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Australien Skies (2015)
My name is Don Meers.
I am the director of a production company called Dojo Media. I'm on my way to spend four days with an Australian ufologist by the name of Damien Nott, who claims to have captured over 2,000 photographs and video of unidentified flying objects and paranormal phenomena. The first goal of this film is to see if we can start to understand what is happening to Damien and other people like him. Secondly, I want to try and work out what these objects are that he's seeing. And lastly, I wanna see one of these objects up close and personal for myself. This is Australien Skies. [industrial electronic music playing] Hi, guys. How's it going? My name is Don Meers. I'm the director of Dojo Media. Welcome to the opening shots of Australien Skies. I'm actually here now waiting for Damien Nott to arrive at Queensland Train Station. We had originally planned to shoot this film in New South Wales. However, our location down there fell through. Fortunately for us though, we were offered a Queensland location by the name of Figtree Valley, which had been attributed with a whole lot of high strangeness. And we thought, "You know what, let's go for it. "Let's have a bit of a road trip. "Bring Damien out of his comfort zone "to the beautiful Queensland area. "Surrounded by the Glass House Mountains "and Bribie Island" So we've got all the crew here. Unfortunately though, Damien doesn't like to fly, so he opted for the train. Which means that for the last fourteen and a half hours he's been traveling from New South Wales to Queensland, which I imagine in itself is gonna be quite an adventure. Yep. There he is. Okay, here he comes. Hi, Damien, how are you? Howdy? Very well, thanks. How was your train trip? [both chuckle] -You know how I didn't like aeroplanes? -Yes. -I like them now. -[laughs] -Welcome to Queensland. -Cheers, mate. [inaudible] I have no explanation whatsoever for the amount of craft that I actually see, or that I've seen over the years. I really don't know why I see the amount that I see. All I know is over the last two years, I've seen literally hundreds. Everything started ramping up two years ago. I moved to a place called Dunedoo in the central west table lands of New South Wales, Australia. My father had previously moved up there, and I moved up there to renovate our home. And pretty much every second night I was there, I started witnessing the strangest phenomena. [man 1] Stop. Here we go. Here we go. Right here. It's right here. -There it is. See? -[man 2] Wow. Yup. [man 1] That's got to be him. [man 2] Look at that. Amazing. Yeah, got him. [dog barks] [man 1] It's blinking. [man 2] The dogs are going bonkers all around this area. Look at him moving. That is amazing. Wow. These objects would come into a country town... I mean, where there was a population of 500 people. And everybody in town is, you know, has the door shut. 6:00 pm at night, there's no lights in the town. So it's a very isolated kind of place. And these objects rock up out of the blue, and ranged in size from probably a tennis ball to a basketball, up to a car, up to a ship, like a naval frigate. I was witnessing all types of activity in the air. Objects high up changing direction, left hand turns, taking off at high speeds. Big spheres of light the size of homes illuminating roof tiles as they moved across. Right down to solid balls of light which, you know, scientists call plasma, or Earth Light, whatever the case may be. I really don't have an explanation for them. All I know is what I've seen over the years. And I know the reality of what I've seen, because now there's been hundreds of people that have witnessed it now with me. And they're stumped as well. They have no idea why it's happening. [woman] Alien base or what? [Damien] Yeah, that's why it came out here. [woman speaks indistinctly] [Damien] Oh, my God. When we had a really amazing sighting and Damien had a feeling and went outside and started to film. And then he called me out and I looked up in the sky and saw a very shiny light that was moving very, very slowly. [Damien] Explain that as an aeroplane, guys. [Melissa] That's not an aeroplane. It's not moving... [Damien] It's so slow. If it was a plane it would've fallen out of the sky. You should see what it's doing now. [Melissa] It's floating. It's not a plane. And it's illuminating without any... My dad's friend Sherie was here, and we called Sherie out and she came out as well. And we were just watching this object... And for me, what was pretty awesome about it was when I saw something drop out of the object. [Damien] Oh, my God. Something just flew by. [Melissa] Something's falling out of it. Can you see it? Something's coming down. Can you see that, Sherie? [indistinct conversation] [Sherie] It seems to me like flashing lights. Not flashing lights. Maybe just trying to, like, illuminating? [Damien] It's actually morphing shape and rotating as well. [Melissa] Planes won't see this or pick this up? [Damien] Oh, planes see them all the time, but they're told to keep... I know that there are many people that have seen this phenomenon around Damien. Especially in Dunedoo. His friends, his family, his father. Um, myself. Yes, that's... A lot of people can attest to seeing it. [Sherie] I have to say I've never seen anything like that before. [Melissa] Do you think they draw to you? [Damien] Yeah. They're with me wherever I go. -[Melissa] So it doesn't matter where you're going? -No. [Mariana] Two years ago, in January, we received an email from Damien Nott, who was reporting seeing some amazing UFOs and filming them in the Dunedoo area. Because of the nature of the email, because of the sincerity of Damien, and because of the number of UFOs he was seeing, I decided to take the drive to Dunedoo to explore for myself and to meet him in person. [Damien] Look at him go. [Damien] It's moving quite slow. At same time, keeping steady pace. Should get me a tripod. I don't think we are going anywhere. I booked into a B&B in the town and unbeknown to me, there was a Sydney Morning Herald journalist booking into the same B&B to cover the story of the Coonabarabran fires at the time. And my B&B landlady told him, "There's