The Westall UFO

Students at two Westall schools in Clayton South, Melbourne, said that on April 6, 1966, a metallic object hovered over them and dropped behind trees. In 2013 the local council approved a flying-saucer playground near the spot.

According to The Age in 2011, students of Westall High School and of Westall State School said that on April 6, 1966, a shiny metal flying object hung above them and then sank out of view behind a line of trees. Skeptoid's Brian Dunning describes the ground: flat, low land in a Melbourne suburb, about 10 kilometres from the coast, with the Grange Reserve of trees and scrub just south of the school. The line of trees behind which the object went down can still be seen.

The press coverage is itself disputed. A researcher speaking on ABC's Australian Story in 2026 said only the Dandenong Journal reported the event. Its second article interviewed a couple of the children and the science teacher, Andrew Greenwood, who then stayed silent in public until James Fox and others persuaded him to go on camera, without showing his face. Wikipedia, however, quotes a news item from the day after, headed "Object Perhaps Balloon", which said hundreds of children and several teachers at Westall School had watched the object at morning break, and that a balloon the Weather Bureau sent up at Laverton at 8:30 am could have drifted over on a westerly wind.

Matthew Sharpe of Deakin University, writing in The Conversation in 2016, says witnesses describe the object leaving a ring of flattened, partly burnt grass. In 2013 Kingston City council approved a playground shaped like a flying saucer at the Grange, near the reported landing spot, in memory of the event.