UFO. Australia

In 1988, Australia celebrated its bicentennial. However, among the headlines about national celebrations in Australian newspapers, there was also room for the publication of the story of an Australian family. It told about what it was going through during the trip around the country to these people. Something frightening and inexplicable.

On January 19, the Knowles family left their home in Perth and headed to Melbourne, 2,000 miles from their home, where they were going to celebrate with their friends. Mrs Faye Knowles also took her three sons, twenty-four-year-old Patrick, twenty-year-old Sean and 18-year-old Wayne. And since they took two more dogs with them, it was cramped and hot in the car. So the family traveled more at night when it got cooler.

Having moved well to the South Australian border, in the early morning of January 20, the Knowles found themselves on the wide plain of Nalllarbor. Although the road was not illuminated, the light of the moon created perfect driving conditions. There were almost no cars coming from both sides. But the danger, which was not mentioned in any of the tourism guides, lurked in the dark night sky.

Their adventures began seven or eight miles before the next scheduled parking lot in the small town of Mundrabilla. Sean Knowles, who was driving, noticed a strange object glowing at the edges of white and yellow lights hovering over the road.

The next second he disappeared from view, and the young man decided that he had all dreamed. However, after driving another mile, he again noticed a glowing object, which moved towards them very slowly and at a low altitude, so that he was almost on the same level as their car. At that moment the driver screamed and woke the rest of the family. The travellers opened their eyes just as the shiny object sank into the road near the braked car. Then Sean again started the car, trying to get around a strange object, but almost collided with an oncoming car, the driver of which did not see anything unusual on the road.

The Nouls Terrier barked furiously, and while he was calmed down, the strange object disappeared. After a brief meeting with relatives, Sean Knowles decided to turn the car and drive back, deciding that this was the best way out of the situation.

However, as soon as he started the engine, a strange glow appeared over their heads of the Knowles, and with it a roaring sound, similar to the noise of a working motor. The car began to sway, and the roof sag under the weight of something huge. At the same time, the whole family realized that what had recently blocked their path was now sitting on the roof of their car. Suddenly, through the half-open windows in the salon poured black dust, and the next moment Knowles realized that the car is lifted into the air, as if clutching a strong invisible magnet. Along with the black dust in the salon penetrated a disgusting smell, so strong that two sons lost consciousness.

The torture was suddenly over. The car was thrown to the ground. At the same moment one of the tires burst, the control got out of control the car swerved to the side, drove through the dense thickets of shrubs, and then, huddled in a sand dune, stopped. When the terrified passengers came out, only the stars shone over them and a bright moon hung. There are quite a lot of them in the ufo literature.

Strange accidents on the roads (for example, engine shutdown in cars whose drivers saw UFOs) today have become typical for reports of encounters with alien guests. There were several completely identical stories, whose participants, like the Australians, claimed that their cars were lifted into the air, and sometimes even in an alien ship.

As a rule, such stories are not taken seriously, but the incident on the Nallarrabor Plain, which occurred in January 1988, is marked by important details. The Knowles family was not the only one driving that night on the ill-fated highway.

John de Jong, a truck driver traveling with his girlfriend, saw a strange glow on the horizon near Madura Pass. It happened at a time when the Knowles had that unpleasant story. Graham Henley, another truck driver, said he saw an incomprehensible object that was described as fully consistent with what Knowles saw. Henley was sure that the object he saw in the sky was not like an ordinary earth plane.

Another proof concerns this interesting detail. In the Knowles case, Officer Tre-Bilcock of Port Lincoln Police told reporters that all members of the Knowles family raised the alarm and were very scared to experience. Moreover, Mrs. Knowles, who was sitting in the car by the window, suffered severe burns. Trebilcock personally inspected the car and found specific marks on the roof, indicating that the car was lifted and pressured from above.

From a normal road accident such traces were not left. In addition, a thick gray soot was found on the surface of the car and in the cabin, its origin is absolutely inexplicable; this substance spread the unpleasant smell that Knowles was talking about. A thorough analysis of the strange substance was carried out. It was studied by scientist Richard Haines and scientists of the geological laboratory. Curiously, the found substance in composition resembles processed flax, except that it also contains an extremely high percentage of chlorine.

It is quite clear that the unusual gray "soot" did not appear as a result of the car, so this detail, perhaps, was the most important physical proof of the "strangeness" of the case. Another interesting feature: the speedometer of the Car Knowles showed a speed of 200 km/h. Experts found out on the wheels that it was indeed moving at such a speed and came to the conclusion that for a while the car was "driven" by the invisible force flying over it.

The wide publicity that this story gained from newspaper publications led to the fact that for a time the Knowles family acquired the status of Australian medium. The vain attempts of skeptics to find a natural explanation for what happened only increased interest in the case with the Knowles.

The most common assumption is that the Knowles saw a simple sunset, but this version was rejected immediately, because the strange object eyewitnesses saw after sunset. The second version: the lights supposedly came from lightning - also did not pay off, because from the nearest weather station reported that no thunderstorm at that time in the area did not occur. The third explanation was that the flashes of light may have occurred during military-training explosions of missiles. It was also not confirmed, as no such test explosions were carried out in the area.