The Last Words of the Pilot Who Vanished Over Bass Strait

A pilot's voice on the radio, calm, then not. He's describing something above him with four bright lights, moving in ways he can't explain, orbiting, playing games with his aircraft. His engine starts running rough. Then a strange metallic scraping sound, and the transmission goes dead. That was October 21st, 1978, over Bass Strait. Frederick Valentich was 20 years old. No wreckage was ever found. Nobody was ever recovered. Nearly fifty years later, the Australian government's own official investigation still lists the cause as undetermined, and the actual recording of his final words is still out there for anyone willing to listen to it themselves. This video traces the full case, what he said, what investigators believe really happened, and why one of the most documented disappearances in Australian history has never once been closed.

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