2006

JANUARY>>

Jimna Range, New Years Eve 2005-2006, 10.00pm
A party of fourteen people were having dinner outdoors on a 12,000 acre family property about 40 miles out of Kilcoy on the Jimna Range. They saw a plane and an orange light to the East. A second object moved in a straight line towards Kimbala that they thought unusual and wanted to report it although it didn't have any unusual movements.

Ipswich, January 15 2006, 3.00pm
Recently I took a photo of a cloud in the sky in front of my house in Ipswich at 3:00pm on January 15, Later, when I was going through the images on the computer, I noticed that there was a dot in one of the clouds. Each time I zoom in more and more it appears to be a UFO. I bought this camera a week ago for the main purpose of taking photos of UFOs. I found it a very big surprise that I have already captured one, and wasn't expecting to capture one for months. My main plan was to take the camera out to Blacksoil to see if I could take a few photos of UFOs there because I used to live there and had seen a few around.

Old Bar [NSW] January 23 2006, 10.30pm
On the 23rd of January 2006 at 10.30pm at Old Bar NSW. I was closing my shed to walk to the house when I saw a bright orange light out to sea. The orange ball was larger than any star in the sky. I only glanced at it at first as it caught my eye whilst walking to the house. The light vanished so I walked out into the paddock to see if it would come back. It then appeared again out to sea and was larger, with another orange ball offset lower on the horizon. The orange balls would stay on for a few seconds then vanish. There was no sound and the orange ball I looked at first was about 30 nautical miles away, and when it came back on it was about 15Nm away, brighter and larger and had travelled this distance in about five seconds. The objects did not descend or ascend when lit up. I became concerned, but I don't know why, I could only put my concern down to the idea that I could not think of any earthbound objects that would be that large or fast or even behave like the orange balls did.

Whilst walking back to the house the ball started to get bigger and go on and off and move around the sky in relation to where I had seen it each time before. I went to get my wife and told her what I saw. She thought I was joking but came outside to humour me. We stood in the yard for five minutes before the two orange lights came back, but this time down to the south, not in the east where I first saw them. They were bright orange and big, like a big bright orange spotlight in the sky. They would not come on together, but would move from one location to another in two regions of the sky to the south and travel 5 to 10Nm between coming on and going off, within a second. They would stay on for up to three to five seconds, and the light would get larger the closer they came. The time intervals between going on and going off made the distances they travelled seem impracticable. They then started to flash in different locations and we quickly counted ten large consecutive movements and lights before they stopped. Within five minutes we then noticed down the coast an aircraft's strobe lights a long distance off, some 20Nm away. As the aircraft went to the west towards Taree, we looked down to the south and saw two red lights that looked the same size as the aircraft travelling to Taree. The red lights stayed on and moved parallel to each other heading south. We then saw a third red light drop down between them and they vanished as the third red light dropped down. I have been flying aircraft for three years and we live in a restricted area that starts at 12,500ft and extends up to 60,000ft. The objects were below the restricted area in altitude and did not appear to be flares, aircraft lights or firecrackers of any kind I have ever seen.

FEBRUARY>>

Bundell, February 9 2006, 7.50pm
At 7:50pm on Thursday February 9, my partner and I sighted two objects flying approximately 200 metres seemingly parallel to each other, that then vanished. They were sighted for approximately three to four seconds, south-east in the sky.

Sunnybank Hills, Friday February 10 2006, 10:00pm
On Friday 10 February 2006, I was sitting outside talking to one of our visitors. There was cloud cover but no rain or storm activity. While chatting I noticed in the sky to the south what I took to be the lights of a plane travelling west. Something didn't seem right though and my conversation dwindled as I tried to make out what it was. The lights were travelling at what could have been normal aircraft speed and a normal altitude but the lights seemed a bit large. As I watched, the twin lights made an exact 90 degree turn and travelled north towards me. I thought perhaps it wasn't an aircraft but a reflection from something? But as they approached they were seen as balls of brilliant white light with a tinge of blue. All of a sudden, as they neared, they separated into a V-formation and absolutely SHOT over my head. No way of telling how high they were, although they seemed larger as they went overhead with incredible speed. There was absolutely NO noise from them. It was so unusual that I glanced at my watch and noted that it was 10:30pm. The visitor was sitting side on to what I was viewing and said that she did see light out of the corner of her eye but nothing more. Needless to say everyone else is laughing - I'm not. I have since spoken to my mother about this. She and my father and brother had previously seen lights back in 1998. Their sighting was from Denman, NSW, when two orange-red lights came to play in the next door neighbour's garden. Five hours later at 11.30 that night Brisbane Airport was closed because of strange light formations. Their "lights" didn't look or behave in the same manner as the ones I saw. What I witnessed on Friday night still leaves me shaking my head.... From one totally amazed witness!

