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- [Rick] Australia is the new hot bed

for weird phenomena and UFO encounters.

In this documentary, we speak to eight people

with eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings

in Australia, the land down under.

[whooshing]

We will ask their opinion on alien abduction

and their experiences on the subject.

None of the people being interviewed have ever met,

yet they all seem to claim similar encounters,

which will shock you to the core.

Is Australia next on the map

to be infected by the alien plague?

During the course of this documentary

we will find out all you need

to prepare yourself for aliens down under.

Algis, 66 years old from Doncaster, Victoria.

Once a skeptic, changed his mind forever

when he spotted a UFO at sunset

moving at incredible speeds above the Christmas Hills.

- This happened quite a while ago,

probably when I was about 19, or 20.

So, decades-wise it was probably

1970, '71, somewhere around there.

And I've never been one sort of,

that believed in that sort of thing,

but I was always open-minded

about those sort of sightings, and so on.

But when it happens to you, you sort of,

you rethink the situation.

And my brother, at the time, lived at Kalorama,

which is top of Mount Dandenong,

and his placed look out over Lilydale

and towards Christmas Hills, that area.

And I think we'd been over for,

it was a birthday, or Sunday lunch, or something like that,

and it was late afternoon, the sun was still up,

but sort of starting to set,

so there's still daylight. [eerie music]

And I went out onto the balcony

just to have a look at the view,

and I noticed in the distance,

sort of towards Christmas Hills,

there was a very bright light.

And I didn't take any notice of it,

I thought, oh, it's a helicopter or something,

but the brightness of the light sort of said,

no, it's too bright to be an airplane,

or a helicopter, something like that.

And I called my brother and some of the other people

that were there and they came out and I'm just,

"Look at that," they said, "Oh my goodness," you know?

And same thing, we all thought, yeah,

maybe a helicopter, something like that.

But the speed at which it was flying,

it was no way it could've been a helicopter,

or any other thing, because the way it was darting around,

it sorta would fly over the peak, disappear,

then fly back, then fly along the edge,

and we said, no, this is weird, this is really weird.

And so, we left it at that.

I went home, and when I got home I said,

"No, I can't leave it at that."

And I had a look in the phone book,

and Department of Defense and so on, and Air Force,

and they did have a section of unidentified flying objects,

or unidentified sightings, or something like that.

I rang them up, there was people on duty, it was a Sunday.

I told them what I saw, and the guy so said,

"You're not the first sighting we've had today,

"all from roughly the same area."

I thought, oh, this is getting interesting.

Hairs prick up on your arms and so on.

So, "We're gonna send you some forms

"and want you to fill 'em all in," and duh-duh-duh.

About four days later I got the forms,

and filled them in, and directions where it came from,

and when I first noticed it, and things like that.

and I mean, I wrote down what I saw.

I basically saw the light come over the top of the hill,

and then it started to sort of almost fly

along the contours, and then it would duck over

the other side again, then come back further on it,

and as I said, the speed...

No helicopter can go that.

Well, maybe now, but back then, no way.

No way.

And so, I fill all the forms in,

and sorta thinking back on it,

the brightness of the light, you sorta start to think,

well, it's way over there

on the Christmas Hills, how big was it?

You know, if you see a light that bright

it's gotta have some size to it.

And I would've guessed it would've been,

if you put a diameter on an end the size of...

The object or whatever, I'd probably estimate

it would've been, geez, would've had to been the size

of maybe, say four containers put together.

So, it was a decent size.

And sent all the forms in, and never heard anything again.

No answer, nothing at all.

Ring them again, whatever.

So, it's always been a mystery to me.

What was it I saw?

What was it the other people saw?

And it's just left in limbo, I've never known.

No, it was a normal phone call, what was it?

20 cents back then, or whatever.

'Cause there's no mobile phones back then,

so it was all landline.

And they were matter of fact about it,

there was no giggles or anything like that.

And they just said, "Yes, we've had other reports

"from the same area at about the same time."

So, when you think, I wasn't the only one to see it,

all sorts of things go through your mind.

And I often think about it, but no answer.

- [Rick] We asked him if he knew anyone else

that may have had similar experiences.

- Only the people that were there on the day that saw it,

and same sort of thing,

they weren't believers, but they weren't disbelievers,

and when you see something like that

you start to question a lot of things,

and you start to question a lot of cover ups

that may have happened there by government, and so on,

and you start thinking about all the conspiracy theories,

and things like that.

I think there are some grounding in some of them.

Some I think are maybe just BS,

but it's the big unknown out there still,

there's so much we don't know.

I can't believe that there isn't life out there somewhere.

Maybe we're not ready to communicate with them there.

Maybe they look at the way [laughing] we live,

and they say, "Well, no, not going near them."

So, it's fascinating, it's absolutely fascinating.

- [Rick] We ask him if he believed

that these sightings happened more often

in the mountain ranges as opposed to the city.

- I don't know, I've never sort of really followed it up,

just always been in the back of my mind

that I know what I saw.

And it's still unexplained.

And the fact that the Air Force didn't get back,

okay, if they didn't get back, why?

Why didn't they answer?

Why didn't they say, no it was nothing.

Nope, nothing, not a word.

- [Rick] And finally, we asked him if he knew

why the government persists in covering up this knowledge.

- Well, all right, let's go conspiracy theories.

Maybe it's not a highly populated area around there,

maybe the government of the day was testing something.

Maybe it really was something, maybe it was an apparition,

but gee, to do that with mirrors, not a chance.

Not a chance.

And it wasn't so much that this object

was a series of lights, it was just one very bright light.

And the brightness, at that time of evening

was extremely bright, and again,

the speed of the thing, that was the big giveaway,

otherwise we wouldn't have questioned

if it was a helicopter.

It's one of those things that you always wonder about,

and you think, well, I wonder what it was.

And yeah, things happened that you see somewhere

and you start looking at things

from a different perspective.

But the fact that something like this happened...

Unexplainable.

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- [Rick] Natalie, 32 years old

from Carnegie, Victoria explains in detail

the day her friend called her,

and asked her to come and witness firsthand

a group UFO encounter.

She explains that it looked like

something straight out of a movie,

and has scarred her memory to this day.

- So, Nathan, it was a typical school day from my memory.

