Ross Coulthart

There's a wonderful one where they had an outdoor cinema and everybody at the outdoor cinema looked up and saw a craft, a structured metallic craft hovering overhead with windows, silently cruising overhead with no visible means of propulsion.

These are reports that sit in our national archives.

The interesting thing is when I started reporting on them,

A lot of the media started tittering, thinking, oh, this is all rubbish.

And what's interesting is they hadn't done their research.

It turns out Australia has long been a hotbed of UFOs.

And Harry Turner, back in the 70s, was so concerned about it as a senior scientist in the Defence Department, he actually pushed for Australia to set up its own UFO flying squad investigative team.

He wanted a plane on standby so that we could scramble and go and investigate UFO incidents.

Because he'd seen and spoken to people all about these UFO sightings and he was convinced, absolutely convinced that they were real.

A lot of UFO sightings, a lot of these anomalous craft seem to appear in connection with nuclear weapons.

And that's why I mischievously mentioned RAF Tyndall earlier, because I'll give you a scoop, Mark.

I'm currently in touch with people from that Air Force base in northern Australia who tell me that there's been a spate of sightings of anomalous craft over RAAF Tyndall, which is one of our major forward bases deployed for the Air Force in northern Australia.

Wow.

And these people are telling me that they're seeing UFOs.

They're seeing anomalous objects.

Nobody's been able to explain to them what they are.

The Americans have got a team that's investigating it, and I've spoken to some of the members of that team.

Everybody's in a complete flummox about it, but I suspect it's because the Americans have actually got nuclear weapons on Australian soil.

Because what's been happening is the Chinese have now developed intermediate range missiles which allow them to hit Guam.

And so a lot of the nuclear weapons that were based on Guam as the forward posture for America against a future war with China, we've now allowed ourselves to become Fortress Australia for America.