1975: March UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

The March 1975 UFO sightings represent a pivot point in the mid-70s wave, shifting from high-altitude tracking to low-level structural observations. This month is characterized by a specific focus on industrial transit corridors and rural farmland, where witnesses reported objects that appeared to be performing “low-slow” sweeps of the terrain.

As we build out the 1975 global archive, March stands out for the “Moe, Australia” incident, which remains one of the most compelling physical-effect cases of the decade. This month provides the technical foundation for understanding the “vibration-induction” effects that UAPs exert on terrestrial materials.

Date: Spring 1975
Location: Near Ohio, Michigan border (exact location not given)
Time: unknown
Summary: An air force officer told Bette Shilling that he had seen a coded message reporting a flying saucer crash. According to the information, two humanoids were recovered dead and a third was still alive. No other information.
Source: Kevin D Randle, History of UFO Crashes

Date: Spring 1975
Location: Near Henderson Texas
Time: daytime
Summary: A farmer riding his tractor on his way to a field watched a black unmarked helicopter fly over him at very high speed. The witness did not see anybody at the controls. Later on that date he found the remains of a mutilated cow on the ground. A few days later as he drove his pickup truck to collect some baled hay, he heard a dog barking, as he drove over a rise he then spotted a black creature coming out of a nearby pine grove. The creature was man-shaped and had what appeared to be large wings. A black helicopter suddenly appeared overhead and the creature flew straight up into the copter and went inside it. Moments later the helicopter left.
Source: Jerome Clark, Saga 1976 UFO Annual

Date: Spring of 1975
Location:  Kansas
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Summary:  One evening in the Spring of 1975, my girlfriend and I were driving through the Kansas countryside. After crossing a cement bridge that spanned a river, we pulled into a farmer’s access road and parked at the edge of a field alongside a bend in the river with the car pointing east. Not long after we stopped we noticed a strange light that suddenly approached our location in a quick “blur”. Suddenly, hovering above the tress was a dark object, rectangular in shape with on red & one green running light positioned together on the lower part of the craft at its center. We stared in amazement and couldn’t take our eyes off the object. After 5 minutes or so, we noticed the craft’s position had moved to the right. It seemed to move in a very slow motion to the other side of the river. After another 5 minutes I decided to drive away from the area. As we turned onto the county road and subsequently onto the cement bridge we saw that the craft had returned to its original position, above us and slightly back from the bridge. I stopped again and got out to look at the craft. The object was about 20-25 ft. wide and now I noticed a large rectangular glass window, or what appeared to be glass, running across the middle third of its front. Standing inside to the left side looking down on us were two beings, which I could see only from the waist up but could tell that theses beings were about 4 ft tall, with abnormally large heads and large black eyes. The eyes seemed devoid of emotion and their skin was pure white, like the moon, the texture resembling that of an albino salamander. Their eyes ran almost north/south with their heads. The craft hovered silently the whole time. After about a minute of eye contact with the humanoids I got back into the care and rapidly drove away from the area. We could still see the craft hovering where we had left it. My girlfriend and I eventually married and still live very near to the location where we witnessed this craft. Sometimes, we both get an urge to return to the spot and just sit there and talk about our shared experience, kind of hoping these beings would stop by. – JJ
Source:  phantomsandmonsters.com

Date: Spring 1975
Location: Ashby, Massachusetts
Time:  afternoon
Summary: Jane Frances T Woodruff (involved in a previous encounter) and a friend saw a group of elfin-like creatures no more than five inches tall staring curiously at them. In a field of blue wildflowers they both saw hundreds of tiny fairies leaping from flower to flower in an exquisite dance. Both saw exactly the same thing.
Source:  Janet Bord, Fairies, Real Encounters with The Little People

