The Temple of Nim Newsletter - September 2006

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The Temple of Nim

of

Blue Mountains UFOResearch Club.

Vol. 2 Issue No 9

September 2006

INSIDE:Cuddles Gilroy.The Noble Dog.

Blue Mountains Triangle.Alien-US Contact?Devil Dogs of the Dreamtime.Beware of Burrunjors in the Bush.

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Cuddles Gilroy.October 1993-Sept 2006.


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Newsletter of the Blue Mountains UFO Research Club September, 2006.

Blue Mountains UFO Research Club News.Our meetings are held on the third Saturday of the month,at the Gilroy residence, 12 Kamillaroi Road, SouthKatoomba, from 2pm onwards.We are situated on the corner of Kamillaroi Road and Ficus Street, and as we always

say, park in Ficus Street where there is safer parking.PLEASENOSMOKINGONTHEPREMISES.ALSO, NOLARGEBAGSINTHECINEMA OR THEHOUSE.PLEASE NOTE. As this gathering is now by invitation only please contact usprior to bringing along any new friends interested in UFOlogy and the mysteriesgenerally. Anyone with any personal experiences involving UFOs or theunexplained are invited to share them with us all.Contact Information: Phone: 02 4782 3441, Email:[email protected]

[or catch our website on rexgilroy.com or mysteriousaustralia.com].A plate of food to share for afternoon tea is appreciated.

Program for the 16th September. Latest UFO Reports from the Blue Mountains.

Any reports by members.

As usual, weather permitting, there will be a Skywatch out on nearbyNarrow Neck Peninsula.

And other surprises...

CUDDLES GILROY. OCTOBER 1993-THURSDAY 7T H SEPTEMBER 2006.

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Rex and Heather Gilroy,Australias top UFO andUnexplained Mysteries

Research team.Photo copyright Rex Gilroy
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It is with great sadness that Heather and I announce that our dear, loyal andever faithful Cuddles has died. She died doing what she loved best, goingwalkies with her dad.

She had not been well for some months due to an attack of dermatitis, forwhich she was being treated with Prednisone. The Vet had just added a course ofantibiotics and on Thursday afternoon as Heather drove off to go up the town, Idecided that I would take her for a walk up to the Golf Course, as she waslooking much better, her tail wagging and moving about much easier than she

had been for some time.

I had her on the lead and as we crossed the road and walked along thegrass footpath she even barked at a little dog in one of the yards. We had justturned the corner and were walking slowly up the road when Cuddles suddenlycollapsed. Frantically I tried to sit her up, while rubbing her all over. She just laydown. I managed to get her onto the grass beside the road where I was able toget her to sit up. Then she got to her feet and I thought she would be okay, atwhich I motioned her that we were heading home. She walked a couple of feetthen collapsed on the grass. As I held her in my arms she just went limp and Ilaid her down where she died peacefully. A thoughtful neighbour came to assistguarding her while I dashed away to get Heather on her mobile. That night we

took her to a pet crematorium at Narellan.An urn with Cuddles ashes will be placed in a cabinet in our home and a

little plaque will state that she was A loyal and faithful friend to all. This is quitetrue, Cuddles had countless friends, neighbourhood children, people from allover the district who came visiting, all our UFO friends, and our Movie Clubfriends and many more.

Cuddles was part Labrador, part German Shepherd with a loving nature,loving loyalty and faithfulness. When not sleeping in the computer room with ourcat Pepsi she would sleep at our bedroom door. How we will miss hearing herbark as visitors came to the gate or door, or waiting outside my cinema door forme to come out. Her passing has left Heather and Ie with a burden of a great

loss, a loss certain to be felt by everyone else who knew and loved her. She wasmy best friend to the end and no one can ever replace her. Her love, loyalty anddevotion would put many a human to shame.

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THE NOBLE DOG.The town was Warrensburg, Missouri; the year 1870. A dog owner was

suing another townsman who had shot his dog, and was seeking $50.00damages. The crowd in the Court sat hushed as lawyer George Graham Vest,representing the dog owner, made his final plea. When he had finished, the juryretired to return within minutes with its verdict. The reward? Not the $50.00 theowner had asked but $500.00! This is senator Vests tribute to Mans bestfriend.

