In 1978, a 20-year-old Australian pilot named Frederick Valentich took off on a routine solo flight across Bass Strait. He never arrived.

Before vanishing, Valentich radioed air traffic control with a chilling transmission: he was being followed by an unknown aircraft. "It's not an aircraft," he said, just moments before all contact was lost. No wreckage was ever found. Only a cryptic transmission and decades of speculation remain.

This is the mystery of Frederick Valentich, a case that continues to baffle investigators, UFO researchers, and aviation experts nearly 50 years later.

Was it disorientation? A staged disappearance? Or something otherworldly?

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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:03 – Who Was Frederick Valentich
02:22 – The Last Flight
04:21 – Search & Investigation
07:09 – The Theories
10:28 – Conclusion

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