Date: Spring 1975
Location: Near San Juan Puerto Rico
Time: evening
Summary: The barking of her dogs in the backyard alerted the witness who lived in a house with a large garden in the back. Looking out the back door into the garden she noticed that the dogs were barking at a large ape-like creature that had climbed on top of a tall palm tree in the center of the garden. The creature stared at the witness with a pair of blazing red eyes. Moments later it seemed to become smaller and assume a bright spherical form, when the change was complete the creature, now resembling a luminous sphere the size of a basketball rose slowly and disappeared into the sky.
Source: Salvador Freixedo, La Religion entre la Parapsicologia y Los Ovnis

Date: Spring 1975
Location: Near New Cambria, Kansas
Time: 1900
Summary: A young teenage couple was driving to the country and right after crossing a cement bridge that spanned a river they pulled into a farmer’s access road and parked at the edge of a field alongside a bend in the river with the car pointing east. Soon the pair noticed a strange light that suddenly approached their location in a kind of “blur” or warp speed mode. Suddenly hovering a treetop level was a dark object, rectangular in shape with on red & one green running light positioned together on the lower part of the craft at its center. They stared in amazement and after about 5 minutes they noticed the craft’s position had moved to the right. It seemed to move in a very slow motion to the other side of the river. After about 5 minutes the witnesses decided to drive away from the area. As they turned onto the county road and subsequently onto the cement bridge they saw that the craft had returned to its original position, above them and slightly back from the bridge. They stopped their vehicle and got out to look at the craft. The craft was about 20-25 ft wide and this time they saw a large rectangular glass window, or what appeared to be glass, running across the middle third of its front. Standing inside to the left side looking down at the witnesses were two beings, which the witnesses could see only from the waist up but could tell that they were about 4 ft tall, with abnormally large upper heads and large black eyes. The eyes seemed devoid of emotion and their skin was pure white, like the moon, the texture resembling that of an albino salamander, their eyes ran almost north/south with their heads. The craft hovered silently the whole time. After about a minute of eye contact with the humanoids the witnesses re-entered their vehicles and rapidly drove away from the area. They could still see the craft hovering where they had left it.
Source: NUFORC

Date: Spring  1975
Location:  Chilca Peru
Time:  night
Summary:  A group of persons that had gathered in a desert area in the hope of making contact with UFO’s, suddenly noticed a very tall human like figure standing on a nearby sand dune. The being stood staring at the group. It was described as almost eight-foot tall, heavy set and with shoulder length hair. After a few moments it walked behind the sand dune and disappeared.
Source:   J J Benitez, 100,000 Kilometros Detras los Ovnis

Date: Spring 1975
Location:  San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time: late night
Summary: Two men, 22-year old Daniel Pignalberi and 17-year Eduardo Ramos were out camping and fishing in an isolated area next to the Areco River. After a fishing expedition they walked back to their campsite. As they approached the area they spotted two man-like figures at the site, one was standing, while the other appeared to be bending down looking at the campfire. Thinking that the strangers were thieves the men ran towards the campfire and as they neared the strangers the witnesses shone the flashlights on them. Incredibly these seemed to vanish in plain sight as the light of the flashlight struck them. The stunned witnesses described the men as apparently identical to each other, wearing tight fitting white coveralls, with a wide black belt. Their hair appeared shiny and was combed back. No facial features could be seen. The witnesses climbed a nearby tree and waited there the rest of the night, but the strangers never returned.
Source:  Mariela Veronica De Tomaso & Miguel Angel Gomez Pombo Proyecto CATENT, Argentina

Date: early March 1975
Location: Near Zahedan Iran
Time: 0700A
Summary: The witness had been backpacking through the Persian desert and had pitched a tent at a tiny oasis by a sand dune. A strange sound coming from outside awakened her. It seemed to be coming from behind a nearby sand dune. She walked over to the dune and encountered a human looking woman dressed in a close fitting one piece silvery gray coverall. The woman was operating a hand held digging machine that was throwing sand in a plume. The witness also noticed a large hovering circular metallic craft that was very close to the ground. She asked the woman what was she doing and was told that she was looking for “something” that had fallen in the area. The woman found a strange spiral shaped cylinder, which she floated into the hovering craft. She then briefly talked to the witness then boarded the hovering craft, which rose straight up then left at high speed.
Source: Zitha Rodriguez Montiel, Prof R N Hernandez & Lt Col. Wendelle C Stevens, UFO Contact from Andromeda

