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   SUBJECT: VALENTICH UPDATE: ABDUCTION                         FILE: UFO1254   
      
      
   065/069 10 Feb 91 19:34:00   
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   RHONDA  Rushton firmly believes her fiance was abducted by a  UFO   
   and she claims photographic evidence supports her story.   
     Breaking  her  silence for the first time in 11  years,  Rhonda   
   explained  exclusively  to  POST why she  remains  convinced  her   
   fiance was taken by aliens.   
     Rhonda  was planning to wed the man of her dreams,  20-year-old   
   pilot  Frederick Valentich, when he disappeared 11 years  ago  on   
   the night of October 21, 1978.   
     Valentich and the single-engined Cessna he was flying  vanished   
   without trace over Bass Strait.   
     In  his last radio transmission to Melbourne Flight Service  he   
   described  the  UFO which was persistently shadowing  his  plane.   
   Valentich's final words were: "That strange aircraft is  hovering   
   on top of me again... it is hovering and it's not an aircraft..."   
     A metallic clicking noise was then heard over the radio for  17   
   seconds  before  communication  was lost. No  wreckage  was  ever   
   found.   
     The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation launched a full inquiry.   
   Their  confidential  report, completed in 1982,  concluded:  "The   
   reason  for  the  disappearance  of the  aircraft  has  not  been   
   determined. "   
     But  Rhonda,  a  level-headed  and  intelligent  young   woman,   
   believes she has the answer. She believes she has seen the proof.   
    Twenty-one  minutes  before  Valentich was buzzed  by  the  UFO,   
   Melbourne  man  Roy Manifold was taking photos of the  sunset  at   
   Cape Otway, the last land mass Valentich flew over. When his film   
   was  developed it showed an unidentified object shooting  out  of   
   the water and flying off over Bass Strait.   
     Manifold's negatives were sent to the Civilian Aerial Phenomena   
   Research  Organization  in Arizona (USA) for  computer  analysis.   
   Extensive  tests  found no evidence of a hoax, and  revealed  the   
   image captured on film was not the result of a developing error.   
     The  unidentified  object  was neither a cloud  nor  a  weather   
   phenomenon,  but  a solid metallic structure capped by  a  bright   
   disc.   
    In  his  last transmission Valentich said: "It seems  like  it's   
   stationary and the thing is just orbiting on top of me, also it's   
   got  a green light and sort of metallic -- it's all shiny  (on  )   
   the outside. "   
      "When I saw the Manifold photos I knew that this was the proof   
   that  supported Fred's last words, " Rhonda, 28, told POST in  an   
   exclusive  interview. "The object in the picture is what he  saw,   
   what  he was trying to describe. I believe that the UFO took  the   
   whole plane, that was why no trace of it, not even an oil  slick,   
   was ever found.   
       "I  think  the clicking noise that came over  the  radio  had   
   something to do with the UFO - Fred left the radio on so we would   
   hear  that.  He was a very calm sort of person and that  was  the   
   sort of thing he would have done.   
      "Fred  was such a truthful, honest person - if that's what  he   
   said  he saw, that's what he saw, " Rhonda said. "I'd flown  with   
   him  many  times and he was an experienced, competent  pilot  who   
   could handle panic situations.   
      "People  said he was flying upside down but the plane  used  a   
   gravity-fed fuel system. If it was upside down it would have just   
   conked out.   
      "Fred and I had discussed UFOs, he believed in them  strongly.   
   He  thought it was arrogant of people to think we were  the  only   
   life-form in the galaxy.   
      "He said once that if one did show itself to him he would want   
   to  go  with it. That helped me a lot when he  went  missing.  He   
   wouldn't  have been frightened, maybe he even looked on it as  an   
   adventure. "   
    Paul Norman, from the Victorian UFO Research Society, told POST:   
   "The Valentich case is the 20th such UFO encounter in the past 30   
   years.  Some people live to tell the tale, others vanish  without   
   trace.   
      "  We  don't know if the Valentich case was an  abduction.  We   
   don't know if he went up, down or disintegrated, but there is  no   
   doubt that the UFO caused his disappearance in some way. "   
      
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