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05-24-1986
CUFON Computer UFO Network
CASE TYPE: LRS - CO
DATE: 25 MAY 1986
TIME: DAY
CFN#: 01
DURATION: UNKNOWN
WITNESSES: MANY
SOURCE: ADVERTISER, Adelaide, S.A. Australia
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RAAF has no plans to seek car-sized UFO
An
unidentified flying object much bigger then a family car" is lying at
the bottom of Encounter Bay Victor Harbor, after plummeting to earth soon
after midday on Saturday.
The
object, unofficially logged as a meteorite by the RAAF base at Edinburgh, was
seen by dozens of people from as far south as post MacDonnell in the
South-East and south-Western Victoria.
Senior
Constable G.A. Clemow, of Beachport, said he and several other Beachport
people had seen a large, smoke- colored vapor trail left by the object as it
speed past at cloud height.
The trail
had taken more then five minutes to begin dispersing. Sen Const Clemow said a
thornleigh farmer Mr.Neil Sutherland, had told him the object looked like a rocket, with a
propeller-like device at the rear, fins and a fair bit of red paint.
Mr.Sutherland
had described the fast-moving tube as much bigger then a family car.
Beachport
resident Mr Gary Chambers said he had seen the object for only a few seconds
as it came down.
It looked
like a falling star, but in broad daylight, Mr Chambers said it was very high
up I thought it burned up above the horizon.
Mr George
Thorn, of Victor Harbor said his wife had seen the object falling towards the sea.
Moments later, though binoculars, he had seen what he thought at the time to be a very large red and
white boat bobbing up and down in the heavy swell, about five kilometres
offshore.
It had sunk moments later and three boats
found nothing.
Police
and RAAF Officials said they knew of no plans to look for the object, lying
in at least 20 fathoms of water.
A
department spokesman in Adelaide said no RAAF Hercules had reported anything
and there was no sighting on any radar screens. He said the department would
investigate but he knew only what had been reported. He said he was curious
about a witness who described the object as looking like a "cruise
missile."
What does
a cruise missile look like I work in defence I've never seen one, he said as
for the chance that the object was an extraterrestrial that not show up on
radar, the spokesman said with a chuckle: "There's a possibility it
could be anything, if in fact there is something, but at the moment we
know nothing."
Reference: http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/government_ufo_coverups/ufos63.html
With thanks to CUFON and Totse.com-CF-
UFOCAT PRN 119086
UFOCAT URN 119086 National UFO Reporting Center by
Robert Gribble, #1601
UFOCAT URN 159319 CUFON by Dale Goudie
UFOCAT URN 170234 *U* UFO Computer Database by Larry
Hatch, # 14361 İ 2002
Australia
South Australia
Victor
Harbour Latitude 35-34-00 S, Longitude 138-37-00 E (D-M-S)
[PPL]
Victor
Harbour Latitude 35-33-00 S, Longitude 138-38-00 E [HBR]
Encounter Bay Latitude 35-35-00 S, Longitude 138-36-00 E
[PPL]
Encounter Bay Latitude 35-35-00 S, Longitude 138-44-00 E
[BAY]
Victoria Too many to
list here CF-
Thornleigh Latitude 34-44-00 S, Longitude
151-05-00 E [PPL]
Thornleigh Latitude 24-20-00 S, Longitude
144-54-00 E [FRM]
Reference: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic.
UFO Location (UFOCAT) Latitude 35.50 S, Longitude 138.88
E (D.%)
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