2005

JANUARY>>

Greenbank, Thursday January 2005 13, 6.05am
I was driving to work at approximately 6.05 Thursday morning with my 18 year old son on Middle Road , Greenbank, in a westerly direction. We were nearly to the start of Tiviot Road when I noticed a bright object reflecting the sun. It seemed to be travelling in an easterly direction at a constant speed. As it did so the sun stopped reflecting off it and I asked my son if he could see any wings or anything. He replied no. The object's shape was circular and it seemed to be metallic in colour. As we drove along Middle Road the trees on the left side of the road got in the way of us seeing the object. We turned onto Tiviot Rd and could not see where it went. I believe the object was less than one kilometre away and approximately the size of a small plane. I have always been interested in this subject and this was my first sighting of this nature. I am interested in knowing if any other sightings were reported.

Robina January 14 2005, 7.30pm
A man had been phoned by his father at Robina who told him he could see red, green and blue flashes in the eastern sky over the bay. The caller could not see them himself.

FEBRUARY>>

Brisbane , February 7 2005, 10.25pm
Facing the north, at about 20 degrees from the vertical, I saw a series of what appeared to be star-size and brightness objects travelling across the sky. They were coming from the north and as they tracked due south they gradually disappeared [dimmed]. There were about six points of light. In terms of distance between them, if you consider the stars that make up what is commonly know as the handle of the big saucepan, they were approximately that far apart.

They took about five seconds to move a distance of about a quarter of the sky. I have watched hundreds of aircraft on my deck and whilst in the pool; they were so much faster than anything I have ever seen before, including the F111's that occasionally pass overhead. There was absolutely no sound. It was like watching a large satellite, the ones that pass overhead and gradually disappear as they lose reflection from the sun. These things however moved at an enormous speed and there were up to six of them that gradually faded. I tried to get my wife to see them but I wasn't quick enough.

They cannot have been low-flying aircraft as they were too fast and I would have heard the roar. If they were high flying aircraft then they shouldn't have been flying that fast. If they were our satellites, then it is the first I have heard of them flying in close formation as a fleet. The distance was too far apart to be a single object at that height.

There were no flashing lights and the lights faded as if they were passing away from the reflection of the sun. I am intrigued. I have gone over this event in my head a dozen times trying to find a logic to this in terms of what we have up there that can do that. Do you have any suggestions? I don't doubt what I saw as it was a clear as crystal.

MARCH>>

Warner [Strathpine], Wednesday March 2 2005, 2.00am
I live at Warner via Strathpine, Brisbane. I live in an estate in a 2 bedroom villa. We have vacant land at one side and around to the back of the estate with a lot of developing going on.

Early this morning, Wednesday 2 March, 2005, at 2am [I checked the time], I was aroused from my sleep. Not sure what had aroused me, I sort of lay there wondering what woke me up when my room was illumined in white light, very bright, like a fluorescent light streaming into my window. I thought at the time that there must be a full moon, so I decided to go to the bathroom. On my return, approaching my side of the bed -- which is closest to the window -- I became glued to the spot, because, as I was looking out of the window to see where the lights were coming from, well knock me over with a feather, there in the vacant block of land was this UFO, and from what I could tell it would have been the size of a normal house. It was making a humming sound, just idling. I'm not sure that it was actually on the ground, but the lights around its centre were the white with a blush of pink, very pretty. The lights around its centre were not moving at all but stationary, and the lights on top were the same colour but flashing like you see when a police car is chasing someone. This is the first UFO I have seen that close and I couldn't believe my eyes. I wasn't scared in actual fact, but a feeling of peace came over me and I shrugged my shoulders and got back into bed. As I lay down I felt a presence, very reassuring and loving. I could feel their hands on me, giving me the feeling that what I saw was correct, and that I wasn't dreaming. When they put their hands on me I promptly went back to sleep. I have had visitations on occasions, and always have marks or prints left on my skin after these visitations. I'm not scared now, I just accept this because it has been happening since I was a little girl.

This morning the imprint of that sighting is very strong and I would love to climb over the fence to see if I can see anything disturbed or any imprints. I do have telepathic communications with them, from time to time, and they can be very strong. But I guess this sighting was for me to see, because I feel that whatever I am being prepared for, I need to go through these tests to learn to not fear, and I feel that something important is going on. I don't quite know what that is yet, but I'm sure I will be told when the time comes.

Point Glorious, March 25 2005. 8.00-9.00pm
What was it that I saw on Good Friday night, between 8pm and 9pm, twice, each time about 15 minutes apart? I was standing circa 26S 152E, looking across to Point Glorious directly to the south. It was a still clear night. The object had two lights [one red, one white] matching the distance of the wingtips of a small plane, and travelling about the same speed, but it made no sound. In the middle there were dimmer, smaller, flashing lights which seemed to be on the circumference of something that was revolving.