Date: early March  1975
Location:  Moca, Puerto Rico
Time:  0030A
Summary:  Maria Acevedo heard what sounded like “a strange animal” on the tin roof of her house. It was walking about on the roof and pecking it from time to time. A bit later it took off with a powerful flapping of wings and a terrible screech, accompanied by the sound of “celestial music.”
Source:   Jorge Martin, FSR Vol. 45 # 1

Date:    March  , 1975
Location:   Near Millersburg Ohio
Time:    0400A
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Summary:   Bob DeTorre, a truck driver in his mid-20’s, had just driven into his new home at Lake Buckhorn road # 3, from Cleveland. His wife was staying at her mother’s and there was no one else in the house. As he mounted the porch steps, he saw a figure moving off the porch; the figure was approximately 5-feet high and he though at first it was a kid that was trying to break into the house, so he yelled, but the figure moved off only a short distance and held its position. “What I though I saw was big shouldered, I sensed no fear in this thing, I figured, well, it would run.” He said its head seemed large for its size, although he saw no other specific features. When he realized it wasn’t “a kid” he became frightened and dropped the laundry basket he had been carrying. “I bee lined it right backwards to that car and I was out of this driveway doing about 90, and I went into town.” He returned with the police, but they found nothing. The witness said he saw no hair on the figure’s head, saw arms and legs but did not noticed details of the hands or feet. He had faced off with the figure for about a minute and a half.
Source:    William Jones, for CCAP

Date: March 1975
Location: Near Lake Sorrell Tasmania Australia
Time: night
Summary: A woman lying awake in a caravan bunk saw a woman’s figure enter the caravan, head first, through the roof hatch. Only the upper portion of the woman visible. She wore a colorful scarf over her head. The figure floated back & forth for about 3 minutes, then went out through the roof hatch. At the time of this incident, unexplained lights at night were frequently being seen in the same locality.
Source: Tasmanian UFO Investigation Center

Date: March  1975
Location:  Lexington, South Carolina.
Time:  
Summary:  Close Encounter with octagon near nuclear site.
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Date: March 1 1975
Location: Barrio Mamey Puerto Rico
Time: night
Summary: A married couple, Carlos & Maria Santiago & their young daughter watched a luminous object flying over the area at a low altitude. The family followed the object in their vehicle and saw it land on a nearby empty field. They watched as a ladder was lowered from the craft and a short humanoid with a large head came out of the object. The humanoid noticed the witnesses and immediately entered the object, the ladder then re-entered the craft, which then rose up at very high speed and disappeared.
Source: Jorge Martin, Evidencia Ovni # 6

Date: March 2 1975
Location:  Golfo San Matias, Argentina
Time:  
Summary:  North of the Valdez Peninsula, a group of men on a fishing boat saw a bright light with a definite form behind it moved horizontally through the evening sky at a low altitude. It came from the Patagonian mesa flying out to sea and made a loud buzzing sound. It stopped in the air, and dived under the sea.
Source:  Wendelle C. Stevens, Saga UFO Report, March 1977, p. 39

Date: March 2 1975
Location:  Mehmke Hill (Belt/Great Falls), MT
Time:  
Summary:  A UFO reported 20 feet over highway, size of car.
Source:  NIDS, Summary Report on A Wave of UFO/Helicopters and Animal Mutilations in Cascade County, Montana 1974-1977, Frame 16 of 24 Appendix 1

Date: March 2 1975
Location:  Elmwood, WS
Time:  8:00 p.m. 
Summary:  A UFO attempted to land in front of a car with the Forster family inside, while the children in the car screamed. The UFO was a disc the size of a car, white in color with lights all around it, and sticklike legs or landing gear. In their panic they repeatedly honked their car horn, which alerted farmer Roger Weber, who came out of his farmhouse and guided the family home. The UFO flew off.
Source:  Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of Wisconsin’s Unexplained Phenomena, p. 6

