The following encounter was forwarded by a reader, Will:Hi Lon,
In the early sixties, my friend Elaine and her family lived in Australia (she now lives in the Caribbean). We were talking about crop circles one day and Elaine mentioned that she vaguely remembers that her dad saw a UFO near a place called Innisfail. She immediately sent her father (who used to be a trained hypnotherapist) an email asking him about the incident and this is the email that her father sent back to her from the UK.
Hello Love,
We have seen a number of crop circles recently on the TV, those you have shown were new to me and spectacular! The incident you asked about re. Sam's Pies, I recall very well. It happened when we lived in Innisfail, in 1963. Sam Nightingale, the proprietor of Sam's Pies, had a call from nature at about 2 a.m. looking out of the bathroom window he saw a extremely bright vertical beam of light moving slowly across the field behind his house, the light stopped moving over the Johnstone River for some 15 minutes. Looking up he could see a huge shining object with slowly revolving coloured lights around the edge. He called his wife (Flo') and son James (aged 12) to the window all of them saw this happening. He ran next door and then down the street - many of his neighbours came out and witnessed the same sight. The sightings lasted some 25 minutes - the UFO then shot off to the right totally silently, and at great speed. One of his neighbours was the sergeant of police (whom I also new quite well). In short - it created quite a stir, eventually two R.A.A.F. officers arrived in Innisfail and took statements from everyone involved. I was called in to hypnotise Sam and some of the others. ALL THEIR STORIES WERE THE VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL. We were all told not to say anything about it, to anyone, unfortunately for the R.A.A.F. the story had already made the local newspapers! Many years later back in Innisfail I met James Nightingale, he asked me to hypnotise him at length - he had total recall! Remember this was long before any jet aircraft were in the skies above North Queensland, no military, no helicopters etc. About the only variation was - some saw it as a long oval 'cigar' shape, others as a disc. Other folk in the town came forward saying they had also witnessed the same sight, as did folk from South Johnstone, Mena Creek and the villages around Innisfail. There was no comment from the government - eventually a 'D' notice was issued, which effectively closed it down.
Well, that's it. The closest I have ever come to the unexplained.
Hope you and Will find it interesting. I was certainly convinced that 'there was something up-there'.
Cheerio for now, all my love,
Dad x x x x x x
So, there you go – a story that has been ‘under wraps’ for 47 years…
I found it most interesting and I hope that you do too.
Thanks for all your fantastic posts – I read as many as I can!
Best wishes,
Will
UFO Encounter - 1963 - Innisfail, Queensland, Australia
