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1974/09/22 AUSTRALIA, TAYENE, TASMANIA 1720 Source: Elving Saucer Review, Vol 21, No. 5 UFQ Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS A saucer-shaped object dropped toward the road where a woman was parked ... AVELEY, ESSEX 2150 Source: Elving Saucer Review, April 1978, Vol. 23, No. 6 National Enquirer, July 3, 1979 John and Elaine Avis and their three children were on their way home from a visit

Clock stopped Magnetic tapes ruined. 1979/01/24 TEXAS, nr. LINDALE 2215 Source: Personal Investigation MUFON UFQ Journal, Sept. 1979 A young man stopped his car by the side of the road. While outside ... Shock Holes in trousers & socks Audio tape blanked Car clock lost time EM effects 1979/02/05 AUSTRALIA, LAWITTA, TASMANIA 2100 Source: UFO Research Australia Catalog of Abductions, Apr. 1991 An intense white light

RESEARCH NO: REPORT 1977. Title changed in 1979 to UFO RESEARCH (FNQ) NEWSLETTER. 8827. UFO RESEARCH (FNQ) NEWSLETTER, no.6 (June 1979)-no.7 (October 1979). UFO Research, Far North Queensland, Cairns, Queensland. Ed, Holly I. Goriss ... NEWS- LETTER in 1980. 8828. UFO RESEARCH (S.A.) NEWSLETTER, 1971?-December 1979. UFO Research, South Australia, Adelaide. Freq: Bi-monthly. 8829. UFO TASMANIA, no.23 (1978)- Tasmanian Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Centre, Hobart, Tasmania. Ed. Keith

no.9 (September 1977)- vol.4, no. 1 (January 1979). Ed. Donald Alexander Boyd, Spit Junction, New South Wales. Formerly PSYCHIC AUSTRALIAN; title changed to STRANGE PHENOMENA in 1979. 8815. PERTH UFO RESEARCH GROUP NEWSLETTER, November ... issues/year. 8819. STRANGE PHENOMENA, vol.4, no.2 (March 1979)-? Ed. Donald Alexan- der Boyd, Spit Junction, New South Wales. Formerly PARANORMAL AND PSYCHIC AUSTRALIAN; March 1979 issue titled STRANGE PHENOMENA AND PSYCHIC AUSTRALIAN. 8820. TASMANIAN ... Hobart. Ed. Keith Rob- erts. Freq: Semi-annual. Also known as TUFOIC NEWSLETTER; title changed to UFO TASMANIA in 1978. 8821. UFO BULLETIN, no. l (June 1957)-no.9 (July 1959). Australian Ply- 1ng Saucer Bureau ... Neil A. Huth (1975-1979); Martin Gotschall (1979- ). Formerly CONTACT. Freq: Bi-monthly. 8823. UFO NEWS, 1968-June 1969? Tasmanian Flying Saucer Observers' As- sociation, Stonehenge, Tasmania. Ed. Peter Dunbabin. 8824. UFO NEWSLETTER, 1952- South ... Vladimir Godic, Prospect, South Australia. Freq: Bi-monthly. 8826. UFO RESEARCH (FNQ), no.2 (June 1978)-no.5 (April 1979). UPO Re- search, Far North Queensland, Cairns, Queensland. Ed. Russ W. Boundy

Clock stopped Magnetic tapes ruined. 1979/01/24 TEXAS, nr. LINDALE 2215 Source: Personal Investigation MUFON UFQ Journal, Sept. 1979 A young man stopped his car by the side of the road. While outside ... Shock Holes in trousers & socks Audio tape blanked Car clock lost time EM effects 1979/02/05 AUSTRALIA, LAWITTA, TASMANIA 2100 Source: UFO Research Australia Catalog of Abductions, Apr. 1991 An intense white light

1974/09/22 AUSTRALIA, TAYENE, TASMANIA 1720 Source: Elving Saucer Review, Vol 21, No. 5 UFQ Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS A saucer-shaped object dropped toward the road where a woman was parked ... AVELEY, ESSEX 2150 Source: Elving Saucer Review, April 1978, Vol. 23, No. 6 National Enquirer, July 3, 1979 John and Elaine Avis and their three children were on their way home from a visit

G.P.O, 805 308 HOBART 7001 HRP:GJB FOR ENQUIRIES CONTACT TASMANIA POLICE Mr... Plummer COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE 80 ELIZABETH STREET HOBART 4th January, 1979. Mr. David Simmonds, Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre, Department of Transport

