Location. Plympton, near Adelaide, South Australia

Date: spring 1963 Time: 1430

Two small boys, age 9 and 10 respectively were wondering how to spend their Saturday afternoon when suddenly they heard a faint swishing noise in the sky above their heads, and, looking up, they were amazed to see a glowing disc-like object slowly descending towards a nearby field. With a quick glance at each other that said, “adventure” they quietly sneaked towards the landing area, and hid behind an old, abandoned car. They were no more than 200ft from the mysterious object.

According to their report, they hardly dared to breathe as they watched a door on the side of the great disc open noiselessly. Stooping to avoid the top of the door, an occupant of the craft stepped out on to the green grass. He was tall (later estimates put him around 7ft.), and was wearing a tight-fitting blue-black tunic, with a purple cape attached. On his head he wore a leather-like cap fastened under his chin, and his hands were covered by large, silver studded gauntlets, from which sprouted a long tube what went around the back of his head, and finally up one nostril of his nose. His skin was copper red in color---like a person with fresh sun-burn, and around his waist he wore a large belt fitted in the front with a small panel on which his fingers were playing continuously. The two lads were by this time so enthralled that they forgot to remain hidden, and the “visitor” saw them. With a quick movement, he turned and faced the craft, looking at one of the large windows or portholes surrounding the upper part of the bell-shaped disc. He must have made some signal, because another identically dressed figure appeared for a brief second at the window, and then was gone.

The craft began to make a small humming sound, and the outer rim began to glow. By this time, the first “visitor” had walked quickly back, and stepped through the opened doorway. With a slight fluttering motion---like a leaf falling from a tree---the object lifted slightly, and then, tilting to an angle of around 10 degrees, arrowed into the sky at high speed. The two boys ran home and blurted out their story to their parents who called the police. The constabulary could find no fault in the lad’s story and were convinced that they were telling the truth. To verify the incident, there were twenty other witnesses who saw the object as it sped away from the field.

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Source: Colin McCarthy in FSR