Australian Woman's Startling 1991 Alien Encounter Revealed
A Sydney woman has come forward with startling claims of a late-night alien encounter in Brisbane during 1991. Sheryl Gottschall, now president of UFO Research Queensland, described a terrifying experience where she awoke to find three 'grey aliens' standing beside her bed while her husband slept.
The Terrifying Bedroom Encounter
'I was asleep in bed and I woke up in the early hours of the morning. It was still dark and, standing beside the bed, were these three small beings,' Gottschall told the Daily Mail. 'We now refer to them as Greys, or grey aliens, who are typically about three to four feet tall, with inverted pear-shaped heads and large dark wrap-around eyes.'
The experience left her completely terrified and frozen in place. 'They were just staring at me... and I was completely terrified. I didn't move,' she recalled. In a moment of panic, she pulled the sheet over her head and spontaneously began reciting the Lord's Prayer. When she next became aware, it was morning.
Gottschall noted the strangeness of her reaction, saying she had 'no clue' why she chose to recite the prayer despite not being religious. 'I went to Sunday school, but I'm not a religious person,' she explained.
From Personal Experience to Research Leadership
Decades after her 1991 experience, Gottschall leads UFO Research Queensland, an organization dedicated to recording and investigating UFO sightings and close alien encounters across Australia. She describes her bedroom encounter as just one of various 'unexplainable' experiences she has had throughout her life.
Gottschall believes Australians should take UFO sightings seriously to understand humanity's place in what she calls a 'galactic neighbourhood.' She speculates about future extraterrestrial contact, suggesting that 'one day, we will evolve to the point where we are past having individual contact... to a collective scale where extraterrestrials might show up in droves.'
'I think we need to be prepared for that,' she emphasized. 'And if we have open contact, what does it mean? And what are they doing here?'
Government Reluctance and Research Challenges
Despite increasing reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) across Australia, researchers face significant challenges. Melbourne-based UAP activist Grant Lavac has expressed frustration with the federal government's apparent reluctance to seriously investigate these sightings.
'I've been perplexed as to why our US ally is taking this topic so seriously and being as transparent as they possibly can be, but Australia - as well as other allies, like the UK and New Zealand - are very, very reluctant to even talk about it,' Lavac stated.
The Royal Australian Air Force formally ceased investigating 'unusual aerial sightings' in 1996, citing 'no scientific or other compelling reason to continue.' However, Lavac argues that much has changed in the intervening decades.
'We thought it was nothing back in 1996 but really, there is something to it,' he said. 'Our US ally is taking this incredibly seriously as a potential national security threat and safety of flight risk. I think the Australian Department of Defence and RAAF are fearful.'
Recent UAP Sightings Across Australia
Beyond personal encounters like Gottschall's, Australians have reported numerous airborne UAP sightings in recent years:
- Last year, a mysterious burning object was discovered near a mining site outside Newman, Western Australia
- The large black object resembled known space re-entry debris and was later linked to Chinese rocket launch debris
- In September, strange lights were reported in the sky near Point Moore in Geraldton, 420km north of Perth
Lavac remains cautious about interpreting these sightings, noting that Australia's vast, uninhabited areas could host various explanations. 'It could well be that UAP activity observed in Australian skies is our own human-made technology,' he suggested, referring to possible testing of top-secret military equipment.
However, he acknowledges that 'reports from credible people who see some incredible things in Australian airspace just defy our understanding of how things operate.'
Calls for Renewed Investigation
Both Gottschall and Lavac advocate for more serious investigation of UAP phenomena in Australia. Lavac argues compellingly that 'if folks are seeing stuff in Australian airspace they cannot readily identify or reconcile, that is a real potential risk to national security.'
He suggests these unidentified objects could represent foreign adversarial technology or 'things in airspace that defy our current capabilities.' While acknowledging the possibility of extraterrestrial origins, Lavac emphasizes the need for proper investigation rather than dismissal.
'I think it's foolish for people to discount the idea that UAPs might originate from ETs,' he said. 'Well, rather than explain the uninvestigated, we should be investigating the unexplained.'
As personal accounts like Gottschall's continue to emerge alongside increasing UAP reports, the debate about Australia's approach to investigating these phenomena shows no signs of abating.
