Rex Gilroy

Rex Gilroy (born in New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian who has published books and articles on cryptids and unexplained or speculative phenomena. His work has focused on yowie reports, 'out of place' animals, UFOs, and propositions regarding a 'lost' Australian civilization. He has contributed to, or been the subject of, several articles, in speculative media such as Nexus magazine and in Australian newspapers. He is the author and publisher of several books, the first of which appeared in 1986. He has documented over 3000 reports relating to yowies. His eclectic career has seen field research into butterflies and anthropology, but he remains most notable for his controversial searches for the recently extinct Thylacine, Moas, alien big cats or the source of the yowie legend.

Biography

Rex Gilroy was born in New South Wales and attended the Villawood infants and primary school. He moved to the Liverpool Boys High School in 1957 and recalls the libraries as his most important memory.^{[citation needed]} Gilroy also refers to a life long interest in museums and credits these as the inspiration for his work. He opened a small museum at Mount York peninsula in New South Wales at the age of 21.^{[citation needed]}

In 1959 he documented a sighting of an unidentified object in the sky and began collecting data on this and other fringe phenomena. Rex Gilroy spent many years researching the "Ancient Archaeology" of Australia, and claimed through thousands of artifact finds that the Phoenicians established many colonies in parts of Queensland in Australia, including port and dockside facilities. Gilroy claims that thousands of years ago, Australia must have had many inland tributaries and river networks, and the Phoenicians sailed upon them. Pyramids, such as the so-called Gympie Pyramid have also been claimed to have been found in Australia by Gilroy, who insists that they reveal that at some period in the distant past there existed a vast network of pyramids across the Pacific Asia Region, which he equates to the civilization and continent of Lemuria. Sonar mapping has shown there was no such landmass in the Pacific.

Gilroy also claims that the Burragorang Valley (Sydney's primary water catchment) is actually a cover for a top secret US/Australian underground military installation, focussed on UFO operations. Gilroy claims that the restricted area around the catchment (known officially as the Schedule 1 Catchment Protection area) is to keep unauthorised persons out, and notes cases of hikers being fired upon, and aircraft being shot down.

Published works

• Gilroy, Rex (1995). Mysterious Australia (1st ed. ed.). Mapleton, Qld: Nexus (Marcus Allen) Publications. pp. 288 p. ISBN 064625393X. "Illustrated" 

Self published

The following works are published by Rex & Heather Gilroy.

• Gilroy, Rex and Heather (2001). "xxiv". Giants From The Dreamtime: The Yowie In Myth And Reality. Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications. pp. 379 p.. ISBN 0957871600. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather. "xxiv". Out Of The Dreamtime: The Search For Australasia's Unknown Animals (1st ed. ed.). Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications. pp. 602 p. ISBN 0957871651. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather (2005). Uru - The Lost Civilisation Of Australia. Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather (2004). "xii". Australian UFOs: Through The Windows Of Time (1st ed. ed.). Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications. pp. 284 p. ISBN 0957871627. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather (2000). Pyramids In The Pacific : The Unwritten History Of Australia. Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications. pp. 320 p. ISBN 0646396331. 

External links

• Mysterious Australia Homepage
• Zheng He in the Americas and Other Unlikely Tales of Exploration and Discovery