Adelaide Hills UFO Battle

On Thursday the 7th of February 1980, at 9:30pm, 10-year-old Phil Tindale and his twin brother Rob witnessed what they believed to be two UFOS battling for supremacy over the skies of Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills.

The two boys watched in disbelief from their bedroom window as a yellow object and a red object fought in the skies above Stirling. The two ten-year-old boys claimed they watched the objects fight for a good fifteen minutes.[1]
 The alarmed brothers woke their parents, but they told them to go back to bed. The following day, the boy's grandmother found a story in the local paper reporting on Daryl Browne who had seen a similar-sounding incident in the sky.[2]

Daryl Browne, a twenty-one-year-old farmhand witnessed a yellow object in the sky. The object crashed into the ground nearby. He went to investigate the crash and found the object that he described as, “a crescent-shaped 8-metre diameter, speed boat-shaped, yellow, half-moon thing”. He ran back to the house and called the police. By the time the police arrived, the object had disappeared.
 Browne was interviewed by UFO Research South Australia the next day and showed them the crash site. The UFO researchers discovered a 40-metre-high pine tree which had a big section of its demolished, as if from an impact.

 
Multiple government agencies and UFO clubs travelled to the crash site at Glenalta Stud on the Old Gully Road at Stirling. Browne was interviewed so many times, that during a final interview he stated, if he ever encountered anything like this again, he wouldn’t bother reporting it because of all the attention he received. He also stated he did not believe in UFOs.

© 2021 Allen Tiller

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[1] Paula Ahillon, Two brothers say they're SURE they witnessed two UFOs 'battle' in the skies above the Australian Outback before one made an 'emergency landing' and crashed into a tree, Daily Mail Australia, (20 October 2019), https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7593141/Two-brothers-say-theyre-SURE-witnessed-two-UFOs-battle-skies-Sterling.html.

[2] Frank Chung, South Australian brothers say they witnessed two UFOs in ‘conflict’ before 1980 Stirling crash, (21 October 2019),  https://www.ntnews.com.au/technology/science/south-australian-brothers-say-they-witnessed-two-ufos-in-conflict-before-1980-stirling-crash/news-story/c752b6a3ef019990819d87fb72b7bd62?fbclid=IwAR0wwwEBU72HxcDnQQ0Kljk6M4OyQmUJkEK7hVP3K-bq_erNXTFBPsn8Zus.