DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE Thrs cover rs to be used only for official file Serres recorded wrth Australian Arcbives. Fonn Number AR 111 is to be used for workmg papers. FILE NUMBER OLD AIH 580/1/1 t , 6. REPORTS ON FLYING SAUCBRS AND OTHER AERIAL OBJECT ... Referred to DO JiGT R~OVE TI!!S SHEE.T fRCl!'l F I E ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE TELEPHONE PENRITH 23l1 TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "AII\COMMAND SYDNEY' IN ~mY QUOTt. 2_(15/1/Air(74) HEADQUARTERS OPERATIONAl COMMAND PENRITH 1W NSW 1. A request for publication o material from an address given by Yr B.G. ROBERTS of the Operational Research Office Department of Air is forwarded for your information and for action by the Directorate of Public Relations. 2 . 1!r R. 'l!AJJBLING who made this request is an active member of UFO Society in SYDUEY. This Society recently appeared on the ABC television programme "roRUU", and several references were made by Mr TAUBLIUG and others to the fact that they rarely received any results of their sightings submitted to the BAAF. It is noteworthy that the majority of the members of this society, including Llr TA.L!BLING, are New A us traliane. 3 . Mr ~lMBLING bas been informed that he may expect a reply direct from the Department of Air. bA FT ojR. Flight Lieutenant for Air Officer Commanding Be..Squarten Support Caaand Tiotozia Barraoke KELa>t!RQ 9C 1 TIC DIRECTOlUl'E Oi' .x.R i'01iCE llftELLIOEIOB UMDEKTD'IED PLYIBG Ol!JD?T .SIOHTI.NG 1. inclosed are three (3) copies of a reported si-ting ot a f1:1DB aauoer for innatiption 1D aooor4anoe with the 1&14 dollll polic7. 'l'hree oopies of the previous letter referred to are oleo enolosed. loth leUen were initiall7 sent to the Departaent of CiTil .A.'fia.tion wbioh torwa:rded thea to this Department. 2. It is DOted that WOlf 11ROI 18 within the RAAF Base, EAST S1LE oomrol sone which aq well aooount tor the eisbtinss seen. (I.~SIIJLL) Wing OommUider l'or Director of ~r Pol!Oe Intellipnoe Boadquarlen Operational CCIIIU:1$Jld PEIP..I'l'H 1w llrT REPORHD SIGBTIKGS OP UJII~ED PLYIBO OBJEm'S- Ig!1r(69) -Uh lfcm ber 66 1. EDcloH4 ie a lin of ai&btiJIBB ot tm.identif1e4 f'111.ll6 objeob (llfOe) reoei'Yecl b7 th1e Department duri.DB 1966. 2. You ue ~ tha~, wbile tbis uter.lal. ie be:lDc slv to tbe p'lllllio on :reql1Ht, all releu of 1JPO aisbUJl88 are !lade b7 Direotorah of Publio Relatione at thie Deputunt ud a:rq request recei ?eel b7 JOU ahoul4 M f0Z"h1"41ecl to Departaant of .t.tr. HeMq'U:U'ters Support Command Victoria llarrac.ko JJELBOtr.Rl"'E SC1 VIC Directorate of Air Force Intellicence UNIDEllTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1 . Reference is made to the letters, 5/Air 7 and B dated 23rd 1lovember and 2nd December respectively in qhich the Queensland Squadron ATC forwarded re- ports ot Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). You wiU no doubt have oboerved thAt in neither case has the inveatisating officer made an ~sescmont ~s to the likely nature o! the s i .:;hting, which of course is the main purpose of the in- vestieation. It is agreed tlmt there are occa.sionD on which, even after the fullest posoible investi~tion, no reasoneble lanation of the siGhting can be offered, end the investi~ting officer on these occa.Diona is fully entitled to sa:J eo. It is requested that these incidents be given further attention in an effort to arrive nt a re.3Sonable expl.a.zution of their ori.;:Ln. For OT.ll!llple it would nppenr reaoCI!l.'l.ble tr-3t the ai.;hting o 12th :Tovcmber coult ~ .... ve been o. ~ssengcr eircr~t of the 727 type, but this possibility is not covered by the investi~ting officer. ;:,imibrly the incident of 24th november could poJsibly have been ca.u.sed by a ceteorologi.cal balloon. (N.G~.