Australian UFO History: February, 1947: 'White Egg-Shaped Objects Moving At Incredible Speed'

'WHITE EGG FLYING OBJECTS' REPORTED IN AUSTRALIA IN EARLY 1947

What a surprise. There is no mention of UFOs, spacecraft, aliens or flying saucers in this Australian newspaper story from February, 1947 about mysterious 'egg-shaped' objects spotted in the skies.. The term "Flying Saucers" hadn't been invented by newspapers yet. 

People saw something strange in the sky at night, in Port Augusta, Australia, shortly after the end of World War II, they reported it, newspapers wrote it up. There was no speculation that "aliens" were involved, or that the objects were from another planet, because people had not yet been trained by news media to think of unusual objects in the sky that way.

The below story is from early February, 1947. The Kenneth Arnold sightings that saw American newspapers popularise the term 'Flying Saucers' didn't happen until June 1947.

Text: 

"PORT AUGUSTA, Feb. 6, 1947.

While working in the yard at the Commonwealth Railways work-
shops yesterday morning Mr. Ron Ellis and two workmates claim to
have seen five strange objects in formation pass across the sky from
north to south.

The objects were white or light pink, and were shaped like an egg.

Mr. Ellis said that he could not give an accurate estimate of the
size of the objects, but they were casting shadows, and judging by
his experience with aircraft in the RAAF during the war he considered they were about the size of a locomotive.

Although the objects kept on a direct course at a height of about
6,000 feet they appeared to be quivering, he said. Owing to their great
speed they were out of sight within a few seconds.

Any question of the phenomenon being an optical illusion was dis-
pelled by the fact that a few minutes later both Mr. Ellis and his companion gave an identical description of what they had seen.

Their description was verified by another member of the workshops
staff who said that he had also seen the objects."

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Fascinating, isn't it? How such stories were once reported?

Supposedly reliable witnesses with flying experience, who saw something they didn't recognise in the sky. They rejected suggestions they had seen an optical illusion, but they were not accused of being "crazy" and nobody suggests they might be from another world. They didn't know what it was, and neither did the newspaper. 

That was it. 

Big difference to just a few years later, when anything that could be whipped up into 'Are Aliens Watching Us?!' and 'Flying Saucers Attack!' headlines became the Fear standard.

The objects that couldn't be explained should not induce wonder or mystery, but Fear that Earth is being threatened.

Note: I predict a 'UFO Researcher' will take my research and the news clipping I found and reproduce it on a popular YouTube or podcast episode without credit by late October, 2024.