1978-10-21 · Bass Strait, off King Island, Australia · AU
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Twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich vanished in a Cessna 182 over Bass Strait while radioing Melbourne flight service that an unidentified craft was orbiting his aircraft. Neither the plane nor the pilot has ever been recovered.