this UFO lady from Sydney. "You may want to meet her." And his ears pricked up and he made contact with me, and subsequently with Damien. And we discussed whether Damien would like to be interviewed by him, and Damien thought it was a good idea and the timing was right. [Damien] Just about out of the screen again. Picks it up again. Did you see that? It just moved to the left so quick. [journalist] Thank you for showing me this. [Mariana] The journalist and his associate did a night-watch with Damien and saw quite a number of UFOs, as did I. And it was probably my first proper UFO sighting. I've had multitude of people witness them around me. Whereas other people have come up, didn't see a thing. So there seems to be a thing where certain people, if they're open-minded enough, will see them. And the more you see, the more you continue to see. And that's the way I found out, and many other people who do see them on a regular basis have found that as well. [Damien] It's coming back. [woman 1] Where is it now? Oh, wow! It's mental. [woman 2] You can still see it? [man] Just keep it on. Make sure you focus. [Damien] There it is. Wow. About two years ago, I read in the Sydney Morning Herald about Damien and Dunedoo, and I thought it was a hot spot. So I have an interest in this subject, I have a commercial pilot's license, and my wife and I, we drove out to Dunedoo for a weekend and we ended up meeting with Damien and having a night-watch in his backyard, where we saw a variety of phenomena. [Peter] Slowly spinning around. Oh, wow. The actual shape of it seems to be twisting around. It's definitely a craft, man. Oh, my God. Mate, do you see that, what it's doing? [Damien] I wish I had the zoom... -[Peter] Are you picking up... -Look at the color. [Peter] Yeah, that is amazing, mate. I do recall that night, very specifically, the night was very clear. And I could see all sorts of aircraft flying through the sky. As a matter of fact, I pointed them out to Damien. The other phenomena we saw, that was certainly not aircraft... [Damien] Well, to date, over the last few years, I've probably had around about 300-350 sightings all about my whole life. They type of craft that I see is such a variety. It's incredible. All different types of craft, from what you see Hollywood flying saucers to be like, right down to solid balls of light, which, you know, scientifically are called "plasma" or "earth light" . These kind of craft you'd think would be impossible from what we know as a humanoid being to travel inside. So I believe that some of them... Some sort of energy in themselves. Or a being of light themselves. [Damien] I've lined it up with a tree and it's just slowly drifting. It's slower than the cloud speed. [man] It's about to go behind, into the cloud. See the strange way it's moving as well? [Damien] The first object I saw when I was nine was a red sphere. I've seen this time and time again during my life. I've had them following me down the road. I've had them following me on my skateboard when I was a kid. I've had them hover above my head literally 10 feet above me. Just perfectly silent. The size of a basketball, nothing bigger. I really don't know what they are. I've seen them my whole life. Probably at least nine or ten times, the red spheres. I've seen the white spheres literally tens of dozens of times. [Damien] On a couple of occasions in Dunedoo, I've concentrated and though about them when they've been moving across the sky. And then all of a sudden they'll start zig-zagging or doing... or stop. Or they'll come down lower, or... Almost like they're hearing my thoughts. It's almost like an extra sensory perception, or a psychic ability that they have to read minds. And that plays into they're not just some benign earth light, or, you know, something that's plasma in the air which dissipates. Or something, you know, from earthquakes or whatever. This is something very strange. It's... I believe it's inherent to this earth, and it's been here for a long, long time. Probably before humans. Calling it a light... doesn't seem right either. It seems like it's something more than a light. As though it's... it's alive. It's just incredible. It has some kind of aliveness to it, beingness to it. And the way that they moved as well. As far as I know, they've been labeling us photographic contactees. The guys that sense or feel the objects are around in enough time to go outside and film the object hanging above the house, or going past the home or whatever the case may be. And you know, I'm not gonna claim that I'm in contact with extra terrestrials and that they're talking to me, telling me stuff about the world. But I do know that they do appear above me out of nowhere when I've thought about them. And I can't explain any other reason why that would happen apart from there is some sort of link between the objects and myself. That sensitivity I've also had reported from other people, who get a feeling to go outside, get drawn outside. And then they're able to film these UFOs. So there is obviously a desire from the UFO pilots, or whoever they might be, the intelligence, to want to be seen. [indistinct conversation] [boy] They're coming towards us. [Liam] Straight over at us. Oh, it's moving now. [Donna] It's right above our car. [Boy] I can see it from our window. [Liam] I came in contact with Damien through the Internet. I was starting to see a few things in the sky. And I needed some, I guess you could say help, to try and... I thought he could answer some questions for me, because I had no answers for what I was seeing. My children were a bit skeptical, but now they sort of understand. And my wife thought it was great that I had a hobby to start with, instead of just working. And then she soon realized that it was more than a hobby, because she's been with me on several occasions and in clear sight seeing what I am seeing. [Donna] This tree? [Liam] Yeah. Son of a gun, Donna. This is absolute gold. [Donna] Okay, there's more. There's more. [Liam] Oh, my God. We've got it. When I get the feelings to go outside, I'd actually up and sometimes not see a thing at all. But I'd take a camera with me and I'd film something, capture something strange that I didn't see with my naked eye. Other times I'd see