Ross Coulthart: Adding Bunk to Ufology

Bryce Zabel released on his YouTube channel Stellar Productions the video of his and Ross Coulthart's talk at Contact in the Desert (June 2025). There was nothing stellar about their retelling of the Westall case. Coulthart called this 1966 Australian school sighting "one of the foundation myths of Ross Coulthart’s conversion to the fact that the UFO phenomenon is real" [Howard Hughes The Unexplained, Mar 22, 2022] yet he doesn't seem too familiar with it.

Fake facts

Coulthart made several exaggerations and errors in discussing Westall. Let's look at them one by one, to demonstrate how he added bunk to this story - bunk that the audience probably took as facts of the case.

1. Invent a new testimony

Coulthart: "There's a science teacher called Andrew Greenwood standing with them watching the kids as they play and he looks up along with all the other kids and they all start screaming because there are either two or perhaps three elliptical metal discs hovering in the air just above the kids and Andrew is adamant that what he saw were disc-shaped objects."

As anyone with even a passing interest in this case knows, Greenwood was inside teaching his science class when a student rushed in yelling about a flying saucer. ​

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