On Saturday, October 21, 1978, pilot Frederick Valentich took off from Victoria's Moorabin Airport in his single-engined Cessna 182, bound for King Island. It was about 6.15pm, and conditions were ideal for flying, with fine weather, a mild north-westerly breeze and almost unlimited visibility. But Valentich never made it. No trace of the 20-year-old volunteer flight instructor or his aircraft was ever found, but the manner of his disappearance has fuelled speculation by UFO buffs for nearly three decades.
It was suspension of disbelief time last weekend as Woodley braced itself for an alien invasion. Yes, residents were left terrified by the sight of a few orange lights hurtling through the summer sky on Saturday evening. Some onlookers were just a whisker away from drawing up their wills and diving for the air raid shelter as around 30 brightly coloured globes appeared on the horizon.
A recent spate of UFO sightings around the world has believers in a frenzy, but even the inside scoop from a former astronaut is not enough to sway the sceptics. Yesterday, aliens popped up in the news again as NASA sought to distance itself from former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell who claimed extra-terrestrials have been coming to visit for decades. Read more
One of Britain's greatest UFO riddles refuses to go away as a new witness emerged today - 34 years after the alleged 'close encounter'. The Government is said to have covered up 1974's event in North Wales, where scores of residents reported a massive tremor, strange lights in the sky and secret-service-style 'men in black' scouring the area.
An astronomy researcher reckons UFOs have been visiting Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, every five to 10 years for the past three decades, the local Modern Express reported yesterday. Wang Sichao, a researcher at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing has been studying UFOs for more than 30 years and says there are explanations for many of them especially those shaped like shooting stars, bright spots, stars and rods. These are usually natural phenomena or man-made objects, Wang said. But another seven shapes including spirals, fans, circles, spindles and V-shaped objects remain inexplicable, he said. These UFOs may well hail from outer space, Wang said.
Armata are nevoie de ajutorul Serviciului Romān de Informaii pentru a elucida condiiile īn care s-a petrecut un incident aviatic īn care a fost implicat un avion MIG 21 Lancer. Read more