#alien encounters

she really truly honestly sincerely LOVES aliens..... and i love her for that because me too twin

Alien art by the late Ken Bakeman, an artist, craftsman and self proclaimed alien abductee who drew and wrote extensively about alien encounters.

You can read more about Bakeman and his life here, in a blog post by a former friend and colleague. It's a fascinating and tragic look at the life of a talented yet haunted man. If you've ever had a "My Pet Slug" figurine from the 80s, that was also Ken's work!

THE PACIFIC ULTROBODY INVASION Australia’s Forgotten 1947 UFO Wave — and the True Beginning of Modern Ufology When people speak of the birth of modern ufology, the conversation almost always begins with Kenneth Arnold’s June 24, 1947 sighting over Mount Rainier. That moment gave the world the term “flying saucer” and ignited a cultural wildfire. But history has a habit of hiding its first sparks. Months before Arnold ever glimpsed his nine shimmering objects, something equally strange — and arguably more mysterious — unfolded in the skies of rural Australia.

This is the story of the Pacific Ultrobody Invasion, a forgotten prelude to modern UFO history.

Australia, February 1947 — A Quiet Sky Begins to Stir On February 6, 1947, in the small farming town of Lock, South Australia, Mr. Flavel was returning from feeding his animals when something unusual caught his eye. Five shapes emerged on the horizon — oblong, pointed at both ends, wrapped in a grayish vapor. They moved silently, gliding from northwest to southeast, casting long shadows across the ground.

Startled, he called for his wife. She arrived skeptical, but the sight left her speechless. These were not birds, not clouds, not aircraft. They were objects — real, structured, and moving with deliberate purpose.

Two hours later, Port Augusta, 200 kilometers away, reported the same phenomenon.

Five Objects, One Formation — Witnessed by Railway Workers Near the railway line, three workers looked up to see five light‑colored, egg‑shaped craft flying in formation. One witness, a former member of the Royal Australian Air Force, immediately dismissed the idea of conventional planes. The objects were:

Silent

Fast

Ovoid/oblong

As large as a locomotive

Moving in coordinated formation

These were not meteorites. Not balloons. Not birds. And crucially, Woomera Test Range — later Australia’s missile testing hub — was not yet operational. No known military craft could account for what they saw.

Before “Flying Saucers” Existed What makes these sightings uniquely compelling is their timing.

In early 1947:

The term “flying saucer” did not exist.

UFOs were not part of global pop culture.

There was no Cold War sci‑fi panic.

Witnesses had no template for describing “alien craft.”

These Australians were reporting what they saw, unfiltered by mythology or media influence. Their descriptions — oblong, egg‑shaped, silent, fast — would later appear in countless sightings worldwide.

Theories… and Their Failures Explanations at the time ranged from the mundane to the imaginative:

Migratory birds

Hot‑air balloons

Wind‑suspended clouds

Experimental aircraft

Meteorites or astronomical events

But each theory collapsed under scrutiny:

No significant wind

No sound

High speed

Coordinated formation

Consistent shape across multiple sightings

The objects remained — in the purest sense — unidentified flying objects.

A Shape That Echoes Across Decades The oblong, egg‑like form described in South Australia reappears in later global cases. One striking parallel comes from Wisconsin, where a witness reported a massive, metallic, egg-shaped craft hovering above his car, disabling the engine and lights before shooting away at impossible speed.

Different continents. Different decades. Same morphology.

Coincidence — or continuity?

Rewriting the Origin Story of Modern Ufology If Kenneth Arnold’s sighting was the public ignition of modern UFO culture, then the events in South Australia were its quiet prenatal heartbeat.

They occurred:

Four months earlier

Across multiple towns

With multiple independent witnesses

Without cultural contamination

With object descriptions that match later global patterns

In other words: Modern ufology may not have begun in the American Pacific Northwest — but in the Australian outback.

A forgotten chapter. A ripple before the wave. A mystery still unsolved.

The Pacific Ultrobody Invasion — A Name for the Forgotten Dawn “Pacific Ultrobody Invasion” is not a historical term — it’s a mythic frame that captures what the archives hint at: a cluster of unexplained aerial phenomena emerging from the Pacific sphere months before the world had language for them.

It marks a moment when the sky briefly opened, when something unknown crossed into human perception, and when history quietly looked away.

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