Sunnybank Hills, February 10 2006, 10.30pm
A Justice of the Peace observed to the south, two bright white lights perform a soundless right angle turn at high speed and continue to the north in a cloudy sky. They then changed direction again, one to the northeast and the other to the northwest and shot off faster than a jet. The lights were bigger than those of a plane and moved above the clouds. They were seen for only a few seconds. Many years ago he had seen something similar with his brother and parents.

Geraldton [WA], Saturday February 11 2006, 8:40pm
At 8.40pm on the 11th February 2006 a bright light was sighted travelling in an easterly direction. At first I assumed it was a plane, however I realised that the speed it was travelling at, it couldn't have been a plane. I observed whatever it was for about two minutes, then it sort off shot off in a vertical direction and it disappeared. I know it was moving at high speed because I was looking at a star and used it as a reference point. The whatever-it-was was as bright as the star I was looking at. There were two witnesses to this sighting

Tweed [NSW], Sunday February 20 2006
I was taking some photos of hot air balloons flying near our place on Sunday morning 20.02.06. I was photographing towards the sun and it was difficult to see much detail at all. My eyes were watering at the sunlight. The anomaly was noted when I downloaded the image to my PC and viewed the photo at actual size. The anomaly is slightly higher than the balloon and on the very edge of the photo. The camera is a Canon A610, 5 mega pixel.

Morningside, February to May 2006
My wife and I live in Morningside and almost every night we take the dog for a walk after 10.00pm. For the last few months we've seen many unexplained things in the sky. Being in the middle of a flight path we are used to aircraft sightings and helicopters flying overhead, but they do not fit the descriptions of what we saw.

On two separate occasions I have looked up to admire the night sky and seen a bright object moving very fast, up and out of Earth's atmosphere, very similar to the space shuttle's trajectory. As the bright white object moved up and out it gradually got dimmer. On one occasion it nearly disappeared as it got so far away, but then it obviously turned and came back down closer to earth as the light moved across the sky again and got gradually brighter. It then completely stopped and stayed there for about 20 minutes.

Another thing we've witnessed recently is an object flying north to south at a few hundred metres altitude. What is strange about this object was that it was not "flashing" the way aircraft lights do, but like a light bulb slowly glowing bright and then slowly getting dim as it moved across the sky. It was completely silent and then it suddenly disappeared as it moved across the sky. There was no cloud whatsoever, so it didn't vanish into a cloudbank. About a minute later a helicopter appeared as if following the object. It hovered and then continued in the same direction as the object. I remarked to my wife that Amberley may have seen the object and sent a helicopter to get a visual. Very strange.

MARCH>>

Bundamba, March 3 2006, 8.00pm
A man who recalls a number of paranormal UFO related incidents saw a giant cigar shaped object over his house at 8.00pm.

Vincennes Indiana, USA, Tuesday March 14, 2006, night
We saw three flashing lights in different "triplet beats" with a rest beat of about two seconds. They were moving in different directions and at different elevations. One was heading over top of the car going south east at a high elevation level. In a matter of seconds it was dropping what appeared to be flares that were burning out in about two seconds. It dropped a total of three flares in 15 seconds, and so did another object heading north at a normal jet level, All three objects had a white light. But then we noticed another one straight north, way up in the sky and it had a pulse of every second with a yellowish light to it.

Southeast Queensland, Tuesday March 16 2006, 6.25pm
We received ten reports of a bright object moving east to west seen for five to ten seconds. The reports came from as far south as Grafton and as far north as Hervey Bay. Garry Opit received five reports from Northern NSW as well. The details of this sighting are consistent with a meteor.

Zillmere, Sunday March 26, 9.00 to 9.10pm
A man was driving from Zillmere to Brisbane City and saw a flashing, twirling silver light to his South. His radio was off and he heard no noise which might have been associated with the light. He kept the light in sight for about eight minutes and lost sight of it in Fortitude Valley, just north of Brisbane.

