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Australian Government Cover-up of 1966 UFO Incident

June 13, 2021
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Article by Andrei Dergalin May 30, 2021 (sputniknews.com)

• In 1966, three “flying saucers” were spotted by students and teachers hovering over Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia. “I saw a craft – a mechanical object intelligently controlled hovering above me,” said Westall teacher, Andrew Greenwood in a 7NEWS Spotlight documentary. (see video below) Although Australian airforce and army personnel cordoned off the area from the public, Greenwood and others managed to sneak in again. “[We saw a] circular area, like the trampled grass,” he said. “And there were guards around it and there were people in there with equipment.”

• Greenwood changed his attitude after he was visited by two men “claiming to be government officials”. The visitors – “one in plain clothes, and the other one, senior air force” – advised him to keep quiet about the UFO sighting. “Absolutely, I was threatened. I was told that I should not say anything about it,” Greenwood said. “When I tried to explain to them that they weren’t there, I was and I knew what I saw, well, the first suggestion was that you’d be ill advised to go on saying that because clearly you were drunk on duty and will have to be reported to the education department and of course you will lose your job.”

• Greenwood pointed out how eyewitnesses to the incident were “very certain about what they saw,” even after so many years have passed. “It just beggars belief for me in Australia we’ve never had an official investigation (of the Westall UFO incident). And flatly I think there has been a cover-up, I really do,” he remarked. “I think someone has buried the Department of Supply report which I know exists.”

Andrew Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher who worked at Westall High School in

Melbourne, says he was threatened by government officials after claiming he saw a UFO back in 1966, the Daily Mail reports.

During the incident in question, a cigar-shaped “flying saucer” object was apparently spotted hovering in the vicinity of the school and above the nearby Grange Reserve by students, teachers and Clayton South residents.

“I saw a craft. A mechanical object intelligently controlled hovering above me,” Greenwood said in a 7NEWS Spotlight documentary.

Airforce and army personal arrived at the site and cordoned off the reserve but

Greenwood and several others allegedly managed to sneak in.

“[We saw a] circular area, like the trampled grass,” he said. “And there were guards around it and there were people in there with equipment.”

**photo of circular area of ‘trampled grass’**

However, even though he told reporters about the incident, Greenwood changed his attitude after he was visited by two men “claiming to be government officials,” as the newspaper put it.

As Greenwood explained, the visitors – “one in plain clothes, and the other one, senior air force” – advised him to keep quiet about the sighting.

“Absolutely, I was threatened. I was told that I should not say anything about it,” the former teacher said. “When I tried to explain to them that they weren’t there, I was and I knew what I saw, well, the first suggestion was that you’d be ill advised to go on saying that because clearly you were drunk on duty and will have to be reported to the education department and of course you will lose your job.”

2:10 minute clip of Westall’s 50-year-old UFO sighting (‘7NEWS Australia’ YouTube)

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Now We’re Using AI to Interpret “Mysterious Space Signals”

August 22, 2019
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Listen to “E74 8-22-19 Now We’re Using AI to Interpret “Mysterious Space Signals”” on Spreaker.
Article by Jazz Shaw August 13, 2019 (hotair.com)

• Fast Radio Bursts (FRB’s) are very brief and “mysterious space signals” that originate from galaxies throughout our universe, though not from our own Milky Way galaxy. FRBs are composed of compact, complex radio waves, and are difficult to track and pin down. Many of the intense flashes have traveled billions of light-years across space.

• Now, according to the New York Post, a doctoral student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia named Wael Farah has matched the Molonglo telescope in Canberra with an artificially intelligent machine-learning system that recognizes FRB signatures as they arrive to produce the finest records of FRBs yet. Farah’s research was recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

• FRBs have “mysterious structures, patterns of peaks and valleys in radio waves that play out in just milliseconds”, quite unlike what you’d expect to see from a massive collision or explosion that randomly happen throughout the universe. So what are they? Are they signs of intelligent alien civilizations? If so, they must be up to something pretty spectacular to produce enough energy to reach us with that much power from far off galaxies.

• Then the question is, is detecting aliens a good enough excuse to unleash even more Artificial Intelligence into the global web? Carl Sagan warned us long ago that alerting advanced extraterrestrial civilizations to our presence was probably a bad idea. Steven Hawking once warned that while AI doesn’t hold actual malice against humans, if the AI’s goals aren’t aligned with our own, we’re in trouble.

• So now we’re mixing the search for possible extraterrestrials with Artificial Intelligence. What could possibly go wrong?