\ llliALL) Wing Commander for Director of 'dr Force Intelli;;ence Headquarters Support Command Victoria Barracks 11EL.BO"''UUE VIC lor Information Department of Air / Bussell Offices CANBERRA AOT Queensland Squadron AtO ...., Rll.P' Centre Box 526.H GFO BR1Slt4llE O,LD 2nil l>eceznber 1966 UN-IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT HQSOPcdM 5/6/lir(J21)-6APft66 Forwarded here~th is a report by a civilian in accordance with your above referenced letter. cr ..ueJ:Al..I.I>;J .l'lluYJ.UlJ::S U!S::S~fVATIOft: 28 EXP'ERIEfiCE OF OBS~VEn: Nil 29. EUBEP. OF ORGANTSATI Qn, None 30. ADDRESS OF ORGANIOATION: N/A c:r;ttv~-~ (G.C.FRENCH) Flight Lieutenant for Commanding Officer 31.ADDITIORA1 INFOR ATION: See attnchad okot c h SIGRA'l'UR~ OP OBSERVER: c)!~;;;~-~ f . ~ James WALLACE lJ!.! I 2 . AlbRESS: 8 Oliver Street Kedron Briobane .3. OCCU.'ATION: Saloeru:m 4. DATE 4 TIUE SIGHTEDI 5. llJRA'l'ION: 6. LOCA'fiON: 7. EATHERa 9. WHERE oroERVED: fO.ATTHAC'l'ION: 11.STATE OP OBJBCT1 12.rmmBER: 20 minutes Lutwyche Road and Keclron Rood Cleor Night Definite Object Single Object 13.COLOUR Ol OBJEC!i.!c 14.SIIAPB: White tl,.y._ ~ ~ . .L-c.c Circular fo1 JIIOSt ot oboervation but chrulecd ~ to boomerang shape. 15 .S'I!RUCTURE: 16.PROPULSI0fh 1B. Iieie.hts 20.STATIOftARY: 21.DIRECUOI'I: 22.MAf0EtTVR.E: Slight Hum 500 Feet-1000feet Speed varied from slow to quite fast then stopped and thon movod away olowly Yes tor a pproximately 15 minutes \'iest to East Straight Path 23.mUUST OR VA OTTRa No 24.DISAPPEABa Near the Horizon 25. PHYSICAL EVIDr.' .;F.: Ro 26. PREVICUS ,..=:: TIOil: No 27. DETAILS PB.: :VIOUS OBSERVA'l'IOih No 2B.F.XPETIIENCE OF OBSimVER: Nil 29. EMBER OF ORGAHTSATIONt None 30. ADDRESS OP ORGAI'II SATIONt N/A 31. ADDIT10NAL D l POR ATI ON: Soo attached okotch SIGNA'l'URE OP OBSERVER: (_;; 1(,/d,&c-e..tz J,OCATIOR AIR 'l!RAFPICt Ro known tra!fio METF.OROLIGICAL ~TATIONS: Commonwealth ~eteoroligical Duroau 1ckam Terrace Drisbnne. 34. COJWEl'lTS r SIGNATURE OP DfTERROGATORa There would appear to bo no raooon to doubt the authenticity or this r oport. (G.c.:PAtaMH) Flight LieutenAnt Dat_ ~I Brief Description of Aerial Sighting 18 lotay 66 Radar plot froo Melbourne Control Tower held for 9 mins. Contact travelled S~ at 67 kts. A light novbs steadily in Z::ffi direction near Ballarat Light reflection observed ne~ ~elbourne tbroush field glasses. Est height 6,000' distance 20 n.:~. lloted for 10 mins, stationery at first, then descenced to 4,500' Circular shaped light 7/ith halo effect. Apparent S.<ow mo,cuer.t . Seen near Sale, Vic for about 30 mins. Object oovin& from E to .1 appeared to explode like a green fle.re and disappaar. Duration 3 sees at Daly ~7eters. Object observed near Daly ~aters a t 10 .30 pm hovering betl1een two sta.=s for 10 mins. Met observer at Daly 'iTaters sarr object size and shape of met balloon at azimuth 243 elevation 23 altitude moving 243/46 kts. Noted reversal in track 1 -1~-mine. Under magnification appeared to be two balloons touching. Time 9. 45 a .a . 