| Article taken from. THE NEWS. Adelaide, Friday, February 8, 1980 |
| Night-time terror in Adelaide Hills |
| MYSTERY 'CRAFT' SMASHES TREE |
| A Half moon shaped eight- metre long "UFO" smashed into a giant tree in the Adelaide Hills last night. Mr. Daryl Browne, a Stirling horse stud hand, today showed a News team the massive damage to the 70 metre pine tree where he said he saw a strange craft. It looks as if a large car had crashed into the tree - except that the damage is 30 metres above ground. A whole big section of the side of the huge tree was demolished by the impact of the "craft" hitting it last night. Branches more than 30cm thick - the size of average pine tree trunks - were bent like match wood under its wieght. There were no burn marks on the tree or the ground around it, but the trunk showed several deep gouges from the impact. The tree is on the Glenalta stud in Old Carey Gully Rd. Mr. Browne, 21, said he was sitting inside the homestead on the stud about 9.50 last night watching television when two big and normally fierce guard dogs - one a champion Great Dane - began barking and howling in fear. Con. page 32. "I've never heard anything like that before". Mr. browne said today. "They sounded like coyotes howling at the moon. "Then I heard this loud crash and all the timber from the tree splitting. "I didn't know what it could have been. I ran outside to have a look but couldn't see any thing then. "I walked down the driveway towards the stables, towards where the cracking and crashing was coming from, and when I got under the tree looked up. "Then I saw something yellow, but it was not glowing or anything like that. I had to shine my torch on it to see what it was, like shining a torch at a car at nighy. "It was like a big cylinder - it was sort of half-moon shaped on the bottom - and it was about eight or nine metres long. "I dont know what to do. I had two children with me and I got them back inside the house before they saw it. Ididn't want them to get scared. "Then I called the police, but by the time I got back to a window to look outside it had gone. "It didn't make a sound. There was only the sound of the dogs scared out of their wits and the crashing timber". Today the Great Dane was still to terrifed to go close to the tree. Last night he and the other dog stayed inside in terror and would not go outside when Mr. Browne called them. "I cant explain what it was," Mr. Browne said. "I've never seen anything like it before. "It was a very still night. There was no wind up here and there was nothing else that could have caused the damage," he said. |
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| By Jeff Fausch Paranormal Field Investigators |