Researcher calls for UFO investigation group in Australia
A researcher believes Australia needs a dedicated
civilian group tasked with investigating UFOs.
Cover of Basterfield’s 2nd book. (Credit: Reed Natural
History Australia)
The idea was proposed by longtime UFO researcher Keith
Basterfield at the recent Victorian UFO action conference in Victoria,
Australia. He stated, “At the moment we have no idea of what UFO reports are
being made around Australia . . . I would like to see somebody take that up
again.”
Basterfield started researching unexplained aerial
phenomena in the 1960s, and has been involved with multiple UFO research groups
including the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the Aerial Phenomena Research
Organization (APRO). The Herald Sun reports that
Basterfield suggests modeling Australia’s national response unit after MUFON
and GEIPAN, a unit of the French Space Agency charged with investigating UFOs.
“The role of the team would be to receive a case, fly
there, interview the witnesses, take samples, document their findings, analyse
it and publish it for us all to look at,” he explains. “It is possible for us
to do that.”
