Date of Original News Article: 24th October 1978
Type of UFO News: UFO Sighting
Pilot vanished after seeing UFO
In Melbourne, Australia, aircrafts and boats were unable to find sign of a young Australian pilot and UFO enthusiast. He apparently vanished with his airplane after radioing that a UFO was chasing him.
The Air Force authorities revealed that it had collected 11 UFO sighting reports from individuals down the Bass Strait coastline, where the airplane purportedly vanished. The airman, Frederick Valentich, aged 20, was conducting a 125-mile exercise when he informed the Melbourne air traffic controllers that his plane was being pursued by a strange object. It is allegedly long with four vibrant lights and was hovering around 1,000 feet over him.
Controllers revealed that in his final message (recorded in Melbourne) Valentich saw the object drawing towards him from east direction, and that it appeared to be doing some kind of game at him, while moving at a velocity he cannot calculate. After a while, he radioed that his Cessna 182’s engine was having some problems, and his last words described the UFO being not a plane or aircraft.
Guio Valentich, the pilot’s father, said that he wished his son had not gone down and had been captured by the aliens. The fact that no trace was discovered of his son verifies the possibility of UFO existence in the area, he said.
Despite other reports confirming the existence of UFO during the pilot’s disappearance, the Australia’s Transport Department was still sceptical that a UFO was responsible for the incident.
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