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The best friend that a man may have in the world may turn against himand become his enemy. The son or daughter he has reared with living care mayprove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest, those whom we trust withour happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.

The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhapswhen he needs it most. A mans reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action.

The people who are prone to fall upon their knees to do us honour whensuccess is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure

settles its clouds upon our heads.The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish

world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful ortreacherous, is his dog.

A mans dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health andsickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and thesnow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his masters side.

He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds andsores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards thesleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert,he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is asconstant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless andhomeless, the faithful dog will go with him. And when the last scene of all comes,no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there will the noble dog be found,his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithfuland true even in death.

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Rex Gilroys slide talk to the Queensland UFO Conference, Brisbane Saturday 30th

September 2006.

My forthcoming talk celebrate my 50th

Anniversary as a UFOlogist, anddespite the dire warnings of well-meaning people all those years ago, that Iwould get nowhere in life chasing flying saucers I am still involved, and despitethe warnings, gotten somewhere, because today I am not only giving talks aboutthem but also publishing articles and books on the subject!

However, my talk on Saturday 30th September [I am to be the first speakeron the day] marks the beginning of a whole new era in my presentations, for Iam beginning to use computerised images copied onto slides, which will also beused in future UFO books to be published by the Gilroys.

Our next UFO book will be a sensation Blue Mountains Triangle due tobe published early in 2007. My Brisbane talk will be based on certain aspects of

this book, which concerns the many aircraft and people disappearances, alienabductions, time-travel experiences of people, and many other mysterious UFOgoings-on across the skies of this vast wilderness. And as my talk will reveal,there is far more to the Blue Mountains underground top secretAmerican/Australian UFO Base than what has so far been reported from the

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Burragorang Valley.*****

Some old favourites will feature among the case-histories to be discussed,but also a lot more hitherto not used before, so those attending will have somesurprises.

There were just too many case-histories to fit into my talk, the following isone of them...

On the night of Wednesday 24th September 1966, 19 year old Leticia

Martin was listening to the 11pm ABC news on her car radio as she drove alongRichmond Road towards Kurrajong, north-west of Sydney, when her car wassuddenly enveloped in a blue glow through which she could see nothing. At thesame time her engine and lights just died. She felt slightly weightless, as if thecar had been lifted off the road. Then, within an instant, she felt her car come torest. The blue glow faded away, at which, terrified, she opened her door andscrambled outside to find that she was in a paddock, which she realised wasnowhere near Kurrajong but on the outskirts of Penrith further south. Ahead ofher was a yellow-glowing egg-shaped craft about the size of an averagehouse, as she described it.

I was just 50ft [15 metres] away from it. The glow was pulsating. A round

opening appeared and I could see a bright pink glow but nothing else. I wasdumbfounded at first but regained my senses and was about to run to a nearbyhouse for help, when I felt my arms being held by what felt like two invisibleforces [or beings?] drawing me towards the opening.

I was within a few feet of the opening when, with all my might I tried tobreak free. I felt magnetised, drawn inside, then the opening vanished behindme. In my terrified state I found my whole body frozen of movement as thefeeling of unseen fingers prodded and pressed into my body.

I must have blacked out. When I awoke I was lying n the ground. I saw afamily emerge from a nearby house. I ran to them in a terrible state, sobbing,and asked them had they seen what had just happened.

It appeared that I was on their property, and the husband and wife wantedto know what I was raving about. And how had I driven my car into theirpaddock which was fenced off from the road. I told them my story and all theysaid that they saw, was me leaping from my car and making funny movementsand standing still in the middle of the paddock before collapsing onto the ground,while they watched from a window.

By now I was embarrassed and got back into my car while one of theirsons went off and opened a side driveway gate and I was off as quick as I couldas the family stood there laughing their heads off.

I glanced at the car clock, the time was 7.30pm. I had been released three

and a half hours before I had been abducted.*****

Besides Alien Abduction cases there are others concerning crashes ofapparent UFOs on the Blue Mountains going back many years. One more recentincident took place on the late afternoon of June 15th 2003, when campers out onNarrow Neck Plateau saw a saucer-shaped silvery UFO zoom low over themheading from north to south into the Burragorang Valley, where it crashed intothe north side of the ridge behind which lies the entrance to the undergroundspacecraft launching facilities.