Wakerley, March 26 2005, 6.00am
At about 6.00am on Saturday 26th March 2005 my son and I were driving to work at Wakerley [near Wynnum] in the eastern suburbs of Brisbane . I became aware of an object in the eastern sky that I initially thought to be a skywriting plane. I alerted my son, and we both observed the object travelling from north to south at about the same rate of speed as a commercial passenger plane. The object had and maintained a long bright tail similar to a comet. As the sun started to rise we could see light reflecting from the metal or similar at the front of the object. We therefore concluded that this was some sort of craft. As it reached the south-eastern horizon it appeared to hover in one position. As I backtracked its course I saw another identical object again travelling the same course approximately three minutes behind the first one. We kept observing the second craft, and contingently checked the first, which remained hovering in one spot. As the second craft approached the first they both disappeared momentarily. The crafts appeared to have no sounds emitting from them.

My son and I were quite intrigued by the sightings and both agreed that we had never seen anything like them - nor did we have any clue as to their identities. We were wondering if your organisation could assist us in this regard or reveal others who may have witnessed the same event.

Tingalpa, March 26 2005, 6.05-6.15am
Between these times two peculiar objects entered the atmosphere. The first one entered at 6:05am. We [myself and my father] were on our way to work [facing east] when we noticed that a long, thin streak [about three centimetres long in the sky heading north-south] with a shiny dot [approx one centimetre] in front of it [the size of a pinhead because of the distance away]. We originally thought it was a meteorite coming into the atmosphere until we noticed the dot in front of the streak. However, we noticed it did not disintegrate and decided the angle was too steep for a meteorite. When it came closer to earth, it changed course [southeast], levelled off, and the line decreased in size [possibly indicating a decrease in speed].

At about 6:10am we noticed another object [dot and line] in the original position of the first [the first was still in view, but moving very slowly], that followed the same path. Before the second object began to level off, the first had stopped moving as if waiting for the second. When we last saw them the second had decreased speed and approached the position of the first. Large clouds then obscured the view and the clouds did not clear before we began work.

Stanthorpe, March 27 2005, 7.00pm
I would like to report an experience I had on the 27th of March 2005 at around 7.00pm. I was alone and talking to my mother-in-law on my phone while walking down a street near the local hospital. After I got off my mobile I went to crack my neck when I noticed a light in the sky directly above me. I still had my camera phone in my hand so I quickly took a picture. I briefly looked down at the picture I took and when I looked back up seconds later the light was gone. There were no street lights, birds or planes and it was a clear night. There were no sounds, flashes of light, fumes or anything else strange in the sky. The object was an almost circle of brilliant glowing white light. Just to the left is a bright white wiggly line. To the right is a long orange shape, and to the right of that is another shape similar to the one on the left. There were no flashes or sounds and the light was steady and visible for about five seconds. I still have this photo on my phone and it is fairly clear with stars in the background. The clock on my phone recorded the time I took the picture at 8:57pm which is impossible as it was no later than 7:10pm. That night I noticed a pain in my chest. I have never before seen anything like this and am curious about what I saw.

APRIL>>

Acacia Ridge, Brisbane, early April 2005
My friend had just come out from England for a 12-month working holiday at the beginning of April. I took a week off work to get him set up etc. One of the days [somewhere between the 3rd and 7th April] we were at the Driving Range at 76 Learoyd Road, Acacia Ridge, [Brisbane] QLD, it was about 2.00-3.00pm. We were just on our last few golf balls each from the bucket. My friend is a good player and can really hit a ball far. He hit a ball and I tried to follow it with my eyes as it went skyward but I lost the ball in the bright light reflecting off the few white clouds. But then my eyes focussed on another object that I originally thought was the golf ball. The new object was spherical in shape but it was a grey or silver colour, the top of which seemed brighter than the bottom as if it was metallic. It was moving quite slowly in a southward direction. I immediately tried to point it out to my friend by using the end of my golf club as a pointing stick but he couldn't see it. I kept looking at it for about 1 to 1.5 minutes but then it went behind a cloud and I didn't see it leave the other side of the cloud, obviously it was fairly far away for it to go behind the cloud. I would estimate the size to be about half the size of a small two-seater plane.

MAY>>

No reports were received in May 2005.

JUNE>>

Surfers Paradise [QLD], June 11 2005, 6.01pm
We are just wondering if anybody else has had a similar report to ours? Saturday 6.01pm. Crown Towers, Surfers Paradise. After our family was leaving the hotel, after a visit, we were watching the bungy rocket ride. Standing below you have to look straight up. I noticed a bright white steady moving light. Moving Surfers to Tweed direction right above us. I said to my husband "Hey look at that light, what do you think it is?" when it then immediately went out. Only a very faint speck of colour could be seen. This got my husband and family interested. It moved in a straight line, moving faster and faster away when suddenly it made a sharp right angled turn towards the ocean, slowing down to then make another right angle turn. Moving slow, fast, then veering out more towards the ocean when it just stopped for ages. Wanting to stay longer to watch, we had to go. It was still in the same spot. It got the attention of my family who all commented that it was weird

Brisbane, June 13 2005, 10.30pm
Just thought I would tell you about two sightings I have had over the weekend.

