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- 21-Jan-88 16:31 MST
- Sb: APn 01/21 1536 Australia-UFO
- Fm: Executive News Svc. [76374,303]
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- SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Police said Thursday they received two
- reports of unidentified flying objects, one of which looked like a huge
- egg cup, and that they were treating the matter seriously.
- Four members of a family said the object shaped like an egg cup
- pursued their car along a remote stretch of outback highway Wednesday
- morning, plucked it from the ground and covered it in ash, police
- reported.
- Faye Knowles told police her speech and that of her sons changed
- during the encounter on the highway.
- Crewmen of a tuna boat 50 miles away said a UFO buzzed their vessel a
- few minutes later and their voices become unintelligible.
- "We were a little bit skeptical at first, but after investigating we
- are treating the reports very seriously," said Jim Furnell, a police
- sergeant in South Australia state.
- He said forensic scientists would examine the black powdery ash found
- inside and outside Mrs. Knowles' car. She told police she was driving on
- the Nullabor Plain from Perth in Western Australia when she first saw a
- glowing object in her rear window at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday.
- "It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite
- violently and forced the car back with such pressure that one of the
- tires was blown," Furnell said. "While this was happening the family
- said their voices were distorted and it was as if they were talking in
- slow motion."
- He said the crewmen of the tuna boat could not have known about Mrs.
- Knowles' experience when they reported a UFO sighting in the Great
- Australia Bight.
- Keith Basterfield of UFO Research Inc., an international organization
- that records such sightings, said "it will certainly be the most
- physical of encounters ever recorded in Australia" if the reports are
- confirmed.
- A spokesman at the Royal Australian Air Force base in Edinburgh,
- South Australia, said he was not aware of any military aircraft in the
- area at the time.
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- Copyright 1988 by the Associated Press. All rights reserved.