2004

JANUARY>>

Morningside, Thursday January 4 2004, 8.30pm
A man was sitting on a balcony when he saw a bright orange-red light in the north east sky. It was travelling east to west and approaching the city. As it did so it got much smaller and then disappeared. It was the size of a small plane and made no noise and seemed to be flickering like a flame before it went out quickly.

Bray Park-Brisbane City Monday January 5 2004, 2.44am
A man was sitting inside his home reading when he observed a large soft vertical flame moving in the sky from east to west. It was moving much slower than an aircraft and he watched it for about two to five minutes. It became brighter as it seemed to move towards Mt Coot-tha and continued to be steady at about a twenty degree elevation. It was eventually lost to sight behind trees.

Caboolture, Monday January 12 2004, 9.00pm
A 12 year old boy was looking north west towards Beerwah when saw a bright golden light fly across the sky changing directions very sharply a few times before taking off at a very fast speed. The object was about twice the size of a star and changed direction at acute angles about 5 or 6 times before taking off at a 45 degree angle at an extremely fast speed. At various times he had been observing the light as it flew behind trees.

His mother also reported that about 5 to 5 1/2 years ago she had been driving along the highway near Kilcoy when her two sons who were sitting in the back seat began to scream that they were seeing a UFO. The older boy who was about 7 at the time described it as "like a round dish that was holding lights in it". The youngest boy was very scared. He was 3 or 4 years old at the time. The woman's mother-in-law who lives in the UK has also seen a UFO and managed to capture it on film.

Bundaberg, Friday January 16 2004, evening
A man saw two green lights, one on each of his glass doors. He got up to investigate their source and saw another two green lights in the bush outside his house. When he turned his outside lights on the green lights disappeared, when he turned the house lights off the green lights reappeared. He described the lights as the same colour as green traffic lights and the size of a baseball. The lights shining on his glass sliding doors were flashing every second. His dogs were grumbling at the time but became quiet when he commanded them to do so.

He also reported a sighting previously when he had seen a green ball of light the size of a car glide silently over his shed which stood about 9 metres high. He estimated the object was about 15 metres high at the time and moving at about 3 to 4kms per hour. It travelled slowly down the driveway and continued to follow the driveway down to the creek and trees.

FEBRUARY>>

Rosewood, Wednesday February 4 2004, 6.55pm
A woman’s mother-in-law was sitting on the couch looking out the sliding door when she saw a long flat flame like fire about 4 to 5kms away. She couldn’t hear anything as the TV was on and loud. She eventually lost sight of what she was seeing.

Paddington, Wednesday February 11 2004, 10.40pm
A man was out on the balcony looking east when suddenly a light came appeared like a little shooting star which had a bright blue aura around it. It moved like a shooting star and disappeared over the city. It lit up the surroundings and inside his house. He saw it for 3 to 4 seconds and there was no sound.

Carina Wednesday February 11 2004, 11.00pm
A woman saw an enormous ball with a large tail glowing white in the south east sky. It seemed to explode and changed to green. It lit up the whole area.

Spring Hill, Thursday February 13-14 2004, evening
We were outside on our deck when an acquaintance noticed the light and brought it to our attention. It was like a windmill of light and very clearly outlined, with about eight separate circles spinning in unison around a main light source that was not visible. The object changed the direction of its trajectory as well as its direction of rotation as it moved across the sky rapidly. At a rough guess and using landmarks, we estimate it covered about 21 kilometres in eleven seconds. It then disappeared over the horizon, but returned two or three minutes later. It was a clear night with the stars and moon visible and the object seemed to be quite high, above normal cloud level. We managed to take some video footage with a digital camera, but the memory behaves strangely at the point where the UFO appears.

Tasmania, Tuesday February 17 2004
We were driving home, travelling east along a street and out of the driver side window I noticed a large orange light in the sky. I said to my friends "Hey look. Is that a plane?" We stopped the car and got out for a better look. The light, which is a single light, was quite large and orange, perhaps two and a half times larger than the Northern star, and was travelling south to north. The light seemed to flicker randomly, a bit like a flame in a light wind, and also seemed to be making very small sideways adjustments in its flight path. There was no sound at all, and as it was around midnight there was no traffic and not much background noise. As the object reached a halfway point in the northern sky a man walked past so we stopped him to point it out. He agreed with us that it didn’t seem likely to be a plane and watched with us until it disappeared over the horizon. We first saw the light when it was about halfway up the sky in the south, over houses, and watched it until it disappeared behind the horizon to the north, over the river. Total time from when we first saw it to when it disappeared was about 90 seconds – it could have been slightly less – and the light was as bright when it disappeared as when we first saw it. It was one single, orange light at all times with no sound that we could hear.

Burpengary, Wednesday February 18 2004, 10.30-11.30pm
At around 10.30 to 11.30pm we had just finished watching television and went outside to do some stargazing. We were standing outside looking at the stars with our naked eyes, but got the binoculars when something caught our attention. It was a star that was 'flashing' and we initially thought it was a plane coming on its usual flight path, but then it stopped moving and started changing colour – red, blue, green, white and maybe orange. But red was the most prominent colour. It was the same size as an ordinary star, but when it flashed like a disco light the object would become blurry. The object was not clearly outlined and at one point it seemed to be two objects, but can't definitely confirm this. It was pulsating and seemed to be zigzagging at times within a very small area. The object was lost to view due to it fading out then becoming bright again, then fading away completely. It seemed to be heading in a west-northerly direction and when first seen the object was in the west, and at was directly under the skillet constellation and Mars, which was high in the sky just above the house. It was a clear and fine night and we could see stars and planets, and we saw one shooting star. The sighting occurred over farmland towards Mt. Mee/Oceanview range. We’ve never seen anything like this and we've lived in the area for ten years. We've seen the shuttle, the old space station and satellites and we know what they look like. This has us stumped.

Tin Can Bay, Thursday February 19 2004, 12.02am
I'm located at Tin Can Bay. At 12:02am I went outside and looked to the east and saw a white star-like object that looked like it was rotating. There seemed to be two other colours and one was a bright red light rotating also. It was probably located one hand-span above the horizon. I'm looking out that direction every night but have never seen this before.

Rochedale South, Wednesday February 25 2004, 5.00pm
At approximately 5.00 or 6.00pm I was having a look at developing storm clouds when I noticed an orange light. I didn’t know whether it was a plane or something else but I ran into my room excited and got my video camera and filmed 24 seconds of it. It was very interesting to watch and when first spotted was south of Rochedale and heading east, moving slowly, when it went behind some clouds and disappeared. It did not reappear from the other side of the cloud. It was about the size of Mars, circular and orange and not clearly outlined.

Toowoomba, Queensland, Thursday February 26 2004, 4.30am
Travelling to work I noticed there were some large spots of light forming in a circle with a smaller formation of circles within that circle. All the spots of light were spinning around in circles at the same time that they were darting across the sky. I was driving east along a street and the formation was south-east of me. As I was driving and watching it dart across the sky, it vanished out of sight across the top of the car. I then had to stop at a set of lights, proceeded through the set of lights and caught sight of the object again. The formation had moved further south but was still in the east. I did wonder if it was lights coming from the university in the area but thought that at 4:30am possibly not. I then had to turn of the street I was driving east in and head north, which was when I lost sight. The objects were quite high in the sky and very large. From ground level they looked at least 15 feet wide, and at an altitude of roughly 800-1000 feet. I don't recall seeing the moon and at the time I saw the formation, it was about an hour away from sunlight. The sky was overcast though.

Brisbane Airport, Saturday February 28 2004, 8.10pm
A man reported seeing an object shaped like an upturned banana hovering over the Brisbane Airport. On each tip of the object was a glow of yellow light. The object itself was silvery in colour. It remained stationery over the airport for approx 2 mins, then took off vertically up into the sky extremely fast [much faster than a jet] before disappearing into cloud.

This caller also reported a sighting at Tully on 27th May 1992 in the evening. He was standing with his brother on his brother's property which bordered a canefield, when they looked down the road and saw what they initially thought was a vehicle coming towards them. They soon discovered it wasn't on the road but in the air about 300 to 500' above them. It was a typical disk shape and had 2 oblong portholes on the front that had a yellow glow in them being emitted from inside the craft. The craft was about 30' in diameter and let off a white vapour, then disappeared in a shower of red and green sparks. They observed the craft for about 5 minutes. It made no noise. His wife also observed a "leviathan" with purple and blue lights on it hovering over Mt Mackay the same evening.

MARCH>>

Mundingburra, north Queensland, Thursday March 4 2004, 2.00am
I live at Mundingburra, in Townsville. For the past month between 12.00 midnight and 2.00am my girlfriend and I have seen, a number of times, an object that flashes four distinct colours – red, green, blue and white, and I did manage to take a video of this thing. There have been no planes or aircraft in area and they would not move as quickly as this object.

Southeast Queensland, Sunday March 14 2004, 7.00pm
A woman reported seeing four lights in the eastern sky at 7.00pm. The lights seemed to move slowly across the sky and had travelled about 3 inches across the sky in an hour. She said they were not moving fast enough to be space junk but were moving faster than the stars surrounding them. Eventually they disappeared. This lady was a spotter for the Moorabbin airport and the Coast Guard for five years and considers herself familiar with objects in the sky.

Southeast Queensland, Sunday March 14 2004, evening
On Sunday March 14 a woman was outside watching the sky after she had come home from work. It was approximately 4.00am, still dark but beginning to brighten in the east. She observed two stars, one dimmer than the other moving away from the horizon to the west in a straight line. Then she saw another two stars appear, one larger and very bright. The large star dimmed out and the smaller one travelled across the sky at a fast speed, taking 30 seconds to go from the horizon to directly above them. Eventually they faded from view as the sun came up. All four objects were seen within five minutes. Her partner saw the objects too. The caller said she had seen satellites and these did not look like satellites.

Wagga Wagga [NSW], March 17 2004, 8:40pm
We were sitting on the front porch at approximately 8:40pm, looking approximately north-west, when we noticed a large yellowish-bronze light. While watching, it slowly appeared to move south-west. We began to walk down the street in the same direction, watching the light between houses where we could see it, finally stopping at a crossroads where we could observe without obstruction. It seemed large yet far away and appeared to dim and brighten repeatedly. After about 15 minutes it seemed not to be moving but looked to be getting smaller, as if heading away from us in a north-west direction. Suddenly the object disappeared. We spoke to the Wagga Wagga RAAF base and were told there were no aircraft in the area, and that nothing takes off or lands at the Wagga Wagga RAAF [?!].

Hemmant, Saturday March 27 2004, 10.00pm
A woman reported seeing a large pulsating white light in the sky, approximately six times as large as the full moon. It had two smaller pulsating lights, one on each side of it, which were also white and about the size of a tennis ball. The larger light was quite faint in comparison to the smaller ones. The object was hovering over the nearby reserve which had power pylons on it. As she was watching, the lights "turned off like a light switch." The object had been hovering above a thin cloud and she had watched it for 5 to 10 minutes. The woman had also seen ghosts and felt presences and described herself as very sensitive.

Mt Cotton, Tuesday March 30 2004, 1.00-1.30am
A man was standing on his verandah looking south when he saw an object like a star at about 30 to 45 degrees elevation in the sky. It changed colour and shape and seemed to get bigger and very star-shaped. It began spinning and at various times it turned away and towards him "like a hand turning away and towards you". It was about 20 to 40 km away and about two centimetres in size at arm's length. It then split into two for about five minutes and then reintegrated. The second object was smaller than the first. After it reintegrated it turned then moved off. He observed the object/s for 30 minutes and in that time it moved lower towards the horizon "as if moving away".

Castle Hill, Townsville Wednesday March 31 2004, 7.15pm
A man was walking his dog, looking west, and observed something that seemed to be a shooting star but changed into a “massive ball”. It lit up for 5 seconds or less, was orange and had a small tail. He heard no noise at the time. The object was moving towards Harvey’s Range near the military base.

Independent confirmation of the above sighting was received in December 2004: I also spotted this. I was headed south on Upper Ross River Road at Rassmussen about the same time and saw an identical object, except I recall seeing what looked like sparks emanating from the tail.

APRIL>>

Gippsland [VIC], April 3 2004, 10.30pm
Please see photos [not shown] of an object observed on Saturday 3/4/2004 at Archies Creek, south Gippsland. Unfortunately the images were captured on a mobile phone camera [not shown] so the quality is not great. We had two separate sightings on same night, the first at approximately 10.30pm of a single object, the second at 11.05pm of three large glowing objects travelling from south to north in triangle formation, one in front and two following. I was unable to capture images of the second sighting.

Caboolture, Thursday April 15 2004, 5.50pm
The witness observed something that looked like a star travelling from north to south in the sky. The light brightened, faded then disappeared. It was not as fast as a shooting star but moved about 3 or 4 times faster than a jet, in a straight line and at a constant speed. The object seemed to be far out in space and was observed for between 40 to 60 seconds.

Boondall, Thursday April 15 2004, 10.45pm
A man reported seeing an object in the western sky about 10 to 20 degrees above the horizon. Whilst looking through binoculars he could see blue and red lights flashing on and off in a constant pattern, then it disappeared.

Fairfax Virginia [USA], April 18 2004, evening
My daughter and I were sitting outside in the backyard in Fairfax, Virginia and saw a sighting of a boomerang shaped object and also an accompanying object of the same shape. We have no explanation of what this might be.

Concord west [NSW], April 24 2004, evening
As I was sitting at my computer, I started to hear an aeroplane sound. This didn’t bother me, but as it started to get louder I looked out my window to see if I could see anything. I then heard a loud thunder-sounding noise and I thought it may be because of a thunderstorm. I also saw fluttering lights lighting up the street. I climbed out the window to quickly see what it was and I moved to where the area behind my rooftop was visible. I saw a bright yellow/orange coloured circular object, about the size of a tennis ball, burning in the sky. I panicked and banged on the front door to yell out to a friend who was sleeping in order to try and get them to come out and see the object. By the time I returned I could no longer see the object. I then went to the backyard, but couldn’t see anything at all. I then returned inside and the sound of the object finally faded. Overall the sound lasted approximately a minute, while I witnessed the object for about 20 seconds.

Brisbane, Tuesday April 27 2004, 6.30-7.00pm
A man was walking home through a park when he saw something like a plane with a white light cruising along, that dropped three red lights. When these lights were approximately 1km beneath it the light disappeared. He watched this for 15 minutes. When he was 13 years old he also saw a ball in the sky.

MAY>>

Brookfield, Queensland, May 2 2004, 11:50pm
Firstly a large light, like a bright yellow star, slowly moved down the sky. It had a kind of odd lightning coming out of its base. It reached about 100 meters of the ground and then hovered and buzzed around. Then the lights turned off and it moved behind the ridge behind my house. About 10 seconds later another one appeared and did the same thing. It took about 2-4 minutes both times. I thought it might have been an afterburner initially and called the RAAF, but they didn’t have anything in the air at that time.

St George [?], Thursday May 6 2004
We are not members of your group but wish to tell you about two unusual incidents we experienced last Thursday evening. We knew that the 77 Squadron from Williamstown were leaving Amberley Air Base at 6pm to conduct exercises over St George and Goondoowindi before returning home, so we were hoping to see them [eight F18's] fly over our house which is south of Amberley air base. That didn't happen because we saw and heard planes flying north-west of us just after 6pm. I was still sitting on the verandah looking north about 6.30pm when my wife called from the kitchen window behind me to look at the large bright orange-red light coming towards us. The light appeared to stay on for about 30 seconds and then rose into the sky, went out and then became a bright white light which then went out. Shortly after, my wife was standing on the steps looking north-west and saw a large white light. I said "That's a planet," but then realised it wasn't on the ecliptic. We watched it through our spotting scope [I can split Alpha Centaurus with it] and the object appeared round with an ellipse taken out of it, much like the eclipse of the moon we saw at 5.30am that morning. The light stayed stationary for about ten minutes, then suddenly diffused and went out. Sounds far fetched but that's what we saw so I thought I'd report it. We're both 62 years old & of sound minds [we think].

