Good evening. I'm calling from up in Cairns now, but back in January of '66 I was farming bananas down near Tully. Twenty-eight years old, working my place, trying to make a go of it. This happened on the nineteenth. Wednesday morning, around nine o'clock. I was driving my tractor through my neighbor's property, fellow named Albert who owned the cane farm next to mine. The track wound around toward this spot we all called Horseshoe Lagoon, shaped like a horseshoe, you know. Water was about six feet deep there, maybe a hundred feet across, covered in thick reeds. Half an inch thick, those reeds were, sticking up about two feet above the water. Weather was perfect. Clear blue sky, sun shining, not a cloud anywhere. Hot already, even at nine in the morning. That's January in Far North Queensland for you.
So I'm driving along, maybe twenty-five yards from the lagoon, and I hear this hissing sound. Loud. Real loud, over the tractor engine. First thing I thought was, bloody hell, I've blown a tire. You know that sound, air escaping from a tire? Just like that. I leaned forward in my seat, listening, trying to figure out which tire it was. Checked them all. They were fine. Every single one of them was fine. But the hissing kept going, getting louder if anything. I'm looking around, trying to work out where this noise is coming from, and that's when I saw it. Rose up out of the swamp, right there in front of me. Already thirty feet up when I first glanced at it, right at treetop level.
It was massive. Twenty-five feet across, I'd say, maybe nine feet thick at the center. Shaped like two saucers stuck together, face to face. Silver-grey color, sort of dull, not shiny. No reflection off it at all. Spinning fast, real fast, as it climbed up another thirty feet or so. Then it tilted. Just a bit to one side. And took off. I mean took off. Climbed at maybe forty-five degrees, heading southwest, and the speed, the speed was incredible. Faster than any airplane I'd ever seen, and I'd seen plenty. Gone in seconds. Four seconds, maybe. That's all it was. Four seconds from when I first saw it till it vanished. I didn't see any portholes. No antennas. No markings. Nothing to suggest there was anyone inside it or on it. Just this smooth grey object, spinning and climbing and then gone.
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