While still being a bit on the frightening side, the science behind this story is still kind of cool and worth a look. The “mysterious space signals” referenced in the title are probably more familiar to those of you who follow such topics as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). They originate all over the universe, though not from our own Milky Way Galaxy (yet, thankfully), and are composed of compact, complex radio waves that don’t seem like the sort of thing you’d get from a normal spacial event like a supernova or the creation of a black hole.

The problem is, they are rare and very brief, so we’ve had trouble trying to track them and pin them down. Now a laboratory in Australia has worked out a way to use Artificial Intelligence to do just that.

(NY Post quote) Wael Farah, a doctoral student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, developed a machine-learning system that recognized the signatures of FRBs as they arrive.

Farah’s system trained the Molonglo telescope in Canberra to spot FRBs and switch over to its most detailed recording mode, producing the finest records of FRBs yet.

“It is fascinating to discover that a signal that traveled halfway through the universe,” he said. The research was recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Many of the intense flashes have traveled billions of light-years across space.

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Audio Reveals Creepy Details of UFO Mystery

August 19, 2018
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by Ally Foster August 7, 2018 (foxnews.com)

• The largest mass UFO sighting in Australia occurred on April 6, 1966 when 350 school children and faculty of Westall High School in Melbourne watched a UFO hover over nearby field for twenty minutes. While today the event is commemorated by a memorial park at the site, it was initially covered up by the school authority. An audio recording of an interview with an eye witness to the event, Westall science teacher Andrew Greenwood, by American UFO researcher Dr. James E. McDonald, has recently surfaced. (see below for 9:21 minute audio interview)

• On that fateful day, Greenwood was in his classroom when a child ran in and said, “there’s a flying saucer outside!” When he went outside to take a look, he saw a group of children in the corner of the school grounds watching a silver, saucer-shaped UFO about the size of a car with a metal rod sticking up, hovering close to a powerline. As more people began to gather to watch, five planes came and surrounded the object in the air. The UFO would dart from side to side to avoid the planes. This went on for twenty minutes before 350 witnesses. The headmaster was so “scared” and “disturbed” by the incident, however, that he refused to come outside until the object was gone.

• Suddenly the UFO shot away and vanished within seconds. The school’s headmaster then came out and ordered everyone to go back to class. “He gave the school a lecture and told the children they would be severely punished if they talked about this matter, and told the staff they could lose their jobs if they mentioned it at all,” said McDonald. The headmaster refused to talk with the Royal Australian Air Force. Then the infamous Men in Black showed up and warned everyone not to speak of the incident.

• After the Men in Black’s visit, nearly everyone shut up and refused to talk about it, even after they’d previously described the entire event in great detail. Over the years, there have been differing reports about the details of what happened at Westall High School, such as people claiming there were not just one but three saucer-like objects in the sky that day. Some believe it was an alien encounter while others suspect the government had something to do with it.

In 1966, over 300 children and staff from a Melbourne school reportedly witnessed multiple UFOs silently flying through the sky before landing in a nearby field.

It is the largest mass UFO sighting in Australia, yet hardly anything was reported on it at the time.
Over the years, there have been differing reports about the details of what happened on April 6 at Westall High School, such as people claiming there were three saucerlike objects, while some thought there was just one.

In the 52 years since, there has been wide speculation about what people saw, with some believing it was an alien encounter and others pointing the finger at the government testing new technology.

Throughout all the years of speculation, however, one particularly interesting piece of audio has been greatly overlooked.

An American physicist known for his research into UFOs, Dr. James E. McDonald, conducted an interview with a science teacher from the Westall school, Andrew Greenwood, who witnessed the event.

He then recorded himself describing their meeting and the creepy details Mr. Greenwood gave about his experience. “Greenwood told me the UFO was first brought to his attention by a hysterical child who ran into his classroom and told him there’s a flying saucer outside,” Dr. McDonald said.

“He thought this child had become deranged or something so he didn’t take any notice, but when the child insisted that this object was in the sky he decided to go out and have a look for himself.”

When he went outside, he noticed a group of children looking toward the northeast area of the school grounds and as he approached them he claims he saw a UFO hovering close to the powerline.
Mr. Greenwood described it as a round, silver object about the size of a car with a metal rod sticking up in the air.

According to Dr. McDonald, the teacher then told him five planes came and surrounded the object as more people began gathering to watch the scene before them.

9:21 minute video/audio on Westall UFO Encounter

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