Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
The disappearance of Frederick Valentich is one of the eeriest mysteries that remains unsolved. On October 21, 1978, the 20-year-old Valentich was piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait en route to King Island, Australia. During the flight, Valentich was in radio communication with Melbourne air traffic control, and he repeatedly made mention of a "strange aircraft hovering on top of me." Right before a strange noise severed the transmission, Valentich went on to say, "It is hovering and it's not an aircraft." Other moments of the radio transmission recorded Valentich saying, "Delta Sierra Juliet—Melbourne. It seems like it’s (stationary) or (chasing me). What I'm doing right now is orbiting, and 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." In the moments leading up to Valentich's last reported contact, a plumber named Roy Manifold had set up a time lapse camera on the shoreline to capture the sun setting over the water. Upon developing the photos, the images appeared to depict a fast-moving object exiting the water nearly 20 minutes before Valentich's final transmission. A report conducted by The Scientific Journal of Exploration said witnesses reported an "erratically moving green light in the sky" at the time of Valentich's flight. No trace of Frederick Valentich nor his aircraft has ever been found. In 2012, Keith Basterfield, an Adelaide researcher who has been investigating the disappearance since 1978, concluded, "The only thing we can say for sure is that the plane and pilot disappeared while he was describing a UFO - which is one of those things that just makes people wonder."
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