1 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: At one pm Eastern Time on Wednesday, February the twenty second, 2 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen, NASA held a live press conference 3 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: to make an exciting announcement. They had discovered a peculiar 4 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: solar system located roughly forty light years from Earth. At 5 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: the heart of the system was an ultra cool dwarf star. 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,959 Speaker 1: It was first spotted in two thousand and sixteen by 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: astronomers using the Trappist telescope in Chile, and so it 8 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: was named Trappist one. The star appeared to be orbited 9 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: by two Earth sized planets. In the months that followed, 10 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: a team of astronomers led by Michael Gillon from the 11 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: University of Liege, working with NASA's Spitzer telescope, made a 12 00:00:55,480 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: further incredible discovery. What they found was described by bits 13 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: A Center manager Shawn Carey as the most exciting discovery 14 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: in the history of the department. What Chillon's team uncovered 15 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: was not two Earth sized planets, but seven. Furthermore, three 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: of the planets were found to be occupying the crucial 17 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 1: Goldilocks zone, an area of orbit necessary for the potential 18 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: for water to a pool on a planet's surface. Such 19 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 1: a discovery is the first time ever that so many 20 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: potentially habitable planets had been found surrounding one single star. 21 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: Not only that, but the masses and radii of these 22 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: specific planets mark them out as possibly the best ever 23 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: to warrant further investigation for life, or at the very least, 24 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: a habitable ecosystem that could one day be explored. In 25 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: the words of nassa's Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, 26 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: Thomas Sir Buchan, the discovery gives us a hint that 27 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: finding a second Earth is not just a matter of if, 28 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: but when. What we have in this story is a 29 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: major step forward towards answering one of the questions that 30 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: is at the heart of so many of our philosophies, 31 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: and that is are we alone? You're listening to Unexplained, 32 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClane Smith. Also on the panel at 33 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: nassa's February press conference was Sarah Seeger, professor of planetary 34 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 1: Science and Physics at MIT and author of the Seeger equation. 35 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: The equation is considered by some to be an improved 36 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: rendering of the famous Drake equation. In nineteen sixty one, 37 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 1: the astronomer and physicist doctor Frank Drake devised his equation 38 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: to estimate the number of communicative extraterrestrial civilizations that are 39 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: likely to exist in the Milky Way galaxy. Drake's equation 40 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: takes into account a number of variables, such as the 41 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: rate of star formation, the average number of planets that 42 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: orbit stars, as well as to which fraction exactly such 43 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: planets might actually host sophisticated life forms. Although the equation 44 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: was intended partly as a point of discussion, many critics 45 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: were quick to argue that any attempt to estimate such 46 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: a number would involve too big a margin of error 47 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: to be reliable. However, a recent paper published by astrobiologists 48 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: Adam Frank of the University of Rochester and Woodruff Sullivan 49 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: of the University of Washington offered an interesting new approach 50 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: to the question. Rather than trying to estimate the possible 51 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: number of other extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy, they instead 52 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: asked what were the odds that the human rays might 53 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: be the only one. Their answer equated to roughly a 54 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: one in sixty billion chants. So, when you also consider 55 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: that the Milky Way is thought to be only one 56 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: of two trillion galaxies in the known observable universe. Not 57 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: only is it unfathomably unlikely that other civilizations don't exist 58 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: in the universe, but it is entirely plausible that some 59 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: may already have flourished and died out millions of times 60 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: over before our own. We might then wonder, much like 61 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: the great physicist Rico Fermi, if it is so likely 62 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: that other sophisticated life forms exist out there, why have 63 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: we never seen them, to which many, of course would reply, 64 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: but we have. The following story is considered by many 65 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: ufologists to be amongst the best evidence of an alien 66 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 1: visitation to our planet. What happened exactly in the skies 67 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 1: just off the coast of Melbourne, Australia in nineteen seventy 68 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: eight has never been fully accounted for. It is a 69 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: mystery that remains to this day unexplained. It was love 70 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 