Last month, I put up a two-part post on "The Stranger," the hit Australian TV series of 1964-65, and its possible influence on the dramatic UFO incident at Westall High School in Melbourne on April 6, 1966. ("Dramatic," at least, as recalled by some of the participants. Others were unimpressed; … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Does Life Imitate TV? (Part 2)
"We shall forget all about this meeting, yes? We will say nothing to anyone about it. Please?" So speaks the mysterious "stranger"--real name unknown, even to himself; called "Adam" after the "new man" of the Bible--to his three young friends, midway through episode 2 of the 1964-65 Australian … [Read more...]
The Westall UFO – A Teacher’s Testimony (Part 2)
I'd intended to start part 2 of this post by picking up the threads of the McDonald-Greenwood interview where I left them at the end of part 1. (And if you're not clear on what the McDonald-Greenwood interview is, and why it's crucial to understanding the UFO that made its appearance at an … [Read more...]
The Westall UFO – A Teacher’s Testimony (Part 1)
Toward the end of June 1967, the American physicist James E. McDonald visited Australia. His ostensible purpose: to do research on cloud physics. McDonald had another aim as well. He'd become convinced that UFOs were a scientific problem of the first magnitude, to which orthodox science had … [Read more...]
