Disappearance of Frederick Valentich

And I'm going to take you back 50 years.

A young pilot called Frederick Valentich, 29th of October, 1978.

He flies from Moorabbin Airport, a little regional airport in the middle of Victoria in Australia.

And he flies, he's planning to fly to King Island.

And as the audience will hear, the strong suggestion is that he was taken by a gigantic... non-human alien craft of some kind because there's audio recordings that the Australian government never released but which have been leaked which show that as he was flying across Bass Strait towards an island known as King Island he suddenly reported to the Moorabbin air traffic controllers that there was a gigantic hovering craft above him in the sky and And at one stage, he said, it's huge and it's not an aircraft.

And then at the very end, you hear this kind of weird noise, almost a metallic scraping noise.

And Frederick Valentich is never heard of ever again.

And for 50 years, for half a century, it's been one of the biggest mysteries in Australia and indeed internationally.

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Now, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich on October twenty-one, nineteen seventy-eight, is arguably the most famous and unsettling UFO-related aviation mystery in history.

Unlike many sightings that occur on the ground or involve distant lights, this case features a real-time recorded dialogue between a pilot and air traffic control.

It's a story that moves from a routine flight to a chilling encounter with the unknown, ending with a sound that has never been satisfactorily explained by science.

Frederick Valentich was a twenty-year-old Australian pilot with about a hundred and fifty hours of flight experience.

On that Saturday evening, he was flying a Cessna 182L from Moorabbin, Victoria to King Island, a small landmass in the Bass Strait between the Australian mainland and Tasmania.

It was a calm, clear night with excellent visibility.

Valentich was flying at an altitude of roughly four thousand five hundred feet.

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I'll speak to Victor Bongiorno, who's written a book about Frederick Valentich, who you may remember was piloting an aircraft over Bass Strait in the late 70s, Said he saw a UFO.

He disappeared.

The wreckage has never been found.

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The reason I ask is Victor Bongiorno has written a book about Frederick Valentich.

It's called Double Dark.

It's a reminder that the Great Pyramid was not just a tomb, but a masterpiece of hidden architecture, a puzzle box that we are only now, through the use of cosmic rays, beginning to unlock.

Now, the disappearance of Frederick Valentich on October twenty-one, 1978, is arguably the most famous and unsettling UFO-related aviation mystery in history.

Unlike many sightings that occur on the ground or involve distant lights, this case features a real-time recorded dialogue between a pilot and air traffic control.

It's a story that moves from a routine flight to a chilling encounter with the unknown, ending with a sound that has never been satisfactorily explained by science.

Frederick Valentich was a twenty-year-old Australian pilot with about a hundred and fifty hours of flight experience.

On that Saturday evening, he was flying a Cessna 182L from Moorabbin, Victoria, to King Island, a small landmass in the Bass Strait between the Australian mainland and Tasmania.

It was a calm, clear night with excellent visibility.

Valentich was flying at an altitude of roughly four thousand five hundred feet.

Considering the complexity of this case, I'm not sure we'll ever get to the bottom of it.

While we're on the topic of Australian obscurities, that brings us to the curious case of Frederick Valentich.

Born in 1958, Valentich was an aspiring pilot with dreams of enlisting with the Royal Australian Air Force.

He held a private pilot's license and routinely went on flights in order to help his dream come true.

Could Valentich have been taken out by the very thing he feared? Who knows? Maybe Valentich is in a galaxy far, far away right this very second.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments if the platform allows it.

36 years after Frederick Valentich's final flight, the world was witness to more plane puzzlement.

In March 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, heading for Beijing, China.

possible scientific explanations, and the question of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.

It even opened with the recent disappearance of Australian pilot Frederick Valentich.

That small correlation tells us something important.

UFO history accumulates errors through repetition.