{"id":323012,"date":"2025-11-26T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=cd252fa34c94dc3a1e04c63097c91f90"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:39:55","slug":"australias-biggest-ufo-cover-up-the-westall-incident-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323012","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Biggest UFO Cover-Up | The Westall Incident (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_L9i2qycqZ_F2VN50tEGfFRpPz-VzF4DcKKK8IcbZQqH7Ii4xTNeVYEl6SM3Zl9211laAh1QxOUBg3l4NcQkqALriziKlXATk8Cl0lOAcvtHWuqBUPiKXUsqMbMIyey_IkX9cUu0p8mZ8a2BbzBuTHvPM8e69wwGuQxIw024ToSxNvKbT2q_XGvnHCboU\/s681\/UFO-Cover-Up.png\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"384\" data-original-width=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_L9i2qycqZ_F2VN50tEGfFRpPz-VzF4DcKKK8IcbZQqH7Ii4xTNeVYEl6SM3Zl9211laAh1QxOUBg3l4NcQkqALriziKlXATk8Cl0lOAcvtHWuqBUPiKXUsqMbMIyey_IkX9cUu0p8mZ8a2BbzBuTHvPM8e69wwGuQxIw024ToSxNvKbT2q_XGvnHCboU\/s500\/UFO-Cover-Up.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><big><b><font color=\"bright orange\">Australia\u2019s Biggest UFO Cover-Up |<br \/> The Westall Incident (1966)<\/b><\/font><\/big><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOn April 6th, 1966, more than 200 students and teachers in Melbourne witnessed something extraordinary above Westall High School \u2014 three silver, disc-shaped UFO craft moving in ways no known aircraft could. What followed, became one of Australia\u2019s biggest UFO cover-ups: military jeeps arrived, men in suits appeared, photos were confiscated, interviews were shut down, and witnesses \u2014 including children \u2014 were warned to stay silent. Nearly 60 years later, the mystery of the Westall UFO Incident remains unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>This documentary takes you back to that day in 1966, exploring the Westall UFO encounter, the witnesses who saw the craft land, and the government response that followed. Through first-hand interviews, on-location filming at the original Westall site, and insights from researchers who\u2019ve spent decades investigating the case, we revisit one of the most important \u2014 and most heavily suppressed \u2014 UFO sightings in Australian history.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring:<br \/>\n\u2022 Shane Ryan \u2014 Researcher &#038; investigator behind Westall \u201966: A Suburban<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;UFO Mystery<br \/>\n\u2022 Joy Clarke \u2014 Eyewitness and former Westall student<br \/>\n\u2022 James Rigney \u2014 Researcher and UFO historian<\/p>\n<p>This documentary dives into:<br \/>\n\u2022 The Westall UFO landing in Melbourne<br \/>\n\u2022 The mass sighting by 200+ students and teachers<br \/>\n\u2022 The military and police presence at the school<br \/>\n\u2022 Men in suits warning witnesses<br \/>\n\u2022 Confiscated photographs and missing evidence<br \/>\n\u2022 The media blackout and suppression that followed<br \/>\n\u2022 Why the Westall case remains Australia\u2019s most significant UFO mystery<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"530\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZP-x4Ko_JI?si=AdxL8tJPkJaTS9gb\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"bright orange\">YouTube link:<\/font> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DZP-x4Ko_JI?si=WVamdm4ReJPGeicy\" ><u>https:\/\/youtu.be\/DZP-x4Ko_JI?si=WVamdm4ReJPGeicy<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Biggest UFO Cover-Up | The Westall Incident (1966)<\/p>\n<p>On April 6th, 1966, more than 200 students and teachers in Melbourne witnessed something extraordinary above Westall High School \u2014 three silver, disc-shaped UFO craft moving in ways no kn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[11289],"class_list":["post-323012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufo","category-ufo-news","tag-ufo-disclosure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323013,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323012\/revisions\/323013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}