Case · UFO Afrinews No 18, July 1998
Frederick Valentich's disappearance over Bass Strait (Editor's reply)
1978 ยท Bass Strait, Australia
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Replying to Jonathan Wigham, Hind cites the Valentich case as proof that people vanish in obvious UAP abductions. On 21 October 1978 the 21-year-old Australian pilot radioed during a flight over Bass Strait that he was being shadowed by an object which was not an aircraft, and then disappeared. Neither his remains nor any wreckage of his Cessna 182 were found despite a thorough search, which Hind finds significant because the aircraft's extra under-wing fuel tanks should have floated after impact with the water.
What Hind made of it
An obvious UAP abduction in Hind's view.
In their words
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Neither his remains nor any wreckage of his Cessna 182 were ever found