Reports of UFO Sightings in Australia Need Quick Response Team Says Expert

A leading UFO researcher has proposed for Australia to have its own investigation group to check UFO sightings in the country. Keith Basterfield, who spoke in the UFO action conference in Victoria, called for the formation of a quick response team to investigate sightings just hours after they are first reported.

According to reports, the Australian UFO team will be ready to interview witnesses, collect samples from the location of the sighting and prepare documents to be released to the public. Basterfield had also proposed a three-day talk to discuss a 1966 UFO sighting in Melbourne which had puzzled researchers.

He hoped the mystery of the UFO seen over Westall High School in Clayton South in 1966 would be solved by a collaboration of UFO researchers and witnesses from all over the world. Witness accounts revealed that a schoolgirl who was believed to have come closest to the UFO seen during that time never came to school again after she was "debriefed."

The audience in the UFO conference in Victoria believes there was increasing evidence to indicate that the Australian government has been monitoring recent UFO sightings. Basterfield said it was about time the country has its own group of UFO researchers to share and discuss sightings of unidentified flying objects in Australia. In a report by the Herald Sun, Basterfield said Australia's UFO response team should work like the UFO investigation agency in France and the Mutual UFO Network in the U.S.

In August, UFO watchers had accused the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of a "cover-up" after it stopped a live feed from showing seconds after a mysterious white, flying disc was spotted. Reports said NASA's live camera feed from the International Space Station had captured the alleged UFO on video. The sighting was first reported by space enthusiasts on Aug. 4.

Reports of UFO sightings have increased in Queensland, UFO Research Queensland president Sheryl Gottschall. She revealed her group receives about 100 reports from across the country every year.