Victoria.

I was in the south eastern suburbs with my mom,

and it was a summer's day, I believe, blue skies.

And I'd gone to school.

I think I was grade three.

Grade three then, so, in the '90s.

And I was at home.

So, into the point now, it was a great day, normal day,

school day, got home, and then I receive a phone call

to the landline at home.

And happened to answer it,

and it was one of my good friends from school.

I won't mention her name.

And so, we just chatted.

No, we actually didn't just chat,

she was quite anxious.

And I'm like, "What's going on?"

And she said, "Natalie, Natalie,

"I'm about to jump into the car with my sister

"and we're going to head down your way,

"down your street, because I'm fairly sure

"I can see a UFO in the sky."

Now, thinking back, I'm trying to piece it together.

Even I'm not 100% believing myself,

because I'm trying to figure out,

how did she know that the UFO was gonna go down my street?

And it was my landline.

This is where my memory may fail me, I'm not sure enough.

Got back in touch with this friend and her sister.

The sister does recall the incident,

but we can't figure out how we knew,

how they knew, it was gonna come down my street.

So, yeah, she said, "We'll be down your street in,"

however long it takes from her place to my place,

which it isn't far, maybe five minutes.

So, back then we don't have smartphone just to use time,

[laughing] as a gauge.

So simple.

And yeah, we timed it, I told my mom.

My mom's fairly open-minded, and she was all hyped up.

I'm like, "Okay, okay."

So, we got in the car, and I think we just waited

until they were coming down my street.

And yeah, and sure enough they came down,

and we started following them,

and we saw something in the sky.

And my mom's trying to concentrate on driving,

but we could see it, and we're just...

We're just following this...

Well, at first we're wondering, is it a satellite?

Is it a plane?

No, it's not a plane.

Could it be a hot air balloon?

Anything but, we had in our minds,

it's a UFO because of what my friend said.

But we did try to eliminate, naturally,

and even though I was a kid I still had some sense,

my mom was talking, you know?

And we just saw it traveling down our road,

and we turned...

At the end.

And not long after we turned to the end of the road

it sort of started to just get out of sight.

So, during that time we saw it change.

Whether it was because it was moving and turning around,

it was like a sort of, sphere shape,

not a couple saucer, but it was like

what you see in the movies.

'Cause I'm thinking it was so far away,

I can't really see the dimensions exactly,

but at some points you could definitely see

it turning and there were lights.

There were lights all around, different colors,

and they were blinking, or something,

they were moving, and at times it would just go there,

and then at other times it would...

Go there, and then it just at one point,

it just traveled so quickly, and it went.

But it certainly left a memory in my mind.

So, after that, we went back to our rooms.

And we're like, worried about this, you know?

[laughing]

It's not everyday you potentially see a UFO.

As I said before, I don't know if it was.

I feel like it was, but I can't confirm it.

How are you gonna confirm?

As mentioned, I eliminated all the possibilities.

My mom called a special number to report it,

and they took down the story, and the event,

and they took down the details.

I don't think we heard back from them.

Not sure what they do with the information.

Yeah, so, just before I came here [laughing]

I called up this friend in question

who sparked it all, instigated it,

and she had some troubles remembering,

but it came back to her.

Because initially she couldn't remember,

I said, "Well, let me call your sister."

So, her sister is in the science industry,

and she believed it wasn't a UFO.

I mean, I'm not stereotyping scientists,

but they're fully factual people, right?

So, she said, "No, it was a blimp."

And she says, "Because the days after that happened

"we saw a blimp for the next several days."

And I feel, and in my mind, that it was a cover up,

just to put people off.

I don't know.

It may have been a blimp, but my friend's sister

thinks it was a blimp, and she thinks a blimp

can travel that fast.

She said, "They can travel fairly fast."

But sorry, I've never seen a blimp travel that fast.

She said, "Well, it was overcast," things like that,

but in my mind it was a day like today.

Blue skies, clear.

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- [Rick] Rebecca, 45 years old

from Clayton, Victoria had a life-changing event

when she saw a UFO as big as the sun.

Shockingly, years later,

her brother encountered the same craft.

- Okay, so, the first incident I can remember,

I would've been about seven years old.

I lived in Balwyn, Whitehorse Road at the time,

and I remember we came home from somewhere,

my parents and my brother and myself,

and I was looking up Whitehorse Road towards

the dead end on the end.

And I was looking in the sky, I think it was the sun

that was out, and there was something in the sky

that was as big as the sun.

It was enormous, and it looked to me to be like a planet,

something the size of a planet.

And it moved in front of the sun,

it didn't block the sun, it had multiple colors,

and I told my parents at the time.

And they had reminded me over the years

that I had said this, because as a seven year old

I was trying to understand how something that big

could fit inside our planet.

I couldn't work it out.

And then, years later when I was 16,

my brother recalled seeing the same thing.

I didn't know, I didn't remember

that he had been standing next to me.

And one day he just happened to mention

what it looked like exactly,

and that he'd seen it too. So, that was pretty incredible.

I've always wanted to know what it was that I saw.

It was just so enormous.

And, yeah.

If I had to say what size it was,

looking up in the sky, it would've been

the same size as the sun.

- [Rick] On her second encounter she explains

that the UFO came close enough

for her to reach out and touch it.

- Father was visiting, this would've been '98, '99.

And I was saying goodbye to him,

we were walking out the driveway.

I was living in Ferntree Gully at the time.

And he looked up in the sky and he saw

three glowing orange balls of light coming towards us.

And he said, "What's that?"

I said, "I don't know."

And it got really really closed.

If I had have been standing on the roof

of my house I would've touched it.

That's how close.

It wasn't miles away in the sky, it was really close.

And you could tell there was some intelligence to it,

because they weren't connected in any way,

they were separated,

and each orange ball of light maneuvered around each other.

They did this sort of, formation flying.

And there was no noise at all.

It was like three quiet floating ghosts.

My husband managed to get a little bit of it on video tape.

And yeah, that was extraordinary.

We rang the UFO hotline at the time,

and as we were reporting it,

they were asking, "Is it a balloon?"

Is it this or that. My dad got on the phone

and explained what he'd seen as well,

and while we were on the phone

a hundred other people had called,

and it was in Narre Warren by that point.