something and capture it. It's a hard feeling to describe. It's more like an auto-pilot. A mixture of someone's watching you from behind, mixed with a feeling that someone's in the room with you that you can't see. A very unusual kind of feeling. It's almost like a knowing that something strange is going on. The feeling... Look, for me it happens in the middle of the night. I'll wake up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning for a couple of days in a row and... And I know something's gonna happen. They sort of... I don't know. Whatever... I sort of get woken up really early in the morning and I wake up going, "Okay, I'll see one today." And sure enough, I will see something during the day. I'm gonna get you this time, you little rover. There he goes. Got you. [man] I think this one's the first one. [Liam] Yeah, that's the first one. [man] That's the first one that's moved. [Liam] There he goes. He's going in behind the clouds now, or a cloud. Sheesh! That's bright and it's big. That's cool. [Donna] I can't see it anymore. [Liam] Oh, I'm getting some awesome footage here. Oh, yeah. [Liam] No, no. They don't mind being filmed. I will, basically, if I'm driving in the car... It can happen anywhere, but I'll just have them in from of me. They'll show up dead in front of me up in the sky. So I'll stop the car, get out, film them, and then they leave. And then I get in the car and carry on with my normal life. [man speaking indistinctly] [muffled conversation] [man speaking indistinctly] [man] Look at that! Oh, no. Where are you? Where has it gone? I freaking lost it. Some of the things that I've seen would make most people think that they're crazy, you know. It's only because I've seen them time and time again I know that I'm not crazy. This is why I started buying cameras, so I could film what I'm seeing. So I could show people what I'm seeing. So the point was, If I'm crazy, my camera's crazy. [seagulls squawking] There is an extreme sense of isolation that comes with seeing these things. Because you feel like you can't talk to people. You feel like... that you're alone. That you're different. It does shape your life completely. And especially when the academics of this world say that there's no such thing. That makes it hard for people who do experience such things. Not just hard, but it changes your life so much. It changes your attitude towards other people. Now you don't trust people as much. You're really... You're more guarded. It's hard to keep a relationship, you know, and keep this secret. You know, most people freak out. Like friends, or partners, or whatever when they see these things, you know. It's very rare that someone around you will go, "Oh, that's awesome." Or whatever. 'Cause most people follow the crowd and most of the crowd believes that, you know, what they're told. And as humans we tend to believe what we're told, because that's the reality. You're taught in school what's real, what's not real, whatever the case may be. These things don't exist, apparently. But they do. [melancholy music playing] [upbeat instrumental music] I've purposely gone out and filmed two drones that I knew were drones. They make noise. Anything that humans create makes a sound. It has an engine, it has rotors. It makes noise. And they're quite loud. What we see in the sky are definitely not drones. But when you've done the research, when you've done the fieldwork, you can easily tell the difference between a drone and something that's quite unusual and unknown. [Don] Guys, I'm here with Tony, who is our drone pilot that we always use for our productions. And I just want to ask you, Tony, a couple of questions about the use of UAVs and drones today. What sort of height can you get on these things, regardless of rules? Oh, they can get up around 1,000 feet. -Isn't that incredible? -Yeah. That is amazing. What technology. What's the level for a commercial flight? How legally are you supposed to keep these things below? What height is that? [Tony] 400 feet is the height that we can go to. There are other regulations, you know, if you're close to airports and that sort of thing as well. But legally and commercially 400 feet, unless you got approval to do otherwise. CASA put them in place in 2002 actually. One of the first countries in the world to do that. They saw that it could integrate well within the commercial arena here. [Don] Are there any that are silent? [Tony] Not that I'm aware of. No. They all have a propeller and the motor is turning so none that are silent. Obviously we're making a documentary about sightings, uh mis-sightings as well, of UFOs and what not. You can understand though that some of these things you can see could be definitely mistaken for being a UFO if you didn't have that noise factor though. Cause they do have quite some don't they? [Tony] Yeah, absolutely. [Don] I mean, when you see them, they're quite unreal, aren't they? [Tony] Quite amazing. Seeing them up there. And particularly if that little distance away and that sort of thing. It might be hard to, particularly the smaller ones, to identify exactly what they are. And they can sort of move around and, you know, without too much noise and that sort of thing. [drone buzzing] [indistinct conversation] [Don] Even through infrared it's still very identifiable as a drone. Whoa! [man] Keep it. [Don] What the hell? Something just like flew straight down to the ground right past the drone. Very fast moving. [woman] There's no birds up there. I'm looking... Whilst filming, I'm looking up there. There's no bird. You can see it by the naked eye anyway. [woman] Earlier, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but we were hearing birds and crows. There's not one bird now. No. They've gone. And you're saying dogs are going off in the distance? Yes. As soon as we got radio that you guys were seeing activity, the dogs behind us started going crazy. So... [man] That's a really good sign. Yeah. Yep. Okay, guys. We're just doing a quick through to camera here. We're in the middle of our drone day, or UAV day, and we've just been doing takeoffs and filming a lot of establishing shots. We've got Damien down there now. We've just... He's just notified through the... Yeah, he's seeing things down there. And