About 7am the next morning the campers observed with binoculars, eightmilitary helicopters flying over the crash site, dropping personnel on ropes into

the scrub, who were collecting the wreckage fragments. These were attached tocables and flown over the ridge to the Base. The whole operation took aboutthree hours.

The RAAF base at Richmond later responded to one of the campersseeking answers with the reply that military manoeuvres had been carried out

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by troops from Holsworthy Army Base.The Personnel of Richmond Air Base are quite familiar with UFOs. During

January 2000, three fighter jets were scrambled from the base to intercept amysterious silver craft observed hovering over the Wollemi underground basearea. As the jets approached the mysterious craft, it suddenly shot offwestwards at such an incredible speed that the two jet fighters were literally leftstanding still!

Whenever there is any major activity going on in the Burragorang and

Wollemi underground complexes, there is always considerable UFO activity inthe skies overhead. The Gilroys new UFO book Blue Mountains Triangle willreveal all, such as the extent of underground colonisation with its largesettlements and massive city-size complexes, adjoining underwater nuclearsubmarine bases and other surprises. My talk in Brisbane will reveal some ofthese fantastic wonders. Hope to see you there.

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ALIEN-US CONTACT?By Rex Gilroy.Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

For many years now there has been a growing rumour that the US military

have established contact with an extra-terrestrial civilisation from which theyhave obtained an advanced space travel technology. This would explain thesudden leap forward since the mid-1960s in the number of world-wideunderground bases [such as that of the Blue Mountains] in which the ETtechnology is being experimented with.

The author is open-minded on this possibility, but there have been somany mysterious undercover developments just here on the Blue Mountainsalone, as to give substance to the above fantastic suggestions.

There is a rumour that an alien space craft crashed somewhere in UtahUSA and has been kept in an underground base since its recovery, together withthree alien bodies in 1965. The suggestion is that, once US scientists were ableto understand the crafts communication technology, by some means theyestablished contact with ETs of the same planetary origin.

It is believed by American UFOlogists that contact was first established byelectronic means, and that a meeting eventually took place at a top-secret, pre-arranged location.

In return for passing on their highly technical information to theAmericans, the ETs were given the right to abduct earthlings for research! Thishas of course already been happening for some time now, and could explain whylittle attention is paid by authorities to ET abduction claims [at least openly] whocontinually discredit eyewitness accounts.

ETs are certainly aware of the Blue Mountains underground complexes,hence the virtual round-the-clock sightings by locals. We are definitely beingwatched by advanced beings from far beyond our world.

*****It is possible, as I have said in previous newsletter articles, that when there

is considerable UFO activity in the skies over the Bases areas, that theAmerican and Australian scientists are experimenting with the Time Windowtechnology provided by the ETs, and it is at this time, day and night, thatcampers and bushwalkers close to these areas, even some home owners livingwithin the regions influenced by these experiments, that time travel experienceshave occurred.

There is the likelihood that not all of the UFOs reported seen over the BlueMountains are of ET origin but the product of the underground spacecrafttechnology going on there.

And, if the technological achievements already made there have beenused on top-secret expeditions to the Moon, even Mars, this could be one

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explanation for the claims that have been made for some years now, that the UShave had bases established on the dark side of the Moon as well as on Marssince at least the early 1980s.

If all the foregoing is true, then this helps explain why there have been somany ET Abductions and sudden disappearances of people who have penetratedthe forbidden zones. While I have obtained information myself from people overthe years concerning all these incidents, a great deal comes from the files andarticles of the late Don Boyd, who during the 1970s and early 1980s was editor

of Psychic Australian magazine [later retitled Strange Phenomena Magazine].It was Don Boyd who was first to publish my initial magazine article on theBurragorang UFO Base when nobody else was interested, but neither of us wasprepared for the massive wave of interest shown by readers Australia-wide, andthis continued up until I brought the whole mystery up to date in my first book,Mysterious Australia, However, since those days the mystery has grown toproportions which back then were undreamt of!

There are in fact so many UFO sightings going on across the BlueMountains that, dare we suggest, a regular contact exists between the ETs andthe scientific community beneath our feet!

