Australia · 20 January 1988

Eyre Highway near Mundrabilla, 1988

Reported

Four people ran into a police station on the Nullarbor at dawn saying something had picked their car up off the road, and a forensic officer swabbed the roof the same day.

Where

Eyre Highway near Mundrabilla, Nullarbor Plain

When

20 January 1988

Who reported it

4 family members plus two truck drivers on the same road

Entities described

None reported

Handled as

UNVERIFIED

Evidence class

NON-OFFICIAL

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

UNKNOWN

No document is attached yet. The retrieval is open work.

What is not settled

The physical evidence collapsed on analysis: half the dust sample was ordinary clay and salt, and the black dust on the vehicle was identified as brake dust. The investigation was carried out by a civilian group, not an agency; the truck drivers corroborate lights, not the lifting of the car.

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