The Valentich Disappearance
An unusual disappearance of a 20-year-old pilot happened on October 21, 1978, a Saturday. Frederick Valentich was on a 125-mile training flight aboard a Cessna 182L aircraft when he and the said aircraft disappeared, without a trace.
A known UFO enthusiast, Valentich had approximately 150 flying hours and had class 4 instrument training, allowing him to fly during night time.
Before the ‘disappearance’, Valentich was flying a light airplane over the Bass Strait. He was heading southwest for King Island. It was around 
6:43 – 7:00 PM. He thought there was another aircraft passing over him and radioed controller Steve Robey of the Melbourne Air Service.
Valentich asked Robey if there is any traffic below him at five thousand feet, which Robey answered with ‘No known traffic.’ Valentich said afterwards that a large aircraft seem to below him at five thousand feet. The air traffic controller asked which type of aircraft it is, and the young pilot answered that he cannot affirm, describing the unknown aircraft to have four bright lights that looked like landing lights and that the aircraft just flew 1,000 feet above him. The pilot couldn’t confirm if it is a large aircraft due to its very high speed.
Valentich later stated that he was at 4,500 feet and still cannot identify what aircraft he was seeing. He described it again as ‘a long shape’ and it is right before him at that moment. It was metallic, he said, and shiny on the outside.
Valentich told the air traffic controller that the aircraft just vanished and saw it again approaching him from the southwest. Among the last words he radioed to Robey was ‘it was hovering’ and it’s not an aircraft.
After the young pilot radioed ‘It is not an aircraft’, the transmission was interrupted by metallic, scraping sounds and unidentified noise and then the contact was lost
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