The Westall Encounter: Australia's Most Profound UFO Sighting

Unearth the astonishing secrets of The Westall Encounter in 1966! Join us as we delve into the mysterious UFO landing at Westall High School, Australia, and the decades-long silence that followed.
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[@chadfanton9994]

Got to love the Simon and Danny episodes! Two legends for the price of one!

[@stevelee5724]

Gday Chad. I reckon mate, I also like Kevin's rants ! They always get a giggle or a laugh ! Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@skozlozlaurie712]

Second that. Waikato, New Zealand.

[@scarlettardis2018]

Bloody good shit ay mate

[@bravesirrobin5839]

two legends for the price on none!

[@ayethein7681]

It occurred to me that the initial shot of a UFO over palm trees was no doubt stock footage and a fake -up.But if that was shown as real, how could we prove it wasn't?

[@jmanj3917]

10:10 "The CLOCK doesn't dismiss you, I dismiss you" was always a teacher favorite. That and, "The BELL doesn't dismiss you, I do!" We took particular umbrage with that one, Brain Boy...lol

[@helenr4300]

'The bell is a signal for me, not you' was a classic

[@BishopStars]

Followed by the teacher of the next class declaring you have more than enough time between classes to arrive on time

[@kennithjones5907]

As an American as soon as that bell rung we were flying out the door

[@kellenbigman]

The defense to that is to remind them they're paid salary. They don't get paid extra and it's time they'll never get back. It's not a great defense, but it's something. It can be more effective if your class is already the kind that tries to shit on the teacher's soul.

[@FoopLoopString]

Simon - "I'm not much of a reminiscer" Entire fanbase - "well that was a fckn lie"

[@Kinzarr4ever]

Never change, Simon! I'm here at least partially for the tangents

[@acg_psychotic]

Tangent Timer says no

[@JoshSweetvale]

It's literally the distinguishing feature of his brand!

[@vickywitton1008]

💯

[@Haileyjays]

That’s 50% of what he talks about lol😊

[@paigeveenstra9128]

So excited to see this posted. I lived down the road from the primary school and know one of the kids there that day. The SUS govt behaviour and threats to adult witnesses to shut up or lose everything made it more concerning. More people are speaking out because they are old, dying and have nothing to lose if the govt follows through on threats. Doesn't help 50 years later govt refusing to release the files on the incident even though the classification ran out..

[@SamuelBlack84]

There are documents from WW2 that should have long ago been made public, but the military refuse to do so

[@adammarktaylor]

The story about the dog is from the village of Beddgelert in Wales. The name is often said to mean Gelert's Grave, and the story is that Gelert was the faithful hound of Prince Llewellyn the Great, who went hunting, leaving the dog to guard his infant son. When he came back and saw all the blood, he thought the worst and killed Gelert, only later finding the unharmed infant and the dead wolf. He then buried Gelert and the grave became a noted site. The story is almost certainly made up for tourism though.

[@apopheny]

I came here to say this!

[@AlexanderEdwardGriffiths]

came here to say this. I love Beddgelert, it's beautiful.

[@gkarenko9593]

But there were over 300 witnesses...

[@PoeLemic]

@@gkarenko9593 No, over 500 witnesses that saw him alive afterwards ...

[@Itsjustaleaf2024]

Just found this channel with Simon. I love listening to him. Very comedic and intelligent. My favorite things are learning and laughing and here we have large doses each

[@wombatusmaximus1788]

On the Cessna issue, my dad was in the Australian Army throughout the ‘60’s as a surveyor and did a great deal of his work in the air, the Army and Air Force operated a LOT of Cessnas

[@Blinkerd00d]

Why? For some specific reason, I assume?

[@BlackHearthguard]

@@Blinkerd00d Cheap and cheerful mainly, and easy to maintain, which also comes under cheap and cheerful.

[@wombatusmaximus1788]

@@Blinkerd00d we weren't very well funded or developed in air assets after WW2 but still had to go places in this big-ass continent of ours

[@panthrax555]

@@Blinkerd00dGotta drop the drop bears from somewhere.

[@TheGreatLordDufus]

That would have made sense for trainers and the like, 172 or 152. Or even short trips for small numbers of personnel in slightly larger aircraft - and these would be Cessna-like and not necessarily Cessna, it seems unlikely that in panic of seeing a UFO many of those who could tell them apart would have paid attention to detail on aircraft type. Laverton (relevant in the weather balloon theory) would have been an active RAAF base in 1966, these days the runway is disused. That gives a possible source of Cessnas, just over bay, without using nearby Moorabin which apparently had no record of any such aircraft (not sure how ATC would have been at Moorabin at the time). Its also a possible source for any "drogue" training, or chasing the other balloon type without tracking it all the way from Mildura.

[@JanePixel]

YES I'm so excited for this one!! I used to work round the corner from Westall Station, and I'd think about this every morning. That was a few years ago, I'd forgotten about it, thank you for sending me back down the rabbithole!

