Case file · Sighting
Gawler white object
On 22 January 1954 three people at Gawler, South Australia, watched a white object pass overhead, followed shortly afterwards by an RAAF jet.
1954 CE · -34.60, 138.75 · status: account
The account
The report came during Australia's first big wave of saucer interest, the same year as the Goulburn Sea Fury radar-visual case, and was logged in the Department of Air files.
The sceptical view
An RAAF jet in the area at the same time suggests a conventional aircraft or a contrail-lit jet seen from a distance.