1: at first sight, and as is often the case, it 71 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,239 Speaker 1: was completely unplanned. It was some time in March nineteen 72 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: seventy eight, and Ronda had only recently turned sixteen. That night, 73 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: she was accompanying her neighbor's son Peter to his regular 74 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: Friday social event at the Flight sixteen Air Cadet headquarters 75 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: in Maryborough, Melbourne. Peter had only recently joined the Australian 76 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: Air Training Corps and who was eager to share his 77 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Speaker 1: exciting new world with Ronda. What he hadn't banked on 78 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 1: was bumping into Fred. Peter had been showing Ronda round 79 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: the company buildings when Fred stepped out of a nearby 80 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:58,720 Speaker 1: office and write into her path. He was dark haired, 81 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: handsome and elegant in his steel blue uniform. He introduced 82 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: himself to Ronda as Fred Valentiic, before turning back to Peter. 83 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: As the pair talked, Peter shifted uncomfortably whenever Fred's eyes 84 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: glanced away towards Ronda. The next week, Peter was overjoyed 85 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: when Ronda agreed to join him at the Cadet's Saturday 86 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 1: night dance. Sadly for Peter, however, who Ronda was really 87 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: hoping to see that night was Fred. Sure Enough, immediately 88 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: after she arrived, she spotted him holding court with some 89 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: friends at the back of the room. Unbeknownst to Ronda, 90 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: Fred too had been hoping or evening that the two 91 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: of them might meet again. There was only one problem, Peter, 92 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: but Fred had a plan. It was well known that 93 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: Peter's ill mother had given him a pager in case 94 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: she might ever need him at short notice some point 95 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: in the night. After waiting for just the right moment, 96 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: Fred slipped away from his table to use the payphone outside. 97 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: Moments later, he watched from the side of the hall 98 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: as Peter received the message with a look of disappointment 99 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: on his face. Of course, Fred knew it was a 100 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: cruel trick, but this was love, and sometimes that's all 101 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: that matters. Peter gestured his apologies to Ronda and made 102 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: his way out of the club. As Fred returned to 103 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: the end of Ronda's table, he was almost certain he 104 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: could see a look of relief across her face. It 105 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: hadn't gone unnoticed by Ronda that as the evening progressed, 106 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: Fred seemed to be making his way further and further 107 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: up the table, until finally he was sitting next to her, 108 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: and so they would remain for the rest of the 109 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: night as the hours drifted by timelessly. The following monday, 110 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: Fred met Ronda's parents, and by the end of the 111 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 1: week the pair had agreed to make it official. A 112 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: few weeks later, Ronda was introduced to Fred's family at 113 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: his home in Avondale Heights, where she met and fell 114 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: in love with his parents, Alberta and Guido, his twelve 115 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 1: year old brother Ricky, and his two twin sisters, Olivia 116 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: and Laura. It was easy to see why Ronda was 117 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: so smitten by Fred. He was fun and easy to 118 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: be around, kind and well mannered, not to mention dashing 119 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: in his training Corps uniform. But there was one thing 120 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: that would have to be accommodated. It was Fred's dream 121 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: to be a commercial airline pilot, and he dedicated himself 122 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: to the task obsessively. Every spare minute was spent at 123 00:08:42,600 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: his flight school or with his nose buried inside one 124 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: of his training textbooks. Meeting up on weeknights was completely 125 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: out of the question, but come the weekend they were 126 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: like any other teenage couple. Fred wasn't a big drinker, 127 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: but he loved going out with Ronda, perhaps his favorite 128 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: moments being the ones they spent on Mount Dandenong, where 129 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: they would just sit and take in the view as 130 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: the evening sun gave way to the Melbourne city lights. 131 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: Are you always taking care of your family? Do you 132 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: often take care of others and not yourself. Now, it's 133 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: time to take care of yourself, to make time for you. 134 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: You deserve it. Teledoc gives you access to a licensed 135 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: therapist to help you get back to feeling your best, 136 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: to feeling like yourself again. 