The Time window technology would enable unbelievably fast expeditions

to and from worlds far beyond our own planet.There are already tales emerging from the US of time-travel voyages, not

just to other worlds, but into the past and future, to ancient civilisations as wellas the future world. Too fantastic to believe? I prefer to keep an open mind here,for the technological abilities of the ET super-civilisations beyond our world haveto be so far in advance of us as to make us technologically speaking, still in theStone-Age by comparison!

*****Parallel with the UFO activity in our skies, there has been a mysterious

brain drain over the years, with scientists in various highly technological fields,in Canberra, Sydney and elsewhere, disappearing without a trace. This drain isnot confined to Australia and has occurred in the US and Europe; scientistsinvolved in fields associated with space travel technology. Could it be that theywere actually recruited for underground bases both here and other complexesoverseas?

Perhaps some of these scientists are no longer on Earth but working outthere, perhaps on the mysterious gigantic space colony airship hurtling aroundthe Earth far out in space, and which is periodically sighted from the BlueMountains and elsewhere across Australia. They might also be working on theMoon or Mars. Who can say.

A brain drain of highly technologically skilled men and women are

believed to have been recruited for the Blue Mountains complex in the past, andthis now extends, as our new UFO book will show, to whole families.

Much newsprint and book publishing has concerned the American Area51 mystery. However, we here in Australia have a far greater mystery, hiddenbeneath our feet here on the Blue Mountains!

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Artists impression of themysterious Mother Ship,based upon descriptions ofsightings presently beingseen in the skies over the

Blue Mountains.Computer artwork byAndrew Leese 2006.


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The Burragorang Valley, lookingsouth from the far end of

Narrow Neck Peninsula. Thearea behind the long ridgeextending from the west [iefrom the right of the picture] isthe frequent location ofmysterious light shows and

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Close-up of the long ridge, frombehind which mystery flying craft

have been seen to

descend into, or emerge from, theUS secret space technologyresearch base,

buried deep within BurragorangValle .

The Burragorang Valley secretunderground American spacetechnology research centre,

copied from a map provided bya former government employee

to the late Don Boyd, formereditor of Psychic Australian

magazine in 1980.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy

2004.

Some of the many differentUFO descriptions reported throughout

the Blue Mountains over the years.Sketch copyright Rex Gilroy 2004


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This huge glowing object descendedfrom the clouds at sunset, Saturday2nd March 1996. It was seen by many

people flying over Valley Heightscoming from the southeast at highspeed. Many people observed its

shape to be saucer-like, and that it

changed flight angles as it flew overBullaburra, adopting a verticalposition as it descended on its

approach to Kings Tableland south ofWentworth Falls Township. Here it

slowed down, to be met by a militaryhelicopter, which escorted it across

Burragorang Valley, where itdescended into the American base

area. This photo was taken by MrFrank Beale as the craft flew over

In May 2000 a large glowingcraft was seen to crash far

out on Narrow Neck Plateau.RAAF personnel removed

the wreckage withhelicopters. Nearby on a

Narrow Neck fire trail hikerslater found the outlines of

three small humanoid bodiescomposed of a whitish mud-like substance. They were

Computerised

impression of anunderground Blue

Mountains city.Computer artwork by


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DEVIL DOGSOFTHE DREAMTIME.By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

[This article is composed of extracts from the Gilroys new book Out of theDreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals, URU Publications2006.]

Aboriginal folklore of Central Australia speaks of a powerful giant spiritdingo called Kulpunya, who guarded Ayers Rock, killing anyone who campedthere.

Similar tales of giant dingoes and also more than one other native dog-likespecies occur Australia-wide in tribal traditions.

Often called by the Aboriginal name for dog Warrigals over a widearea of the eastern Australian mountain ranges, they were collectively linkedwith the mysterious rock dogs of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales,

where the tribespeople also spoke of them as both Bulbwul dingo and bulbwulmirri, both terms meaning strong dog.

A large orangey-furred dog-like beast of dingo appearance up to 1.2m inlength by about 60cm tall on all fours, has been claimed seen over a wide areaof the Northern Territory for generations. It has been claimed seen attackingsheep, goats, calves and poetry by property owners and others in the Darwinarea, as well as in the Katherine district and other areas over a wide expanse ofthe Territory. It has been known to tribespeople of Arnhem Land for countlessgenerations.