Regents Park, Brisbane, Sunday March 28 2006
The witness was filming the sky for lightning stills and obtained four minutes of video of an object gliding down and then ascending straight into a storm cloud he had been observing.

APRIL>>

Brisbane, Sunday April 2 2006, day
Today 2/04/06 myself and my Spanish friend went to Southbank. We had decided to go to the lagoon as it was such a hot day. We were lying on the grass, I was looking into the clear blue sky when i noticed a star, or what appeared to be a star. It was so small, like a dot of silver in the sky, but moving not in a straight line like a plane, which my Spanish friend thought it was... and then it was joined by another "star" object, both kind of moving. Then the second one disappeared and the first one stayed for a while before it went. The time span from of this whole sighting must only have been a few minutes, maybe two or three. But we both saw these "stars" in broad daylight up against a bright blue sky. I saw a similar thing ten years ago in the UK, but it was at night. It was like two dancing stars, and they did the same thing, where one disappeared and the other danced around in the same area. These objects sometimes looked slightly red in colour.

NSW Central Coast, Monday April 3 2006, night
I have noticed on random nights if I look into the sky and stare for a while [at least five minutes] that almost every time I can spot what looks to be single very small stars moving very fast, faster than any plane across the sky, usually in a north west-south west direction. The objects can change their speed randomly but mostly keep to the same speed. I have noticed this on five out of seven nights in a week. The objects appear to be very high and only the smallest dot of light, but the speeds are incredible. There is no way they can be shooting stars. They are dim lights with no tail, mostly travelling in the same direction with variations of speed.

Robina [Gold Coast], April 4 2006, 4.00am
A man recorded 28 minutes of video of a light at an elevation of about 75 degrees and to the east. With the camera on a tripod for 14 minutes the image moved to the top left of the camera frame.

Newmarket, Qld, April 12 2006, 8.00pm
I saw something fly across the sky I have never seen before. Standing outdoors at Newmarket, Brisbane, facing south at approximately 8.00pm, clear sky, naked eye. Just below the Southern Cross I saw four lights following each other. They were moving in a line, all the same distance apart, but the line didn't seem rigid. They flew south across the sky for about fifteen seconds and then they were out of sight.

Ipswich, April 12 2006, 9.40pm
A man was in bed looking out through a window to the west and observed Venus. He then saw a delta- shaped opaque object coming from the direction of Amberley Air Base. It was the size of an F1-11 but made no sound. Its speed was like that of a jet. His neighbour has also had unusual sightings.

St George, April 19 2006, 11.00pm
My boyfriend alerted me to movement in the sky at around 11.00pm last night Wednesday April 19. It appeared to have a blue light on top and red down the bottom. The movement was in an S-shaped pattern and it moved erratically before disappearing.

Robina, Gold Coast, April 22 2006, 4.00am
A woman observed a bluish white light to the east at an elevation of about 75 degrees. It was estimated to be three times brighter than Venus on a clear night. Her husband mounted a video camera on a tripod and obtained 28 minutes of footage. The light moved to the top left of the camera frame in 14 minutes. Its motion was consistent with it being a celestial object.

MAY>>

Zilzie [North QLD], May 3 2006, 9.25-10.25pm
Our dogs were barking on the back veranda, so I went out to quieten them down. Looked up at the night sky and saw three lights that were not normal. They were star-sized [evening star] and the top light was about size of the end of a biro, with the two underneath about half the size. The lights stayed steady, When viewed through binoculars the three lights were blue with clearly outlined red around the outside, similar to the top of a police car [only they don't fly]. A fourth identical light was seen about a kilometre away. I called my neighbours and they came over to the backyard, By this time I could only see two of these objects, when the neighbours spotted two more. I tried to ring Rockhampton airport, 40 kilometres from where I live, but no go. I then rang the Bureau of Meteorology, but only reached someone in Brisbane. It was a clear night and the event occurred over the mouth of a large creek system and the small town of Keppel Sands.

Newmarket, May 7 2006, 7.30pm
Four lights moving quickly north to south approximately 30 degrees west from where I was standing at Newmarket. The lights were all moving at the same speed, three were in a line, one was slightly east of the front two. I saw less than ten seconds of it before it was out of view.

Drummoyne [NSW], reported May 5 2006
Recently I took a photo in my back yard in Drummoyne and had a spaceship in the trees. Before you think I am off the rails I photographed it, about five photos. On board, as the space ship was transparent, there were beings. Like white balls with green centres. Could you advise if there is somewhere in Sydney that I can have someone look at my spaceship and advise me. [UFORQ did request a copy of the photos for our own edification. As of this date they have not yet arrived.]

