Friday, 1 September 2017
UFO Article (Blog):
“Police report on the Boyup Brook
encounter, uncovered”
By Keith Basterfield, 29 August 2017
(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,
Quote from the article:
“Background
On 30 October 1967, an intriguing encounter happened
near Boyup Brook , Western Australia .
The story broke in the Wednesday 1 November 1967
edition of ‘The West Australian’ newspaper. According to the newspaper, the
sole witness reported the incident to a constable L Johnson of the Boyup Brook
police station.
I had always wondered what happened to the police
report of the event? No one I knew of, had ever seen it, or had a copy of
it. A couple of years ago, I thought
that I might have located the report, when a Western Australian Police
Department file, number 64/2885 was found, titled ‘Unidentified Flying Objects.’
However, the file contained only 56 pages, despite the file’s folio numbering
system indicating that there had been 148 pages on the file. It turned out that
there seemed to be missing folios, numbered 32-122, covering the years
1955-1969. So, no luck in locating papers dealing with a 1967 incident.
2017
Fast forward to mid-August this year, when US researcher and historian Barry Greenwood of Boston , visited the archives of the J Allen Hynek Center
for UFO Studies, in Chicago .
One of his aims was to search for Australian material, which had not been seen
for years, if ever, by most Australian researchers. Barry located the long
missing Western Australian Police Department report on the Boyup Brook
incident. Many thanks to Barry for sharing this find with me.”
Kojonup in relation to the capital city of Perth . Image courtesy of
Google maps. (text by Keith Basterfield) (4.bp.blogspot.com/ ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com
image)