UFOs over the oval: The sighting school kids were told not to talk about

Please, tell us what it was."Watch The Westall UFO Mystery on Australian Story tonight at 8 (AEST) on ABCTV and ABC iview.What a scene it must have been: scores of kids and teachers, standing in the school grounds, all peering skywards, pointing, slack-jawed, marvelling.Even today, the witness accounts from former students are strikingly consistent What have we got to lie about?"Being able to tell their story to a non-judgemental listener was cathartic for them, Mr Ryan says, "like a relief valve being opened".One of the people he contacted was Claude Miller, one of the last surviving Westall teachers, who missed seeing the UFO because he was having a tea break before starting playground duty.But he saw the aftermath: the frenzy of the kids and teachers, the chaos, the confusion.Claude remembers bumping into his friend, science teacher Andrew Greenwood, as he walked back into the school, excited."The first words he said to me," Claude recalls, "was something like: 'Did you see it? Did you see it?'"Andrew told Claude that he'd seen a flying craft that accelerated at "unimaginable speeds vertically, disappeared from one spot, turned up in another spot, changed direction, dropped and faded to nothing, then appeared somewhere else".Like others that day on the oval, Andrew also saw conventional light aircraft in the sky, seemingly interacting with the objects