1980-02-07 - Adelaide, SK - Disk

Many years ago my brother and I witnessed a UFO chase that resulted in one of the craft crashing into a tree. Two other witnesses were involved. By the time authorities arrived, the craft had taken flight. It left behind significant damage to a tree which still bears visible scars today.

The event began shortly after my twin brother and I went to bed. He called out to me from his room when he noticed a bright yellow object bobbing around at the end of our valley. We watched for several minutes with interest, and recognised that this object was certainly not behaving like conventional aircraft. Shortly a second object appeared which emitted a red light. It approached the yellow object. Both had a slightly larger apparent size and brightness of Venus. The red object zoomed up to the yellow object, stopped and reversed, and then did it again as if to prompt a reaction. And it got one! The Yellow object took off with the red object in close pursuit. They zoomed around, zigzagging across the sky with extreme speed and acceleration, like a couple of blow fly’s on steroids. The craft involved seemed to be at odds with each other. The running craft occasionally became “stuck” in mid- flight as if caught by some invisible force. It shook back and forth until it freed itself, and then the chase continued. The craft performed impossible manoeuvres with instant zigzag turns and accelerations. The entire event lasted for approximately 10 to 15 minutes until eventually one disappeared behind the hill where it crashed.

The Crash was reported by Daryl Browne, 7th or 8th of Feb 1980 (Now deceased). He described hearing a load crunch. He went outside to see what had happened. When he went around to the back of the house where the noise had come from, he could hear a tree creaking and groaning. ,Upon pointing his torch into its upper branches, he saw a yellow craft measuring around 8 meters in length. He described it as a speedboat shape. It was wedged between the broken branches, and causing the tree to groan under its weight. A branch measuring around 30cm in diameter had been knocked from the tree. Daryl called the authorities, but the craft managed to take flight before they arrived, leaving no wreckage, only damage to the tree as evidence. You can Google his version of events for more detail. One website containing his story is called Project 1947 by Loren E. Gross – page 20 I later spoke with Daryl’s family, confirming that he lived at the location where we saw the craft disappear I also examined the tree and the damage.