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FAB CENDOC Envelope 09 (1978)

FAB CENDOC via The Black Vault · 86 pages · text by OCR

This FAB CENDOC file, released through The Black Vault, holds material from 1978. Part of it is an issue of International UFO Reporter, edited by J. Allen Hynek, with a long report on the October 21, 1978 disappearance of pilot Fred Valentich over Bass Strait. That report includes his radio transcript, the search, and the competing explanations. The file also has a Brazilian newspaper clipping and a Fourth Regional Air Command investigation of a July 1978 landing report by eleven-year-old Dalton Legnaioli in Penha, São Paulo.

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“Sea”6 pages

  • p. 3 …SEA Metal clue in Gosford UFO expert probes Bass Strait mystery VORLD CALLS ON MISSING sea…
  • p. 5 …Reports from the search area indicated the sea temperature to be around eight degrees above freezing…
  • p. 6 …He, too, developed engine trouble and was believed to have crashed into the sea. No trace…
  • p. 7 …The radar conditions are variable; sometimes King Island itself, only 215 meters above sea level, shows…
  • p. 9 …An air and sea search was established but no source of the flare-like lights was…
  • p. 11 …Seen 70° up in sky; moved out of a cloud, east to west toward the sea…
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MAJOR

29 BRIDGES

ENTRANCE

28/12/86

24/13/75

MENESHUO DA AUTONAUTICA

STADO - MAJOR

1º SUBCHESTA

SEÇÃO DE ENTOMOCÕES

DOCUMENTO ENCAMINHAMENTO

II COMAR 125/A2 20/DEZ 78

Proxedência

TRANSPTR NO. 1502

24 JAN 1979

Tew All Tomerzak. F. F. ENG N:003/1562 NO 1565 KM.

26/01/78

ENVANTAMENTO

STRATEGICO

OBA

PASDY DE

ORLANDO

REGISTER

NO. 1234

It lamar

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