| ID | #1600358961 |
| Añadido | Jue, 17/09/2020 |
| Autor | July N. |
| Fuentes | Bill Chalker, FSR Vol. 19 No. 5
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| Estado | Estudio
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Datos iniciales
Durante sus vacaciones de verano de 1972, Greg Hardy, un estudiante de economía de la Universidad de Nueva Inglaterra (de Grafton, nueva Gales del sur) trabajó en la granja de su amigo. La granja operada por Cook se encuentra a unas 13-14 millas de Gare y exactamente 50 millas al noroeste de Maury, a unas 20 millas de la frontera De nueva Gales del sur y Queensland. El terreno circundante es típico del Oeste de nueva Gales del sur: la llanura, la monotonía del paisaje solo se ve perturbada por los arbustos, en algunos lugares bastante grandes.
En la noche del 15 al 16 de diciembre, Hardy estaba arando malezas en el corral. El cielo estaba despejado, sin cobertura de nubes visibles. La Luna estaba en una fase de aproximadamente tres cuartos y las estrellas eran claramente visibles. La visibilidad ha sido descrita como"perfecta".
Alrededor de la 1:30 (16 de diciembre), Hardy detuvo el tractor cerca de la puerta para "fumar". Luego escuchó el ruido de un potente motor, similar al sonido de un avión o semirremolque de bajo vuelo que circulaba cerca. Su curiosidad lo hizo girar para investigar la fuente del ruido, pero en ninguna parte podía distinguir la luz. Todo lo que pudo determinar fue que algo estaba pasando a baja altura.
Al principio, parecía que el ruido se acercaba desde el lado de la granja de Cook. Parece que se estaba acercando a la carretera y la siguió en el lado opuesto hacia Gara, aproximadamente en dirección sureste y paralela a las líneas eléctricas que recorren cada lado de la carretera.
Alrededor de 500 (450 m) yardas en la carretera, el ruido del "motor" se detuvo, disminuyó la velocidad y se calmó gradualmente a medida que se retiraba. Hardy miró hacia el cielo siguiendo la dirección del sonido, pero no se vio nada. Esperaba al menos ver pasar algún objeto negro. En este sentido, insistió en que si el ruido provenía de un camión sin los faros encendidos, aún podría verlo a la luz de la Luna. Sin embargo, parecía que estaba conduciendo a cierta altura y, por supuesto, los camiones voladores invisibles son una gran rareza.
El " ruido "(que Hardy más tarde declaró que había decidido que provenía de la" nave nodriza"), luego pareció aterrizar en un área oculta a su vista por un arbusto bastante denso, a unas dos millas por la carretera en el lado izquierdo.
Hardy pensó poco sobre el incidente y comenzó a arar de nuevo. Después de unos cinco minutos, llegó a un lugar aproximadamente frente a la puerta donde escuchó un ruido. Aquí vio por primera vez la luz que se acercaba al tractor.
Al detener el tractor (pero dejar el motor encendido), observó un objeto que se acercaba a él. Lo vio por primera vez en un corral al otro lado de la carretera, dirigiéndose directamente al tractor en línea recta. Comparó la luz con los faros del automóvil, pero la desvió sabiendo que no había un camino donde fuera visible, y como el Suelo estaba arado y era bastante difícil de conducir, la luz tenía que oscilar hacia arriba y hacia abajo. En cambio, se movía hacia él a una altura constante de unos diez pies (3 m) sin acurrucarse contra el terreno. La velocidad era de alrededor de 30-40 mph.
Cuando se acercó, cruzó la carretera, caminó entre los árboles y entró en el corral, pudo discernir que la luz provenía de un objeto pequeño y redondo que parecía tener un centro de luz concentrado de menor Tamaño. La luz brillante que iluminaba el área más grande parecía provenir de la superficie del objeto circular en lugar de la masa central.
Cuando el objeto estaba a cincuenta yardas de distancia, giró suavemente y ahora se dirigía hacia el oeste-suroeste. Cuando estaba a solo veinte yardas (18 m) del testigo, se detuvo y se congeló, todavía a unos diez pies (3 m) del Suelo.
