Pilots are trained observers. They know the difference between Venus and a landing light, between a weather balloon and a fast-moving contact. Which is why reports from aviators carry a weight that casual sightings do not. From the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting that gave the world the term “flying saucer” to the US Navy’s officially […]

On the morning of 6 April 1966, more than two hundred students and staff at Westall High School in Clayton South, Melbourne, watched a silvery, saucer-shaped object descend into a nearby paddock before rising and speeding away, pursued by light aircraft. Within hours, witnesses reported that men in uniform had cordoned off the landing site […]