Melbourne, Apr. 8 (ANI): The first time a UFO was seen in Clayton South, back in April 1966, it sparked mayhem, as dozens of screaming school pupils ran towards the pine grove where silvery saucer-shaped object descended from the sky.
Capitalising on the notoriety of the biggest mass UFO sighting in Australian history, Kingston Council is set to install a 150,000-dollar UFO-themed playground in Grange Reserve, featuring a 3.3 metre high spaceship big enough to hold seven children at a time, in June, the Age reported.
Steve Perumal, the council officer who designed the park in collaboration with landscape design firm Urban Initiatives, said that the silver spaceship, loosely on the descriptions of witnesses back in 1966, will be trimmed with blue LED lighting.
Giant springs that resemble landing gear; climbing nets for invasion; red spiral slide for escape are going to be installed in the saucer.
Signboards near the playground will provide details of what's known in UFO circles as Westall '66, when 90 witnesses, including a school class playing cricket on the oval, reported seeing three saucers either in the sky or landing in the reserve on a clear Wednesday morning about 11am, April 6, 1966.
Joy Clarke, 60, who was in form two at Westall High School when she saw "flying saucers" above the sports oval, said that the UFO playground gives the 1966 sighting official validation. (ANI)
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