Australian Newspaper (The Sunday Herald)

History

The Sunday Herald was a Sydney broadsheet published from 1949 to 1953, when it merged with The Sun-Herald. Produced by John Fairfax and Sons, it served as the Sunday edition alongside The Sydney Morning Herald and targeted a weekend audience with longer feature articles, analysis, and pictorial spreads. Its brief four-year run coincided almost exactly with the peak of Australia's first flying saucer wave.

The archive holds clippings from 1949 to 1952, a concentrated period that captured some of Australia's most reported UFO events. The Sunday format gave journalists more column space to explore sighting reports in depth, including interviews with witnesses and commentary from defence officials.