Summary of Ross Coulthart's In Plain Sight

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 The history of sightings of strange objects in Antipodean skies can be traced back to the 19th century, when European settlers reported seeing fuzzy hovering white orbs of light tracking them as they moved through outback country.

#2 I was a teenager living in New Zealand when the Kaikoura sighting occurred. I was initially intrigued then disappointed by the dramatic sighting, as it was unclear if the lights were actually a UFO. I took the view that the sighting was a dramatic overreaction to the still unsolved Valentich mystery in Australia.

#3 The Kaikoura sighting remains one of the world’s most well-recorded unexplained UAP sightings. It was not until the early 1990s, when I was working in Australia as a television investigative journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that I was encouraged by Australian Air Force insiders to reconsider my default dismissive attitude towards unidentified objects in our skies.

#4 The media has long been skeptical of claims of unidentified objects in our skies. This is because most young reporters served time on night-shift news desks, fielding calls from the public. They would often pray for a ghoulish crime story or accident to break the tedium of the late shift.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383970

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The history of sightings of strange objects in Antipodean skies can be traced back to the 19th century, when European settlers reported seeing fuzzy hovering white orbs of light tracking them as they moved through outback country.

#2

I was a teenager living in New Zealand when the Kaikoura sighting occurred. I was initially intrigued then disappointed by the dramatic sighting, as it was unclear if the lights were actually a UFO. I took the view that the sighting was a dramatic overreaction to the still unsolved Valentich mystery in Australia.

#3

The Kaikoura sighting remains one of the world’s most well-recorded unexplained UAP sightings. It was not until the early 1990s, when I was working in Australia as a television investigative journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, that I was encouraged by Australian Air Force insiders to reconsider my default dismissive attitude towards unidentified objects in our skies.

#4

The media has long been skeptical of claims of unidentified objects in our skies. This is because most young reporters served time on night-shift news desks, fielding calls from the public. They would often pray for a ghoulish crime story or accident to break the tedium of the late shift.

#5

The idea of scientific knowledge as distinct from mere belief is perhaps the most important development from the Enlightenment. Good science is a bulwark against mysticism and superstition. But many scientists still believe that eyewitness evidence is not evidence, because it is not repeatable.

#6

The UAP/UFO phenomenon is the biggest unsolved mystery of our age. polls show that more than two-thirds of Americans believe the US government knows more than it is letting on about the phenomenon.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Around the world, sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena increased in the years immediately after the Second World War. They were initially thought to be a new German secret weapon, but it was later revealed that they were not