No parecía sólido, pero el centro parecía más concentrado que el resto de la bola blanca de luz. "La forma de la 'esfera' estaba delineada por tres (o cuatro) líneas borrosas en el exterior del objeto". Estos "círculos" o "bordes" de luz relativamente bien delineada se separaron geométricamente en un ángulo de 120°. Todos eran verticales y se cruzaban en la parte superior e inferior del objeto.
El diámetro total era de tres pies (0,9 m), y el centro de luz concentrado encerrado en una "jaula" de círculos tenía un diámetro de ocho a nueve pulgadas (20-22, 8 cm). En general, la luz parecía ser constante, pero la iluminación de la tierra parecía parpadear (este efecto era apenas perceptible y puede haber sido causado por una aberración óptica). El nivel de los ojos del testigo sentado en el tractor estaba a unos siete pies (2,1 m) del Suelo, y el objeto estaba a dos o tres pies (0,6-0,9 m) por encima del nivel de sus ojos, es decir, a unos diez pies (3 m) del Suelo.
Desde el momento en que el objeto entró en el campo, Hardy se dio cuenta de que no había nada natural al respecto. La ansiedad, mezclada con curiosidad, lo encadenó al lugar. Dijo que tenía la sensación de que el objeto estaba analizando y recopilando información sobre él.
Se elevó durante unos cinco segundos y luego desapareció repentinamente.
El testigo se dio la vuelta en el asiento del tractor y lo vio aparecer de nuevo, más atrás y a la derecha, justo detrás de la barrera del corral, todavía flotando a una altura de diez pies. Continuó moviéndose en la misma dirección y finalmente desapareció en la distancia.
Hardy estaba extremadamente conmocionado por lo sucedido. Rápidamente apagó el arado y se apresuró a regresar a la casa, donde fue recibido por los ladridos de los perros. Al tocar la puerta, despertó a su colega desconcertado, el Sr. Rowan Hickson (cuyo turno se hizo cargo, ya que Hickson no dormía mucho). Lo primero que dijo el testigo: "¿Dónde está la escopeta?"Hickson notó que Hardy estaba pálido.
Los dos regresaron a la escena de vigilancia, momento en el que Hickson estaba un poco nervioso. No se vio nada inusual, excepto el silencio. La noche anterior soplaba fuertes rachas de viento, pero esa noche las condiciones eran absolutamente tranquilas y claras.
Después de que se exploró el área, Hickson volvió a dormir mientras Hardy continuaba arando, esta vez armado con una escopeta.
Anteriormente había notado que había ovejas en el otro extremo del corral. Cuando llegó a ese final, todo parecía bastante normal. La oveja simplemente se alejó del tractor que se acercaba. A unas cinco millas al sur, notó una luz en la casa más temprano en la noche, pero no se dio cuenta de si estaba encendida durante la observación.
Comentarios
Hardy comenzó a arar alrededor de las 11 pm del viernes por la noche y enfatiza que no tenía signos de fatiga excesiva a la 1:30 pm. Admite que está un poco cansado, pero no hasta el punto de que sus habilidades se vean afectadas.
Otro punto importante es presenciar la ceguera parcial (en particular a las superficies brillantes). Podría distinguir entre rojo y blanco, pero el verde sería difícil de reconocer. Con esto en mente, describe el objeto como una "bola blanca de luz".
Esta observación no pudo explicarse ni por el rayo de bola ni por el gas del pantano. Simplemente no había condiciones para que ocurrieran. Además, el objeto tenía una forma claramente delineada y sus movimientos definitivamente no eran desordenados. No había agua estancada cerca, y todas las represas son generalmente potable, y numerosas zanjas de riego se utilizan constantemente.
Tiempo después, el testigo se encontró en el lugar donde, a su juicio, se produjo el "ruido". Hizo una inspección superficial, pero no encontró nada inusual.
Noticias originales
TRACTOR DRIVER UNDER “COLD SCRUTINY” BY UFO
A young man’s unnerving close encounter, near Garah, New South Wales
by W C. Chalker
(Our contributor is Field Investigator and Liaison Officer of the UFO Investigation Centre, Sydney, Australia.)
