‘Coming towards me at great speed’: Inside Queensland police’s X-Files

The curious craft, which flew at a height of about 150 metres with no engine noises while his family slept inside their home, was estimated by Mr Roberts to be seven to nine metres in length and width.

It was seen about four miles from an area of the Nebo property, about 80 kilometres south-west of Mackay, which had been burned under strange circumstances in December the year before.

“I had read the account in the paper of Jim Tilse [and] John Burgess and another having seen some object in the sky near the Retreat Hotel via Nebo some weeks ago,” he wrote of the group’s May 23 sighting.

The accounts make up just two of the many outlined within the 50 pages of…