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Friday, 22 August 2008

Files O.V.N.I. declassified in Australia

The secret documents disclosed by the government of the Northern Territory revealed numerous observations of UFOs through the Top End (Ndt: region covering northern tropical Northern Territory of Australia, including places like the city of Darwin, Kakadu National Park and Litchfield and fascinating land of Arnhem or islands off the tropical North), several of which remain unexplained.

The documents - declassified after 30 years of placing under lock and key - detailing the history of UFO activity across the Territory by a range of "observers", including RAAF crews and weather forecasters. The cases were filed and became available to the public from the National Archives of Darwin, after 30 years.

An observation by the crew of an RAAF Hercules in Darwin in 1968, also appeared on radar, although no air traffic has been identified in the region at the time. The crew described a series of lights which crossed their path off from the airport of Darwin, with no visible fuselage or structure. The command of the RAAF in Sydney said the contact could have been a foreign aircraft.

"The fact that the observation was made by a crew of the RAAF air and detection by radar of the aircraft leaves very little doubt ... (something) was in the region, "said the command of the RAAF. "Considering that the aircraft could not be identified, a violation of our national airspace can not be neglected. "

Another secret document, obtained by the Australian UFO Research Association, describes the observation by a weather forecast office in Daly Waters in November 1966. The forecaster followed the path of a weather balloon with a theodolite (Ndt: sighting instrument used to raise plans, to measure the bearing and height of the stars, to continue satellites) when he noticed a flying object in the sky. He reported seeing an object oblong, silver gray, flying at high altitude. An audit after the air traffic control office in Darwin revealed there were no aircraft in the vicinity at the time.

A third file relates observing an object soucoupique by a group of nurses from Alice Springs in 1967. The nurses have spotted the UFO in mid-day and said it was silver-colored with a copper band around its centre. The archivist UFO Dominic McNamara said there were many comments in the Northern Territory, but most were not confirmed.

"The Northern Territory is a warm place for observations particularly because of its remoteness," said McNamara. "But when people see real physical objects and can describe them are those who stand out. "

He said that track these files was an arduous task because a series of numbers needed to be cited to recover any file. He therefore grouped the files related item, eventually reduce the field to 170 documents.