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Post by lois on Apr 8, 2011 22:56:22 GMT -6
1988 - The Eyre Highway Encounter, AustraliaI keep putting ufo cases here which are most interesting to myself, ones I never have gotten out of my mind. Especially this one. www.ufocasebook.com/eyrehighway.html
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Post by skywalker on Apr 9, 2011 6:38:08 GMT -6
The skeptics said they might have been engulfed in an electricaly charged tornado? Is that the best they can come up with? Why not just say they were engulfed in swamp gas that was dropped by a weather balloon and they all had sleep paralysis? It's amazing the lengths they will go to in order to avoid saying something was a UFO.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 15:19:26 GMT -6
The skeptics said they might have been engulfed in an electricaly charged tornado? Is that the best they can come up with? Why not just say they were engulfed in swamp gas that was dropped by a weather balloon and they all had sleep paralysis? It's amazing the lengths they will go to in order to avoid saying something was a UFO. A glowing yellow egg-shaped tornado that zig-zazs around and hovers over their car... ~rolls eyes~
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 15:22:22 GMT -6
I don't understand why people call the police when they have a close encounter to be perfectly honest...
I wouldn't... for fear of ridicule... I would tell you guys all about it but I wouldn't call the police. Calling the police would be the last thing I would ever do...
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Post by lois on Apr 9, 2011 15:59:45 GMT -6
Live video from Australia.. some evidence in this one also the knowles family themselves..
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Post by lois on Apr 9, 2011 16:04:51 GMT -6
Part two.....Look at the tires on the car..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 17:07:12 GMT -6
Part two.....Look at the tires on the car.. Yea... it appears that the tire damage might have been caused by the car being dropped suddenly back onto the road surface...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 20:05:16 GMT -6
That looks like one of those Bermuda Triangle like things more than a UFO thing..like something out of place or out of sync with the rest of the world.
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Post by lois on Apr 9, 2011 21:15:41 GMT -6
yes, they said their voices changed.. This is so unreal like a ufo event, but they did see the craft. There were semi's on road behind them. Guess they did not waste time getting out of arms way here.. Ive never seen where any witness came forward..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2011 21:59:40 GMT -6
One of those strange effects that seems to haunt the UFO culture is that someone can see something and no one else nearby does. I'm still thinking that there is a lot of mental tampering going on more than interstellar travel.
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Post by auntym on Apr 20, 2014 14:28:59 GMT -6
www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/04/abduction-attempt-mundrabilla-ufo.html Saturday, April 19, 2014 Abduction Attempt: The Mundrabilla UFO IncidentThe Mundrabilla, Australia UFO incident of January 21, 1988 received a huge amount of media publicity. The Knowles family described how the UFO shot over their car and lifted it off the road. Their voices changed in pitch, the family dog in the car went crazy, and the car started shaking. The news media described the incident as a 'UFO attack' and reported that the car was covered by strange dust: The Knowles Family Incident
January 20 1988 was the day that the Knowles family and their two dogs had an unexplainable experience whilst travelling across the Nullarbor Plain in the early hours of the morning.
At about 4.00am, Faye Knowles and her sons Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne 18 were between Madura and Mundrabilla with Sean driving and Patrick next to him in the front seat when a bright light was seen ahead of them. Sean thought the light strange and asked his brother if he thought it was a spaceship. This idea was rejected by his brother, but Sean’s interest was piqued and he sped the car up in order to catch up to the object and get a closer look. At about 20 metres from the object the family say they were confronted with a white blinding light that moved along in front of their moving vehicle. It was about 1 metre wide and described as a slightly angular egg in an egg-cup shape with a yellow centre. The object, which at first appeared to be either on the ground or immediately above it then began to move back and forth. Sean swerved the car to the opposite side of the road to avoid a collision with the object, but then nearly collided with a station wagon towing a caravan coming in the other direction. (The occupants of this second car have never come forward) The object then circled around to the right side of their car and appeared to give chase to the second vehicle towing the caravan. The Knowles made at 2 u-turns at this point, the first to give chase to the object, and the second to abandon this idea as they had grown frightened. They had at this point gained the idea that the object was after them.
