Australian Newspaper (The Inverell Times)

History

The Inverell Times served the town of Inverell and the surrounding sapphire and tin mining districts of northern New South Wales. Published as a regional paper, it covered local news, pastoral and mining industry affairs, and community events for a readership in the New England and North West Slopes region. Inverell sits on the Macintyre River, roughly 600 kilometres north of Sydney, in country characterised by open grazing land and scattered bush.

The archive holds clippings from 1932 to 1954. The early 1932 date places at least one report well before the modern UFO era, capturing a pre-war anomalous aerial observation from rural New South Wales. The remainder of the collection covers the post-1947 flying saucer wave, when the New England region produced sighting reports from farming communities across the Northern Tablelands and slopes.