UFO sighting at the Westall School, 1966 ~ eyewitness Andrew Greenwood interviewed by James McDonald

UFO researcher James E. McDonald interviews science teacher Andrew Greenwood on witnessing the Westall School UFO sighting. Date interview: 28 June 1967Show more

Location of UFO sighting: Westall High School, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Date of sighting: April 6, 1966

Photo (left): Andrew Greennwood /
(right): James E. McDonald

"Greenwood said the incident started when a female student raced into his class saying, ‘Flying saucer outside.’ She left the room, and then 5-10 minutes later it was morning recess, so Greenwood went outside to look for himself.
At the time, the school had 500 to 600 students and more than half of them were on the school oval beside the school buildings.
The object was to the south of the school, and airborne at all times. It was a grey colour against a blue- grey sky. At first, Greenwood could not see the object due to the lack of contrast against the sky, students pointed it out to him. It appeared to be two-thirds the length of a Cessna aircraft. It was cigar shaped, elliptical and at times, ‘Bulged’ in the middle; it changed shape. He estimated that the electricity pylons visible in the distance were 300 metres away. From this, he estimated that the object was one kilometre at its furthest and 500 metres at its closest approach.
Describing the object motions Greenwood said that it hovered at times. It would accelerate and disappear from sight, then someone would see it in another part of the sky. The object moved through an arc of perhaps 30 degrees, came towards them, at times, and sometimes went up and down. In summary, it hovered, moved slowly, and at times, fast.
When he first sighted the object, it was on its own. Then he saw one aircraft approach the object, then it moved to another part of the sky very rapidly, and the aircraft followed. It seemed to be playing ‘cat and mouse’ with the plane. Altogether there were five aircraft visible, Moorabbin Airport later said there were no aircraft in the vicinity. The Airport is about eight kilometres away. If you ever go to the Airport there are always aircraft in air.
At one stage the object disappeared behind a row of tall pine trees that were located about 600 metres away. Later, Greenwood and another staff member, Claude Miller, went over to the trees but saw nothing unusual.
Estimating the duration of the event, Greenwood said that the girls at the physical education class on the oval saw it 10 minutes before he did. He then watched it for about 15 minutes. Therefore, the total duration of the sighting had been about 25 minutes.
The object was a silvery colour against the sky. He lost sight of it as it vanished by accelerating away and was lost from sight. The aircraft were still there at this point. Asked about the ratio of the object’s length to width, Greenwood estimated a ratio of 4 or 5:1. Greenwood did not hear any noises that he associated with the object.
Greenwood saw other objects go over the school fence while he watched this object. Asked about the time of the event Greenwood said it was morning recess when he saw it. He calculated the time at 9 am plus two forty-minute-long teaching periods which would make the start of his observation as about 10.20 am. However, he then said 10.15am. Recess was 15 minutes long.
Asked who else saw the object, he said, ‘The physical education teacher Jeanette Muir and the senior English teacher Claude Miller [Muir?], who saw it last.’ The Headmaster of the school was Frank Sambleble. The Headmaster spoke to the students at the assemble on 6 April 1966 about this incident.
The Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) officers didn’t come to the school for about two to three days. The Headmaster told Greenwood that a RAAF officer came to the school and that he wouldn’t let the RAAF office interview Greenwood as he was teaching. Greenwood understood that the RAAF officer was only in the Headmaster’s room for a few minutes.
At the time of this interview Greenwood was teaching science at, Haileybury College. The age of the Westall High School students was 11 to 16 years.
Moorabbin Airport was contacted by the Dandenong Journal. The Journal interviewed dozens of people in the area but found no one who had seen the object. If it wasn’t pointed out to you, you may not have been able to see the object.
Greenwood closed by saying, ‘If people try and hide things, I want to find out more about them, it must be my perverse nature.’"

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