“Perhaps Balloon” - "Object Perhaps Balloon – An unidentified flying object seen over the Clayton-Moorabbin area yesterday morning might have been a weather balloon. Hundreds of children and a number of teachers at Westall School, Clayton, watched the object during morning break." The paper wrote.

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Planes? - The paper said a few planes circled the “possible balloon”, but the RAAF said there were no planes in the vicinity.

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Phenomena Research Australia - Unofficial investigations were carried out by Phenomena Research Australia and Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society.

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Australian Skeptics - The Australian Skeptics, a pseudoscience debunking group, suggested the sighting was of a military test windsock towed by a plane for others to chase.

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Kangaroo Island sighting, 1969 -

Alan Potter, a trainee radio tech, was repairing radar at Adelaide Airport when he saw something he’d never seen before.

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Kingscote on Kangaroo Island - Potter was tracking the movements of a small passenger plane from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island when the radar picked up something big coming from Port Lincoln.

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UFO? - The passengers on the plane didn't experience anything out of the ordinary but the radar picked up a larger mass heading straight for the plane.

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The Valentich Disappearance, 1978 - Frederick Valentich was a pilot on a 235 km training flight from Tasmania to Victoria across the Bass Straight in 1978.

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UFO following him - Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control to say a flying saucer was following him while he was 1,400 m above the ground.

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"It isn't an aircraft." - Valentich said his aircraft's instruments began to fail and when asked to identify the approaching aircraft, he said: "It isn't an aircraft."

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Lost - All contact was lost with Valentich's plane and a search ensued.

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Search and rescue mission - A search and rescue mission was conducted over 2589 square km to search for Valentich.

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Never found - Neither Valentich nor his plane were ever found.

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Knowles family abduction, 1988 - The Knowles family were driving from Perth to Melbourne when they said a giant ball began following and tormenting them.

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Landed on their roof - Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean were followed by the floating orb until it landed on their roof, they said.

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Police report - "It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite violently and forced the car back down on the road with such pressure that one of the tyres was blown," a police spokesperson told the media.

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Sound became distorted - Sean Knowles hit the gas and his mother screamed, but the sound of her scream was distorted and slowed down, the family said.

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Big ball of light -

"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident. "It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball"

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Thought they would die -

"We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn't find us." She told the media.

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Hastings sighting - While driving through the Melbourne suburb of Hastings, Junelyn Bitalac saw a saucer-shaped flying object in the sky, Yahoo News reported.

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Video - She filmed the UFO as it crossed her path, high up in the sky.

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Naval base - The sighting happened near a military naval base, HMAS Cerberus.

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The Westall UFO encounter, 1966 - One of the most famous sightings is the Westall UFO encounter on April 6, 1966.

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Over 200 people - Over 200 students and teachers at two schools in Melbourne said they saw a UFO descend for 20 minutes into a field.

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Took off - The UFO then rose out of the field and went northwest, over Clayton South, VIC, witnesses said.

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Different directions? - Some witnesses said the UFO flew southeast while others said it went northwest.

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The Dandenong Journal - The Dandenong Journal ran two front page articles on the incident.

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