Who says UFOs aren't real?

When this Australian family was driving along a long, straight stretch of road late one

night, a UFO actually landed on the roof of their car, picked it up, and dropped it, causing

damage that was verified by the police.

Anyway, that's how the story is told throughout the UFO literature.

But if we apply just a little bit of skepticism, we can go through the facts as they were determined

at the time, and put together a picture of what probably happened.

It doesn't require any aliens at all.

The Knowles Family UFO incident is coming up next on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Knowles Family Nullerbore UFO

It was reported as if it was the story of the century, which given its details it could

very well have been.

According to the story, an Australian family on a road trip was pursued by a glowing

UFO, and in full view of witnesses and other cars, the UFO landed on top of them, picked

up their car in the air, and dropped it several meters, blowing out a tire.

It was January 1988, and the Knowles Family of Perth was traveling across country when

the terrifying event happened.

Today we're going to dig as deep as we can into the events of that night, and see if

we can determine whether this truly was an extraordinary case of intervention by aliens

from another world, or if there might be some other explanation.

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