It's 4 AM on the most isolated highway in Australia. The Knowles family are driving toward a fresh start when they see a light on the road ahead.

Within minutes, they're fleeing at speeds approaching 200 kilometres per hour, but the glowing object matches them effortlessly. Then something lands on their car roof with a heavy metallic thud. Faye Knowles reaches up to touch it and what she feels defies description. Black ash fills the cabin. Their voices distort impossibly. The dogs go into a frenzy.

And then the car lifts off the road.

Six days before Australia's Bicentennial, the Knowles family encountered something on the Nullarbor Plain that police took seriously, scientists struggled to explain, and witnesses never forgot. Physical evidence was collected. Independent corroboration emerged. But nearly forty years later, we still don't know what happened that night.

Something real occurred on that desert highway. But what?

Sources:

• A.T. Brunt The Skeptic, 1989
• Keith Basterfield - UFO Research South Australia
• The Skeptic, Volume 8, No I (Autumn 1988)
• UFO Research Queensland - https://uforq.org/the-knowles-family-ufo-incident-1988/

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