SUBJECT: DISAPPERANCE OF DELTA SERRA JULIET FILE: UFO3369 THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DELTA SIERRA JULIET 1978 Of all sightings in Australia none has generated so much worldwide attention and concern than that of Fredrick Valentich, a twenty year old flying instructor who disappeared in his Cessna 182 aircraft shortly after reporting a UFO sighting over Bass Strait near Cape Otway, on a flight from Moorabbin, Victoria, to King Island, near Tasmania on October 21/1978. Forty-seven minutes after taking off from Moorabbin Airport, Melbourne, at 6:19 pm, Valentich reported seeing an unidentified aircraft to the Melbourne Flight Service Unit Controller, Steve Robey. The official transcript of the recorded transmission between the Cessna (registration VH- DSJ) and Melbourne Flight Service Unit (FSU) is provided here. The following communications between the aircraft and Melbourne FSU were recorded from 19:06 hours. TIME FROM TEXT ------- ------ ----- ------------------------------------------ 1906:14 VH-DSJ MELBOURNE this is DELTA SIERRA JULIET is there any known traffic below five thousand :23 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET no known traffic :26 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET I am seems to be a large aircraft below five thousand :46 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET what type of aircraft is it :50 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET I cannot affirm it is four bright it seems to me like landing lights 1907:04 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET :32 VH-DSJ MELBOURNE this is DELTA SIERRA JULIET the aircraft just passed over me at least a thousand feet above :43 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET roger and it is a large aircraft confirm :47 VH-DSJ er unknown due to the speed of its traveling is there any air force aircraft in the vicinity :57 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET no known aircraft in the vicinity 1908:18 VH-DSJ MELBOURNE it's approaching now from due east towards me :28 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET :42 // open microphone for two seconds // :49 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET it seems to me that he's playing some sort of game he's flying over me to three times at a time at speeds I could not identify 1909:02 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET roger what is your actual level :06 VH-DSJ my level is four and a half thousand four five zero zero :11 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET and confirm you cannot identify the aircraft :14 VH-DSJ affirmative :18 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET roger standby :28 VH-DSJ MELBOURNE DELTA SIERRA JULIET it's not an aircraft it is // open microphone for two seconds // :46 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET can you describe the er aircraft :52 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET as it's flying past it's a long shape // open microphone for three seconds // cannot identify more than that it has such speed // open microphone for three seconds // before me right now Melbourne 1910:07 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET roger and how large would er object be :20 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET MELBOURNE it seems like it's stationary what I'm doing right now is orbiting and the the thing is just orbiting on top of me also it's got a green light and sort of metallic like it's all shiny on the outside :43 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET :48 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET // open microphone for five seconds // it's just vanished :57 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET 1911:03 VH-DSJ MELBOURNE would you know what kind of aircraft I've got is it a type of military aircraft :08 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET confirm the er aircraft just vanished :14 VH-DSJ say again :17 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET is the aircraft still with you :23 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET it's a nor // open microphone for two seconds // now approaching from the south-west :37 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET :52 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET the engine is rough idling I've got it set at twenty three twenty four and the thing is coughing 1912:04 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET roger what are your intentions :09 VH-DSJ my intentions are ah to go to King Island ah Melbourne that strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again // two seconds open microphone // it is hovering and it's not an aircraft :22 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET :28 VH-DSJ DELTA SIERRA JULIET MELBOURNE // 17 seconds open microphone // :49 FSU DELTA SIERRA JULIET MELBOURNE [TRANSMISSION ENDS] ********************************************************************* * -------->>> THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo <<<------- * *********************************************************************