In October 1978, an Australian private pilot named Frederick Valentich took off on what should have been a one hour flight to nearby King Island. But 40 minutes into his flight, Valentich radioed into ground control telling them he was being pursued by a UFO. Minutes later, Frederick Valentich vanished without a trace. Patreon: theconspiratorspodcast YouTube: @darkchronicles42 Notes: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/what-were-mysterious-foo-fighters-sighted-ww2-night-flyers-180959847/ https://skepticalinquirer.org/2013/11/the-valentich-disappearance-another-ufo-cold-case-solved/ https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/ufos/australia/B1497_V116-783-1047_10491375.pdf https://unsolved.com/gallery/ufo-disappearance/ https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/farmer-may-hold-ufo-clue-to-36year-valentich-plane-mystery/news-story/5d495b78d705f6d2efdcd8d8a4a7797e https://allthatsinteresting.com/frederick-valentich https://www.ranker.com/list/frederick-valentich-ufo-disappearance-facts/linda-meyers https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/truth-was-out-there-after-all/news-story/2973bd131c27da0a31f4a7b8eba643fe https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/ufo-suspicions-still-cloud-disappearance-of-frederick-valentich/news-story/238397f0c2734c8b91cf4b96ae497bc5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices