The Eumemmering Creek incident, subject of Kelly’s Cahill’s book Encounter, has frustrated UFO enthusiasts for 27 years.(ABC South West Victoria: Matt Neal)

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If her story is to believed, on August 7, 1993, Gippsland woman Kelly Cahill saw a UFO and beings from another world.

Key points:

• Intrigue surrounds Kelly Cahill’s claims of contact with a UFO and otherworldly beings on Melbourne’s outskirts in 1993

• The ‘Eumemmering encounter’, allegedly witnessed by others, has caused a rift between UFO and paranormal researchers

• Considered the potential ‘holy grail’ of alien abduction investigations, a 300-page report remains elusive

As detailed in her in 1996 book Encounter, Ms Cahill’s case had all the hallmarks of the classic alien abduction story of the era — lost time, strange spaceships, bright lights, inhuman creatures and inexplicable marks on her body.

But her story had something other alien visitations didn’t — independent witnesses who could potentially back up her story.

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