Blue Mountains UFO Research Club Newsletter May, 2005.

The Temple of Nim.

Newsletter
of

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club.

Vol. 2 Issue No 5.

May 2005.

Inside:
China and the Southern Land of Chui Hiao. The Uru, Ancient Astronauts and the modern Blue Mountains UFO Phenomena. The Search for Australias Dinosaurs. Latest UFO Reports from Blue Mountains UFO Research Club. Club activities.

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Blue Mountains UFO Research Club News. Our next meeting will be held on Saturday 21st May 2005 at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, South Katoomba, from 2pm onwards.
We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.

PLEASE NO SMOKING ON THE PREMISES. ALSO, NO LARGE BAGS IN THE CINEMA OR THE RECENT THEFTS.

HOUSE, THIS ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN BECAUSE OF

Please bring any friends interested in UFOlogy and the mysteries generally, and lets all hear of any personal experiences involving UFOs or the unexplained.

Bring a plate of food to share for afternoon tea. Our meetings are usually held on the third Saturday of each month. We have of late been receiving strange threatening hate mail, however the matter is now in the hands of the local Police and Australia Post investigators, so we will keep you posted. Looking forward to seeing you all again on May 21st..

Program for the 21st May meeting.

Video presentation on Cryptozoological subjects. Video presentation on UFO related matters New information concerning the Burragorang top secret American advanced space technology research base. Latest Blue Mountains UFO sightings Any UFO experiences/reports from members. As usual, weather permitting, there will be a Skywatch out beyond the Waterboard gate on nearby Narrow Neck Peninsula, so bring along your binoculars, cameras, and winter woolies for an enjoyable time. And other surprises...
And remember, bring your friends as we always like to see new faces. Contact Information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email: randhgilroy@optusnet.com.au [or catch our website on www.google and type in Rex Gilroy.].

Rex and Heather Gilroy, Australias top UFO and unexplained mysteries Research team. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2004

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China and the Southern Land of Chui Hiao.

By Rex Gilroy 2005.

Copyright Rex Gilroy

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There is an unknown history of Chinese world exploration, which began centuries before the great age of European maritime exploration, which only began in the late 15th century. The full story is to be found in my book Pyramids in the Pacific The Unwritten History of Australia [URU Publications 2000]. It reveals the Chinese to have been the richest and greatest civilized power of the ancient world. This Empire was not called China by the Chinese. Instead they called themselves Men of Han, after the dynasty begun in 206BC, and which lasted for 400 years. It was begun by Liu Pang, who led the land into its greatest achievements, that included not only the invention of paper, but great works of art, literature and history. Han traders sailed to northern India and Korea, from where Chinese customs spread to Japan to influence this society. Chinese traders carried their wares overland across central Asia westward as far as the Roman Empire, and sailed to trade with peoples of island south-east Asia, from where they penetrated, as mariners far earlier than the Chin dynasty [221206BC] had done, into Australian waters. In fact there is at least one surviving world map of around 800BC suggesting an even earlier Chinese presence hereabouts, for it describes the crude outline of a southern continent! The Chinese also explored the worlds oceans in monstrous ships able to carry great numbers of people, the sizes of which far out-classed the largest galleys of the ancient Mediterranean civilisations. Whole fleets of these monstrous ships could be constructed along the banks of the Yangtze River within a year at the command of an Emperor, employing thousands of shipbuilders. Such vessels could carry hundreds of troops, horses, other livestock and supplies during war, as well as thousands of people on colonising and mineral-seeking expeditions. These voyages were aided by advanced navigation and astronomical instrumentation. Between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, the Chinese invented paddlewheel operated vessels. These were operated by slaves working treadmills inside the ships. By the 12th Century they were building huge