The first, with my partner -- we were sitting on the deck of our home in inner city Brisbane on Friday at around 10:30pm. I saw a bright orange light travelling slowly towards us from the north. It was not flashing and had no other lights, so was not a plane. It grew in size and travelled over our house and then appeared to be climbing. It climbed into the sky and got smaller and smaller then disappeared. It appeared to just go up into space. The entire thing lasted about four minutes. It made no noise. My partner said she saw a bright flash in the vicinity of where it disappeared about two minutes after we lost visual contact. I did not see this flash however.

The next day around 4:30pm during daylight I was playing in the park with the kids across the road from my house, and I happened to look up and see a black round object coming along almost the same flight path as the orb I had seen the night before. It followed the same path and then climbed up and away again till I lost visual contact. It seemed to have no lights and was definitely not a plane.

Delaney's Creek, June 25 2005, 6.30pm
I was out admiring the stars and was waiting for moving objects in the sky to appear as they sometimes do, always peering at the position of where I have previously seen action. This night around 6.30pm I could see a huge yellow light just over the top of the range [west]. It didn't move so I called out to my husband and daughter to come and have a look. We watched it for five to ten minutes as it subtly changed its glow to an orange-yellow colour, then as I thought it might be going down slightly it turned into a green colour and disappeared.

Caboolture, Sunday June 26 2005, 1.30pm
I was coming home from the Gold Coast with my mum. We were about half-way between Caboolture airport and Aussie World when I noticed a metallic object in the sky moving twice as fast as a stealth bomber, and moving in a north-easterly direction towards the Glass House mountains [I think]. I told my mum after a minute of observing it and she suggested it was just a tiny cloud, but since my previous sighting three years earlier I have been researching UFOs in my spare time and I knew otherwise. I told her that there were no clouds and it was a clear sunny day and the object was shining brightly from the sun, which clouds didn't do. I observed the strange object for about two more minutes before it plain vanished like my previous sighting.

Connondale June 26 2005, 10.22pm
On Sunday 26-06-2005 I was supposed to be going to a paranormal/UFO meeting but due to unforseen circumstances it had been cancelled, so I decided to visit my research partner at Connondale. When I left her house it was 2222hrs, and I decided to take the short cut home down Adherns Rd/Postmans Track. I had just gone over a small wooden bridge and looked over my right shoulder to see a red light that was flashing. At first I thought it was a tower with a flashing light but after driving for a kilometre I realised that it was actually following me. I know the area as it was the same road where crop circles were discovered last year. I wound down the window to see if it was a reflection [it wasn't] and kept driving and felt quite nervous but not really scared. So I tried communicating with it and said telepathically to it, ‘hello.’ As I did this it sped up and was now moving directly level with the car about 100-200metres away and about two or three metres off the ground directly right of the car. The area it was moving over was flat grazing land with a creek and tree line approximately 200-300m away from the road. I kept driving deciding what to do -- all I could think of is that I need to tell my friend so she could come and see too. I stopped the car and then the light stopped too, so I hung a u-turn and drove off, watching the light change directions as it kept following me. I went back over the spooky little troll bridge, kept driving and then lost sight of the light [orb?]. As I turned out of Adherns road I glanced back and saw a big yellow light towards the old crop circle patch but didn't stop. Unfortunately we did not make it back to see if the red light was still there. This has been a very eventful new millennium for me.

JULY>>

No reports were received in July 2005.

AUGUST>>

Gympie, August 4 2005, 9.00pm
I have just had a sighting and felt compelled to report it. My friend and I were heading into town at approximately 9.00pm. We saw an extremely bright orange light hovering in the northern sky which proceeded to very erratically head south across the sky. After a few minutes it emitted a shot of orange that fell away for a few meters, then after another minute shot off another burst. These bursts were like flaming debris falling away. There was heavy cloud cover and no other stars were visible at all. It did not flash or pulse, but just emitted a constant orange light. It was the three strange bursts of light that fell away from the main object that were very odd. Being in Gympie this is very unusual. Definitely not a helicopter or plane, who knows. Hope this is of interest.

Redland Bay, August 4, 5, 6, 2005
Hi there, I’d like to report a sighting over three nights, roughly about the same time each night. The first night was August 4 2005 GMT+10 2:30am. Saw it coming from Stradbroke Island, a small orange sphere in the sky. I first thought it was a star but noticed there was no flickering like the other stars. It had mostly been static, then suddenly moved with great speed in short distances with a zigzag motion. This blew me away. I was having a smoke outside and watched it for about ten minutes then went back inside.