And it was really fast, just the speed at which it moved.

Just, it glowed orange like the sun,

but it was this brilliant light,

like something you've never seen.

And yeah, they were pretty incredible.

- [Rick] On her third encounter,

she claims the UFO came and sat

right on top of her neighbor's house.

- It happened in my street, I was living in Rowville,

at the time would've been around the year 2000.

And...

It was about 10:30 at night.

I came out front, I was going to visit my mother,

and I called my ex-husband up

and he'd come over to watch my kids.

He came into the house, I walked out the front,

put my keys in the car and looked up,

and there's a UFO sitting right on top

of my neighbor's house, just looking at me.

It was white, bright, brilliant white,

and it just sat there, and I just looked at it

thinking, what's that doing there?

And then it just blinked out.

And I didn't know what had happened,

so I got in my car, and I drove around

to behind the neighbor's house to see

if it had landed behind,

because it just disappeared so quickly,

I couldn't register what had happened.

- [Rick] We asked her how it is that she came

to have had so many encounters in her life,

and if she believed there was a reason for it.

- We had family history experiences, like grandparents.

My grandfather was in the Royal Australian Air Force,

he and my grandmother, and their whole street

saw a sighting in Blackburn.

- [Rick] We also asked her what the aliens

may have looked like.

- They glow so hard that you can't

actually see through the glow.

Couldn't see a craft underneath all that shining glow,

it was just like, yeah, as bright as the sun.

It's almost...

Like a white hot fire, you know?

But yeah, you couldn't see anything through it.

And I don't know if that's because they were in motion,

or what, but yeah, couldn't see anything

through the actual glow.

- [Rick] Finally, we asked her if her experiences

were frightening or not.

- I don't know why, but I'm not afraid,

I'm more intrigued and excited.

So, when I saw them I was just in awe,

just in absolute fascinated awe.

Which I think, yeah, I guess if I had seen a beam

or something had come out, perhaps that would be

completely different, and I could understand

why people would be petrified,

but yeah, just seeing the craft itself, no.

That was just extraordinary. [eerie music]

- [Rick] Shaun, 48,

from St. Kilda, Victoria explains in detail

about a UFO he sighted.

He claims that the aliens use the clouds

as shields for a way to spy on us defenseless humans.

- Night of September, 1989,

I was living in Broadmeadows.

And my court, once you came out of it,

there was no houses built on the area yet.

So, you could see over to the sea,

see some of the view into the sea,

and you could see also,

over to the left you could see a part of the airport,

a bit past the airport.

Anyway, this night I'm coming out of the court,

and I looked up and I'm seeing the torch lights in the sky.

And I thought, wow, UFOs.

So, anyway, they were just torch lights,

and I thought, well, I was going to the shop,

so I had to go pick up dinner, get some stuff,

so I just, you know.

But always kept the eyes on what was going on back there

and just walked down.

Went to the shop and I said to the shopkeeper, I go,

"Mate, there's UFOs in the sky."

And he came out and he had a look, and he goes,

"Oh, no, no, they're lights from the Spoleto Festival."

So, I'm like, "Oh yeah, right,"

so I was disappointed, you know?

I wanted it to be UFOs.

I read in a few books,

"Communion", I think it was at the time.

So, I was disappointed, but that's fair enough,

that's a good explanation.

So, I walk back, and as I'm walking back,

I see two lights aren't moving,

they're just sitting behind the clouds sort of,

or in the clouds.

So, I'm thinking, well, if these are lights

from the Spoleto Festival, why are they just sitting there?

Why aren't they moving around and doing things

as the other ones were?

Seven or eight of them.

And so, I decided, I'll take all the stuff back to my house,

get my parents what they wanted,

and I'll go back out.

And I knew there was this rock out there,

it was like a lounge chair, massive rock,

volcanic rock, so I went back out to that,

which was by myself in the bush,

I mean, in scrub land, you know, grass maybe this high,

and went and sat there.

And it didn't take long, took about half an hour.

And I noticed one of the lights looked like

it was going on and off at this stage.

What was really happening was the cloud was thinning.

I didn't know that at the time.

And then as I kept watching, I noticed there was something

moving in the cloud, and it was going around in a circle,

and there was a light on one side,

so that's why it was going on and off,

'cause as the cloud thinned, that light was getting brighter

and going dimmer as the thing was

spinning around in the circle.

So, I'm looking at that.

I don't know why, I waited for almost,

it was either three or five seconds,

I counted to myself and looked at it.

And I'm like, they're real.

And I don't know, I must've looked at it

for about another five, but then my mind went away

and I went, oh, the other one, the other one.

So, I looked over, it's clear as day, too.

It was like an ice cream cone,

that's the only way I can explain it,

but all sealed up all the way through,

except right down the end, the pointy bit was to the top,

of the ice cream cone, you could say,

was pointing to the top of the sky,

and the flat part of the ice cream cone was to the bottom,

and right down the bottom there

was rusty red, almost orange,

most horrible color I've ever seen in my life,

and green lights sorta dotted out across the bottom of it.

Didn't move.

Didn't make one millimeter of a movement.

It's just like it was staring back at me

as I was staring at it.

It was quite strange.

And anyway, I think it must've been only about

10 or so more seconds there.

It was really sort of really cloudy night,

clouds moved back over 'em.

You could still see 'em there,

but it was like it was when I first saw them,

there was just that light thing, just two light things.

So, I must've been watching the other lights,

the torch lights, the first things that caught my attention,

and I watched 'em, and they started actually doing things.

Like, they would make a shape, go back into the center,

come back out, go back and make another shape,

come back out, in, out, in, out,

quicker, and quicker, and quicker,

and quicker, and quicker, and quicker,

and then the next thing I know,

there's another UFO falling across the sky.

I don't know if the other lights were still there.

It was just a normal typical UFO.

It had portholes in it, and lights coming out

from the portholes, I'm pretty sure there was three,

and it spun through the sky,

but it only went from A to B.

It didn't go another way, it only went A, B, A, B.

And sometimes as it was doing that,

it was making like there was four or five of them.

I think it was just moving that quick,

you could see four or five of them sometimes,

it'd just go, [whooshing] like that.

