8. 7. The Valentich Disappearance
Valentich: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below five thousand?
Melbourne: No known traffic.
Valentich: I am... seems to be a large aircraft below five thousand.
Melbourne: What type of aircraft is it?
Valentich: I cannot affirm. It is four bright... it seems to me like landing lights.
Valentich: It's got a green light and sort of metallic like... it's all shiny on the outside... ... it just
vanished...
Valentich: Ah... Melbourne that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again... (two seconds open
microphone)... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft...
November 22, 1963 - assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas Dealey Plaza
Appears on the Zapruder film and in many photographs filming or taking pictures of the president.
Remained calm whilst others ran for cover and was still filming during the ensuing chaos
FBI tried to find her or her camera, but she never came forward.
Who was this woman and what was she doing the day JFK was shot?
Since 1940s, bright lights have been famed to appear over Norway’s Hessdalen Valley.
Photograph is clearest, most scientifically informative one to date.
Since 1983, Project Hessdalen - scientific research.
Many theories - ranging from igniting dust particles in the air, to a tear in space time which we don’t understand
Auckland, 1977 - strange hum described as blowing over a bottle reported.
Also reported in Bristol in England (first in 1979) and Taos, New Mexico.
Explanations include - mechanical devices (although rarely found), tinnitus (disturbance of auditory system) to a mysterious fish called the midshipman fish
Located in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Since 1950s, phenomenon reported of dogs leaping to their deaths - rate of about 2 dogs a year.
Always the same side of bridge, same long-nosed breed of dogs.
Even dogs that survived went back up the bridge and jumped off again.
No known explanation - although smell of mink on one side of bridge was suggested. Pretty tenuous, however.
February 2, 1959. Nine ski hikers in the Northern Ural Mountains of Russia.
Igor Dyatlov led group of nine for ski trek across the mountains.
8 days late, search party was deployed.
Mikhail Sharavin, student - "the tent was half torn down and covered with snow. It was empty, and all the group's belongings and shoes had been left behind."
9 sets of footsteps followed to woods, where remains of a fire was found along with two bodies - shoeless and only in underwear.
Rest of bodies found later nearby - one was missing her tongue for some reason, another had a fractured skull.
Also later bodies were wearing clothes of the dead bodies, and one member had even tried to climb a tree.
Autopsy carried out - no obvious cause of death, although hypothermia is suggested.
August 15, 1977. Strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry Ehman while working in Ohio State University.
Signal lasted 72 seconds, coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius around 200 light years away.
Was consistent with estimated non-terrestrial, non-Solar System interstellar signal.
Ehman wrote Wow! as he was recording
No real explanation - concluded that this was almost certainly not human in origin.
Never showed up again.
October 21, 1978. Australian pilot Frederick Valentich was flying in his Cessna 182 light aircraft over Bass Straight in Australia.
Transcript of his final radio transmissions followed by 17 seconds of metal scratching, before his plane vanished.
Neither Valentich nor his plane were ever seen again.
Theories range from the pilot being disorientated, to an elaborate suicide scheme, or even just to start a new life elsewhere.
British merchant brigantine discovered in the Atlantic Ocean on 5 December 1872 unmanned and abandoned.
Crew of seven were all experienced seamen.
When boarded by another crew, ship was deserted - six months supply of uncontaminated food still there, all personal belongings remained.
Also, the ship was still seaworthy and there was no sign of violence or struggle.
Most accepted theory is that barrels of alcohol which were in the hold could have ignited due to 9 being made out of red oak instead of white, causing crew to abandon.
Also referred to as ‘American Stonehenge’, Georgia Guidestones detail 10 ‘new commandments’
Written in 8 different languages.
Most alarming one is the top one - 95% of population wiped out.
No-one knows who or for what reason these stones were made.
Some believe it to be the work of Satanist groups - proclaiming a ‘New World Order’.
Hexham, England 1957. Pollock family’s twins Jacquelin and Joanna tragically killed in a car accident on 5th May.
Following year, October 1958, the mother remarkably conceived another set of twins - Gillian and Jennifer.
Jennifer had a scar in the exact same place on her face as the deceased Jacqueline.
Also, Jennifer had the same birthmark on her hip as Jacqueline did.
The new twins knew the name of the school that their dead twin sisters attended, and asked to go to a park which they could never have known existed.
They knew the names of their dolls ‘Mary and Susan’ without having been told them.
Parents were baffled and consider it to be a case of reincarnation.
January 2013. 21 yr old Canadian-Asian student Elisa Lam was staying at the Cecil hotel whilst travelling round America.
Found dead inside hotel’s 8ft tall rooftop water tank.
Tanks were secured with a latch that could be opened, but the rooftop was guarded by a locked door and an alarm system.
No drugs or alcohol were found in her system later.
She suffered from bi-polar disorder - cited as key reason in her “accidental death”.
How did she even get up to the roof? Why was she acting so strangely in the lift?
Theories range from suicide after a psychotic episode induced by her condition, to supernatural intervention.
A black object orbiting Earth, first appeared in the media on May 14th 1954 in the St. Louis Dispatch.
Allegedly, signals were being picked up since 1899, but even so, ‘54 is three years before Sputnik 1, the first satellite.
Estimated to date back 1300 years, but this is not accurate.
In polar orbit - something which neither the Americans nor the Russians had been able to achieve.
First photographed in September 1960.
Over the years, many random radio signals have been recorded - believed to be coming from this satellite.
February 1960, North American Air Defence system detected a radar echo which sent them into a blind panic - they could not explain this UFO.
The Grumman Aircraft Corporation formed a committee to study the data received from the observations made but nothing was made public.
