When journalist Danielle O'Neal revisited a sugar cane farm at the centre of a UFO media storm in the 1960s, she never could have predicted the scar tissue she would find.
When I started seriously looking into a decades-old UFO mystery, I expected my colleagues would giggle and raise their eyebrows at the topic.I had tracked down a farmer who was seven when this all started on his family sugar cane farm in far north Queensland, and who still lives on the very same property.In 1966 a Queensland farmer thought he saw a UFO that left behind a real physical mark in some reeds.
This may have happened almost six decades ago, but it was still very raw and real for the people involved.The UFO topic has a long history of ridicule, stigma and taboo. So how do we get people to open up when there's a genuine risk of ridicule? And what might they say if we listen with curiosity, rather than judgement?: to see whether we could tell the story of Tully's saucer nest mystery in a more empathetic way, by focusing on the humans at the heart of it.
Ginger had employed this technique to understand the inner worlds of online trolls. Could it also be applied to my understanding of the polarising topic of UFOs? When I did meet him face-to-face in Tully, he told me that what happened on that farm in 1966 was just the beginning.While there were no more UFO sightings to report, he said more than 30 of those mysterious saucer nests had appeared over the years, the last one being about a decade ago.I, like most people, like to think I'm both skeptical and believable.
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