UFO's 'Down Under', the Mystery Behind the Australian UFO Photos

By Armando Duke

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(AXcess News) Houston - The feeding frenzy by the media following the Stephenville, TX UFO sightings has renewed the public's thirst to know more about the mysteries surrounding the literally thousands of unidentified flying objects reported worldwide which stretch back thousands of years and have been mentioned in writings before the days of the pharos in Egypt and the birth of Christ.

Today, with the advancements in technology and communications, the number of UFO sightings has grown by staggering proportions, with many of the encounters researched by scientific organizations such as the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, which is comprised of numerous chapters throughout the world that investigate and report on UFO phenomena. Following our latest story on the Australia UFO sightings we even heard from a MUFON member down under. Hey, mates!

Friday night we post that Australia UFO story along with five revealing photographs. The reader responses were overwhelming! And so were those amazing Australia UFO photos! But being an investigative journalist, I dug into it and found some interesting facts - thanks in part to the many readers who e-mailed me leads - and I can only say - keep sending me e-mails about your UFO experiences.

AXcess News has given me the go ahead to produce a weekly column on the UFO Phenomena in which I will continue to investigate UFO sightings, claims of alien encounters and abductions, as well as the mysteries surrounding the many supposed government cover ups going on around the world - and we found a great one for you UFO buffs which takes place in Egypt where an ancient city was discovered that dates to 4,000bc - here again, some great photographs have been obtained and we'll be sharing that story with you this weekend.

Our findings on the Australia UFO sighting

First off, the Australian press is pretty sick and tired of all the loonies out there writing way-off stories about their culture and the aboriginal tribesmen. In our Australia UFO story last week, I mention one in which a US-based UFO buff published on her site that aliens had been visiting the tribesmen down under and that markings found on some of Australia's more famous landmarks were made by aliens. Nothing could be farther from the truth!

But UFO sightings in Australia are quite numerous, though many can be explained away, according to Dr Stephen Hughes, from Queensland University's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, says the mysterious Australian outback phenomenon known as Min Min lights have fooled many people into thinking they're seeing a UFO.

"Min Min lights are sort of a channeling effect of the different layers of air, which actually channel truck headlights for hundreds of kilometers like a fiber optic cable effect but in the air," Dr Hughes said.

Depsite the .edu skeptics, I thought, "These Australian UFO photos are the clearest images I've seen in a long time," and by the looks of them, they were anything but Min Min lights - and I was right.

You'll find several pages of revealing photos we've obtained that prove what the Australia UFO sighting we wrote about last week really are and with each, a more detailed answer on those findings. Here's our first revealing answer!

If you take a good look at this image of the supposed Australia UFO sighting you can clearly see a shadow near the center, which is marked so you can spot it. See how the shadow leans out to the left? That's because its a radio tower for the Emu Downs Wind Park near Badgingarra National Park.

Clive Marks, Director of the Nocturnal Wildlife Research Party Ltd from East Malvern, Victoria Australia wrote: [I am surprised that this image keeps doing the rounds as a UFO. It is a remote area antenna facility - as far as I know there has never been any mystery about it. The area has been cleared and leveled and the bright areas at the apex are just solar reflection due to soil disturbance.

Hope this helps. You can request a range of satellite images and aerial photographs to confirm this - in case you think me a "gray" with too much time on his alien hands.]

Another reader said this wasn't the only UFO spotted that fit the earlier description in last week's Australia UFO story saying: [In 1989 there was a huge and very similar story from Belgium. Giant triangles flying over Brussels, showing up on radar....huge as battleships or aircraft carriers. The Belgian Air Force called a press conference about it and showed the images and radar scans, with audio recordings of the pilots who were sent to intercept.

No one could offer an earthly explanation. The EU promised to look into it and then? Then the press died down and everyone forgot about it.

But now with videocams there are more triangles being filmed..as well as discs.]

Well, despite everyone's enthusiasm and similarities to other numerous triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects seen around the world, our next revealing picture is a ground shot of amazing clarity - see if you can identify the objects you see against the skyline in this picture.

Here's the final nail in the coffin for the Australia UFO story, a ground level shot of the mysterious triangle most readers thought was a UFO.

This photograph reveals plainly the wind turbines in the background taken at the Emu Downs Wind Park, just 10 kilometers west of the Brand highway, which leads to Badgingarra National Park.

So ends the mystery surrounding the Australia UFO triangle images sent in last week. I can only say that half those who replied to my requests to e-mail me - which still stands, please keep your comments and personal experiences coming - thought they saw a real unidentified flying object. But about a third said it was a brush fire and you could see a radio tower and guide wires in the last Australia UFO photo in last week's UFO Phenomena story. The rest said 'get real' and do some digging and you'll see its a wind farm.

In a way, I am disappointed as are many readers out there who believe our planet is being visited by extraterrestrials. I only hope some day we can prove it. So for now, let's keep investigating the UFO Phenomena and in our weekly stories we'll look at some of the fascinating reveals and eye witness accounts as they're reported on in my weekly column. Until then, keep watching the night sky and keep a camera handy - you never know what you'll find if you'll just look up.