Case · UFO Afrinews No 17, February 1998 (cover); masthead printed as January 1998
Ballarat, Australia, 18 February 1992: 500 ft craft (Stealth comment and Crowley letter)
1992 ยท Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Two passages touch the same Australian event. Commenting on the Chete Gorge lights, Hind cites a report, sourced to Paul Norman, of a craft seen at Ballarat at 20:40 on 18 February 1992 by a government Archives researcher and put at 500 ft (152 m) wide, far broader than the Stealth bomber; she uses it to argue that not every triangular UAP is the Stealth. In the letters, Andrew Crowley of Frankston, Victoria, writes that he himself saw the 'Silent Vulcan' on 18 February 1992 and kept it to himself until joining VUFORS in 1997.
What Hind made of it
Cited as evidence that the Stealth bomber, which is not 500 ft wide and cannot hover for minutes, does not explain all triangular sightings.
Explanation offered
Stealth bomber (rejected by Hind for size and hovering)
In their words
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The Stealth is not 500 ft (152,40m) wide
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I saw it on the 18th February 1992.
Cross references
- Andrew Crowley letter (this issue)
- VUFORS Victoria UFO Report booklet
- Belgian UAP wave 1990s