7. Disappearance Of Frederick Valentich
On the night of October 21, 1978, many Australians reported seeing lights in the sky and unusual activity in the skies above Tasmania and King Island. One such Aussie was the 20-year old pilot Frederick Valentich, who radioed Melbourne air traffic control to say he was being followed by “a long metallic, unidentified aircraft with four bright lights which at times moved at high speed or orbited above his plane“. 37 years later, no trace of him has ever been found since that night.
In his radio transmission, Valentich said the UFO was “coming for me right now…hovering on top of me”. The oceans below his last recorded position were intensively searched in the months following these last words; no traces of oil or wreckage were found. It has been hypothesised that Valentich, disorientated and panicked by star constellations above him, may have sent the plane into a Graveyard spiral into the sea, but this has never been conclusively proven. Dozens of witnesses report seeing white and green lights moving at speed in the sky that night. Will we ever find out what they were and why Valentich disappeared without trace?
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