The National Archives of Australia RecordSearch system holds the RAAF's complete UFO investigation files, over 10,000 records covering 1950 through the RAAF's withdrawal from UFO investigation in 1994. Open the full archive at National Archives of Australia ↗
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A 1960 RAAF School of Radio file (NAA A12639 5/1/AIR) recording sightings of the Sputnik III decay and a separate bright-star object, with Department of Air signals instructing units to report any sightings to DAFI.
NAA series A4703 item 1978/1205, the Department of Transport / Department of Defence MARSAR file documenting the search for Cessna 182 VH-DSJ piloted by Frederick Valentich, lost over Bass Strait on 21 October 1978.
Royal Australian Air Force Air Force Office policy file A703 554/1/30 Part 1, gathering early-1950s through late-1960s correspondence on UFO investigation responsibility, civilian and meteorological liaison, and the framework that became the A703 580/1/1 reporting series.
Royal Australian Air Force Department of Air master UFO file A703 580/1/1 Part 1, covering 1957 through 1959 sighting reports, witness interviews, and intelligence correspondence, reclassified UNCLASSIFIED on 7 May 1982.
Part 10 of the Royal Australian Air Force Department of Air UFO file A703 580/1/1, holding witness intelligence reports from late-December 1968 sightings around Hobart, Tasmania.
Part 2 of Royal Australian Air Force Department of Air HQ UFO file A703 580/1/1, holding sighting reports and RAAF intelligence correspondence from Tasmania and surrounding regions in late 1960 and early 1961.
Part 20 of the Royal Australian Air Force Department of Air UFO file series A703 580/1/1, covering 1972-1973 civilian sighting reports and RAAF investigation correspondence.
Part 3 of the RAAF Department of Air HQ UFO file (NAA A703 580/1/1), covering sighting reports, witness interviews, and inter-departmental correspondence from late 1962 and early 1963.
Part 4 of 32 of RAAF Department of Air HQ UFO file A703 580/1/1, holding the bulk of 1965-66 sighting correspondence including reports adjacent to the Westall and Tully incidents.
RAAF Department of Air HQ file A703 580/1/1 Part 5, a mid-1960s Australian Air Force UFO sighting and investigation file declassified to UNCLASSIFIED on 7 May 1982.
RAAF Director of Air Force Intelligence (DAFI) file from 1968-69 documenting Support Command's use of the Weapons Research Establishment Satellite Prediction Service to identify UFO reports as satellite sightings.
RAAF Headquarters Support Command UFO file B5758 56/AIR Part 1, containing a translated 1953 Indonesian Air Force Angkasa article surveying global flying-saucer sightings and a press clipping in which Australian External Affairs Minister R. G. Casey proposes meteor streams as a partial explanation.
RAAF Southern Area (Victoria) UFO file E1327 5/4/AIR Part 1, holding sighting reports, witness questionnaires, intelligence evaluations, and correspondence on the investigation of unidentified flying objects across Australian regional commands from the late 1960s.
Department of Transport Air Safety Investigation case 78/3023 covering the 21 October 1978 disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich and Cessna 182L VH-DSJ over Bass Strait after he reported an unidentified aircraft orbiting him.
Department of Transport case 78/3023 covering the 21 October 1978 disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich and Cessna 182L VH-DSJ over Bass Strait after he reported an unidentified aircraft orbiting his plane.
NAA series M1148 file 'Flying Saucers 1954–1955' from Prime Minister Robert Menzies' personal records, containing correspondence among Australian External Affairs Minister R.G. Casey, CSIRO radiophysics chief E.G. Bowen, UK Ministry of Defence scientific adviser Sir Frederick Brundrett, and overseas posts on the flying saucer question.
Researcher-compiled index mapping National Archives of Australia series and control symbols to Australian UFO files, totaling 10,837 pages across roughly seventy entries.
A 1958 ANARE field report from Mawson Station logging an unusual 20-minute display of moving shadows and parallel rays observed by four Australian Antarctic Research Expedition members near Taylor Glacier.
RAAF Western Area file PP474/1 5/5/AIR collects Western Australia UFO sighting reports and correspondence opened at Base Squadron Pearce on 1 July 1958 and closed 27 May 1964.
Royal Australian Air Force North-Eastern Area (Queensland) regional UFO file holding RAAF sighting reports, investigation policy correspondence, and Department of Air summaries covering 1960 through the early 1970s, including the January 1966 Tully reed-mat investigation.
1960 Maralinga security officer's report on an unidentified light seen by five named witnesses near the Wewak Vixen A test site, 15 miles from Maralinga Village.
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