The second sighting was at 3am on the 5th of August 2005. The orange light in the sky was there again, moving in the same way as spotted on the 4th of August.

The third sighting was at 2:35am on the 6th, pretty much in the same position in the atmosphere. I am in Redland Bay and can see Stradbroke Island from my backyard. It would have been pretty much directly above, maybe a little towards Stradbroke. This time I grabbed my Sony Hi-8 handycam and recorded a couple of minutes of video. My hands are pretty shaky in the video as it was pretty cold outside, and the handycam is pretty heavy. With it zoomed to the max stability is an issue.

Moorooka, Brisbane, August 5 2005
A man reported seeing a beautiful bright orange ball in the north east sky travelling towards the south west. It was moving "all over the place" in a zigzag fashion, then sat and hovered for a while pulsating five times. He watched it for 15 minutes before it took off in a curved line and he lost sight of it. He called Air Services who put him on to the Brisbane Airport.

Ingham, August 6 and 10 2005, 8.30pm
My friend saw four UFOs on Aug. 6, 2005 [Saturday night], which she reported to the local police. Four nights later, we met up and had few conversations with all of my band mates. At that night, 8:30pm, her aunt called us inside the building and told us that the UFO was there in the sky again but this time it's only one so we went out. When I saw it I thought it wass Jupiter, but few seconds later I realized it's not!

The UFO looks exactly like a star! It's flickering and it's got light-rays. But it's not white that flickers rainbow colours, it's a yellow-goldish colour that looks like an ordinary fire. In my estimation it has a magnitude of -7, slowly moving towards 260 deg. Azimuth; 85 deg. Altitude, then fading away 15 minutes later. Asteroid? Space objects heat up at 1600 deg C; travelling 27,000km/h during entry and at that temperature it was already showing white flame not yellow-goldish...

Mount Fox, August 7 2005, 5.00am
At about 5am on August 7 from my property at Mount Fox Queensland I observed a bright yellow object for about five seconds travelling low to the horizon and running parallel to the horizon at about 5 o'clock high until it went behind a nearby ridge and out of sight. It was not travelling as fast as a meteor would, but faster then a jet aircraft at that distance. It appeared to be about 50 kilometres from here, travelling north to south. Any idea what it was?

Traralgon [VIC], August 7 2005, 1.00am
On Sunday morning at 0100hrs I noticed something strange in the sky. We live about four kilometres out of Traralgon Victoria, on a rural property. The night was very clear and still, and I noticed as I stopped to open the gate a large white cloud-like thing in the sky just ahead of me, but to the right. It was a cloud-like mass, which was hovering above, but although stationary was continually forming a figure-8 pattern. The white-coloured mass appeared to contain within it many perfectly formed circles. Very strange. I went through the gate and watched it for a little longer, wondering If I was seeing things, and even turned the car lights off, but this thing continued to circle above. As I drove towards the house the mass moved forward and ahead of me, and as I approached the house it hovered over the top of it, and then moved off further into the distance. I know this all sounds strange, and it seemed very weird to me, but I was wondering if anybody else happened to see anything similar in the sky on Sunday night? [Report forwarded to VUFORS]

Strathpine, Brisbane, August 9 2005, 4.50pm
A woman was looking west when she observed an object in the western sky at a 45 degree angle. It had a ball at the base with smoke coming off it and it was travelling down to the horizon. It did a right angle turn but it wasn't sharp. To her it looked like a comet. It was ¾ the size of her open hand at arm's length.

SEPTEMBER>>

Crestmead, Logan area, September 2 2005 8.50pm
A man was observing a burning light in the sky when he saw a "dot" fall out of it. It looked like an F1-11 doing a dump and burn but there was no sound. It moved from south to south west, not too fast and about the altitude of a plane.

Ipswich, Queensland, September 10 2005, night
A young woman reported an orange light "bobbing and hovering" while moving due south in the sky. It was also flickering with two seconds between each flicker. At times it moved erratically and zigzagged while seeming to descend at a 45 degree angle.

Noosa, Queensland, September 28 2005, 6.45pm
Just letting you know that tonight at 6.45pm, we watched a UFO travelling north to south [opposite direction to air-traffic flight path in our area] for about two minutes. It was extremely bright, in fact much brighter than all the stars, and travelling in a fairly straight if wobbly and erratic trajectory towards the south. We often see satellites in the night sky going in that direction, but this was much closer, bigger and brighter than the satellites we see. No coloured lights blinking or anything like that, only one bright ball of white light that stood out 'brilliantly' from everything else in the sky at that time. It reminded me of the type of white light that comes out of a fireworks sparkler.