Throughout the Gulf Country into Far North Queensland, the giant dingois known by the name Gaiya. It is generally accepted by local tribespeople that,

besides the normal-sized dingo, bands of Gaiya entered Australia over a greatland bridge from southeast Asia in the long-ago Dreamtime.

Current archaeological evidence suggests that the dingo entered Australiaround 11,000 years ago. The dingo occurs in the Southeast Asian fossil record,yet there are no fossil remains of any giant size species. These of course could

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Computerisedimpression of the CentralCoast undersea nuclearsubmarine and saucer

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yet turn up.There are old settlers tales from the Cooktown district, such as one tale

from 1900, when two gold miners in the mountain country were attacked by apack of six of these dingo giants. The men were able to grab their rifles andshoot two of the animals, which drove the others off into the scrub.

Similarly, in 1927 three gold prospectors in the Calliope goldfields inlandfrom Gladstone, south of Rockhampton, followed enormous paw prints of two ofthese animals along a muddy creek bank, with guns at the ready. They finally

caught sight of the animals, a 6ft length one, probably a female and the largerone, a male of up to 8ft in length head to tail tip, standing in an open field. Theanimals dashed off into scrub when they spotted the men.

During the mid-1960s there were numerous sightings of a brownish-furreddevil dog as some Toowoomba residents nicknamed it and it was about thistime that others of this colour were reported to the author, as having been seenroaming the fields and scrublands of the Stanthorpe and Warwick districts in theborder ranges country, as well as just across the border in northern New SouthWales.

*****To cover the many reports featured in our book concerning the giant dingo

mystery is beyond the scope of this article, but it is fair to say that we havegathered a large number of reports from every Australian state excludingTasmania.

The following selection of reports is an overview of this mystery speciesdistribution

In Western Australias interior devil dogs of huge size haunt Aboriginallands, roaming the desert fringes and scrublands of the south-west. Not all are ofhuge size. Property owners and dingo shooters have shot animals the size ofGerman Shepherds that were obviously cross-breeds, and it seems theseanimals are responsible for a lot more stock losses, as they are in SouthAustralia, particularly in the Flinders Ranges region, where in 1970, a youngcouple driving in a 4-wheel drive vehicle were surprised by a huge dingo-likeanimal, in the act of dragging a full-grown kangaroos body by the neck across adry gully just a few yards from their vehicle.

They later described the animal as being reddish-brown in fur colouring, a6ft length body from head to rump [1.83m] with a tail at least 3ft length [92cm],standing about 2ft [61cm] on all fours.

During 1953 more that one greyish-grown furred, oversize dingo-likeanimal was reported seen in the Yallourn-Traralgon area east of Melbourne.Hunting parties combed the hills and bushland intent upon shooting the animals.The press whipped up enthusiasm for the big hunt, but happily the dingo giants

eluded these blood thirsty locals!At Moe in 1995, a male creature of the above size and reddish-brown fur

colouring was, together with as smaller female and pup, seen early one Januarymorning, moving across a paddock. Their presence frightened a mob of cattle.Once more local shooters went out in force but the animals had movedelsewhere.

*****Devil dogs encounters in the New England district of northern New South

Wales date back to as early as 1850 and they are still being reported seen onand off thereabouts today.

Huge dingo-like tracks were found in creek mud, in the Oxley Wild Rivers

National park by more than one camping group in 1990.They have been reported from the Mulgoa Road south of Penrith, and in

the adjoining Blue Mountains Aborigines called them rock dogs, particularlythroughout the Burragorang and Megalong Valleys where they apparentlycontinue to roam freely and also be seen from time to time. It was at the base of

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Katoomba Falls that a Mr Richard Begg, about 10am on Sunday 29th August1982, encountered a fully 7ft length [2.15m] from head to tail-tip monster dingostanding about 2ft 4 inches [71cm] on all fours observing him from a clearingbelow him. It then dashed off into the dense forest.

There have been many other sightings lately, particularly on the lowerBlue Mountains, and southward into the Goulburn district and the AustralianCapital Territory beyond, where in the Tidbinbilla mountain range they havebeen seen since the devastating bushfires that ravaged the area a few years

ago. These rock dogs have been reported south-west of Katoomba, in theKanangra Boyd National Park, which lies at the western end of the BurragorangValley. It is from here they periodically emerge to raid properties to carry offlambs or fully-grown sheep and other livestock, in the Oberon to southernBathurst districts.