- [Rick] We asked Shaun if he ever saw

a UFO a second time.

- Nothing that clear, so my mind,

I could be mistaken, I'm not sure,

but one night in Mitcham I seen,

there was these lights almost,

these flashings in the clouds almost straight over

the top of me, and it was like a fission,

was just [whooshing].

And it sort of moved slowly across the sky,

I followed it for about two hours

before it got out of my sight and out of my reach.

There's been a couple other little red things I've seen,

and I've seen an orb in my room

with another guy once, little orb.

But yeah, nothing like that night.

And it changed my life forever.

It's ruled my life forever.

- [Rick] We asked Shaun if he knew anyone else

who had similar experiences.

- Yeah, there's a few people on the internet have put up,

and said they've seen the same thing.

One guy was very cryptic, he put up a picture and goes,

"Have a look at this."

And you had to look really closely through it,

but it was the same sort of thing, it was in the clouds,

and you can see the outline of it.

So, yeah.

And I asked him for more information,

he didn't say, and he never got back to me.

Yeah, and there was this one other one

that was just seen not long ago,

exactly the same thing, but in the clouds again,

and you can just see the outline of it.

They seem to use the clouds to hide, I think.

I don't know.

There's something going on in the clouds,

and it's probably a good way to hide, you know?

Where they can spin off so quick.

And in between things, you wouldn't see 'em,

and then when they need to swap

they just have to swap the clouds.

There was another one, too, that was in the clouds, too,

someone photographed from a plane.

It was the same thing as well,

but right there just at the top of them.

So, I think it's been around for 8,000 years

since the Mayans carved out the replica of it

as far as I'm concerned.

So, yeah. [eerie music]

- [Rick] Deborah, 60 years old

from Sunbury, Victoria describes a day out

with close family and friends,

when up in the sky they spotted a UFO

that changed the course of their lives forever.

- Okay, well, basically we had family friends,

my mom and dad had some friends,

and we became really good friends with them, too,

and we lived actually, they lived on top of us

at the Carlton flats, and we'd sort of

became really good friends.

And I was friends with their eldest daughter,

she was about my age.

And anyway, mom and dad became friends with her parents,

and we used to go over to Brunswick where they lived.

They lived at the back

of an upholstery shop in Melville Road.

And anyway, we'd go over there,

and the men would have a few drinks,

and the ladies would get together and chatter,

and the kids, we all played together.

And anyway, this particular day,

we went over, it was probably in the early afternoon,

two, three o'clock, somewhere around there.

And my girlfriend, Karen, the oldest daughter,

and myself were playing ball, like tee-ball up against

the back of the wall of the house.

And I was trying to work out our ages,

I thought we were a little bit younger,

but I think we must've been about 12 or 13,

'cause my younger sister, she's 10 years younger than me,

and she said that she was very young

but she remembers it, so that means then

I must have been roughly about that age.

And anyway, we were playing ball,

and tapping it up against the back of the house

on the bricks, and it was a beautiful blue sky,

not a cloud in the sky at all.

It was just clear, and it was beautiful sunny day,

it wasn't real hot, but it was just nice.

And we were out there, and the ball sort of went up

against the wall, and then it sort of flipped up high,

and we basically went to catch it,

and when we went to catch it,

we noticed this thing in the sky.

We sorta stopped and we thought, what is that?

And we're looking at it,

and I remember my first thought was,

is this a balloon or something?

And I'm looking at it and I'm thinking,

no, that's much too high.

It was sorta like...

Where you would see an aircraft in the distance,

and it was silver, and I was thinking about it

a couple of days ago, and I was thinking,

was it reflecting the sun or anything like that?

But I don't remember any shine, reflection off it.

So, I don't know what time of day it was,

but that might've had something to do with it,

but it did look silver.

And it wasn't like a balloon,

it was sort of more oval, sorta oval-ish.

And we're sort of watching this thing,

and the thing about it was,

while we stood there looking at it,

really amused, was because it was moving

in the most peculiar fashion.

It wasn't sorta moving like a balloon,

floating or anything like that,

ore even slightly up, or anything like that.

It was moving directly straight,

in straight angles, it looked like it was going

really really fast, I mean, I can't predict how fast,

but it looked like it was going really really fast,

and it would just sort of,

zoom in a straight line, and stop.

And that's what caught us, and we're thinking, what is that?

And then next moment, it'll stay like that

for a few seconds, and next moment it'll zoom up

in a diagonal line, and it'll do that for a bit,

and then it'll just stop, and then it'll go down,

and sometimes it'll stop longer than other times.

And we're watching this thing and we're going, what is this?

What is it?

Where?

You know?

And after a while we thought, let's go and get our parents,

they might know what it is.

So, we ran inside really excited,

and I asked my mom this the other day,

and I said, "Do you remember our reaction?"

And she said, "Oh yeah, you both came in

"really excited and yelling,

"'You gotta come out, you gotta come out

"'and have a look at this thing, we don't know what it is."

So, we basically went outside with our parents

and our siblings, all our brothers and sisters,

they all came out with us, and our parents,

both lots of parents, we're all looking at this thing,

oh, that's strange, what is that?

What is it?

And we were just watching it like that

for quite some time, and then after a while

we couldn't make our what it was.

It's definitely not a balloon,

and it was definitely something really fast,

and something that just could stop,

just abruptly, you know?

And yeah, and we watched it for a while,

and after a while as we were watching it,

it just sorta stopped, and then all of a sudden

it just went, [blowing sharply] and it actually went out

into the atmosphere, and we could see it

getting smaller and smaller and smaller,

until it just disappeared.

It was just amazing, you know?

And I always remember, like when we left to go home

and we're in the car, and Dad was driving,

and I always remember thinking about it in the car,

and I remember saying to Dad, "What do you think that was?

"What do you think it was, Dad?"

And I remember Dad saying to me,

"Oh, who knows, it might've been a weather balloon,

"or something like that."

And I remember sitting back thinking,

I didn't say anything, but I remember thinking,

no, I don't think so.

It didn't move like something like that,

but I don't think he could explain it,

so he didn't know what to say.

But I've always thought to myself,

no, that definitely wasn't a weather balloon.

Just the way it looked, the way it moved, the speed,

the way it took off into as far as you could see

and you couldn't see it any longer.

