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The Westall UFO

The Westall UFO is a world famous UFO sighting, that happened in Melbourne in 1966. It is one of history's most famous sightings, with more than 100 witnesses seeing a mysterious, disc shaped object in the sky in broad daylight.

A wrote a blog post about it, which you can read here if you are interested. One thing that frustrated me at the time was a lack of images: there are no photos of this event, and people have barely even tried to recreate it artistically. 

So just a short post today, as AI finally enabled me to create and add an image, to this old article. I tried all four of my regular tools, they all delievered roughly the same. 

ChatGPT was, as is often the case, the winner.

Westall UFO


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