Date:    March  6, 1975
Location:    Near Melbourne, Australia
Time:    0200A
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Summary:   The main witness and his cousin watched a hexagonal shaped craft, bright orange in color hovering low to the ground and about 1 km away. They felt a strange vibration coming from it and perceived an audible sound. The craft then took off at high speed vertically. The main witness reported seeing two human-like figures flying around the craft using what appeared to be backpacks. Their parents felt the vibration and heard the humming sound.
Source:   NUFORC

Date:    March 6, 1975
Location:   Chantilly, France
Time:    midnight
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Summary:   The witness Suzanne, a married woman is awakened by the feeling that there is an intruder in the house. She hears the sounds of broken dishes. She and her husband go to investigate but find nothing. He goes back to sleep, she remains awake. After awhile she sees a light in the corridor and goes to check. There she confronts a tall beautiful humanoid with wavy blond hair wearing a long yellow outfit. The figure seems to float just above the floor. They exchange glances. The being seems surprised and immediately disappears into the wall. The next day an unusual light invades the house. The witness then experiences a period of “good fortune” after the incident. She reportedly saw odd beings on a train in 1959 and a luminous sphere in 1962.
Source:   LDLN # 332

Date: March 8 1975
Location:  Ober-Sädelegg Switzerland
Time:  17:26
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Date: March 8 1975
Location:   Ober-Sadelegg Switzerland
Time:  17:40
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Date: March 8 1975
Location:  near Stayner, Ontario, Canada
Time:  8:30 p.m. 
Summary:  The witness and two daughters, 18 and 10 years old, while traveling east on Highway 26, observed a huge circular object similar to the shape of a large water tower moving overhead. The object was 100 to 200 feet in size. The bottom was the color of steel and was round and flat with five red glowing lights spaced evenly around the inside of the circle close to the outside edge. The object moved silently at a slow speed. When the object was first seen it was north of the witnesses and it made a 90 degree turn and passed directly over their vehicle. 
Source:   Letter to the Ontario Provincial Police

Date: March 9 1975
Location:  Belt, MT
Time:  
Summary:  Egg-shaped object, bluish lights beaming.
Source:  NIDS UFO 89

Date: March 12 1975
Location:  Punta Ocoa, Dominican Republic
Time:  0430A
Summary:  Several anglers fishing right off the coast reported seeing a domed disc-shaped object approaching their location. The dome appeared transparent and luminous. Inside the transparent dome the observers saw two standing human-like figures, apparently looking out. The craft dived into the ocean and disappeared from sight.
Source:   Apro Bulletin 2-1982, Denys Breysse Project Becassine

Date:   March 13, 1975: Landing in Wisconsin

Date: March 14, 1975
Location: Mellen, WI
Time: 
Summary: Dog reacted to domed object over treetops. Jane Baker. The next morning, Jane went outside to see if she could find any traces from the previous night. She looked over toward the swamp near her home and saw the same or a similar object again — only this time there were no flashing lights or glow — but the shape and color were the same. It was hovering over some evergreen trees. Jane went back into the house to put on heavier clothing, then went back out, taking the family dog with her. She was proceeding toward the evergreens when the dog gave a big yelp and started to whine and paw at her ears. Then the dog became completely still. Jane says she didn’t hear anything, but carried the dog into the house. When she came back out again, the object was gone.
Source: Joan Woodward

Date: March 15, 1975
Location: Sao Paulo Brazil
Time:  19:30
Summary: Hovering orange light over the train terminal of the city’s subway and in line with the final approach of S.P. international airport. Hundreds saw it. The eve. news confirmed UFO. I was 13 at the time and was playing outside a church while my parents were in choir practice. It was dark. From the hill where the church sat, I could see the terminal station of the Sao Paulo subway system. Suddenly I noticed an orange light that changed intensity, sometimes changing to red. I called my parents and the other church members who came out to see. We were there for about 20 minutes. The location of the light was exactly on the path of the Sao Paulo International Airport (Congonhas) final approach. As airplanes would align with final, the light moved very fast and disappeared, to reappear when the plane had passed. Later that evening, channel 5 (Globo television network) reported the incident and interviewed several eyewitnesses, who reported the same story. They also interviewed officials at the airport who reported an “unidentified object” on the radar screens at the reported location. Airline pilots also reported seeing the object. No further explanations were given, and air force officials declined to comment.The date is approximate, since I don’t remember exactly when it happened. But it was around then.
Source: National UFO Reporting Center

