| Article taken from the Adelaide ADVERTISER. 20 October, 1978. |
| "It's a long shape...coming for me right now...hovering on top of " |
| UFO MYSTERY |
| Plane vanishes after 'Load metallic noise' |
| By Carolyn Armstrong |
| A MASSIVE sea and air search was continuing last night for a light aircraft which vanished over Bass Strait seconds after the pilot reported he was being followed by an unidentified flying object. The pilot Mr. Fredrick Valentich, 20, of Avondale Heights, a Melbourne suburb, was on a flight from Melbourne to King Island on Saturday night when radio contact was lost at 7.12 pm. The plane a $43,000 single-engined Cessna 182, is owned by Southern Air Services, of Moorabbin. Only the pilot was on board. In his last minutes of radio contact near Cape Otway Mr. Valentich told Melbourne control he was being followed by a large aircraft with four bright lights travelling at high speed. The Department of Transport last night released the following tape-recording of the ground-air conversation between Melbourne Flight Service and the missing aircraft.. This is the transcript: 7.06 pm: Pilot asked Melbourne Flight Service Unit whether there are any known traffic in the area below 5000ft. Flight Service Unit: No known traffic. Aircraft: Seems to be large aircraft below 5000ft. F.S.U: What type of aircraft. Aircraft: I can't confirm. It has four bright lights. Appear to be landing lights. Aircraft has just passed over me about 1000ft. F.S.U: Is large aircraft confirmed? Aircraft: Affirmative. At the speed it's travelling, are there any RAAF aircrafts in the vicinity? 7.O8 pm. Aircraft: Melbourne, it's approuching from due east towards me. It seems to be playing some sort of game. Flying at speed I can not estimate. F.S.U: What is your altitude? Aircraft: 4,500ft. F.S.U: Can you confirm you can't identify aircraft. Aircraft: It is flying past . It is a long shape. Cannot identify more than that. Coming for me right now. It seems to be stationary. I am orbiting and the thing is orbiting on top of me also. It has a green light and sort of metallic light outside. (To be continued in part 2) |
| "IT'S NOT AN AIRCRAFT" |
| PART 1 |
| Fredrick valentich disappearane |
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