Speaker 1: Got anything, dag Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Yesterday the show.
Speaker 3: Then we're talking about this UFOs story here in Melbourne
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty six.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of the story, and we're asking at.
Speaker 3: The endless show if there were any of the then
Speaker 3: children that are around now that we could hear their
Speaker 3: eyewitness account of what happened with the three UFOs. They've
Speaker 3: got a lovely email from a lady called Joy, who
Speaker 3: was twelve at the time in nineteen sixty six, said
Speaker 3: she'd be happy to speak to us, and she joins
Speaker 3: us now, Joy, good morning, good morning, listen, thank you
Speaker 3: so much for speaking to us today. We're all really
Speaker 3: interested in what you saw and yeah, what it was like, Joy,
Speaker 3: if you're happy to go.
Speaker 1: Back there, oh absolutely, And first up, it's a true story.
Speaker 1: It happened, believe you may, it happened. And as you said,
Speaker 1: I was actually twelve and a half. But the ego
Speaker 1: and so where do you want me to start at?
Speaker 1: What happened with how I sort of saw them in
Speaker 1: the first place?
Speaker 2: Exactly? So what was it in the morning? Was it
Speaker 2: the afternoon?
Speaker 1: Yea, now, look it was it was twenty past ten
Speaker 1: in the morning. I was in science class and it
Speaker 1: was coming up to morning recess and a student, it
Speaker 1: was a female, ran up to the door, flung the
Speaker 1: door open and said, mister Greenwood, mister Greenwood, there's flying
Speaker 1: sources in the sky, there's things in the sky. Well,
Speaker 1: of course we all just burst out laughing. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: And anyway, then, of course we got a bit restless
Speaker 1: because we wanted to go outside and have a look.
Speaker 1: But he made us wait until the bell went, and
Speaker 1: it went a couple of minutes later.
Speaker 2: Got a minute, there's three those up the sky. Now,
Speaker 2: mister green was going to hang on it and pack away,
Speaker 2: you bunsen burners all got a couple of locker bout.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, he was a brilliant teacher. He was quite young anyway.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so we all finally we'll get out the
Speaker 1: door down the corridor. Of course we're told not to run,
Speaker 1: but we were all walking very quickly and out through
Speaker 1: the corridors and down out and out onto the oval.
Speaker 1: And there was all the other kids that were out
Speaker 1: there playing sports that had been out there earlier. They
Speaker 1: were doing pa playing cricket and football and all stuff.
Speaker 1: So they had already seen them and came round across
Speaker 1: the oval and stood there and looked into the sky
Speaker 1: and oh, my god, yeah, what did you eat? Well?
Speaker 1: I saw three flying sources, and that's the way I
Speaker 1: could have described them. They looked like flying sources, like
Speaker 1: things that we'd seen in comic books. And you know,
Speaker 1: whatever else is that shape? You know that that sauce
Speaker 1: of shape and with a sort of hump in the middle.
Speaker 1: And I was just I was really really excited, but
Speaker 1: I was transfixed. I just stood there and I was
Speaker 1: concentrating so much on one that I was looking at,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to take in everything that I was
Speaker 1: looking at, because I'd never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 1: And apparently there was pandemonium happening, with noise and what
Speaker 1: all sort of stuff that I don't have because I
Speaker 1: was so fixated on what I was looking at. I
Speaker 1: don't remember that noise that was happening. My older sister does.
Speaker 1: She was there too, but she was around the other
Speaker 1: side of the school and she said, oh god, some
Speaker 1: of the kids were going off their tree. They were hysterical.
Speaker 1: I was, and I was really really excited, and I
Speaker 1: was just incredible, just incredible, great silver, silver, silver, yeah, silvery,
Speaker 1: and hovered and the way they moved was just incredible.
Speaker 1: They could go straight up in the air. You'd look
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they were to the right,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden one was over the left,
Speaker 1: and then there was one in the middle, and then
Speaker 1: they were hovering over that. There was a big power
Speaker 1: line down the bottom of the paddock or not the paddic,
Speaker 1: the oval, you know, electricity pylon, and they were hovering
Speaker 1: over there and moving back and forward, and oh, it's
Speaker 1: just amazing. It was incredible. And then after a few
Speaker 1: minutes or a few minutes, they were moving all over
Speaker 1: the place. And then some light aircraft came from Arabin Airport.
Speaker 1: Because we're extremely close to Marabin Airport and we were
Speaker 1: used to seeing planes all the time, so we knew
Speaker 1: what they were. They were a little fistness of something,
Speaker 1: and they came and it turned eventually it was like
Speaker 1: a game of cat and mouse. They had to come
Speaker 1: in and they were trying to circle these things, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they get really close and the
Speaker 1: saucer would just fly up in straight up in the
Speaker 1: sky at incredible speed, or move over there, and they
Speaker 1: had to go and turn around and come back. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was like they're having a game with them.