Forest Lake, Sunday May 16 2004, 7.34pm
A woman observed a ball of fire travelling from Brisbane city over Forest Lake and to the west. It was about the size of a street light and made no noise. It was travelling at a constant speed and direction and appeared to have something burning falling from it.

Wamuran, May 21 2004, 9.00pm
My wife and I have recently arrived in Australia. Saturday the 21st, about 9pm or maybe a bit later, we were returning from McLintock road in Wamuran and turned onto Green lane. It was very quite at that time of night [and during the day too.] At the crossroad with Green lane and Franks lane we noticed a bank of three lights that were horizontal. We thought it might be a plane but it seemed a bit low on the horizon and wasn't moving. We were intrigued so we parked the car and watched it. It seemed to disappear and then reappear while it seemed to be Descending. We looked at each other, and then before we got back into the car a bright red light appeared that was maybe a third of the size of the moon. It was moving across the sky at a constant speed from right to left, then it changed direction very smoothly and was heading towards the Glass House mountains. We watched it for a couple of minutes in absolute awe. It was very bright and didn't look artificial to be honest. Then we heard loud noises, almost like small explosion in the earth, then we heard some kind of screaming like children, and then the dogs in the area started to bark. We got scared and got back into the car. I instinctively look in my mirror when setting off and I noticed a bright white light behind me in the shape of a ball. I half expected it to be a car but no car came past. My wife was terrified so we left straight away, driving along Franks lane towards highway 85. Neither of us has ever experienced anything like that. We are from England and we will definitely be paying more attention to your website and these sightings in general.

Victoria Point, Monday May 31 2004 6.55pm
Three witnesses observed an object with two tails of equal length over the water in the eastern sky. It was yellow-orange in colour, made no sound and moved very fast. It was travelling higher than a normal aircraft and crossed the sky in 5 seconds.

JULY>>

Buranda, July 3 2004, 7.45pm
I have had a moderate amount of training on aircraft and can recognise most types at a glance including military aircraft.

At approximately 1945hrs tonight I was waiting at a red light near the PA hospital in Buranda, Brisbane. I saw three red lights [not like a/c lights but more like the glow from a hot turbo in a turbo prop at night], on one aircraft. I originally thought it was a chopper landing at the PA Hospital. As I saw it start a circuit near the hospital then realised it was completely black except for these three red areas.

It continued on a tight circuit, fairly quickly then did another. At this point the traffic light changed and I drove straight across to the second story of the car park at Buranda shopping centre and got out of the car. I was possibly 300 metres maximum away and I am sure the object was below 500 feet. At this point I realised that the object was not making any noise. Not even airflow noise. Considering the clarity of sound travel on dry cold air I should have heard something from its movement. It was actually fairly small, about the size of a large car, as I had the size of the hospital to compare it to once I had estimated its range.

It continued to loiter in the area for approximately 30 seconds when I started thinking it was possibly a remote controlled model plane and started looking for people controlling it, when it moved off towards the south west at fast speed. It yawed slightly so I was able to make out that it was a blunt delta shape but unable to place where the three red areas were located upon it as they seemed to be non-fixed points. It was very hard to observe due to its being so dark, not pitch black but completely matching the night sky behind it. It took approximately 15 seconds to make the horizon, and only one red area was visible, which appeared like a jet engine exhaust nozzle opening up, but again no sound was heard.

As I was elevated at the time on the second level of the car park, I would estimate the horizon at a minimum of 15 kilometres, which estimates to a speed of a kilometre a second or 3600 kilometres an hour. This is from an aircraft at low altitude and an almost idling start. There is nothing to match this performance that I know of.

Goodna, Sunday June 13 2004, night
A woman was looking from Goodna towards Redbank when she observed a very bright orange light. It was bigger than a plane but not as fast travelling at a consistent speed. She watched it for 30 seconds before it disappeared.

Crestmead, June 13 2004, 7.00pm
Last night, June 13 2004 at around 7.00pm I noticed a large orange ball of fire rising in the sky, directly above a street light. It appeared to be around one street away. I walked to the back door to get a closer look and the object rose steadily. As I walked out of the back door it disappeared without a trace. There were no sounds at all. My wife also witnessed it. I witnessed a similar sighting about 17 years ago when I was about 14. This time it was at Archerfield and was much closer, only around 25 metres above me. Both times the light has appeared from nowhere, has been silent and disappeared instantly. That time my parents were with me along with many people at the speedway. The racing was stopped for a little while and we were told it had been an F111 flyover. However there had been no notification of a flyover before the event and the racing didn't stop until after the object appeared. I have seen many F111 flyovers since then and none have been similar.

Kalbar [QLD], June 13 2004, 7.00pm
Two nurses were out walking in the evening around 7pm and saw a "massive" bright orange ball approximately 4 to 5 times bigger than Venus coming towards them at a speed that appeared "faster than a jet". They observed it for 3 to 5 minutes and as it got closer it's light faded out but they could still see it's silhouette. They could hear no sound made by the object at any time. They both commented that they were "level headed women who do not scare easily" but both felt scared after the incident.

Inala, Monday June 14 2004, 6.30-7.00pm
A woman observed very bright lights “gliding easily in the sky” about the same height as a jet. They were yellow in colour and just a bit bigger than the size of a star. They appeared to come from nowhere then they suddenly disappeared. Her husband flies aircraft and she observed these objects had no strobe lights on them like normal aircraft.

JULY>>

Sawtell [NSW], July 18 or 25 2004, 10:00pm
My sighting was about five weeks ago on a Sunday night at about 10pm, on either the 18th or 25th July. I live in Sawtell which is about 10 kilometres south of Coff’s Harbour. I thought it was strange but didn’t think anything of it till my friend said she saw the same thing. There were five orange lights in the sky that were in the shape of a triangle, like when birds fly in an arrow-shape. They moved into a straight line and disappeared quickly. The whole experience took less than a minute

Tweed Heads [NSW], Monday July 26 2004, 9:00pm
I saw a strange thing in the sky last night, and was wondering if anyone else had reported it. I'm quite sure it was not a plane or a helicopter. My husband, daughter and myself were travelling south on the highway, south of Tweed Heads, I think a kilometre or two north of where the new and old highways meet. It was probably around 9.00pm. I was a passenger in the front seat and saw this 'thing' to my left with two very bright white lights on the front. It was quite low and was travelling alongside us. Then I couldn't see it and my daughter, who was in the back said that it was following behind us. I turned and saw it was really close to us, then it rose up and we saw that it had very bright white lights underneath it. It seemed to hover there for a short time, then the next thing we knew it appeared to be back up north a few kilometres, hovering higher up in the sky and above houses. We continued south and didn't see it again. It was a very strange experience and I am quite sure that this 'thing' didn't make any noise. My 12 year-old daughter and I saw the exact same thing at the same time so we know we weren't imagining it. [Editors note: UFORNSW have contacted this witness for further information but have not received a response.]

Norman Park, Saturday July 31 2004, 9.30pm-midnight
A man observed 10 objects in the southern sky. The majority were white and changed colours to red, blue and silver. With the naked eye he thought they were parachutists. While he was watching they formed into a semi-circle with two on the bottom like a mushroom.

AUGUST>>

Armadale [WA], Wednesday August 4 2004, 8:00pm
On Wednesday 4th of July at around 8 o’clock at night to quarter past 8, on my way back from a deli in seventh road Armadale, Perth, I notice two bright yellow-orange objects following each other move across the sky from a north to west direction. I was in the west direction, heading back home on foot. The two objects appeared to be heading over Armadale, but between Armadale and the Darling Ranges. I watched them move silently across the sky till they look like they were almost directly over part of Armadale, then they veered and started heading east, as if using the Darling Ranges as a guide. The objects were close by each other, following each other, and made no sound. I ran inside to get my binoculars, but even through them I could not distinguish its true shape through the bright yellow-orange light it gave off. One of them appeared to have something fall from the bottom of it, like ash or something, then one blinked off like it disappeared. The remaining object then looked like it was stationary, but I ended up ruling that out as it was getting smaller. I then knew it was getting further away and it was looking like it was just a star. At 8:15 I decided to go inside, but came out a bit later to see if I could see it again, but it was gone then.

