UFO expert says mystery surrounding extraterrestrial life is close to being unravelled

WHO thinks we’re here all by ourselves? Certainly not this ufologist, who says the mystery surrounding extraterrestrial life is close to being unravelled.

Leading UFO expert Chase Kloetzke is in Melbourne from the US for the Edge of Reality Ufology conference. Picture: Brendan Francis

CHASE Kloetzke is adamant we are not alone — and says ufologists are close to lifting the lid on the mystery surrounding extraterrestrial life.

The leading American UFO investigator said mainstream science had opened up the door for ufologists to investigate physical traces of alien activity.

But she said it would take a big event such as Victoria’s Westall case in 1966 to reveal the full scope of the paranormal world — not the government revealing what it knows.

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“I believe 100 per cent the government is covering up UFO activity,” she told the Sunday Herald Sun.

“One of the theories behind this is that they figured humanity couldn’t handle the truth.

“But eventually things will filter down.

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“Most of us, as ufologists, feel we are coming up to a tipping point.

“Ten years ago I was the crazy lady down the road who investigated UFOs, and now people are actually standing up and listening.

“It’s not going to be the government coming clean. It’s going to take an event. But we are closer to getting answers.”

Ms Kloetzke, deputy director of the world’s biggest UFO organisation, Mutual UFO Network, is among the top minds of ufology who have gathered in Melbourne for the Edge of Reality Ufology conference.

About 130 people attended the conference at the Jasper Hotel in the CBD.

It is her first time in Australia and she said she feels like she is “in heaven” as the country is known for some of the most anomalous cases.

She said Australia was unique with its big open spaces that seemed to attract more UFOs.

Ms Kloetzke, author of Admissible: The Field Manual for investigating UFOs, Paranormal Activity and Strange Creatures, as well as children’s book Are Aliens Really Real, said UFO sightings and alien encounters were “escalating” with about 900 cases a month reported worldwide.

“’Those are just the citizens of the world that are reporting it — there’s many others who don’t,” she said.

She had one question for Victorians: “Who thinks we’re absolutely here all by ourselves?”

TOP 5 VICTORIAN CASES

The Westall UFO encounter

April 6, 1966

Playing on the sports oval at Westall High School in Clayton South, more than 200 students and teachers described witnessing a grey saucer-shaped craft with a slight purple hue fly over about 10.30am. The UFO shot over some pine trees, where it is believed to have briefly landed, leaving a mark on the ground.

The Valentich disappearance

October 21, 1978

Frederick Valentich, 20, disappeared while piloting a small aircraft over the Bass Straight from Moorabbin Airport to King Island in Tasmania. In his last radio calls, he described an unusual object hovering over the top of him. No trace of him or his Cessna was found.

The Rosedale water tank mystery

September 30, 1980

A 54-year-old farmhand on a property 8km from Rosedale in the Gippsland region woke at 1am to a screeching noise — and the cattle clearly distressed — and went outside to investigate. He described a dome object with a white top and orange underneath with circular windows or lights, hovering around a 10,000-gallon open-topped water tank. The UFO landed beside the tank, leaving a ring mark on the grass. The next day the full tank was mysteriously empty.

The Burkes Flat “bent headlight beams”

April 4, 1966

Around 8pm, Ron Sullivan witnessed an unusual object putting on a light display in a paddock while driving along Dunolly-St Arnaud Rd, near Bourkes Flat in central Victoria. He said his car’s headlights bent towards the UFO, causing him to veer off the road and almost hit a tree. Two days later, another driver died after hitting the tree Mr Sullivan had swerved to miss. Researchers ponder if that driver experienced the same phenomena.

The Kelly Cahill encounter

August 8, 1993

Mother Kelly Cahill was driving home with her husband and three children in the Dandenong foothills, near Belgrave, when they noticed the lights of a rounded craft with windows just after midnight. She recalls her whole family being abducted by aliens and how they controlled their minds and performed embarrassing procedures on them.