At some point the family felt that the UFO had returned and had landed on their vehicle. They heard a clunking sound and felt that the car was being pushed down by a weight that rested on top of it. CONTINUE READING: www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/04/abduction-attempt-mundrabilla-ufo.htmlKnowles Family UFO Encounter - 20th January 1988 AustralianCrawlVEVO Published on Jun 21, 2013 On the evening of 20th January, 1988, Sean Knowles was driving his mother, Faye, brothers Patrick and Wayne and the families two pet dogs across Australia's Nullarbor Plain to stay with family in Melbourne. While heading east of Perth to Mundrabilla along the Eyre Highway at about 1.30 a.m., the car's radio suddenly began to malfunction. At 1.45 a.m. Sean spotted what he presumed to be a truck with only one headlight working up ahead. As it approached, however, he could see that there was a strange ball of light hovering above the truck, which was now driving erratically on the wrong side of the road. Realizing he was in danger of a collision, Sean quickly swerved narrowly missing the wayward truck. Not long after, another car passed the Knowles', with what appeared to be the same bright light travelling above it. Perplexed, Sean turned the car around to follow the glowing object, but before long, the ball of light had doubled back again and was, this time, in pursuit of Sean's car. Everyone in the car was thrown into a state of panic as Faye and the children screamed at Sean to get out of there fast. Sean tried to turn the car once more, but it was to late, the object had already caught them up and landed with a thump on top of the car. Bright beams of light filled the inside of the car. Patrick, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, felt as if his 'brains were being sucked out of his head'. The dogs were going crazy and everyone in the car thought they were going to die. What Sean thought initially was the movement of the car going forward at 200kmph, was in fact the car being drawn up into the air by the object. Faye, who was in the back seat, opened the window and actually touch the object. She felt something which was warm and spongy, like some sort of suction pad. Recoiling violently, she became hysterical and began to scream. When she pulled her hand back in, it was red, swollen and cold. Patrick, in the front seat, rolled his window down only to engulf the inside of the car with a black, ash-like substance and a smell which smelt like 'decomposing bodies'. The family's voices became distorted, sounding as if they were talking in slow motion, and their hair stood on end. Then, suddenly, the car dropped back down to the ground, bursting one of the rear tyres. It was not until this point that Sean realised the car had been in the air. After regaining control of the vehicle, Sean managed to stop the car, enabling the family to exit the car and run for cover in some nearby bushes. They watched petrified as the object, which resembled 'an egg in a cup' hovered above them. Emitting an electrical humming sound, the craft circled around in the sky above while beaming a searchlight down on to the ground, as if looking for them. Eventually, to their relief, the craft disappeared. For around 15 minutes afterwards, their voices remained distorted while they desperately tried to change the tyre. Then to their horror and surprise, the craft returned. The family quickly jumped into the car and drove towards the Mundrabilla Roadhouse, some 40km away, as this was the closest inhabited building to them. In Sean's frantic attempt to get to the Roadhouse, they clipped a kangaroo on the way, badly denting the car, but this didn't stop them driving at a frantic pace until the service station was in sight. It was at this point that the craft disappeared out of site. On arrival at the Mundrabilla Roadhouse, the family, visibly shaken, reported their encounter to two truck drivers. An attendant at the station said 'I thought at first they were trying to be funny, they were excited and scared. When I got near to the car, I noticed an odour which smelt similar to hot insulation'. Faye's hand was still swollen and the dogs had began to lose clumps of hair. Was Travis Walton Abducted By Aliens? A thorough investigation was carried out by the Victorian UFO Research Society (VUFORS). Samples of the dust which entered the car were sent to a NASA-related laboratory in California for analysis. The results showed that the dust was made up of oxygen, carbon, silicon, potassium and, more unusually, a trace of astatine, which is a radioactive chemical produced synthetically. Its half-life is only a few hours and so, in normal circumstances, even the smallest trace of this element would have long since deteriorated by the time the investigation was underway. However, when magnified 5,000 times, some of the particles exhibited signs of potential radiation, which would help to explain Faye's swollen hand.
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Post by lois on Apr 20, 2014 19:04:27 GMT -6
Auntym Here is my thread of this on page 3. Don't know if it shades any more light on the subject
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Apr 20, 2014 19:19:05 GMT -6
If you want to quote a post from an old thread and bring it to a different thread you would need to copy and paste it. Just click on quote like you normally would then copy everything that shows up then click reply on the thread you want to put it on and paste it in. It should work.