These giant dingoes remain yet another animal mystery of the Australianwilderness.

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The giant dingo of ancientAboriginal tradition in

relation to the average sizedingo.

Sightings of giant-sizedingoes have been claimed

by both aborigines andEuropeans in modern

times.

The Wild Dog Mountains, situated at the southern end of theMegalong Valley, beyond which is the vast Burragorang Valley. Giant-

size dingoes are said to have been one of the reasons why earlybushmen and campers made this name popular! Besides occasional

sightings in modern times of giant-size dingoes, there is a longtradition of Blue Mountains Lion sightings, and also occasionally


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BEWARE OF BURRUNJORSINTHE BUSH.By Rex Gilroy. Copyright Rex Gilroy 2006.

[This article is composed of extracts from the Gilroys new Book Out of theDreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animals].

My readers might think I am going off the deep end for what I am aboutto propose, but there has, since long before the coming of White Man, traditions

among the Aboriginal tribes of Australias Red Centre to the Gulf Country andKimberley region, of a ferocious giant reptilian carnivore that roams thelandscape day and night in search of food, both animal and human.

Known as Burrunjor, the mere mention of his name is often guaranteed tosend a shiver down the spine of any Aboriginal. Yet it is not only Aborigines whohave claimed to have seen these monsters, but also many Europeans, stockmen,residents of remote cattle stations and 4-wheel drive travellers.

Burrunjor can best be described as a huge, bipedal-walking reptilianmonster. Tyrannosaurus comes to mind, although some suggest a species ofIguanodon, due to the description of long arms. Whatever Burrunjor is, heleaves huge three-toed tracks behind him wherever he strides. This is significant,

because there have been suggestions that Burrunjor could be based upon theextinct giant Australian monitor Lizard, Megalania prisca, which reached up to30ft [9.14m] and which is almost the height reached by Burrunjors claimed seenby both Aborigines and Europeans.

Out of the Dreamtime The Search for Australasias Unknown Animalscontains three chapters on the subject of giant monitor lizards, not just inAustralia, but throughout Australasia. Burrunjor is however, something else, forwhile even a giant monitor might copy its smaller relatives and adopt a bipedalstance, even to run a short distance, Burrunjor is said to maintain a bipedalstance for considerable distances.

If indeed Burrunjor is a surviving form of dinosaur, he belongs to theTheropods, the group of reptilian bipeds that flourished throughout theCretaceous period, becoming extinct by 65 million or so years ago. PerhapsBurrunjor is a neodinosaur, that is an evolved latter-day offshoot from thisgroup.

Yet it is only fair to point out that, while Burrunjor appears to prefer theopen spaces of our interior, why have not one of these reptilian nightmaresharassed remote towns and villages? And, of course the old one, Why hasntsomeone shot one of these monsters by now? Fair enough, but then what ifthese monsters are from our geological past, periodically entering our present-day through time windows? This theory could be used to explain all kinds of

extinct animals, both terrestrial and marine-dwellers, from Scotlands Nessieto the Congos Mokele mbembe, and other mysterious creatures seen all overthe world but never caught.

However, I propose to treat Burrunjor as a living unknown animal of theAustralian bush. Consider the following case-histories from the Gilroys newbook

Campfire stories substantiating Aboriginal claims are commonplace acrossthe far north. Back in 1978, a Northern Territory busman and explorer, BryanClark, related a story to me of his own that had taken place some years before.

While mustering cattle in the Urapunji area, he became lost in the remotewilderness of that part of Arnhem Land. It took him three days to find his way out

of the region and back to the homestead from where he originally set out.He had not known at the time, but his footprints had been picked up and

followed by two Aboriginal trackers and a mounted policeman. On the first nightof their search they camped on the outskirts of the Burrunjor scrub, even thoughthe two trackers protested strongly against doing so. The policeman hobbled his

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horse, cooked their meal, then climbed into his swag and went to sleep.Later that night the two Aborigines shouting intelligibly and grasping for

their packs and saddles suddenly woke him up. The policeman also realised atthis moment that the ground appeared to be shaking. Hurriedly getting to hisfeet, he too gathered up his belongings, and shortly afterwards, the threegalloped away.