Like it went down a pin prick size,

and then it just disappeared, you know?

And it was a pure blue sky, there was no clouds whatsoever.

And that's why I remember seeing it so well,

and it stuck with me all those years.

And I have asked my mom, she sorta remembers bits of it,

but she just remembers seeing something very strange,

but she can't remember exactly.

But she remembers something very very strange

and we came in excited, and she remembers that.

And also, I saw my girlfriend, who I saw it with,

and I was talking to her about it,

and she said to me, "Yeah, I remember something about that.

"I remember it was just very strange,

"but I can't remember it in real good detail."

But I remember it quite well in detail

because it's always stuck with me

and I've always thought about it,

so it's probably stayed in my memory longer,

whereas some people probably didn't think about it as much.

I actually, this is going back a few years ago

when YouTube first started up,

I was thinking about it at that time,

and I got on and I searched UFOs,

and movements and stuff like this.

And I remember going through a few,

because there weren't as many then as what there are now,

'cause I've tried to go back on and have a look.

But anyway, at that time I remember finding

a actual YouTube clip somebody had taken

and it looked exactly the same,

and the way it was moving, the shape of it,

the look of it, and I'm thinking,

oh, I wish I would have taken notice of the caption

and everything to sort of be able to go back in,

but I've tried going back in

and there's just too many in there now,

so, I haven't had much success.

[eerie music]

- [Rick] Alister, 22, from Geelong, Victoria,

a firm believer of UFOs and aliens,

had his first experience when he spotted

a red glowing UFO in the mountains

outside his bedroom window.

After a 10 year gap, he witnessed his second UFO sighting,

this time described as blue lights in the sky above.

- Well, I was probably around 14, 15, sitting at home,

watching TV with the family,

'cause we had the windows open, we noticed this light

coming over the hill, and I'm like,

that kinda looks out of the ordinary,

'cause I kinda keep track of all the planets

and the planes going around.

So, that really kinda shouldn't be there.

So, it gets closer and kind of fades out, you know?

So, I kind of run out to the street,

Mom's like, "Don't go out there,

"what if it's a spaceship? "What if you get taken away?"

You know, joking about it.

So, I run out to the middle of the street, and...

The light fades away and I'm looking around for it,

then I start to see this red glow come over the street.

And this thing wasn't really aerodynamic at all,

didn't have any rotors, any engines,

but the thing that stood out most for me,

was that when you're looking at a brick wall

and you see the concrete between the bricks,

I could see kinda like that, but underneath.

It was like a red light coming through panels underneath it.

And it just kind of, flew over the neighborhood,

and took this weird maneuver that a plane couldn't do,

helicopter wouldn't do, and that was...

The closest thing I've seen.

I've seen other things, like blue flashes in the sky,

and lights moving around after blue flashes.

Came home one day after school,

'cause I went to school in the middle of the country,

in the countryside, in the country of Victoria.

Came home, walked home from the bus,

down the two kilometer long driveway,

and just heard this really loud humming sound

that just shouldn't have been there.

Really loud humming sound, so I freaked out,

I run under the trees and it stayed

for probably about 10 minutes,

just whatever this sound was.

And as soon as it left I ran to the house,

I'm like, "Oi, Dad, something weird happened outside."

And then he just kind of brushed it off,

'cause he's from the country, weird things happen,

you hear and see weird things.

Just kind of brushed it off.

So, I've seen things here and there,

but seeing that, seeing in between those panels,

whatever the hell that was,

over a suburban neighborhood is just something

that I haven't really heard of before,

before my account of it.

I definitely think there's more

to be seen out in the country, definitely.

Because you don't have the full light pollution

coming up from the cities,

and you can see more stars and whatnot.

A lot of encounters that I've heard about

come from the country anyway, or most of them do.

'Cause I've had family tell me about their encounters.

I had an auntie, she was driving home one day.

This is way before I was born, my dad told me about this

after a UFO was captured in a photo, it was on the news,

and he just kinda turned around,

"Oh, your auntie got chased home one day back in the '70s."

Like, "Chased home by a what?"

"Oh, she got chased home by this glowing orb."

Probably about 10 ks and it just

followed her all the way home.

No.

The light through the panels, that was in Geelong.

I saw a blue flash out towards Barongarook,

out in the bush, out towards forest.

The Otways area.

Saw a blue flash over Geelong when I was around 17, 18,

almost looked exactly the same as what I saw.

Actually, my dad was with me in Barongarook,

'cause we just saw this blue flash,

we were driving home from meeting that he had.

Saw this blue flash and we both kind of stopped

and looked like, and to have it happen

there almost 10 years later, and not see it any other time

is just kind of strange, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah, I definitely do.

I went through a stage...

Where I wanted to do what you're doing,

interview people and get their stories

and document it, maybe make a documentary,

but I haven't really gotten around it it.

I kind of don't talk about it with my friends,

not that they'd look down on me or joke about it,

but my friends aren't really the kind of people

to talk about these kinds of things.

Definitely just tell someone about it.

Don't be afraid to talk about it.

If you're out at a bar, or with friends,

and someone says, what's your opinion on this?

Don't hold back, definitely just go for it,

let it all out.

Just tell your story and let it be known,

'cause if it's not known, the truth may never be known.

It's definitely something I've noticed

happen all over Australia.

I've read about things from Northern Territory, WA.

I was visiting a friend up...

About an hour or two from New South Wales,

and apparently that area

where she's from's a definite hotspot

for this kinda thing.

And coming from out in the country,

especially out in the Otways, out towards the Colac area,

that's another hotspot, too.

- [Rick] We asked Alister if he knew anyone

who had actually seen an alien up close.

- I was with two friends,

chilling in the middle of the night

at a school up the road from me,

and we saw the blue flash in the sky

and we were just kinda like,

we're all looking up, just having a couple of smokes,

couple of drinks, just looking at the stars,

and then, bang, we're just like, "What was that?"

And then we start seeing these lights dancing in the sky,

stars don't normally dance around like that.

And then maybe 20 minutes into that,

the wind gets really strong.

And the wind just gets really strong,

the wind builds up, it seems to be only be in our area

where we're sitting down having a couple drinks

and a couple smokes.