[@nobody2655]

Simon: "I don't like to reminisce." Simons' tangents: *all reminiscences*😂

[@sonder122]

The disappearance of Frederick Valentich and his plane over the ocean near Victoria is worth a look at too. It sparked a UFO frenzy in Australian media 45 years ago and the enigmatic last recorded words of the pilot still send a shiver down my spine. Simon might also be pleased to learn that there is a partial answer to the disappearance which doesn’t involve UFO’s.

[@tycannah4271]

I remember that Valentich disappearance, the "experts" speculated that he became disorientated and was flying upside down. The 60's was a period of high interest in UFOlogy with many fake saucer and Loch Ness photos etc and I recall the Westall sighting as a 1955 child but I cant recall if was a channel 9 news report or as A Current Affair report done some years after the occurrence.

[@roetheboat1]

@@tycannah4271 Valentich had only been certified for flying in "visual meteorological conditions" (VMC), meaning that he needed to be able to see what was around him while flying. In certain conditions pilots can get caught up in sensory illusions where they might believe they are flying normally but are actually pointed towards the ground, pointed up and about to stall, banking the wings and dropping in altitude, etc. Pilots who will be flying in poor weather conditions or at high altitudes at night have to be certified for "instrument meteorological conditions" (IMC), meaning they have to be trained to not trust their own senses and instead fly based off of the instrument readings. Valentich HADN'T been trained for IMC. He was training to become a commercial pilot, although he had failed all of the tests to receive the license at least twice. Additionally, he was actually already in trouble for having deliberately ignored the rules by flying into clouds instead of staying clear. The theory that he was flying upside-down is unlikely due to the design of the engine in the Cessna he was flying, which relied on gravity to feed the fuel into it. If he had flipped upside-down the engine would have died pretty quickly. With that said, the likeliest explanation is that Valentich ended up in what is known as a "Graveyard Spiral", which is where the pilot believes they are flying level to the ground but are actually banking the aircraft in a large circle and thus losing altitude. In an attempt to try to climb higher, the pilot will pull back on the yoke which actually just causes the plane to tighten the circle and thus drop even faster. We already know that Valentich wasn't exactly the best-trained pilot (he only had 150 hours of flight time when he disappeared), and so I find it WAY more likely that he got disoriented while flying at night and didn't have the training or practice to recognize what was going on. And so while he THOUGHT he was flying level he was actually turning, and so lights that were stationary (on either the ground or in the sky) would have appeared to have been moving to him. And as he got distracted by these unusual lights, he just made the situation worse. The graveyard spiral would explain the engine problems Valentich reported, as the G-forces from the spiral would interfere with its performance without completely choking off the fuel supply. In the end he crashed into the ocean since he hadn't noticed how far he had dropped.

[@BoycottChinaa]

​​@@tycannah4271whether or not you are flying upside down, keep the nose on the horizon line either way

[@bunyipdragon9499]

​@@tycannah4271it would undoubtedly be A Current Affair - such high brow journalism 😂

[@stevenmartin6473]

Why dont simon try to decode the uss nimitz incident and the U.S goverments admittance that they are real and have no idea what they are ...oh yeah he cant because he is paid sheep and is now mainstreamso forget the truth because clicks ond coin are king ...you bunch of bahhh bahhh s

[@tinyalibi2069]

Thank you Simon, now whenever something isn't explained in a tv show or movie I'm just going to assume it was radioatice rabbits 😆

[@cschmitz]

Simon: "I'm not really a reminiscier" Every tangent on brain blaze: 👀

[@pixiesouter9461]

Simon, I've done the 26 hour flight from Scotland to Australia. I freaking hate flying and let me tell you, it's really not that bad. If your leaving time is late in the evening you can sleep the first 10-12 hour flight to Dubai or Abu Dhabi, both of which have absolutely stunning airports with literally everything you could possibly need available inside the airport. Including beautiful enclosed gardens for smokers to indulge their addiction without ever having to step into the arid heat. Then the next 10 hour stretch is the hardest bit, but again you can sleep for 70% of the journey, especially if you run the children riot in the airport, so they're knackered when they get on the next flight. Plus if you splash out on Emirates, the plane, seat and food are amazing. Almost good enough to make you forget you're flying. Hope that eases some of your discomfort at the idea of traveling to Australia. It's so worth it. I stayed there for two months visiting Sydney, Melbourne, Alice Springs, Tennants Creek, Cairns and Uluru. Every moment was incredible and it really is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen in my life.

[@falconmclenny7284]

You went to Alice and tennents creek.. and liked it?

[@pixiesouter9461]

@@falconmclenny7284 Yeah. Alice Springs was where I spent the least amount of time, but it felt like a town out of an old movie. It felt like a set, rather than an actual town. Tennants Creek was actually my favourite part. Teeny wee town in the middle of the outback. It's where I saw the most wildlife and some of the best views. The drive from Alice to Tennants blew my mind. In Scotland we don't really have big roads. Spending hours on one long stretch of road with nothing in any direction made me feel like an ant. The coolest thing I saw over there was when the sun rose on that drive. In Scotland there's like an hour of faded light before and after sunrise and sunset, we call it the Gloaming. In absolutely rocked my world when the sun came up and out the driver side window it was a bright blazing sunrise and out my passenger window it was still pitch black night. Truly the most amazing country I have ever been to.

[@falconmclenny7284]

@pixiesouter9461 noice to see a bloke can still enjoy those parts, the locals can be a bit um.. bit confronting. They are beautiful places though.

[@falconmclenny7284]

@pixiesouter9461 I got family in the north coast of Scotland. Absolutely beautiful, the constant mist on the hills was amazing.

[@pixiesouter9461]

@@falconmclenny7284 I was lucky enough to have an aunty who lived in Tennants Creek and worked in the clinic. Everyone I met there when I was with her was lovely, most likely out of respect to her. In fact, she was probably the scariest person I met the whole time I was in Australia. Definitely a different vibe when I spoke to people on my own. But I guess an overall suspicion of outsiders is pretty standard in most small towns, anywhere in the world. Mostly, the people were amazing. I've never met such a wonderfully culturally insane people 😂 nobody should be able to say things like "is that a snake?" As casually as "is that a shoe?". Snakes and spiders here are completely harmless and can still send the biggest and burliest dudes running.

[@panqueque445]

54:00 Something similar happened to me. We were on a school camping trip, running around playing tag, Until someone started pretending they were running from a monster. We all started running as a group screaming. I looked back and I saw a bright blue humanoid shape duck behind a bush. I didn't believe in monsters so I assumed it must've been some plastic bag or something that got blown in the wind. I immediately turned back to go behind the bush and there was literally nothing there. Literally mass hysteria made me see something that wasn't there. You literally cannot trust the memories of small children. All it takes was a kid seeing a weather balloon fly across the sky, yell UFO and now everyone is all excited seeing whatever they want to see.

[@joshtowns5630]

Had a very similar experience once camping up bush. A few of us got to the camp site an hour or so after dark and as we got out of the car, the 5 friends who had gotten there earlier told us about this weird shiny thing watching them from the bush and circling the camp site. The three of us who had just arrived, having grown up in the bush were less concerned so we grabbed torches and went for a look. Everyone in camp started yelling about it being behind us. Turns out it was a silver gum sapling. For those who don't know, silver gums have a grey bark that's really reflective at night. The area had a few scattered about, so with a little wind and waving torches it gave the impression of some shiny thing moving in the dark. Later that night, a couple of koalas started carrying on which caused another big stir. All in all a fun trip.

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

The koalas were probably arguing about who gave clamydia to whom.

[@bsadewitz]

Indeed. What makes these accounts notable is that those explanations don't go the distance. Virtually all UFO case reports are fairly easily explained. This one is ... eh.

[@bsadewitz]

See, I have no idea what they are. I think it's unlikely that they're spacecraft. No, I don't think they're demons. I have NO IDEA what the phenomenon is--but I'm about, oh, 60-70% sure there is one. But simply coming up with ad hoc hypothetical explanations doesn't speak to the issue--any given account could be something like that, or it might not be. But what I don't understand is that if you think it was a plastic bag, why wouldn't you draw the conclusion that the bag blew away before you looked again? Did I misread your post? Or, put it this way: assume that you DID see a plastic bag that DID get blown in the wind to someplace. Then, you looked away, started running, then looked back. During the time you were looking away, the wind had picked it up and blown it elsewhere. I'm just curious why you assume you were actually "seeing things". It sounds like an accurate memory of something unremarkable. You don't need hallucination/mass hysteria to explain it, and what you're describing doesn't sound like mass hysteria--which is called "mass psychogenic illness, btw". I know people throw the term around, but that isn't even close. THIS is mass psychogenic illness: "The braid chopping or hair cutting incidents occurred in different parts of India in the month of July -August 2017. A study was conduct to comprehensively analyze the causal factors of this particular MPI phenomenon. Case study method of research was adopted for this study and 9 cases were studied by using unstructured interview method. These 9 cases were reported in different region of Gujarat. Only police reported cases were studied as investigative team was formed by the Crime Investigation Department, (CID) Gujarat, to reach the bottom of the epidemic and control it as soon as possible. The findings indicate that all the victims shared some common characteristics in terms of gender, level of education, socio economic condition, mental set up, kind of illness during the time of incident, level of stress, satisfaction level with present living conditions, past history, etc. " d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/63987682/Braid_Chopping_A_mass_psychogenic_illness20200721-73241-1d5wfuw-libre.pdf

[@dimadobrik4516]

I first understood it as a bright blue humanoid bird and now I'm kinda disappointed 😂

[@Dixie_N0rmis]

To answer your question about school bells Simon.. it depends on the teacher. I had teachers that would tell students to wait until dismissed and others that expected the kids to rush out when the bell rang. I had classes where kids would line up at the door waiting for the bell to ring before darting out and even had teachers that would dismiss students 30 second's before the bell.

[@marcbeebee6969]

I had a Spanish teacher. She had amazing bells. ❤

[@Dixie_N0rmis]

​@@marcbeebee6969 campanas 🔔

[@marcbeebee6969]

@@Dixie_N0rmis dicke Glocken

[@TheKrispyfort]

same experience. some consistency would have been helpful

[@LeNeovein]

"The bell doesn't dismiss you, I dismiss you"

[@netzach13]

My Dad was there. They were all told not to talk about it

[@LeBassisteRouge]

I believe the device in films is called a mcguffin. I find people's descriptions of so called "flying saucers" hilarious. Either they want us to see them or they somehow have figured out interstellar travel but can't figure out how to see in the dark with how they always have their lights on.

[@Mustis91]

maybe they make themselves visible and turn the lights on so people think they're weather balloons or planes instead of spaceships! problem solved

[@bartstewart8644]

And they are constantly crashing! There are hundreds of tales of "crashed saucers." They can negotiate the Oort Cloud and the Asteroid Belt, but a thunderstorm in New Mexico and down they go.

[@wingerding]

The maguffin describes a plot device with no real meaning. The idol in Indiana Jones is a maguffin.

[@wendybrenner2614]

Woohoo! Good afternoon fellow decoders. I can't wait to see what Simon rips into a tangent about . I love his wry sarcasm and wit. Very British humor and I love it. Crack on mate!

[@DannySalter]

That poor dog, though. I had nightmares about that for years.

[@winobint]

I don’t know if this helps Danny, but I think your teacher was making up a story and drawing info from another tale from hundreds of years ago. Google Saint Guinefort. (It’s still sad though)

[@applegal3058]

Yeah, that's just awful to tell a group of kids!

[@highallmighty233]

It's no doubt based of an old story to teach children not to jump to conclusions. Search The Legend of Gelert, Faithful Hound

[@helenr4300]

At our end of term assemblies in junior school the deputy head would read from the county RTA reports to scare us into not getting run over during the holidays. eg ' boy 5, ran out behind parked car chasing ball - broken leg' but also including examples that ended with the word 'fatal'. I knew that was not good but at least didn't recognise until later that 7-11 yr olds were being told of other children being killed in car crashes!!!

[@michellee1190]

I can only begin to imagine what it must be like to have seen… Something… Regardless of whether you thought it was from outer space, or not, and have a bunch of people, including your own family, dismiss you as either a liar, or drunk, or on drugs. That must be so frustrating, particularly since they could just dismiss it as a weather, balloon, or some thing, as Simon says. But they didn’t simply dismiss it as a weather, balloon or something. Apparently, this woman specifically called out the fact that people were telling her that she was either drunk or on drugs, and that she didn’t see anything. That she saw something isn’t unbelievable. I don’t understand why it would be so hard for people to just acknowledge that. To have people refuse to acknowledge that, particularly family, since you were a kid, that’s gonna be upsetting to say the least. That’s gonna to something to a person.

[@SamuelBlack84]

People are afraid of the concept of it all. That's the answer The possibility of something existing that is far beyond your meagre comprehension would scare the living hell out of you

[@matthewloiacono6934]

us Aussies would hand E.T a beer & say 'get this up ya ' cheers 😂

[@CrankyQuokka]

I heard about this as a kid in the 70's, growing up near Dandenong. Haven't thought about it in a loooong time. Bought back some nice memories.

[@basaltplainscreationsaustr1194]

In Australia "Cessna" is a generic term for light aircraft. We were still using tailed drogues for dogfight training up until the late 1980s. I am an ex RAAF armourer.

[@JoshSweetvale]

"Weather balloon" seems to be universal codetalk for "military balloon." From the Roswell nuclear sensor to these drogues.

[@phuckpootube6231]

You don't know shite, and are full of it.

[@bp110]

I once got suspended from school for three days because i skipped one day, it didn't seem like much of a punishment to me

[@andreaarchaeology]

Omg I was obsessed with this case for YEARS. Even though I'm a complete skeptic now, I need an explanation for what happened that day!!

[@TheKrispyfort]

Aussie teens and Carltons, VBs, and maybe a Tooheys or two.

[@MCsCreations]

Search for the Brazilian official UFO night. I'm a skeptic as well, but I still can't explain it. There was even military jets involved and the government, a military dictatorship at the time, called the press and told everything that happened. I'd love to put my hands at some radar data from that event...

[@TheMissiIe]

​@@TheKrispyfortChuck in a bottle of Bundy and a slab of Woodstock, then mix it with low quality MDMA

[@missgreen101]

​@@TheKrispyforti reckon just a mix of how memory is unreliable and people making shit up. I feel we often disregard how much folks will just talk shit and sometimes end up believing their own nonsense.

[@TheKrispyfort]

@@missgreen101 if you wanna roll your eyes and think "they're full of crap" I could tell you actual events from my childhood. Is kinda out there.

[@user-ok4pk2mp3e]

When I heard, "...along with a group of witnesses of undetermined size," my first thought was, "Well, the witnesses were children, so they were probably small."

[@NikkyElso]

10:20 yes, every American student has Almost certainly heard the phrase "the bell does not dismiss you, I do" or perhaps the new version since they started talking about letting teachers pack heat "You get dismissed by the Glock not by the clock"

[@sigifrith30]

He's finally covering this! Can't wait to watch it. There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this incident

[@stephenpomfret5068]

I believe its a genuine ufo encounter.but we will never know,it's to covered up.

[@Werevampiwolf]

As an American, I've always heard it called PE and prior to hearing Simon mention it a few times, I'd always assumed Gym was a British thing, at least for referring to the class. We did call the building that was built for PE classes to take place in was called The Gym. Though it was very common for PE classes at my school to actually take place in The Gym. It was usually outside.

[@cfc326]

lol exactly, PE class takes place in the gym. Makes me wonder where he gets his "info" about us.

[@lauren3173]

I’m American and it was called Gym for me. I was confused when I first encountered it being referred to as PE. Sometimes that still throws me off.

[@helenr4300]

@@cfc326 TV shows?

[@SamuelBlack84]

I always hated PE Especially circuit training

[@horrormoviereactions]

I'm in the US and my area referred to it as PE and gym interchangeably.

[@lexington.]

Found out about this wild event when I went to buy a house nearby the highschool so this should be a good watch to learn about it more.

[@MisterPlanePilot]

Simon every episode: you have to keep an open mind and be able to change your opinions Also Simon: NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, that's not real, I don't believe that, you're on drugs, that's not logical, etc. Like Simon dude 😅

[@drkswordsman]

I feel Simon's pain when it comes to stories where you don't learn what caused the disaster. I wasted 3 seasons watching Falling Skies waiting for an episode detailing the alien invasion that never came 😖

[@totalrando3156]

Invasion canceled killed me

[@MCsCreations]

That's why I like Spielberg's Taken. Much better, references actual people and stories that people really believe... And it has a conclusion.

[@drkswordsman]

@@MCsCreations Taken was SO good!

[@Potatoshaneko]

Same for Colony, building up to this big war with 2 Alien races, the attack begins in the last episode of season 3 and season 4 was cancelled. Infuriating because I really enjoyed that show =[

[@MCsCreations]

@@drkswordsman I have it in "legit" DVDs. 😁

[@tenzhitihsien888]

It's funny how Simon is always going down lengthy memory lane tangents but then claims that he doesn't really reminisce because he hates when people are telling these sorts of lengthy stories.

[@stevekaspar1396]

Exactly... and can we find out what uppers he was on doing this video?

[@NoahSteel-wx8ry]

@@stevekaspar1396he really was on a different level for this video 😅 so much energy!!

[@johnskaterp]

​@NoahSteel-wx8ry didn't notice it until I read this thread. Now I can't not notice it. 😂😂

[@JohnSmith-rw2yn]

1 hour long? Simon really hasn't been let out of his basement studio jail this past week once you add up all the channels. Keep it up writer Danny, don't let him stop 😂

[@bunyipdragon9499]

The fun part is I lived in Westall in the '80's and whilst having a station and schools named for Westall there were those that persisted with calling it Clayton South. The thought of admitting to living at Westall was low but we thought they were just up themselves. The two areas are now quite well established and neither is any different from the other like most suburbs that overlap. And we don't say "throw another shrimp on the barbie" that was an ad for Americans in the late '80's that still haunts us 🇦🇺

[@djoecav]

Nice one. I've been looking for an American Cosmic audiobook, but a Simon Whistler episode will definitely do.

[@stevelee5724]

I thought that but I kept laughing. Especially Danny and Kevin's stuff..... Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@supertubaman2080]

5:45 "Maybe I'm that person. Maybe people think I'm weird." He's becoming self-aware

[@tolkienfan1972]

The thing that sticks out prominently is the fact everyone has a different story. And not differences in interpretation. Substantial differences. Some seeing a UFO darting around with Cessnas chasing, some seeing no Cessnas but multiple UFOs, some seeing a saucer shape and others seeing a cigar. The entire school can't see very well and can't count.

[@cuzzydonnellan5010]

Rip Australia's education department

[@robumf]

I would be more concerned if everyone tells The same tale. Even something as simple as a car accident, you will have different stories.

[@satanicmicrochipv5656]

Koala induced mass clamydia. Yep.

[@tolkienfan1972]

@@robumf some things stick in your memory. E.g. if I read out this list you'd for sure remember one item: seven, five, nineteen, two, gorilla, four, five, one. That is to say, something unusual, like an alien space raft darting around being chased by Cessnas, sticks in your head.

[@c.r.blankenship9040]

Well if the weather balloon looked like it did in the b roll, a saucer shaped reflection could have been traveling up and down the length of the balloon as it travelled, and some people might have only seen the reflection; meanwhile those who saw the cigar shape could see the whole shape for some reason

[@jaxgilbert1652]

I love Simon's tangents within a tangent.

[@donaldthomann1613]

Dear Simon. Yes. In the states, students get up and walk out of the class immediately when the bell rings. Some teachers tried to keep talking, but noone felt any obligation to listen.

[@weirdkitty07]

I have done this experiment with a mylar balloon over the park. Once the balloon gets up into the wind, it flips around and moves like it's controlled. It isn't powered. It's just the wind. Then when it goes out of sight, because it rises, it is then gone. Another balloon disappeared when it popped and crashed in pieces to the ground.

[@MarcinSzyniszewski]

I share Simon's frustration with the briefcase problems in the cinema xD

[@michaelcleary7065]

Dunno if it's just because I'm an old skool business blaze fan but Danny's scripts are always awesome

[@truthisoutthere6721]

I actually know one of the kids who was there. They actually have physical proof of the ufo. There was silvery metallic slime that the ufo left behind on the grass. This kid actually got some in a glass jar. I saw it several times. It moves like mercury. You can’t open the jar or it will make you nauseated. I used to play with this kid in our neighborhood. Haven’t seen him in several years. Hope he’s ok.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA! Previously known as Tanglefoot.

[@erichloehr5992]

This is the Brain-Blaziest Decoding the Unknown I think Simon has inflicted on us

[@ajdean2974]

Seven minutes!! Nice!! I listen to you every day while getting ready for work, Simon. Keep it up!!!

[@eetadakimasu]

do you know about all of his other channels?

[@robynsmith4164]

Seven (7) minutes? This episode was 1:02:02 (one hour two minutes and two seconds long). Did I misunderstand what you meant?

[@ajdean2974]

@@robynsmith4164 I posted my comment seven minutes after the video went up

[@ajdean2974]

@@eetadakimasu I do!! I rotate between them based on how I'm feeling 😀

[@eetadakimasu]

@@ajdean2974 same!

[@joeyjohnson477]

I am absolutely here for Simons rants. They are pure gold

[@rachaelchappell317]

For the story told in assembly, the version I've heard of is Welsh folklore. The below from Wikipedia: Gelert (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɛlɛrt]) is a legendary wolfhound associated with the village of Beddgelert (whose name means "Gelert's Grave") in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.[1] In the legend, Llywelyn the Great returns from hunting to find his baby missing, the cradle overturned, and Gelert with a blood-smeared mouth. Believing the dog had devoured the child, Llywelyn draws his sword and kills Gelert. After the dog's dying yelp, Llywelyn hears the cries of the baby, unharmed under the cradle, along with a dead wolf which had attacked the child and been killed by Gelert. Llywelyn is overcome with remorse and buries the dog with great ceremony, but can still hear its dying yelp. After that day, Llywelyn never smiles again.

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

And now I know where Neopets got the name. Thanks for adding the story.

[@RedHotMessResell]

The bell ringing in my American public school meant classes changed UNLESS you had an asshole for a teacher who would said “the bell doesn’t dictate when you leave. I DO.” 😂

[@quantumfoam539]

Make a video on Fravor's story in Nimitz from the UFO hearing.

[@robotx4242]

Or the Japan airline incident. UFO reports from on duty professionals with collaborating radar data.

[@a7734999]

3 "weather ballons" were launched, five chase planes were dispatched to follow . If the ballons had some sort of flashing light that made them temporarily visible but at random times. Wouldn't that look like the "single" object was flashing up and down and all around?

[@mariya_tortilla]

they were super special space age light up physics defying balloons

[@iraniansuperhacker4382]

@@mariya_tortilla supralogical balloons

[@trevorwilliams6362]

I absolutely love Simon out here showing us why being sociopathic doesn't necessarily mean being hateful or evil is rather refreshing 😊

[@BoycottChinaa]

Projection

[@trevorwilliams6362]

@BoycottChinaa a bit, for sure! I'm definitely not ashamed to be on that spectrum ❤️ There's so many wonderful people that have sociopathic tendencies, and the negative and unrealistic stigma brings people too much pain, to be honest

[@Vaeldarg]

@@trevorwilliams6362 Sociopathic doesn't mean what you seem to think it means....Simon seems pretty clearly capable of natural emotions, which sociopaths famously are not and have to learn them from others. If you were proudly sociopathic, you wouldn't feel the need to put so much emotion (like a heart emoji) into your comment.

[@trevorwilliams6362]

@Vaeldarg anti-social personality disorder is a spectrum, and there are absolutely people on that spectrum that feel natural emotion. Sociopath and psychopath are mostly just easy reference points from the past now, since both are just called aspd now. I said, "I'm not ashamed," too, though. Proud is a weird word for it But if I wanna appeal to people, it makes complete sense to put little heart emojis and shit like that ❤️

[@miikaura]

​@Vaeldarg if theyve been diagnosed, their doctor knows a lot more than you lmfao. sociopathy (aspd) is absolutely a spectrum, with different presentations even just among females and males, not to mention age, social class, etc. people with aspd do have emotions, they do feel, and they do recover.

[@katlynlacroix5261]

Hey Simon, I just wanted to let you know that I related so hard to hating gym class. I was drinking coffee when you talked about it, and thinking back made me giggle so much I had to spit my coffee down myself/onto my desk so I didn't choke. Thanks for the chuckle ❤

[@Rosellian08]

My teacher in sixth grade was one of the students who saw the UFO. She told the class about it once, I went home after school that day and tried to find anything about it on the internet. I couldn’t. Always thought she was a little loopy, I guess not

[@michellehinkel4905]

Yes Simon, the bell means "Run! You have 2 minutes to get to your next class!"

[@JoeAuthor]

I desperately want a DTU episode where the basement writers give Simon an entire script about how Simon is NOT an immortal reptiloid in a skin suit from hollow earth, harshing the hell out of the unknown on behalf of the secret world gov cabal while transmitting instructions to the audience's mass subconscious via hidden digital signals buried in the audio track. Bonus points if ghosts and demons can be squeezed into the script!

[@MikeBaxterABC]

9:50 THAT has always bugged me too, in every school I have attended in Canada (including College) the bell ring, was meant as an approximate time the class ended!! :) ... you had to wait to be dismissed.

[@6Shroomie9]

Simon's rant about unfinished endings made me think of Se7en: "what's in the box?!"

[@Meganec3810]

Lol always love the Simon and Danny videos

[@emmaphillips3847]

My friend went to this school!! This all happened a few years before him but those who saw it, swear they were not mistaking the craft for an air balloon.

[@lorieunicorn]

Ah Simon. Keep ranting. It keeps my spirits up.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

The bell-ringing thing, at least in my school in New York (STATE! IT'S A *HUGE* STATE NOT JUST A CITY :p), generally signified that you can leave but it really depended on the teacher and the context. If they said to wait of course you were expected to listen, and some might make it a 'thing' that you can't move til they excuse you... a lot of that sort of thing is up to the teacher. The trope of the whole class getting rowdy and grabbing their shit and running and the teacher trying to shout over the escaping pupils at the bell is a thing and I think it's most common but it's not guaranteed. It's not like a civil right or something LOL

[@Hikari_Ishimori]

Fun fact Simon, here where I live in the southern US if you forget your gym clothes you get to do your gym exercises in your normal clothes and then have to wear those the rest of the day if you had gym early in the day and it was terrible

[@mbathroom1]

last time I was this early, UFOs didn't exist

[@cricutcraftscrime]

😂 same

[@JohnRidley12]

Just started. I've got a feeling this will be the time it turns out they were real

[@evapreu3011]

So far it's ten minutes of Simon rambling about stuff he did and then claiming he doesn't like to be reminicent 😂

[@denisemcdougal6445]

😂😂😂

[@darlenefraser3022]

UFOs have ALWAYS existed! 😂😂😂

[@Silentgrace11]

“I’m not going to put [my jacket] on, it’s warm today.” Oh good, Danny and the basement crew are making good headway on escape attempt number 478 by setting the basement on fire~

[@c4flame]

I love Simon’s idea that the military is just regularly capable of defying the laws of aviation for random experiments

[@australien6611]

Thats because he understands that the military is probably 15 years ahead of anything youve seen b4. Just like 20 years ago a drone would have looked like a ufo to you

[@theakiwar9118]

I mean people where seeing triangular UFOs which „defied the laws of physics“. They were prototypes of the B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber

[@davidt3563]

​@@australien6611They had trouble with the F35 because it was flying too fast to take in oxygen into the engine. There is no way we were flying that fast in the 70s. They were flying the B2 back then.

[@australien6611]

@@davidt3563 that fast? By an hysterical childs estimate anything could be "fast"

[@c4flame]

@@australien6611 no it would’ve looked like a small airplane. Drones aren’t earth shattering technology. They still follow all the principles the average person understands. They’ve never come out with anything beyond comprehension

[@holyheretic3185]

I'm noticing a very common factor with these. There's always a joint US base nearby and we do love our secrets.

[@buddhamack1491]

You ALWAYS write down what happened. If you witness, or are involved in, anything significant write down as much as you can as soon as practical and never waver from this. Details you remember later cannot be trusted. This was advice from my father who worked in prosecution. If you're ever questioned about that event you can just direct this person to your written statement. If you're asked to elaborate on it, don't.

[@December954]

YES!!!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR SIMON TO DO THIS ONE FOREVER!!!!!

[@troygarza5720]

Simon probably the most successful dude from his school and graduating class and he's like eww who wants to Go brag about bullshit.

[@benjaminharcourt4861]

I don't use social media either, Simon! I rely on good old correspondence. I text, call, and write letters to people and keep an effort to reach out to people every so often.

[@valolafson6035]

And youtube comments.

[@imustbecrazy5626]

A McGuffin. The thing that does the thing.

[@roaldpage]

My father and I once saw a large round object hovering back and forth in the sky about 200 ft above our town's old folks home. Ironically this very seniors living center was for many years home to one of the air force people involved in the development of the Avro VZ-9 Avrocar flying saucer. He even gave me a copy of an old photograph of him proudly standing in a large group of other air force men around their invention. I can't say whether the craft we saw in the sky above the home was a later incarnation of air force saucer hovering over the old folks home keeping tabs on their old comrade, or an alien ship. Though the fact that this resident had been involved in such a project certainly cast doubt upon the latter once we learned of it a decade after the encounter.

[@timareskog2418]

Simon you need to come to Australia so we can teach you Australian and how to pronounce the names of our localities. You got Melbourne perfect but not Laverton or a few others.

[@miikaura]

more-a-bin instead of muh-rabbin had me CACKLING

[@jajssblue]

I love a good Simon rant!

[@kevenrdavenport108]

Jolly good show Tangent Boy

[@1331km1]

Drinking beer at 3:00pm? Woah watch out!! 😂😂😂 That really got someone's knickers in a bunch i bet.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

Government: It was just a balloon used for testing that got loose and blew off course. The Public: You're lying. Random internet stranger with no credentials whatsoever: I used to work in the government's secret extra terrestrial tech research lab and I can tell you that was no mere balloon. The Public: I KNEW IT!!!

[@bsadewitz]

Yeah, but who cares about the cases that are explaned? I am only interested in the ones that aren't, lol.

[@lessthnthree_cris]

Honestly, I read Westall in Australia, and still was convinced it couldn't be the Westall literally 15 minutes from where I lived, and went 30 years with noone telling me about it!

[@Pushing_Pixels]

If Simon had been on the Titanic, he would've gone down with the ship having never left his cabin, after repudiating the exhortations of the crew urging him to abandon ship and reminding them with unwavering confidence that "everybody knows the ship is unsinkable, and if the ship hit something it must've been a whale".

[@toddaulner5393]

I really enjoyed watching Lost all over again a couple times.

[@GIBBO4182]

It looks like factboy is just a floating head at times! 😂

[@melissapinol7279]

My husband and his family saw something strange in the sky after a fairly big Earthquake in San Pablo CA in the 50's. However, it wasn't something huge being chased by military planes! He said it was an unusual light visable during the day moving very fast. Someone later told him it might have been the phenomena called "Earthquake lights" which are supposed to be a Geomagnetic effect. His story was unusual, this was incredible.

[@brandonbrown7312]

So early I dont know what to type, shave ya beard simon 😂

[@mwhitelaw8569]

Thanks whistleboy Haven't thought about high school for quite awhile now . Dear God man

[@maledictionwolf]

Only half of the school seeing something at recess makes perfect sense to me. Letting the whole school outside at the same time would have been impossible to monitor with a student body of a couple hundred, hell even small schools typically don't let the entire school out into the playing fields at the same time. And I've been to schools in both the UK and the US, both small (total kids in my year about 60) and large (total kids in my year over 1,000).

[@sallybates4954]

That is not my experience in Australia. There are different play areas for years K to 2 and years 3 to 6 in primary schools but not even that for high school (years 7 to 12). Recess and lunch have always been at the same time for everyone. It is still the same for my kids now.

[@mitchellannis-brown2487]

​@sallybates4954 same here. My high school had near 1500 kids and lunch was always the same time for everyone.

[@leobeboop4944]

I've been to quite a few school (in the uk) and all of them had all the kids out at the same time

[@Skullet]

That definitely isn't standard practice in UK schools, all of the kids get out at the same time. That was the case when I was at school back in the 80's and 90's and is the same now that my kids are at school. Also this incident didn't happen during a break, it happened while most of the kids were in class.

[@harryzain]

I feel the same as Simon when it comes to TV shows or movies that hang 😅

[@CaseyBDook]

I have seen many flying saucers in my life. Every one of them designed and built by a terrestrial being, not aliens. I've seen plenty of UFOs and UAPs, but that's down to my inability to identify them rather than aliens.

[@Nethershaw]

"Object; Perhaps Balloon" 10/10 would click again

[@Wakadoodl613]

Okay .. Who spiked the Vegemite...

[@Talia.Ryn710]

Great episode! I really enjoyed this one.

[@riabeweeb1018]

Haven’t finished the video yet, my bets are mass hysteria

[@Bob-Jenkins]

Induced from a meandering, stoned and horny snarl of Drop Bears is what my dollarydoos are riding on. I'm just starting the video myself, I've my breakfast coffee and am keen for some 'Simon I-Digress Whistler"

[@Nethershaw]

That stock clip of the dude in the suit going "shhhhh" got a _lot_ of play.

[@jbrentonheights9190]

Does Simon know that the US government revealed that UFOs are real.... Can you do an episode on that?

[@emmaphillips3847]

I just commented this. He should perhaps stop dismissing aliens and start watching the current US congressional hearings. Non human biological matter.... eeeeek

[@starwyn7]

This has probably been the funniest episode of Simon’s tangents 😂 love it!

[@EdBarry-l9v]

In our school if you forgot your PE kit, you could either do it in your school uniform (thus rendering you sweaty and prickly for the rest of the day) or our PE teacher would select for you the grimiest cast-offs from the lost property bin to wear. You would not avoid PE!

[@saraseifert6005]

26:01 I had to look this show up! Never seen it before. I gotta watch an episode after this.😊

[@olencone4005]

That high-pitched Australian Mickey Mouse voice edit was waaaaaaaay more hilarious than it should be haha! :P

[@wooweetbix9412]

Your accent when yah said Melbourne was actually pretty spot on 👌