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	Valentich Disappearance - TinWiki.org
		The Valentich Disappearance is one of the most puzzling disappearance cases in the world.
		Valentich was not the only one that day who saw strange things in the skies.
		The Valentich Disappearance occurred during the biggest UFO flap in Australian history, activity which peaked the night of his disappearance, then strangely enough, began to drop off.
	tinwiki.org /wiki/Valentich_Disappearance (1341 words)

	Paranormal Vanishing Encyclopedia Article @ Heightened.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The story of soldiers disappearing into a strange cloud during the battle of Gallipoli in 1915 is another tale of spurious origin.
		One such case is the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in December 1900, who vanished from their duty stations, leaving behind half eaten meals, cryptic log entries with alleged supernatural overtones, and equipment important to surviving the hostile conditions at that location and time of year.
		The mystery of her disappearance is also used as an recurring plot line with Mulder occasionally forming, and then usually rejecting, different theories about the true nature of her disappearance.
	www.heightened.net /encyclopedia/Paranormal_vanishing (1826 words)

	Valentich Disappearance Encyclopedia Article @ FooFighters.net (Foo Fighters) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Valentich Disappearance occurred on October 21, 1978, when 20 year old Frederick Valentich disappeared while piloting a small Cessna 182 aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia, after reporting a strange craft flying increasingly close in proximity.
		Valentich said that as it passed alongside him it was "a long shape", had "a green light," and was "metallic," as though it were "shiny all over." Shortly thereafter, he then said "it seems to me that he's playing some sort of game...
		More prosaic explanations are that Valentich ran afoul of illegal drug smugglers, or that he was struck by lightning from a lenticular cloud, or that he played a prank before committing suicide by deliberately crashing his Cessna.
	foofighters.net /encyclopedia/Valentich_Disappearance (1213 words)

	Valentich Disappearance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Valentich was to collect crayfish for the local Air Training Corps officers with his return expected around 10:00 PM.
		The engine of the Cessna was rough-idling and coughing when Valentich reported for the last time, "Unknown aircraft now on top of me." After Melbourne acknowledged there was a 17 second burst of metallic noise.
		Valentich's last flight had been his first solo night flight.
	members.tripod.com /~AlienConspiracy/dissappear/valentic.htm (281 words)

	The Bass Strait Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The flight plan called for Valentich to maintain an altitude below 5,000 feet and for the flight to be in two parts: 41 minutes to Cape Otoway, then 28 minutes to King Island.
		Valentich: My level is four and a half thousand four five zero zero...
		Valentich's plane had to be at an altitude of at least 1,000 feet at the time of his last transmission because VHF radio is line-of-sight, and could not have been received ninety miles away at Melbourne if he was below 1,000 feet.
	members.tripod.com /~pdharris0/Bass_Strait_Incident.htm (646 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: Frederick Valentich dies in Cessna - UFO encounter, 1978
		The account of the Australian pilot Frederick Valentich, a twenty-year-old pilot with a Class Four instrument rating is possibly the most famous of Australian UFO encounters, and an almost unique event of a disapearance of an aircraft and its pilot most likely a consequence of the contact between the aircraft and a UFO.
		No trace of Valentich or his aircraft have been recovered, despite many attempts, including a hoaxed "find." The Cessna was equipped with a radio survival beacon, but no signal from it was ever detected.
		Frederick Valentich was on a 125 mile training flight in his single engine Cessna 182 along the coast of Bass Strait when he told air traffic controllers in Melbourne that he was being buzzed by a UFO with 4 bright lights about 1000 feet above him.
	ufologie.net /htm/valentich.htm (1560 words)

	The Valentich Mystery - Bass Strait , Australia - October 21, 1978 - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was the extraordinary disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich (left) over Bass Strait on October 21st, 1978, that thrust the subject of UFOs into the news headlines around the world.
		The circumstances behind the total disappearance of both pilot and plane have since been elevated into one of the premier mysteries of aviation and for many one of the most intriguing elements of the UFO phenomenon.
		Despite the provocative nature of the taped conversation Valentich had with Melbourne Flight Control prior to his disappearance that refers to a possible UFO presence, the affair still remains a mystery.
	www.ufoevidence.org /cases/case24.htm (2667 words)

	ParaQuest Australia Paranormal Investigations: UFO Stories 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Valentich had taken off from Moorabin Airport, Melbourne and had flown for some three quarters of an hour in the early hours of the evening when he reported by radio to Melbourne Flight Service Unit that he had sighted an unidentified aircraft.
		Valentich radioed that he believed the aircraft was "playing some sort of game".
		At the same time as Valentich’s encounter there were many other UFO reports received in the same area, including sightings of green lights, and in one case a photograph was taken showing a dense object rising up from and interfering with the sea (see Manifold, Roy).
	www.paraquestaustralia.com /ufo1.html (1832 words)