warships with up to 23 paddle wheels on each ship. A 15m tall rudder of one of these massive vessels was in recent years unearthed on the coast of China. It now rests in a Beijing museum. ***** Their ancient writings prove the Chinese had considerable knowledge of Australia. For example, the Confucian work Spring and Autumn Annals [481BC], records two solar eclipses having been observed by Chinese astronomers, possibly in Arnhem Land one [by modern th computation] on April 17 , 592BC and the other on August 11th, 553BC. And Atlas of Foreign Countries, written between 265 and 316AD, describes the far north coast of the Great South Land of Chui Hiao, as being inhabited by a race of small, 1m tall black people an obvious reference to the pygmy sized Aborigines that formerly inhabited the Cape York jungles. Chui Hiao is described as lying 30,000 li away from China. Here plants grow leaves in winter and lose them in summer. This is what happens in Australia, which lies in the south temperate zone of the southern hemisphere, and whose seasons are the opposite to those of China in the northern temperate zone, where plants grow leaves in summer and lose them in winter. The book, Shih-Tzu, written in 339BC describes the presence of Kangaroos in the Imperial Zoo, Peking and similar reports continued in later dynasties in the north-western part of Hopei Province, in the north-western part of Shansi Province, and in Chahar, Jehol and in places in the northeastern provinces. As recent as 1938 people could still see wild kangaroos in Heilung Kiang Province; the reason being that Emperor Chao of Yen had, in 338BC dispatched a fleet of junks, with orders to return with more of these pouched animals, from the Southern Land of Chui Hiao. The Chinese name for our Kangaroo was Shuti, described as animals that moved by leaps and bounds and carried their young in a pouch attached to their body. Here also dwelt birds that could mimic human speech, called Shelli obviously Chinese seafarers had seen and caught Australian parrots. The fierce black inhabitants of this land were said to throw a

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weapon called the Lao dun, which if it missed its target, returned to the thrower! The Classic of Mountain and Flood, written in 1077BC, contains a detailed description of Chui Hiao. Here it states, the sun rose in a different direction. Features of the coastline coincide with the Australian coast. This means that, some years prior to the writing of The Classic of Mountain and Flood, a Chinese expedition had ventured to Australia, circumnavigating and mapping our coastline. ***** To list all the relics of ancient Chinese origin recovered from pre-19th century goldrush deposits around Australia is not possible in this article, and the reader is directed to my book for this purpose. However, ancient Aboriginal rock engravings depicting Chinese junks have been identified at a Hawkesbury River NSW location. In 1957 an ancient jade image of Buddha was recovered from deep below ancient soil deposits in scrubland inland from Cooktown, Far North Queensland. In the same area, an ancient rock shelter painting of the Buddha, with later Aboriginal red ochre artwork obscuring it, is known to locals. In 1958, inland from Taree, on the NSW north cost, campers found another large image of Buddha, carved in relief upon a remote cliffside. One of the most important relics supporting ancient Chinese contacts with Australia was recovered on Manyana Beach, north of Milton on the NSW south coast when, one day in 1980, 10 year old Melissa Barclay found a carved sandstone human head projecting from the sand of a beachfront hillside. Later donated to me, and measuring 21.5cm high by 18.5cm thick and 13.5cm wide the head has been identified as that of the Chinese goddess, Shao Lin, protectoress of mariners at sea. The site of the find was on the edge of an extinct harbour that around 2000 years ago once extended a considerable distance inland, which would have been an ideal haven for any visiting Chinese vessel. Could the stone head of Chao Lin have been left behind by departing crewmen, as an offering to the goddess for a safe journey home, as was then the custom? My claims of ancient Chinese longterm contact with our shores has often

been challenged by so-called experts of armchair history in Australian universities, in favour of the already wellknown Dutch and Captain James Cook version of our early discovery and exploration. Yet they have no answer as to how Australian kangaroos came to be in ancient china in 338BC! -0-

Examples of ancient Chinese ocean-going vessels. Some were paddle-wheel driven ships, such as one monster built in the 12th century, which had 23 paddle wheels, worked by slaves pushing treadmills inside the vessels. These carried hundreds of troops in war. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

Portion of a world map drawn in China in the 17th century, describing New Guinea and Australia, with Tasmania joined to the mainland. It is believed to have been copied from an original several centuries older. Now preserved in Beijing. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

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The carved stone head of the Chinese goddess Shao Lin [protectoress of mariners at sea] found at Manyana Beach near Milton NSW in 1980. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

The Uru, Ancient Astronauts and the modern Blue Mountains UFO Phenomena.

