Glowing red ball
PILOTS WHO SAW UFOs Mile-wide disc in sky
metallic, like it’s all shiny on the outside.”
By now a terrified Valentich was starting to experience engine failure.
He exclaimed: “The engine is rough idling, I’ve got it set at twenty three twenty four and the thing is coughing. My intentions are to go to King Island.
“Melbourne… that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again… It is hovering… and it’s not an aircraft…” And that was that.
Valentich simply melted into the ether. But the final sounds on the transmission are said to be “metallic, scraping sounds” before all contact was lost.
A sea and air search was launched which covered 1,000 square miles, but no trace of any wreckage was ever spotted.
A Department Transport investigation into Valentich’s melting away was unable to determine the cause, but said the disappearance had been “presumed fatal”. of
But not everyone was convinced – not least Frederick’s father, Guio.
At the time the distraught dad had said: “The fact that they have found no trace of him really verifies the fact that UFOs could have been there.
“I hope he has been taken, and has not crashed. Frederick was not the kind of person who would make up stories.
“Everything had to be very correct and positive for him.”
Shortly after the disappearance began making headlines, members of the public poured forward to report their own UFO sightings in the same vicinity.
So, was this dedicated and enthusiastic flyer really spirited away by little green men?
Some have accused him of faking the entire thing in order to stage his own disappearance, others reckon he committed suicide, concocting an elaborate story in order to throw everyone off the scent.
Astronomer and retired U. S. Air
PEACEFUL: The sky was clear when Valentich ‘ got into trouble’
VANISHED: Aspiring airline pilot Frederick Valentich went missing in a Cessna plane after contact with a UFO
YANK pilot Andrew Danzinger, 56, has been flying airliners for 28 years and says virtually ALL pilots believe in UFOs – he had his own eerie experience in 1989.
He said: “There was a white disc dimly visible through some clouds. When I looked up at it again, where the white disc had been, there was now a giant red ball. It was flying parallel to our course.
“It vanished behind the clouds and the instant it fully disappeared, hundreds of lights began flashing from within the clouds. The section of cloud that the glowing red ball had descended behind was starting to stretch apart like a piece of putty, two halves being pulled slowly apart.
“This continued until the halves grew so thin that it tore apart and, pop! Everything was gone.
“There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Only the full moon remained off to our left.”
IN 2007, pilot Captain Ray Bowyer saw an enormous craft hovering over Jersey.
He said: “It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area. It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away – although I later realised it was about 40 miles from us.
“At first, I thought it was the size of a 737. But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide. This was visual for about nine minutes.
“As I got closer to it, it became clear to me that it was tangible.
“I was in two minds about going towards it to have a closer look, but decided against it because of the size of it. I had to think of the safety of the passengers first.
“I’ve never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying.”