."
-
- Mr Blackwell said yesterday what he saw was almost "unbelievable."
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- The hereford cattle in the adjacent paddock woke him up at 1 am.
-
- 'I then heard a whistling sound, and got up to see what was worrying
- the cattle. They were running across the paddock.
-
- "Then I saw this thing, about 10 to 15 feet high, with a row of
- lights, like portholes. It was white with a black brown band.
-
- "I actually saw it land on the ground just a little way off the
- highway.
-
- "I got on my motorcycle and started to ride across but when I got
- within 15 yards there was a terrific rush of air.
-
- MISSED SHED
-
- "The thing lifted off, just narrowly missing a shed and water tank.
- It went between them."
-
- Mr Blackwell said the area was well like "like moonlight,"
-
- "I knew what I was seeing, it was all so clear."
-
- He then found a burnt circle about 6 metres across.
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- "It's like a char patch."
-
- Mr Anderson said that after seeing the burn marks, he firmly believed
- an aircraft of some sort had landed.
-
- "I didn't believe in this sort of thing but I'm convinced now."
-
- BURNT RING
-
- He said cow pats embedded in the ground had been lifted and blown
- four or five metres away from teh circle.
-
- The grass was bruised, and the ground had a ring of burnt circles.
-
- "It appears that something protected parts of the circle from
- burning."
-
- Mr Anderson said that cape weed flowers had been torn from their
- stalks around the circle.
-
- Mr Blackwell said that he, too, had doubted UFO's.
-
- "I tell you", he said, "if anyone wants convincing now, they should
- come and see where this thing landed."
-
- ---END QUOTE---
-
-
- It differs from the other story a bit, but close enough :]. This is a
- picture attached with the caption:
-
- "Mr Ralph Anderson and Mr George Blackwell examine the burnt circle."
-
- The picture shows both men nealing and looking at the ground (B&W),
- but I couldn't make out any good ring features. A pretty
- dissappointing pic considering.
-
- On the way to the library, I actually passed the property in
- question. I didn't see anything strange :).
-
- Very interesting stuff tho. My dad knows of another UFO siting around
- the area too, plus there is the ring he remembers on our farm many
- years ago.
-
- I wonder if George is still alive.
-
- Row.
-
-