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Forward slash 146 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: Unexplained podcast to day to get started. That's t e 147 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: l a d oc dot com slash Unexplained podcast. And 148 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 1: when Fred got the chance to clock up more flight time, 149 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: Ronda was only too happy to accompany him. She loved 150 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: the sensation of it, especially when the plane would break 151 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: through into brilliant sunshine the clouds stretching out below like 152 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: a soft blanket, almost as if you could step out 153 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: and walk across it and up there alone with Fred. 154 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: She'd never felt safer, even when he would loop the 155 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: loop on one of his acrobatic flights. As Ronda got 156 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: to know Fred a little better, there was one thing 157 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: that stood out more than anything. It was his meticulous nature, 158 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,080 Speaker 1: whether it be making sure his car was running smoothly, 159 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: the pride he took in how he dressed, almost markedly 160 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: in his approach to his flight training. By mid May, 161 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 1: Fred had clocked over one hundred and forty hours and 162 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: had graduated to a Class four license, allowing him to 163 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 1: fly at night. By way of celebration, Fred took Ronda 164 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: on a six hundred mile flight to Spear's Point in 165 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 1: Newcastle to visit her favorite uncle, Michael. It had been 166 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: the perfect day, but the following morning, as the pair 167 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: prepared to fly home, Fred seemed concerned. He was convinced 168 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 1: that someone had tampered with the plane. After a short 169 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: time in the air, the column on the joystick seemed 170 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: to be loosening. Never wont to leave anything to chance, 171 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: Fred made an emergency descent towards Bankstown airport in Sydney. 172 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 1: Moments later, much to his shock, a military helicopter appeared 173 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: from nowhere and ordered them out of the sky. In 174 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 1: his eagerness to get the plane down, Fred had strayed 175 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: marginally into a restricted airspace. Minutes later, Fred and Ronda 176 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: touched down in Bankstown, but the incident would inevitably go 177 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: down as a blemish on Fred's record. His abject disappointment 178 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: in himself was a reminder to Ronda just how seriously 179 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: he took his training. A few months later, on September seventeenth, 180 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: just over four hundred miles south of Melbourne, across the 181 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: Bass Strait to the far side of Tasmania, a lighthouse 182 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: keeper spotted something strange in the sky. The keeper worked 183 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 1: at the Matsika Island Lighthouse, located off the southern coast 184 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: of mainland Tasmania. He had just completed his evening rounds 185 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,840 Speaker 1: when he noticed an unfamiliar light in the sky. It 186 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: was extremely bright and appeared to be half moon in shape. 187 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: Moments after he spotted it, all the power in the 188 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: lighthouse inexplicably cut out. Bizarrely. After rushing to fix the problem, 189 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: the keeper found no blown fuses or tripped circuit breakers. 190 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: Five minutes later, the generator kicked into action and the 191 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: power was restored. The keeper returned to his previous lookout 192 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: point to find the strange light still hanging in the 193 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: night sky. A closer look with binoculars revealed what appeared 194 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: to be a small red dot in the middle of 195 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 1: the light, which seemed to move to the side as 196 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: if the light was turning. Ten minutes later, the power 197 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,320 Speaker 1: cut out again and remained out for fifteen minutes before 198 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: it was finally restored, but again with no obvious cause. 199 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: Moments later, the lighthouse keeper watched as the strange light 200 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: eventually began to shrink, as if moving away from the island, 201 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: until it had completely disappeared. Back in Melbourne a few 202 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: weeks later, on Friday thirteenth of October, Fred and Ronda 203 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: drove to their favorite spot up in the Dandenong Ranges. 204 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: That night, they talked for hours as down below the 205 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: Yarra Valley stretched out before them, blanketed by the warm, 206 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: luminescent glow of a setting spring sun. Fred had never 207 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: been more happy. Having just turned twenty, he was passing 208 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: his exams and was well on the way to becoming 209 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: a commercial airline pilot, and of course he also had Ronda. 210 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 1: At some point, Fred pulled a box from his pocket 211 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: and opened it to reveal a ring. Will you marry me? 212 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: He asked. They'd known each other little over six months, 213 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: but everything about this felt right. They laughed at the 214 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:55,479 Speaker 1: madness of it all. Ronda could barely hide her excitement 215 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: as Fred slipped the friendship band onto her wedding ring finger. 