Absolute proof it didn't happen…….. But still???

MS Rodgers and her 9 year old son Carl live about 2 miles from a Naval Air Base. They say they saw a large, low UFO all lit up just over trees one night near their farm. It lit out just before a jet fighter plane appeared to give chase. The jet flew over their house at about 500 ft., low and fast, making a lot of noise.

I personally was a witness that this never happened.

I was standing on the top of the hill at the radar station at the air base with a pair of 12 by 50 binoculars trained in the direction of MS Rodgers farm. Nothing moved, on the ground or in the air for hours that night. The air base was non operational that night.

Why then do I somehow still want to believe MS Rodgers??

Background.
MS Rodgers lived about 5 miles from Nowra, a town on the New South Wales south coast about 150 miles from Sydney. Nowra is host to the Australian Naval Air Station HMAS Albatross where a squadron of naval skyhawk jets and Seaking and seahawk helicopter squadrons are housed.

For periods of several days at different times over the previous 18 months she and her son had seen suspected UFO's maneuvering south of the base in the early morning hours.

She contacted me to say it was happening again. Over 4 days she noticed between one and 4 star like objects at an estimated 10 to 15 thousand feet, about 6 or 8 miles south of the base. At times one or more of the objects would come closer and through 12 by 50 binoculars seemed to be lit from within with an eerie bluish light and appeared to be translucent "just like a jellyfish." Smaller bright yellow white lights would sometimes appear around them for a while, then disappear.

MS Rodgers was adamant that when one came closer to the base, there would be a large array of white and colored lights come on at one end of the base, and change configuration as if signaling the objects, just like the array in the "Close Encounters" movie.

Separate large searchlights would also probe the objects from the naval base. This usually took place at around 1.30 to 3.30 AM, but continued for several days. No planes or choppers were seen or heard through these performances.

The area the lights came from coincided with the runway landing lights at the North end of the N/S runway. She was familiar with the normal landing light arrays of the base and insists this was different.

My inquiries met with the flat statement that the base had been non-operational after sunset, for the last 3 weeks, and there were no planes or choppers in the air during darkness at all. Their radar unit was switched off and the control tower was unmanned.

A civilian road passes between the landing lights area and the runway at the point mentioned and access is available to the hill, from which the radar dish operates. There is a lookout there which overlooks the entire base. MS Rodgers farm area can be seen two miles to the West.

MS R. phoned me while it was happening on one occasion and I immediately drove to the base to see if there was any activity. The base was like a tomb. Non-operational, no lights even. In particular, I noticed no UFOs in the sky, and in the southerly direction where they had been reported, there wasn't even a single significant star.

The Clincher.
Two nights later at around 11 PM, MS Rodgers phoned me to say that a large (75 to 100 ft diameter) disk was hovering over trees just to the west of her farm, about ¼ mile from where she was watching. I ran to my car and within 10 minutes of her call (I also lived very near the base, but within the outskirts of the town.) I was standing at the lookout on the radar dish hill within the base area. The sky was clear and empty. The base was dead quiet with no lights or activity.

Nothing moved over towards the farm of MS R. I could hear country western on a radio somewhere down in the base married quarters. For the next hour it stayed the same. Two light planes passed miles away to the North and west, each at about 10 to 15 thousand feet. The radar dish was in operation i.e.: revolving, but no lights were on in the control tower.

I drove home and rang and told MS R where I had been and her immediate reaction was "Did you see the jet fighter chase away the UFO??" I was dumbfounded. She insisted that about half an hour after she phoned me the UFO was still there hovering. Her son Carl had awoken to check it out and was also watching. Then it disappeared rapidly towards the West and a moment later a very low flying jet flew overhead from the direction of the base in apparent pursuit of the UFO.

Later we got together to discuss the incident and she insisted her version of what she saw was absolutely true. I know my version. I was observing from the base not two miles away and could see (and hear) everything. There was nothing happening.

Normally an investigator would at this stage totally dismiss the incident as hoax. Personally I have dismissed many such cases from eye witnesses in the past without hesitation (or tact usually) but something in this case makes me hesitate. I have no proof the incident and the sightings happened. In fact I am a witness that it never happened.

I don't believe the base personnel were signaling, or even had the means to signal UFO's.

I do not believe the Australian military personnel, at least at operational level are privy to UFO information of any sort. There is not even a culture within the military of admitting they exist.

So, is MS R and her son living in a different reality to the rest of us (or at least to me)? I've seen a lot of cases where a UFO Sighting appears to have been tailored to just one witness, and although this case would seem to be a radical example of this I just cannot bring myself to dismiss it as having NOT HAPPENED.

What do you think?

Always Irreverent
Never Irrelevant
Brad Mildern
February 26, 2002