ALIEN HONEYCOMB the first solid evidence of UFOs JOHN PINKNEY is a screenwriter, playwright and national columnist. His original screenplay, Thirst, was produced in 1979 by the Australian International Film Corporation and won the Best Horror Film award at the Asian Film Festival. Another of his motion picture scripts, Needles, is in pre-production. Pinkney has written prize winning stage plays and hundreds of hours of TV drama. The latest of his logic books to be published is Think! (Macmillan). A UFO researcher since 1957, he conducted the first investigations into such internationally-celebrated cases as the Gill sightings in New Guinea. LEONARD RYZMAN completed his Bachelor of Econ- omics and Bachelor of Arts degrees at Australia’s Monash University. He also holds a Diploma of Education. Ryzman now works in personnel management. He has, since 1973, closely collaborated with John and Faith Pinkney in the field of UFO studies. ALIEN HONEYCOMB the first solid evidence of UFOs JOHN PINKNEY LEONARD RYZMAN Colour Photographs: Justin Oakley Pan Books Sydney and London First published 1980 by PAN BOOKS (Australia) Pty Limited, 1 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, © LEONARD RYZMAN and JOHN PINKNEY 1980. ISBN 0 330 27003 6. Designed by Judy Hungerford. Typeset by Pavilion Press Set, Sydney. Printed and bound in Australia by THE DOMINION PRESS. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. CONTENTS PREFACE 7 1 THE LOS ANGELES CONNECTION 9 2 VICTORIAN LANDINGS 15 3 A CURIOUS EXPLOSION 22 4 WHAT THE FARMERS FOUND 28 5 CIRCLES, WHERE NOTHING GROWS 31 6 THE CRAFT THAT CRASHED 48 7 A WELL OF STARS 52 8 THE CHESS ENCOUNTER 56 9 THE SPLINTER 59 10 . . . JUTTING LIKE A RED ROCK FROM SMOOTH SNOW 68 11 IT’S A LONG SHAPE . . . COMING FOR ME RIGHT NOW 71 12 THE PATTERNED SHEET WAS STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL . . . 86 13 THE PRECOCIOUS INVESTIGATOR 90 14 THE EXPLOSION SITE 92 15 CURIOUS CARGO 101 16 HONEYCOMB OF VARIED HUES 103 17 THE TOKYO CONNECTION 107 18 I FIND IT A LITTLE BIT FASCINATING 119 19 25 CELLS TO THE SQUARE INCH 130 20 I CANT IMAGINE WHO WOULD GO TO SUCH GREAT LENGTHS, OR FOR WHAT PURPOSE . . . 135 APPENDIX THE IDES OF OCTOBER 147 NOTES 151 5 PREFACE The UFO which exploded over a vast, desolate timber property in Queensland, Australia, scattered its intricate, eerily beautiful wreckage for several kilometres. Most of the pieces were collected by officers from the Royal Australian Air Force which, without public announcement, immediately despatched the material to the Pentagon laboratories for testing. But some of the wreckage was retrieved by private investi- gators—among them, the authors. This book chronicles our search for the smashed building blocks of what must have been “an aerial palace”. It reproduces the commentaries of eminent scientists, perplexed by material whose nature has defied their understanding; and summates the research project in the United States, which shows that the wreckage con- tains “unknowns”. The Queensland explosion has opened new vistas in aerial phenomenon research—chiefly because private citizens, for the first time, have managed to breach the iron wall of military secrecy that surrounds UFOs, to make fundamental new discoveries. But the work, our scientific associates believe, has only just begun. And the long, sad history of military coverups on UFOs convinces us that subsequent research should not be conducted on narrowly nationalistic lines. That is why, in the postscript to this book, we offer all the Queensland UFO pieces in our possession to the United Nations for further analysis. The Queensland explosion transcends the hardnosed, militaristic interests of the RAAF and the Pentagon. The gorgeous, hectically-colored wreckage retrieved from Green- bank promises to yield up scientific secrets that should be shared by all mankind. JOHN PINKNEY LEONARD RYZMAN 7