The Pilot Who Vanished Chasing a UFO: The Frederick Valentich Mystery
On the evening of October 21, 1978, 20-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich took off from Melbourne’s Moorabbin Airport in a small Cessna 182L aircraft, bound for King Island across the Bass Strait. His flight should have taken about an hour. Instead, at 7:12 PM, Valentich radioed air traffic control in Melbourne with an urgent message: an … Read more