What was really interesting tonight was that a regular north-bound commuter flight we see at that time every night was heading right for the UFO and was on a collision course with it. We both stood holding our breath, then realised both craft seemed to change their altitude slightly [the plane going up and the UFO dropping down] in what looked like an obvious evasive manoeuvre to avoid collision! Shortly after they passed by each other [it still looked very close to us], our UFO friend changed direction and began heading eastward out to sea, before rapidly fading from bright to nothing, and was gone in a just a second or two, as though it had suddenly accelerated rapidly. It is a clear night here tonight, no clouds can be seen anywhere.

We saw one do something very similar to this several years ago, and tonight we both commented that it seemed these things almost went out of their way to be seen before they make their rapid departure. To my thinking, the crew of that flight who took what looked to us to be evasive action, cannot have failed to see that UFO... possibly some of the passengers would have seen it also.

Woollongong [NSW], September 2005, 8.00-9.00pm
A woman was sitting at the table around 8.00 to 9.00pm one evening with two friends and saw an unexplainable object flashing in the sky about 5 kilometres away. Soon after she felt "guided" to purchase a set of crop circle cards.

OCTOBER>>

Cooroy, Queensland, October 3 2005, 12.00pm
A man reported seeing orange lights in a triangular pattern in the trees of his property which he thought looked like Min Min lights. They were orange/yellow about 200 metres away and about one to two metres in size. He had seen orange lights about two weeks previously that flashed at 15 second intervals.

Rockhampton, October 20 2005, 9.30pm
We were in the car park of the Rockhampton Airport around 9:30pm [21:30]. We had not long landed from a flight from Brisbane, and were heading to our car when I noticed a light in the sky moving quite strangely, It was in the northish area and it was a quite far away. It was coming towards us, but at intervals it would speed-up then stop, then go again then stop, It must have done this ten times or more before it was nearly right over head. The light was white and strobe-like, dull to very bright in no apparent order, It also seemed to do small circles in the sky. Myself and a friend could not explain what we were looking at, as neither of us have seen anything like this before. It did not act like any plane or helicopter I've ever seen before.

Helensvale, Qld, October 21 2005 7.45pm
A woman and her son witnessed a huge bright orange light in the sky. It was haystack-shaped and moved from behind one cloud to another cloud. As it moved behind the second cloud it flashed and its glow lit up other clouds around it. It seemed to be sparkling and shimmering on top. Her son had seen exactly the same thing years ago while living on the Central Coast in New South Wales and afterwards he developed a red forehead.

Whittlesea [VIC[, Saturday October 23 2005, 8.30pm
A UFO sighting was reported to the Whittlesea leader newspaper that occurred last Sunday evening at 8.30pm from the Epping area. A woman had gone outside to have a cigarette and saw a strange light in the sky changing from pinky-red to green and moving erratically. She was facing southwest and the object was northwest. She watched it for half an hour and took footage of it with her phone camera.

Camp Hill, Brisbane, Monday October 25 2005, 7.30pm
A man reported seeing an object from Camp Hill about 7.30pm for half an hour. It was 60 degrees above the horizon, moved as fast as a plane at intervals and would then stop.

It did this a few times and when he called to report it was stationary. It was much brighter than a plane and bigger than a star. It was in the eastern sky and moving NE. There were four witnesses.

Aspley, Brisbane, October 30 2005, 8.32pm
A woman observed an object in the sky travelling north to north west and lower than a plane. It was pale green in colour, moving, then halted, flashed, then vanished. She only saw it for a couple of seconds but reported it to be ¾ the size of the moon. She thought it was relatively close to her and she observed it through her front door.

NOVEMBER>>

Wynnum, Brisbane Bayside, November, 8.00am
A woman was driving her 4WD vehicle in an easterly direction when she saw an object that had two circular lights in front spanning 30 to 40 cm across, snub-nosed, transparent yet silver at times, with the sides flaring back like the wing tips on some commercial airplanes.

It was travelling directly towards her at eye level. She first noticed it when she thought it was about 20 feet in front of her but she later stated she observed the object while travelling for approximately 100 metres at 40kph, so she thought she got a good enough look at it. She was worried the object would fly right through her car but as it got closer it lifted up like a bird finding an updraft and flew over her vehicle.

She also briefly mentioned that 35 years ago parents of her children's friends from the Wynnum area reported a UFO landed in their back yard. Everyone who knew them thought they were crazy but the grass and plants never grew in the yard. She's now having second thoughts about their experience since her own.

