9 January 1954
(The West Australian, Perth , Australia
The whole article:
“The R.A.A.F. today made its first official statement
on flying saucers and revealed that it had been investigating saucer reports
since 1947.
A spokesman said that in the past few years hundreds
of reports had been received and all were treated confidentially.
Each report is investigated by a R.A.A.F. intelligence
officer and 24 questions put to the person making the report are tabulated in a
two-page ‘report of aerial object observed’ form.
The reports are not published to prevent people from
making faked sightings and so that a true and accurate check can be made on
similar observations.
Meanwhile, Melbourne
One man said he saw a shining circular object about
30 ft. in diameter giving out a red vapour as it passed over Malvern, a Melbourne
A woman late today said she saw what she thought at
first was a large yellow star.
The ‘saucer’ stayed low in the sky and in the same
position for some time.”
This issue of The West Australian contains another UFO article:
“ ‘Pinkish Light’ Observed At Bayswater”
The whole article:
“Four people sitting on the lawn of a Bayswater house
about 11 o'clock last night saw what they think may have been a ‘flying saucer.’
At first they thought the object—‘a pinkish light
moving quite fast’—was a falling star.
However, when it hovered for a few seconds and
zig-zagged a little, they discounted this theory.
The object then faded out towards the sea in the Scarborough area after a few minutes.
As there was no noise, and the object was overhead at
one time, the four people decided that it could not have been an aircraft.”
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