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UFO case file · UFO-20497

Adelaide, South Aust being encounter — April 21, 1992

CE3Australia1992-04-21

ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUST, South Australia, Australia

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Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Adelaide, South Aust being encounter — April 21, 1992
Illustrative reconstruction • Watchers Project — Adelaide, South Aust being encounter — April 21, 1992

Case description

A brief Australian sighting register places this report at Largs Bay, on Adelaide’s coast, on April 21, 1992, at 8:30 p.m. The entry describes one stationary, white, triangle-classified object observed for about five minutes, with red and white lights. This is a more precise locality than the imported Adelaide heading, but the surviving register does not provide a detailed witness interview. The accompanying first-person note says that immediately afterward a man came and went without the observer really seeing him. Hatch paraphrases this as a possibly semi-invisible man and lists two observers at a beach. That interpretation goes beyond establishing an ordinary passerby’s visibility, much less demonstrating physical transparency, a nonhuman identity or emergence from the aerial object. No secure facial features, clothing, conversation or interaction are preserved. The distinction matters because a light sighting followed by an unclear impression of a person is not a demonstrated occupant encounter. Neither a solid triangular hull nor a connection between the two observations is securely established. The illustration therefore shows representative coastal observers, distant red and white lights in a triangular arrangement and one faint, unresolved passing human form. It is labelled as a sequence composite with an uncertain association, leaving the observer count and precise appearance provisional.

Recorded details

Local time
20:30
Craft description
Craft / Vehicle, Light Only
Entity description
Unknown
Coordinate precision
SOURCE_APPROXIMATE
Date precision
EXACT_DAY

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