From: curmi@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Jamie Paul CURMI)
Subject: Re: Egg shaped craft down under (3-4 years ago)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:53:52 GMT

rodb@slugo.corp.sgi.com (Rod Beckwith) writes:

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>I also have a question for you folks DOWN UNDER.(That's AUSTRAILIA for
>those of you who don't know where down under is.) I recall that about 3-4
>years ago that
>an egg shaped craft buzzed a family in a car on some highway down there. As
>I recall there was some material released by the craft & it was retrieved
>by the occupants of the vehicle. The material was brought in for analysis &
>that was the last I ever heard about it. I think a fishing boat offshore
>also reported
>seeing the craft about an hour later. There was quite a bit of news on the
>incident back then, but as most  news stories go , the press never really
>follows up. 

Hi!

Yeah, I followed this story very closely at the time.  It happened just as
Hinch started his new show on 7 (Hinch at 7, on 7 ;-), and Hinch quickly
organised interviews with the entire family.

The car had some really good dents and scrapes on it I believe.  
It was reported that the silvery/black material found on and in the car was
analysed...and after an awful long time the lab people said it was dust from
their brakes or something similar due to their brakes.

This whole thing seemed a little weird (not the story, but the analysis &
the way everything went really strange and quiet about this incident).  I'm
not trying to imply a coverup (ok...maybe I am   \(^_^)/  ), but this
poor family got treated like shit soon after they told their story.

A number of weeks later (possibly months even) the family were once again
interviewed (well, more like a very brief chat).  The mother said that since
the incident people had harrased her, and called her a lier, and treated
the whole family pretty badly.  She said she wished she had never told
anyone this story, and was visibly upset by the whole affair.  That was
the last I heard.

Local Oz Scientists suggested they were hit by lightning, and the usual
scientist type response to anything unusual (oh...it was ball lightning,
a weather balloon, you imagined it all...etc).  I don't know what it was..
it may well have been something quite natural....but the family said the
UFO grabbed the car, and tried to lift it off the ground, and that they
could see a glowing egg shaped thingy, bashing against the roof.


By the way, a number of ufo reports came in from Queensland last night...
a light in the sky, moving from the west (?), hovering above, then moving
back from where it came.  One person described it as a flying camp-fire
(that's a new one....hard to imagine....perhaps a Grey Boy Scout :-).
Anyone else hear about this report.

It seems a lot of UFO's are being reported down under lately.  Have the
Greys only just discovered Australia? (bit like you Americans....NO.. there
are NO kangaroos jumpin' around my back garden, or in my street!!!!  ;-)

Jamie
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