Australian Newspaper (The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser)

History

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser served the New England region of northern New South Wales from the mid-nineteenth century. Published in Armidale, a university town on the Northern Tablelands, it covered local and regional news for a rural readership spread across the pastoral districts between Tamworth and the Queensland border.

The archive holds clippings from 1918 to 1954. Regional papers like the Armidale Express often carried sighting reports from farming communities where witnesses observed unusual aerial objects over open countryside, away from city lights and air traffic. The New England Tablelands produced several sighting reports during the early 1950s wave that swept rural New South Wales.