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Listen to the actual audio of Frederick Valentich’s last transmission


**TLDR;** Frederick Valentich’s last transmission leaked in a recording of a recording. I cleaned it up, listen to it here: [https://youtu.be/Dg-RfvtyFDY?t=484](https://youtu.be/Dg-RfvtyFDY?t=484)

A while back I happened to stumble across a link to a press conference of some kind. In it, a man (Richard Haines) is presenting the details of the Valentich case to a group. He very clearly can be heard saying that he should not have the audio he’s about to play for them. Wouldn’t you know, he plays the original ATC recording of the Frederick Valentich disappearance. There is a lot of background noise and since it’s a recording of a recording, very hard to hear. I extracted the individual parts as it’s spread across a half hour of him starting and stopping the recording. The case was very intriguing to me so I made a whole 20-minute video on it with information from the case files. If you want a refresher or are unfamiliar with the case, give it a watch! The leaked audio can be found here: [https://audiomack.com/jackfrost71/song/frederick-valentich-atc-audio-presented-by-richard-haines](https://audiomack.com/jackfrost71/song/frederick-valentich-atc-audio-presented-by-richard-haines)

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  2. StillChillTrill on

    Thanks for posting this OP! This case always make me feel sad for the pilot. Regardless of what happened, hearing him describing what he’s seeing and knowing he was never found… How awful.

  3. josemanden on

    The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich per [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich)

    >Frederick Valentich was an Australian pilot who disappeared while on a 125-nautical-mile (232 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft, registered VH-DSJ, over Bass Strait. On the evening of Saturday 21 October 1978, twenty-year-old Valentich informed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him and that his engine had begun running roughly, before finally reporting: “It’s **not an aircraft**.”

  4. bevilthompson on

    This is an interesting case to me. On one hand the audio is pretty compelling and it seems a fairly short flight, on a relatively clear night, for anything to have gone wrong enough to cause a crash. The lack of any wreckage or debris being found would seem to support the abduction explanation. On the other hand, he was a relatively inexperienced pilot, who had been reprimanded for multiple infractions including wandering into restricted air space. He also was only allowed to fly at night under clear conditions. I’m definitely on the fence about this one.

  6. RaeDiesel on

    I believe this was on Unidentified or a similar show I watched recently. They had a story about a farmer who was outside and heard this screeching and I believe it blocked out the sun as it was over him. He looked up and said he saw a plane stuck inside of some craft and the propellars were scraping the side of it. He took down the tail number and it was the missing plane. Is this the same incident?

  7. SabineRitter on

    Haines is the GOAT 🐐

    http://www.nicap.org/onlinebooks.htm bottom book is a PDF link to his book on this case “the Melbourne episode”

    https://lapildoradelsaber.com/en/encyclopedia/mystery/frederick-valentich-ufo-encounter/ transcript and write-up here…. bonus: did Valentich reappear on Tenerife in the 80s? 🧐

    https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/a-forgotten-ufo-story-that-the-officals-and-experts-fall-silent-with.198880/ couple original documents here plus bonus speculation about his line of work

    http://theozfiles.blogspot.com/2013/10/strange-days-strange-tales-valentich.html?m=1 farmer sees ufo with a Cessna stuck to it:

    >>most unusual thing was that he saw the massive object had a Cessna stuck to the outside of it – “the whole aircraft.”  It was flat up against the side of the object with it’s tail hanging down.  Laurie said he was not sure whether the farmer said there was engine oil running down the outside of the Cessna but he could clearly see the plane’s registration markings.

    >>He found a nail and scratched the plane’s registration number into the paint of his tractor.  

    Reports in my notes from tenerife

    https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/130f03f/in_the_tenerife_sky_330_26_th_april/ video, daytime sky, contemporaneous report, tenerife Canary Islands 🇮🇨, single light object, irregular blocky shape

    https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/10xdbae/i_had_a_weird_sighting_on_a_commercial_flight/ sighting description, contemporaneous report, from airplane, over tenerife, single dark object, stationary, pacing plane, very dark black, vaguely cigar shaped

  8. CARNIesada6 on

    Why abduct this dude that’s literally flying a plane and can presently communicate with others, instead of abducting good ol’ Phil who lives by himself in the middle of nowhere with terrible cell phone service?

  10. Smooth-Evidence-3970 on

    FUCKKKK dude I remember this case. I remember seeing a vid by an Australian tv channel network covering this case on YouTube. At the end of it, it left me wanting more and wondering just what the HECK happened to this guy? It was this case of the few that left me shook and wondering more and more as a kid

  12. ZeppelinPage on

    The podcast Astonishing Legends does an episode about Valentich and I recommend it. A lot of the information on Wikipedia is actually incorrect and Astonishing Legends had access to the actual Australian case file on his disappearance and read it front to back. Very insightful.

  13. scalebirds on

    What can we learn from hearing the metallic noise? To have a recording we can analyze now seems like a big step. Figure out what the noise could be re: the airplane’s usual, or crashing, sounds.

  18. deadfileman on

    Hm, if I remember correctly, Richard Haines also found a family of witnesses who’d been camping on a beach who saw a plane like Valentich’s flying low with a large green lit object directly above it around the same time of his last communication. It then passed out of sight. Take it for what it’s worth. Another piece of a strange puzzle.

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