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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Crisnel Longino

RAAF UFO Files Reveal Object Racing 3,600mph Over Nuclear Test Range Before Vanishing Into Upper Atmosphere

Newly examined records preserved in Australia's National Archives confirm that the Royal Australian Air Force documented the incident and even considered the possibility that the object's behaviour was 'suggestive of extraterrestrial origin.' (Credit: Pinterest)

In the dry desert skies of South Australia in 1954, military observers watched something they could not explain. During a test flight at the Woomera weapons range, radar operators and trained personnel tracked a mysterious circular object hovering above the path of a Canberra bomber.

Moments later the object accelerated at an astonishing speed of roughly 3,600 miles per hour before climbing rapidly into the upper atmosphere and disappearing.

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