Rex Gilroy 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 civilisation. He has contributed to, or been the subject of, several articles; in speculative media such as Nexus magazine and australian newspapers. He is the author and publisher of several books, his first book appeared in 1986. He has documented over 3 000 reports relating to yowies.^[1] His eclectic career has seen field research into butterflies or anthropology, but he remains most notable for his controversial searches for the recently extinct Thylacine, alien big cats or the source of the yowie legend. Cryptozoology is the study of rumored or mythological animals that are presumed to exist, but for which conclusive proof does not yet exist; or are generally considered extinct, but occasionally reported. ... Yowie can refer to either of two mythical creatures of Australian folklore: The name has been applied to an Australian cryptid analogous to the American bigfoot. ... Nexus magazine is a magazine containing many alternative and conspiracy theorist articles. ... Binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808) The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) is the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. ... Phantom cats or alien big cats (ABCs) are a phenomenon of Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. ...

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. 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. In 1959 he documented a sighting of and unidentified object in the sky and began collecting data on this and other fringe phenomena. Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ...

Published Works

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

Nexus magazine is a magazine containing many alternative and conspiracy theorist articles. ... Marcus Allen is the British distributer and publisher of Nexus magazine, and a well known proponent of, as he puts it, news and information that is overlooked, unreported or ignored by the mainstream media. He worked as a photographer in the 1960s, and is a proponent of the idea that...

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, 379 p.. ISBN 0957871600. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather [c2006]. "xxiv", Out of the dreamtime : the search for Australasia's unknown animals, 1st ed., Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications, 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., Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications, 284 p. ISBN 0957871627. 
• Gilroy, Rex and Heather [2000]. Pyramids in the Pacific : the unwritten history of Australia. Katoomba, N.S.W.: Uru publications, 320 p. ISBN 0646396331. 

External link

Mysterious Australia Homepage

Reference