1896.10.18 – 1992.08.24 Air Marshal Sir George Jones Returning to Australia in October 1930, Jones was made Chief Flying Instructor at Point Cook and Officer Commanding No 1 FTS. He became Director of Training at RAAF Headquarters, Melbourne, in November 1931… On 5 May 1942, Jones was appointed Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), the […]
Balladonia, Western Australia, Australia, Australia
1978.02.05 04.00 A memory lapse of three to three-and-a-half hours is said to have been associated with the observation of two unusual lights. During this time a 30-year-old truck driver says he recalls “talking to somebody about inventing something… Also I remember speaking with two voices…” Investigators have been unable to learn more about this […]
North West Cape, Western Australia, Australia, Australia
1973.10.25 19.15 The UFO and the nuclear alert North West Cape, Western Australia 25 October 1973 The following report was among RAAF UFO sightings files first examined by Bill Chalker in 1975. Two US servicemen stationed at the US Navy’s communications station at North West Cape independently observed a mysterious object. The base incorporates an […]
Kimba, South Australia, Australia, Australia
1973.02.04 On 4 February 1973, the Eyre Highway provoked one of its stranger encounters when a nurse and her boyfriend were driving towards Kimba in South Australia. They observed an orange rectangular glow in a field beside the road which seemed to contain a large white figure of humanoid appearance. The image resembled a person […]
Bass Strait, Australia
1942.08c 17.30c In the summer of 1942 a Royal Australian Air Force pilot was patrolling the Bass Strait in response to reports from local fishermen of night lights over that area. He watched as a UFO came out of the overhead cloud cover. It was daylight, before six o’clock in the evening, and the pilot […]
Tasman Sea, Australia
1931 Probably the first air-to-air sighting of a UFO was by Francis Chichester… In 1931, he was piloting a tiny plane from Australia to New Zealand when a strange airship appeared, a dull grey-white colour with brightly flashing lights. The disc followed him for some miles across the Tasman Sea, occasionally vanishing behind clouds, before […]
Bass Strait, Australia, Australia
1930.10c Many top-ranking officials exposed to the UFO phenomenon through their work end up becoming serious and valuable researchers in the UFO community. One such example is Air Marshal Sir George Jones, who was Australian Chief of the Air Staff between 1942 and 1952. In 1930, as a squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air […]