216 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: But then for a second she paused. Not only was 217 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: it Friday the thirteenth, but wasn't it bad luck to 218 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: place a friendship ring on the wedding ring finger? She thought, 219 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: But Fred didn't believe in such things. Besides, she would 220 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,680 Speaker 1: have the real thing soon enough. In the meantime, he 221 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: asked that she keep it all a secret until Rohnda's 222 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: seventeenth birthday in December. Ronda didn't see Fred for the 223 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: rest of the week, preoccupied as he was, with preparations 224 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: for his latest milestone, a flight across open water. But 225 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: on the Friday, Fred drove to Ronda's house and the 226 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,960 Speaker 1: pair made arrangements to meet for the flight the next day. 227 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: Ronda agreed that she would meet him at the airport 228 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: if she could get off work in time. Before he 229 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 1: left that night, they kissed on the doorstep, a kiss 230 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: that seemed to last a lifetime. Next morning, on Saturday, 231 00:15:56,640 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: October the twenty first, Fred was up at six am, 232 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: buzzing with excitement as he went over the flight plans 233 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 1: in his head. After completing a shift at the AUSSI 234 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: Disposal store at one three nine Puckle Street where he worked, 235 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: Fred was soon on the freeway, racing towards Murrabin Airport 236 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: in southeast Melbourne. Fred had a three hour lesson to 237 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: negotiate before he could take his flight, but as was 238 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: often his way, he arrived early, so he did what 239 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,680 Speaker 1: he always did in such circumstances. He took out his 240 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 1: textbooks and revised until one thirty when the class began. 241 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: Back in West Preston, Ronda was eagerly awaiting the end 242 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 1: of her shift. She'd arranged with her parents to drive 243 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: her down to the airport after her shift, but was 244 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: being held up by a delayed co worker. Ronda had 245 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: no choice but to cover until she arrived, but as 246 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: the minutes ticked by, Ronda lost her ride. She would 247 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: miss this flight, but Fred would be home before long, 248 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: and after all she had the evening's dance to look 249 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: forward to. Down at Murrabin Airport, Fred was disappointed not 250 00:17:05,560 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: to find Ronda waiting for him by his car After 251 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: the lesson in truth, the thought of flying over the 252 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: water alone made him a little nervous, but a quick 253 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 1: meteorological briefing revealed that the weather would be on his side, 254 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: and with sunset not due for another two hours, he 255 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: would have more than enough time to complete the journey 256 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: before it got dark. At seventeen twenty three hours, Fred 257 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 1: lodged his flight plan at the briefing office. He would 258 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: fly southwest along the coast to Cape Otway before heading 259 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: south over the Bass Strait to King Island at the 260 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:42,160 Speaker 1: north of Tasmania, before returning back to mu Rabin Airport. 261 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 1: There was still no sign of Ronda, but Fred decided 262 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: to give her a few more minutes and headed off 263 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: to grab some food. In the meantime. There was a 264 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,320 Speaker 1: new place that had just opened near by that he 265 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: liked to go, and so it was a short time 266 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: later the Fred was sat in his car eating McDonald's, 267 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: gazing out wistfully at the sea he was soon to cross. 268 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: When he finally made it back to the airport. With 269 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,479 Speaker 1: time running out and Ronda yet to arrive, Fred had 270 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 1: little choice but to set off alone. After a further 271 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: round of checks, he jumped into the Cessna v D 272 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: s J taxied the small plane to the edge of 273 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:23,960 Speaker 1: the runway before taking off into the early evening sky. 274 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: Back in West Preston, Ronda had returned home and was 275 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 1: getting herself ready for a night out with Fred, excited 276 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: to hear all about his trip to king Ireland, but 277 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 1: by the time it had got to eight pm, Ronda 278 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: was growing concerned that there had been no word from Fred. 279 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: Ronda never made it to the dance, but instead spent 280 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: the night sat all made up on her bed, staring 281 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: out her window at the street below for any sign 282 00:18:55,920 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: of her fiance. At some point she must have fallen asleep, 283 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: as she found herself being woken by the sound of 284 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: the ABC news drifting in from her father's bedroom. She 285 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,719 Speaker 1: couldn't quite make out all of it, only that an 286 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: unnamed pilot had gone missing over the bas Strait. Ronda's 287 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 1: heart sunk deep into her chest. After taking an age 288 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: to get through to Murrabin Airport. When they eventually picked up, 289 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,679 Speaker 1: Ronda received the