By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2005. In previous issues of the Temple of Nim I have presented articles links between Uruan rock art and possible visitations by ancient astronauts from another world beyond our own. Our book Australian UFOs Through the Window of Time covers this subject, and another UFO book now in preparation

present more of this evidence. The Blue Mountains appears to possess more ancient astronaut rock art than anywhere else in Australia. Among the most startling of these examples are the 1995 Katoomba find of several robotic humanoid-like figures, a jet plane-shaped object and wheeled tractor-like images being driven by what appear to be the outlines of humanoid-type beings. These ancient, fading engravings are at least 15,000 years old, and support ancient Aboriginal legends of the Blue Mountains which tell of culture heroes descending from the sky to live among them in the long-ago Dreamtime. Some newly discovered local rock art describes beings with faces reminiscent of the famous mudface, recent mud endocast of an alien head from the mystery-surrounded Maryborough, Queensland UFO crash site, revealed in Australian UFOs Through the Window of Time. The Uru have left us ample evidence in their rock art, and rock inscriptions that they were influenced in their culture by apparent beings from beyond our world. One example of the above are their engraved images of birdmen, that is men who flew from clifftops and hills with the aid of crude hang gliders manufactured from basic natural materials; and also crude hot-air balloons, some apparently remarkably shaped like the familiar saucer type UFO. The Uru,

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despite their having created a highlyadvanced mathematical and astronomical science [as evidenced by their extensive stone arrangements which were all astronomically-aligned] and their large watercraft construction skills, never developed the wheel. They made up for this instead with the invention of their crude flying craft. Were these craft influenced by contact in the past with beings from beyond our world? This question may be answered by the Katoomba stele with its reference to the coming of the Beings of Light from the planet Mohala, which according to the inscription, is inhabited by some 9 million beings and has two moons. The full account is to be found in Australian UFOs Through the Window of Time [URU Publications]. The stele is part of an extensive astronomically-arranged stone alignment at a remote bushland location, in an area where a number of other ancient Uruan monuments lie in ruins. ***** The Blue Mountains seems to have always attracted UFOs. As long ago as 1875 a gigantic, squarish flying craft was claimed to have been seen by day over a wide area of the Blue Mountains. It glided over farms, frightening stock, as well as the settlers. In the Kurrajong area a great number of people left their homes in sulkies, wagons or on horseback in panic, gathering in droves in a paddock, where many thought the world was about to end and began praying, while other talked about where they might escape from the mysterious giant craft. However, it disappeared as mysteriously as it had appeared and was not seen again. Campers have lately reported seeing saucer-type craft coasting over the metal staunchings and following the electricity cableway that extends across the Burragorang Valley from west to east behind Mt solitary. These sightings are both day and night experiences. Back in January 1990 a glowing blue craft hovered over a Kurrajong farm one night. The RAAF informed the owners who phoned the nearby Richmond Base, that it was nothing more than the, quote flashing blue light of a Police car. So many UFOs are being seen by myself and other members of Blue Mountains UFO Research Club across the

district that it is becoming hard to keep up with all the reports, particularly from the Burragorang Valley , home of the infamous top secret American advanced space technology base. Of course not every UFO related phenomena from this area can always be tied in with the secret experiments going on there, such as the famous Jack Davis UFO abduction case many years ago [described in Australian UFOs Through the Window of Time], although the many eerie timewarp experiences of people out on Narrow Neck Peninsula, the Megalong Valley and elsewhere hereabouts may or may not have something to do with it. Very soon myself and a select team of investigators will carry out another search for the Base, and there are also the other two Blue Mountains region bases to fully investigate in the coming months. Skywatches are being organised by me every week on the Blue Mountains, so that if there are any mysterious flying craft about we have a pretty good chance of spotting them! -0-

Alien mudface found at Maryborough, Qld. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

Mystererious Uruan rock carving Katoomba, describing one of a

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number of robotic-type figures. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

Script on the Katoomba stele which speaks of the Beings of Light from the planet Mohala. Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005 The Katoombas rock art site describing Uruan flying craft.[1] Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

The Katoomba rock art site describing Uruan flying craft. [2] Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005. Close-up of section of Uruan flying craft engravings.

