
The black & white newsreel shows the Prime Minister of the day Sir Robert Menzies (1894-1978)(bio) opening the state-of-the-art facility in the Tidbinbilla Valley south west of Canberra City, inside the control room of the tracking station with engineers busy at their consoles and of course the antennae itself...
VIDEO OF NEWSREEL - NEW AUSTRALIAN TRACKING STATION OPENED
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Would love to know how much data they have on alien craft. They must be picking up heaps with these dishes.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they are not telling us everything Le Loup? Funnily enough there was a ufo sighting over Belconnen last week, heres the ABC report:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/photos/2010/06/05/2919093.htm?site=canberra
This was my grandfathers property "CLAUDE NEVILLE REID" passed away in 1974.Husband of Gladys.
ReplyDeleteMy mother and her sister and 2 brothers grew up there
Going out soon to check out the tracking station