Australian Esoteric Australian Esoteric Issue 4 | Page 8

In 1960 a petrol pump was
installed to supply fuel to travellers. Since
then the town has become a tourist
stopover point for those hoping to have
their own UFO sighting. A binder book
containing details of UFO sightings from
this era was kept until it was stolen from
the tourist park’s front counter some years
ago. Records of sightings from the 1990s
have since been kept by the tourist park
staff.
Wycliffe Well is said to be a
‘power-spot,’ sitting at the crossroads of
several ley lines, a site of geographical
importance. It's 25km from the Devil's
Marbles, called Karlu Karlu by local
Indigenous traditional custodians. The
rocks are culturally and spiritually
significant objects of the Original people.
Most of the conservation reserve is a
Registered Sacred Site, protected under the
Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites
Act. Although Karlu Karlu is within
country originally belonging to the
Alyawarre people, all of the other local
Aboriginal groups, which include the
Kaytetye, Warumungu and Warlpiri
people, also have spiritual connections and
responsibilities for the area.
In traditional culture, they were not
free to visit all parts of the Devils Marbles
as they pleased. There were places that
were considered so dangerous, that only
certain Elders were allowed to visit them
for important ceremonial purposes. In fact,
the part of Karlu Karlu where visitors now
camp was strictly out of bounds for most
of the Original people because it is a
sacred site for both men and women.
Alyawarre Elders still hold the stories and
songs for the area today. These senior
people visit the central area to maintain the
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site and teach younger men and women
about the sacredness of this place.
Although the astronaut-like
Wandjina paintings are only found in the
Kimberley (WA) region of Australia, all
our Original people were star-gazers and
held many legends about beings in the sky
that were told and retold around campfires.
In the Northern Territory they observed the
movement of the bright stars we call
Arcturus and Vega, and tribes around the
country watched for the appearance of the
appearance of the Pleiades - or the Seven
Sisters.
The sightings at Wycliffe Well are
not sporadic, they are reported
continuously, day and night, year-round.
They often appear at first as stationary
lights hovering on the horizon, only to
zoom off very rapidly. Descriptions of
craft from the region include: cigar-,
square- and rectangular-shape; shapes that
start out square then morph into circular;
pulsating and flashing lights; orange, green
and red spinning lights or beams of
different colours that shoot out in all
directions.