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Post by auntym on Apr 20, 2014 22:41:37 GMT -6
Auntym Here is my thread of this on page 3. Don't know if it shades any more light on the subject hi lois... i moved my thread to yours, all i did was change your title, when i looked for this thread in the search engine, it didn't pull up, so i figured there wasn't one... the thread is still listed as yours... thanks for letting me know...
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Post by swamprat on Jun 8, 2014 11:40:10 GMT -6
Here is another article on this event:The Australian
The day a UFO attacked a car on the Nullarbor Lynton Grace June 08, 2014 11:08AM
THE Knowles family set out from Perth for Melbourne, in the hope of finding new jobs. Instead, a terrifying and violent 90-minute encounter with a UFO on the Nullarbor Plain left them so shaken they turned around and headed home.
The family claim the glowing UFO, shaped like an egg in an eggcup, chased and even lifted their car off the road, dropping it so heavily a tyre burst.
During the height of the encounter in January 1988, they said their voices became distorted and sounded like they were in slow motion.
They said they drove at speeds up to 200km/h, that the car was covered inside and out by a black ash, and that the UFO landed on the roof, leaving dents.
The incident on January 20 made world headlines, with many treating their story with scepticism — so much so that the Knowles family retreated from public view before being allegedly duped by an Adelaide marketing man, and losing the car after failing to continue its repayments.
What the family said
Here’s what the Knowles family — mother Faye, Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, (ages at the time of the incident) say happened while driving their Ford Telstar, about 40km east of Mundrabilla near the SA-WA border.
It was a little before 5am when Sean swerved to miss a huge “bright glowing” object on the road.
It was bright and white with a yellow centre, shaped like an egg in an eggcup and about a metre wide, high enough to block their view.
“It was a weird-looking thing and we stopped to go back and have a look at it,” Sean told The Advertiser.
Walking towards the object, they became frightened and ran back to the car and drove away.
“It chased us and at one stage when we were trying to get away we were doing up to 200km/h,” he said.
He said the object, which was humming like a transformer, landed on the roof with a thump, pushing down the car and then lifting it from the road.
His mother reached out the window to touch the object, which she said felt hot.
“She told me it felt like a rubber suction pad,’’ he said.
When Mrs Knowles brought her hand back inside, it was covered with a fine dust.
While suspended in the air, their voices were distorted and it appeared as though they were talking in slow motion.
“I wound down the window — it came in the car like smoke,” Mrs Knowles told Channel 7. “We thought we were going to die. We were going silly. Something was going into our heads.”
Patrick said: “Something seemed to be on top of us. We looked around but it didn’t seem to be there. It seemed to kind of grab the car.
“I wound up the windows and the car began to smoke up inside. It smelt like dead bodies or something smelt really foul, like gas or something.’’
He said he felt as though his brains were being pulled from his head.
When the car dropped to the ground it blew a tyre.
The family hid in a bush and after about 30 minutes replaced the tyre and drove to the Mundrabilla roadhouse, where truckie Graham Henley said he also had seen the bright light in the area in his rear-vision mirror.
He said the family was in a state of shock and even their dogs were cowering in the car.
“The whole car smelt like bakelite or just like as if you’d blown a fuse,” he said.
“A soot was all over the car and there were four dents as though the car had been picked up by a magnet.
“I cannot explain it but all I know is that I saw four very terrified people at 4.45 on Wednesday morning.”
Police investigating the incident said the car had a dented roof and was covered with an ash-like material.
Ceduna policeman Sergeant Fred Longley said Mrs Knowles and her sons were obviously distressed when they walked into the police station.
“They were in a terrible state — even though it was five hours after the incident. Something happened out there. Their car, even after being driven all that way, still had black ash — or dust — over it. Even on the inside. Where did that come from? There’s no soil like that out there, only sand.”
And Ceduna officer Sergeant Jim Furnell said the car had dents in the roof “as if something had landed on top”.
The investigation — and the theories
Two theories emerged. First, that it was debris from a meteorite, which would explain the ash and the smell. Second, light from a car beam refracted and distorted by warmer air lying over colder air.
A research physicist from the University of Wollongong, Glen Moore, told The Advertiser at the time it was probably a rare sighting of a falling, disintegrating meteorite.
The Knowles family’s description of a bright light, violent shaking, vehicle damage, smell and the deposit of powder-like material was consistent with the falling disintegration of a carbonaceous meteorite.
Bright lights spotted by tuna fishermen in the Great Australian Bight at the same time supported the theory.
