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Location within Melbourne | date = | time = | place = Westall High School and The Grange in Clayton South, Victoria, Australia | coordinates = | also known as = Westall High School UFOs | participants = 200 students/teachers }} The Westall UFO encounter is an event that occurred on 6 April 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Around 11.00 am, for about 20 minutes, more than 200 students and teachers at two Victorian state schools allegedly witnessed an unexplained flying object which descended into a nearby open wild grass field. The paddock was adjacent to a grove of pine trees in an area known as The Grange (now a nature reserve). According to reports, the object then ascended in a north-westerly direction over the suburb of Clayton South, Victoria, Australia.〔''The Dandenong Journal'', 14 April 1966, page 1〕〔''The Dandenong Journal'', 21 April 1966, pages 1-2〕〔Auchettl, John, ''An Old Australian Phenomenon'', The Australian Annual Flying Saucer Review, Victorian UFO Research Society (VUFORS), 1983〕〔Terry Brown, ''Herald Sun'', 3 June 2010, "Clayton South residents remember the 1966 day they saw flying objects",()〕 == Description == At approximately 11.00 am on Wednesday, 6 April 1966, a class of students and a teacher from Westall High School (now Westall Secondary College) were just completing a sport activity on the main oval when an object, described as being a grey saucer-shaped craft with a slight purple hue and being about twice the size of a family car, was alleged to have been seen. Witness descriptions were mixed: Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher, told ''The Dandenong Journal'' at the time that he saw a silvery-green disc. According to witnesses the object was descending and then crossed and overflew the high school's south-west corner, going in a south-easterly direction, before disappearing from sight as it descended behind a stand of trees and into a paddock at The Grange in front of the Westall State School (primary students). After a short period (approximately 20 minutes) the object - with witnesses now numbering over 200 - then climbed at speed and departed towards the north-west. As the object gained altitude some accounts describe it as having been pursued from the scene by five unidentified aircraft which circled the object.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westall UFO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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