DECEMBER>>

Innisfail, Sunday December 4 2005, night
Last night, 3rd December, my aunty telephoned to say that she and my grandfather could see a UFO. It looked like a bright star, but the star kept changing colours. On closer inspection with binoculars, the lights became more distinct and there were flashes of green, orange, red. My aunty explained that they could see the outline of the saucer, however my father and I could only view the flashes of light. It was too high in the sky for someone to be mucking around and it definitely wasn't a plane as it was stationary most of the time. Its time like these you wish you owned a telescope.

Cleveland, Monday December 5 2005, 9.15am
I have been searching for other reports of this and I can't believe there are none, and a bit disappointed too! Today [December 5, 2005] I attended a swimming carnival at Cleveland Pool, near Brisbane. When we arrived, at 9:15am, I noticed a very bright object high in the sky to the east, probably over Moreton Bay, in the direction of Wellington Point. I pointed it out to several others and we noticed it wasn't moving much but sort of drifting. So we thought it might be a balloon but it was very high up and it was more of a triangular shape than balloon shaped. I watched it for about 30 minutes and then saw two tiny [from my distance away] white objects seemingly come out of the larger object and move away at a fast, regular pace at an approximately 45 degree angle to the ground - they disappeared behind the tree-line. [I was pretty much freaking by now, by the way!] About 20 minutes later, another similar object climbed into the sky from about 50 degrees to the original. They moved very close together, almost touching, then circled each other, - one went left, the other right, one up, the other down. They didn't appear to be moving very fast at this time. After about another 20 minutes, the second object slowly descended on the same trajectory and disappeared behind the tree-line. The original object stayed up in the air for another 30 minutes or so and then began to slowly descend, almost straight down. It was lost to view at about 11:00am. I have several impartial witnesses but I believe that a lot of people wouldn't have seen it because the sky was so bright [very very hot day] but we were on a hill and I had Polaroids on. I'd love to hear if anyone else saw it!

Canberra, December 5 and 14 2005, 10.00-10.35pm
I have emailed your website site in regards to two events which took place in Canberra, ACT recently. I witnessed the first event from my suburb of Pearce to the south-west direction between 10:00pm-10:35pm, Monday 5th December 2005. It appeared to be a very clear, bright star or planet that a number of times seemed to dim slightly. At one point I watched it for three minutes from inside my house. I then planned to go outside to watch it closer. But before this, I went over to shut down my computer which was running at that time. I took about four minutes to do that. I then went outside to have a look and by then it had moved downwards. The second event took place on 14th December of 2005. I witnessed an object in the same position as the last one only this time I watched the light for 10 minutes and then it suddenly dimmed slowly and disappeared. I'd like to know if there were any other witnesses that have seen the same thing, and I would like to know if there is any explanation for it.

Dromana, Victoria, Saturday December 10 2005, evening
I was outside having a smoke when I noticed a light, quite low for commercial traffic, silent, and travelling very fast and in an unusual direction [west to east]. As it went over my head, the light increased in brightness so as to be the brightest object in its surrounding area, It was close to the constellation of Orion, and then almost immediately disappeared. It was if it was never there. It seemed low as the light was very bright. There also appeared to be a red light, constant not flashing, to the back port side of it, All the time it was silent and faster than a satellite travels, and when it seemed to disappear it faded, as if it went up. This experience has freaked me a bit, and also my cats, They started running around in circles and generally acting very freaky, I'm going to bed now, I haven't been drinking but I wish I had as every noise is spinning me out!

Townsville, Saturday December 10 2005, night
Just a few minutes ago I saw something suspicious in the sky. It probably was a plane, but it was an object in the sky with three lights, normal white lights, moving faster than a plane, and I could kinda see the shape of the object. It was like a triangle without pointed sides. They were curved and planes don't seem to fly the way it was travelling. My father saw it but he said it was a plane, and one of my next door neighbours was out side too. I don't know if they looked up at the sky but they were around when I saw it. Just wondering if what I saw is or was a UFO of some sort?

Location unknown, Wednesday December 14 2005, 8.30pm
On the 14th of December at 8.30pm we saw three lights very very close together that were coloured red blue and white. They were moving in a circular motion and were moving back and forth between two stars which were unknown to us. They were the biggest stars near the moon. Very weird!

Moree [NSW], December 23 2005, 5.20am
On December 23 at 5.20am just outside Moree on the Newell highway towards Goondiwindi, my wife and I saw two very bright lights that zigzagged very fast all over the place. It came towards us a number of times with its light on. We thought that it was going to crash into us, and it followed us for about 10 minutes. We wonder if anybody else reported the sighting, as there were a lot of cars and trucks on the road at that time.

Morningside, December 29 2005, 11.30pm
At 11.30pm on 29 December myself and my husband spent an hour watching three equidistant UFOs in the sky over Brisbane from our home in Morningside. We were debating whether or not to call the RAAF base in Ipswich but on balance we probably won't in case they think we are mad!