Speaker 1: It was really quite ironic. What was going on there?
Speaker 2: The windows in the alien craft? Could you see any air?
Speaker 1: I can't, That's one thing I really can't remember. Yep, yep,
Speaker 1: there possibly. Some of the other people have said there
Speaker 1: were lights and everything on the bottom and stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: I have a friend who came within touching distance of
Speaker 1: one and yeah, and she's a very reputable witness as well,
Speaker 1: and yeah, she said there were that sort of small
Speaker 1: lights and because it was on the ground or hovering
Speaker 1: in front of her, and yeah, anyway, they're in the
Speaker 1: sky own that went on and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they disappeared and went up in the sky and
Speaker 1: went back over towards the Grange. Now the Grange in
Speaker 1: those days it was quite a rural area and it
Speaker 1: was only a very Newish school, and we had market gardens,
Speaker 1: we had bush, we had you know, pine trees, all
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff. There was an old abandoned house in
Speaker 1: the grange that we used to you know, and it
Speaker 1: was an area where went after school and played and
Speaker 1: on holidays and we used to do our country cross
Speaker 1: country runs through there, and some of the kids had
Speaker 1: bolted over the fence and taken off after them to
Speaker 1: have a look. And then, pardon me, they were gone
Speaker 1: for a few minutes. I really wish I had a
Speaker 1: run too, but I was too frightened, because I was
Speaker 1: not frightened. But we weren't allowed to leave the grounds
Speaker 1: in those days, and we really get.
Speaker 2: Run back to class.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's right. That was that was the thing
Speaker 1: that they couldn't do withither. They couldn't get anybody to
Speaker 1: go back to glass after what happened. And then they
Speaker 1: came back in the sky, and they were back up
Speaker 1: in the sky for a while doing a bit of
Speaker 1: a uh, you know, moving, and then it was like
Speaker 1: busy friend another friend that I still see after allege
Speaker 1: years recalled that we thought one was bigger than the other,
Speaker 1: but we're thinking that was because it was close to us,
Speaker 1: and the other two was sort of a little bit
Speaker 1: further back. And then the big one in the middle
Speaker 1: just went straight up in there.
Speaker 2: I call it the alien yo yo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it turned on the side, and as it turned
Speaker 1: on the side, the sun hit the bottom of the
Speaker 1: disk and you got like a beam of light and
Speaker 1: then just one thing. The next minute, bang they were gone,
Speaker 1: and they were gone.
Speaker 3: Incredible and joy and then there are all these rumors
Speaker 3: that then sort of, you know, people dressed in military
Speaker 3: outfits turned up.
Speaker 1: And that's not rumors, that's not rumors, that's fact. I
Speaker 1: actually walked around to the other side of the school
Speaker 1: after they disappeared, and I was hanging We had a
Speaker 1: pipe excuse me, fum pipe factory opposite us. Now, I
Speaker 1: was hanging over the fence right next to the caretakes
Speaker 1: his office when these jeeps pulled up, you see, and
Speaker 1: I thought, oh, that's a bit strange, wonder what's going
Speaker 1: on here. And anyway, all of a sudden they pull up,
Speaker 1: they pulled up the back, the tarp hole and thing
Speaker 1: off the back and out get these men in green uniforms.
Speaker 1: Thinking hmm, that's interesting, that's army. And there were a
Speaker 1: couple of them that were also in camouflage. Now, in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, and this is fact, Australian Army did
Speaker 1: not wear camouflage, but the Americans did. And there was
Speaker 1: some American soldiers that were stationed in Victoria Barracks in
Speaker 1: Melbourne at that state Anyway, they got out of the
Speaker 1: young thing and they were writing. They had clipboards and
Speaker 1: they were writing and talking to each other. Then they
Speaker 1: jumped in the things and took off. Now they obviously
Speaker 1: went down to the grange, so they disappeared. Now then
Speaker 1: during in the course of the day, we had people
Speaker 1: that came from that were in blue uniforms which were
Speaker 1: Air Force. We had the army people, a couple of
Speaker 1: army people. There were men in black suits who questioned
Speaker 1: some of the kids in the principal's office. There were police,
Speaker 1: there were firebrians. Oh yeah, this was going on. And
Speaker 1: in the meantime the teachers or that, you know, we're
Speaker 1: trying to get the kids back in the school and
Speaker 1: nobody's going back.
Speaker 2: You've seen three alien spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Yes we know, we know, we know what we saw.
Speaker 1: And anyway, and then of course we had an assembly
Speaker 1: with our principal trying to get everybody to calm down
Speaker 1: and whatever else. Now he stood in the we had
Speaker 1: a quadrangle where we used to have our assemblies, and
Speaker 1: he was upon a sort of raised step stall like
Speaker 1: the panamy and he was there with the advice principal.