TOURING his 1972 summer vacation, Greg Hardy, a New England University Economics student (from Grafton, N.S.W.) was working on a friend’s farm. The farm, operated by a Mr. Cook, is situated roughly 13-14 miles from Garah and exactly 50 miles north-west of Moree, some 20 miles from the NSW-Queensland border. The surrounding country is typical of western NSW: flat, the monotony of the landscape being broken only by bushland, which is fairly heavy in parts.
On the night of December 15/16, Hardy was ploughing in weeds in a paddock. The sky was clear with no visible cloud cover. The moon was at about three-quarters phase and the stars were clearly seen. Visibility was described as being “perfect.”
The incident
At about 1.30 a.m. (December 16) Hardy stopped the tractor near the access gate for a “smoke.” He then heard the noise of a high powered engine, sounding something like a low flying plane, or a semitrailer cruising nearby. His curiosity made him turn to investigate the source of the noise, but nowhere could he make out any light. All he could determine was that something was passing by at low altitude. At first the noise appeared to be approaching from the direction of the Cook farm house. It appeared to approach the road and follow it on the opposite side towards Garah, roughly in a south-easterly direction, and parallel to the powerlines running on each side of the road.
Some 500 yards down the road the noise of the “motor” cut out, decelerating, and dying gradually as it went further away. Hardy stared up into the sky following the direction of the sound, but nothing was to be seen. He expected at least to see some black object pass by. In this respect he was adamant that if the noise had come from a truck without its lights on, then he would still have been able to see it in the clear moonlight. However, it appeared to be passing by at some height, and of course, invisible flying trucks arc quite rare.
The “noise” (which Hardy later stated that he took to come from a “mothership”), then appeared to land in an area obscured from his sight by some fairly heavy bush about two miles down the road on the left hand side.
Hardy thought little of the incident and began ploughing again. Some five minutes later he had reached a spot roughly opposite the gate where he had heard the noise. It was here that he first noticed a light approaching the tractor.
Stopping the tractor (but leaving the motor running), he watched the object as it came towards him. He first saw it in the paddock across the road, heading directly towards the tractor in a straight line. He compared the light to a car’s headlight, but dismissed this knowing that there was no road where it appeared to be, and since the ground had been ploughed and was rather rough to drive over, the light should have been bobbing up and down. Instead it was moving towards him at a steady height of about ten feet, not hugging the terrain; the speed was about 30-40 mph.
As it neared, crossing the road, passing between the trees and entering the paddock, he was able to discern that the light came from a small circular object which had what seemed to be a smaller concentrated light centre. The bright light, which illuminated a wide area, appeared to be radiating from the surface of the circular object and not from the central mass.
When the object was fifty yards away, it made a smooth turn, heading now west-south-west. When it was just twenty yards away from the witness it stopped and hovered, still about ten feet from the ground. It did not appear to be solid, but the centre appeared to be more concentrated than the rest of the white ball of light. The “shape” of the sphere “was traced out by three (or four) ill-defined lines on the outside of the object”. These “circles” or “ribs” of relatively well-defined light, were geometrically spaced apart at 120° to each other. All were vertical and met at the top and the bottom of the object. The total diameter was three feet, and the concentrated light centre, enclosed by the “cage” of circles was between eight and nine inches in diameter. Overall, the light appeared to be constant, but the ground illumination appeared to be flickering (this effect was hardly noticeable and may have been due to an optical aberration). The eye level of the witness, sitting on the tractor, was about seven feet from the ground, and the object was two or three feet above his eye level, i.e. about ten feet from the ground.
From the time the object entered the field, Hardy realised that it was nothing natural. Alarm, mixed with curiosity, rooted him to the spot. He said he had the feeling that the object was coldly analysing and gathering information about him.
It hovered for about five seconds, then suddenly vanished. The witness whirled about on the tractor seat, and saw it reappear, further behind him and to ihe right, just outside the paddock fence, still hovering at ten feet. It continued moving away in the same direction, finally disappearing in the distance.
Reaction
Hardy was extremely shaken by the incident. He swiftly disconnected the plough and hastened back to the farmhouse, where he was met by the barking of dogs. Banging on the door he roused his bewildered colleague, Mr. Rowan Hickson (whose shift he had taken over as Hickson had had little sleep). The first thing the witness said was: “Where’s the shot gun?” Hickson noticed that Hardy looked white in the face.
