UFOs: A Report On Australian Encounters: Keith Basterfield

Previously published as Close Encounters Of The Australian Kind (1981) ; this is the revised and updated edition.  1893, central New South Wales...a farmer sees a 'saucer' in one of his paddocks. A man in strange clothing emerges and shines a 'torch' at him, stunning him. The hand the 'torch beam' hit remains paralysed for life. January 1992, Bankstown, New South Wales...a rectangular glassy object with blue and yellow lights on the bottom and green lights on the side rises into the air. Trees sway significantly and street lights go out for 20 minutes after the event...There have been hundreds of reported sightings from all over Australia. Are they real or are they imagination? Basterfield weighs the evidence for and against and gives explanations wherever possible. There remains, however, a core of mysterious reports that seem to have no rational cause. Includes a checklist of Australian UFO sightings from 1868 to late 1996.