The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich Part 3

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 126 minutes

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As we wrap up our coverage of the Frederick Valentich story in Part 3 of our series, we'll continue our conversation with Melbourne resident Chris Tyler about his research into the case and other possibly related UFO incidents around the same time and area. We'll also examine the Australian Department of Transport accident report's remaining findings and discuss its conclusions. As you begin to reach your own conclusions, it's essential to keep several factors in mind which make the usual mundane explanations seem inadequate. The high number of independent sightings of aerial phenomena occurring in proximity to the disappearance suggests Valentich wasn't alone in witnessing it. The distance a Cessna cowling was found from a potential crash site and the lack of definitive markings makes its discovery inconclusive. Even if the cowling did come from Valentich's plane, it still doesn't account for what caused him to ditch, let alone other missing debris and Valentich himself. Perhaps the most surprising revelation comes from the summary of the report itself. Rather than dismissing the possibility of a UFO entanglement, an official government statement lists it as one of four likeliest scenarios. Remember that Valentich himself never suggested he interacted with a UFO in his last transmission, despite being painted as obsessed with them by his skeptics. When these factors and more are taken together, it's no wonder this incident is one of the most baffling and tragic in the phenomenon's history and leaves us all to wonder, what happened to Frederick Valentich and where did he go?

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1:02.7	It's time to wrap our series on the baffling disappearance of Frederick Valentich, and
1:08.1	in doing so, we'll dive deeply down the rabbit hole of possibilities. Our guest, Mel
1:13.5	Ben, lifelong resident Christopher Tyler returns as we discuss and debate the startling
1:18.2	amount of corroborating eyewitness sightings from the very day and nearly the same time
1:22.9	that the record conveys Valentich's last known position. We were surprised by the number
1:27.7	of UFO or UAP sightings included in the official accident investigation. Some of them were
1:33.6	very supportive of Frederick's descriptions that day. At the same time, it's remarkable
1:38.9	how many of them are in the official record. However, the possibility of an unknown object
1:44.8	interfering with his flight or causing his disappearance still seems to be dismissed,
1:50.3	as it's too far outside the realm of what the investigators seem to be willing to entertain.
1:55.7	Perhaps when tonight's episode is over, you'll feel closer to understanding what happened
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