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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Researching The Australian Military/Government 'UFO Files' (Pt 2)


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Researching The Australian UFO Files (Pt 2)

Editor's Note: Once again we welcome guest blogger and Australian researcher Paul Dean; here we present Part 2 in the series covering his archival research of military/government files and what UFO secrets they hold. Paul in his own words explains, "I have spent 21 years passively studying the UFO phenomena; earlier this year I decided to actively contribute in some meaningful way."–FW

Paul Dean By Paul Dean
The UFO Chronicles
© 1-10-14

      Having been successful in uncovering UFO related docs during my archival research in March and April (2013), I was newly invigorated more then ever to keep digging.

The saga took an interesting turn as I was now focusing on Australia’s military and intelligence agencies that researchers already knew had dealt with the UFO matter at length. A few of the more obvious organisations were the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF), the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence (DAFI) and the Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB), renamed the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO) in 1969.

Investigations of UFO Sightings - Joint Intelligence Organization 5-27-1971
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The JIO was one of Australia’s chief intelligence agencies in the 1970’s and 1980. It is now called the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO). In particular, I was interested in files created by a very sensitive division of the JIO called Defence Science and Technical Intelligence (DSTI). The reason why this division of the JIO is so important is because we know, through a stunning file found by Keith Bastefield some years ago, that a handful of scientists working there took the UFO matter very seriously indeed. One nuclear physicist, Harry Turner, was so convinced that the UFO issue was real that he approached his direct boss, Bob Mathams, Head of DSTI to start a no-nonsense investigation of UFO cases using JIO resources with assistance and endorsement of the RAAF. This effort barely made it off the ground, but information about quality UFO cases obtained from the RAAF precipitated the Director of the JIO, R. W. Furlonger, in 1971 to pen the following memo (see right):
“There appears to be sufficient evidence from RAAF and US reports of investigations of UFO sightings to indicate that some reports cannot readily be explained by natural phenomena or manmade activities.”
One assumes that the Director of the JIO, a man who met with the Australian Prime Minister regularly—would not be writing such things lightly! In fact, the Directors of the JIO throughout the 1970’s are said to have had substantially more, wide ranging Intelligence at their fingertips as any other top-level individual in Australia, bar none.

So, with this secretive organisation in mind, as well as the RAAF’s DAFI involvement in the UFO matter, I patiently went through lists of as many possible long-hidden files created by these two organisations as I realistically could. Over two nights I found twelve files which had never been examined by the Archives that remained essentially classified, and were created entirely or at least partly within the JIO or DAFI. My finds by title were:
1. Outer Space Uncontrolled Re-Entry of Satellites and Other Space Vehicles

2. DSTI Defence Science and Technology Intelligence - Joint Intelligence Organisation Product

3. Joint Intelligence Organization Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence DSTI and List of DSTI Notes

4. JIO [Joint Intelligence Organisation] - Space

5. Outer Space - Activities of Marginal Specialised Bodies

6. Requests Reports - DAFI [Directorate of Air Force Intelligence]

7. Requests for and Reports to JIO [Joint Intelligence Organisation]

8. Release of Joint Intelligence Bureau [JIB] (M) Reports and Items to [Remainder of Title Exempt]

9. Requests for and Reports to DAFI [Directorate of Air Force Intelligence]

10. Requests from and Reports to DAFI [Directorate of Air Force Intelligence]

11. DAFI [Directorate of Air Force Intelligence] - Requests From

12. JIB [Joint Intelligence Bureau] Items
Now, I did not assume that any of these gems would necessarily be about UFO’s. Some of them, maybe the lot in fact, could have been about anything and everything but UFO’s. However, the titles, date-ranges, agencies involved in creating them etc., certainly seemed similar to the other JIO and DAFI files which have been released over the years that contained excellent UFO material. The reason I don’t know what is on them yet is because, unlike my other less sensitive finds, none of these files have been released to me – and it has been seven months since I requested them. I have, of course, followed up repeatedly with the National Archives this matter. The startlingly long delay was first explained to me in an email, dated June, 21 (2013):
“These files require particularly heavy scrutiny before being released for public consumption.”
Two months later in August, upon emailing a Senior NAA Reference Officer, I was told:
“I would assume that a decision on releasing this material will not take much longer. The files must be very sensitive.”
We are now in November; the files have not been released.

