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Wycliffe Well is the UFO capital of Australia. According to a brochure that belongs to Wycliffe Well Holiday Park hotel, "UFO sightings are so common, that if you stayed up all night looking, you would be considered unlucky not to see anything, rather than lucky to see something."


The sightings started during WWII. Australian servicemen stationed there kept records of unidentified objects seen at night.

The records were kept in a book at the front desk of a restaurant for everyone to read. But the book disappeared in 1990. Since then, the inhabitants started a new book of records.

Wycliffe Well lies on Stuart Highway, 130 km from Tennant Creek and 380 km north of Alice Springs. 


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