	ParaQuest Australia Paranormal Investigations: UFO Stories 1b (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On October 21, the night of Valentich's experience, twenty people located in different areas around Bass Strait observed a green light in the same direction and at the same time the pilot was reporting the approach and description of an object with a green light.
		The couple are of the opinion that it was the same object that Valentich was reporting before the strange sound jammed his radio transmission.
		Valentich's father, Guido, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using information he had received from the Air Force at Victoria's Sale RAF Base".
	www.paraquestaustralia.com /ufo1b.html (2569 words)

	UFO Area The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
		The story of Frederick Valentich is one of the most famous UFO encounters.
		Frederick Valentich was not the only person who reported a strange object over and near Bass Strait that day and night.
		The truth and facts remain - Frederick Valentich vanished in mysterious circumstances and most things indicate that an UFO really was involved.
	www.ufoarea.com /events_valentich.html (626 words)

	UFO RESEARCH QUEENSLAND - Casefiles
		Valentich then radioed that his engine was not working properly and informed Melbourne that he would try and make it to King Island.
		Again various theories were put forward ranging from Valentich plotting his own disappearance and faking a close encounter to that of a fateful meeting with drug smugglers.
		Whatever the truth may be, the fact remains that Frederick Valentich vanished in mysterious circumstances, possibly UFO related, and that the mystery lingers to this day.
	www.uforq.asn.au /casefiles/valentich.html (944 words)

	The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Frederick Valentich, a twenty-year-old pilot with a Class Four instrument rating, took off from Moorabin Airport at Melbourne, Australia.
		After take-off Valentich established radio contact with Melbourne Flight Service via VHF radio.
		Valentich radioed that he had Cape Otoway in sight.
	users.bigpond.net.au /natsearch/categories/paranormal/ufos/valentich (638 words)

	Valentich Disappearance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The disappearance generated significant press attention, both throughout Australia and internationally.
		A moment later, he said the object was approaching him from the south-west.
		A cause for the disappearance still remains undetermined.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valentich_Disappearance (1074 words)

	Center for UFO Studies
		Although there are some disappearances of aircraft that some researchers believe may be connected to UFOs, such as the disappearance in 1945 of five Avenger bombers off the east coast of Florida while on a routine training mission, no UFO connection has ever been proven.
		There is one case, however, involving the disappearance of a pilot and his airplane, that does involve a UFO.
		Although there is no positive evidence to prove that a UFO caused Valentich's disappearance, the theory persists.
	www.cufos.org /related.html (822 words)

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		Valentich's dramatic disappearance off the Apollo Bay coast in Victoria's south-west on October 21, 1978, was recorded in radio transmissions he sent from his rented Cessna 182L to Melbourne airport.
		Speculation about Valentich's disappearance has ranged from freak weather conditions and pilot disorientation to UFO abduction.
		Mrs Valentich also revealed she received a call from an unidentified man in Russia shortly after her son's disappearance who said he would visit them but the phone call was cut off mid-conversation.
	www.farshores.org /ufovalen.htm (449 words)

	U.F.O's
		Bass Strait is a noted area for the disappearance of many ships and aircraft as well as UFO reports.
		So concerned was he about what he had seen and been told at Sale that Valentich emotionally told his parents shortly afterwards that "should they take me I should be O.K. so don't worry, they will probably put me back." No trace of Valentich or his aircraft have been recovered.
		Valentich's father, Guido, said his son used to study UFOs "as a hobby using information he had received from the Air Force.
	kwistufa.bravepages.com /u_f_o's.htm (10265 words)

	BOOKORPHANAGE BOOKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Moving lights and daylight sightings were widely reported as far south as Hobart, with the incidence of sightings peaking on the day that Valentich disappeared.
		The flight plan called for Valentich to maintain an altitude below 5,000 feet and for the flight to be in two parts: 41 minutes to Cape Otway, then 28 minutes to King Island.
		Valentich radioed that he had Cape Otway in sight.
	www.bookorphanage.com /valentich.html (1156 words)

	UFO Encyclopedia Article @ FooFighters.net (Foo Fighters) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the reign of the Pharaoh Thutmose III around 1450 BC, there is a description of multiple “circles of fire” brighter than the sun and about 5 metres in size that appeared over multiple days.
		These time machines are used to explain the otherwise unexplainable (or believed to be unexplainable) phenomina of human development, people disappearing with no trace or reason, and the disappearances of aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle.
		At the end of the movie, the hero and the charactor who had this theory figured out fly off in a Chevy Malibu with an alien's corpse in the trunk (the car glows and levitates [presumably powered by the radiation from the decomposing alien, which would vaporize anyone who opened the trunk]).
	www.foofighters.net /encyclopedia/UFO (7145 words)

