Frederick Valentich - 'Truth' Was Out There After All

An accidental discovery sheds new light on the mysterious disappearance of a pilot in 1978, writes Miles Kemp. Unlike a myriad other UFO sightings at the time, the claims of 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich could not easily be dismissed as a hoax. Unlike others who said they had seen strange lights or craft in the sky, Valentich was mid-way through a detailed and recorded description of his sighting when he disappeared forever over Bass Strait. "It is not an aircraft it is . . . ," an air-traffic control transcript records Valentich as saying at 7.09 and 28 seconds on the evening of 21 October 1978. Valentich was part-way through a seven-minute conversation with Melbourne air traffic control about the craft...read more>>>...