tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post7885842433350467037..comments2024-03-21T08:16:46.130+10:30Comments on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena - scientific research: Cold case - Port Augusta - 5 February 1947Keith Basterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05367372091711887711noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-21424579215910829662023-08-06T14:24:55.381+09:302023-08-06T14:24:55.381+09:30To compliment the weather reports from the time of...To compliment the weather reports from the time of the Pt Augusta siting report: The Transcontinental weather report:<br /><br />Trove: Transcontinental 7 Feb 1947 page 2<br /><br />"Port Augusta in Grip of Heat Wave<br /><br />CENTURY FOR SIX CONSECUTIVE DAYS<br /><br />Port Augusta, in common with the greater part of South Australia, is in the grip of a heat wave and latest reports from Adelaide indicate that apart from a light coastal breeze in isolated areas, Mr. Bromley cannot promise any immediate relief. The records at the post office disclose that the mercury exceeded the century mark for the last six days, with the peak 105.6 on Thursday. On several days thunder clouds developed and the humidity made conditions most unpleasant.<br />-<br />Registrations for the week were<br />Sunday, Feb. 2 103<br />Monday, Feb. 3 100<br />Tuesday, Feb. 4 103<br />Wednesday, Feb. 5 .. 104<br />Thursday, Feb. 6 105.6<br />Friday, Feb. 7 (at 11 a.m) .. 101.6<br /><br />Although no rain fell in the immediate locality, a flood came down over Mr. C. Michael's property on Tues day. Motorists travelling between here and Quorn reported on Monday that near Saltia water was running strongly on both sides of the road."<br />Forbidden Physiologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037173108664518133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-70467022526333254082023-08-06T14:18:09.587+09:302023-08-06T14:18:09.587+09:30Another oddity about Pt Augusta 7 Feb 1947, report...Another oddity about Pt Augusta 7 Feb 1947, reported in the Transcontinental:<br /><br />Trove: Transcontinental 7 Feb 1947 page 2<br /><br />"QUORN "Ghost" Encountered in Hills<br /><br />UNSUCCESSFUL CHASE BY PICNIC PARTY<br /><br />After almost a week of Intense heat many residents took the opportunity to visit the Port Augusta beach on Sunday. When near Mr. H. French's property in the hills on the return journey, members of a party noticed a white object, with lights giving the appearance of eyes, near the side of the road.<br /><br />A chase was quickly organised by the younger brigade, but although the lights of the vehicles were used, the ghost could not be located. It is believed that when the chase commenced, the ghost quickly crossed to the other side of the road, and watched the fun.<br /><br />Some 12 months ago there was a ghost scare in Quorn. Many of the travellers on the lorry claim that the object they saw on Sunday night definitely was not a piebald cow."<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Forbidden Physiologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037173108664518133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-32566962302070951622023-08-06T14:13:24.356+09:302023-08-06T14:13:24.356+09:30Further details re Pt Augusta sighting. The Trans...Further details re Pt Augusta sighting. The Transcontinental published a rather differently written account of the sighting above:<br /><br />Trove: Transcontinental, Friday 7 Feb 1947 page 1<br /><br />"C.R. Workmen See Phenomenon<br /><br />FIVE STRANGE OBJECTS PASS OVER PORT AUGUSTA<br /><br />While working in the yard at the Commonwealth Railways workshops between 9 o'clock and 9.30 on Wednesday morning, Mr. Ron Ellis and a workmate saw five strange objects, in formation, pass across the sky from north to south.<br /><br />In the rays of the sun, the objects where of a white or light pink color and were shaped like an egg. When interviewed, Mr. Ellis said that he could not give an accurate estimate or the size of the objects, but they were casting shadows and judging by his experience with aircraft during the years he was serving in the RAAF, he would say they were of similar dimensions to the locomotive near where they were working.<br /><br />Although the objects kept on a direct course at a height of about 6,000 feet, they were moving erratically, but owing to their great speed, were out of sight within a few seconds. <br /><br />Any question of the phenomenon being an optical illusion was dispelled by the fact that a few minutes later, both Mr. Ellis and his companion, without any hesitation, gave an identical description of what they had seen."<br /><br /><br /><br />Forbidden Physiologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037173108664518133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-53271494849583774312022-03-06T20:40:01.004+10:302022-03-06T20:40:01.004+10:30My comment that the South Australian disc sighting...My comment that the South Australian disc sightings might be the first in the world is of course hyperbolic. I meant to say that they might be the first sightings of solid, metalic looking discs in the world since WWII, or since the Atomic bombs at the end of WWII. There are no other reports of such arial phenomena in the Australian newspapers in that time, though other unusual lights were mentioned, even as far as Sweden. My search was conducted on Trove - the ANL database, and included the terms, Sky objects, Flying sauces, Apparitions and Foo fighters.Forbidden Physiologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037173108664518133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-55824148011758314412022-02-26T21:04:45.411+10:302022-02-26T21:04:45.411+10:30I was very intrigued by the two sightings reported...I was very intrigued by the two sightings reported on 7th Feb 1947. In particular because they predate the Kenneth Arnold sighting by a few months. Indeed, following the Arnold sighting discs were reported in groupd of 9, 4 and 5 such as the group in South Australia. One is tempted to imagine they are connected. Also, these sightings cannot be influenced by the intense excitement and anxiety engendered by the Arnold sighting in America. Indeed, apart from the sighting listed above on 6th January 1923 in Tasmania (and listed in this blog site), These observations in South Australia might be the first in the world, and are indeed the first, to mention solid bodies, following the second world war.<br /><br />For completeness, a third observation of 5 bodies travelling at speed in Australia comes from the Murrumbidgee Irrigator 8 July 1947: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/156166556/15444515<br /><br />This is very soon after the Arnold sighting was reported in the city papers, to which the author reports in the article, but also harks back to the month of May, before any other mention of discs in America was announced, and before the well-known public frenzy began.<br /><br />One problem was that I initially read Mr F W Flavel's comment as being that he viewed the objects coming out of the sea. I was sceptical as to whether the sea was visible from Lock, which is situated in the centre of the Eyre Peninsula. What he wrote was in fact that the objects "seemed to be coming out of the sea." If one was a local one might judge where the sea was, even if out of sight, and that the objects were rising from that place?<br /><br />Also I made a little more of discovering who F W Flavel might be. I find that in 1935, F W Flavel tendered for work in the Hundred of Ulyerra via Lock, Eyre Peninsula: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168326757?searchTerm=%22F%20W%20Flavel%22%20eyre%20peninsula<br /><br />Forbidden Physiologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037173108664518133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040353126484409527.post-48509641265909198852013-09-22T11:31:05.266+09:302013-09-22T11:31:05.266+09:30Did anyone see the light in the sky last night. We...Did anyone see the light in the sky last night. We viewed it from port augusta shacks, brilliant red, then green to silver then vanished. I have never seen anything like it, fortunate to call out to a mate who witnessed this eventAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com