Date: March 17 1975
Location:  70 miles west of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada
Time:  11:02 p.m. NDT. 
Summary:  Air Canada Flight 872 reported a green pulsating object at 35,000 feet, crossing his flight path from north to south. Luftansa Flight 401, 120 miles south of of Air Canada 872, reported a solid green object at 31,000 feet crossing his flight path north to south. Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT -2:30 hours 
Source:  National Research Council of Canada Record Group 77, Vol. 308, reel number 1742, N75/033

Date:    March 17, 1975
Location:  Mexico, Distrito Federal, D.F. Mexico
Time:    19:00
Duration:  5 or 10 seconds           Shape:    Disk           
Summary:  Eran las 7 u 8 de la noche, cuando al salir de mi casa, desde el patio de la casa, en ese entonces sin techo; voltie hacia el cielo ya que por costumbre suelo hacerlo, y vi lo que parecia ser una parrilla formada por 10 o 15 objetos redondos, como del tamaño de una pelota de beisbol c/u, llevaban una formacion perfecta por lo que parecia un solo objeto pero en cierta parte de su avance se desformaron un breve instante por lo que pude ver que eran objetos individuales. Eran de una blancura tal que contrastaban con el negro de la noche. Continue mi camino a la tienda de la esquina y ahi comprobe con 4 vecinos, 2 matrimonios, que lo que habia visto tambien ellos lo habian visto. Los objetos viajaban de oriente a poniente y emitieron un zumbido un poco grave al pasar por mi cenit.
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Date: March 18, 1975
Location: Switzerland
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Date: March 18, 1975
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Location. Lachute, Quebec, Canada
Date: March 19 1975
Time: 2300
Summary: Paul Durocher was in his bed when he suddenly saw a short human-like figure appear at the window and look inside his bedroom. The figure was silvery gray in color and its head appeared to be directly connected with its thorax. It seemed to be very short in stature. As the witness got up to look out the window the strange figure vanished.
Source: Marc Leduc, CASUFO

Date: March 25 1975
Location:  Oakland City, Indiana
Time:  
Summary:  Bobby Doane. The witness said that the object resembled “two Frizbees together edge to edge about 27 feet across. It didn’t rotate as it moved and it was at an angle showing a circle off center on the top. It’s color was a dark grayish-green like camouflage and it had a smooth surface as far as I could tell.”
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Date: March 25 1975
Location: Rexville, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Time: unknown
Summary: Pellin Marrero, reported to the press that he had seen “a condor or a great vulture, of a whitish color,” flying over the area. No other information.
Source: Jorge Martin, FSR Vol. 45 # 1

Date: March 26 1975
Location: Pueblo, Moca, Puerto Rico
Time: 1300
Summary: A laborer named Juan Muniz Feliciano was allegedly attacked by a “terrible creature, with lots of feathers, a thick, long neck much bigger than a goose’s neck, and weighing what must have been about 50 lbs.” Muniz said he had been coming home when he saw the giant bird and threw a couple of rocks at it. At once the thing made for him, and he had to flee to a nearby neighbors house.
Source: Jorge Martin, FSR Vol. 45 # 1

Date: March 26 1975
Location: Orton, Southern Ontario
Time:  
Summary: Silver disk shaped object with a soft white dome on top of it. Several red lights moving about its perimeter counterclockwise.
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Date:    March 27, 1975
Location:   Hamlet North Carolina
Time:    2315
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Summary:   A retired laborer saw a UFO with a revolving pink light land in his front yard. When he opened the door he saw 2 small, strange looking creatures who “appeared to be joined by a silver bar,” & who spoke to him in a language he could not understand. The beings reentered the UFO, which took off “straight up.”
Source:   George Fawcett, Official UFO Vol. I # 4

