This photograph was taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before pilot Frederick Valentich went missing. Picture: Supplied
Posted on 08/12/2014 10:00:55 AM PDT by Theoria
This photograph was taken off Cape Otway 20 minutes before pilot Frederick Valentich went missing. Picture: Supplied
INVESTIGATORS have shed new light on one of Australia’s greatest aviation mysteries.
Almost 36 years to the month that Victorian pilot Fred Valentich vanished without a trace, an independent researcher says there is evidence suggesting the 20-year-old’s Cessna was spotted in the sky over South Australia — attached to a UFO.
The Victorian UFO Action group wants help to identify a farmer near Adelaide who reportedly witnessed the 30m craft hovering over his property the morning after Mr Valentich went missing.
It is claimed the Cessna was stuck to the side of the craft, leaking oil. The farmer even scratched the plane’s registration number on to his tractor but never came forward with the information because he was ridiculed by the few friends he told.
The theory has sparked furious debate as the nation’s leading UFO investigators prepare for a national conference in Melbourne next month.
Frederick Valentich. Source: Supplied
Lead investigator George Simpson, one of the last people to see the plane in the sky, says the farmer, if still alive, might have information to solve the mystery.
He conceded there was no proof, but said it was the best new lead for a case that had intrigued Australians for decades. “It’s easy for some to dismiss, but there are corroborating stories confirming that there was a UFO near Adelaide at the time,” Mr Simpson said.
Mr Valentich had been on a routine cargo flight to King Island in October 1978 when he disappeared.
In his last conversation with air traffic control, he reported an object hovering in front of him and said it was “not an aircraft’’. It was the last thing Mr Valentich said before a strange metallic clicking sound was heard and the transmission stopped.
Extensive searches failed to find any trace of the plane or the pilot.
“This was an experienced pilot who should have been able to identify another aircraft but was clearly unable to,” Mr Simpson said.
Adding to the mystery, an amateur photo taken in the area that evening shows a dark unidentifiable shape in the sky.
Investigators are also trying to find a copy of Valentich’s final transmission that was originally aired on Melbourne radio station 3XY.
The Valentich case will be among a string of Aussie X-files to be discussed when the Victorian UFO Action group hosts its “Age of Reason” conference on September 6.
For more information, go to the website vufoa.com
Looks like a housefly to me.
ayep. that solves it!
A plane disappears over an ocean.
Its gotta be a UFO abduction.
There can be no other explanation. LOL
The UFO was leaking oil? How do they know it wasn't hydraulic fluid?
a fly moving faster than the shutter could clearly “capture”
Yes!
Plane abducted by OCEAN...
Bttt.
I always want to kick him in the nuts for being such a misdirecting charlatan.
Aliens collect airplanes and pilots for their zoos.
Perhaps. I’m on the side that Ms. Earhart became coconut crab lunch, maybe dinner.
Try viewing it as high comedy.
Think of him as Larry Fine’s long lost brother.
Are the Grays looking for an Ebola cure too?
Well, I'm uh, Russell Casse, sir. And after Nam, I got into crop dusting, and I have been doin' it ever since. On a, uh, personal note sir, I'd just like to add that, uh, ever since I was kidnapped by aliens 10 years ago, I've been dyin' for some payback. Just want you know that, uh, I won't let ya down.
Come on folks, if over half this nation believes that O is really a natural born citizen and is anything more than an empty suit, surely UFOs can be real.
Is it anymore illogical that aliens are here than that one is in the White House?
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