Ross Coulthart

And I remember I spoke to the then photographic editor at the time and I said, look, could you bring your camera in?

Don't take the film out.

Bring your camera in.

That way we can guarantee you haven't meddled with the film and we'll have a look at it and develop the photographs and see what we see.

And it was hilarious because what happened was she brought in the camera, lovely lady,

And we developed the photographs.

And sure enough, there was an elliptical metallic disc hovering just above her washing line in her house.

And I was excited.

I thought that the newspaper would run a run this story and do a piece about this odd object that had been seen over this house.

And I remember, I won't say who, I don't want to embarrass them, but a very senior editor at the Herald said to me, Roscoe, we don't do UFO stories.

And I went, why?

If somebody's got evidence, why do we not do these stories?

What's the issue?

Well, they're rubbish.

And I went, well, how can you say that?

You haven't even looked at it.

And essentially, I was told not to be an argumentative little shit and to move on and do my other job.

So what really struck me was that happened regularly in journalism.

I can remember –

I was working as a producer for Yarn Event at a current affair.