Something else has happened which was even less expected. On the 19th of November I decided to randomly check the access status of some of these long-overdue files. I wanted to see if any of them had been made available without me receiving information to that effect. I searched the database for one of these files by title, which I knew was there, called “JIO (Joint Intelligence Organisation) – Space” by its title keywords … and it was missing from the database! I then sifted through my handwritten notes to find the barcode of the file. This had to work. The file came up in front of me alright—but its title had changed from “JIO (Joint Intelligence Organisation)] – Space” to “REDACTED – Space”. This was something I didn’t even know could be done.

For authorities to actually modify the title such that it removes any reference to the Joint Intelligence Organisation seems an almost desperate attempt to disassociate the agency from the subject of space. Could my actions of requesting this file have caused either the NAA or the actual controller of the file –now the DIO as mentioned above- to go to this length? Are the current DIO document review officers, who work closely with the NAA on releasing sensitive files, growing a little tired or a little wary of my rapidly growing interest in their documents? Maybe it’s a stretch, but I have already spoken to other people who work with the NAA and they have never, ever heard of this happening before. I rang the NAA for some explanations. They indicated that they will look into it in due course.

This isn’t the only thing that has slightly raised my suspicions about their complete openness regarding the fair and transparent act of releasing files to the public. Back in May, I discovered two very interesting files one evening. The first one was titled “Department of Transport Air Safety Incident Report Dated 8 February 1978 Relating to a Sighting Near Gove of Unidentified Aircraft.” The second lucky discovery was called “Unidentified Aircraft and Another Reported Sighting Which Includes Annexes A and B - Tendered by Hendy Ernest Neil, Director Coastal Surveillance.” Both files are, at minimum, surely related to unidentified aircraft. Waiting to receive any confirmation on whether these two interesting finds could be released, I finally emailed the NAA in September for answers. I was first told they were simply “not available on the advice of the controlling agency of the files.” Not wanting to let this matter settle, I have recently chased up the matter again and was finally told, begrudgingly, by a Senior NAA Reference Officer, via email:
“These records were previously opened, but are now marked Not Yet Examined. I have investigated this matter, and have found that when these were originally opened, there was an error made. As soon as this error was discovered, the access decision of Open was removed.”
I have made an appeal to Australia’s powerful Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT). It won’t be the last.

Two more unusual cases of files listed as being at the NAA, then turning out to be anything but, have occurred. One very promising hit, back in February, appeared on the database during intensive searching titled, “Air Defence - Unusual Reporting by Aircraft Captains Intelligence Sightings.” One would assume that this would possibly contain UFO reports. I requested it be examined immediately, and it wasn’t long before the NAA responded to me via email:
“The controlling agency for this record has informed us that it was destroyed in July 1998 under General Disposal Authority 14...”
1998? Why it is therefore still listed in the NAA’s RecordSearch in 2013?

Another example, this one involving Australia’s Federal Police no less, is also notable. “Discovery of Secret Naval Intelligence Memorandum” was the title and the date range of the contents was the late 1960’s. I applied for a copy of the file (it had already been examined and was releasable) in February.

While there is nothing in the title to suggest a content involving UFO’s, I had a gut feeling that it was worth requesting. Soon though the NAA advised me:
“Unfortunately the National Archives of Australia does not hold this item as it was withdrawn by the Australian Federal Police.”
The Federal Police? Why would the Federal Police be commandeering a decades old file from the National Archives of Australia?

As for files I have been given access to, there has been much success. Going back to the start of April of this year, I had discovered and requested, as told in Part 1 of my story, half-a-dozen completely unopened UFO files from the NAA. However, I also took the opportunity to request files that had already been discovered and seen by other researchers years earlier–especially Keith Basterfield and Bill Chalker. I paid for the digitisation of these files and sending of hardcopies as I located them. Some of titles of these files included:
• “Eastern Area Headquarters – Intelligence: Report On Unusual Sighting 3rd May 1952”

• “Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object by Mr L N Waldron”

• “Earth Satellites, Space Vehicles, Unidentified Flying Objects - General”

• “Intelligence - Reports of Unusual Sightings”


Intelligence Reports of Unusual Sightings - RAAF 4-7-1960
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Of these, the most significant was the file “Eastern Area Headquarters – Intelligence: Report On Unusual Sighting 3rd May 1952” and has the Control Symbol 5/1/27 PART B, part of the A11066 File Series.