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Location. North East Pennsylvania
Date: March 28 1975
Time: midnight
Two local investigators were driving around the area in the hope of catching a glimpse of several reported Bigfoot type creatures in the area. When they suddenly observed two tall dark figures with red glowing eyes approaching their vehicle as if attempting to circle around the witnesses. The investigators managed to snap several pictures before fleeing the area. The pictures only vaguely show the eyes. No other information.

Source: Paul G Johnson, Joan L Jeffers, The Pennsylvania Bigfoot

Date:    Late March , 1975
Location:   Walden, New York
Time:    evening
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Summary:   Several police officers had reported a “strange man” they had encountered while stopped for a traffic light. They stated that this man was crossing the street on the red light and when he passed by their patrol car all power stopped for a moment, and the officers reported they “could feel the hair of their body stand on end”. The traffic light went out, their patrol car stalled and their radio went dead. As if this wasn’t unnerving enough, they also reported that the man seemed to “vanish right before their eyes.” A waitress, in a nearby delicatessen reported some odd behavior by this man, noting in particular his odd eyes. The source reported that all the witnesses refused to talk about the incident afterwards and that the waitress left her job at the deli soon after the encounter.
Source:   Lee Walsh in, http://www.mysterious-america.net

Date: March 31 1975
Location:   St Hilaire de Cambrai, France
Time:  0330A
Summary:  The furious barking of her dogs awakens the witness; afraid they run up on top of the dining room table. The witness opens the curtains and sees a red luminosity outside and then hears strange indistinct murmurs and voices. Her son in law wakes up and looks out the window to see an intense red rectangular mass about 4.50 m in length and 2 m in height, flying at about 40 to 60 cm above the ground in a strange hopping fashion. It continues on its trajectory becoming round and of a green blue color with electric blue dominating. Two other witnesses joined the first two and see the object moving at about 80 m away, now becoming a green spherical form. The dogs calm down and the son in law goes back to bed without acknowledging the calls of his father in law. Soon the intensity of the sphere decreases, while the witnesses remain by the window for half an hour. At 0400A the streetlights become bright and the dogs began barking again. At this point the object, now a green sphere rapidly approaches the house and then disappears. One of the witnesses suffers from eye irritation the next day. Also ground traces and “footprints” are found in the vicinity of the house.
Source:   Figuet, J L Ruchon

Date: March 31 1975
Location:  Kawanoe City, Shikoku, Japan
Time:  2100
Summary:  Obeying an inner urge 42-year old local merchant Guchi Shinda went to walk along a beach when he began experiencing a sensation like weightlessness and sees what appeared to be multicolored electrical discharges around him. Suddenly at about 30 meters away a short white creature appears. The figure had red eyes and mouth and was wearing a white inflated “astronaut” suit and a round white helmet. It floated just above the sand towards the witness who then heard a loud mysterious sound resembling “electronic music”. He apparently passes out and does not see the humanoid depart.
Source:   CBA Newsletter, Denys Breysse Project Becassine

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Executive Summary: The Moe physical Trace Case

The most significant event of March 1975 occurred in Moe, Victoria, Australia. A witness observed a large, metallic, “sombrero-shaped” craft hovering just above the ground in a secluded clearing. The technical significance of this case lies in the physical alteration of the environment.

After the craft departed with a “vacuum-like” sound, investigators found a perfectly dehydrated ring of grass, where the cellular structure of the vegetation had been altered without being burned. Furthermore, a nearby metal fence post was found to be magnetized, a signature CE2 effect that indicates the craft utilized a high-intensity magnetic field for stabilization or propulsion.

“It didn’t just sit there; the air around it seemed to shimmer like a heat mirage on a highway. When it left, it didn’t move—it was just gone, and the grass was bone-dry.”

Investigative Report, Moe Australia, March 1975