And then my friend, she was sitting next to me

and she freezes, and we hear the leaves crunch

about 100, 200 meters in front of us,

we hear the leaves crunch, and we're kind of trying

to figure out what's going on.

She freezes and stops and she's like,

"We have to go, like, now.

"We have to leave."

So, we run two blocks down the street,

and I've pulled her aside, going, "What's going on?

"What did you see?"

She's like, "I saw this tall gray figure walking towards,"

so we needed to get the hell out of there

in case it was something that wanted

to hurt us in any sorta way.

Depends on what day you catch me on, you know?

Sometimes I'll think that it is scary,

because more technology than us,

could wipe us out or something, scary like that,

or have the other perspective where

we could contact them, they could contact us.

Start kind of work in, not really an alliance,

but technology, they could teach us things,

we could somehow teach them things.

[eerie music]

- [Rick] Aaron, 52, from Mickleham, Victoria,

a maths, science, and physics teacher,

was in the car with his wife on their way

to buy a new piano when they looked up

and saw a gigantic UFO on the horizon.

It shocked them enough for him to pull the car over

and investigate further.

- I've actually had several...

Experiences with this.

One was in 2016.

So, going back about two years.

And that was in Craigieburn Road West, to be exact.

Sorry, Craigieburn Road East, to be exact.

And what we were doing was,

me and my wife were going to buy a piano.

I'm a musician on the side.

I'm actually an architect,

but I do music on the side.

And so, I was quite fond of this...

Keyboard, and that was in Wollert,

which is east of Craigieburn.

So, we had to go along Craigieburn Road,

and pick up the instrument, and come back home.

Now, that was roughly two years ago.

I don't remember the month, to be honest,

but I do remember that it was just about sunset.

So, the sun was going down.

The sun was going down.

The sun was going down, and Craigieburn Road East

is a very straight piece of road,

and it's very quiet, and you can see for miles, you know?

And my wife was with me as well,

and I said, "Look, do you notice that thing

"up on the horizon there towards the airport?"

The airport is sort of west...

West due north.

And she said, "Well, I could barely see it."

She kept saying, "Just concentrate on the road."

Well, I couldn't, so I had to pull over.

I pulled over and I had a good look at it,

and if you remember picture of Halley's Comet.

So, it was similar to that, but it was much much larger.

I would say...

I would say about six to eight times

the size of an airplane.

And this in the distance, so it would've been

several kilometers away.

And it had this, it was like a ball,

like a yellowy type ball,

with a thing at the end of it, like a tail.

And I wanted to make sure that it was nothing else,

so I stopped and had a good look at it,

and it was hard to tell if it was moving or not,

'cause there's no noise.

And then...

I noticed that it was moving,

but it was moving from that distance, obviously,

it was moving very, very slowly,

almost still to most.

And then what we then did was jump in the car,

and just went home, went towards home,

but this time I got my wife to drive.

Got my wife to drive so I could

keep an eye out on this thing.

And as we were driving,

and obviously the sun's going down,

it's getting more and more visible,

and I said, "Can you slow down a bit?

"Can you slow down?"

And she did so, and then this time it was moving

a lot faster, it was...

It wasn't in the same place all the time.

Comets usually...

Very slow, and they're millions of ks away,

but this thing was moving.

It had changed location,

it had changed location pretty quickly, pretty quickly.

So, we kept proceeding, we kept driving along

Craigieburn Road East, and then...

We started to lose where it was going.

Plus there was cars behind us as well.

So, we couldn't just stop, you know?

But this thing, it was like...

I'm a maths teacher, science teacher, physics teacher, so.

- [Rick] His second encounter was when he and a friend

saw a large UFO flying above them,

ironically in a suburban street.

- The second one that I saw was more mind-boggling.

I actually had a friend in the car,

and he looked at it and witnessed it,

and he said, "Mate, what can that be?"

I said, "Look, I don't know."

But we're driving, it's happened in Footscray, too,

one of the four places, Footscray.

And what it was, is it was an object.

It wasn't just an object quite like the other one,

with the ball and the tail...

This was a disk with lights around it,

but it was sort of...

It's hard to tell 'cause it was at night,

and it was, I'd say...

Nine, 10 at night, nine or 10.

So, this was a disk,

and it had flashing things around it, flashing lights...

It looked to me like something from movies.

And I just brushed it off and said,

"It could be the Air Force,"

but then again, the Air Force doesn't

do things like that, they don't.

They do have advanced technology.

They've obviously really done reverse engineered

the Roswell crash, I mean, they've got incredible things,

but not like this, hovering without a sound.

Along with the lights, you could sort of,

because of the lighting in Footscray, the street lamps,

you could make out windows.

I wouldn't know if they're windows or not,

but from my perspective,

it looked like lights around it, plus windows.

So, I don't know.

But that was low, that was flying very low,

and it was almost hovering,

like absolutely nothing, and it was huge.

I'm talking, it would be half the size

of an oval, half the size.

Not quite the size of an oval,

but half to a third.

So, about that size, and it was sort of

dark, metallic-y color.

And that was more bizarre.

And we actually followed it with side streets.

And look, I don't take drugs, I don't drink alcohol,

I've never touched the stuff.

I'm [mumbles] religious man, obviously.

But what I saw that day was...

Different, was really, really weird,

and I followed it and followed it,

and then it just disappeared.

[eerie music]

- [Rick] Adam, 33 years old

from Mill Park, Victoria was spending the summer

at his grandmother's house

when a UFO landed in their backyard,

paralyzing him stiff.

It has scarred him to this day,

and he seemed almost reluctant

to tell us about it, out of fear.

- All right, well, my incident basically occurred,

it was during the summer of 1992,

and I was only a kid.

I was just eight years old, just turned eight,

and I was actually at my grandmother's place,

and I was there with my mother.

And I remember the dog barking,

it was barking profusely,

and my grandmother requested that I go outside

and see what the dog was barking at

and why it was so hysteric.

And I actually went out to the backyard

to actually see if I could keep the dog calm.

And lo and behold, I looked up,

and seen what the actual dog was so pedantic about.

And as I've looked up, there was a massive

saucer-shaped craft 10 meters from the ground up in the air.

And it was completely stationary though, it was rotating.