Caloundra, December 31 2005. 8.10pm
Sitting in the back yard New Year's Eve at about 8.10pm we were watching satellites pass. We then saw in the north-east and heading south, what looked like two satellites going much faster than normal. They were travelling in an easterly direction running parallel. They then seemed to come together, almost touching, then veered apart before continuing their parallel path east. Unforgettable.

Stanthorpe, December 31 2005, night
We were having a New Years Eve BBQ in Stanthorpe, Qld, and spotted an object in the sky. It was very large and bright and looked a bit like a comet. I raced inside to get my camera and by the time I found it, the object had moved a fair distance in the sky. All up, I would say it was visible for 5-7 minutes before it disappeared behind houses on the other side of the street. It was witnessed by myself, my wife and the couple that owned the house we were at, and the next door neighbours. I did some looking around on the net but couldn't find much in the way of meteor, comet or satellite sightings. Can the object we saw be explained?

Burpengary, December 31 2005, midnight
It has been a long time between any decent sightings for myself but at about two minutes past midnight on New Year's Eve as I was looking in a westerly direction I observed a plane flying roughly west to east. At the same time I observed another object which at first I thought was another plane but then changed my mind when another two objects appeared, travelling in a southerly direction. All three objects were an orange colour and round in shape, their speed was fairly slow, I guess it would be in comparison to a light plane speed. The part of the sighting that really convinced me that I was not watching planes was that all the objects started dropping small lit objects that faded almost instantly, which ruled out night skydivers with lights, and they were also far too low for sky diving. Each object dropped approximately three smaller objects. Now the next part, which only myself witnessed and I'm still not too sure if I saw correctly, but I am pretty sure one of the smaller objects returned back upwards, and it lit up as it approached the main object. It all happened so fast which is why I am not too sure if that is what I actually saw. The objects' height was approximately two fingers held out at arms length above houses and their position was somewhere between Burpengary and the hills at the back of Narangba. There were four other adult witnesses including a couple of serious sceptics and even they were convinced they had seen something out of the normal. The whole sighting lasted between 10-15 minutes before they went down too low for us to see.

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Bass Strait, HMAS Voyager incident, 1962 [verification reported January 2005]
I myself have had UFO sighting experiences in Australia and during my service with the Australian Navy on HMAS Voyager in Bass Strait . We were on trials with this destroyer, a few years before its final demise in a collision with HMAS Melbourne.

This was not a classic sighting but a huge black shape, sharply outlined against the night sky and seeming to be rising from the sea at some considerable distance away. I first thought it might be the conning tower of a nuclear sub by shape, but decided against that as it was too big, and I estimated that it was somewhere in the region of 100 metres in height and width. Although the object did in fact resemble a huge square conning tower it was too large, far beyond the size of any conning tower on a nuclear sub [and they are big], or to be on any submarine in service anywhere in the world. I asked my mate, who was on starboard watch, what he made of it. He looked at it through his night vision binoculars, simply said, "Yeah, I see it," and was silent until I goaded him to report it. He said, "We don't report things like that, I have learnt that the hard way."

I could see he had had such experiences before but despite my constant persistence he would say no more about it. So I left none the wiser, wondering what the hell it was.

The mate I was talking to was on starboard watch, his position was a platform on the left hand side of the Bridge. While I was there with him observing the phenomena, at no time did I notice any change in speed or direction to indicate pursuit and I can vouch for the fact that we did not receive any orders to keep quiet about it and I dare say only fraction of the crew, that I spoke too, knew of it. However I am sure the radar operator would have been only too aware of it, and perhaps those directly involved during that watch may have been cautioned to keep quiet. I stand by my own observations to the fullest and can prove that I was a member of the crew at the time if you should so require it. The ships specs were:

HMAS Voyager Daring Class [DD] Destroyers
Displacement [tons]: 2,800 Standard, 3,550 Full Load
Dimensions [feet]: 390 x 43 x 12.9
Propulsion: English Electric Geared Turbines, 54,000 hp, 2 shafts
Max. Speed [knots]: 30
Armament: 6 x 4.5-inch, 6 x 40mm, 5 x 21-inch torpedo tubes, 1 Triple Limbo Depth Bomb Mortar
Complement: 320
HMAS VOYAGER: Lost in collision with Melbourne [II] off Jervis Bay, NSW. on 10/2/64.

Sydney [NSW], January 20 1988 [received February 2005]
The Knowles family was not the only thing to happen that night.

I was travelling in the Royal National Park near Sydney that night, and had a very similar incident but have never spoken of it. My friend and I were travelling in the park at about 10.00pm when, a very long distance away, we saw what looked like a falling star. Within about three seconds it was about 20 metres from my car, hovering just above the trees. It must have been travelling at thousands of kilometres an hour to cover that distance in three seconds. An extremely bright light, much brighter than I have ever seen, and it made the area appear as daylight. I took off as fast as I could, luckily through thickly tree-lined roads.