26 1!.ay 66 Six red lights which appeared to be at 1500 ft. were at Lismore lfS'I/ at 10 pm. 29 May 66 Silver object glinting in sun seen near lJelbourne for 5 -6 nina. Steady object s~lar to aircraft cliubL~g. zt; ~r 66 Sic r,~d 1;_:-nf--.,hich spreare0 to h e et 1500 k+ 90are sie;Rhd at Loi.o;r;~Ql'il t<:r a.t l.O Jll!l 2 Jun 6 Stationary lig.ltt, which later appeared to move, nas sit;hte-i at "isoore mr.; at 9 . 50 p:n. 4 Jun 66 Unidentifie~ lights, which pcared to cove slo~ly ::ere siBhted at Lisr.Jore r:S7l at 9. 50 po for about 2 7 Jun 66 Lwr.inous white cloud like sky writers' trail. Flash of light at front end. Time 0845-0905 at Wangara.tta Vic. .Beeping" heard in early hours Of r.JOrning by \701ll8Jl in 'Jon 7lron \.!oa. 9 Jun 66 Incandescent 1vhite sphere with a blue tail was sighted at Port Augusta SA at 7 . 30 pE f or about 2 sees. 13 Jun 66 1lec.r Sprin~;vale Vic at 8 .05 p . o . Flashing red green and white light proceeding ~ to ~ seen for 5 -10 r.ins. 26 Jun 66 A oovlng red "'.nd -nhite light Tias seen at &ola -:;A duril\"' p . J , hours. Jun- 26, During p. o . hours at ~alliang, Vic, so~e flashing lights 29, 30 nerd seen; sometimes only ~ sinJle light, sonet~o in July, 1, 2, ~ups just above the ground. l.ll reports froo sru:-..e Po:;,aible Cause Crop uucti."lg aircraft . Probably an 1lircraft. Astronomical Aatronot:rl.cal Incomplet e Probabl:r met balloon from another station Unknown. Reported too late for investigation. Probably an UA;Q:IQ~"M. RyOl'tlid ho l.st;e fe;r :i.ft, eeH.,e:Hen. Reported too investi3Rtion. F.eported too investisation Incomplete Meteorite. ,\ircraft. lncomvlete Lights of air- cr.lft e.""ld The foregoi~< suomary of infornation prepared in the pub1ic interest, includas the final asse&sment of each s~hting reached by Dep~.rt::lent of z'..ir, CANBZRRA, and it is ri:!gretted ~ that no further correspondence can be undertaken on this subject, Si:tti:;- Brief Description of ierial Sighting. light sighted at Ch=leville '.Ud for about 5 10 Jul 66 f:ovin:; lit;ht 'lot hit;il !'~ ti tuC.e .7a$ sighted at Kll.!'r1ell 12 Jul 66 ::>viJ18 brig!:t light, at elevation appro:: 60 sighted ~:urru:ie ~H ful.' cl>out 1 hr d 6 p . o . 28 Jul 66 i.tovi:-:g light at elevation about 45 sighted Parl.dint;ton HSii fer about 15 sees at 4 .40 P "' 17 Aug 66 Two movi~ red lights blL~ing steadily sighted Sun ine Vic for about 10 mins. at 9.40 p . e . 27 i..ug 66 Aariel light follo17ed by an explosion with c;enere.l ;.ove- nent fron lito E sighted M31iang PtiD a.t 4 .30 a . a . 4 Sep 66 Stationery light near horizon seen at Yarram Vic for abont 5 mins between 10 a.'1d 10. 30 p . m. 4 Sep 66 St~tionary light near horizon Seen at Yarum Vic !or about 5 rnins at 4 .15 a . m. 6 Sep 66 Lig.'lt which noveL froll horizon to horizon seen at i!i1Ue Lijlt r.tovi:lg in the sky oe;m at El tern71ick at 7 . 05 p . u . Bright light at elevation about 45, seen at Gyuun:. lrS'J for about 25 nins at 9 p.~. 6 Oct 66 l!>vine; li~:,"ht at elevation about 20 seen at Chadstonc 7 Oct 66 ~iovil'lb light :lt gre:.t height, seen at ~!:n-e.rie Q.ld for about 10 ~ins at 6 p . o . 10 Oct 66 Lif;ht estb'ited ::~ovi."lg fro;-o 3E to :m seen at Leverton Via e.t elev~tion approx 15 .:or 43 cins at 8 . 22 p . m. 12 Oct 66 t:ery f::.st li~ht noving fror.. :'i to E seen at Jest Footscrey Vic for about 5-10 cinz at 8 .35 p . n . 19 Oct 66 Slovly ::toving litsht, at elevation approx. 45, sean at 1~orth J.lelbou.rne, 1/ic for about 5 -10 ;::ins at 745 p .::1. 19 Oct 66 ;.:ovi~ li;;ht seen at Py:::blc :rs-.1 for about 5 ::Uno at e pc. 20 Oct 66 "iovizag light, at extre=:!f: height seen at Flinders Bay .111. 