Nine months later a bus driver reported a similar light near Mundrabilla. Allan Brunt, former regional director of the Bureau of Meteorology, gave a much more banal — but still fascinating — reason: weather.
He said on both nights there was warmer air overlying colder air across a wide area of the Nullarbor Plain.
Called a temperature inversion, it can refract and bends the light’s path, making it seem higher than it is. It also distorts its shape, colour, size and intensity.
Mr Brunt believes the Knowles family saw the refracted light of an approaching truck.
“It was the distorted image of its headlights which was so frightening and bizarre,” said Mr Brunt.
The rest was “their own imagination whilst in a state of fright”.
The tuna fishermen probably saw the refracted light of another ship and the bus driver, Mr Brunt believes, saw Jupiter.
He said the flat desert conditions of the Nullarbor Plain make it an almost perfect place for UFO spotting.
What about the ash and damage?
Analysis of the ash found it wasn’t extraterrestrial. It was from the interior of a burnt-out brake lining. The blown tyre was consistent with a high-speed tyre blowout.
The dents on the roof were insignificant, and it couldn’t be established if they were there before the UFO report.
Sean said he was doing 200km/h to escape from under the UFO.
According to the manufacturer, the Telstar could never reach that speed on the ground. Tests in Adelaide — conducted with the car’s wheels off the ground on jacks — took the speedo to 200km/h.
But — and here’s a big but — according to the 1990 UFO Report by Timothy Good, the “dust” was also analysed at the Philips Laboratory by Dr Richard Haines in July 1988.
He concluded the dust taken from the interior of the car was different to the dust sampled from the exterior.
And he found the interior dust was not from the brake system of the car.
Unusually, it possibly contained sodium chloride — or salt — and the atomic element astatine, which is only produced synthetically. It would have decayed by the time the Knowles arrived at Ceduna, where the samples were taken, giving just a possible reading.
It did contain oxygen, carbon, calcium, silicon, potassium — and fibres of typical pipe insulation.
An officer later said just a few specks of dust had been recovered from the car, pointing out it had been driven 500km to Ceduna after the incident and townspeople had swarmed all over it, rendering it almost valueless for forensic evidence.
Investigation of the Knowles’ story was difficult for both sceptics and UFO researchers because they were reportedly paid by a TV station, which forced people to mediate with it to speak to the family.
videos and more after the jump: www.theaustralian.com.au/news/the-day-a-ufo-attacked-a-car-on-the-nullarbor/story-e6frg6n6-1226947310797
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Post by skywalker on Jun 8, 2014 21:31:42 GMT -6
Sounds like time might possibly be distorting somehow...slowing down or speeding up. I've often thought that they manipulate time during the abductions which is why so few people are able to witness them happening.
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Post by auntym on Aug 17, 2014 11:53:48 GMT -6
UFO ATTACK KNOWLES FAMILY NULLARBOR 20/1/1988
Published on Feb 4, 2013
RARE TV Footage of reports and interviews with Australia's Knowles family, the day after their car was reportedly sucked up by a UFO, on the Nullarbor Plain, 20th January 1988.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 12, 2014 23:21:49 GMT -6
I think I vaguely remember you saying something about an egg. So I might vaguely remember the photo. Did you send it to me? If you did I probably still have it somewhere. Want me to look for it?
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Post by skywalker on Nov 16, 2014 19:56:34 GMT -6
Here ya go.
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Post by lois on Nov 16, 2014 20:22:37 GMT -6
Here ya go. Thank you Sky for putting Rose's photo back on for me. Above is what she saw near the road when it came close to her Mothers car. Below is what the Knowles family witnessed. I say Rose witness what they witnessed. quote.. What the family said Here’s what the Knowles family — mother Faye, Patrick, 24, Sean, 21, and Wayne, 18, (ages at the time of the incident) say happened while driving their Ford Telstar, about 40km east of Mundrabilla near the SA-WA border. It was a little before 5am when Sean swerved to miss a huge “bright glowing” object on the road. It was bright and white with a yellow centre, shaped like an egg in an eggcup and about a metre wide, high enough to block their view. Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/671/mundrabilla-incident-knowles-family-abduction?page=1#ixzz3JHwRTFfV
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Post by paulette on Nov 17, 2014 0:07:25 GMT -6
This happened in 1988. Did anyone every do a follow up on this family - their health, their dogs' health, subsequent possible contact etc.
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