Revealed: Jets were ‘ready to intercept UFOs’

MIRAGE jets on alert at Williamtown RAAF to intercept UFOs in June 1983?

So reveals a recently declassified file of of UFO material put into the public domain recently by the National Archives of Australia and reported in yesterday’s Sun-Herald.

The file reveals that a pair of Mirages were readied to intercept UFOs believed to be traveling at speeds of between 1100km/h and 6500km/h at high altitude about 70 to 150 nautical miles north of Sydney.

The potential UFOs had been picked up on radar at Mascot airport.

The jets were placed on round-the-clock standby until the RAAF sent its experts to Sydney to investigate the radar blips.

As journalist Tim Barlass wrote yesterday, the RAAF compared the radar showing the blips with another in a ‘‘workshop across the corridor’’ and found the UFOs were generated by an interference pattern known as ‘‘running rabbits’’.