21 Oct 66 Stctionary light, elevation approx 20, seen at Can1~y Vale NS'.7 for about 5 mins at 9 .10 p . m. 22 Oct 66 Moving light seen at Kane;arvo Valley US'J for about 7 rri.ns 23 Oct 66 LJ.c91t at elevation ?.bout 60 c:oving from S to !l seen at ilcot Py:~ble, wr:: at 7 p . m. 26 Oct 66 ttovU.~ light seen in Port Headland ::!. area for about 15 ::lin.:: at 7 55 p ."l. -bout 12 hours lat"r a lieht was sighted for a sh~rt duration. 26 Oct 66 Seven ~A cattle stations repo=te1 a ooving object ricing in the sky between 7 . 30 and 6 .00 p.~. Pousibh: C"'..W.:. Incowph:te dS.JtiC4. iictronornical Astronomical S.1.tellite :.stronoticcl. oet b:Uloon Inco1aplete Incomplete i.atrononicel Incocplote Mot balloon Sc.tcllite. The for.<goL rr OU.."-I~ of infor:::.!\tion prepe:ed i .l'l the pub ... ic i::t~.:rest includes tho fin:ll assess::~cnt of each sight inc reached by Depnrtneat of tdr, Canoorra Md it is resre~tcd thet no fUlthcr corr pondenee can be undertaken on this subject. Queensland Squadron ATe RAAF Centre ~ Box 526H GPO Headquarters Support Command Victoria Barracks MELBOtJRNE VIC BRISBANE QLD 23rd November 1966 UN-IDENTIFIED PLYING OBJECT 1. Attached is a report on a sighting in accordance with your above referenced letter. The Police Officer who made the r eport appears to be a particularly reliable and sober type. The observer was in the company of hie wife and daughter aged 14 years and young son. At the time of the observation he was showing his family satellite's passing overhead. 2. During the course of the investigation,it was discovered that the duty controller at Eagle Farm Airport had sighted a bright light in the same area and at a:pprox1mately the same time. The light disa- ppeared, after approximately 10 seconds. Be was only able to describe it as stationary light in the sky. {G.C.PRERCH) Plight Lieute~ for Commanding Officer 27. DETAILS PREVIOUS OBSER_y~: N/A 28 EXJ ERIENCE OF O.a5!:RVER: Observation of Sat'tellites 29 ! 'EMBER OF ORGANISATION: None 30. ADDRESS OF ORGAI :SATION: N/A 31. ADDITIONAL INFCR ATION: Nil SIGNATURE OF OBSERVER: REPORT OF .ABRIAL OBJECT OBSERVED Reference HQSUPCOM 5/6/Alr{121) -6lPR66 !!!!= Leslie Robb ~ 2. ADDRESS: 17 Hinkler Street Kedron Brisbane ). OCCUPATION: Police Officer DATE & TIME SIGHTED: 5 . DURATION: 10 Seconds 6. LOCATION: Above Address 7 . WEATB]R: Clear Sky Nil Cloud 8. AIDS: NIL 9. WHERE OBSERVED: Overhead 10. ATr!iACTION: Observed it 11. STJTB OF O~JECT: Definite Object 12. NU14BER: Sin&le Object 13. COLOUR OP OBJECT: Was slightly illuminated by lights it carried 1 4 . SHAPE: Boomer8ll8 Shape 15. STRUCTURE: Shape and lights only 16. PROPULSION: None 17. SOUND: None 18. HEIGHT: Very High 19 . SPEED: Extremely Fast 20. STATIONARY: No 21. DIRECTION: Object travelled North to South directly overhead 22. MANOEUVRE: Straight Path 23. EXHAOST OR VAPOUR: No 24. DIS.LPEAR: Object disappeared a 'l'roxi.mately 30' above 25. P1YSICAL EVIDENCE: Nil IOUS OBS~Y!.Tl N: 27. DETAILS PREVIOUS OBSERy~: N/A 28. EX) ERIE.NCE OF O.BSEPVER: Observation of Sattellitee 29. !IEM:BER OF ORGANISATION: None 30. ADDRESS OF OR GAt ISATION: N/ A 31. ADuiTIONAL IN.FOR TION: Nil SIGNATURE OF OBSERVER: LOCATION AIR TRAFFIC: No known aircraft 1 n the area METEOROLOGICAL s~ATIONS: B:iabace Airport,Co~onwealth ~eteorolig ical Bureau Wickham Terrace Driebane. See Attached SIGNA':irRE OF IHTERROGAi"OR: (~. c. PR!NcH) Plight Lieutenant Sparta shot lieadquartera Support Victoria Barracks MEI.rol1Rlm SOl VIC Il:l.reotorate o~ .l1r lorce InteWpnoe REPORI' Olf UFO SIGB1'ING AT BALLIMJG 1. Reterance ie made to the report aubmi tted b;y Fli~t Lieutcumt P. S. Hubbard on his visit to BALLIAllG in oollll80tion with UZlWJU8l ei9ltinp aaie b,y 11r J..s. Riokette. Flisht Lieutenant Hubbard is to be coll8l'&tulated oa the Tel7 tbo~ueh, clear arxl well presented report. 