Gundiah Kidnap Mystery, October 21, 2001
By Brett Debritz
It is one of the strangest cases faced by police - tracking down space
aliens who abducted a Queensland woman.
And it is doomed to frustration, because even if they apprehend the
intergalactic kidnappers, the police have no power to prosecute anyone
from another planet.
Amy Rylance, 22, said she was abducted by an alien spacecraft in
Maryborough on October 4 and turned up 800km away in Mackay.
Ms Rylance, who was missing for just a few hours, said she had spent
what seemed like a week being investigated by an alien biologist.
She has three marks in a triangle on her thigh and others on her heel,
allegedly from the alien experiments.
Her husband Keith told The Fraser Coast Chronicle last week that the
abductor was human-sized, wore an anti-contamination suit and had a
`long, grey, large-eyed face'.
He said the creature told his wife telepathically she was not in
danger and invited her to touch its face which she did.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said he believed it would be a
matter for the Australian Federal Police if the offender was from
outer space.
But an AFP spokesman said he knew of no laws which allowed his
officers to act.
"I don't think there is the power in place to arrest an
extraterrestrial," he said.
Maryborough police said Ms Rylance could face charges if she made
false statements.
UFO Research Queensland Incorporated spokesman Martin Gottschall, at
the group's annual convention in Brisbane yesterday, said there had
been about 100 sightings of unidentified objects in Australia this
year.
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