Bill
Chalker is easily the most recognised Ufologist in Australia.
Born in Grafton, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, in
1952, he was educated at the University of New England,
graduating with an Honours Science
Degree (B.Sc.
Hons.)
with majors in Chemistry and Mathematics.
Since
1975, he has worked in the food university as an industrial
chemist, laboratory manager and quality manager.
Bill
Chalker is one of Australia's leading UFO researchers
and has written extensively on the subject. He is a contributing
editor for the International
UFO Reporter, and in 1977, he was a major
contributor to the NSW
UFO INVESTIGATION CENTRE (UFOIC).
This
was the leading UFO research organisation in Australia
at the time.
He
was the Australian representative for the Aerial
Phenomena Research Organisation (APRO)
from 1978 to 1986 and NSW state representative for the
Mutual
UFO Network (MUFON)
from 1976 to 1993.
Bill
Chalker has undertaken extensive research and published
major papers on many topics including Australian
physical evidence, historical
Australian reports (pre 1947), the Royal
Australian Air Force (RAAF) and UFOs, Australian
"missing time" events and UFO
abduction experiences.
Over
the years, Bill has remained at the forefront of research
and investigation. In 1982, Bill Chalker was the first
civilian researcher to gain direct access to the previously
classified RAAF UFO files during several visits to the
Canberra headquarters of the Directorate of Air Force
Intelligence. He described his access in the following
way:
"Prior
to 1982, civilian UFO researchers only had a confused
and vague picture of clandestine official involvement
in Australia. In the face of the lethargy in the RAAF's
replies to serious enquiries, I stepped up my efforts
at diplomatically trying to get direct access to the RAAF
UFO files. It probably surprised me more than anybody
else when the RAAF finally agreed to permit me to examine
their files.
The
extent of access was unprecedented in the history of the
Australian UFO controversy. From the first of my visits
to the Russell Offices of the Department of Defence, in
Canberra, on January 11th, 1982 to my last in June, 1984,
I was able to scrutinise the extent of official UFO investigations
in Australia. For the first time a detailed "inside"
picture was revealed of RAAF investigations.
I
was able to undertake the first officially sanctioned
direct review of the Australian government's UFO files.
Over two and a half years, I was able to:
(1)
examine the majority of the extant UFO files held by the
Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) at the Directorate of
Air Force Intelligence (DAFI), Department of Defence,
Russell Offices, Canberra.
(2)
examine the entirety of the extant UFO files held by the
Department of Aviation at their Bureau of Air Safety Investigation
in Melbourne, Victoria.
The
review has provided a detailed understanding of official
involvement in Australia.
On
Monday morning, January 11th, 1982, I arrived at the Russell
Offices of the Department of Defence, in Canberra, to
undertake a review of the RAAF/Department of Defence UFO
files.
This
was the first time that a civilian researcher had been
afforded this sort of access. For almost thirty years,
the RAAF had been the official body invested with the
responsibility of investigating reports of UFOs or unusual
aerial sighting (UAS) reports in Australia and its territories.
Until then no clear and unambigious picture had emerged
about the role the RAAF played in the UFO controversy
in Australia.
Two
polarised positions had emerged. The RAAF was covering
up its high level involvement in an international "cover-up"
of UFO facts, perhaps in concert with the US Air Force.
Or, the RAAF was bureaucratically locked into a responsibility
it had long since decided was a waste of time, but contined
as a service to the general public."
Bill
Chalker has undertaken extensive investigations into claims
of UFO cover-ups by the military etc in Australia and
the roles played by various government agencies and individuals
in governmental, intelligence and military enquiries.
In
1985, in an article in OMEGA Science Digest, Bill Chalker
revealed the national security implications of a provocative
UFO report over the sensitive North West Cape facility
that took place on the same day the base was used for
issuing a full nuclear alert.
During
1993, he assisted in research for the popular TV programme
The Extraordinary
particularly in the segment featuring the famous radar
visual sighting of Naval pilot Shamus O'Farrell. In 1996,
his book on the Australia UFO experience, The
OZ Files: the Australian UFO story, was published.
Bill
Chalker also observed a "daylight disc" from
the University of New England campus at Armidale, New
South Wales. He describes the event in the following account:
Daylight
Disc Sighting. He also had experienced
the Angel
Hair phenomenon personally.
Bill's
science degree with majors in
Chemistry and Mathematics proved invaluable
in identifying physical traces at various known saucer
landing sites. One such famous case was known as the Tully
Saucer Nest in 1966. Bill has written dozens
of articles on UFO cases and continues to lead the way
for all of us.
Another
book was released in 2005, The
hair of the alien. Bill concentrated on alien
abduction and DNA evidence available. This is a compelling
read for those that want to know what proof exists.
Studies
and articles by Bill Chalker, archived by the Australian
UFO Research Network web page, are as follows:
1983
The
Min Min Light Revealed: Nature Unbound?....Part 1
The
Min Min Light Revealed: Nature Unbound?....Part 2
1989
Rosedale
Victoria : A Close Encounter
1993
Government
and UFOs
1996
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 1
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 2
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 3
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 4
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 5
UFOs
Sub Rosa Down Under: The Australian Military & Government
Role in the UFO Controversy....Pt 6
Australian
Aboriginal Culture and Possible UFO Connections
The
Ultimate Secret - Fact orion: The Australian Connection
UFO
Flaps
1997
Early
Australia Historical Encounters
The
1966 Tully Saucer "Nest": A Classic UFO Physical
Trace Case
Bizzare
UFO 'Light' Phenomena at Kiama
1998
A
Ufo Vision 1868
The
Bolanai Visitants of 1959
The
Newry Thing
UFO
Crash/Retrieval Stories: The Australian Experience
The
"Sea Fury Incident": August 31, 1954, Nowra,
Australia
Australian
Ufology
Australian
UFO Physical Trace Cases - A Review
A
Catalogue of Australian Physical Trace Cases
1999
Focusing
on the Preservation of Australian Ufo History
2000
Air
Marshall Sir George Jones and the UFO
2001
The
Drury UFO Film Affair....Part 1
The
Drury UFO Film Affair....Part 2
A
Proven Focused DNA Technique for Assessing Claims of Alien
Abduction
The
World's first DNA PCR investigation of Biological Evidence
from an Alien Abduction
'New
Directions in Alleged Alien Abduction Investigation and
Research'
The
Gundah Mackay Abduction Milieu
2002
Andrew
Tomas: Australian UFO Pioneer (1906-2001)
2005
Flying
Saucery, Cosmic Bethlehem, and Midwich Cuckoos: The Cynthia
Appleton Contacts (1957-1959)
Hair
of the Alien The DNA Paradigm
The
UFO Experience in China: A report by Bill Chalker
2006
The
Australasian UFOlogist (1996 2006): A Decade of
Revealing the "UFO Vision"
Australian
UFO History Wars: Lessons and Approaches to the Australian
UFO Controversy
Sources:
http://www.vufoa.com/WEBPROTECT-australianufologists.htm
http://www.auforn.com/Bcintro.htm
Strange
Evidence.pdf