Website note: This confidential two-page report details sightings on 15 July 1960 of an unidentified flying object (UFO) near Wewak, a nuclear weapons testing range some 24 kilometres from Maralinga Village, South Australia. The report was written on 24 July 1960 by security officer JJA Hanlon, and originally formed part of a Department of Supply file on the Weapons Research Establishment (WRE) in South Australia.
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This document outlines the comprehensive investigation into reports of UFO sightings in the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), where in 1959–63 more than 40 top-secret nuclear weapons tests, code-named Vixen, were conducted under tight security. The Wewak site and nearby Taranaki mentioned in the report are situated in the 270,000-square-kilometre WPA, which includes the Maralinga and Emu Field testing sites:
There were a number of reasons for the thoroughness of the investigations – control of unwelcome public interest, national security and scientific curiosity. Several dozen witnesses were interviewed for a number of reports associated with the
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