The Pinkney Report - June
18, 1984
INVESTIGATING THE INCREDIBLE
By JOHN PINKNEY
DID GIANT UFOS
MAKE THESE MARKS?
PERTH
UFO investigators believe two giant spaceships may have landed on farms in
Western Australia several years ago.
The researchers have startling photographs of circular depressions which the
mystery objects left in the soil. And a scientist from the West Australian
Institute of Technology has taken soil-core samples which show that the mark-making
objects must have weighed between 75 and 200 tonnes.
Mark Heelas, director of Perth's UFO Investigation Centre, has conducted several
years of research into the two presumed "landings".
"The compression of the soil and the classically strange effects on crops
(noted in UFO landings worldwide) leave me in little doubt that the marks
were made by unidentified flying objects," he told me.
Workmen found evidence of the first landing in May, 1978. While taking meteorological
samples in Sawyers Valley, 35km from Perth, they came across five symmetrical
circles in a straight line stretching 88 metres from east to west.
Scientific tests showed that the two outer marks had a high carbon content
and low nitrogen content.
The government astronomer, Dr.I.Nikoloff, suggested the marks could have been
made by sonic waves from a satellite re-entering the atmosphere. However,
no fragments could be found and the tracking station reported no re-entries.
Investigators also ruled out attempts to explain the depressions as being
the remains of burnt-out haystacks. There was no sign of scorching in the
circles.
The second "landing" case - at Ogilvie, north of Geraldton - was
preceded by a UFO sighting.
While driving his tractor across a paddock, farmer Kevin Chick suddenly saw
a dazzlingly bright light ascending from his friend George Parker's adjoining
property.
Two days later, while spreading fertiliser on young barley, Mr.Parker discovered
a mysterious bald patch, 14m in diameter with four deep, round depressions
inside it.
George Parker and neighbouring farmers spent several days trying to find an
explanation for the mysterious marks.
They contacted the West Australian Institute of Technology which, several
days later, conducted geophysical tests on the bald patch.
The tests showed that the depressions were approximately 1.3 metres in diameter,
10cm deep and 8.7 metres apart.
Whatever made the marks had crushed barley seeds deep into the soil, at a
pressure estimated between 75 and 200 tonnes.
But the eerie story didn't end there.
Every year since the "landing", the barley which grows in the former
bald patch has been twice as tall as the rest of the crop.
Mark Heelas has developed a fascinating theory.
"Maybe - just maybe - they were made by UFOs with mechanical problems,"
he says.
"The Sawyers Valley indentations might have been produced by a craft
that tried to take off several times but was forced to set down again - finally
leaving the five traces in the photograph.
"Similar circular depressions, always symmetrically patterned have been
found on farms around the world. And often people have seen mysterious lights
in the sky just before the marks were found.
There's tremendous circumstantial evidence that alien ships are regularly
landing on our planet."'
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