Case file · Sighting
Bass Strait 'bronze craft', 1942
A wartime airman, pseudonymously called 'Major Brennan', said a bronze, domed airfoil-shaped craft paced his aircraft east of the Tasman Peninsula before diving into the sea.
1942 CE · -43.05, 148.25 · status: claim
The account
The story first appeared in Harold T. Wilkins's Flying Saucers Uncensored (1955), thirteen years after the event; the witness said he never reported it for fear of being grounded. Later books repeat it with shifting dates (February 1942, summer 1942, even 1944) and dimensions.
The sceptical view
There is a single, anonymous, second-hand source with no wartime record. The ACUFO catalogue rates its reliability as low.