8 February 1980
(Spokane Daily
Chronicle, Washington
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Quote from the article:
“An unidentified flying object may have made an
emergency landing in some trees near the small South Australian town of Stirling
But police are making no comment except to say there
are unexplained broken branches and no other physical evidence.
A 21-year-old claimed to have seen a ‘speedboat-shaped
yellow thing’ Thursday night (7 February 1980) in some trees near the horse farm where he works.
Daryl Browne told police late that night that his dogs
began howling while he sat watching TV.
‘And then I heard the trees smashing. I locked the
kids inside and went outside with a torch,’ he said.
He said he shone the flashlight up into the trees and
saw the object. ‘It was about 25 to 35 feet long,’ he said, adding that it had not
emitted any sound or light.
The damage to the trees was about 100 feet from the ground.
C.O. Norris of the Australian International UFO
Research Group said the scene revealed many of the classic signs of a UFO
landing.
There were very high infra-red readings at the site on
today, he said. The dogs’ howling probably indicated the UFO’s noise was above
the human hearing range, as dogs can hear higher-pitched sounds than people
can, and the layout of the land and vegetation were typical of other reported
UFO landing sites, he said.”
(tageo.com photo)