14 February 1947
(The Transcontinental, Port Augusta , Australia
Source: Trove,
National Library of Australia ,
Canberra , ACT, Australia
The whole article:
“Commenting on a report from Port Augusta that several
men working in the yard at the Commonwealth Railways workshops at about 9 a .m. on Wednesday (5 February
1947) of last week, had seen five strang [sic] egg shaped objects in formation,
pass across the sky at a height of about 6,000 feet , the
Government Astronomer (Mr. G. F. Dodwell) said that the phenomenon did not fit
in with anything astronomical and was a complete mystery to him.
Mr. Dodwell discounted the probability of the objects
being meteorites. He said that meteorites, being very small, and travelling at
such high speeds, did not cast shadows, whereas the objects which passed over
Port Augusta did. The presence of falling meteorites would have been
accompanied by a deafening roar.”
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