Gold Coast Hwy Coomera, August 5 2004, 11.00pm
A man was driving north while observing two bright orange objects in the sky slowly heading towards the east. He estimated one or 2kms between them as they moved with one lower than the other. He pulled over to the side of the road and watched the lights for 15 minutes. They were the size of a five cent piece at arm’s length.

Archerfield airfield, Brisbane, August 6 2004 evening
A man was walking home from the shop when he observed a big intensely blue disk flying east to west. It was moving same height as an aircraft and coming in as though it was going to land but went straight on moving very fast before disappearing behind a WW2 igloo near the filed. The object looked flat and round and made no noise.

This man had another sighting while he was in the army in Victoria. He was coming back from a dance travelling 50mph and saw that a light seemed to be staying in the mid left hand side of his windscreen. Fifteen minutes later it was still there. It had the same intensity of a train headlight and as he was driving on the right of a train line this is what he thought it was. He eventually crossed a level crossing but noticed the light was still there. He could not find anything that might be reflecting the light on to his windscreen at any stage.

Canberra, ACT, August 10 2004, 10:50pm
I would like to advise that both I and my father-in-law witnessed a fast-moving orange light last night. It appeared to be travelling SW to NE. There were no strobe lights as you would expect to see with an aircraft. About one minute before it went out of view we noticed a an aircraft which appeared to be banking towards Canberra Airport, and which seemed to be, at one point, quite close to the moving orange light. The banking of the aircraft appeared to sharpen at that point, however the orange light did not deviate from its path, before it disappeared out of view in the distance. It is definitely a mystery to me and my father-in-law. I have attempted to find other sightings re this event but have found nothing. [Editors note: UFORNSW has been following this sighting up.]

Wattle Grove [NSW], Saturday August 7 2004, 12:00am
On Saturday [7/8/04] close to midnight, I went into our back yard to take the rubbish out and I looked up at the sky where I noticed three orangey/red lights hovering about. They stood out from the rest of the stars because of their unusual colour and also they were moving about, but in an unsure or dithering manner, as there didn't seem to be any particular path they were following. They were also bigger than the stars. I went inside the house to get the video camera but, of course, I hadn't had the camera recharged and had no tape space left. I however tried to capture the moment by doing a 'video clip', writing down what I saw and adding images, I drew, along with background music in order to capture the moment before I forgot it.

When I returned outside, they were gone, but when I went back out again about 10 -20 min later, they were back, coming in from the same direction and just slowly moving about.

I know it couldn't have been a plane because at that time, no planes are allowed to fly. Also, I wondered whether it was the work of the army, as their base is near us, I described what I saw to my husband [who's in the army] and after hearing me out, he said that does not sound like army work.

East Maitland, Lower Hunter Valley [NSW], August 13 2004, 7:10pm
I was driving up a suburban road at 7:10PM on the 13/08/2004 on my way to work when an extremely large bright orange object appeared in the sky in what I'd estimate to be around 500 metres above me. I was in the process of saying to my brother ‘hey look, a shooting star’, however I cut myself short when the object slowed up to almost a complete halt over houses no more than 300 metres up the road. Then in an instant, a literal blink of the eye, it vanished right in front of me. Now I have seen shooting stars and I've seen planes in the sky at night and there is no way on earth this was anything like that.

Now this is where it gets even more interesting and this next part convinced me it was a UFO. I reached the carpark at my work, which is only a further 200 metres from the group of houses where I saw the object vanish above. I got out of my car and headed for the rear entry to my work and as I glanced up at the sky, to my shock, the exact same object was moving through the sky above. This time I was stationary and got a really good look. It was low enough that I could see the huge fire trail that the object was emitting out the rear. It was going at the same kind of speed it was going when I first saw it 5 minutes earlier. Then again, as per the first sighting, it slowed to an almost complete halt over a retirement village across the road, and then in a flash it disappeared right in front of me. Now not even my family will believe me, and whilst I'm sure friends will enjoy the story I know they won't believe me. However I swear I've not seen anything like it in my whole life and every detail I’ve said is the truth. My amazement at what I saw made me search for any recent sightings in my area that people may have reported. This lead me to your web site and I read one of the reports that sounded very similar to my own. Hope this is interesting to you cause its something I won't ever forget.

Samford, Tuesday August 17 2004, evening
A woman got up during the night to go to the toilet when she looked out the window and saw a bright light. She went to a frosted glass window and saw what she described as a double light with a four piece sail. She then went to her room and noticed that wind was blowing on the side of her house the light was on. She went back to the window and saw the light but when she looked at it through the frosted window she could see a structure to the light.

Kempsey [NSW], August 19 2004
A man reported seeing a red football-shaped object above trees on his property. He claimed that six nights out of seven he sees UFOs. He is a diabetic so he doesn’t drink or smoke and said he isn’t imagining what he sees.

Peregian Beach [QLD], August 22 2004 5.40pm
A very bright quick moving light that appeared in the north east, travelling east, moved across a portion of the sky, disappeared and then reappeared in a new position of the sky, and then nothing. Cloudless evening.

Stretton, August 26 2004, night
A woman reported seeing three triangular formations stationery in the sky in the distance which she thought were not stars. She could also see three bright stars moving in close proximity in the shape of a triangle. They were moving from the southern horizon. On the same night her father observed seven lights moving randomly in the sky.

Coolum, August 2004, daytime
My name is Bill M. My wife and I have been going to Coolum for eight years with our caravan. It must have been some time in August that I took the pictures [not shown] in the early morning on the Coolum boardwalk. The camera is digital, a Concord 2x digital zoom 9.9 mm f/3.2 1.3 megapixels. I'm no camera buff but just thought I would get a few pics of the early morning sunrise and maybe frame the best one. The sun was extremely bright and glaring, and there was no way I could see the object in question, if it is an object. I have taken many pictures with the camera and all turned out okay so I do not think there is anything wrong with the camera. I cannot tell you much more.

SEPTEMBER>>

Goonellabah [NSW], September 7 2004, daytime
These pictures [not shown] were taken on the 7/9/2004 in Goonellabah NSW. We found by mistake in several of the pictures we took of the day that there were small but almost clear shapes in the sky. We are students that attend the [name supplied] school in Goonellabah NSW and on a trip too Kadina park to play basketball our teacher took his digital camera to take some photos. It wasn't until the next day when we were looking at the pictures on the computer and zooming that we found in four pictures, taken closely around the same time, UFOs in the sky behind us.

Burpengary [QLD], September 14 2004, 5:15pm
I would like to report an unusual sighting late this afternoon. It was about 5:15pm when I took my digital camera out to take some photos of a beautiful double rainbow. After taking the first photo and proceeded to take the second, when I saw what thought to be a very, quick bright flash in the sky. I did not take much notice of it and took my second photo. To my surprise when I downloaded the photos [three in all], I noticed an object in the second photo. I am not sure what it is. By the way there was absolutely no sound at all in the sky. It can’t be a plane for sure. [Image not shown]

Central Australia, September 25 2004, day
These photographs [not shown] were taken on the 25th of September 2004, on our family holiday at Ayres Rock. One photo was taken half way up the rock, of the Olgas, and when we downloaded it to our computer we saw an object in the background which we can't recall seeing at the time through the view finder. The next photo was taken approximately two hours later at the top of Ayres Rock. Again we were photographing the Olgas and the same unidentified object was found in the background. After zooming on these objects it appears to have a light yellow glow, and doesn't look like any conventional aircraft.