the dogs are going absolutely bananas in this area just now as well. So we're going to take the drone, the UAV up and see if we can actually use one of these things as bait. So here we go. Ready. A lot of stuff that's on YouTube is not real. You know, a lot of people fake footage. A lot of people will send a little toy drone with lights up there just to try and fool people. They fly in a way that is quite mechanical, man-made. You can tell the difference. They make sound. I've spent thousands of hours literally in the field, replicating what they call orbs. Replicating insects. From photographing things through a pane of glass... Doing all sorts of things trying to replicate anything that could be misconstrued as a UFO. But when you've done the research, and when you've done the field work, you can easily tell the difference between a drone and something that's quite unusual and unknown. [Bec] Okay, top gear. In the blue patch. Coming into the blue patch. Thought I just saw something sort of just pop in behind that, that cloud there. -Where that big tree is? -Yeah. [Don] I see him now... [Bec] Right. Just dived in behind the cloud. It went in and it's like it was hiding, to go in behind the cloud. That was okay. We're actually... Yeah, allegedly there's something going on here. Something that's following the drone. So the drone can't make out what's going on as well. The camera crew down there is with Damien, who is spotting with the camera. We're just gonna see what happens. This is definitely... It's interesting. [Damien] I personally don't know that I've been pranked. Though I would be able to pick it out quite easily. Though I film many balloons up in the sky. And they're quite easily identifiable as balloons. They're governed by the laws of our physics. So they move in a certain way. What I know and what I've seen do not move in the way that a balloon or you know, any sort of man-made device would move or operate. [Bec] That's the drone in the center of my screen. See if there's any sparks or flashes around it. There is a really good possibility that some of them may be top secret drones. We've got no way of proving otherwise unless one crashes and we pick it up. We don't know what the Military industrial complex has. But when you look at it logically, why would a government fly a top secret drone over an area, over a city where it can be witnessed by thousands of people, and have the possibility of it falling out of the sky and getting captured by Joe Blow. when they've got thousands of acres and kilometers of desert in Australia alone to fly these things where they'll never ever be seen? So the idea that some of them could be drones, it is a possibility, but a very, very small one. As we were just saying, the birds are back. We were down there for how long? Birds stopped. Now the birds are back. 'Cause we've packed everything away. We've packed the drone away, we've packed our gear away. Maybe they've gone away. I don't know, but... -[woman] Everything's back to normal. -Incredible. Some more high strangeness. One thing I've noticed is within 10 to 20 minutes after UFO sightings, a helicopter will rock up. And that's happened time and time again. They do seem to be attracted to our aircraft. Whether it be helicopters or airplanes, they do seem to follow them quite a bit.22 Whatever reason that is is, you know, it's still speculation. Whenever I have a really good major sighting, like, you know, a jaw dropping sort of a craft, you know, it hangs around for a while, you can be guaranteed within an hour someone else is coming to check where it happened, and check where I am and keep an eye on me. And it's generally unmarked government cars, or helicopters. [Liam] He's coming back again. Black. Is that military? [woman] Is it black? [Liam] He's got a camera on the bottom of him. Right over the top. Hey, fella. You just missed a UFO, mate. We are also getting reports that seem like human contact. Human interference. We've had the black helicopters flying over numerous homes. I can think of quite a number of cases. There have been people reporting seeing someone leaning out with a camera from the black helicopter, filming them. So these have been captured on film by some of these people. So there is something else going on. They bring the helicopters in. They'll hover over your house. And basically wake you up in the middle of the night, or just during the day, sit there and hover, a helicopter, you know, 50 feet above your roof, stare right at you. And they're just letting you know they're watching. We had jets coming in Dunedoo side by side, during the day time and night time after UFOs would be in the area. Other times, I've had police helicopters hovering above the house for 45 minutes. And I've actually filmed UFOs flying around the helicopters. Small metallic spheres. Small white spheres following the helicopters. This has happened time and time again. He's definitely looking for something. Mate, you missed the UFO by about two minutes. Yeah, there's this guy on the back who saw something to it. Something fly by. I just caught something near this airplane over here. After I came out about the UFO sightings to the Sun Herald, the following day I had two people walk up into Dunedoo basically uniformed in a hired car staring at me while I'm painting the house, and writing on something and then taking off when I tried to get close to the car. And it was very, very peculiar. The lady who was staring at me while the driver was staring straight ahead. They were both wearing black suits. And I just thought this is too unreal to be true. You know, you hear all the stories, the men in black sort of thing, and you think, "No, that's human imagination." Whatever, you know. We like to blow things up a bit. Whatever. But no, I've had multitudes of things happen. I had my Facebook page hacked. I've had my Youtube channel hacked. My hard drives disappear from my home. I've had my computer hacked and files disappear from my computer. Most of my original files from Dunedoo just disappeared. Airforce people telling you that you're being watched for years. Strange beeping sounds on the telephone when I'm talking to certain people involved in the UFO field. You know, a lot of people would say, "Oh, you