The 16 page opens with a newspaper clipping from Sydney’s Daily Telegraph dated 6th May 1952. It describes three servicemen’s report of a ‘flying saucer’ over Sydney on 3rd May 1952. Their reports were given to one Dr J H Piddington, the Principal Research Officer of the Radiophysics Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). While the object was finally concluded to probably be a “meteor” - as Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) put it - this event actually made it to the United States Air Force’s Project Blue Book files:

Abnormal Aerial Phenomena - RAAF (Australia) (1 of 7) (8 X 11) 5-13-1952
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena 10-8-1959
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At the end of April I had another file digitised and hardcopies sent to me – the fifth in a month. File Series B595, Control Symbol 21/1/387 PART 2 titled, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” With a date range of 1960-1965 the file is 70 pages in length and originated from Australia’s former Department of Civil Aviation (DCA). The file contains numerous UFO reports from seemingly qualified witnesses. These reports include an April 1962 event from South Australia where a man sighted a fast flying, low down, soundless craft. It clearly had three very brilliant lights on it.

What made this story interesting was that only 15 minutes later, and 125 miles away, a similar object was seen by other witnesses. The report was passed to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Another report on the file, this one from Queensland, dated November 1964, told of observers at the Rockhampton Aerodrome who saw what they took to be a high flying aircraft and associated vapour trail. However, there was no known aircraft in the area. The vapour trail was inspected minutes later through binoculars but the aircraft was gone. A check of adjacent air traffic control units failed to identify any aircraft in the region at the time.

Another November 1964 sighting from Queensland, this one from Brisbane: Mr M. German - on duty at the weather radar installation noted a return on the radar at 075deg T, range 140 miles. The return was travelling in a northerly direction. There were no known aircraft in the area.

These cases are not overly significant as far as serious UFO events go, but when one considers that just this one single file contains all these reports –and many more– from just a few years, it is clear that people really were seeing unusual things and were prepared to report them.

So where does this leave us? There are clearly a significant number of new discoveries to be made. Experience now tells me that no matter how seemingly thorough previous file searches were performed—new finds will keep showing up. Then there is the matter of the extended waiting period I have experienced for the release of the twelve files that could well contain valuable material relating to UFO matters in Australia. For more information on some of the files I have found go to Keith Basterfield’s website. Keith has helped me to no-end with this endeavour, and it seems there will be a lot more to come. A mention must be also made of researcher Bill Chalker who also has provided me with a notable level support regarding my line of intensive enquiries. Both of these calm and focused investigators have worked for some forty years on the matter, and continue to do so. I will be issuing a Part 3 of my research in due course.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Researching The Australian Military/Government 'UFO Files' (Pt 1)

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Researching The Australian UFO Files

By Paul Dean
The UFO Chronicles
© 11-17-13

   My name is Paul Dean and I have spent 21 years passively studying the UFO phenomena; earlier this year I decided to actively contribute in some meaningful way.

The National Archives of Australia holds millions upon millions of files which have been passed to them from every department and or agency in the Australian Federal Government; this is facilitated after a full 30 years has passed, providing they are in some way significant to Australia’s history and providing they are not still in use by the controlling department or agency.

Within the National Archives of Australia website, a section by the name of RecordSearch is maintained where much of their gigantic file collection, at least by title, date range, size, etc, can be scrutinized by entering keywords and simply pressing “search.” Without going into great detail, some files are classed as “Open”, some as “Open With Exception” and some “Closed”. It is from there that the user can request a copy of the file, or, request that it be analysed to ascertain if it is releasable to the user. One reason a file, or rather sections of a file, may not meet the requirements of being releasable is due its contents containing fairly highly classified or sensitive information, even after 30 years. However, I am aware, from correspondence with Senior Reference Officers at the National Archives, that this is actually quite rare because old files that are particularly sensitive never even make it to the National Archives in the first place, and are instead kept under lock-and-key by their controlling agency for decades upon decades.

