Grant

And I can't believe it's been so long since we talked last time.

But thank you for having me back.

And I'm very excited to be joined by my new colleague in Westall Research Grant as well.

It's great to be here.

And Andy, did you say the name of your book was The Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects?

Was it something like this book here?

It was, yes.

Thank you so much for creating this book.

And thank you so much for including the Wessel story in it.

You know, ever since I've been a kid, I've been in love with maps and atlases and UFOs too, actually.

And so the bringing together of those two great things, things that interest me and I know probably interest a lot of other people as well.

was a real joy for me to find out about and to actually receive in the mail recently and to start reading so thank you so much for that and yes it's hard for me to believe that it's now a couple of weeks past the 60th anniversary of the Westall incident I'm grateful to still be alive and I'm grateful that so many of the witnesses are still with us as well and so

For those people who don't know about the story, and I know there are lots of people out there who don't, probably most of the world still doesn't know anything about the 1966 Westall flying saucer incident.

But it was something which happened in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, a place called Westall, which was a neighborhood within the suburb of Clayton South.

And the date was the 6th of April.

in 1966, which was just a couple of days before the Easter long weekend.

So it was actually the second last day of school for that particular week.

The kids, and especially the teachers I imagine, were looking forward to having a long weekend off and some time off.

And at around 10.15 in the morning, while there were a couple of classes out on the sports ground doing physical education,

the cry went up that there was something in the sky and the kids saw one to three silver disc-shaped silent or mostly silent flying objects coming into view.