Speaker 1: Now behind him was a long corridor that went from
Speaker 1: the front of the school to the office, and it
Speaker 1: was full glass. Now all these people were standing in there,
Speaker 1: watching and listening to what he was telling us. Now
Speaker 1: he was telling us that we were all massively hysterical,
Speaker 1: that we hadn't seen anything, that we were not to
Speaker 1: talk about it. If we talked about it, we get
Speaker 1: you know, there would be consequences. You do not speak
Speaker 1: to the media, You do not tell anybody.
Speaker 2: And you can trust two hundred kids to keep their
Speaker 2: mouth shut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of coast you can. And then that was okay,
Speaker 1: that was right, And then I got it. I got
Speaker 1: actually got detention because I've spoken. Channel nine had rapped.
Speaker 2: Up at the.
Speaker 1: Channel nine, Yes, Channel nine Knews had dropped up, and
Speaker 1: they there was a There was five of us standing
Speaker 1: out the front of the school and we're being interviewed
Speaker 1: by that the reporter and a policeman walked up to
Speaker 1: me and put his hand on my left shoulder and
Speaker 1: said to me, now you stopped talking and go back
Speaker 1: in the school. And he turned his back on us
Speaker 1: and he's pointed at the at the film people and
Speaker 1: the reporter and said a new lot to go away.
Speaker 2: So that's incredible. Story, Joyce, you were seen all that?
Speaker 3: Tell me this joy Over the years, you know, you
Speaker 3: must have spoken to so many people about it. Do
Speaker 3: some people not believe you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Of course, God, I got all the time. How
Speaker 1: drunk were you and what drugs were you on? It's
Speaker 1: you know, twelve and a half years old and back
Speaker 1: in the sixties. I mean, our principal was ex army
Speaker 1: and he ruled with an iron fist. Absolutely. You know,
Speaker 1: you were not allowed to leave those school grounds under
Speaker 1: any circumstances. So of course the kids that had jumped
Speaker 1: the fence and taken off they got into trouble too,
Speaker 1: because it was coming up to Easter though. It was
Speaker 1: coming up to Easter break, so we didn't get the
Speaker 1: attention until we went back to school.
Speaker 2: That's how did that should be my big question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we were category categoric lay but we were
Speaker 1: all you know, we hadn't seen anything. We just imagined
Speaker 1: that all this had happened. Yeah. Right, as I say
Speaker 1: to people, I don't have an issue what people think.
Speaker 1: I know what I saw, All those other people know
Speaker 1: what they saw, and always say to people your opinion,
Speaker 1: you can have it. I don't have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: But I'll ask you one question and they say what's that?
Speaker 1: And I say, well, were you there? And they say no,
Speaker 1: And I said, well I was. End of story. I
Speaker 1: don't have to justify myself to anybody's in. It's an
Speaker 1: experience that I actually feel privileged to have experienced. It's
Speaker 1: put me in. You know, I've met some really wonderful
Speaker 1: people in planning yourself over the years, renewed old friendships.
Speaker 1: It's been to me with a bonus.
Speaker 3: I don't have the way to see it all well
Speaker 3: us enjoy. Thank you so much for being to speak
Speaker 3: to us and taking us back there. It's an amazing
Speaker 3: eyewitness account. You've got joy and you told it so well.
Speaker 3: You already put us there back in nineteen sixty six
Speaker 3: and what it was all like. So thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Oh you're welcome. So we said, there's so much. You know,
Speaker 1: one day we might get the answer we want and
Speaker 1: all we want is that verification and we know what
Speaker 1: we saw, and oh to you quickly. We have a
Speaker 1: reunion every year down at the grange, and this year.
Speaker 2: The grange, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: It's still there. It's still there. The playground in west
Speaker 1: in Osbourne Avenue and Westore, and we have we just
Speaker 1: go down and get together and have lunch, and we
Speaker 1: have people, we have witnesses, We have people that ask
Speaker 1: us questions. We sometimes get some new witnesses that come
Speaker 1: forward as well. And that's happening on the sixth of
Speaker 1: April this year, because that's the usually we are have
Speaker 1: it on the weekend closest to the day. Actually we
Speaker 1: share it is happening on Sunday, Sunday, So.
Speaker 3: All right, Sunday isn't because the seventh on the Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, well I might come along actually, Joy, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll do. Look, we I might pretend to be.
Speaker 2: A new witness to start making up live And what
Speaker 2: about the bears that got out? Do you remember that
Speaker 2: coming to Green Markets?
Speaker 1: Yeah? One one thing that none of us have ever
Speaker 1: said that we saw aliens. We definitely saw craft, but
Speaker 1: none of us. That's something had to be controlling, so
Speaker 1: there is no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: Joy, thank you very much for chating to us. Enjoy
Speaker 2: your day.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Thank you very much.
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