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In this episode of Paranormal Underground Radio: In The Dark, we talk with Robert (Rob) Newitt. Rob was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia's

Southernmost island State. His family lived in a colonial house in Sorell, 26klm's to Hobart's East. The house was haunted, so Rob grew up with ghosts, orentities as he prefers to call them, as the norm. He attended Sorell Primary Schooland Warrane High School.

Rob joined the Royal Australian Navy for four years before

returning home to look after his ill parents. He returned to New South Walesand worked for the State Rail Authority in various positions, ending his timethere at Mudgee. Rob and his wife and children We eventually settled on theTasman Peninsula, where he and his wife worked at the Port Arthur HistoricSite. However, the events of April 1996 (the Port Arthur Massacre) changedtheir lives, and Rob and his wife separated and eventually divorced.

Rob's children eventually came to live with him. Today, Rob

is a grandfather of two grandchildren, and he currently living in Moonah, asuburb of Hobart, Tasmania's capital city.

He has always had a great interest in the stars and the

universe, and the paranormal to a lesser degree. As a young child, he would sitoutside at night and plot the position of the stars on a piece of paper, thengo inside to see what he could make out of them doing "dot to dot."

"I remember sitting in class at school, watching Neil

Armstrong walk on the moon," Rob said.

He I started a group on Facebook called the TUFON -Tasmanian

UFO Network, and members started to grow rather rapidly, and as one wouldexpect, from people all over the world. It was at this stage that I decidedthat there were very few Tasmanian members in the group, so to become moreinclusive, I decided to call it Terra UFO Network ... Terra being Earth.

I decided to do start the group this for a few reasons, but

primarily, because of the management of this subject by various worldgovernments, that is to say their continued denial of ANY UFOs at all. Onecould also say that current UFO groups may have been infiltrated by governmentoperatives to continue the denial and stifle legitimate sightings and contacts.

TUFON now has its main branch with well over 550 members,

and we have branches in Canada/USA, UK/Europe, Southeast Asia, South/CentralAmerica and our latest branch, Africa. I have admins in these countries, as I think it'simportant for members to be able to converse in their own language, and thenthere is the possibility of local branches to get together for discussions andevents.

Air Date: October 15, 2015

Topic: UFOs, Extraterrestrials, Alien Life, Paranormal Investigation

Guest: Rob Newitt

Hosts: Karen Frazier and Chuck Gotski

Producer: Cheryl Knight