Unraveling the Enigma: The Vanishing of Frederich Valentich
Investigating the perplexing case of pilot Frederich Valentich, who mysteriously disappeared while flying over the Bass Strait in 1978. His last radio transmission mentioned a strange aircraft-like object stalking him, leading to speculation of extraterrestrial involvement. It remains one of Australia’s most baffling unsolved aviation mysteries.
@michhaynes7272
Very interesting 🤔 loved listening.
@raflim
It’s baby Steph!!!!! I love it. Love going back to old videos whilst listening to them during my graveyard shift
@aninhascs3735
Dementors
@rulenevandersteen7835
Great job, Stephanie! 🎉Exceptionally well researched,
mind blowingly well represented. ❤
@SabrinaBrown0402
If it wasn’t UFO’s, then I can see how the stress in his life would send someone to commit self harm. Couldn’t pass the pilot test, just proposed, apples of his parents eye. It’s allot.
@slushpuppi9745
I think I speak for all of Australia when I say we do NOT sound anything like that 🇦🇺🇦🇺
@susanwagner900
The world is interested in UFOs. I'm interested in the story of Frederick Valentich. U strayed from that into general UFOs.
@Phi1Productions
It makes sense after learning that he was a UFO crackpot.
@alexanderroos6899
I think he planned it out really good to fake his disappearance the UFO story was just a act to get people to think he got addicted by aliens he fake it so well
@ashleymoorhouse1749
Regarding planes loosing parts look into TFOA forms, Things Falling Off Aircraft. Happens way more than you think.
@lareinabrown
What if he was having fear induced psychosis? He said he was afraid of flying over water and aliens seemed to be on his mind a lot. What if when he started flying over the water, he basically panicked so much that he caused himself to genuinely believe he was seeing aliens
@mtbmtb7873
I think hi od kidnaping
@grant9301
Great video by the way! I forgot to say that! Note – It's RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) Aussie NOT RAF (Royal Air Force) British
@peevee7957
and it was called kingstin not west
@sundance81677
Can’t tell or won’t tell??
@mov1196
I know you're doing your best, but I have to tell you- a cowling isn't a flap. A cowling is to a plane what a hood is to a car- it's just an engine covering.
@pauldunlea3669
Check out Westall 66 documentry
@pauldunlea3669
I believe he was abducted by aliens. A friend of mines Father flew that rented plane before Fred did and he said there was nothing wrong with the plane
@iamme5720
ask about the missing 17seconds of the tape that Richard Haines has in his position that he let me and 3 others hear in the fall of 1981 when he lived in the San Jose California area during his time with NASA. The sounds of soft timber bells could be herd on the radio in the missing 17 seconds .
@morticiaaddamz1
It kind of sounds like he staged it to start a new somewhere else or something I don’t know
@janetvansky3621
I just love your opening graphic!!!
@Alex-hr2df
The stupidest "explanation" of this disappearance is that he took his own life and wanted to make it easy on his family who believed in aliens. The plane was never found for heaven sake! Even NASA (one of the best cover-up players) expressed its belief that his recorded communication seemed real and the stress signs in his voice are convincing. The ONLY 2 probabilities out there are: he either crashed right after he "hallucinated a UFO" and
by pure coincidencehe's among the unlucky few who were never found, or he was abducted by aliens. The second is more rational to me. As for your explanation, sweetheart, you said it (44:09) these are "theories" popping into your head as you're talking. You better know that these are called conjectures, not theories. And they are baseless.@nicoleweiler1105
is it just me, or does that first recording of the pilot and the air control tower in Melbourne sound absolutely completely fake????
Edit- lmao I'm an idiot. Got to the end of the recording and she says it was a recreation. That makes much more sense. 🤣
@tjrune3432
If it wasn't for all the other occurrences and stories from other people and pilots, I would be questioning whether something such as schizophrenia might be involved in this incident. It would explain his track record with becoming disoriented, as well as any fascination with UFOs.
@vegan_guac
Whether he was depressed about not being able to become a pilot, or maybe he may have been on something, but it sounds like he wanted to go out his way and leave behind a ufo story.
Edit: the fact that he didn't announce that he'll be arriving at the island says he wasn't planning to land at all 😔
@bogdiworksV2
"he was studying really hard" said his parents – clearly not, considering he failed all his classes – twice…
@LizzisLoxHair
I’m an Aussie (37 years old) and I’d never heard of the Rachel Funari case. I’d love to know more 🧡🧡🧡
@maxsabre5495
All novice pilots are menaces in the air when we start our careers. I don't know how you can judge whether he would have matured into a successful pilot or not using the wild conjecture based on scant or non existent (and libelous) evidence you put forward.
So what he failed his commercial pilot written exams? That proves he was some kind of flying knumbskull? No, it proves that Australian aeronautical knowledge exams are very tough (well known in the industry).
As for flying upside down without being aware of it, that cannot be done for any length of time in a C-182 because the engine would cut out. Pilots can easily get disoriented and enter unusual attitudes or spiral into the ground/water but to fly for the many minutes this encounter took while looking at some unexplained reflection in the water "above him" would actually have taxed even the best aerobatic pilot.
If he had become disoriented and the craft flipped on its back, the event would have been over very quickly and the heavy forces on the controls (due to increasing speed), howling wind noise and overspeeding propeller would have alerted even the clumsiest of pilots that he should stop looking at the whatever was distracting him outside and start doing something to right his airplane. There is no way he could have inadvertently flown the aircraft upside down and continued to calmly and blithely jabber along about his encounter for that many minutes.
And, there is no reflection on any surface that will replicate what he reported, while flying an aircraft.
That is just silly debunker BS hand waving that can only fool people that simply want to latch on to the flimsiest of explanations that allows them to go back to their comfy paradigm, but it does not make any sense. How does an aircraft cast such a mesmerizing and long lasting reflection at night over even the glassiest of water?
Calmly and lucidly expounding on his encounter while summoning the expert skills and concentration to purposely hold the aircraft upside down (as would be required for the length of the encounter) makes no sense either. Your explanation is far less convincing than the possibility of being snatched inflight by aliens. It's simply intellectually lazy and downright disgusting that you chose to disparage this boy who lost his life so mysteriously with such a facile and nonsensical "explanation" for the sake of expediently sweeping this event under the rug.
As for this being a manufactured event staged for some self aggrandizing purpose, that really smacks of debunker desperation syndrome. Not calling ahead to make sure lights are on for his landing is something I've seen many novice pilots forget to do, as a former flight instructor. It doesn't mean he never intended to land there.
He's also such a clutz but planned his escape and new life in Brazil or Antarctica so well he (or his craft) haven't been spotted in all these years !
At this point I had to stop watching.
Such a mysterious event will naturally invite conjecture and speculation, which is fine, so long as it is intelligently and honestly offered.
@stephanie_lai_
Totally great story!! Love this. But I think we should leave unidentified stuff as… unidentified stuff. Why try to identify everything? We're not the only living things in this universe! But must be scary with the sightings!!
@andream3623
I have searched all of YouTube and not ONE result for Rachel Funari? Someone had to have covered this even tho Stephanie didn't? Now im curious about her story and case.
@ginah.6243
I think he made the story up (it matching Close Encounters clenched for me). He probably then crashed accidentally.
@kevanhubbard9673
It might make perfect sense as to how the flap got to Flinders Island but obviously you'd have to know about ocean currents in the Bass Straight to know what direction they go in.Remember that a flap and other bits possibly from Malaysian 370 have washed up on Reunion Island off Madagascar yet the plane was flying Kula Lumpur to Beijing on the other side of the Indian Ocean (although where it actually went is an unknown).