 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 factsCoulthart 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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As part of my research into the PR Disaster Hypothesis for the Westall school sighting in 1966, in Dec 2022 I corresponded with Steven Thorn, the pseudonymous author of a memoir about the HIBAL project whose book I cited on my Westall pages. He worked at Mildura from 1963 for four years and wrote the book around 2018 (published 2021).
Some of Steven's memories in 2022 contradicted what he'd written about a few years earlier. He flew on the tracking plane for HIBAL missions and did not recall ever going further south than Charlton VIC (250km/160mi from Mildura), despite evidence of one mission reaching Bendigo (another 100km/60mi further southeast) and in his own book a mission that reached Salt Creek in SA (315km/190mi southwest). And he "did not recall any special NASA flights", only piggybacking by Adelaide University, despite describing special NASA piggyback missions in his book. I mention these examples only to show that memory is fallible. Steven told me the crew was "sworn to secrecy" regarding the HIBAL missions, but that there was chatter in the tearoom. Over the past few weeks I've added two sections to the website, covering the Ariel and Westall school sightings.
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