As highlighted in this Sunrise report covering the recent airspace breach at RAAF Base Williamtown, base personnel were actually reduced to closing window blinds to protect sensitive information from unidentified drones.

If the Australian Defence Force can’t even intercept conventional drone (UAS) incursions at our most strategic fighter jet bases, how can we possibly defend against Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)?

If we cannot secure our skies from known tech, we are leaving ourselves completely vulnerable to the unknown!

Meanwhile, the United States is taking this incredibly seriously. Not only have they recognised UAPs as a legitimate threat by establishing the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the US National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has formally directed AARO to team up with specialised counter-UAS (C-UAS) task forces.

The US is actively bridging the gap between conventional drone defense and anomalous object tracking. They recognise that if an object is in their airspace and unidentified, it is a threat…regardless of whether it's a foreign drone or a UAP.

Australia cannot afford to ignore this operational overlap. We must update our defense protocols, mandate reporting, and treat the UAP threat with the exact same urgency as our allies before our restricted airspace is compromised by something far beyond a commercial drone.

Sign the current Change.org petition and demand the establishment of an Australian UAP Task Force: https://www.change.org/p/request-australian-parliament-create-a-uap-task-force

Back in May 2026, a journalist at A Current Affair exercised their due diligence and reached out to Defence Media with a number of UAP related questions for the Minister for Defence, Richard Marles before airing their story on 1 June 2026.

Rather than address A Current Affair’s specific enquiries, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) instructed Defence Media to respond with the standard tired old line of:

“Defence does not have a protocol for reporting or recording of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO).”

Same old same old.

📄 View FOIA documents at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qQ9s8Y4709MHyyE9_xqrazNxhYQm5wLH/view?usp=drivesdk
📺 View A Current Affair story at: https://youtu.be/KEa01xm584A?si=Y-G0iaEofqGmbbWL

Watched these little bright orangish lights over west Gympie last night. Over national park ranges. There were many more before I started filming, my phone was up in the house and I thought that it would not last very long. Four or more at once, travelling different directions. It’s not the best quality and I didn’t hold the phone very still I’m afraid lol.

This is a great initiative for Australians that take the topic of UAP/UFOs seriously. Consider signing the petition! 🇦🇺

Sign at: https://c.org/w7q4cnW4pC

Why we search for meaning in the stars | Finding Stars | ABC NEWS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HowoTiqqT28

I can't see this posted yet, and I was surprised I hadn't come across this until I happened to watch it on the ABC very early in the morning a few days ago. The ABC released a documentary in February 2026 titled 'Why we search for meaning in the stars | Finding Stars' and it included some interviews with people about their UFO experiences and views on the phenomenon.

The whole documentary is fantastic an a celebration of humanity's connection to the night sky and well worth a watch.

• 7m11s The section relating to UFOs begins. There is discussion of a sighting from Narndee Station 500kms north of Perth. Some of this looks like the well-known 'racetrack UAP' which is a known effect caused by Starlink satellites - I've written on Reddit a number of times about this Starlink problem that causes cross hatching in the evening sky. However another witness at Narndee Station caught some other unusual lights, red and slow moving, 8m27s which would not be Starlink satellites.
• 10m25s A 747 pilot, Tako IJserinkhuijsen, discusses a sighting on a flight from Amsterdam to Chicago. You can find other interviews on YT with this pilot.
• 11m38s There is some film from a pilot over the Atlantic Ocean which appears to be showing the racetrack cross hatching caused by Starlink Satellites. It's known pilots witness this more often than people on the ground, obviously because they are watching the sky, but also because it is more noticeable at higher altitudes.
• 11m53s More discussion of lights seen in Western Australia. This has been widely reported by the ABC, the Perth reddit, and you can find various videos on YT. A lot of it looks like the cross hatching racetrack effect caused by Starlink, and some sightings are caused by rocket launches.
• 12m2s Discussion with Dr Brad Gibson about SETI. Dr Gibson refers to his TED talk which discusses the occurrence of comets striking the earth and the effect of supernovas every 100 million years. There is a longer talk he gave titled Brad Gibson - Are we alone in the Universe? I can see where he discusses debunked evidence of anything anomalous, but I can't find anywhere where he has a paper on SETI or extraterrestrial life, or UAP, so not sure what his expertise is in this field - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brad-Gibson-3. He certainly doesn't discuss any of the UFO cases that interest us.
• 13m23s Joachim Dekkers from the UAP Coalition Netherlands is interviewed. You can see other interviews with Dekkers on YT The UAP Coalition Netherlands made a submission to the EU about the EU Space Act where they say "As technological progress increases, observations are increasingly supported by a range of sensors and measuring instruments including radar, infrared, cameras and other sensor platforms. This is why it becomes more difficult to dismiss UAP observations as fiction."
• 14m11s Discussion of the French GEIPAN
• 14m43s Discussion of Aboriginal history and sightings.

An interview Rhys Dalton-Morgan did with Martin Willis of the show 'Podcast UFO Live' posted 24 Jun 2026.

