Pilot Who Saw a UFO Sent Eerie Final Message Then Disappeared
“He reported that he had observed an object zooming past his plane at considerable speed.”
by T.K. Randall
via Unexplained-Mysteries
Over 45 years ago, pilot Frederick Valentich vanished without a trace after encountering a UFO off the coast of Australia.
When it comes to aviation mysteries, most people will likely think of Amelia Earhart or Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but there is another, perhaps even stranger, aviation enigma that has prompted endless debate and has stumped investigators for the better part of five decades.
It centers around 20-year-old Frederick Valentich, a young pilot who had rented a single engine plane from Victoria’s Moorabbin Airport on October 21st, 1978 with the intention of flying to King Island which was situated around 125 miles away.
Everything had been going fine until, at 7pm, he initiated communications with Melbourne Airflight Service Controller Steve Robey to ask if there were any other aircraft in the area.
He reported that he had observed an object zooming past his plane at considerable speed.
Robey replied to state that there was no sign of any other aircraft on radar.
“It is four bright, it seems to me, like landing lights. The aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above,” Valentich insisted. “It seems to me that he’s playing some sort of game.”
“He’s flying over me two, three times, at a time at speeds I could not identify.”
The young pilot described the object as long and metallic with a green light on the top. At one point, he reported that it had disappeared from one side of him before reappearing on the other.
“It is hovering and it is not an aircraft,” he said.
This would turn out to be his final message.
17 seconds later, the transmission ended and Valentich was never seen again.
The question of what fate befell him remains one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation history.
Did he encounter something otherworldly that evening ?
We may never know for sure.
by T.K. Randall
via Unexplained-Mysteries
