Australia Westall School Mass Sighting 1966

On April 6, 1966, during morning recess at Westall High School and Westall State School in Melbourne's southeastern suburbs, over 300 students and teachers observed a silver-grey disc-shaped craft descend through overcast skies and land in the Grange Reserve paddock adjacent to the school grounds. Multiple students ran toward the craft. As students approached, the disc ascended and departed at high speed to the northwest. Several witnesses reported seeing five light aircraft following the craft. RAAF and Victoria Police arrived at the school within hours. Students and teachers reported that school staff instructed them not to discuss what they had seen, and some described a man in a dark suit visiting the school. Physical evidence at the landing site included a circular depression in the paddock grass with scorched vegetation. The Westall event is Australia's most extensively documented multi-witness UAP encounter involving a school population.