Thurgoona [NSW], May 9 2006, night
A friend and I, both 19. were walking home after a night out [we were intoxicated but at this point starting to sober up]. We had decided to save money and walk. Not far from home we both saw a jagged bluish [the colour of lightning] beam. It seemed to be scanning the area for something [us maybe]. Also, we have both recently had problems with sleeping where we feel half conscious but can't move or wake up. All this happened in Thurgoona, just out of Albury NSW.

Moree [NSW], May 10 2006, 8.20pm
Last night [10/05/06] at approximately 8.20pm I was driving my sons and their friend [all aged 12 and 13] home from karate when we all noticed a bright ball of orange light in the western sky at about 45 degrees above the horizon of Moree NSW. This light was hovering in a small elliptical orbit. Seconds later it was joined by an identical "orange ball" and then a couple of seconds later a third "orange ball". The three balls were all hovering in their own small elliptical orbit but were together moving in one larger elliptical orbit. One or the other of them would momentarily disappear but would reappear almost as soon as it was gone. This continued for approximately 30 seconds then all three vanished at the same moment.

Although I was driving through the residential part of town at the time, the view was very clear as there is not a lot of street lighting. The sky was a typical crisp, clear outback autumn sky with no cloud and the stars clearly visible. The "orange ball" lights were far too large to be planes or helicopters and did not move in a manner appropriate to either. I have no explanation for what we saw and I have never seen anything like it before in my 47 years.

Southport, Sunday May 14 2006, 11.00am
I don't know if this is in your field or not, but we saw something interesting when we went to Southport/Main Beach on the Gold Coast last Sunday, 14 May 2006. At about 11.00am my partner was lying on the beach looking up into the sky when he called to my attention something he saw almost directly above us. It was three very bright almost metallic lights, not very large, but in a triangular formation. They were very very high up, higher than planes go. They were almost stationary but when I watched them for a while I realised they were moving very slowly, but all at the same time. I was watching each one to see if they were moving independently or if one was going faster or slower than another, but they all seemed to be at the same speed. There seemed to be a faint white tail on each of them, but the light was so bright that it was hard to discern that. The light was like a reflected light, but it didn't fade or wane, it remained constantly bright. I stopped watching them at that time and went back to the kids, but my partner continued watching them with some other people on the beach, and the three objects moved away towards the direction of the sun. At this point the other people who were watching pointed out that there were about seven or eight of them altogether. My partner then watched one of them as it seemed to grow brighter and moved incredibly fast towards the other ones, but as they were all in direct line with the sun and as they were moving away from us, he lost visual sighting of them. Really, if you weren't looking up at the sky just at that moment, you wouldn't have seen them because they were just so far up in the sky.

Hervey Bay, May 16 2006, 6.20pm
I have just sighted something most unusual. Ten minutes ago at about 6.20pm, my mum and I looked up from our verandah and saw a bright light looking like a shooting star, but it was low to the ground and appeared to be breaking up. It lit up the verandah, was bright blue/green/white and moved east to west towards Torbanlea. We didn't hear any noise. I'm sure there is a logical explanation. However we wanted to report it anyway.

Marburg, May 16 2006, 6.20pm
Sighted a blue/green glow behind clouds in the northern sky above Marburg Queensland. It looked like lightning glowing, but blue-green in colour. Then a fireball I presume sped/fired through in front of the clouds leaving a sparkling trail as it headed towards the hills behind our hilltop house. I was driving up the hill in northerly direction. The fireball went in the north-west direction towards the ground. I was amazed at the brightness and colour.

Sunshine Coast, May 16 2006, 6.30pm
Moving very fast, about the size of a helicopter, moving east to west and blue/orange/yellow. I was heading north on the Bruce Highway, in approximately the Beerwah, Landsborough, Glass House mountain area. UNBELIEVABLE.

Southeast Queensland, May 16 2006, 6.30pm
On Tuesday, 16 May 2006 at about 6.30 pm our telephone contact number was locked up for about 40 minutes by people reporting a large, bright green object moving east to west at about 6.20 pm. We also received reports via the Internet, and from a member residing in northern New South Wales. The sightings were made by people located on a north-south line spanning from about Ballina to Hervey Bay, a distance of about 375 kilometres and a line west from Brisbane to about Gatton, about 100 km. The witnesses were looking to the north or the south [Hervey Bay] at an object moving east to west, so it must have been at an altitude of the order of 50 km. The duration of sightings was up to 5 seconds and sparks came off the object and tended to be left behind. These details are consistent with a piece of space junk or a meteorite burning up in our atmosphere.