know, it's paranoia." but when you have one thing after another, you don't know who to believe. But when it all comes into a big package, it paints a picture that something is going on. Black cars. Yes, a stereotype, but it's always black. Holden Statesmans, brand new. Look like they should be in the showroom. Usually in twos. They'll come and sit outside your house. So that does happen. The government pays particular interest into what's going on. I did get a report possibly about two or three months ago from a fellow who said he was driving along in his car and another vehicle forced him off the road. And two gentlemen, neatly attired, came to him at his car door and said, "Are you so and so?" And he said yes, and they said, "You need to stop talking, or else." So I've done one presentation for her and it went really well. She asked me to do another one last year and I was pretty close to doing it. But once again, the government interest stepped in and told me... I was stopped while I was driving my car by these two guys and they told me not to do it. They said, "You don't want to talk about it." So I said, "I don't want to talk about it." -We're live. -We're live. Here we go. The mission. There has been tales, not this early at night, but way later at night. Or early in the morning. The truckies have actually said they've seen lights. Like min-min kind of lights on this highway. -Orange ones? -Yeah, orange. White lights. White lights. Yeah. I don't know. Can you talk about what size? -Um, the size of basketballs, footballs. -Okay. They're quite small. Softball, cricket ball sized. Come up to the window and you can count the cabs flying through the cabs. Yeah. So that has been sighted out here. Not a lot of truckies will talk about it. -You know. -Yeah. But never this early at night. But hey, if you're saying you're attracting things... -Yeah. -They might know you're here. I see them at all different times, man. All times, you know. It kind of freaks people out. It takes a lot to freak me out. Yeah, yeah. That's cool. Okay, guys, we've just come up to a lookout in the Glasshouse Mill. I'm up here with Damien and Richard. And we're gonna do first of the sky watches to have a bit of look around and see what we can get. What do you think so far? I think it's a great spot. It is a 360 degree view pretty much of the entire area. And this is probably the highest point, Richard, we just at? -[Richard] Yeah. -Yeah. So we'll just let you rig up your gear and then we'll see how you are. -Sounds like a plan. -All right. I'm just gonna try something. Just as we were setting up, we've just noticed a light in the sky that appears to be changing shape and direction. We're just trying to decide... It appears to be fading out now. [Damien speaks indistinctly] -There you go. -All right. Debunked courtesy of technology. Thank you, technology. It's an Airbus A330. When they're heading at you at a certain angle and they got the front lights on you, they can block out the aircraft lights in the wings. Yeah, they look exactly like it's a ball of light. See? Now you can see the flashing of the wings. We're very lucky nowadays to have apps for the phone. And the apps such as Flight Radar, Satellite Safari and Sky Safari tell you what are in the sky. Where they're headed. Whether it's a plane, satellite or what not, whether the trajectory is coming straight over you or not. We're very lucky to have these today to capture and film UFOs. What they are, what they could be, and what they're definitely not. We really need someone, a few of us, to sit around doing the sky watching, and someone to sit here working this out all the time. [Don] We might do that tomorrow night then. Yeah. One of them actually sit up in the sky and pretend to be a stars, and it's actually known as pseudo stars. They're not real stars. They'll disappear at a whim. What is that? [Richard] This is the, uh, the director of the film, who's currently lying in a car park, huddled up in seat covers of his car. Are you cold, Don? No, I just like to dress-- -In seat covers? -It's lovely. Well, it's a little cold. And we stupidly forgot to bring jumpers just because today was exceptionally hot. And, uh... You got to get creative out here, you know. You got to get creative. [Richard] What do you think of the location so far? I'm loving it. And I'm getting my normal strange feeling... Yeah, so it's really good. Right next to that bright star just there. There's three stars you can't see with your eyes, and they've just become one. There your bright star. Leftward and slightly up you'll see a perfect pyramid of lights that are moving. So what have we got up there? What have you seen? There's just the most faintest blue light that seems to be pulsing really offbeat directly above us. And Damien's just confirmed it's not a satellite. But whatever it is, if it is something, it's standing far enough away from us where we can't get a good glimpse of it, but it's still making itself present. Can you have a look through here at the actual object? Here you have the blue lights flashing. There's a button right at the very front there. Get it again. I'll start recording when you get it. Have a look near the bright star. It'll lead us there. -Looking? -Yeah. And see if you can, um... They might be back. -[crashing] -What the... What was that? Keep filming on that. [Richard] What the hell was that? Did you just hear that? [Damien] Yeah, something just smashed the bin. The bin is completely empty. Look in the camera. [Don] Something hit that bin hard. Like, it almost made that bin move. I heard it. We hard it. We were all here. I mean... Just, uh, kick the bin with your foot. No, it wasn't that sound. No, that's solid. Well... This is the area of high strangeness. We have brought Damien Nott here as well to add to the equation. I think things are gonna get very weird. [serene instrumental music] [indistinct conversation] [music continues] Okay guys, something a bit different today. We're gonna be doing some kayaking and some canoing, because we want to get to a sky watch location tonight. One of the best ways to get there is via the waterways. I just thought it would be kind of cool to bring Damien along and let him have a look at some of these locations. 