澳洲X档案：失踪36年的飞行员竟被UFO劫持？

据2014年8月16日《先驱太阳报》（Herald Sun）报道，被列为世界十大离奇空难之一的〝1978年澳洲飞行员目击UFO后失踪〞事件，日前突然得到了一个新的线索，阿德莱德（Adelaide）附近一位农民称在飞行员失踪后的清晨发现了长达30米的UFO。

该事件一直令澳洲人极为不解，原因是1978年10月21日，澳洲飞行员斐德列克．瓦伦提斯（Frederick Valentich）驾驶塞斯纳（Cessna182L）单螺旋桨小型飞机飞往澳洲国王岛（King Island）进行例行货运。在航班途中他紧急联系地面航管员称：有一个〝不是飞机的长型物体〞亮着几盏耀眼的大灯，正盘旋在飞机前方。

在该地区当晚拍摄到的照片，在夜空中浮现一个暗色无法辨识的神秘物体。

根据斐德列克和地面之间的通讯记录得知，他试图避开该神秘物，但不明飞行物瞬间消失不见。这一发现令斐德列克无比震惊，他数次对地面通讯说：这绝对不是飞机。

随后，不明物从另一方向现身，并向他追来，在飞机上空盘旋了几秒后，飞机的无线电通讯中断，斐德列克就此音讯全无。

当时，瓦伦提斯与地面管制员的对话内容如实记录了目击不明飞行物的全过程：

19:06:14 DSJ [Valentich]: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet. Is there any known traffic below five thousand?
FS [Flight Services; Robey]: Delta Sierra Juliet, no known traffic.
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, I am, seems to be a large aircraft below five thousand.
19:06:44 FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, What type of aircraft is it?
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, I cannot affirm, it is four bright, and it seems to me like landing lights.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet.
19:07:31 DSJ: Melbourne, this is Delta Sierra Juliet, the aircraft has just passed over me at least a thousand feet above.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, and it is a large aircraft, confirmed?
DSJ: Er-unknown, due to the speed it's travelling, is there any air force aircraft in the vicinity?
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, no known aircraft in the vicinity.
19:08:18 DSJ: Melbourne, it's approaching now from due east towards me.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet.
19:08:41 DSJ: (open microphone for two seconds.)
19:08:48 DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, it seems to me that he's playing some sort of game, he's flying over me two, three times at speeds I could not identify.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, what is your actual level?
DSJ: My level is four and a half thousand, four five zero zero.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet and you confirm you cannot identify the aircraft?
DSJ: Affirmative.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, stand by.
19:09:27 DSJ: Melbourne, Delta Sierra Juliet, it's not an aircraft it is (open microphone for two seconds).
19:09:42 FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, can you describe the – er – aircraft?
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, as it's flying past it's a long shape (open microphone for three seconds) cannot identify more than it has such speed (open microphone for three seconds). It's before me right now Melbourne.
19:10 FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger and how large would the – er – object be?
19:10:19 DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, Melbourne, it seems like it's chasing me. What I'm doing right now is orbiting and the thing is just orbiting on top of me also. It's got a green light [emphasis mine] and sort of metallic like, it's all shiny on the outside.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet
19:10:46 DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet (open microphone for three seconds) It's just vanished.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet.
19:11:00 DSJ: Melbourne, would you know what kind of aircraft I've got? Is it a military aircraft?
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, Confirm the – er - aircraft just vanished.
DSJ: Say again.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, is the aircraft still with you?
DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet; it's (open microphone for two seconds) now approaching from the south-west.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet
19:11:50 DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet, the engine is rough-idling. I've got it set at twenty three twenty-four and the thing is (coughing).
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet, roger, what are your intentions?
DSJ: My intentions are – ah – to go to King Island – ah – Melbourne. That strange aircraft is hovering on top of me again (open microphone for two seconds). It is hovering and (open microphone for one second) it's not an aircraft.
FS: Delta Sierra Juliet.
19:12:28 DSJ: Delta Sierra Juliet. Melbourne (open microphone for seventeen seconds)......

澳洲警方无数次大规模搜救，但未找到任何有关飞机和飞行员的踪迹。警方坦承该事件可能是前所未有的神秘现象。

《先驱太阳报》称，维多利亚UFO研究机构（The Victorian UFO Action group）此次发现的这名农民曾亲眼目睹30米的飞船盘旋在他的住宅上空，当时​​这架塞斯纳飞机紧靠在飞船的一侧，并且在漏油。

农夫甚至将飞机的注册号码记下来，涂写在他的拖拉机上，但是后来他绝口不再提起这件事，因为他告诉几个朋友竟遭到嘲笑。

该事件引发激烈的大辩论，最后在空中看到该飞机的首席研究员乔治．辛普森（George Simpson）说，如果这名农民还活着，可能有线索解开这个谜团。

辛普森提到，失踪的斐德列克是一名经验相当丰富的飞行员，如果是正常的飞行物，他应该能够辨识，但显然他也无法认出那是什么，这本身就极不正常。

该事件已被列入澳洲飞碟研究人员的X档案之中，9月6日，澳洲国内的主要研究人员准备在墨尔本召开全国会议继续探讨。