Australian Story revisits the 1966 Westall UFO sighting: new testimonies, enduring memories, and competing explanations

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Australian Story reexamines the 1966 Westall UFO sighting with a new investigation led by Shane Ryan that gathers about 140 witness accounts and features memories from Ken Stallard and Tania Vassie while considering explanations from military technology and balloons, as skeptic Richard Saunders urges a reasonable conclusion, and the episode produced by Rebecca Latham for ABC airs on Monday 6 April 2026.

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Australian Story on ABC and ABC iview profiles The Westall UFO Mystery - On April 6, 1966, a Melbourne school was thrown into chaos