'Cause they're just beautiful. They're really eerie. And the water way is just... It's a really stunning sort of location. So it's gonna be interesting. All right. What time's the rocket lanching at? If you sink just grab the camera. Yeah, I'll save them. Don't worry. Go around the right way. Yeah, there you go. [Don] I didn't know these waters... This is something like Lord Of The Rings though, isn't it? It is. Gollum's over there going, "My precious." It's crazy. This is excellent. I had to bring my shitty camera, man. I didn't carry... -No, no. I'm with you. -Yeah... -I mean, I needed to... -That's fine. In case a UFO hovers. You know, and the chances are they probably will. Okay, so this area that we're heading to, I've never actually been up here. There's a lot of places around Australia that are, you know, nice little hidden secrets that locals know about. Can you tell me a little bit about this area? This kind of river runs... You can actually get all the way to Mount Mee, where we were last night. No way! That's incredible. And it's just an amazing sort of water way. It's like an ancient prehistoric place, eh? That's what it feels like. [Don] Yeah, it's old. It feels old. [Damien] It almost looks like you can walk on the water actually. Some spots, you know. You were talking before about how people in Ufology have a Jesus complex. I don't wanna see you try and test your theory if you can walk on water. I don't mind if you do, just not while I'm in the kayak. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, give me, in Australia... Give me the top five briefly hot spots that you'd like to go visit if you could, if budget wasn't a concern. Okay, um... Straight off the bat I'd say I'd love to go up to Pine Gap. I'd love to see, you know, what they have flying around there at night time. You know, if they are working on craft, or whatever the case. As we know, it's Australia's Area 51. Yeah, Pine Gap would be one place. I'd love to go back to Dunedoo again. That's a major hot spot. The road between Carnarvon and Dunedoo is quite... Has become known as the Extraterrestrial Highway. Another place, the Nullarbor Plains. -Yeah. -Very interesting. You know, a lot of truckers have seen UFOs there early hours of the morning. Min-min lights. You name it. The place has got a rich history of UFO sightings going back quite a while. Even back to the aboriginals. -What else? -Definitely around Ayers Rock. -Really? -Oh, yeah. South of Ayers Rock. Is there many reports? I don't wanna hear them specifically, but are there reports of Ayers Rock? There's quite a few. There was a tour group that went there years ago and spotted a UFO hanging in the sky. Large red ball. And then it just took off south at high speed. Right in front of an entire tour group. And... Yeah, so they've been seeing that for quite a while. The aboriginals, in their legends, speak about lights, you know, in the area around there. [Don] What's your last one? [Damien] Okay, I have to say the Simpson Desert. -Yeah? -Yeah. I'd love to go down to Simpson Desert, camp there for a few days and see what we see. I know a lot of rural and deserted areas like that. They tend to hang around a lot, because a lot less people, a lot less chance of being seen. If that's what they're, you know, they're worried about, being seen by people all the time. You know, areas like this, rural areas, they seem to congregate around. So you said we're going to a bit of a hot spot? Yeah. I have to be careful, you know. We've got permission to go to the location, but again, there's a community around it that don't want to have it highlighted. And the only way you can get in there is really through locals. And luckily, we have connections in the area to get us in there. Yeah, it is a bit of a weird spot, you know. And Rich, who's in the production, he's actually the one who's setting all the stuff up. He's actually gonna give us some stories tonight, at the site, about what's happened around there. And there's been some... There's been some very serious things happen. But they really, really don't want anything blown up about it. So we have to just keep very vague. Yeah, nonetheless, there's been a lot of weird things up in there allegedly. This whole area up here is very well known locally as being yowie hot spot. Interesting. There is also the connection between yowies and UFOs. Look, a lot of UFO people hate that connection. And I know a lot of yowie kind of krypto guys hate that connection as well. What's your stance on it? Well, the more I've researched into it over the years, I find there is some sort of a connection. There is a correlation between Big Feet are sighted and UFOs. You know, I've never actually seen a Big Foot myself, so I really can't talk about that as much. But you know, I know that there is a correlation. A lot of people have picked up the correlation between areas of high activity of UFOs and Big Feet. There's a town just... Just up from Caboolture actually, that have a park there called Yowie Park. And they have like a 10 foot statue of a yowie. -Incredible. -Based on sightings they've had -since 1970s. -Wow. Wow. Now you got to fly over. Helicopters. No way! Helicopter. They don't know me around here? -Right there! Yeah. -Really? -Can you get a shot? -No, too many trees. Sort of... Really slow. It's coming up over us. You're joking! There it is. Right there. They're probably tracking my little chip. And they're like, "Where is he? I can't see him." -Tonight I want to talk about chip. -Okay. And Bec wants to have a feel of the chip. Is that all right? All right. No one's ever felt my chip before. Well, you're about to have your chip virginity broken. My first... Oh, God. Classic. Hey, can you see up ahead here? Can you see up in front? That's where we're gonna be getting out. And that's where we're gonna go on foot. And just up there is gonna be our location for the night. [Damien] Brilliant. Oh, I forgot my keys. [techno music playing] [indistinct conversation] [music continues] Rich, thanks for getting us into Figtree valley. You're our fixer on Australien Skies. You've been helping us with the local locations. And in particular you've been very helpful in getting us into Figtree Valley, which locally has a bit of a reputation for being an area of high strangeness. It's an old area. What can you tell me about it? Yeah, look. You're spot on. It's an old area. It's a closed knit community as well. One ride in, one ride out. Everyone here knows everyone. There has been a history of strange happenings in the area. From UFOs to yowies. Yowie's a bit of a left of field subject, but there was talk of cows going missing, livestock being killed. And damage to fencing and stuff. UFOs have been very apparent around here for years now. We've had locals farmers that have reported having crafts land in their crops. They've had trouble growing things there ever since. Those particular farmers don't really wanna... They're not very inviting into the field of having people come in and talk about that with them. 