I remember that, it was rotating,

and it was a very dark black,

though it had windows on the top dome of it,

and if I had to describe the black,

the shade or color of black it was now,

I'd say Vantablack, it was probably the most

black color I've seen.

And it seemed seamless, I can articulate myself now,

because I've had many years to actually think about

and dwell about what I'd seen,

but this craft was completely silent.

And I remember when I looked up at it,

I was actually frightened and scared,

and I wanted to run inside, and I tried running inside,

but I just couldn't move.

And I just remember looking at this thing,

and I was actually trying to actually work out

what this thing was, because I was only eight years old,

so I was very stressed, and I remember just

staring up at this thing,

and I really was just fearful for my own safety,

and that of everyone in the house.

And I wanted to run inside, but for some reason

my body would not move, and I've never felt

like that before ever in my life.

That's the only one time, that I just can't explain it,

it was just an inability to actually move,

it was like I was paralyzed,

and I could only look up at this thing.

And it just sat there, and it was just completely silent,

and the dog kept barking profusely and would not stop,

and then this probably went on for a good 10 minutes.

By this stage I heard my grandmother yelling out,

telling me to come inside.

The saucer-shaped craft began moving off slowly,

and as it moved off slowly,

it was only when it was about

probably 30 meters away from me

that I was able to run inside.

Now, this was at night time, this incident,

and when it started moving off I was able to run,

and the first thing I did was run inside,

and 'cause I was only a kid, I hid under the kitchen table,

and I was in a very distressed state,

and my grandmother asked me, "What's wrong with you?"

And I tried to explain the best I could at the time

what I had seen, and I remember my mother didn't believe me,

but my grandmother did.

She actually took the time out to listen,

and believe what I was saying,

because she grew up on a farm in Diamond Creek,

and had heard similar stories of things.

And I was actually surprised,

'cause I thought it was my actual mother

that would believe, and it would be the opposite,

but no, it turned out that my grandmother believed

what I was saying, but yeah, my mother didn't.

And yeah, then when I was at primary school

I remember telling my grade two teacher

about what I'd seen, and that's where

I started wanting to learn more

about what I'd actually witnessed,

because I remember a lot of my...

The primary school students and teacher

talked to me about UFOs, and then I was like, oh, okay.

So, I started learning more about UFOs,

and the possibility of what I'd seen

could be extraterrestrial in origin.

And it actually piqued my interest in the science

and technology, and probably from that day forward

that's when I endeavored to actually learn more

about science and technology.

And it did change my perspective on a lot of things,

because then I questioned, what if that UFO I'd seen

was extraterrestrial in origin,

because of the fact that there was no

visible propulsion systems on it,

and it was completely silent,

couldn't fit the description

of anything known at the time, the '90s,

in terms of military aircraft, or, you know.

There's every possibility that I was just

so ecstatic or worked up in a frenzy

that maybe the fear, it did paralyze me,

but it wasn't some type

of technological intervention, though.

You know, I have read a lot of case studies on UFOs,

and there's similarities in people

that witness things similar to what I witnessed,

and they say that they couldn't move as well,

so, there's every chance that it could've been

some type of technological intervention

that stopped me from moving.

I can't be certain.

It may have been my own fear.

- [Rick] We asked him if he knew

anyone else that may have had a similar experience.

- The only case that I can think of that's similar

is probably the Westall incident.

That comes to mind.

Even with the Frederick Valentich case,

that was probably one of the ones

that has stuck in my mind,

because of just the overwhelming evidence,

and the way that went down, and the Mehrabad Airport,

and even people that've spoke of it,

I actually had the pleasure of speaking to people

that actually worked at the Mehrabad Airport that day,

it was just by coincidence that I ran into them

during the course of my time.

And yeah, I think there is a lot of truth

to whatever happened that day,

that something more did go down.

But, yeah.

- [Rick] And finally, we asked him if what he saw

was definitely from another world, or not.

- Yeah, I do feel that the UFO that I had seen

with my own eyes to this day very well could've been

extraterrestrial in origin.

Based on what I know now and what I've read,

official documentation and declassified documents,

that are official, like things that are

widely available on the internet,

and there's actual the veracity of the sources

coming from declassified documents from the Pentagon

that even they, there was an actual concerted effort

to actually study UFO phenomena.

So, it's not like it's as secretive as what it used to be,

there's actually some declassified documents

of U.S. military tracking UFOs,

of objects that could do inordinate speed,

so that we know now, it's an actual fact.

So now, I think there's a lot more

seriousness brought to these matters.

So, the U.S. government actually,

in the last few years under the Trump administration

has declassified some documents

with the U.S. Air Force's actual tracking

of inordinate objects that can do phenomenal speeds,

and I think now it's not a matter

of if there's extraterrestrial life forms watching Earth,

is that the fact that we just have to understand

that there is, and maybe we have to not worry

about it so much, but just accept that's how things are.

I think, yeah, the research I'm talking about

is widely available, it's been covered

by most of the media outlets, including CNN, Fox News,

so, it's no longer a conspiracy theory.

- [Interviewer] Transcripts [muffled].

- Yeah, yeah, it's basically an admission

by the U.S. government that this is

what the U.S. Air Force has tracked,

and they've released video footage,

I think it was last year,

they released video footage of a craft

that two U.S. Hornets were tracking

that was doing phenomenal speed.

So, I think under the Trump administration

there's a lot more honesty coming out,

in terms of these matters.

I think it's actually now there's a paradigm shift

in people's thinking.

And I think governments around the world

should be taking xenosciences more seriously,

'cause I think that's where we have

to shift our thinking towards now.

[eerie music]

- [Rick] Shaun says that the aliens

treat human beings like animals,

and that in the end we are all expendable to them.

- Yeah, whatever I saw...

I think that as great as they sound like,

they're experimenters.

They sound like they don't really give

too much of a crap about the human species,

it's almost like how we treat animals.

The shapes of the UFOs, especially the first one

that I saw, and I found it 23 years later,

I found the Mayans, 8,000 years ago,

carved out exactly what I saw in rock.

It's called the Black Pyramid of Ecuador.

It was found by Father Crespi, I think, in 1984.

Yeah, he found it in a cave, or something,

and it's like Mayan stuff, but it was found

in a cave in Ecuador.