Gold Coast, Saturday September 18 2004, 6.50pm
A man and his wife, observed two rectangular objects moving in the southern sky. He was on his property about 9klms south east of Nanango when he saw the objects which he first thought to be flying crosses, until he could see sides to the objects as well creating a rectangular shape around the crosses. There were also coloured lights around the perimeter of the objects which appeared to be a couple of hundred nautical miles apart.

They travelled very quickly to one spot in the sky, stayed stationary then proceeded to move in circles, then took off. He thought the objects were 30 to 50 nautical miles away from him and they were each half the width of his wife's palm at arm's length. They also had dogs on the property that were spooked and still barking 30 minutes later. The dogs were specially trained dogs and this behaviour was unlike them.

The woman described the objects as making a whooshing noise. The couple were both "freaked out" by what they saw and described themselves as "level headed people who would be the last to report seeing UFOs".

Fisherman Islands, Saturday September 18 2004, 6.00am
A man observed an object that looked like a meteorite in the sky, travelling southeast. It was high up, moving across the sky, and had what appeared to be very hot sparks emitting from behind it. It made no sound. He looked back ten minutes later and observed it had moved slightly from its original location. The size of the object was estimated to be ¾ that of a streetlight.

Wynnum, Saturday September 18 2004, early morning
I had an interesting experience on Saturday morning 18th September and was wondering if you could give me your thoughts on what I saw. I went for an early morning walk at the Wynnum waterfront and sat and watched the sun rise. Just as it had come over the horizon I saw a white light in the sky above it. My initial thought was that it was a shooting star, but it did seem too bright for that. I then thought maybe it was a sky-writer, as it had now developed a tail. This did not ring true either as the tail seemed to follow the 'head' as it moved across the sky. It moved only at a moderate speed and the head seemed to have a darkened centre. I was not at all frightened by this and in fact felt blessed to witness it. After a few moments of watching I had noticed that it had stopped moving and was just sitting in the sky. The tail began to catch up to the head and it eventually became a white ball in the sky. I then noticed a second light coming across the sky. This one appeared to move faster and had a longer tail and a slightly smaller head. It moved over the sun and followed the horizon for quite some time. The first light eventually just disappeared and the second continued on around the point, where I could no longer see it.

OCTOBER>>

Sunshine Coast, October 14 2004
I was just wondering if anyone has reported seeing a UFO on the Sunshine Coast. For the past 5 nights myself and my boyfriend have seen really unusual bright lights making no noise and staying in the one spot for over 10 minutes or more.

Ipswich, October 28 2004, 2.25am
This morning at 2.25am I looked out of the window to see if I could see the moon. It was clouded over, but I did see [through an opening in the tree branches] a beautiful red light that flashed on and off in one area but either moving from side to side, up and down, OR there were four of the lights. I was looking out of a back bedroom window which faces southwest and I kept looking for 10 minutes and it continued. They were still there in the same place[s] at 2.50 and 3.30. I then went back to bed. When I got out of bed at 7.00, they had disappeared.

NOVEMBER>>

Traralgon, Victoria, November 1 2004, 8.45am
This photo [not shown] was taken on the 1st of the 11th 2004. l was facing the south and it was about 8.45am. The dot in the sky is above the house. As you might see the sky was clear and there wasn't any traffic or noise. I am a hunter and am very tuned to my area, sights and sounds, and there was nothing out of place, it didn't even rain until the next day.

Darling Downs, Wednesday November 3 2004, 8.15pm
A young woman was standing in her front yard looking south-southeast and observed 3 bright orange circular lights in the sky, each the size of her thumbnail at arms length. The objects formed a triangle shape and were half their own diameter apart. They would dim then completely disappear, reappearing 5 to 10 minutes later in a different spot approximately three pen-lengths from their original position. Both she and her father observed the objects from 8.15pm to 8.45pm before going inside. Her friend who lives on the other side of town observed the same objects while looking in a northerly direction.

Hinze Dam, Gold Coast Sunday November 13 2004, 10.24am
A man and wife and a friend were outside when the friend saw an object in the sky. He drew the couples attention to what initially appeared to be a ball in the sky. As it came towards them, they could see a metallic disk about 25 to 35 feet across and about 1000 to 2000 feet high. Apparent balls were seen underneath the object and there was a definite top to the disk. It also had regular dark patches evenly distributed beneath it as well as another ring. They were looking to the west and the object was moving quickly and erratically around in the sky. Eventually the disk disappeared behind some hills. The caller/husband is a fraud investigator so consequently he had his video camera near by so he managed to catch four and half minutes of it on film.

He has shown the footage to Channel 9 and the caller told me they were quite impressed with the footage. The caller said he had caught very good shots of the object as well as capturing good reference points in the film, such as his house, power lines and trees. He also stated that a halo could clearly be seen around the disk. He does not have the facilities to make a copy of the footage but has given us permission to come to his home and view it. Stay tuned for further reports.

Gold Coast hinterland, November 15 2004 5.30pm
Facing south over the hinterland I saw a long white streak that represented what most people would recognise as a comet, that seemed to be moving south/south-west quite quickly. It also seemed too long be an aircraft. I noticed it in the sky for about 45 minutes before it disappeared from sight, or at least from sight from my location. Several people had pulled their cars over on the road to observe the object, and people were also out on their lawns looking up.

Innisfail, November 28 2004, 11.00pm
I live in far north Queensland in Innisfail, about 100kms south of Cairns. Around 8pm the moon had just risen and looked absolutely lovely. I had a camera on hand so I took three pictures of it, not more than a couple of seconds apart. I didn't see anything at all, except the moon, and it wasn't until I downloaded the images to my computer moments later that I saw what I'd photographed. In two of the pictures [not shown] the moon is clear, there is nothing around to be seen. The other picture, which was taken first, has something near the moon, and the moon is blurry as if the camera had focussed on the other object rather than the moon. After this I went outside with my binoculars, and couldn't see anything like what I'd photographed.

More on the object: it is round and looks to have a ring around it. And no, it isn't Saturn, though it looks how Saturn looks through a telescope, but much larger than Saturn appears even through a telescope. The object is quite clear in the picture. It was taken on a Canon Ixus 4MP Camera.

Gold Coast, November 28 2004, 2.30am
I was driving home at 2:30am from Brisbane when I noticed a large, very bright oval-shaped light to the east. I first thought it was a low flying plane or helicopter, but it had no flashing lights and just seemed to hover in the one position. As I kept monitoring its presence, I noticed another smaller light heading towards it. It was white with flashing red, and could possibly have been a small plane. Heading north, it seemed to circle around the white light, then head south.

Toowoomba, November 11 2004, 9.00pm
I went outside to cool off and looked towards the sky, as I normally do when sitting outside, and I saw two objects in the sky, white ball-shapes, both about the size of Mars. At first I thought 'Oh it's two planes flying side by side, but no...no navigation lights...' and then I thought 'Two satellites, tracking close together....' But no. As they were... well it seemed liked playing with one another, like two balls in the sky. Flying around each other and doing circles etc, like two swallows playing together. I was going to call out to my daughter to have a look at these things but thought I better not. They played with one another for a while, about 15 or 20 minutes, and then shot off at great speed. They stayed in approximately the same area of the sky for the entire sighting.

DECEMBER>>

Park Ridge, December 15, daytime
A man was driving north when he looked up to his right about 30 to 45 degrees elevation. He saw an object move across the horizon in about 10 to 15 seconds. He lifted his sunglasses to get a better look but couldn't see the object until he put them back on. It was silvery white, a classic saucer shape with no fins. It seemed to curve slightly in its trajectory and did not leave a trail. He couldn't hear any noise but this was likely due to him being in the car.

Smithfield Highway, Arundell [Gold Coast] December 17 between 6.00-7.00am
A man was driving along the road when he observed a grey object in the sky that looked like an external water tank with a funnel or cone beneath it. He couldn't judge the distance away from him very well but the size of the object was about that of a small house, approximately 12cm long at arm's length and about 9cm in height. It was not moving at a fast speed, he estimated 60km per hour, and he turned off the highway to follow it for a while to get a better look, but it 'moved miles away from him'. When he first saw the object it was around 7.30am but after chasing the object for a while he heard the ABC radio announce the time to be 6.15am Queensland time, 7.15am NSW time. His watch had stopped at 7.15am and had not started again since the incident. He was asked to have his watch checked which he did and it was found that there was nothing wrong with it although the battery was low.