'Cause these guys are running businesses for 100 years. They don't want to associate themselves with that sort of thing. It can really damage a 100-year reputation. I personally was lucky enough. I'm one of the few that's happy to talk about it. I was personally lucky enough to capture footage of what I believe to be some sort of craft going across the sky one day after work. I whipped my phone out, started recording. Twenty-three seconds of footage. Phone ran out of memory. But that 23 seconds was... It was a real mind blower for me, because I'm not an avid UFO believer. I don't follow the subject of UFO sightings at all. And it really caught me off guard as a fence sitter. When you... You contacted me after you got the footage. And you actually said you had some strange things happen almost directly after. Yeah. Look, I'll wrap that up quite briefly in the sense that everyone in Figtree Valley knows everyone. We all know what the cars we drive are. And when you start seeing strange white and blue silver vans pull up in the road... That was one of the things that was happening. And it was a bit of an eyebrow raiser around town, because as I expressed earlier, we're a one straight in, one straight out community. And vans aren't something that park up in our road very often, or sit there for two hours. I kept a low profile. Didn't wanna be associated with the vans. But I felt it was a coincidence that I caught this UFO sighting going across and all of a sudden this sort of attention. Personally I'm gonna throw it in the coincidence area, but, you know, there's a lot of other people around the area that had different speculations. So it was a very strange occurrence for me, personally. By the way, I know you wanna have a bit of chat with Damien about his experiences, and also to do with his implants and all that sort of stuff. So what we might do is we might set you up to actually do the questioning for that sort of stuff. -Fantastic. Looking forward to it. -Cool. [indistinct conversation] Don told me that you found evidence of some sort of a micro chip or something on you, on your body. And that you got an ultrasound? What's the goss there? Yeah, it's not something that I talk about very often. I don't really bring it up that much, but, yeah, I do... I've had an object just underneath my collarbones since I was a kid. I never really knew what it was, why it was there. It's sort of like a small tube. And it wasn't until about six months ago, where I actually went to a specialist and had a ultrasound done. And during the ultrasound, they found a small object under my skin. And the funny thing was while they were looking at the object, the object actually moved further under the skin to the point where the lady actually had to go and get another doctor to come in and look at it. So the both of them are looking at the object. They could feel it with their fingers under the skin. And I've noticed in the past, this object would move when I'd grab at it, pinch it to the top of the skin underneath. And it would move back under itself. Very unusual. [Richard] So you told me that you discovered the chip when you were a kid. Was there some sort of test you got done when you were a child, or... No, not at all. It's just something that I noticed because it was different on my body. Something that I felt under my skin. I actually asked my mom about this when I was young. She didn't know what it was. It's a really strange object, because you have to pinch it to the top of the skin and it actually moves down by itself as soon as you release it. It's hard for other people to feel it unless I actually get a good grip on it. But the doctor who came in, after the other specialist lost it and it sort of moved on the actual machine... The doctor that came in, the same thing happened again in front of both of them. And he was astounded. He actually said, "What is that? "What happened to him?" And it took him a good five minutes to locate it again. But he felt it again. So both of them felt it, and then the object moved. Which is highly strange in itself. I never thought much of it until a couple of years ago really, when the UFO sightings were really hitting a high pitch for me. And I always wanted to get the ultrasound done to find out what is it, what could it be. Is it something benign, or is it something ordinary. They never gave you an affirmative? If it's a chip, it's this, it's that? They just said it's a strange object? No, they gave me a referral to actually get it removed. And I don't really want to get it removed, in case it's something, you know, quite special that... You know, maybe it's the reason why I see so many UFOS. I really have no idea. But it's been in me since I was a kid. The body, you know... Foreign elements introduced into the body, you know, such as a splinter or whatever, the body normally rejects it. This object hasn't been rejected. There's no entry wound. It's very unusual. So, I really can't explain it. I guess we'll find out the truth when the batteries run out. Yeah, I'd say so. Yeah. All right, guys, we're just on our location. Night watch location. And we've just had dinner. We've had some questions and a bit of filming. And now we're just gonna have a bit of a wander around tonight, and see what we can see. Um, yeah. We are entering wild dog territory. So yeah, let's just keep our ears peeled, and let everyone know if you see something strange. What the hell? Whoa. Like something's walked on it and moved the G. You'll see