16 May 2017
(AUS UFO (https://ausufo.wordpress.com), Australia
Quote from the article:
“Making headlines in December 1954 is the now infamous ‘Sea
Fury’ encounter. On August 31st, 1954, [fighter pilot] Lieutenant
J.A. O’Farrell was returning to Royal Australian Navy Air Station
Nowra after flying across the country in a Sea Fury Aircraft.
At about 7:10pm while near [Goulburn], NSW, O’Farrell saw a bright light
approaching at speed almost head on. It crossed in front of his aircraft taking
up position on his port beam, where it appeared to orbit.
A second ‘bright light’ was seen at nine o’clock, passing about a mile
in from the Sea Fury before turning in the position where the first light was
observed.
According to the pilot, the crossing speeds of the lights were the
fastest he’d ever seen. He was flying at about 400km/h.
Radar operator at Nowra base Petty Officer Keith Jessop confirmed the
presence of two objects near the Sea Fury on the G.C.I. remote display.
The two lights reformed at nine o’clock before disappearing on a
north-easterly heading.
O’Farrell could only make out ‘a vague shape with the white light
situated centrally on top.’ The Directorate of Naval Intelligence at the time
wrote that O’Farrell was ‘an entirely credible witness’ and that he ‘was
visibly ‘shaken’ by his experience, but remains adamant that he saw these
objects.’
‘These two aircraft came in quite close to me and I could really see the
dark mass and that they were quite big, but I couldn’t make out any other
lights or any other form of an aircraft. With that they took off and headed off
to the north east at great speed.’ –J.A. ‘Seamus’ O’Farrell.”
Wikipedia article: “HMAS Albatross (air station)”:
Wikipedia article: “Hawker Sea Fury”:
Wikipedia article: “Goulburn ,
New South Wales
Lieutenant [in 1954] J.A. ‘Seamus’ O’Farrell (Text: AUS UFO)
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