By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
FOX Mulder has given the Victorian UFO Action (VUFOA) group a lot of work in the last week.
Ever since the fictional X-Files detective mentioned the Kelly Cahill case – one of the most important UFO cases in the world – on the TV Show reboot recently, the infamous 1993 alleged UFO sighting in Narre Warren has shot back into the public eye.
Now, more than 20 years later, two leading VUFOA investigators – founder Andrew Arnold and Ben Hurle – are hoping the X-Files mention will see the witnesses from the case come forward again.
“This is a good opportunity to perhaps draw some of the witnesses out,” Mr Hurle said.
“Now it’s the 21st century, it might be really nice time to re-visit it again with 21st century investigators and we can look at it again from a new perspective.”
The big problem is they have no names, only pseudonym names.
“We have snippets of information and because the case is in the top five in the world, it really does need the attention brought back to it,” Mr Hurle said.
“Not to bring these people out to parade them in front of the public … but perhaps for their own benefit as a part of the process.”
Kelly claimed that in August 1993 she was abducted by aliens while driving home with her husband along Belgrave-Hallam Road.
Ms Cahill, who was 27 at the time, told Today Tonight in the 1990s that she spotted what looked like an airship the size of a swimming pool with a ring of orange lights in the Narre Warren paddock.
Extra-terrestrial beings are said to prefer areas near open bodies of water, like Lysterfield Lake, and power lines.
Kelly Cahill later recalled getting out of the car and then being abducted by skinny black figures with bulging red eyes after they approached her.
At the time she said she saw two other cars also stop to investigate the alleged UFO, and these two sets of separate witnesses – key to why the case is infamous – later corroborated Ms Cahill’s story with investigators.
But the memory of this confrontation only came later. In the early days after the incident, Kelly and her husband, and presumably the other witnesses, couldn’t account for about an hour and a half of time.
“The beings came charging across the paddock, they (the witnesses) lose their sight, they can’t see – so they’re blinded,” Mr Hurle said
“So they’ve effectively been hobbled, stunned if you like. Stunned by the creatures and when they wake up they’re in the car, travelling back, they’re driving.
“And I can only make the assumption it was the same for the other people.”
Now the investigators at VUFOA are back on the case, not that they ever left.
And unlike Fox Mulder, these investigators are real, and they’re calling on the witnesses to come forward again.
“There’s nothing like getting it from the horse’s mouth,” Mr Arnold said.
“We want to do our own independent investigation into it, hopefully speak to them directly and just let them see what they say.
“They might remember more now than they did at the time.”
When people go to the trouble of coming forward and there’s a level of substantial evidence, Mr Hurle said, that’s where people should have an open mind.
“The potential has to exist for these things,” he said.
For more information, contact Ben and Andrew on 0456 447 112, or visit www.vufoa.com