He also saw a 4WD parked on the side of the road and the driver seemed to be looking at the object as well. The caller subsequently rang ABC radio to find out if anyone else had reported it and he was asked to tell his story on air, which he did. ABC radio phoned the Bureau of Meteorology but they said from his description it was not a weather balloon. He also phoned the police but they had no other reports.

The witness felt disturbed by what he had seen and stated that he neither believed nor disbelieved in UFOs before this.

Rangeville, December 27 2004, daytime
I don't know if this is what I think it is. I will let you decide. While photographing some black cockatoos -- and understand I did not really notice these objects while shooting, it was only when I viewed the photos on my computer -- the first image I looked at it hit me like a slap in the face. The photos [not shown] were taken on a Sony digital at 5mp using the zoom to the full. I was facing due south and it appeared the objects were heading south by my estimation.

Carina, December 24 2004, 11.00am
I was sitting on my front stairs at Carina north and facing west, waiting for the Meals on Wheels car to arrive. It was 11.00am, and an F1-11 jet came in low from the southwest, travelling towards the Brisbane Airport. About 11.05am, over the west, there appeared a thin vertical column of slivers of white smoke, streaming upwards over where I judged the suburb of Clayfield to be. I gauged the height of the column to be under 25,000 feet. It came down slowly in a near quarter circle clockwise arc, and at the same time coming closer to me. After a few seconds I observed there was a mid-blue, ball-shaped object at the bottom of the column, streaming white slivers of something thicker than smoke, with intermittent spurts of blue and yellow colour in its exhaust. A cloud, almost the shape of a duck, at about 10,000 feet high, was travelling from the north-east, and the blue object met with the leading edge of the cloud and seemed to go into the cloud completely. All that took at least five minutes, and then at 11.15 the Meals on Wheels car arrived, but there was no UFO to show them. It did not reappear from the cloud.

Tamborine, Thursday December 31 2004, 10.00pm
A family was outside having a BBQ when they looked north to see an object bouncing up and down in the sky. At one stage it seemed to have a tail like a trail of light. It was described as bouncing like a ball on a string and when it bounced it was almost crystal-like. They watched it for an hour during which time one of them looked at it through a pair of binoculars and could see it shining red, green and blue. Eventually they stopped looking at it and went inside.

MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS RECEIVED IN 2004>>

Mt Crosby Road Anstead, 2002, 9.00pm [reported December 20 2004]
Verbatim report: 'I recently saw the most amazing thing and it was right next to me practically. I don't think I will ever get over it, it was so amazing. I was driving down Mt Crosby Road, Anstead, about 9pm one night and I was in a convertible with the roof down. I was just lighting a cigarette and pondering what I was going to do when I got home to north Ipswich etc, when all of a sudden I became aware that something huge was overhead. I looked up and saw a huge triangle above me. At first my mind was telling me that it was some kind of plane, then in a nanosecond it was gone and then a different looking machine was hovering right near me.

By this time I had come to a complete stop on the road and was utterly dumbfounded, in fact totally overwhelmed. [The object was 10 metres away from the parked car] I phoned my friend just down the road and told them what was happening. It looked like an octagon shape, made of metal and it had a front flap open with search lights [white] beaming onto the ground as it moved very, very slowly along [described as one mile per hour] a couple of metres above the ground. It had coloured lights around the edge, I can remember blue, that remained constantly on. I remember hearing the sound of a 'superb engine, like the Rolls Royce of engines but very quiet. I saw the object for about two to three minutes in total. Then, probably because it was all too much I decided to put my foot down and get out of there.

The next day the witness called the RAAF and they told her 'we don't have anything that hovers'

Redcliffe, 1980 [reported October 2004]
This report is about 20 years too late but I never told anyone because I thought people would think we were nuts.

It was 1980, 24 years ago - my husband and I were travelling in the early hours of the morning between Redcliffe south on the Bruce highway, towards Kedron where he was doing shift work about 2am in the Bald Hills area of the highway. Needless to say it was perfectly still at that hour when suddenly a blindingly bright light appeared over the top of our car and travelled exactly at the same speed we were. There was no sound accompanying the light, not a hum nothing -- nor notice of it approaching our car -- it just suddenly appeared over the top of our car almost as if someone switched on a gigantic torch over it. It also appeared to be perfectly round on the ground around us. I was terrified and we couldn't speak. It stayed with us for several minutes then disappeared as quickly as it had come. I did phone the Bureau of Meteorology and they gave me some story about it perhaps being the reflection of a storm! Okay. We realised we would look like idiots so never spoke of it to anyone but it happened. [Ah, the power of 'authority.' - PP]

Townsville, 1970s [reported September 2004]
I would like to tell you about something that happened to my family and I back in the late 1970s. It's a tale I don't normally speak about but I decided to take a chance and tell it to you.

My parents and I had a beach house about thirty minutes drive north of Townsville in north Queensland at a place called Toomula, a small beachside community. It was a Friday night and we were going fishing on the Saturday over at an island about thirteen or so miles off the coast called Rattlesnake, an island used for target practice at one time by the RAAF, so we needed to get some bait. We were down at the mouth of Saltwater Creek, which also gave the small settlement its more commonly used name of Saltwater Beach, and my father was casting for bait when I noticed a bright light up in the sky that was reflecting strongly in the water. Baffled by the light I drew it to the attention of my parents and grandfather, who was also with us. My father had a large torch with him and he used this to shine up at the light, and he flashed the torch at it several times. To our surprise the light in the sky flashed back at us several times before taking off at a great speed, heading along the coast towards Townsville, and I still believe that I saw the search light from the Townsville Airport shine up at it, which caused it to shoot out to sea for a distance before turning back in our general direction. It was still way out to sea when it passed behind the island I have already mentioned, proving that it was very low down in the sky. Then it started coming directly back towards us.

This light, or whatever it was, made no sound whatsoever and was obviously big, and it covered what must have been at least a hundred miles in a matter of seconds. Coming back towards us it came to a halt further from us than it had been when we first saw it, and hovered in the sky for a short time before it started to move up and down, and then from side to side. Then, to our horror I suppose, it started coming towards us, making a zigzag pattern as it moved towards us, again making no sound. It was at this point that my parents, grandfather and I headed for home as fast as we could. My grandfather even broke a toe on an exposed tree root as we were all more concerned by what was behind us than what was in front. Later that night my father and grandfather saw two such lights above the hills behind Toomula, where the woman who lived next door to us said they had a base. The lady next door had told us about these lights that passed over the settlement at about the same time every night and that they had a base up in the hills, but no one believed her, including us until we experienced it for ourselves. After we spoke up about it others came forward and we learnt that some people living on a hill near the beach were so scared that they wouldn't let their children or animals outside at night.

Springwood, 1994, 9.00am [reported October 2004]
It was a clear sunny morning with a blue cloudless sky. I think it may have been a Sunday. It was definitely a weekend. I was in my garage, and my wife was getting into our car to reverse out. I went outside to direct her into the road and as I turned around to face her I caught a glimpse of something in the sky. I realised this object was unusual, and its flight path was towards me. I looked at it for a few seconds and determined that it resembled a cylinder, though slightly irregular on its end face. It was more oval than round. It appeared to be like a bale of straw which was on fire. The 'straw' glowing red to yellow to red then black, like straw does. I did not hear a sound.

I called to my wife, who had started the car but hadn't actually started to move. Running towards her excitedly I said 'Stop! You have to see this. Where is the camera? Quickly before it goes!' She said hurriedly that she didn't know where the camera was, got out of the car, and ran out of the garage onto the drive. I pointed up, and to the south. It was still coming towards us, no sound, and still burning without smoke or flames. I saw no vapour trail, but it looked too low for that anyway. It moved like a hot air balloon, but its path was direct, not wavering or dependent on the wind. It was travelling fairly quickly, but not supersonic. It appeared to me to be about a few hundred feet off the ground, but since there was nothing in the sky to compare it with, I don't really know. It passed overhead, and we turned around to see it disappear over the treetops of the houses and parks towards the north. Its speed never varied.

