April 6, 1966 — The Westall High School UFO Sighting and Its Ongoing Debate
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Hundreds of witnesses at Westall High School on April 6, 1966 saw a hovering metallic disc leave ground impressions and trigger police and military involvement, sparking competing theories from secret experiments to extraterrestrials and leaving the case an open, debated mystery that is kept alive by documentaries like Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery by Rosie Jones, books such as Hair of the Alien by Bill Chalker, and ongoing research by MUFON, with Joy Clarke among the witnesses.