Incident at Mundrabilla - Australia
Early on the morning of January 20th, 1988 Mrs. Faye Knowles and three of her sons were all driving along the deserted Eyre Highway right outside of Mundrabilla, in the sands of the south - western Australian desert. As they rode, they noticed a very bright white light in the sky ahead of them, moving in a zig-zag fashion, darting back and forth very quickly. The light, which they described as being shaped like an eggcup, seemed to be following a car far in the distance in front of them, when suddenly to the horror of the family, it turned and flew straight at them. They lost sight of the object as it flew over them, but suddenly their car began to shake violently. Faye's son Sean, who was driving, floored the vehicle and drove it as fast as it would go. Mrs. Knowles lowered the window and reached up on to the roof of the car.
Horrified, she felt something "like a rubber suction pad" up there. They all rolled up their windows immedietely, and even so the car began to fill up with a black powdery dust. At this point, the travellers were confused about what happened next, but all agreed that at some time the car was lifted into the air and dropped, blowing out the right rear tire. All of their voices seemed to become slow and drawn out, and strangely distorted. Sean slammed on the brakes when the cars tire blew out, and the family ran for their lives into the scrub like bushes alongside the highway. They hid until the object disappeared, then came out and changed the tire and resumed their journey. They came to a roadhouse and told their story.
In Australia the incident caused a sensation. Everyone had an explanation to offer, many as implausible as the Knowles's story itself, such as the family had been fooled by the sun. However, another driver of the highway that night came forward and said he had seen the zig zagging light as well as a crew of a fishing vessel that had been just off the coast in the Great Australian Bight. The black dust was extensively analyzed by several laboratories, none of whom could agree on what the dust was. One said it was brake dust, while another said it was pipe insulation. It was also investigated to see if they had been exposed to radiation as Mrs. Knowles arm had become swollen, the one that had touched the strange object. No traces of radiation were ever found, and the incident remains a mystery to this day.