New Farm, Saturday May 20 2006, 8.30pm
An unidentified object was photographed New Farm Park, Brisbane 6:30pm Saturday 20th May 2006. The object was stationary and very high up. It appeared to be a flame-changing shape until it became a sphere. It flew off at an incredible pace over Mt. Coot-tha, then accelerated upward and disappeared. The whole event lasted about two minutes. This object was sighted by my wife and myself and approximately 30 other people in the park at the time.

Southport, Tuesday May 23 2006, 7.00-8.00pm
I observed a very bright light heading outwards and then turning red in colour Tuesday May 23 2006 at around 8.00pm. It then disappeared. The object was travelling in an upwards direction heading southeast between 7.00 and 8.00pm at an approximate angle of 45 degrees. It originally had the brightness of Jupiter and lasted approximately 30 seconds until it began to dim and turned red. It was definitely not a plane. My partner also observed the object.

Caboolture, May 24 2006, 5.00pm
I just wanted to share with someone the sighting I had today. Caboolture 5.oopm, 24 May 2006, in the western sky: I was parked in a newly created estate when I noticed what I initially thought was a plane in the sky, quite close to the horizon. It was unusual however, as the white shape that I thought was a plane had two wide triangular jet-streams coming from it at the position of approximately 2 o'clock and 10 o'clock. These white plumes were quite short but wide. My mother and six year old son all saw this and while we watched it -- it didn't appear to be moving -- we noticed a very bright light a little south of this. We thought it was a bright early star, and then went about our business. When we looked back at our ‘UFO’ it hadn't moved but the light had, in the direction of the ‘UFO’, and it now had behind it two wide jet streams. These were in the position of 12 o'clock and 10 o'clock, and looked the same as the other. As we drove home, when we next got a clear view of the objects, the first ‘UFO’ also had a bright light. After that we lost our view of them to the trees on the horizon. There, now I've told someone. Hope this helps someone. I find it quite strange how casually all three of us accepted this UFO.

Boondall, May 24 2006, 9.15pm
A woman observed two orange lights moving south to northeast for twenty minutes, in a straight steady motion.

Gailes, May 26 2006, 6.15pm
A witness observed two flashes in the eastern sky and heard reports some seconds later. She has a telescope and on the previous night at about 7.00pm she saw a bright light near a star in a moonless, cloud-free sky, which 'went off'. Southeast Queensland, May 26 2006, 10.00-10.08pm I was outside taking the rubbish out and I saw a star that appeared to be flashing blue, green and yellow. I called my wife who also saw it and got the binoculars so we had a closer look. We both definitely saw it and it looked just like a star but flashing those colours. After around 2-3 minutes it faded and disappeared.

Regents Park, May 28 2006
A woman intending to obtain video footage of lightning activity recorded 4 minutes of footage of an object 'gliding' up and down and then moving straight into a storm cloud. This footage is yet to be received by UFORQ.

JUNE>>

Yungaburra North Queensland, Saturday June 4 2006
The witness was taking photos of the sunset. An object showed up later on one of his images.

Ipswich, June 6 2006, night
We went down to Ipswich City Mall on Thursday 6th June at night to get some milk, and when we got to the centre of the mall I felt like there was someone watching us. I looked up and saw two very big round golden balls going straight up in the air. They were very high in the air and as big as four football fields each. My first time, and I know what I saw. Not from this world.

Edens Landing, Saturday June 26 2006, 10.50pm
A woman observed a bright light just above a house for about 10 minutes. It rose vertically and was lost to sight. It was about one tenth the size of the full moon.

Greenbank, Wednesday June 28 2006
A witness saw a bright light above the trees in a 'No Go' zone in the Greenbank Army Camp. It illuminated trees about one kilometre away and then descended behind them. Its apparent size was about three millimetres at arm's length and it was seen for about five seconds.

JULY>>

Mt Holly near Rubyvale, Tuesday July 4 2006, night
On three successive nights a man was sleeping in a tent in bushland when the ground shook like a giant walking by. The footsteps stopped near his tent, and on the first occasion his tent flap was being lifted a few inches at a height of four to five feet. On that occasion he yelled out, thinking that a practical joke was being played on him by other nearby campers.

