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Sights and Sites WYCLIFFE WELL Australia’s UFO Capital Image Credit: http://www.exploreaustralia.net.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WYCLIFFE-WELL.jpg Wycliffe Well – located on the Stuart Highway 380 kilometres north of Alice Springs and 130 kilometres south of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia – lays credible claims to being Australia’s foremost UFO hotspot, and is listed on many websites as one of the top five sites for ET craft sightings in the world. Its history coincides with that of the post-WWII phenomenon in general, with hundreds of UFO sightings having been reported in the area during that seventy-odd year period. Locals say you have to be unlucky not to experience a sighting here. Several points set Wycliffe Well apart from other sighting locations: it is quite close to the Devils Marbles, also known as the Sacred Site of Karlu Karlu to the Original People; it is in a sparsely populated region, hence it would be unlikely that ETs would be visiting to observe or manipulate humanity; and it is especially notable for the sheer volume of UFO sightings year after year. The town today consists of not much more than a roadhouse, a bar, a 25 hectare tourist park which includes a recreational lake for fishing and boating… plus three life-size Alien figures and a large model UFO. It began as a watering point along the stock route for the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1860s. During World War II the Well became a market garden centre to service troops and, at the end of the war, two soldiers stayed on to continue selling vegetables and garden produce to Alice Springs.