Location: North West Cape, Western Australia

Date: October 25 1973 Time: 19:15

On October 11 1973 (same day as the Pascagoula abduction), five days after the Middle East War broke out, North West Cape along with other US bases in Australia were put on full alert. According to Richard Hall, in his book The Secret State, this alert status was to escalate dramatically due to “an NSA misreading of Arab in a Syrian message to the USSR which led Kissinger and Nixon to believe that Soviet troops might be sent to the Middle East.” This fiasco climaxed early on the morning of 25 October 1973, in Washington. A full nuclear alert went out to all US forces. North West Cape was used to communicate the alert to both conventional and nuclear forces in this region. The acute security alert status “Def Con 3” was reached. Local time at North West Cape was around early evening.

Something else intruded into the crisis charged atmosphere over North West cape that evening.

At about 19:00 hours, on that fateful Thursday, October 25, 1973, Lt. Commander M. (USN) observed a large black airborne object at a distance of approximately 8 kilometers to the west at an altitude estimated at 600 meters. Lt. Commander M. was driving south from the naval communication station towards the support township of Exmouth, along Murat Road. The officer indicated in a written statement that, “After about 20-25 seconds the craft accelerated at unbelievable speed and disappeared to the north.” The officer’s account further stated that the object was hovering at first, and then accelerated beyond belief. There was no noise or exhaust. And that he had never experienced anything like it.

Meanwhile, at the base, Fire Captain (USN) Bill L. also saw the extraordinary craft. He provided the following statement:

At 19:20 hrs, I was called by the POW to close the Officer’s club. I proceeded towards the club in the Fire Dept, pickup 488, when my attention was drawn to a large black object, which at first I took to be a small cloud formation, due west of area “B” (in the vicinity of Mount Athol). Whilst traveling towards the Officer’s club I couldn’t help but be attracted by this object’s appearance. On alighting from pickup 488, I stood for several minutes and watched this black sphere hovering. The sky was clear & pale green blue. No clouds were about whatsoever. The object was completely stationary except for a halo around the center, which appeared to be either revolving or pulsating. After watching it for approximately 4 minutes, it suddenly took off at tremendous speed & disappeared in a northerly direction, in a few seconds. I consider this object to have been approximately 10 meters in diameter, hovering at 300 meters over the hills due west of the base. It was black, maybe due to looking in the direction of the setting sun. No lights appeared on it at any time.

HC addendum

Source: Bill Chalker, https://www.project1947.com/forum/bcoz4.htm Type: X