The Search for

Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005

Australias Dinosaurs.
By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2005

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Ever since I began my interest in natural history over fifty years ago, dinosaurs particularly Australian dinosaurs, have been of special interest to me. Most people only read about these fascinating reptilian giants of geological times, yet there can be nothing more exciting than going in search of fossil remains of these reptiles. That is what I have done for at least the last forty years or so; and for the last 33 years with my wife Heather, in the course of which I have gathered some 64 fossil tracks of dinosaurs, ranging from the size of a small bird to monsters of 3-4 metres height. I have also uncovered actual fossil tail bones in a South Australian quarry near Naracoorte in 1987. Then there was the incomplete, mineralised ironstone skull [left facial section missing] of a Stegosaurus, recovered by Mr Louis Sander on his Clarence NSW farm in 1971, which he kindly donated to my collection. Clarence lies west of Bell, on the road to Lithgow, and it is in this region that many fossil tracks of Australian dinosaurs are to be found, by those who know what they are looking for. I shall return to the Blue Mountains/Lithgow district anon. Queensland has for generations, shown itself to be particularly rich in dinosaur remains. Lark Quarry near Winton in Central Queensland, Hughenden, Richmond, Julia Creek, Boulia and also the Mt Morgan district, all these areas have yielded major finds over the years, as scientists and amateurs alike continue to unearth fossil remains which are beginning to reveal a much wider diversity of dinosaur species than previously thought possible; and similar revelations are taking place at Dinosaur Cover, on the Victorian coast. Dinosaurs roamed a very different Australia to what we inhabit today. When they first appeared in the Triassic period, around 245 million years ago what was eventually to become Australia was part of the Great Supercontinent of Pangaea, which included the landmasses that would become Antarctica, India, Africa, South and North America; this mighty landmass in turn was connected by a bridge of land to Europe, Russia and Asia. By the time the Triassic ended, to give way to the Jurassic period around 208 million years ago, North

America had become part of the Supercontinent of Laurasia together with Europe-Asia, with the rest forming Gondwanaland. The Cretaceous period followed the Jurassic around 144 million years ago and lasted until about 66 million years ago, during which the present continental masses began to separate. The reader can pursue these geological events in any number of books on palaeontology, where it will become clear that our continent possesses remains of many of the earliest dinosaur species in the world. ***** The Australian Jurassic saw the rise of the enormous sauropod, Rhoetosaurus brownie, which is at present our most complete specimen. Its available remains suggest an estimated total length of about 15 metres, with a hip height of about 4 metres and an estimated weight of up to 20 tonnes. Another Jurassic [unidentified] species left a single fossil footprint in rock 190 million years ago, at Callide Colliery near Biloela. A three-toed track, it belonged to an animal at least 2.6m tall at the hip and over 7m in length. The species was a flesh-eating theropod dinosaur. The fossil is kept at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. The Cretaceous period was dominated by tyrannosaurid species other than Tryannosaurus rex [unless he too is found here someday], and a good example of the massive fossil tracks of one such species of carnosaur are to be seen at the Lark Quarry site, where about 80 sets of Coelurosaurs are to be seen, as if scattering in all directions as the giant carnosaur leaps into their midst, apparently catching one of these little, lightly built dinosaurs of up to 1.5 metres in length. Australias most complete dinosaur is the skeleton of Muttaburrasaurus, unearthed by farmhands in 1963 at Muttaburra. A cast of this Iguanodontid dinosaur is to be seen in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Muttaburrasaurus langdoni stood about 10 metres long and could stand over 5 metres high. This Cretaceous bipedal species, like so many other species known at present from a single [incomplete ] skeleton, will gradually be found elsewhere in Australias Cretaceous deposits. Such finds rely upon government funding [unavailable here] to

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keep scientists continually in the field. Only this will see Australian museums one day displaying numbers of complete, or near enough, fossil skeletons of giant-size and other dinosaurs as commonly seen overseas. ***** But what of the Gilroy discoveries? Heather and I have made some remarkable finds over the years. On Saturday 25th July 1992 we were out from Hughenden at a Belomite locality, when Heather found a crushed chert rock which turned out to be a badly preserved skull endocast of a dinosaur, with possible eye socket, measuring 20.5cm in length by 16.5cm width and 8cm thick. This specimen was not too convincing. However, later that day at a site on the banks of the Flinders River, we found a massive slab of sandstone containing three undoubted dinosaur foot impressions. One of these, an indistinct three-toed impression, measured 28.5cm in length by 16cm width across the foot and faced the opposite direction to the others, which appeared to be of another species. The three-toed track may have been made by either a Skartopus australis or Wintonopus latomorum. The other, incomplete tracks may have been the front hand impressions of a Muttaburrasaurus, but this is uncertain. The best of these tracks measured 25cm width by 9cm length and were 7cm apart. That same day as darkness was approaching, at another location in a paddock beside the Flinders Highway outside Richmond, I was returning to Heather [who had remained in the car] from a lone fossick, when looking down, I discovered, broken into sections, a large, thick slab of mudstone wedged in dried mud. The shadows cast by the setting sun revealed a huge, three-toed footprint, the rear section was missing. I quickly dug it out, but knew I could not carry it back to the car all at once, nor did I want to stack the fragments one on top of the other for fear of damage. So racing to the car, I grabbed several of Heathers best towels and a torch, and returning in haste to the fossil track, removed each piece carefully after a quick sketch was made of the whole fossil. Darkness was upon me in no time, and with the torch in one hand, and two