Mysore; New South Wales; Oxford; Paris; Peking; Rhodes; [67) Reprints, 1966. (Originally published in 1689.) South Africa; Tasmania; Tel Aviv; Utkal; Utrecht; Warsaw; Waterloo; Zurich. (11] R. Haynes, Philosopher King-The Humanist Pope Benedict ... Divine Love and Wisdom. New York: Sweden- dation, San Antonio, TX; Parapsychology Foundation, NY; borg Foundation, Inc., 1979. Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, NC; Psychophysical Research Labs, Princeton, NJ; Science Unlimited Research Foundation, San Antonio

South Wales; Oxford; Paris; Peking; Rhodes; sons, Facsimiles edit. Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and South Africa; Tasmania; Tel Aviv; Utkal; Utrecht: Warsaw; Waterloo; Zurich. Reprints, 1966. (Originally published in 1689.) (11] R. Haynes, Philosopher King ... Swedenborg, Divine Love and Wisdom. New York: Sweden- Psychical Research Foundation, Durham, NC; Psychophysical borg Foundation, Inc., 1979. Research Labs, Princeton, NJ; Science Unlimited Research Foundation, San Antonio, TX; SRI International, Menlo Park, Approved

C.O.S. BULLETIN .. NUMBER NINETEEN JUNE 1979 (C) No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written consent of A. C.0.S., except for UFO organisations & publications. Credit must be given. INDEX Item Author Pages ... this we are happy to see the recent formation of a new sub-state group in Tasmania which will enhance the fine work currently being done by the TASMANIAN UFO INVESTIGATION CENTRE

Observations by aircrew. 03 Indepth study of entity reports D4 Round up of cases summaries and statistics 1979. D5 Anthropoid/UFO catalogue 06 Proceedings of UFOCON 5, Canberra 1980. Currently in production are D7 In Soarch ... Photographic caso catalogue. UFO reports in Australia last year were extremely scarce. TUFOIC reports that in Tasmania it was one of the quitest years on record, possibly since the 1960's. That comment is reflected ... made many important contributions in the areas of investigation, research & group participation. In the May-June 1979 issue of "COSMOS" magazine, Matthew published his thoughts on the "origins of UFOs", in a 2 part article

have impacted the water somewhere within the dashed area shown in Figure 1. Underwater search Norman, P. (1979). Mystery deepens in pilot disappearance case. The MUFON Journal, 141, 5. activities should begin in this region ... According to an Australian Marine Research report (Ocean Currents, 1997), Bass Strait is a Ocean currents around Tasmania (1997). CSIRO Marine Research [on-line. Available: http://www.marine.csiro.au/LeafletsFolder/tascurrents.html. shallow continental shelf with an average depth ... this paper appeared in the September 2000 issue of The Australian UFO Bulletin. high speed around Tasmania in a clockwise direction to reach the western entrance to Bass Strait some hours later. The wave front ... took place. http://www.filersfiles.com References * George Filer, the state director for MUFON New The Bass Strait mystery (1979, February). Australian UFO Bulletin, pp. 7-11. Jersey, produces a weekly report of UFO sightings collated from

cloud between the lights, and changing direction erratically. It darted about P.O. Box 174, South Hobart, Tasmania 7004, Australia the lack of an outlined shape, convinced the quickly then slowly, and then commenced observers that ... dock not far from the roadside. However, as tree. At this point in time, the observers January 1979, 04:00 p.m. witnesses noticed something moving out over the witness continued slowly up the road

TUFO IC - 1979. YEAR'S SIGHTINGS STATISTICS. President For the fifth year in a row the Centre Neil Russell-Green received over 150 sightings to invest- igate. However, although the UFO per- Secretary centage ... over the state that All Correspondence to GPO Box 1310 N, tricked many witnesses. Hobart, 7001. Tasmania. INVESTIGATIONS .COMPARATIVE FIGURES. Year. Reports Unidentified UFO% SIGHTINGS Phone ... year to keep members in- Total Investigations.......... 168. formed of ongoing sightings. See the TUFOIC MEETING DATES 1979. back page for application to join the Meetings are held at the BP Theatrette Centre. City Mutual

