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Winifred's
Life of UFO's
From my files
Winifred H. saw her first UFO at age
9. That was in 1942. Winnie (her nickname), was reared
on a sheep farm in Western Victoria, in the far south
eastern part of Australia, not far from the small town
of Glenorchy.
It is dry grass country with low rolling hills and dry
creek beds lined with struggling gumtrees. Farms there
run to about 500 to 600 acres average. The nearest
neighbour lived a quarter mile away out of sight over
a hill.
Winnie was in the back yard of the house, when a
silver disc cruised slowly over the nearest string of
hills. It appeared to stop at one point and flashed a
silver light toward her, before shooting straight
upward and out of sight.
About a week later, the family was awakened around
Midnight, by a loud humming noise near the house.
Winnie’s father grabbed the shotgun and angrily went
out the back to check on possible intruders on the
property.
Winnie and her Mum and older brother watched from the
back door, as a large dark shape with flashing
spinning colored lights hovered over the shearing shed
water tank.
Her dad stopped about halfway to the shed (about 100
yards away) and raised his gun. At that point, there
was a large flash like a camera flash and her dad
lowered the gun and walked back to the house slowly,
seemingly in a daze.
When he got to the house he said “It's OK. Its only
a rabbit shooter down the paddock with a spotlight.”
He told them to go inside. Winnie remembers distinctly
that the next day the shearing shed water tank was
inexplicably empty.
Winnie moved away from home in her late teens to train
as a nurse in a nearby larger town. Her life seemed
normal, until one night when cruising with a
girlfriend and their two boyfriends, they seemed to be
overcome by a confusing fog with lights which left
them dazed and unable to ascertain where they were, or
what they were supposed to be doing.
The strangest part was, that the boys were no longer
with them and they couldn't remember them leaving.
Suddenly they recognized their surroundings, just
outside town, and they knew they had to go to a
certain place, a lookout on the on the Willaura Road
to pick up the boys. They didn't know why.
They drove until they neared the spot where the boys
supposedly were, and it became foggy and “strange”
again. The girls became scared and stopped the car.
They then had the strangest experience of several baby
deer (fawns) walking around the car looking in at them
(there has never been a sighting of deer in that area
before).
Winnie’s girlfriend suddenly started screaming and
shaking. Winnie found herself behind the car's
controls. She started up and drove back to the nurses
hostel without incident (and without the boys).
The next day, after work (they had the early shift)
they urgently contacted the boys who had no memory of
the incident and firmly believed they had not even
been out with the girls the previous evening.
Another time something happened at the nurses hostel.
Lights went out and a strange confused atmosphere came
over the scene. A half dozen nurses were there alone
and all seemed in a daze. Winnie then remembers lights
outside shining in the second story windows of the
hostel and then there were two very small, old men
dressed in suits, with very pale blue almost colorless
eyes.
Without a word, they looked into some of the nurses
eyes and led them away. Winnie then woke up in bed
next morning. When asking several of her friends about
the episode, only one remembered it and she refused to
discuss it.
Winnie married and raised two children and apart from
several episodes where things went missing, appeared
or moved mysteriously in her house, and one time she
saw an apparition of her dead father smiling at her,
she led a UFO free life until one day in summer in
1983.
She was on holiday with her husband at a place called
Port Cambell in south western Victoria. It is the
place shown in tourism guides as “The 12
Apostles.” The cliffs have been eroded to leave
hidden coves with secluded locked in beaches and
pillars of offshore rocks which are the remnants of
the old cliffline.
"12 Apostles Beach" where Winnie's sighting
took place
One morning early she decided to go
from the clifftop down to one of the beaches to
meditate to the sound of the waves. It was part
way down before she could see the beach.
What she saw stopped her in her tracks. There was a
large grayish UFO standing on the beach. It was
circular with a white rim around it and a bluish
silver large dome on top. There was a thick mast
coming out of the top and there was a door open in the
dome and steps leading down to the sand.
On the sand at the foot of the steps was a man dressed
in a blue suit. He had blond hair and was looking
right at her. He turned and climbed the steps then
smiled at her once more before entering the craft.
Winnie marveled that she was totally unafraid. She
hurried down the rest of the trail to the beach,
losing sight of it on the way. Reaching the bottom she
was amazed to find that the UFO was no longer there.
She did find however three imprints about “the size
of cake tins” in the sand where it had been.
Curiously she felt a sense of great loss “as if a
long lost friend had left for good.”
Winnie has never had another UFO or psychic incident
since that time. It was long after she got to know me
that she found out I was an investigator of the UFO
phenomenon, which prompted her to tell me her story.
She had not even told her husband, whom she later
divorced.
Always Irreverent
Never Irrelevant
Brad Mildern
August 11, 2002
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