Australian UFO researches have, in the past, been very successful in discovering and obtaining copies of some 140 UFO-related files during both physical searches of Australia’s National Archives and searches on the Archive’s RecordSearch site. In addition, many of these files, including those kept by the Department of Aviation, and the Royal Australian Air Force’s Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, had already been studied by UFO researcher Bill Chalker from 1982 to 1984 in an unusual period of openness allowed by authorities in those organisations. In other words, it would seem that most of Australia’s official UFO files, or at least those from the 1950’s through to the early 1980’s, have been found at the National Archives, or through other forms of access, and have been largely scrutinized by UFO researchers and others alike.

I decided, at the start of this year, 2012, to do my own searches of the National Archives RecordSearch database to see, on the off-chance, if there were any more files that may relate to UFO’s that had not been opened for public consumption. Due to repeated and frequent scrutiny of the database by more established researchers such as Keith Basterfield – to whom I am greatly indebted for his huge support - I didn’t hold out much hope of discovering anything of interest. There was little point in searching for files with keywords like “flying saucer” or “unidentified object” as I was more than certain that this had been done to the nth degree, so I attempted searches using keywords, and combinations of keywords, as far ranging as “phenomena intelligence”, “object sightings department” or “air event aviation”. Within an hour or so I discovered 2 files that were classed as “Closed” with the titles “Aerial phenomena - UFO sightings Department of Civil Aviation; Transport” and “Unidentified Aerial Object 3/4/1966 Tullamarine”. Somewhat surprised, I requested that the files be examined for the purposes of opening to the public, and went about trying to find any more tantalising file titles amongst the thousands of unrelated entries.

I continued nightly until I had built up a substantial list of highly suspect file titles; titles like “Air Defence - Unusual Reporting By Aircraft Captains Intelligence Sightings,” “Air Incidents Reports,” and “Intelligence – Operation Voodoo.” Not a single one of these strange files had been opened and most of them had probably not seen the light of day since the 1960’s or 1970’s. I requested that these files be opened by the National Archives, so I could have them sent to me in hardcopy, or at least digitized. Possibly getting in over my head, it was also at this point I decided to contact one of Australia’s most well-respected UFO researchers, Keith Basterfield. Keith, while impressed with my finds, needed to quickly give me a crash course in how the National Archives worked to further enhance my slow, nightly searches of the database.

Over many January nights, I not only found time to do specific keyword searches, but also trawl through entire “file series” such as the A703 and A705 groupings which already contained known UFO related files from the 1960’s and 1970’s. Within two weeks I had discovered some sixty files – any one of which could have contained UFO material (whether it be sightings reports, unit investigations of UFO events, official policy, letters from the public, internal teletype messages, routing slips and so forth). I kept finding files with titles containing strings of words like “Tracking of Space Objects, Aust. NASA”; files with titles like “Destruction of Records” by Australia’s old Directorate of Air Force Intelligence, the Directorate formally charged with gathering UFO sighting reports; files with “Special Air Safety Events” or “Joint Intelligence Reports” in their titles.

One by one the National Archives opened the ever increasing files I had requested.
The persistence and the late nights had paid off. An early file I had discovered was titled “Visual phenomena - Mawson - 1958 - Sighted From Taylor” and the Archives had opened it for me, asked me if I wanted a copy, and duly sent one. The file contains a strange tale concerning four experienced observers seeing “. . . an unusual display of lights and shadows” for about 20 minutes. The sun was below the horizon and the sky almost clear of clouds. First came an “. . . indefinable blob of shadow travelling . . . at great speed . . ..” Although this wasn’t a specific Air Force, Navy or other government agency file, the series number of the file means that it came from Australia’s “Antarctic Division”. Better things were to come.

