Disquieting Developments

Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – Disquieting Developments

Australia’s harsh, remote Sturt Desert, covering the borders of South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, was reportedly the scene of a bizarre, disquieting encounter early in January 1974. The witness, ‘Ben’, an ornithologist from Adelaide and the author of several books on that subject, was with a lady companion, searching for the fossils that abound in that desert. Their exact location, a place called Clifton Bore, is in South Australia, about 250 miles north-northwest of Broken Hill, New South Wales.

At around 13.30, Ben was over a mile away from his station wagon. He had asked his companion, who was unfamiliar with the terrain, to keep the car in sight at all times. It was at this point that Ben felt he was being watched.

Suddenly, two small beings, about a metre in height, approached him. As Kevin McNeil, author of an article on the case, wrote: These beings were humanoid, indeed human-looking in many respects. They appeared to be males, with short, average-cut hair styles . . . dressed in a skintight, silvery covering, not unlike a diver’s suit. The clothing appeared to be seamless. Their faces were normal, the colouring like a very light suntan; their heads, however, were elongated at the rear . . . Their arms were considerably shorter than a comparable human’s.

The beings spoke in a rapid, unintelligible language. Though alarmed, Ben did not feel threatened; when they beckoned him to follow them, he did so. About 50 feet away appeared a silver-coloured object, which he had not seen before.

Shaped like a ‘hot dog roll’, it had no visible seams, doors, windows or protrusions. By Ben’s estimate, it was about 25 feet long and four feet high. A doorway opened at the centre of the craft, and the beings motioned him to enter.

What he encountered inside left him totally confounded. As he bent down and stepped inside, he found to his astonishment that the interior was vast. ‘You could have fitted a full-sized battleship inside,’ he told the investigator. ‘How can this happen? It was 25 feet long and four feet high, I know that — I could see over the top but inside, it was enormous . . . space meant nothing.’ Inside were 20 or so similar beings, at least four of whom were females, with longer hair. All seemed to be about the same age, with no facial ageing lines: it was as if they grew to about one metre tall, and about twenty-five years of age, then stopped growing and ageing.