UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 8: April 7, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor BRITISH OFFICIAL CONFIRMS 1956 UFO SIGHTING On April 2, 1996, the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) presented a UFO talk show on its shortwave World Service program. Longtime UFO researcher Jenny Randles interviewed a retired air marshal from the Royal Air Force. The air marshal admitted that the famouse UFO case of August 13, 1956 did indeed take place. “We had radar reports of objects travelling at 4,000 miles per hour,” he said, adding that British radar operators tracked the UFOs as they crossed the beach “into British airspace–objects as big as battleships.” The incident began at 9:30 p.m. at RAF Bentwaters when an RAF radar operator reported “a very large object” crossing the North Sea at 5,000 miles per hour. Radarmen […] Read More

1996: UFOs, SUB ROSA*, DOWN UNDER PART 6

UFOs SUB ROSA* DOWN UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY & GOVERNMENT ROLE IN THE UFO CONTROVERSY By Bill Chalker copyright ©1996 Part Three THE CANTERBURY CLOSE ENCOUNTER The incident in Canterbury, a Sydney suburb, which Dr. Duggin looked into, received press coverage. “Sisters hysterical at sighting. WEIRD “SAUCER” OVER CANTERBURY” the Sydney Sun-Herald of March 8th, 1967 reported: “Two sisters described this week how they stood on a veranda together and watched a flying saucer hover over a Canterbury bowling green. They said the saucer was a “strange round thing” and it made a “weird humming sound.” “It came down to tree-top level and was less than 100 feet from where they stood. The woman who first made the sighting is Mrs. D. Manhood, of Wairoa […] Read More