The two returned to the scene of the sighting and by now Hickson was a bit nervous. Nothing unusual was noticed, save the silence of the place. During the previous night the winds had been quite gusty, but that night conditions were absolutely calm and clear. Once the area had been investigated, Hickson returned to his sleep, while Hardy continued ploughing – this time armed with a shotgun.
Earlier he had noticed that there were sheep at the other end of the paddock. By the time he reached that end, everything appeared quite normal. The sheep merely shuffled out of the way of the approaching tractor. About five miles to the south he had noticed a house light earlier in the night, but he didn’t notice whether it had been on during the sighting.
Comparisons
The fact that the “noise” appeared to follow the telephone wires which ran parallel to the left hand side of the road is interesting. Another possible relationship between UFOs and power lines was also revealed in a case I investigated on the outskirts of Beaufort, Victoria in July, 1969. A young man and his mother saw two circular objects, apparently metallic, with visible portholes, giving off a reddish glow. They flew parallel to some three-tiered high tension power lines, carrying 66,000 volts, only deviating from this parallel line of flight when the witness’s car approached. Both objects turned towards the car, but when the engine was switched off, immediately resumed their flight parallel to the power lines. John G. Fuller also noticed this perhaps tenuous interest in power lines displayed by UFOs during his investigations for his book, Incident at Exeter. Physical evidence for a direct relationship is insufficient, but merits further investigation, particularly when one considers the numerous so-called electromagnetic (EM) effects on vehicles, such as those reported in France early in 1972.
Comments
Hardy had started ploughing at about 11.00 p.m. on the Friday night, and stresses that by 1.30 a.m., he was not showing signs of excess fatigue. He admits that he was a little tired but not to such an extent that his faculties were impaired. Another important point is that the witness is partially colour-blind (to bright surfaces in particular). He would have been able to distinguish between red and white, but the colour green would have been difficult for him to recognise. With this in mind, he describes the object as being a “white ball of light.”
The sighting couldn’t conceivably be explained away as either ball-lightning or swamp gas. Conditions were just not present to give rise to them. Furthermore, the object was well defined in shape and its movements certainly not erratic. There was no body of stagnant water nearby; all the dams are usually fit for drinking and the numerous irrigation ditches arc in constant use.
Some time later, the witness happened to be ploughing in the area where he thought the “noise” had landed. He made a casual inspection, but found nothing unusual.
Hardy has not seen UFOs on any previous occasion and his only familiarity with the subject comes from reading Von Daniken’s books and various newspaper articles. He did not report the incident to any authority, but mentioned it to a friend, who pointed out that he and someone else had seen an identical object sometime during November, 1972, about a month before his sighting. The local newspaper, The Moree Champion, records that on the same night a local farmer saw an identical object while driving in the area, some time before Hardy had his encounter.
I know the witness personally and feel that his observations are accurate in most respects, consideration being made for his colour-blindness. To add support to his evidence, similar sightings in the area during November, 1972 have been confirmed. A truck driver also claimed to have seen the object early on that Saturday night.
Similar sightings include:
November 26, 1968, 9.40 p.m. Mr. J.A. Wyatt and” Christopher Bolton were followed by a circular light while driving between Maitland and Port Victoria, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. The UFO travelled parallel to them, in a south-westerly direction, for about 9 miles, when the UFO made a sudden half-circle-turn in front of their car. According to the witnesses, “It came down at a very slight angle towards us at a very fast rate. It got larger and larger and changed colour from bright white to orange-red.” It came within 200-300 yards of the car and travelled parallel to it. It sped off when the witnesses arrived at Port Victoria where they contacted Constable D. Guerin, but it returned, remaining in the sky for about 4 minutes.
January 5, 1972. For 13 miles, between Penrith and Windsor (suburbs of Sydney), a Wahroonga man driving home from work was pursued by a blinding light, some 3 feet in diameter. The object’s distance from the car varied between a few feet off its back bumper bar, to trailing about a quarter of a mile behind. The man brought his car to a half just outside Windsor, hopped out and stood ready with his car spotlight to meet the object. But the UFO suddenly disappeared.
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