Amborn 780486 AFU UFO 1979 Tasmania By the Tasmanian U. F.O. Investigation Centre T.U.F.O.I.C. EDITION No. 26 PRICE

just after midnight when Mr. T left to collect a passenger from Gormanston one night in April (1979). The weather was fine and clear as he made his way via the steep winding road from ... other recent cases in Tasmania is remarkable. A green shape and radio effect were involved in an encounter near Risdon Vale last November (1978). The Murchison Highway report of 1979 (see later) involved green light

1310N, the later half of the year. There may have been less reports G.P.O., Hobart, 7001. Tasmania. but most cases had some interesting strangeness points. SIGHTINGS Phone 236009 or 278449. ..INVESTIGATIONS... COMPARATIVE FIGURES Area Representative ... TUFOIC'S Report is published annually 27 16 ANALYSIS OF 1979 INVESTIGATIONS and is available to the public, members, and for exchange with UFO organisations. Unidentified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14(9.7%) Investigating/Insufficient Info..16 The Centre also prints ... application to join the Bush Fires/Flares/Ground Lights.. 16 back Other Explanations.......... Centre. Total Investigations. ...........144 UFO TASMANIA ISSN 0158-0590 TUFOIC MEETING DATES 1980 Meetings are held at the BP Theatrette DON'T FORGET

SIGHTINGS FOR 1979 Once again our Annual Report provides details on unexplained cases reported to the Centre during the past year, a year that generally has been rather quiet. The number of investigations has dropped ... seen a good coverage of the state by the Centre's invest- igators, especially in Northern Tasmania where telephone numbers have been made available to the public to report cases as they happen. Our Northern

interested in obtaining. ( every Tasmanian interested in UFOs should have one?) Still available TUFOIC's 1978 and 1979 Annual Reports at 50c each, or this years 1980 Report for 60c. Defraction grating slide available ... that it flew off towards Farnborough at 250kph (150mph). .................... WHAT ABOUT TASMANIAN SIGHTINGS. Whats going on in Tasmania ? A very good question which at the moment has a simple answer, nothing very much. Maybe ... check out for the year to date, of which remains unexplained. As at the end of May 1979 we had 83 investigations with 9 unexplained

Although the focal point changed this time to Lake Sorell on Tasmania's Central plateau (10), a spectacular disc, shaped object which left a glow on the lake below. also affected the witness's radio ... Snug (13). An auto stop and lost memory sighting occurred at Lawitta (14) in February 1979, whilst some interesting EMF cases occurred on the West Coast later in the year. The past twelve months have

have spread Australia wide if not World Wide North Hobart, at the present. Tasmania..7002. With so few cases no worthwhile Sightings Phone: 23 6009 patterns could be noted for the past year ... page for an application to UFO TASMANIA ISSN. 0158-0590 1976 191 42 1977 152 35 Edition No. 32. 1978 175 29 Cover. Highland Encounter 1979 159 16 (drawing by D. Green

been updated as at the All Correspondence to ...P.O. Box 99 close of 198 1. North Hobart Tasmania 7002. INVESTIGATIONS … COMPARITIVE FIGURES. Sightings Phone: 23 6009 44 4041 YEAR REPORTS UNIDENTIFIED UFO% Pre65 ... Centre. 1975 177 46 33 26 UFO TASMANIA ISSN. 0158-0590 1976 191 42 22 1977 152 35 23 Edition No. 35. 1978 175 29 16 1979 150 16 11 'UFO' FOUND

small increase on 1981. It is PO Box 99, North Hobart of some interest that 10 of Tasmania. 7002 adD : basta these sightings ocurred duringl Sightings telephone..... the May to July time period. Other reports ... application to join the ods 1978 176 30 3890 Centre® 1979 151 17 60 8 TUFOIC Meeting Dates. 1980 84 edt 1983. 1981 009 3 1982 56 8 2 Executive meetings will be INVESTIGATIONS ... home late one night when he was caught up in the force of a flying saucer. UFO TASMANIA ISSN 0158-0590 "My leg started jumping all over the place and was powerless and collapsed

disappeared. Mrs R's tape was passed on to P. Tattersall (Centre's North- ern Representative 1979) and he in turn alerted the Centre to the case. Meanwhile some of the witnesses had been interviewed ... Launceston Examiner. The witness says he was on an incoming flight on June 27th to Tasmania over the Tamar Valley just south of Bell Bay at about 4.30pm. He was observing the landscape below

