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Have you seen the aliens today?

THE REAL-LIFE X-FILES

Three decades ago, when I was young, I undertook the most amazing journey. I had been in Sydney, Australia, and then the Gold Coast to lecture on UFOs, and decided to take the opportunity to embark on a true adventure by plane and bus hundreds of miles into the heart of the outback east of Darwin. I visited the beautiful, vast open spaces where Crocodile Dundee had been filmed. It was a magical few days that I will never forget.

By good fortune, this coincided with the opportunity to go deeper into the indigenous territory of the native Australian people, where extra permission is needed. Here the land had been happily returned to the

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