By February I was receiving as many as 5 files a week in the mail. Many were not related to UFO’s, but still were valuable due to the need to understand how Australia’s military worked decades ago. Some files were UFO related however. One file I received was titled “Maritime and Air Incidents/Contacts” and was 31 pages. The National Archives chose to exempt 2 pages due to security concerns as laid out in the Archives Act. It was the first file I had found and received that had such censorship. It wouldn’t be the last. The file contained various reports and loose minutes made to-and-fro between Royal Australian Air Force Headquarters about general UFO activity, possible aircraft intrusions, strange lights in the sky, and other odd events. Some of the pages were teletypes classified “SECRET.” Of more importance was my receiving of the file “Unidentified Aerial Object 3/4/1966 Tullamarine,” which I had found and ordered the month before. It was a UFO report made by an air traffic controller at Tullamarine Airport and highlighted a radar plot near Melbourne. This is important considering it occurred just 3 days before the infamous Westall incident – a well-documented and bona fide UFO event in suburban Melbourne on the 6th of April, 1966. Although the speed and direction of movement of the object on the radar scope fits that of a balloon, one wonders why an air traffic controller would choose to make a report of it to authorities as one would presume balloons are detected by radar quite frequently.

The never before opened file “Aerial Phenomenon - UFO sightings Department of Civil Aviation; Transport” finally arrived at my doorstep in early March. At 18 pages it contained very sober UFO reports made to the Department of Civil Aviation. Amongst them was the sighting of 3 silver-gold objects travelling rapidly through the clear skies by two proficient witnesses. The report was taken seriously, though we have never seen any other documentation regarding the incident in RAAF files. One of the witnesses writes:
I might add that we were both of sound and sober mind and that both of us would be highly embarrassed should there be any release of this report. I have been a CPL for 18 years and 3500 hours experience in Australia and New Guinea. My eyesight is still 20/20, so you can be assured that I really did see the effect as described.
The next file to be opened, copied and sent to me was from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) titled, “Observations - General by outside authorities (includes UFO)”. With a date range of 1972-1981, the bulky offering contained 297 pages, and consisted of various reports of meteorological phenomena, apparent astronomical phenomena, a lot of agency correspondence and finally a very decent serving of UFO sightings made to the BOM over 9 years. One sighting, on the 16th of December, 1976, contained this entry:
The shape was like a rugby ball, with an angular size of about half a degree. Sighting duration was 10-12 seconds. When at about 50 degree elevation in the south-west it seemed to stop for five seconds then dissolved in the same spot.”
Another, from May 27, 1978 reads:
Dull orange object, low on the eastern horizon travelling north to south. Faster than an aircraft, slower than a meteor. No sound. Duration 1.5 to 2 minutes. Moved from north-east to south-south-west. Above clouds. Long orange tail. 3-4 weeks before, at dusk, a similar object was seen travelling in the opposite direction in the eastern sky.
By the end of March it was clear that my efforts to dig up a significant number of unopened, sometimes formally classified UFO-related files from the National Archives was gaining momentum. Many of the promising files, however, that arrived at my home would turn out to be completely un-UFO-related. But the files that were UFO related were worth the disappointments.

Monday, July 16, 2012

NEW BOOK | UFOs And Government: A Historical Inquiry


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UFOs And Government: A Historical Inquiry

Anomalist Books Press Release


By Michael Swords and Robert Powell, with Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, Barry Greenwood, Richard Thieme, Jan Aldrich, and Steve Purcell

Trade Paperback, 594 Pages, 350 Illustrations

Genre(s): UFOs


Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century. How and why they did so is the subject of "UFOs and Government," a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves. It's a perspective that reveals a great deal about what we citizens have seen, and puzzled over, from the "outside" for so many years.

The story, which is unmasked by the governments' own documents, explains much that is new, or at least not commonly known, about the seriousness with which the military and intelligence communities approached the UFO problem internally. Those approaches were not taken lightly. In fact, they were considered matters of national security. At the same time, the story reveals how a subject with such apparent depth of experience and interest became treated as if it were a triviality. And it explains why one government, the United States government, deemed it wise, and perhaps even necessary, to treat it so. Though the book focuses primarily on the U. S. government's response to the UFO phenomenon, also included is the treatment of the subject by the governments of Sweden, Australia, France, Spain, and other countries.

This book is the result of a team effort that called itself the UFO History Group, a collection of veteran UFO historians and researchers who spent more than four years researching, consulting, writing, and editing to present a work of historical scholarship on government response to the UFO phenomenon.

