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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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