What do you know about a UFO landing in Australia, known as the 1966 Tully Saucer Nest?
To date, the case remains unexplained.
The 1966 Tully Saucer Nest
On the morning of January 19, 1966, at around 9:00 am, George Pedley, a 28-year-old farmer, was driving his tractor near Horseshoe Lagoon on Albert Pennisi’s property near Tully, North Queensland, Australia.
As he neared the pond, Pedley heard a sound louder than the tractor’s noise.
Suddenly, a broad, gray, disc-shaped object with a convex top and bottom emerged from the swamp.
The UFO measured approximately 7 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height.
As Pedley watched, another UFO quickly approached before making a shallow dive and vanishing at tremendous speed.
It rose at a 45-degree angle and disappeared in a second in a southwesterly direction.
When Pedley returned to the area, he noticed a large circular area free of reeds in the middle of the pond.
It was different from three hours prior when he passed by.
Later, Pennisi and another man entered the water and discovered the plants were loose and could be swum under.
The edges of the mass of reeds had formed an angle that gave the impression of a large saucer.
Pennisi took several photos of the strange mark, and the plants on the edge of the spot quickly turned brown at the top.
Pedley reported these facts to the Tully Police, who passed them on to the Air Force the following day.
Where is the location of the Tully Saucer Nest?
The region around Tully is renowned for its gold, copper, silver, and lead mineral resources. Additionally, the area has numerous creeks, rivers, and lagoons, making it a well-liked location for outdoor pursuits like swimming and fishing.
The Tully region is known for its mineral resources, which include gold, copper, silver, and lead.
Gold can be found in places, reefs, and alluvial deposits. Copper is found in sulfide ores and copper-rich clays.
Silver is typically found in sulfide, lead-zinc, and copper-silver ores. Lead is found in sulfide ores and lead-zinc ores.
All these minerals can be found in Tully and the surrounding region; many are still actively mined.
Exploration for new mineral deposits is ongoing in the area, with new discoveries being made regularly.
Investigation of the Tully Saucer Nest
Investigations were conducted to prove that helicopters, large birds, crocodiles, or any other natural origin produced the mark.
Five other nests were discovered, smaller than the original.
Samples were collected and sent to Brisbane for analysis, but nothing unusual was detected.
The Royal Australian Air Force offered that the mark was produced by a “willy-willy,” a small whirlpool that occurs in the region.
However, this theory fails to explain the Pedley sighting and that the mark was never seen before or after this UFO Incident.
The Tully Saucer Nest remains one of Australia’s most fascinating UFO landings, and it finds similarities in other cases worldwide.
To date, this UFO Landing incident remains unexplained.
Other UFO Incidents Similar to The Matadera UFO Encounter
Trans-en-Provence UFO Encounter
On the afternoon of January 8, 1981, a strange object landed on a farm near Trans-en-Provence village in the Var region of southeastern France.
This triggered an investigation by the French Gendarmerie, who collected soil and plant samples at the landing site and notified GEPAN, the official ufological research body of the French government, of the incident.
GEPAN then participated in the investigations, carrying out new collections and measurements at the site and passing information to the research laboratories.
The protagonist of this UFO incident was the 55-year-old farmer Renato Nicolai, who reported the event to the Gendarmerie.
He described the object as having the shape of two dishes put together and being approximately 1.5 meters long with a lead color.
He also noticed four openings with no smoke or fire emitted.
When the samples were collected 24 hours after the event, they were subjected to a series of physical and chemical tests in the SNEAP laboratory, electron diffraction studies at the University of Toulouse, ion bombardment mass spectrometry at the University of Metz, and biochemical analysis of the plant samples at the National Institute of Agronomy Research (INRA).
These tests showed that the mark was produced by a solid object with tremendous pressure at the site and revealed evidence of intense electromagnetic energy acting at the site.
Lake Anten UFO Landing Incident
On August 29 August 29, 1970, dozens of people observed a strange reddish light flying over Lake Anten, Sweden. Karlsson, a nearby farm owner, noticed the light around midnight and described the object as round with a bright and red light. It moved up and down, floated silently, and accelerated quickly. While driving on the highway,
Mrs. Aronsson and P. Nilsson saw the same object and other witnesses to the region’s north, east, and west.
At 2 am, the light disappeared, and the following day a triangular mark was found in Richard Johansson’sJohansson’s garden. GICOFF, Goteborgs Informations Center om Oidentifierade Flygande Foremal, sent a group of ufologists to investigate the facts.
They interviewed witnesses and collected samples from inside the mark and control samples outside the circle.
The samples were analyzed at the Chalmers Institute of Technology and the Institution for Nuclear Chemistry.
Through a Hewlett Packard Multichannel Analyser, it was noticed that the unaffected reference sample contained no readings of gamma radiation. In contrast, the piece inside the mark had 660 KeV of radiation.
Overview
- Witness Credibility: Good;
- Number of Witnesses: 1;
- Evidence: ground mark;
- Physical Evidence: ground mark;
- Official Investigation: Royal Australian Air Force;
- Close Encounter: Second Kind;
- Documents: 1