24 October 1978
(Daily Record, Ellensburg, Washington)
The article reports on the 21 October 1978 Frederick
Valentich incident.
Quote from the article:
“Wayne Bellew, a technician from Canberrra, and his
wife, Rosalind, said they saw a bright white object moving over the ocean.
‘The weather was clear,’ Bellew said. ‘We’d just put
up our tent when the thing appeared. It was completely distinguishable from the
planes en route to Sydney.’
‘We intended to report the UFO anyway – but when we
saw the stories on Monday morning about the pilot, we wondered if it could have
been the same object,’ he said.
Valentich, flying at an altitude of 4,500 feet , reported he
was being followed by a large craft with four bright lights. He told air
controllers the object was about 1,000 feet above him and had ‘a green light and
sort of metallic light on the outside.’
Transport Department spokesman Kenneth Williams said a
few minutes later the pilot reported his engine was choking and rough-idling, and
the object was hovering above him.
There was then a long metallic noise over the radio
and contact with the aircraft was lost.
Officials said they have been unable to identify the
metallic noise heard over the radio as the aircraft lost contact. They said the
noise lasted ‘for a long time – at least a number of seconds.’
Radio experts said it was not a noise that could be
explained by the dropping of a microphone – the original theory.”
Related posts:
The Australian article on the 21
October 1978 Frederick Valentich case (4.bp.blogspot.com
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