Secret documents that Australia have just released show that two Australian helicopters were put on the highest alert when images of the mysterious object suddenly appeared on the radar.
The hundreds of classified documents on display at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra also provide further details on a number of other strange objects, some of which were given to police by eyewitnesses.
In the Sydney alert, the documents referred to as “secret” refer to the “close encounter” operation conducted by RAAF Base Control and Reporting Unit 3 at Williamtown near Newcatsle on the 30th. June 1983 to search for UFOs after UFO information appeared in Mascot.
Air traffic controllers at the Mascot center claim UFOs are most commonly seen at a distance of 70-150 nautical miles north of Sydney with “speeds up to about 110-6500 km/h at high altitudes”.
However, the “close encounter” operation did not produce any results, but the UFO appeared on the radar screen.
Three air traffic control specialists were dispatched to Sydney to investigate and identify any contact and “take control of interceptors if there is a reasonable opportunity to intervene”. But then, K. Keenan – air traffic control expert, came up with the idea to compare the images on the radar screen with images from other devices. The results showed that the UFO sighting reported from Sydney was only the product of radar interference.
The brochure also contains reports detailing the “appearance of unidentified objects” discovered at Milo Station in Queensland in 1982. This document refers to photographs that were taken. earlier, but the photos are not among the documents just released.
Officer Geoffrey Russell, of a local police station, wrote a report to RAAF base Amberley describing a large circle, 2330m in diameter with a smaller inner circle 160mm wide and 15-inch deep. 30mm. The soil around the outer circle appears to have been “blown away” rather than dug.
In one part of Queensland, dairy farmer Robin Priebe called the police at 5:30 a.m. one day in July 1983 to report that he had seen a strange object in the sky north of the town. The documents say that police also later saw an object surrounded by a large white halo, and it did not appear to be an ordinary plane.
Mr Priebe said both he and his wife saw the red glow turn white, then slowly move north. Looking through binoculars, the halo was in the shape of a circular disk. It is a circular object with two front beams and one side beam.
Some of the photos in the newly released classified documents are images taken in Bendigo that hundreds of people saw in May 1983. The RAAF interim report says that Mike Evans, the radio station’s Bendigo radio show radio announcer Mike Evans, received many calls from listeners, and that he himself saw the beam and took pictures.
An anonymous caller to the RAAF said that the halo was created by a rock band experimenting with laser lighting technology. Some have suggested that the phenomenon could be caused by train headlights or lasers, or light from other planets or stars.