My friend and I agreed never to tell, as people would think we were mad, but the next morning the radios were full of people ringing in with sightings and the Knowles were only one of many.

For some reason in the past six months it has been stirring up in me so I thought I would look on the Internet to see what I could find out. I am sure, like me, there are many that have not spoken out.

Amberley, reported January 2005
Living west of Amberley RAAF base I've had ample opportunity to observe weird things above us. I wonder whether other people have had similar experiences. Here are some examples -- all observed at night.

.Pulsating light travelling west to east, then suddenly zigzagging several times and radially turning towards the south [several similar sightings];

> Pulsating light travelling south to north then circling clockwise, going north, then describing a perfect equal-sided triangle. Exiting to the west and then describing a square before disappearing to the north-west. This was seen only once;

> Very bright pulsating light travelling south to north -- way out in space -- heading towards the moon in direction. I counted 12 seconds from about two Moon diameters away before the object disappeared BEHIND the Moon. Did not re-emerge from behind the Moon for at least the next 10 minutes. Calculated speed for minimum distance [~7,000km] to be over 2,000,000km/h. Surely not one of ours;

> Extremely bright emerald green flash in western sky -- repeated several times at about 20 to 30 second intervals. Then four pulsating lights headed from different directions towards the area of green flash, turning towards the exact emanation of the green flash and disappearing. Shortly after the fourth light disappeared, a large orange flash disappeared into space in less than one second. 'Green Flasher' collecting scouts? Seen several times over the years;

> Extremely bright orange flash in northern sky that was repeated three times during observation at about 15 second intervals. Then one by one four pulsating orange lights left the vicinity in different directions. Observed only once about 4 years ago;

> Jet black triangle coming from the direction of Amberley RAAF base at just above treetop level, cruising at about 400 to 500km/h [quite slow], passing directly over my head and a nearby tree. Absolutely silent and tree branches did not move as would be expected with an air disturbance. Tip to tip the craft had a wingspan of about 50 metres. I checked later with guards at Amberley -- their reaction: NOT ONE OF OURS. Observed only once, about six years ago;

Since I am ex-Air Force myself, I have to admit that I have no earthly explanation for any of these sightings - and I'm keeping up with new fighter developments.

Mole Valley River, Queensland [reported November 2005]
The following incident may be of interest to you and up until now I have not told anyone except my son, his wife and his son. I sold my farm in the Mole River Valley, about 30 miles from Tenterfield [and Stanthorpe Qld] about three and a half years ago to retire as at age 77 I was feeling my age.

Before this it was my habit to sit outside for a while when I knocked off about 8.00pm to enjoy the cool of the evening. One evening as usual I relaxed outside the shearers quarters and being partly colourblind I noticed a "star" going the wrong way from west to east. This star, with a deep golden flash, went directly overhead and started to descend vertically.

The lower it came the less flash there was until, when it was really low, I could barely see it. My natural conclusion was it had to be a helicopter, and for some six months I watched it coming the wrong way at about 5.30pm each evening from west to east, then go overhead and descend vertically. I think it was landing in my neighbours place but one day he burnt along our boundary and the next night it came and landed in my place.

That night, after having my evening meal as usual, I thought I saw a glow over the rise, or had a feeling of something, but I could see nothing about and am not sure what motivated me to wander over the rise. My neighbours are several miles away and I naturally suspected stock thieves as it was very prevalent in the rough mountain country.

On topping the rise I could not as yet see anything wrong. I didn't even have my rifle. Then I saw, about 150 yards, away a bright incandescent glow, not very big. I approached cautiously, but as there was a rocky gully ahead I thought it wiser not to proceed closer as there was as yet no moon. I could clearly see a very bright incandescent glow. On steady study of this glowing object I could see two humanoids standing side by side, examining something they held in the open palm of their hands. Both beings looked as though they may have had wings, as the height of their heads was abnormally close - half way closer to the top of their shoulders and about my height, 5 feet 8 inches.

Next I observed a wavy incandescent hose or tube to the right, and following this visually I saw a large cylinder and could recognise a familiar small bunch of saplings standing alone beside an access track going out to the ridge and open country that I used regularly. I estimated the height of the cylinder from the known height of the saplings, between the cylinder and myself, that showed up in relief against the luminescent cylinder. It worked out at approximately 25-30 feet wide and about 50 feet high and had a gradual curved nose.

I spent all the next day searching for the spot where the two beings had stood, and although there was bladey grass two feet high where they had been I could not find the slightest crushing of anything. I rang my neighbour across Mole River to come over and have a look because I wanted another witness, but he had not finished work his wife said. Before I could hang up I experienced the loudest racket you could imagine and was then forced to quickly hang up, even though I held the phone at arm's length.