As he told Bryan Clark later at the Urapunji homestead, he had also hearda sound, somewhat like a loud puffing or grunting noise, certainly loud enough to

be coming from some large animal.When asked if he intended to include this incident in his report, he repliedhe would not because he feared no one would believe him. The policemanwarned Bryan never again to return to that area, because if he got lost thereagain hed be on his own, as he would not come looking for him!

The regions cave art, thousands of years old, depicts these monstrousanimals. Many Aborigines believe these monsters wander back and forth acrossthe Gulf country and Cape York to this day.

*****Back in 1950, cattlemen lost stock to some mysterious beast that left the

mutilated, half-eaten remains of cows and bulls in its wake over a wide area,

stretching between the border country and Burketown. Searchers on horsebackfound huge reptilian tracks of some bipedal-walking beast. They followed thesethree-toed tracks with their cattle dogs through some rough jungle terrain untilthey entered swampland beyond which was more dense scrub.

However, it was at this point that the cattle dogs became uneasy and ranoff. The horses were also uneasy and obviously did not want to cross the swamp.While most of the cattlemen decided their animals knew best, two men set off onfoot with their carbines.

The story goes that they soon came across further tracks in an open areabeyond the swamp. While his mate searched about, the other man brieflyspotted the dark form of an enormous creature, perhaps 30ft in height, furtheroff in dense timber. The men left the scene in haste.

Johnny Mathews, a part-Aboriginal tracker, claimed to have seen a 25ft tallbipedal reptilian monster, moving through scrub near lagoon Creek on the Gulfcoast one day in 1961.

Hardly anyone outside my own people believes my story, but I knownwhat I saw, he said to me in 1970.

*****In 1985 a 4-wheel drive vehicle and it s family of travellers, the Askeys,

heading for Roper River Mission, happened to take a back road for somesightseeing. Just before they were to pull up and turn around to resume their

journey to the mission, they all saw, moving together across an open plain somedistance away, two bipedal-walking reptilian creatures a good 20ft tallrespectively.

The monsters were a greyish-brown colour and dinosaur-like inappearance. We didnt wait around, said the father, Mr Greg Askey.

During our recent [July-August 2006] Central Australian investigation,Heather and I picked up a number of ancient Aboriginal myths and legendsconcerning these reptilian monsters, but I also have many sightings claims madewithin the last few years by people over a wide area of the interior. What isrevealed in our new book makes fascinating reading, both for laypeople as wellas Cryptozoologists alike. The chapters dealing with neodinosaurs of southeast

Asia, New Guinea and Australia make one wonder just how many unknowns stillsurvive out there in remote mountain and jungle regions of the world, ignoredby a scientific fraternity because they are not in the text book.

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Tyrannosaurus rex, the largest [12m length]carnivorous dinosaur to walk the earth in the

Cretaceous period, around 70-65 million years

ago. Tyrannosaurid fossils are known fromAustralia, suggesting this species reached thislandmass. Yet today Aboriginal people over a wide

area of our far north, from throughout the GulfCountry of the Northern Territory, and

Queensland, and for some distance southward,firmly believe in the existence of a huge reptile of

Tyrannosaurian proportions, called by themBurrunjor. While his true identity is open to

This mysterious Aboriginal rock carving found by

the Gilroys in the Kulgera district, CentralAustralia, in July 2006 depicts a Burrunjor

monster. Note the bipedal stance , the pointedtail, two front legs and large open-mouthed

e sandhills and mesa country of Queenslands north-west, southf the Gulf forestlands, and which extends on into the Northernerritory. This is fabled Burrunjor land to the Aboriginal tribes.

Photo co ri ht Rex Gilro 2006.


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Next Issue:More surprises, and of course your valuable reports.

Our previous meeting was a huge success and we look forward to seeing another big

roll-up at our next one. There should be some good Skywatchesahead of us up here at Katoomba, weather permitting.

Meanwhile, theres a lot happening up there at presentso,

until our next meeting

Watch the Skies!

Rex and Heather.

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Old stories of the mesacountry say that one ormore Burrunjor reptilianmonsters would emerge

from this particular area asdarkness fell, to raid cattle

stations, dragging off stockin their powerful jaws to

devour, leaving the remainsscattered about the area oftheir huge tracks as they

returned to their lair. It is a


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