URECAT - UFO Related Entities Catalog

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1941, WEARYAN RIVER, NORTHERN TERRITORIES, AUSTRALIA, A NURSE:

Brief summary of the event and follow-up:

Authors of a 1989 book about mysteries reported that in February 1941, Wearyan River, Australia, a nurse went to an isolated village to take care of a man wounded by a bullet in the leg.

While she cured the wound, two men dressed in white robes as if they came out of a theater stage appeared and helped her.

When she looked up to thank them, they had disappeared. Several aboriginals were witnesses of this.

Basic information table:

Case number:	URECAT-000380
Date of event:	1941
Earliest report of event:	1989
Delay of report:	5 decades
Witness reported via:	Not known.
First alleged record by:	Mystery book.
First certain record by:	Ufology catalogue.
First alleged record type:	Mystery book.
First certain record type:	Ufology catalogue.
This file created on:	November 28, 2007
This file last updated on:	November 28, 2007
Country of event:	Australia
State/Department:	Northern Territories
Type of location:	Isolated village.
Lighting conditions:	Not reported.
UFO observed:	No
UFO arrival observed:	No
UFO departure observed:	No
UFO/Entity Relation:	None
Witnesses numbers:	1 or more
Witnesses ages:	Not reported. Adult or aged.
Witnesses types:	Nurse, villagers.
Photograph(s):	No.
Witnesses drawing:	No.
Witnesses-approved drawing:	No.

Number of entities:	2
Type of entities:	Human
Entities height:	Not reported.
Entities outfit type:	Long robe.
Entities outfit color:	White.
Entities skin color:	Not reported.
Entities body:	Not reported.
Entities head:	Not reported.
Entities eyes:	Not reported.
Entities mouth:	Not reported.
Entities nose:	Not reported.
Entities feet:	Not reported.
Entities arms:	Not reported.
Entities fingers:	Not reported.
Entities fingers number:	Not reported.
Entities hair:	Not reported.
Entities voice:	None heard.
Entities actions:	Help a nurse cure a man's bullet wound, disappear.
Entities/witness interactions:	Help a nurse cure a man's bullet wound.
Witness(es) reactions:	Observed.
Witness(es) feelings:	Thankful.
Witness(es) interpretation:	Not reported.
Explanation category:	Without explanation. Insufficient information, no credibility.
Explanation certainty:	High.

Narratives:

[Ref. kb1:] KEITH BASTERFIELD:

Keith Baskerfield indicates that in February 1941, in Wearyan River,, Northen Territories, a nurse attended an injured man in a remote area, when "two men appeared" and performed an operation on the man.

The source is indicated as "ASR 1(2):3."

[Ref. go1:] GODELIEVE VAN OVERMEIRE:

Godelieve Van Overmeire indicates that in February 1941, Wearyan River, Australia, a nurse went to an isolated village to go to look after a man wounded by a bullet in the leg. While she cured the wound, two men appeared, dressed in white robes as if they came out of a theater stage, and assisted her. When she looked up to thank them, they had disappeared. Several aboriginals were witnesses of this phenomenon.

Godelieve Van Overmeire indicates that the source is Janet and Colin Bord in "Modern Mysteries of the World", Guild Publishing London 1989, page 309.

Points to consider:

I have found no information on the real source of the story. It could well be some invention of some tabloid or other sensationalistic source. This and the lack of any detail or trace of investigation makes the story a low credibility story.

No UFO or any apparatus is mentioned, the two men are apparently human beings. Possibly they were just normal doctors in white blouse the nurse did not know were there, which had gone when she waned to thank them, which was possibly the only mystery to her, later distorted and rearranged as some more exotic mystery.

List of issues:

Id:	Topic:	Severity:	Date noted:	Raised by:	Noted by:	Description:	Proposal:	Status:
1	Data	Severe	November 28, 2007	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Primary source not known and not available.	Help needed.	Opened.
2	Ufology	Severe	November 28, 2007	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	Not enough information: no witnesses identified, no exact date, no duration, extremely meager description of events.	Help needed.	Opened.
3	Ufology	Severe	November 28, 2007	Patrick Gross	Patrick Gross	No trace of investigation or later counter investigation.	Help needed.	Opened.

Evaluation:

Without explanation. Insufficient information, no credibility.

Sources references:

* = Source I checked.
? = Source I am told about but could not check yet. Help appreciated.

[---] ? ASR, volume 1, #2, page 3.
[---] ? "Modern Mysteries of the World", book by Janet and Colin Bord, Guild Publishing, U-K., page 309, 1989.
[kb1] * "A Catalogue of Australian UFO Entity and Related Reports, case 072, compiled by Keith Basterfield, Australia, 1997, available at www.temporaldoorway.com/ufo/catalog/basterfieldaustralianentity.htm
[go1] * "Chronologie OVNI", web page compiled by Godelieve Van Overmeire, Belgium, circa 1999, à users.skynet.be/sky84985/chron8.html

Document history:

Authoring

Main Author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history

Version:	Created/Changed By:	Date:	Change Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	November 28, 2007	Creation, [kb1], [go1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	November 28, 2007	First published.

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