Westall High School

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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Professor to Offer Course on UFOs at Duke University

December 4, 2018
ExoNews Editor

November 27, 2018 (digitaljournal.com)

• David J. Halperin, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will teach a course early next year on “UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth.” The course will be offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke University.

• As a professor of Judaic studies at UNC, Halperin’s specialty has been religious traditions of heavenly ascensions and otherworldly journeys. He has authored five books on Jewish mysticism and two on UFOs, both fiction and non-fiction. He claims that “UFOs are a myth,” emerging from the depths of our unconscious and bearing vital messages. “And myths are real,” says Halperin.

• The OLLI course will study the UFO landing at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1966, the myth of the “Men in Black”, the experience of alien abduction, and the enigma of what happened near Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. The concluding session will analyze the new respectability that UFOs have attained since the 2016 election, and what it means.

• [Editor’s Note] The good news is that this could be a crack in the academic world’s refusal to treat UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence seriously, particularly at the university level. The bad news is that a religious devotee is teaching it from a theological point of view. Will this professor’s students walk away from the course believing that UFO’s are some sort of figment of the imagination in order to validate a narrow religious perspective? Or will it cast aside preconceived religious paradigms and view the extraterrestrial influence on earth as a reality with serious consequences to our civilization if we don’t wake up, accept the truth, and utilize our mass consciousness to protect our sovereignty as a species before it’s too late?

DURHAM, N.C. — David J. Halperin, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will teach a course early next year on “UFOs – Encounter, Mystery, Myth.” The course will be offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Duke University and will run from January 7 to March 25, 2019. All interested persons are welcome.

“UFOs are a myth,” says Halperin, “and myths are real.” Like collective dreams, they emerge from the depths of our unconscious, bearing vital messages for us. The question to ask of them is not “Where do UFOs come from?” or “How do they fly?” but “What do they mean?”—for us as individuals, as a culture, as a species.

Halperin was a teenage “UFOlogist” back in the 1960s. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1977, and from 1976 until his retirement in 2000 he taught Judaic studies in UNC’s Department of Religious Studies. His area of special interest has been religious traditions of heavenly ascensions and otherworldly journeys. He’s the author of five books on Jewish mysticism and messianism and a novel, Journal of a UFO Investigator, published in 2011 by Viking Press and translated into Spanish, Italian, and German. His non-fiction book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO will be published in 2020 by Stanford University Press.

The OLLI course will begin with a case study: the supposed UFO landing at Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia, in April 1966. It will explore the myth of the “Men in Black,” the experience of alien abduction, and the enigma of what happened near Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947. The concluding session will pause to notice the remarkable new respectability UFOs have attained since the 2016 election, and ask once more: what does it mean?

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Audio Reveals Creepy Details of UFO Mystery

August 19, 2018
ExoNews Editor

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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