	Australian Triangle of Mystery, UFO Casebook Files
		Among those is the "Puzzle of the Disappearing Pilot", which makes up a chapter of the new book, and looks at a series of mysterious disappearances in Bass Strait.
		In October, 1978, young Melbourne pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared without a trace while flying to King Island, to pick up some crayfish as a surprise for his parents.
		Wreckage from the Cessna was not found, and Pinkney gives a rundown of the eerie radio traffic between Valentich and the Melbourne Flight Service at Tullamarine.
	www.ufocasebook.com /australiantriangle.html (459 words)

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		His last words were: "It is not an aircraft." The Australian Air Force said it had received 11 reports from people along the coast who said they saw UFOs on Saturday night, but the Transport Department was skeptical.
		But although we can't take them too seriously, we can never discourage such reports when investigating a plane's disappearance." Some Transport Dept officials have speculated that Valentich became disoriented and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down.
		Aviation authorities reported that the UFO was apparently tracked by radar as well, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force put a Skyhawk jet fighter on special standby alert.
	www.textfiles.com /ufo/UFOBBS/3000/3073.ufo (703 words)

	UFO Resource Center: VALENTICH UFO CASE
		His evidence seems to lend support to the scenario that Valentich inadvertently had turned 180 degrees during his "UFO encounter" and was heading back towards Victoria.
		Attempts are being made to encourage renewed interest in seeing if Valentich did in fact come down in the sea SE of Cape Marengo, just to the SE of Apollo Bay, between 3 to 12 miles offshore.
		Valentich's dramatic disappearance off the Apollo Bay coast in Victoria's south-west on October 21, 1978, was recorded in radio calls he sent to Melbourne airport.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/UFORCE/content/page6.html (873 words)

	Australian Pilot Disappears, Frederich Valentich, UFO Casebook Files
		Boats and aircraft have found no trace of the 20-year old Australian pilot who disappeared with his plane on Saturday night after radioing that he was being chased by a UFO.
		According to the Victorian UFO Research Society, based at Moorabbin, near the location from where the disappearance took place, there had been a UFO wave ongoing for at least six weeks before the date of Valentich's disappearance.
		The transcript portion of the communication between Valentich and Melbourne Flight Service as released by the Australian Department of Transport follows: (FS - Flight Service, DSJ - Frederick Valentich aircraft designation).
	www.ufocasebook.com /australianpilot.html (893 words)

	Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > The Valentich Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Valentich and the witnesses are very intriguing, to say the least.
		Plus, Valentich told the air traffic controller that the unidentied flying object that was trailing him was large, very large.
		Valentich's plane being pursued by a green light.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t60223.html (1734 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whilst this is a home grown sighting, there has been much written on the Valentich disappearance on 21 October 1978.
		Frederick's father claimed that, 8 or 10 months before his disappearance" 'My son told me he had seen a large brilliantly lit object in the western sky which was flying at a tremendous speed from south to north'.
		It is not unknown for people to disappear for no apparent reason and later to assume to totally new identity.
	www.textfiles.com /ufo/UFOBBS/2000/2790.ufo (467 words)

	VUFORS - The Frederick Valentich Disappearance
		Frederick Valentich was not the only person who reported a strange object over and near Bass Strait that day and night.
		The Valentich encounter is almost a carbon copy of the experience of a four man crew aboard an Army helicopter who encountered a frightening event on 18 October, 1973, almost five years to the day prior to the Valentich disappearance.
		The couple are of the opinion that it was the same object that Valentich was reporting before the strange sound jammed his radio transmission.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~vufors/valensum.htm (2568 words)

	Vinny's Latest UFO News and Sightings Page 2
		When it comes to UFO occurrences that end in an abduction or disappearance, Australians are quite familiar with the tale of Frederick Valentich, who vanished on October 21st, 1978.
		Before disappearing into thin air, Valentich reported an encounter involving a rather large unidentified craft that was moving with speed.
		Valentich was nowhere to be found, as he did not make his final destination to King Island as planned.
	www.vinnysa1store.com /latestufonewsandsightings.php (1372 words)

	Study of Official Australian Government Involvement in UFO Controversy: A Progress Report - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He referred to the files on the case, he had in front of him, to answer some of my questions, however, access to these files was denied to me, on the basis that all "air accident investigation files were privileged information.
		The film was examined by RAAF and USAF, however, it appears the film itself subsequently disappeared.
		The woman reported the object had departed to the North at tremendous speed and had disappeared from sight.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc1528.htm (2776 words)

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