devastating news the missing pilot was Fred. 290 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: Over the next few days, wave after wave of search 291 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: and rescue teams were dispatched unsuccessfully in the hunt for 292 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: Fred's missing plane. For Ronda and Fred's family, their grief 293 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: would have been unimaginable for the authorities, who were plainly 294 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: only two likelihoods. One that Fred had got into some 295 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: kind of difficulty, perhaps becoming disorientated over the water, leading 296 00:19:56,320 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: to a catastrophic pilot error, or he had deliberately flown 297 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: his plane into the sea. Since Fred had been taking 298 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: a routine path over a manageable stretch of water, as 299 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 1: noted in the cause analysis report, it is most probable 300 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,320 Speaker 1: that the wreckage would have been sighted, but the plane 301 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: had disappeared without a trace. And then something extraordinary came 302 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: to light. On Wednesday, the twenty fifth of October, Fred's father, Guido, 303 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: was invited to listen to the final recording of Fred's 304 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 1: air traffic control communication to formally identify the pilot. As 305 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: soon as the recording crackled to life, Guido's heart broke 306 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: for the thousandth time as the voice of his son 307 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: came out at the speaker. But what everybody in the 308 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: room heard next chilled them all to the bone. At 309 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: nineteen hundred hours, Fred reported arriving successfully over Cape Otway 310 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: before heading south over the open water. The next communication 311 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:13,119 Speaker 1: was received at nineteen hundred and six hours, Melbourne. This 312 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below 313 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 1: five thousand? Delta Sierra Juliet No known traffic. It seems 314 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: to be a large aircraft below five thousand. What type 315 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: of aircraft is it? I cannot affirm. It has four 316 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: bright it seems to me like landing lights. Melbourne, this 317 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 1: is Delta Sierra Juliet. The aircraft has just passed over 318 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 1: me at least a thousand feet above Roger and it 319 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 1: is a large aircraft. Confirm unknown due to the speed 320 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: it's traveling. Is there any air Force aircraft in the 321 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: vicinity Delta Sierra Juliet. No known aircraft in the vicinity, Melbourne. 322 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: It's approaching now from due east towards me. Seems to 323 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: me that he's playing some sort of game. He's flying 324 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,639 Speaker 1: over me two three times at a time at speeds 325 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 1: I could not identify Delta Sierra Juliet. And confirm you 326 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: cannot identify the aircraft affirmative. It's not an aircraft. It's 327 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: a long shape. I cannot identify more than that. It 328 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: has such speed. What I'm doing right now is orbiting, 329 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: and the thing is just orbiting on top of me. 330 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 1: It's got a green light and a sort of metallic 331 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: like it's all shiny on the outside. It's just vanished. 332 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: Delta Sierra Juliet confirmed that the aircraft has vanished. Ah, 333 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: it's now approaching from the southwest. Roger, what are your intentions? 334 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,720 Speaker 1: My intentions are to go to King Island, Melbourne. That 335 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 1: strange aircraft is hovering on top of me. Again, it's 336 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: hovering and it's not an aircraft, and then there is nothing. 337 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: Melbourne attempts communication again, but after seventeen seconds of dead 338 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 1: air at nineteen hundred and twelve hours, Fred's radio falls silent. 339 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: Within days, Fred's gripping final transmission made its way to 340 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 1: the press. Before long, the papers were awash with speculation 341 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: concerning Fred's fatal encounter with the UFO, and then something 342 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: else emerged. Six weeks previously, Sergeant Jack Woodward of Curry 343 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 1: Police on King Island had received a call concerning strange 344 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: lights that had appeared off the north of the Island. 345 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: A nurse at King Island Hospital had seen them too, 346 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: with two other witnesses going as far as to write 347 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: into the King Island News on September the twentieth. We 348 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: are writing to your paper, they said, to see if 349 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:02,840 Speaker 1: anyone other than ourselves had seen any sightings of strange 350 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:08,439 Speaker 1: moving lights in the sky. The department at Transport were 351 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: quick to quash the rumors, with one spokesman suggesting that 352 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,439 Speaker 1: if Fred's plane had inverted, he would have seen the 353 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: light from Cape Otway and King Island houses reflected on 354 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: cloud cover above him. But not only were there no 355 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 1: clouds in the sky that night, as the spokesman was 356 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: forced to admit, the conditions were near perfect and would 357 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,959 Speaker 1: have afforded Fred almost unlimited vision. Reports