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Piia Wirsu

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As seen in: ABC Northern Tasmania, MSN Australia, ABC News (Australia), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), South Australian Country Hour, The Examiner, Illawarra Mercury, The Advocate (Tasmania), Mogaznews En
Passionate Tasmanian and journalist for ABC. Views expressed are my own. Got stories? wirsu.piia@abc.net.au
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Was it a choice or was it murder? The curious case of the Nannup Four

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By Dominique Bayens, Piia Wirsu , Daniel Franklin
| ABC News (Australia)
In one of Australia's most baffling missing persons cases, those left behind have to face two really stark possibilities: was it a choice or was it murder? The winter sun streaks through the high, dense green canopy of the jarrah forest. Old bush trails, sodden with damp foliage lead you to ever more isolated places. Somewhere out here, under the thick undergrowth, there might be the answer to a decades-old mystery. What happened to the Nannup Four? Loading...
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How Bill Chalker became one of the first civilians to access the RAAF's secret UFO files

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By Danielle O'Neal, Piia Wirsu 
| ABC News (Australia)
It's 1982, and a young UFO researcher is sitting in a director's office at the Department of Defence headquarters in Canberra eager to get his hands on information he's been dreaming of for years — the Australian government's UFO files. Wearing slacks and a tie, with a tidy short haircut, Bill Chalker wants to demonstrate this is a serious scientific endeavour. Then he sees two postal sacks full of files being dragged into the austere government room. There they are. Loading...
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Are we alone? Australian institute funds research into unexplained phenomena

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By Danielle O'Neal, Piia Wirsu 
| ABC News (Australia)
Cutting-edge observation facilities, rigorous scientific research, and peer-reviewed data are among the aims for an Australian institute wanting to better understand unidentified anomalous phenomena – UAP. The Non-Human Intelligence Research Institute (NHIRI), based in Australia, is funding independent scientific research projects into UAP. "It's asking the biggest question of all: Are we alone?" NHIRI head of projects Ross Coulthart said.
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