and actual... ...a wet spot. Something's cut this tree up recently. It's sapping. Fresh. What do you make of that, though? Cow, right? We've just come out on to the hill that overlooks one of the areas around near where... main home base for the night. And we were doing some interviews around the campfire, when we were hearing... Sounded like someone yelling out, someone could've been in trouble. And the thing is that we were informed today that some of the locals had lost three horses in the area in the last couple of days due to wild dogs. So we thought we'd just come down to the safe vantage point and just see if there's anyone around, or someone might be down here needing help, or anything like that. Richard was talking before about one of the neighboring properties... [horse neighing] I just saw a flash right in front of that tree line there. At the base of the tree line, a little bit towards us. [indistinct conversation] -[man] I just saw the flash. -Where? [man] Over in the tree line where Rich and Damien were sitting. Hopefully we got it on camera, 'cause I was pointing towards it. Sitting right about... Did you just see that? There's another flash. There's another flash. I just saw that out of the corner of my eye. The whole sky just went poof, like a camera flash. This is getting really weird, right? There's no planes whatsoever ahead of us at the moment. The closest plane is at Gympie. And did you see the whole sky? Yeah, I heard... I saw the flashes as well. It was over here, to my right. Yeah, yeah. Oh, did you see that? Light just fell across the sky. That light... That was massive brightness-- [man] Whoa! It's coming back. I can see it now. -Dude, are you recording this? -Yeah. Keep it going, keep it going. It's very faint. That was huge. It just vanished into thin air. That was huge. That was right over Figtree Valley, too. And there's no airplane showing up either in that direction. Now it's come back. Big time. It's red now. Is it standing still now? Yeah, it's stopped. It's stopped. You're kidding me. [Richard] A bright eyes ball of light. It's about the size of a softball. And now it's gone. Just pop! It vanished. No aeroplanes in the vicinity by the radar. There's one aeroplane, which is on the other side, way like... -[Damien] Probably passed us now. -Yeah. [Don] Wait, we've just done the satellite checks. Okay. Are you still tracking it? Yeah, it's gone behind the tree now. [Richard] That was a full blown UFO. No other word for it. It couldn't be identified. I hate to say it. I hate to say it. That was really weird. All three of us, we were just talking, wrapping up... Wrapping up the whole session. And this huge kind of light... I'm not talking like a little fiddly thing. This was quite sizable. Slowly, slowly drift over... [scoffs in disbelief] Oh, man! [sighs] All right, guys. I'm at the end of the film. I don't think I can go much further at this stage. So I think I'm gonna let Damien do the final comments on the out show. But I just wanted to take this opportunity to give you my final debrief. It's fair to say that at the beginning of the film I was fairly skeptical of Damien and his claims. I mean, I thought he was just seeing drones in the sky, or something like that. However, at the end of the film, I find myself now more intrigued. I mean, whether this phenomena is psychological, physical, terrestrial, or even extra-terrestrial, the point still remains that thousands of people across Australia, and the world, for that matter, are experiencing this phenomena on a daily basis. And they deserve an explanation for what is going on. Unfortunately though, it's gonna take someone with far more credential than I to take a serious interest in this topic, and study it for these guys to be able to get an explanation. It's been a fascinating project to work on, and everyone involved who opened up their doors to us has been fantastic to work with. So, thank you for your time. Thank you for your patience. And who knows, maybe we'll get a chance to meet again beneath the Australien Skies. [Damien] Most people who have sightings keep it to themselves. And it's a sad thing. Because I've spoken to so many people around Australia and around the world, who just want to tell somebody what they've seen. They don't want money. They don't want fame, recognition or anything. There's no fame to be made in this subject. There's infamy, there's threats. There's all sorts of intimidation. They just want to speak to somebody about it. They can't go to the media. They can't tell their friends. They're worried about their kids at school being picked on. It runs through the whole of society and we gotta accept that. And no mater what people say, all it takes is for somebody to stand up and go, "Hold on a second. "This is real, "and you're not gonna tell me it's not real." And this is what I'm trying to do. Convince normal people that there is a reality out there that is in the sky, and it's above us. And we can go from there. And I'm not worried about what people think anymore. I'm nearly 36-years-old now, and I've really... I'm well over people's attitudes towards the subject. But the good thing is nowadays people are actually opening up and warming to the subject more, because more people around the world are having sightings all the time. It's estimated that a UFO is spotted every three minutes around the world. The biggest influx of UFO sightings in history is happening right now. And from what I've seen in the last two years alone it's incredible. And it's real. [music playing] [techno music playing] -[woman 1] One of them's stopped. -[woman 2] Yeah, one's stopped. [man 1] I see 'em. I see 'em. [woman 2] Wow. [man 2] What are you doing? Why did he stop, too? [man 1] Yeah. There's another one over here, drifting in through this cloud. [woman 1] Yeah, it's over there. I have to say I've never seen anything like that before. -[man 1] It's right now. -[man 2] Yeah. That's actually... It's under the cloud. It's on our side of the cloud now. Yeah, I believe it's on our side of the cloud. Wow. I just caught another one that flew across it. There's a lot going on up here today, guys. Holy smoke! [indistinct conversation] [man 1] Holy shit! |
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