{"id":22676,"date":"2024-03-26T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=92c39904d869baa5de2de0ac5780123a"},"modified":"2024-03-26T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:09:03","slug":"the-light-gate-george-simpson-ufos-the-disappearance-of-frederick-valentich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=22676","title":{"rendered":"The Light Gate \u2013 George Simpson \u2013 UFOs & The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Light Gate \u2013 George Simpson \u2013
UFOs & The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center>
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\nStreamed live earlier.<\/p>\n

Hosts: Preston Dennett and Dolly Safran
\nDate: March 25, 2024
\nEpisode: 48
\nDiscussion: UFOs & the Mysterious Disappearance of pilot Frederick Valentich.
\n-Tonight, The Light Gate welcomes researcher and author, George Simpson.<\/p>\n

About: George was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1958. He has had a life-long interest in the subject of UFOs since seeing one together with his sisters in 1967. He read the book \u201cUFO’s, Where do they come from?\u201d by Richard Tambling in 1969 while in primary school. He witnessed the initial part of the final flight of Frederick Valentich on October 21st, 1978 from his family home in Beaumaris. He became a member of VUFORS (The Victorian UFO Research Society) in 1987, just after the Knowles Case was reported in the news.<\/p>\n

He later joined the VUFORS committee as a photographic consultant, listed as \u201cPhotographic Officer\u201d in 1992, and served on that committee for the following 8 years. He then set up the Victorian branch of AUFORN (The Australian UFO Research Network) in 2000, ran investigations and followed up hundreds of sighting reports over the next 14 years, and ran four public meetings each year for that period, as the Director for the state of Victoria.<\/p>\n

During this period he also wrote a regular column titled \u201cWhat Next\u201d which was followed by \u201cNow Then\u201d for the Ufologist Magazine, from 2000 until the magazine closed in February 2018. He participated in the research, assistance, and filming of the first episode of the Science Channel production of \u201cUnexplained Files\u201d in March 2013, which examined the Valentich mystery. His book: \u201cNothing on Radar: The Valentich Mystery,\u201d is the most comprehensive book on one of Australia\u2019s most enduring and puzzling UFO encounters.<\/p>\n