I said to my wife 'I didn't hear anything, did you?' She said she heard a faint whining noise or a swoosh, but I heard nothing. She described the same thing as I saw, burning straw bale, cylindrical, not uniform shape, definitely on a set course. We were convinced that other people would have seen it, since we were in the suburbs with hundreds of households, but heard no reports on the radio, or the papers. I can say thank goodness my wife saw it too, else I would have thought I was seeing things!

If you asked me to 'guesstimate' its size I would have said between 10 and 20 metres diameter on the end, and perhaps 30 metres long, but it could have been a lot bigger. Oh yes. One last thing. I don't recall seeing a shadow, but the sun was in the east, so any shadow it cast wouldn't have fallen on us anyway. Pity since it may have given me some realistic idea of its height and size. It was travelling from the southwest to the northwest and could have been anything from 30 to 200 metres altitude

Queensland, 1990s [reported November 2004]
These photos [not shown] were taken about 10 years ago whilst taking some photos for my family.

You may notice that though I shifted my position the object stayed in almost the same place. It looks far too big to be a bird and does not appear to have a tail as such. Nor was it moving very fast. I did not see it through the view finder and only saw it when the film was developed.

Kawana Waters 2000 [reported July 2004]
Our sighting is very boring, but would love to hear of any similar. Broad daylight on the beach at Kawana Waters in 2000 at about midday. I looked up and saw what at first appeared to be a children's helium balloon but a bit larger. It seemed as though it was made of glass and had what resembled a light bulb's inner-element around the outside of it. It was about 30 feet above us and moved right suddenly, and then stopped above us stock still. It then went directly to the horizon in the count of about five. I have never seen even one of our aircraft move that fast. My boyfriend saw a similar object at the same beach about a year later. If we hadn't seen it together on the first occasion, I wouldn't have registered the enormity of it. As there are apparently a lot of sightings off Point Cartwright of lights under the water we were doubly curious. Would love to hear about any other sightings like it.

South of Rockhampton, 1990 [reported 2004]
A man was driving on the highway about 30 minutes south of Rockhampton. The incident occurred in the evening when he drove up a hill to then look down into a valley. This is where he saw what he first thought was a plane about to crash but which turned out to be a cigar-shaped object about "the size of the body of the largest plane and about two storeys high" which came to hover just below tree height. He pulled his car off the road and got out to get a better look at what he was seeing.

The object travelled about 20kms/hr and silently glided over him only 15 to 20 metres above without "making a whisper". It was very brightly lit and seemed to be shiny [not metallic] but like colour bonded steel in a "bright orange colour". It had 10 windows around it "about 3/4 the size of an average bedroom window" which were all square at the bottom but coming to a peak at the top like "windows of a church".

The front "windscreen" of the object had "full panel windows" [meaning from floor to ceiling] that were completely black which went right around the front and slightly around to the objects sides. The windows were so black the witness could not see anything inside and he "got the impression they were one way windows". The object looked very solid and had "no seams" which made it look like it was "pre-finished". It also appeared "very solid" to the witness and "well built, not like anything we have here".

The witness said he got the impression the object was made for underwater travel as well as through the air. I quizzed him why he thought this but all he would say was "that was the impression I got". He estimated the object to be as bright as 1000 watts and he said he "got a really good look at it since it was so close". He also saw what seemed to be square landing pods underneath it that had "the roughness of acorns" on them "possibly for good traction". He watched the object for 3 minutes in total "enough time to get a really good look at it".

While he was parked and looking at the object another car came over the hill and ran off the side of the road but did not stop. It was obvious to the witness that the driver of the other car saw the object too.

Western Queensland, 1980s [reported September 2004]
In the late 1980s in western Queensland, I witnessed some rings [large and small] in a very dry paddock. From memory, they were stumbled upon by a teenager herding goats and visited by a few of my relatives who lived in the area. I have seen quite a few photos of crop circles, but am yet to see anything similar to these. The rings themselves were probably around 12cm thick, and a lighter colour than the surrounding and interior [very dry] grass. The grass both immediately inside and outside of the rings appeared normal, meaning only the ring itself exhibited any differences in colour. I have some photos of these rings, but the camera technology available to my family at the time was pretty low quality. I also believe that the Department of Primary Industries 'investigated' the site

Peregian Beach, late 1970s [reported 2004]
I don't know why I am emailing this but I had this urge to tell of an experience I had in the late 70's We were building an A-frame house at the beach front at Peregian Beach, Queensland. I was at the 'A' point of the house attaching the barge-boards when my father-in-law asked ‘What is that in the sky?’

There was a shimmering gold/platinum disk at about 1 o'clock high. At first we thought it was a piece of paper or similar caught in a heat eddy. It was a hot, still, crystal clear morning, about 10am and we had seen several objects floating in the sky. The difference was that this object was stationary. Moments later a second identical object appeared at about 3 o'clock south-east of us, coming in over the ocean at speed towards the first object. It stopped within a space of about two diameters of themselves for a moment, hovered, and then both disks proceeded to move N-N-W from a stand-still in a gradual increase of speed that defied logic. Within three to four seconds they were gone.

Byron Bay [NSW], 1998, 10:00pm [reported 2004]
A friend and I were walking along an empty section of Byron Bay beach one evening at about 10:00pm in 1998. As far as I know we were the only two people on the beach. The wind was blowing on-shore from the bay and it was fairly dark when both of us stopped in our tracks as we spotted something unusual. Just above the tree-tops and coming from town towards the sea was a bronze coloured, sting-ray shaped object [no tail] making its way toward the ocean. I asked my friend if he new what it was – he had been local to the area for quite some years and had some knowledge of animals/birds of the area – but he, like me, had no idea what we were looking at.

The bronze, sting-ray shaped object was approximately 1 to 2 metres in length and breadth. It flew at around 10 to 15 metres above us, over the tree-tops that edge along the beach. It was travelling from land towards the sea. It had to have passed over the houses of the town to arrive where we saw it. We both watched it pass above us and disappear into the gloom of night out in the bay, heading from south to north. It produced no sound, at least nothing above the sound of the surf and the wind blowing onshore. It had no visible form of propulsion – no moving wings, no glowing engines, its body shaped never changed as it weaved its way out to sea against a head wind. I say 'weaved' as it didn't follow an exact straight line to sea, almost as if it may have had a 'mechanical' fault and was struggling against the wind. Slight movements left and right, but generally straight ahead.

And here is the important bit, which I think all Ufologists need to consider, it had NO lights. No navigation lights, no engine glow, no searchlights – nothing. And it gave off no sound. This was a stealth machine, not intended to display itself to anyone. Thinking about it over the years I really can't imagine why any UFO would want to announce itself with bright lights and noisy engines, particularly if it wants to observe without interfering.

The other thought I have is that this UFO may have had a fault, that's why it was flying low and weaving a bit, and how my friend and I managed to see it. Also, it was heading toward the bay and the ocean. I suspect there was a mothership hidden nearby that this device was returning to, possibly underwater.

From the fact there was no light and no sound and no visible form of propulsion, I fell it can't have been a human machine, at least as far as all the technology I know of that humans have made. This is my real experience.

