Basterfield discusses his investigations into the UFO phenonenon in Australia, and provides a catalogue and map of sightings around the nation. Rational and balanced, Basterfield makes every attempt to logically explain away the UFO reports whenever possible, nevertheless leaving us with a core of bizzare accounts which cannot be wrtten-off in conventional terms.
Basterfield reviews many cases involving police officers, from complaints of strange lights near Perth in Western Australia in 1984, and the UFO harassment of an ex-officer driving near Tasmania's Hatfield, to the sensational sighting by numerous officers including a Cheif Inspector near Rockbank which gained wide-spread media attention in 1983, as well as police investigations into civilian UFO accounts such as the famous Knowles family UFO inicident across Australia's remote Nullabor plains.
A cornerstone contribution to the Australian UFO saga, Basterfield lays down his cards, building the case that despite all efforts to explain away UFOs, a core of strange cases still refuse to go away, remaining unexplainable in conventional terms.