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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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