Along the 3,000-kilometre highway connecting the northern and southern tips of Australia lies a site once deemed the nation’s UFO capital. Now, it resembles a ghost town.
Welcome to Wycliffe Well, population zero. In 1985, Lew Farkas, a former sailor with the Royal Australian Navy, was looking for a change. At that time, the small roadhouse store presented an opportunity for Mr. Farkas, his wife, and their nine-month-old son.
“There was no other competition for hundreds of kilometers,” he said.
As the caravan park grew, strange things started happening, and the past owners revealed to him that there had been sightings of UFOs. He claims the previous owner kept these sightings secret to avoid spooking prospective buyers.
However, when a journalist from the Tennant Times newspaper wrote a story about potential sightings in the late 1980s, everything changed.
“That was it. I mean, once that got out in the media, afterward, I was getting phone calls from all over the world,” Mr. Farkas said.
A self-proclaimed skeptic of aliens, Mr. Farkas shifted the entire marketing of his business.
“Every aspect of Wycliffe Well had to become alien-oriented or space-oriented,” he said.
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