Dan Carl Thomas (@dancarlthomas.bsky.social)

The UFO Case Australia Tried to Forget | The Westall Witnesses In 1966, hundreds of schoolchildren in Melbourne, Australia, reportedly saw something extraordinary above Westall High School. Witnesses described a strange craft in the sky, incredible speed, possible landing marks at The Grange, and an official response that left many of them feeling silenced for decades. Nearly sixty years later, the Westall witnesses are still asking the same questions: What did they see? Why were they told not to talk about it? And why has one of Australia’s most important UFO cases never received a clear explanation? In this episode, I revisit the Westall incident using witness testimony from Grant Lavac’s The Unexplained Rundown: The Westall Witnesses, featuring people who were there that day and still remember what they saw. This is one of the most compelling mass UFO sightings in Australian history. https://www.youtube.com/@UCUTLm9cyQ4eD_gihOnxYg1Q Timestamps 00:00 Westall Witnesses Speak 00:55 Introducing Grant and Shane 04:03 What Happened at Westall? 11:42 The Alleged Cover-Up Begins 13:50 Why This Case Still Matters 18:54 Do Witness Memories Match? 29:23 Lost Footage and Early UFO Investigators 36:32 Westall in the Cold War Era 42:26 The Missing Government Files 48:56 What Evidence Is Still Missing? 49:57 Was It Secret Human Technology? 52:53 Why Is There No Paper Trail? 53:41 Grant Weighs the Theories 56:01 The Balloon Explanation Tested 58:42 What Could Finally Break the Case? 01:00:26 Petitions and Public Pressure 01:01:49 Sunlight, Secrets and Deathbed Leads 01:04:12 UFOs, Pop Culture and Public Belief 01:06:31 Where to Find Grant and Shane 01:09:43 The Witnesses Begin 01:10:18 Landing Marks, Detention and Silence 01:10:56 Speed, Hovering, Heat and Humming 01:13:21 Close-Range Size Details 01:14:33 Running to The Grange 01:16:04 The Camera Confiscation Story 01:17:10 Told They Didn’t See It 01:18:23 Men in Black and Weather Balloon Questions 01:20:30 How Fast Did Authorities Arrive? 01:22:00 Paul Smith Sees the Craft 01:24:44 Family Reactions and Stigma 01:25:43 Trucks and Jeeps in the Paddocks 01:26:41 Witnessed From Another School 01:27:01 A Memory Burned In Their Minds 🔥 Support the show & get bonus content: 🛸 YouTube Memberships: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHw9Lru3EcpRQyM7AI5TlmA/join 🛸 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ThatUFOPodcast 🛸 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/that-ufo-podcast/id1511121397 🛸 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wnXUAQ3vwdsX1BoyaEvjZ 🛸 Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ThatUFOPodcast 📲 Connect with the show: Twitter: @UFOUAPAM Facebook, Instagram & YouTube: That UFO Podcast YouTube: YouTube.com/c/ThatUFOPodcast Email: [email protected] All links: https://linktr.ee/ufouapam Official Website: ThatUFOPodcast.com 👍 Don’t forget to subscribe, like & leave a review — it really helps! Thanks for listening, Andy 🎵 Music Credits: "Girl with the Saucer Eyes" – Adam Goldsack → http://bitly.ws/kvIK "Goblin Problems" – Sean Cahill → http://bitly.ws/kvIL https://ufo-uap.news/Ub4F.html