Skeptoid #208: The Westall '66 UFO

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Skepticism, Science, Social Sciences, Skeptic, Paranormal, History

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2010

⏱️ 18 minutes

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200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes.

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0:00.0	The best known of all UFO stories in Australia concerns a school in Melbourne.
0:09.6	In 1966, so the story goes, many of the school's children and some of its teachers watched
0:15.8	a silvery flying saucer descend and then land nearby.
0:21.2	With the story involving so many witnesses, many consider that we are forced to accept
0:26.6	it as literal truth.
0:29.0	Are there any other explanations for the story?
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1:29.2	The Westole 66 UFO Melbourne, Australia, 1966.
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