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31 UFO’s In The News 31 UFO’s In The News Darwin 'world's next UFO or meteor shower? grazers” that travel almost horizontally to the UFO or meteor shower? Darwin 'world's next UFO hotspot' San Carlos Park man surface of the Earth, from east to west, he said. San Carlos Park man UFO hotspot' “Very bright meteors are sometimes believes it was the reported as UFOs,” said Jeffs. believes it was the news.com.au However, in an interview Tuesday, Cash news.com.au former said he was sure of what he saw. former “I would say it had to be a couple of IF UFO enthusiasts have their way, miles away, but it had to have been the size of a tourists will soon be flocking to Darwin from ELYSA BATISTA basketball or a beach ball,” said Cash, adding ELYSA BATISTA around the world seeking close encounters with naplesnews.com that with its shape and brightness, someone in naplesnews.com aliens rather than crocs and other mundane Naples had to have seen it as well. critters. SAN CARLOS PARK — The bright And Jeffs’ explanation didn’t answer his Alan Ferguson is one who believes alien questions. activity in the skies over the Northern Territory light San Carlos Park resident Rick Cash saw “It doesn’t convince me,” Cash said. [] Sunday morning was no airplane. could rival the wonders of Kakadu, Katherine And he doesn’t believe it was a Perseid Gorge and Uluru. meteor either, said the 60-year-old retired police Media hungry for fix of Media hungry for fix of For the past year he has claimed publicly to have seen unidentified flying objects circling officer. “It was a large ball of white light, very UFO Alan, with extra UFO Alan, with extra above his home in Acacia Hills, south of terrestrial Darwin. bright. It did not have a tail,” said Cash, terrestrial describing the extremely bright light crossing Earlier this week, he made public a over U.S. 41. “It was just a pure ball of white video that he says proves his case. light that shot through the sky from the east to MATT CUNNINGHAM "You wouldn't believe it if you didn't see the west.” MATT CUNNINGHAM it for your own eyes," he said. The only explanation left for what he The video has been screened on witnessed, Cash said, is a UFO. TERRITORY UFO spotter Alan television and drawn thousands of internet hits. “This was the first time that I have ever Ferguson has shot to national fame after posting Mr Ferguson has created a website to seen anything like this,” said the 15-year San video on his website of what he says is an entice people Down Under to see for unidentifed flying object. themselves. Carlos Park resident. Mr Ferguson was yesterday inundated But was it? "After seeing all these sightings and with calls from media organisations from According to Peter B. Davenport, UFOs for years, I said to myself we're crazy for director of the National UFO Reporting Center around the country after his UFO "evidence" not promoting this joint as a UFO hotspot," he was reported on the front page of the Northern said. in Davenport, Wash., that question has no quick Territory News. definitive answer. You get 200,000 people a year who go to Mr Ferguson said some of his “It takes weeks, sometimes decades, to Roswell," he said, referring to a site in the accumulate sufficient information to reach a interviewers had questioned the validity of his United States where UFO proponents contend tentative conclusion,” said Davenport. “It’s like sightings, but he was sticking to his guns. an alien space craft crashed in the 1940s. peeling the layers of an onion or a Russian "Some of them try to take the piss out of "And the only thing there is a museum, Matryoshka doll.” me but that's all right, you've just got to go with you don't see nothing else, whereas here they Cash said he was headed south on U.S. the flow," he said. are flying around the skies, and they're 41 near Constitution Boulevard around 1:30 "I just put to them that if they want to continually flying around the skies all the time. see UFOs, they should come up here." "So why not come here and see them for a.m. Sunday when he saw the object in the left- Mr Ferguson was also proving a hit on real?" hand portion of the clear sky. the website news.com.au, where the story was Tourism Top End president Sylvia Wolf He said it was going very fast. reported yesterday. said that it would be up to Mr Ferguson to “The object made a huge arch in the Many people spoke out in support of the secure funding for a possible tourism venture. sky,” Cash said. UFO spotter. It wasn’t a commercial jetliner either, "There is a lot of interest in it, especially "There are millions of planets and from overseas, and I think he's certainly onto confirmed Federal Aviation Administration galaxies out there. We live on this planet. We officials Monday. something," she said, adding that Tourism Top would be naive to think life in whatever form “The tower closes at midnight,” said End had a link on its website to direct people to FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen, referring doesn't exist on a planet elsewhere and they Mr Ferguson. to the air traffic control tower at Southwest travel just like we travel into space," said "People are coming out of the FireFly of Perth. woodwork. They didn't want to say anything Florida International Airport. And a person claiming to be Dr She pointed out that her agency does not before, but now they are speaking up (about deal with UFOs. “But it would not be unusual Cameron Drumond of Perth said: "As a leading sightings). for somebody to be flying a small plane out scientist in ufology, having just returned from "It's certainly a great area for it." Dubai, I can say for certain that from the Speaking to the Seven Network, there at that hour,” Bergen added. accounts I've heard, this is a 100 per cent ufologist Doug Moffett said there was a history Oddly enough, the answer could have genuine alien space vehicle. of unexplained sightings in the NT. come from the heavens. "To be honest, I am not sure why the The Perseid meteor shower occurs every "Certainly in the last 18 months it has news media do not cover the millions of alien been an area of unusually high activity," he said. summer when the Earth’s orbit crosses the path abductions happening world-wide, this is a of debris thrown off by Comet Swift-Tuttle. "So we don't know why this is the case, And this latest bright light sighting civilisation changing period of time for the but certainly some areas seem to get hit... coincides with the peak of the Perseids, which human race." "I think the important thing is try and get began in mid-July but was at its brightest Others were more sceptical. things together that is going to create scientific Tuesday. "Yeah, they're here all right. Last time I interest as far as research, because then we are NASA spokesman William Jeffs said it was in the Territory I saw ET's relatives all over going to move forward... certainly sounded like what Cash saw could the place!" said Tris of Melbourne. "This is the last frontier that we're at." [] Mr Ferguson's moment in the spotlight have been a meteor, although Perseids typically will continue today when he is interviewed on go from north to south. Channel 7's Morning Show with Larry Emdur “However, there can be bright meteors and Kylie Gillies at 10am. any night of the year, and sometimes they are You be the judge. Check out Alan's very bright fireballs,” said Jeffs in a written video (Site may be temporarily unavailable due statement. to excessive traffic). [] Some of the brightest meteors are “Earth