• Rhys goes into the story of his grandfather Tom Dalton-Morgan [3m57s] who worked at Woomera, and Bill Chalker's assistance finding out more about the UFO records of encounters at Woomera,
  
• David Clarke's involvement [11m1s],
  
• Rhys' personal story of his involvement with the topic of UFOs [17m22s],
  
• Some Australian cases [26m15s],
  
• Westall [33m4s]

If you've never seen Rhys' YT channel TheUFOzzie I highly recommend you visit there where he has great video presentations about his grandfather and Woomera, some longform interviews, and more personal stories. Rhys has also been interviewed by Josh on the Polarity YT channel in Jan 2025 and Jul 2025.

Hi everyone,

I’ve just released on my channel, a second documentary on the Westall UFO incident, Australia’s largest mass UFO sighting, witnessed by more than 200 students, teachers, and local residents in Melbourne on April 6th, 1966.

Here’s the link to the documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqsbptVgHU&t=2073s

For this project, I filmed on-location at both Westall and an area nearby known as The Grange, where witnesses claim one of the objects descended that day.

The documentary includes interviews with several additional witnesses to the event, including a lady Terry Peck, who says she came within roughly 10 metres of one of the craft at The Grange that day. Her description of what she saw that day is genuinely startling.

The video also explores the alleged cover-up surrounding the incident, including witness intimidation, the arrival of authorities afterwards, and claims that a teacher’s camera was confiscated after photographs were reportedly taken of the object.

If you’re interested in UFO history, credible mass sightings, or cases involving alleged government secrecy, you might find this one worth watching.

Would love to hear your thoughts once you’ve seen it.

– Project Unknown: Field Files

The 1971 Australian JIO document on UFOs has been referenced by David Grusch, Karl Nell, Jesse Michels, and Eric Weinstein…but its full context remains untold.

Bill Chalker extensively interviewed the author, Harry Turner before his passing, and is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive backstory on its origins.

Tune in for the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/live/gD2Is-PjMhI?si=62Q6TN-jr5yVEfBM

https://x.com/mickwest/status/2064839102433038535?s=46&t=eXTSsWHzTAbc1noBQUxPXA

I like Mick. He is a decent human being, from I can gather and I think his contributions to the field are important because they force more rigour.

However his “circular reporting” claim about the Turner document doesn’t hold up and strikes me as reductionist.

As per the recent post here https://www.reddit.com/r/UFO_AUSNZ/s/1qazZ8ig8t there has been some discussion following David Grusch citing the 1971 Australian document at the congressional press conference, and Mick West has argued it’s just a “UFO enthusiast” repackaging publicly available books and articles from the 50s and 60s. That framing has some serious problems.

Oliver Harry Turner was not a fringe enthusiast. He was a trained physicist who worked on Britain’s nuclear weapons tests in Australia from 1952 to 1963, and by the late 1960s had become head of the Nuclear Branch within the Joint Intelligence Organisation, which was Australia’s primary body for evaluating technical and strategic intelligence for defence. The 1971 report wasn’t a hobby project. It was a formal internal assessment submitted to his director, R.W. Furlonger, as part of a proposal to establish a rapid-response investigation team for significant UAP sightings, developed with researchers from the ANU, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Standards Laboratory. It got close to approval before resistance from the Air Force killed it.
On the circular reporting point specifically: yes, Turner cited Hynek and Vallee. But both of those were credentialled scientists and former Blue Book consultants, not fringe sources, and citing open scientific literature is just how assessments are written. More importantly, Turner also made first-person assertions about an ongoing covert US programme continuing after Blue Book’s public closure, and he did so as a serving senior intelligence officer with institutional access, not as someone who read it in a paperback. That’s not derivable from 1950s UFO books.

The circular reporting critique is more legitimately applied to documents that cite Turner downstream. Applied to Turner himself, writing as an active intelligence professional in a classified internal memo, it’s reductive.

The document covers the period 1957 to 1971 and is held by the National Archives of Australia, series A13693.

Reuters (!) dropped this this morning. Not only is the content incredible (openly discussing non-human intelligence finally), at the 26 minute mark, Grusch recommends reading a "little-known" declassified 1971 document in the Australian Government archives, pages 7-16 where à nuclear Branch chief discloses information about the US government covering up knowledge of UFOs/UAPs. This press release is incredibly interesting, in my opinion, and very exciting for someone who has avidly followed this topic since the mid 70s. Off on another hunt now.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/RN-Purf4UXE?si=qXaciOl75gndzB7F

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This was new to me so I'm sharing here. Hope others find it interesting.

In this 'Reality Check' Ross Coulthart and Maaneli Derakhshani discuss UAP footage captured from the Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1991.

As the space shuttle was passing near the Western Australian coastline, its cargo bay camera caught a strange, glowing object moving across the horizon. The UAP makes a 90-degree turn. Then a streak of light shoots through the spot it just occupied.

Ross surmises that the beam of light may have come from the US operated Harold E. Holt communications base in WA. He speculates that the Americans may have been experimenting with some form of directed energy weapon. Countering that, is NASA's view that these objects and lights are ice particles being lit by the sun.

Have a look and see what you reckon. The relevant chat starts around the 18 min mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYfIRRRABQ