The Terrifying Kelly Cahill UFO and Alien Encounter Case

The Terrifying Kelly Cahill UFO and Alien Encounter Case

Kelly Cahill experienced an Alien Abduction and endured visitations which continued after her initial contact. Many considered her case one of the most terrifying, otherworldly and important encounters ever reported at that time. It began on August 7, 1993 when a Grippsland, Australia, woman named Kelly Cahill saw a UFO and what she believed were aliens. It occurred near Melbourne and there were other witnesses including her husband Andrew. While a 300 page report was prepared by a regional paranormal investigative group, it was never released due to disagreements with a local UFO investigator. Four other witnesses in two other cars gave their testimonies, then refused to speak publicly and disappeared.

Kelly's story was verified by her husband Andrew because he was in their car with her when it occurred. Cahill's case had all the ingredients of a classic alien abduction story: Missing time, a UFO capable of extreme speed and movements, bright lights, non-human creatures described by Kelly as 'Hooded figures with glowing eyes', and unexplained marks left on her body and those of other female witnesses.

According to the Cahills, the couple were driving along Belgrave-Hallam Road while en route to a friend's house when they saw five or six large orange lights in a distinctly circular shape like nothing they had ever seen before.

When they arrived at their destination and explained what happened, the whole thing just sounded silly. Kelly, her husband and friends laughed it off.

The Cahill's began driving back home on the same road around midnight when the couple saw what Kelly believed to be the same lights 'hanging above the road'. She later wrote, "I could then see that the orange lights were really windows . . . I could make out figures standing behind the portals". The object flew off 'at incredible speed', but soon after they saw it again in a paddock on the side of the road. After that, Mrs Cahill's memory blanked, 'like a cut to scene in a film', and their car had travelled about 600 feet on the road without them.

Kelly Cahill's 1996 book about her experience sold out. In the days and weeks that followed, she found strange marks on her body, including a small triangular wound below her bellybutton, and began experiencing stomach pains and night 'visitations' by tall black-hooded figures with lightly glowing red eyes. Through hypnosis, Kelly said she was able to unlock her 'missing time'. Her husband had pulled over and they'd got out of the car to get a better look at the brightly lit object in the paddock. Further back up the road, another car was parked, its occupants standing at the edge of the field.

A tall thin figure appeared in front of the object and Mrs Cahill heard in her mind its thoughts: "Let's kill them".

More beings appeared, unleashing an energy force that knocked Kelly to the ground as she screamed to her husband: "They've got no souls! They're evil! They're going to kill us!" And that's where her recollections ended. Then, the investigation began.

Sydney-based researcher Bill Chalker of the UFO Investigation Centre was one of the first people Mrs Cahill contacted after that night. He later called Kelly Cahill's case "an extraordinary lost opportunity".

Chalker knew this was an important case', but one that 'required a lot of feet on the ground and a lot of intensive field investigations'.

He alerted a loosely connected Melbourne group of paranormal investigators called Phenomena Research Australia [PRA], led by then-director John Auchettl.

Mr Auchettl interviewed Mrs Cahill many times and examined the scene of the alleged sighting near Eumemmering Creek. He and the PRA placed an ad in local newspapers in an effort to find the occupants of the second car.

Remarkably, they got a response and Mr Auchettl said the stories from the second car were identical to Mrs Cahill's but went even further, detailing experiences inside the mystery craft where they were strapped to a table and examined by the beings. According to the PRA, the women had the same triangular wounds near their navels, as well as other strange marks. There was even talk of a third car driven by a local lawyer, PRA discovered, whose story also lined up.

The researchers began prepping an exhaustive 300-page report that promised to reveal the truth.

Eventually the media got wind of the story and Kelly Cahill appeared on TV shows. Her story also ran in newspapers and magazines. By 1996, she was a regular and very popular guest speaker at UFO conventions and meetings. With every appearance, Mrs Cahill unveiled new tidbits from PRA's forthcoming report. Her book, “Encounter” published by Harper Collins, sold out and was quickly reprinted. It's currently out of print, but you can download a PDF copy here. By 1998, Kelly Cahill had disappeared from the scene and none of the other witnesses, including her ex-husband Andrew, had come out publicly to back her story. As for PRA's report, it was also nowhere to be seen. Aside from a brief moment of interest in 2016 when Mrs Cahill's case was name-dropped on The X-Files reboot by Fox Mulder himself, the 'Eumemmering Creek encounter' has gone down in infamy.

Remarkably, years on from the event, John Auchettl told the media it was possible the PRA's report might still come out, but not soon. "The case is so good," Mr Auchettl said.

"Our report is worthy of release, but we won't release it now because once we release our report, then we become the focus of the case.

Our idea was we would release the report and then bring the witnesses out.

At the moment we don't know where they are so if we release anything all the focus is going to be on us. We'll get hammered." He said the original 300-page report was whittled down to an unusable '100 pages or so' when the witnesses, including Mrs Cahill and her ex-husband, began to ask for information to be taken out of it. They refused to allow the publication of personal medical and psychological reports which the investigative group needed to back up their stories. Mr Auchettl also said that when Mrs Cahill went to the media and other UFO groups with her story in early 1994, it "muddied" the case.

Mr Chalker still believes Kelly's story, but regrets handballing the case to PRA in 1993. "There was a lot of bad blood that's passed between them and me as a consequence of their role in this case," Mr Chalker told the media. "I've seen a lot of information that suggests the investigation was carried out . . . but unfortunately they didn't want to share the material." He said he 'wasn't that impressed with the explanations that were put forward' by PRA for withholding the report. Mr Chalker wrote in his blog in 2016 he was 'determined never to pass a case onto them again'. "It was frustrating that such a promising case was caught up in a situation where the group involved chose not to make their data available," he wrote. Mr Chalker said UFO enthusiasts had a right to feel disappointed by PRA keeping their research secret.

"I can undertand the reaction from various members of the UFO research community," he said.

Kelly Cahill disappeared around 1998 feeling possibly torn between her religious views as a Pentecostal and her paranormal situation. Mr Chalker said that in the early 2000s she called him and sent him all her files which were kept in 'three large archival boxes'. She then left the country. Kelly is now back in the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland, the same region she was living in when her 'encounter' happened in 1993.

The media approached her for an interview, but she did not respond.

"She really wanted to take a low profile and put all this behind her," Mr Chalker said. "She spent a lot of time trying to raise the profile of this episode and wanted to have the other witnesses come out as well. "When it ultimately became pretty clear that she was going to be the only one that was going to go public on this, that's when she felt less confident about being the constant contact point on this case, particularly when PRA didn't back her up in terms of having the availability of all their case material that went with it."

While it's unclear how Kelly Cahill feels about it all today, for a lot of UFO enthusiasts in Australia her case is a good one that was simply mishandled by people less interested in facts and more interested in fame and reputations. Without access to the victim or witnesses I hesitate to try and understand the case. However, those odd body marks on the women make me think of cases where other women were taken and impregnated using tech. After several months they were taken again at which time the embryo was removed. This is why it's important to use commonality and objectivity when investigating the unexplained. Knowledge is your best tool and without all the available connected facts there is no way to get the job done.

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