Perhaps The truth is out there
Australian fire captain
Bill Lynn couldn’t believe what he was seeing. It was just on dusk on 25 October 1973 inside the top-secret base known as US Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, on Western Australia’s remote North West Cape, when he noticed a huge dark orb hovering above in the clear sky. He drove closer, exited his truck, flattened his notebook on the bonnet and sketched what he saw – a silent, stationary dark sphere about 9m in diameter with a halo around its centre that appeared to be “either revolving or pulsating”. Bill later penned a report to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) office of intelligence: “Dear Sir, I hereby wish to report a most unusual sighting…”
He didn’t know it then but other people at the base had witnessed the same mysterious object. A handwritten sighting report also filed with the RAAF recorded the observations of a United States Air Force (USAF) Lt Commander Moyer, or Meyer, who watched the black hovering object sitting soundlessly in the sky then “accelerating beyond belief” at “unbelievable speed”, eventually disappearing. “Have never experienced anything like it,” the shocked senior officer commented in his Unusual Aerial Sighting report.
Whatever the object was, it was not birds or a balloon, of that Bill Lynn was sure. He strongly believed, his daughter Kate Faulmann recalls, that what he saw was quite probably off-worldly, alien, a technology far beyond known aerospace craft. “The experience convinced him to believe in UFOs [Unidentified Flying Objects],” she tells me.
The town of Exmouth, 6km by road south of the base, sits on the inner gulf side of North West Cape, a 1250km drive north from Perth. I first visited this area known as the Coral Coast for a report about a young solo game fisherman who fell off his boat 40km out to sea. It was an epic story of survival in one of