from Fred's friends 358 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: and acquaintances began to emerge. They revealed a sober, studious 359 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: and diligent flight student with the steely determination to succeed, 360 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 1: with one friend noting that Fred was never prone to panic, 361 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: as Ronda had also attested during her many hours of 362 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: flying with him. Fred's instructors, Warren Dunlop and Martin Dalton 363 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: described him as sincere and sensible, a little quiet, first, 364 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 1: but quick to open up once you got to know him. 365 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:13,239 Speaker 1: For Alberta and Guido, the evidence spoke for itself, and 366 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: with the papers more than happy to exploit their grief 367 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: for the cosmic speculation, there was little room for anything else. 368 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: As for sixteen year old Ronda, she had barely had 369 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: time to grieve, such was the incessant hounding of the press. 370 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: At one point she even fled to a motel in 371 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: Cape Otway, only to find a crowd of journalists waiting 372 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: for her in the foyer. And the truth was there 373 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: really was nothing more that she could tell them. After 374 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: two weeks, the search for Fred was called off. However, 375 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:50,919 Speaker 1: although they may not have found the wreckage, in the 376 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: subsequent widening of the investigation, something new was about to 377 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: come to light. It seemed that Fred had not been 378 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: entirely honest with his parents or Ronder. On November first, 379 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: the investigative team received a letter from Captain Edwin Robert Barnes, 380 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: a former tutor of Fred's in nineteen seventy six. Fred 381 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: had failed in his attempt to join the Royal Australian 382 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 1: Air Force. It was not entirely unexpected, since not only 383 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: had Fred left school, at sixteen, but his academic record 384 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,679 Speaker 1: had been poor. But Fred would not be deterred, and 385 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: he resolved that whatever he lacked in intellect, he would 386 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:35,159 Speaker 1: work ferociously hard to make up for in effort. Although 387 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: he would never realize his dream of making the Air Force, 388 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: he could still make it as a commercial airline pilot. Sadly, 389 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: this ambition, too, hit a snag when in nineteen seventy seven, 390 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: Fred sat for and failed all five of his commercial 391 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: pilot's license theory exams. It was at this point that 392 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: an instructor, impressed by Fred's determination, recommended that Captain Barnes 393 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: helped tutor him through his resets. In Barnes's letter, he 394 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: speaks with great warmth and affection about the boy who, 395 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: having not made it to the Air Force, nonetheless attended 396 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: Squadron Headquarters in a civilian capacity, working without pay or allowances, 397 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 1: until accepted into Squadron staff as an airman, a boy who, 398 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: despite failing his exams, was a battler with the determination 399 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 1: and stability to achieve his goal of becoming a commercial 400 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: airline pilot. Fred eventually resat his exams in July of 401 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,880 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight and Barnes was overjoyed when Fred called 402 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: him up in mid September to tell him with great 403 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: excitement that he had finally passed. Only it was a lie, 404 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: a lie that Fred had been hiding from not only 405 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: his beloved tutor, but also his family and Ronda. Suddenly 406 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: some of the more confusing aspects of Fred's final days 407 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 1: had taken on a different shape. Why he had proposed 408 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,680 Speaker 1: to Ronda on Friday the thirteenth, a week before the 409 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 1: day they regularly celebrated as a monthly anniversary. Why if 410 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: he was intending to land at King Ireland, he hadn't 411 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: requested landing lights to be turned on. Or why he 412 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: told Ronda that he'd be back to take her out, 413 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,959 Speaker 1: but told his father that he wouldn't return till at 414 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: least ten pm. Is it possible that, rather than having 415 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: been plucked from the sky by an unknown entity, Fred had, 416 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: in a sense already been taken away some time ago 417 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: by something else equally intangible. In the end, had this 418 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: young man whose only dream was to prove to the 419 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: world that he had what it took to be a 420 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,720 Speaker 1: pilot finally been broken by the crushing realization that, no 421 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:54,120 Speaker 1: matter how hard he tried, his head would never match 422 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: up to his heart. A young man too pained to 423 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 1: reveal the truth to his family and Ronda, to whom 424 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: he felt he had promised so much. All elements of 425 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: Unexplained are produced by me Richard McClain smith. 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