fragments at a time, each wrapped in a towel, I returned to the car. After three trips in the dark I had the whole fossil stored safely in a box as we headed eastwards for Charters Towers, where in a motel far into the already late night I played with my fossil jigsaw! What remained of the track was 40cm in width by 30cm in length. The track was that of some huge theropod dinosaur, an undoubted carnivore of around 100-144 million years ago. We had to leave for home, but were back in Central Queensland in August 1993, when we made a return visit to the Flinders River site. Upon inspecting a wide depression of mudstone I realised this to be the former bank of part of an extensive Cretaceous mudflat. Closer study revealed numbers of small, Coelurosaur tracks, cracked and broken with age. Yet I found one fragment of mudstone containing an almost complete three-clawed track, 8cm in length by 5cm width across the mid-foot [the heel was missing]. It became obvious that the earlier fossil tracks had also been left in the mud of the same shoreline some distance away. On this occasion we produced a mould of the tracks and this now rests at our Katoomba home. We plan another major dinosaur hunt in Central Queensland before too long. What other dinosaur treasures await us on that trip? ***** We now turn to the Blue Mountains. Outside Katoomba upon a clifftop stands the ironstone mineralised body of a member of the Plesiosaur family, a remnant of Triassic times [reported on in a previous newsletter]. Out on Narrow Neck Peninsula, myself, Heather and Greg Foster have over recent years uncovered numbers of reptilian tracks of Cretaceous age. These are three-toed tracks, often of bipedal forms that would have reached at least 3 to 4 metres in height. They were all layed down in mud [like the Queensland tracks], which was afterwards covered by volcanic ash which protected them. The mineralised ash has long vanished to leave the tracks, now also turned to stone. There are also massive tracks of three-toed theropods to be found in the Kanangra wilderness, which in the Age of Reptiles was a volcanically active region.

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At one location is an extensive area of solidified ash laid down by an eruption during the Cretaceous period. After it cooled two theropod dinosaurs had walked through it. Afterwards rain fell, the water reacting with the volcanic chemicals in the ash to turn the deposit into a concrete state, thus preserving the tracks. Only two survive. One of these, the smaller of the two, is 78cm width from one outward pointing toe to the other, by 53cm length from the centre toe tip to rear of heel. It is 12cm deep in the rock. The track points west. The larger track is 3.3m distant and points south. It is a massive 1.4m length from tip of mid toe to rear of heel, by 1.3m width across the two outer toes. The heel is 46cm width and the depth of the track is 5cm. Heather and I found these two carnosaur tracks while investigating another Uruan megalithic temple site in dense scrub, the tracks were situated just outside the tumbled remains of a metre or so high wall that once enclosed the temple on all four sides, thus giving us two lucky discoveries at once! A similar sized track to the smaller of the two Kanangra specimens was found by us in January 2002 outside Wentworth Falls. It measured 40cm in length by 60cm width. The Blue Mountains contains countless fossil tracks of dinosaurs large and small who ruled the landscape as volcanoes rumbled away. The hot, sweaty jungles through which they wandered have long ago disappeared into the fossil layers, but we still have the preserved tracks of these reptilian nightmares to remind us of what the Blue Mountains looked like in those long-ago geological times. -0-