2 . This Department i s 1n agl."'e(!!lent witll tlo conoluaione reaPhed am coneidere that DO uaetul p:.l.."'.PQ&B would be sernd b;r further investigation. It 1e requeeted that 11r Ricketts be adrtaed that the Departaent of J.ir is eatiat1ecl that the eif!btiDBB clo DOt constitute a threat to the eecur1 t;r of J.lJsrlU.LU llld that trca the ertclence sula1 tted 1:Qr fir Ricketts aDd trca the report on Fllsbt Lieutencat Hubbard' s visit, the Dapartmont s ees DO reason to doubt t hat the si~tirlp or1s1Jlated traa DOmal sources. The Departaeat do .. DOt therefore willh to inYestigate the utter further at tbio time. (D.~SiW.L) Wing Caamander For Dirootor of Air Force Intellisence RR RAYVlPP ""DEilTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REpORTED TO THIS UNIT BY pOLIC OFFICER PD OBJECT SIGHTED 1955 12NDV66 OVER t"[Uf.{Hl BRlSBA:rt: PD FURTHER DETAILS FOLLO~!ING COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA DEPAR"MENT OF CIVIL AVIATION" TM11na~ AUrr.u: .tYJAT IILtOua.- II..R.AalrTtr ~"naT. ./ ~ IRNTY BOOS&.'" "' LITTLE COLLINS 8'1'R&T. MltLilOUR!fr:. C, UNIDEN'IIFIED FLITNG OBJECTS. ~ttached is a copy of a letter received on 7th November, 19o6, froa: a Mrs. Jeffs of l-Ion Wron, via Traralgon, '/letona. This l"'tter is referred fox any action you consider necessary. Notwithstanding the l~ck of time/date inform~tior. it is unlikely that civil aircraft -ovements 1rould account for aey sJ.gilting in the area concer .ed. The previous letter Urs. Jeffs referred to w-o.s forwarded to you under cover of our 21/1/387, dated 2'ltb J.!ay, I have informed Mrs. Jeffs that her letter has been forwarded to you. Dear Si'l', Won 'tlron, via Trar.:~.lgon, I ~trote to you a while back tellit18 you that I sa~ wbut I thought to be a rocket or satellite which came down about a mile from lthere I live in Hon l~ron. Since r last wrote to you there s a jet plane flying low in front of o,ur nouse but it didn' t go anywhere near where I sa~o; thi.s object go down. Also since then we have seen a flying saucer hovering just above the trees round about where I saw the object come down. Please don' t think I am imagining these things, beca~se all I have tol d you is the honest truth. Yours sincerely, ( Mrs. Beryl Jeffs) P .S . Just lately a man from Yar:ram was coming home from Toora about 10. 30 at nignt and saw a flying saucer at Alberton. Ct-. _ ro-er C:URTIS CROUP CURTIS GROUP rroo'lc.,,,,s., F QUSQ'lAYC :o Rf\~1-DZPAIR : --;o /HQSU?CO~t UNCLAS A!B:; UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORTED TO THIS UNI T BY CIVILIAN PD OBJECT ~H~D 0315K 24NOV66 OVER KEDRON BRISBANE PD FURTHER COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ' val Intelligence Division .,.NAVY CANBERRA .. The Director of bir Force Intelligence, Dep~tment of Air, CM::SERRA, A C. T. UlUDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT OEt-ART~CNT 0,. TH[' NAVY CA.NBAAA ACT A report received from a coastwatcher at Flinders Bay, VTestern Australia has indicated that a 1.1rs JaPe,ers of Augusta, /estern Austr3lia sighted an unidentified flyi