Queensland, 1978 [reported November 2004]
It was around the end of March or early April, 1978. A friend was looking through a mounted telescope at the starry sky above. The time of the day was around sunset so the sky was black in the east, lit by the setting sun in the west. I remember J called me over and asked if I wanted to take a look through his telescope. He said he had been tracking something moving across the sky. He directed me to the spot in the sky where I should look and then waited for my response. I looked in the eyepiece and after a brief search found the moving object. All I could see was a very bright point of light. It was high up in the sky, with the stars and the blackness behind it. I remember that it was travelling in a straight arc line across the sky as if it were circling the earth. I watched it for a bit and then I said to my friend that it was probably a satellite. The thing seemed to be constantly the same brightness as it travelled across the sky, but as the object reached a point nearly above my head something weird happened that I will never forget. The object, the bright point of moving light, suddenly veered off at a 45 degree angle, as if turning on a coin. It turned without the customary curving that jetplanes, rockets and other flying objects usually exhibit while changing course. If its initially spotted direction was in front of me and heading along an arc to over my head and then behind me, when it veered 45 degrees it did so as if to go over my right shoulder. It was like looking at a clock face. I was at the centre, the object was travelling from the 12 o'clock position in front of me to the clock centre where I stood, and then it veered toward the 4 o'clock position over, as I said, my right shoulder. Then, once it had suddenly veered off, its brightness faded into the dark of the Universe and I eventually lost it though I was able to follow it till it faded. It was as if it were heading out into deep space, where before the turn it was circling the earth. I don't know what it was but satellites don't do 45 degree sudden turns, as far as I know, and they don't fade away where just before they were as bright as an object can get in space. I remember its brightness even now, brighter than any of the background stars over which it passed. I also remember the fading away into blackness after the turn.

Abergowrie, north Queensland, 1975 [reported November 2004]
I wish to report a UFO sighting witnessed by my father and myself way back in 1975. The location was near Ingham at El Alamein Road, Abergowrie, north Queensland. The exact date I can't recall but I remember it to be during a winter month and the year was definitely 1975. At approximately 10:30am we heard the sounds of what we thought were fighter jets. Being a rural location this was not common so we automatically scanned the sky but did not see anything. However, at about 11:00am we did notice one small silver object high in the sky above our house. It had moved there rapidly in a straight line from a northerly direction. It looked like a star but appeared to be "flexible" in shape and was stationary. It was a clear sunny day so no stars should have been visible. I rushed into the house for a set of binoculars to take a closer look. As I focused on the object it continued to pulsate as if it were flexible. I noted a small black object quickly spiral in towards it and as it made contact the black object was no longer visible. It hovered in the one spot for several minutes but then the silver star-like object began to slowly move in a perfect straight line in a westerly direction. It started to slowly pick up speed, then in a flash it accelerated and vanished, following the same straight line in a westerly direction. Some time later we heard the sounds of jets again but once again were unable to see any. I contacted authorities [DCA?] in Townsville by telephone and gave them the above account. They later sent me some paper work to fill out which I did and posted it back to them.

To this day I am unsure what the object was but at the time I definitely believed it to be a UFO. Some time later I had noted that some fluffy sphere-like grass seeds floating in the wind did sometimes resemble a star in the day sky when the sun shone in the right direction. However, it was obvious that wind currents moved these in uneven movements. The UFO I witnessed had hovered for several minutes and only moved in perfect straight lines.

One pro-UFO hypothesis I will put forward is that the military jets we sent out from Townsville to investigate UFOs that they had detected on radar. They passed close by our house as they headed towards the UFO's original location. To avoid detection the UFOs had moved from the north to a new position over our house. The UFO had expected to make contact with another vehicle and this was the black object spiralling into it. As the military jets were returning from their unsuccessful mission the UFO once again avoided any contact by quickly moving in a westerly direction and out of sight.

Bundaberg area, 1974, 1981, 1985, [reported December 2004]
1. 1974/75 on a turf farm. A man and his son were keen shooters and had heard that a fox was troubling some ducklings that lived on the farm dam. It was 7 or 8pm when they walked down to the dam and after some time the son had enough of waiting and returned to the house. The father stayed on and saw a bright yellow/blue saucer-shaped light about the size of a double-decker bus that appeared about 200 to 300 feet high on the other side of the roadway near the farm. He thought it was hovering somewhere over a field there and was silent the whole time. The light then lifted back up into the air, moved to the right then shot off at a fairly high speed.

2. In 1981 the man and his son were on a friend's farm outside Bundaberg where they had been invited to go shooting. They were walking towards the river when they saw something they initially thought was a meteor about the size of a mini minor car. It came down one quarter of a mile in front of them, with no noise. They walked into a grove of trees near the river where they saw the object come down but nothing had been disturbed.

3. In September 1985 they visited their uncle's farm at Wondoan. They had a vehicle they decked out in the back so they could sleep under the stars. It was Saturday at 5pm when they were on a bush track one mile in from the road. On the other side of the road was a cutting that ran north for a quarter mile then opened out into a big grass area where kangaroos were believed to gather, and was their destination. They had a powerful spotlight they were shining when the father looked up over his left shoulder and saw a huge bright object about the size of two houses and about 300 to 400 feet high. They continued with their shooting activities and the light followed them when they eventually drove back down to the station house.

As they were driving the lights of the vehicle went out. The object then dropped down to 200 feet or so and became very bright. By this time they were beginning to panic and decided to stay awake that evening to see what would happen. They turned the car around and faced the object and the father looked at it through the night vision scope of his rifle. He described it as an inverted soup bowl-shaped dome on the top which was about two thirds the size of the object. The bottom had a slight curve on it and was the other third of it. He could see a pattern of a diamond shape running through the object with orange and blue colours like that of the flames of an open fire. The patterns pulsated slightly. He and his son discussed what it might be and eventually his son slept while he stayed awake watching it. Seventy -five minutes later he woke his son to tell him that the object had begun to move. It moved away from them then went up into the sky, stayed there for three seconds before shooting off into the blackness. The next day the lights of their vehicle were tested by an auto electrician but there was nothing wrong with them. three or four days later the man and his son decided to sketch what they had seen separately to compare notes and found they had drawn exactly the same thing. He says he knows what he saw and is now convinced of the existence of UFOs.

Perth, WA, along the coast road, 1997, midnight [reported December 2004]
A man was driving late at night and observed a black triangular-shaped object with a slight golden glow above him. He drove around the corner of the road and up the hill and stopped the car to get a better look. At this angle he could see the triangle had a slight golden glow to it and a bulbous shape underneath. There were two lights on the front of the triangle that he could see as it disappeared into the night.

When he was 10 or 11 years of age in England the witness was riding his bicycle down a country road during the day when the wheel chain came off his bike. He felt a bit vulnerable stopped on the road so he dragged his bike into a nearby field. Here he looked up and saw a silver glimmering object in the sky that moved off and disappeared. When he got home his mother asked where he had been since it was 5pm. Normally he would have been home at 3pm but he doesn't know how he lost two hours of time.

Noorrokipping, 90kms south of Stockholme, April 4 1999, 12.31am [reported January 27 2004]
A young man was driving with a friend along the highway in an open convertible. They were travelling at 90mph when they drove through mist and when they came out of the mist directly above them was a huge glowing white light in the shape of a long cylindrical object about the size of a small house. They had stopped the car and were looking up as the mist started to roll across them again. When it had cleared the object was gone.

Packenham [VIC], 1977-78 [reported March 2004]
A witness reported seeing an unusual object in 1977-78 while living in Packenham VIC. At the time she lived on a farm and she was hosting a fund-raising event for a children’s group. Twelve objects were seen in formation and each of them appeared to be elongated dots with a little plume behind them. They would change direction abruptly and perform right-angle turns at fast speeds. One object seemed to be the "leader" and when it took off, the rest followed suit. The objects were observed for 10 to 15 minutes before disappearing. At the time she phoned the airport and personnel confirmed they could detect the objects as well. The Bureau of Meteorology was also inundated with about 300 calls from people who saw the same incident. There were 14 witnesses with her at the fundraiser who also saw the objects. The incident made quite an impression on her and her family and it still comes up in conversation today.

Bahmah [VIC] 1980 [reported March 2004]
In 1980 at Bahmah in north Victoria the caller's daughter and friend were driving home at midnight with their children in the car. They saw a light behind them and thinking it was another vehicle pulled over to let it pass. However the vehicle didn't pass and the people in the car began to feel "funny" and "creepy," like someone was touching them, and the children began screaming. The car sputtered a few times before they pulled off the road into the bush to let the other vehicle pass, but no vehicle went by. Afterwards they were all left quite shaken by the incident.