About the Authors:

Michael Swords was the primary author of the United States chapters. The work was coordinated and edited by Robert Powell. Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, and Robert Powell contributed country chapters. Jan Aldrich was the primary content consultant, with additional content consultation and writing coming from Barry Greenwood and Richard Thieme. Steve Purcell was the primary photo illustration editor.

From the foreword by Jerome Clark: "While UFOs and Government revisits an often unhappy history, the reading of it is far from an unhappy experience. The authors, eloquent, intelligent, sophisticated, and conscientious, provide us with the first credible, comprehensive overview of official UFO history in many years… Most of the current volume deals with U.S. military and intelligence responses to the UFO phenomenon, but it also features richly informative chapters that expand the story across the international arena. If you're looking for an example of a nation that dealt productively with the UFO reports that came its official way, you will take heart in the chapter on the French projects… From here on, every responsible treatment of UFOs and government will have to cite UFOs and Government prominently among its sources… this is the real story as accurately as it can be reconstructed in the second decade of the new century. I expect to keep my copy close at hand and to return to it often. While it cannot be said of many books, UFO-themed or otherwise, this is among the essential ones. Stray from it at your peril."

CONTENTS

Foreword by Jerome Clark vii
Preface x
Prologue xii

Chapter 1. World War II and the Immediate Post-War Era 3
Chapter 2. Ghost Rockets 12
Chapter 3. The Flying Disks and the United States 30
Chapter 4. A Formalized UFO Project 48
Chapter 5. Grudge 71
Chapter 6. Duck and Cover 90
Chapter 7. Transition 112
Chapter 8. Tacking Against the Wind 139
Chapter 9. The CIA Solution 170
Chapter 10. Intermission 204
Chapter 11. A Cold War 208
Chapter 12. Something Closer This Way Comes 238
Chapter 13. Battle in the Desert 271
Chapter 14. The Colorado Project 306
Chapter 15. After the Close of Blue Book 336
Chapter 16. The Swedish Military's UFO History 361
Chapter 17. The Australian Military and the Official Government Response 373
Chapter 18. UFO Secrecy and Disclosure in Spain 423
Chapter 19. UFOs and France—Beginnings of a Scientific Investigation 439
Chapter 20. Glimpses of Episodes in Other Countries 456

Epilogue 468
Appendix 472
Illustration and Photography Credits 530
Bibliography 540
About the Authors 559
Name Index 561
Subject Index 569
UFO Event Index 577

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bill Chalker searches Hills skies for UFOs

Bill Chalker, Australia's Fox Mulder
By Hillshire Times
5-10-10

     MEET the Hills man who has been dubbed Australia’s version of the X-Files’ agent Fox Mulder.

West Pennant Hills scientist Bill Chalker has been investigating unidentified flying objects for more than 30 years, including a sighting at Baulkham Hills in 2007.

He first became interested in UFOs in 1966 when there were several sightings in Queensland and Victoria and a lot of physical evidence was left behind.

“Most sightings tend to be explainable but some of them just don’t seem to make sense or fit into anything obvious,” Mr Chalker said.

“It is these cases which aren’t readily explainable which interest me the most, especially those where physical traces are left behind, like marks on the ground.”

Mr Chalker has written several books on the subject including The OZ Files: The Australian UFO Story, Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction.

He has even investigated a significant sighting in Baulkham Hills.

“In 2007 a security guard from a factory building was on a night shift sitting in the watch house when he noticed just beyond the building in a space between some trees a large disc-shaped object with a rotating light effect inside of it,” Mr Chalker said.

“The experienced security guard said he had a camera on him and as he walked out of the watch house decided to take a quick picture of the object.

“He then experienced the object come towards him and then go back and disappear.”

Mr Chalker said a very similar incident happened a couple of weeks later on Australia Day in Riverwood where a woman reported an “disc shaped object” flying in between her townhouse and her neighbour’s house.

“Her encounter happened in a matter of minutes and was very similar to the Baulkham Hills security guard’s,” he said.

Mr Chalker will talk about his latest investigations in Adelaide in June and welcomes information from anyone who has physical evidence of a UFO.

People can contact him at PO Box 42, West Pennant Hills 2125.