And it's an exact thing,

exact replica of what I saw that night.

Yeah, and you put black light on it,

it goes almost the exact color of what I saw, too,

when you put the black light on it.

So, it's a rock color,

but then as soon as you put black light on it,

it goes just really the complete color,

and the exact sorta tones the color is what I saw, too.

- [laughing] I don't wanna be ridiculed here.

Look, I don't know, I don't know,

but I can't answer.

I don't want to...

Downplay any true stories that may have happened to people

having be abducted by aliens.

I can't judge, I'm not that person

who may have been abducted, so.

- I think it's absolutely a possibility.

We've had some very strange experiences

in our family that we can't explain,

so I can absolutely understand

how that's a possibility for people, I really do.

I don't know if that's happened in our family,

we haven't explored that, or done any regressions,

or looked into it.

It wouldn't surprise me.

My children have had experiences.

Yeah, aunties and uncles.

Seems to be on both sides of my family.

So, yeah, we've always had some sort of unusual.

I mean, there's been many, many sightings,

not just myself, cousins, aunties, uncles, you know?

Had a lot, and a lot of the family have seen things.

- There are, after sort of experiencing

this sort of thing, it's a long shot,

but I'm open-minded about it,

and yeah, it could happen.

There are things that have happened

around the planet that don't have an explanation,

and people's recollection, and things disappearing

and reappearing, and people disappearing without a trace.

Without a trace, [snaps] and they're gone.

So, who knows?

I'm open-minded about it.

- I've got no idea, really, about that sort of thing.

Even my thing, if anybody can explain what it was,

that'd be great, but I can't...

See how anybody can give me any answer about that, you know?

Because I've never seen or known of anything

that moves like that.

But yeah, I mean, when you think about it,

we're only one planet in the whole

forever and ever and ever.

- [Interviewer] Yeah, the whole solar system, yeah.

- Yeah, and like I read the other day

that they found this other solar system,

or galaxy, or something.

I read that only just a few days ago,

and they found the first planets,

or something, with that, and I'm thinking to myself,

well, that's only that, you know?

It keeps going on and on and on,

and it doesn't end, does it, supposedly?

Yeah, so.

- I'm strong believer in that.

- [Interviewer] Just tell me your thoughts on that.

- I haven't had it happen to myself,

but I've watched a lot of documentaries,

read a lot of books.

I started reading books about mysteries,

and ghosts, and aliens, about middle primary school,

which was when that news story broke out

that I told you about earlier.

Yeah, so, I started reading all these books,

so, I've read about a lot of alien abductions,

and those kind of close encounters,

read about a lot of them.

So, they've kind of stayed with me.

- It's hard to say, it's hard to say.

But I don't discount that.

I do believe people have been abducted.

I do believe they've been surgically implanted with things.

I do believe that some are mischievous, and some are good.

I believe in all that, but...

I just think that it's us here,

living in this other realm, well,

living in this parallel, yeah.

Parallel world with other beings, so to speak.

People have talked about seeing shadow people, djinns.

- No, because I believe in the zoo hypothesis.

That's something that I strongly believe in,

and I don't believe in alien abduction.

Though, I'm always open to the possibility

for facts to present themselves,

'cause I'm more of a person that goes off

what facts, what presents themselves.

For me, all the research I've done,

there's no strong evidence to actually indicate

beyond a reasonable doubt

that alien abductions have taken place.

[eerie music]

- I don't care if you believe me or not.

I'm telling you the truth, you can believe me, I don't care.

Doesn't worry me anymore.

Gotten over that.

- Look, I've spoken to...

Several friends how also have their own stories.

One was in Bali, another friend who lives in the mountains,

and he says he often sees lights

in the sky that suggest UFOs.

I think like the growing majority of people, it's...

It's wrong to believe that we're the only species

in this planet, in this universe,

so there may be a small chance of seeing other species,

and their means of transport,

intercepting our skies.

So, that's how I see it.

I don't know whether they're meant to be seen,

maybe there's some sort of accident,

and when they're seen, I don't know.

Look, I've got my story, I 70% believe myself,

and 30% I have a suspicion

whether it could've been something else.

But it doesn't feel like it was something else,

it feels like it was what I said it was.

Yeah.

- I definitely think something's happening,

I definitely think there is a level of visitation going on.

I don't know how much of it is us,

as in our potentially government or military-made,

but I know there'd be a good percentage

that isn't from here.

I mean, what I saw, it changes you,

it really changes you, you can't look at things

the same way anymore, and the one thing that surprises you,

is that you look at people,

and you're telling your story,

and you're so excited, this happened, and blah, blah, blah,

but people look at you sort of like, really?

Are you, you know?

You've known them all your life,

and all of a sudden they're questioning

could that have happened?

And it doesn't occur to you that people might think,

ah, could that really be true?

Or, could that really happen?

Because it's just so profound when it does,

you can't think it's anything else.

- Not really, no.

I don't think it's something that should be looked down on,

or feared, it should be something

that's taken seriously, and looked into, scientifically,

and not just passed off as a joke,

or hallucinations, or whatever.

- Well, I know what I saw, and it's definitely what I saw,

and other people have seen things, too.

When you see these things, you know,

and like I've thought to myself,

if people doubt me, well, I don't care,

because I know what I've seen,

and nobody can take that away from me,

because that's lived with me.

So, that's basically, if they see it,

well, that's they're experience, and they've seen it,

and I would believe other people wouldn't see these things.

So, yeah.

So basically, we're not the only planet

probably that have got living things on it,

and yeah, that sort of thing.

Do you know what I mean?

- Don't disbelieve.

Anything can happen, and it probably does.

- [Rick] Make no mistake, the phenomena is real.

People are being abducted without their consent,

and we are utterly powerless against it.

We will never understand why the aliens hunt us.

From our reports and in-person testimonies,

aliens exist in Australia and other countries

around the world.

Alien abduction scarily seems to be becoming a normality.

How long will the government

keep a lid on their discoveries?

How many people will it take to give their testimony

before it's too late?

Aliens Down Under confirms that extraterrestrials

and unidentified flying objects

now have a firm grip on our tiny planet.

The only question is, how long can we protect the earth

and everything in it? [soft scary music]

[loud whooshing]