Bass Straight aviation UFO report — 1944

1944-Bass Strait description Mr T. R. H. Royal was piloting a Beaufort bomber over Bass Strait when a dark "shadow" appeared alongside and kept pace for eighteen to twenty minutes. The object seemed to have a flickering light, and belched flames from its rear end. It maintained a distance of thirty to fifty meters from the aircraft before accelerating away. During the event all radio and direction finding equipment is said to have malfunctioned. ( effects on plane (electromagnetic effects, engine failed, ...etc) (The Australian Saucer Record, 1957. 3(1):16.)