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By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2005. The following sightings have been made over the past few weeks since the April meeting of our club. On Monday 18th April a Baulkham Hills housewife phoned me concerning stories of panthers being seen in that district. In the course of the conversation the topic drifted into other phenomena, including UFOs. The first of the following sketches is of a saucer shaped craft that she and her husband observed at Woodford on the night of Monday 4th April,

around 8pm as it appeared to hover over gullies about 3km north of the village. It appeared dark, but for a yellow-glowing top and small yellow lights, one at each end of the craft as she described here. No 2 sketch describes a dark craft as large as a house, that is currently being reported seen over a wide area, from around Bathurst to Lithgow, and as far east as Kurrajong. The sketch describes its appearance over a Kanimbla Valley house around dawn some time in the first week of April. No 3 sketch describes a red-glowing, jet fighter plane-size craft, seen emitting a silvery glow from a light on its underside, seen coasting over the Hartley-Oberon district at night during February this year. A formation of four of these craft was seen by property owners to fly south to north over the Megalong Valley on Thursday 21st April around 11pm, about a kilometre above the valley. These craft seem identical to those dart-like craft linked to the great mother ship making periodic appearances over our skies lately. Sketch no 4 describes yet another huge cylinder craft, seen at night emitting silvery-yellow glows from a large central light on each side and one at each end. It has been making appearances over the past month, and is probably the same craft observed as a shining silver craft in daytime, high above the cloud level. Have any club members anything new to add to this particular report? The following sketches, Number 5 to 9, concern the latest activities of mystery craft and other phenomena in the vicinity of the Burragorang Base. No 5 sketch is what I observed around 2.30am on the night of Wednesday 20th April, while taking Cuddles for awalk up along Cliff Drive. From Hildas Lookout, looking directly west towards Narrow Neck Peninsula, I observed a bright silvery-yellow glowing saucer shaped craft, obscured among the trees of a far section of the plateau, as if the UFO had landed. As the Water Board gate prevents people driving out there it could not have been a car, and the object whatever it was, appeared to have landed [?] in a densely wooded area far from the dirt road, which extends all the way out to the end of the Neck. I watched the glowing object for about 20 minutes until the glow faded.

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The 6th sketch describes three, flatbottomed silvery craft of house-size, claimed seen by people from Katoomba Falls Lookout last December, in broad daylight, appearing to fly up out of Burragorang Valley from behind the ridge where the top-secret American advanced space technology underground research centre is located. These same craft have also been seen flying together over Kanangra in recent months, and on Tuesday 3rd May at 3pm a Mr Denis Hilton phoned me on other paranormal matters, during which he told me that he had just seen a craft of the same description, shining silvery in the sunlight, hovering in the sky south of his Lawson home. On Monday 9th May at 2am while walking Cuddles up on Narrow Neck Road, looking south towards the ridge in Burragorang Valley behind which the Base is situated as No 7 sketch shows. I spotted two sets of bright silvery-glowing lights, five in one set and three in the other as shown. The objects must have flown about a kilometre high when they switched off. I could not see any more sign of them despite a clear view of the valley that night. No 8 sketch describes the location of the mysterious phantom city of lights that periodically is reported seen by people on the far southern side of Burragorang Valley below the far cliffs and south of the Base area. On the night of Sunday 17th April while walking Cuddles on Cliff Drive, I took her part of the way down Narrow Neck Road. At a point looking south, with my binoculars I not only spotted the city of lights on the

far side of Burragorang, but also a second city south of Ruined Castle. This second city has been a recent addition to the nightly goings-on of the Base inhabitants and I have seen it on only a couple of previous nights during 2004. After watching the two cities [the squares of lights cover considerable areas] for about 10 minutes, fog began drifting in to obscure the view. Sketch No 10 describes eight silverglowing lights seen by a number of Penrith district people as they flew in formation high above the Nepean River from east to west, on the night of Saturday 30th April. I have a couple of vague reports. If any reader can add further information Id be interested to hear about it. The objects must have been seen flying over the Blue Mountains perhaps someone will be able to enlighten us further. With the winter weather fast descending upon us there will be some cold but clear skies over the mountains, ideal for Skywatching, and I hope we may all get a chance to observe the Burragorang from the Cedar Valley end out on that Narrow Neck Clifftop Ive been wanting to take our Club members out to, but which has not been possible so far due to bad weather which has dogged our previous four meetings! The Cedar Valley looks south into a wide vista of the Burragorang and promises rewards for those willing to make the 15minute hike with torches from the Waterboard gates. -0-

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Photo of a UFO taken at sunset in June last year by Heather Gilroy. This sight has been repeated almost daily since . Photo copyright Rex Gilroy 2005.

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More surprises, and of course your valuable reports.

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing another big roll-up at our next one. There should be some good Skywatches ahead of us up here at Katoomba, as winter brings crystal clear nights. Meanwhile, theres a lot happening up there at present so, until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather.