Bill Chalker was one of the first civilians to access Australia's secret UFO files — but when the day finally came, there was one problem. They hadn't been declassified.
It's 1982, and a young UFO researcher is sitting in a director's office at the Department of Defence headquarters in Canberra eager to get his hands on information he's been dreaming of for years — the Australia n government's UFO files.
"There were very real-world reasons for air forces to want to enlist public help to find objects that might have come back from space that had human origin."Supplied: Bill ChalkerMost UFO sightings and encounters could be dismissed as being caused by mundane things like weather, but there was a small percentage of cases that remained unexplained.
"It was during the recovery of that that I thought, what the hell, I'll start doing a ringing campaign to the Department of Defence and keep it up until I get a response," he says."I finally got a response saying, 'Yeah, OK. We'll organise some access to the files.'"Photo shows Text reads: Expanse Uncropped. A large crop circle with a person standing in the middle.
" was asked by the Director of Air Force Intelligence … to do a scientific appreciation of their early case data," Bill says.
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