What do you think about this?
On the morning of April 6, 1966, in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton South, hundreds of schoolchildren watched something they would argue about for the rest of their lives. Students and teachers at Westall High School, out on the grounds, looked up to see a silver grey object, round with a domed top, moving across the sky in broad daylight.
By many accounts it descended behind a stand of pine trees near an open field known as the Grange, sat for a time, then rose and shot away at high speed. Some witnesses said several small aircraft appeared and seemed to circle it before it left. More than two hundred people are said to have seen it. Children ran toward the field, teachers tried to hold them back, and by afternoon adults in suits were reportedly walking the grounds telling everyone to say nothing.
No official explanation ever satisfied the witnesses. Weather balloon, they were told. A training exercise. Yet the people who were there, now grown old, still describe the same craft, the same silence afterward, the same feeling of being told to forget.
Could it be that two hundred ordinary schoolchildren, watching the same thing in daylight, saw exactly what they said they saw?
A stray balloon and a convenient cover story, or something that truly came down in that paddock? What do you think landed at Westall?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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