FOREONSORDE 1979 151 17 1980 60 8 1981 85 8 58 REPRESENTATIVES 1982 AREA 1983 61 110 NORTHERN TASMANIA INVESTIGATIONS 1983 6 Don Mc Sween (003) 39 2410 Unidentified. Investigating/Insuff Info. 7 Astronomical

sucked up into the air by a powerful t e aut orities and the press. for In 1979, the Chilean armed forces force emanating from a circular ob- a opened a official enquiry after ... TASMANIAN UFO CATALOGUE-COMPUTER FILE $3.00 (1983 edition) TASMANIAN LANDINGS CATALOGUE $2.00 MAATSUYKER ISLAND DOCUMENT $2.00 UFO TASMANIA MAGAZINES, 5 Issues for $4.00 Single issues (State which Year required) $1.00 (1978 - 1982) 1983 Magazine still

Hunt 1966 16 ********************************* 1967 ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: 1968 29 TUFOIC, P.O. Box 99, NORTH HOBART, 1969 61 TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA, 7002 1970 44 **************************************** 1971 95 SIGHTINGS TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 1972 68 1973 136 (Area code ... GOTOCOgIOSRS AREA REPRESENTATIVES: 1976 192 43 1977 153 NORTHERN TASMANIA Don Mac Sween 1978 176 30 (003) 39 2410 1979 151 17 1980 60 85 WEST COAST Peter Zehmeister ... TOTAL INVESTIGATIONS ......41 At ST. IVES HOTEL BISTRO SANDY BAY ROAD, SANDY BAY ******************************************* UFO TASMANIA ISSN 0158-0590 AIMS: To conduct investigations into Tasmanian sightings. To collect and EDITION NUMBER 44 : disseminate evidence and data

Tasmania 1986 **************************************** T.U.F.O.IC. EXECUTIVE 1986 ************************i STATISTICS PRESIDENT: _SECRETARY/LIAISON: Ron Jolly YEAR Paul Jackson REPORTS UNIDENTIFIEDS INVESTIGATION/FILES: Keith Roberts Pre 65 129 LIBRARY: 1965 Janine Hunt 23 ************************************* 1966 34 ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: 1967 16 TUFOIC ... AREA REPRESENTATIVES: 1975 182 1976 192 NORTHERN TASMANIA Don MacSween 1977 154 (003) 39 2410 1978 176 1979 151 WEST COAST 1980 Peter Zehmeister 60 P.O. Box 125, QUEENSTOWN ... IVES HOTEL BISTRO TOTAL INVESTIGATIONS ......83 SANDY BAY ROAD, SANDY BAY ***************************************# UFO TASMANIA - ISSN 0158-0590 ***************************** AIMS: To conduct investigations into EDITION NUMBER 47 Tasmanian sightings. To collect and disseminate evidence and data relating

Affair (1970 TUFOIC Annual Report) to find any sign of UFOs. This was the first flap in Tasmania which it seems was followed by a dearth of reports for some 4 or 5 years ... towards years close together with the Valentich affair creat- ing extra publicity that carried interest on into 1979. However, the endless series of sightings could not go on for ever and before 1979

Fron TASMA. Witnesses sketch from April 25 th 1972. 1978. The intense activity of 1974/75 in Northern Tasmania seems to have bypassed Georgetown and it is not until the summer of 1978 that any further ... north east to veer left and disappeared to the north. Radar Visual. The evening, of August 29th 1979 (10pm) brought a possible radar visual sighting from the First liate of a trading vessel en route

TASMANIA - 1987 *********************************************************************** T.U.F.O.IC. Executive 1987 STATISTICS PRESIDENT: SECRETARY/LIAISON: Ron Jolly Paul Jackson Year: INVESTIGATION/FILES: Keith Roberts Reports: Unidentifieds: pre 65 130 LIBRARY: Janine Hunt 1965 1966 23 29 ***************************************; 34 2 All Correspondence to: 1967 TUFOIC ... code 002 *************************************** 1974 159 Area Representatives: 1975 182 1976 192 Northern Tasmania Don MacSween East coast (003) 39 2410 1978 178 Colin Fletcher 1979 648456 1980 151 60 16 South-East 8 Jenny Lyne ... Starting at 7 p.m. At the FREEMASONS HOTEL Total Investigations 81 Harrington St., Hobart *******************************AW*W UFO TASMANIA - Issn 0158-0590 Aims: Edition number - 50 To conduct investigations into Tasmanian sightings. To collect **********************RARRAN