Hervey Bay, July 8 2006, 5.05pm
I was on the fishing jetty and looked up as a gyrocopter went over. I noticed an object hanging overhead as a slash of golden light. It moved in a silent downward arc with a tail streaming behind. I had the sense of it being in the outer atmosphere. I also have footage of a couple of dolphins that started jumping out of the water as it went over. It faded out of visual sight over the last point of Hervey Bay but the camera still picked it up until it vanished in the clouds.

Narangba, Wednesday July 12 2006, 10:50am
At about 10:50am Wednesday 12th July I was sitting outside and heard what sounded like a plane dropping altitude, but it sounded about four or five times louder than normal. The sound lasted around ten seconds. I looked up into a clear blue sky and did not see any planes, but I did see what for a split second seemed to be a plastic bag floating rather high and a fair way north of me. But as I watched this it seemed to be moving too fast and it was shining too bright. It seemed to go in a northeast direction and was also kind of slightly bouncing as well. It lasted about 7-12 seconds before it vanished. I did sit there for a further 35 minutes and saw nothing but a few planes, but as I viewed them it seemed they had a dark wet look, and moved a lot slower across the sky. The planes were not very bright and cone-shaped.

Suburban Melbourne, Saturday July 15 2006, 3.00am
On Saturday the 15th of July, around 3.00pm in the afternoon, I was taking a nap on my bed to get rid of a seriously painful migraine that had been bugging me for the past week. I was zoning in and out of sleep when I heard a noise outside my window. My bed's right next to my window, and my window overlooks the driveway between the neighbour's house and mine. It sounded like a stereotypical UFO sound out of some lame B-grade flick. I double-checked to make sure I was fully awake, and tried looking through the crack in my curtains to see what it was, and suddenly I was completely paralysed. It was like some kind of force had grabbed me and frozen me in place to prevent me from looking outside. Every muscle in my body was rigidly tense, my eyes were glued to the ceiling, and my jaw was clenched so tight I couldn't make a sound. During this time, I caught a glimpse through the curtains of a shadows passing by the light, as if something was either above my house, or right next to my window! For a few seconds I fought this ‘force’ by trying to turn my head towards the window, and eventually it stopped. The noise was still outside for a few seconds, but when I regained my senses and opened the curtains it quickly faded away, and I saw nothing more. Strangely, after my little ‘fit’, my migraine was completely gone and didn't return for a few days.

Three days later at midnight I was still struggling to get to sleep after that experience, when I heard a chattering/chirping in the driveway outside my window. It sounded very bird-like, but definitely intelligible! I thought at first that perhaps a bird had fallen out of a nearby tree, broken a wing, and was calling 000... or something else ‘semi-rational.’ Then I heard a similar chatter respond to the first, and the more I listened, the more I figured that there were at least two of whatever was out there, and they were talking to each other. Then there was a loud slapping noise that sounded like footsteps, and that's when I started getting seriously frightened. I tried peeking out of the curtains once, but the chatter immediately died down. I eventually forced myself to get to sleep, though before I fell asleep I heard the chatter continue. When I woke up the next morning, my migraine had returned.

So I've concluded three things: there is SOMETHING out there that it's interested in me... and that B-grade alien flicks have done quite an accurate job with the UFO sound effects. Just for the record, I'm a mentally healthy 18 year-old from Melbourne's suburbs, and have no history of mental illness, migraines, or of imagining things which aren't there. I've had a recent check-up with my doctor, and things still seem perfectly normal.

Caboolture, July 22 2006, 7.45pm
I am 16 years of age and I am very concerned and worried about what happened to my parents and I at 7:45 tonight [22/07/06]. During that time I was sitting in my room with my mum testing my new hair straightener. After mum left my room to talk to my dad about their fish tank, I heard a loud hovering sound near or above my room getting louder and louder. At first I thought it might have been a plane flying over us. However the sound came too sudden for that. I couldn't stand the sound much longer due to the fact I thought it was right outside my window. I screamed out to my mum saying that there was something outside the window and she ran to my room as quickly as possible [she was hearing the noise as well]. She opened my window and saw nothing. But we could hear a faint version of the noise that I heard, still outside my window. My dad ran downstairs to see if there was anything in the backyard and looked up, but nothing was in sight. The thing that concerns me most is that my family heard it clearly and can't make any sense of it at all. We checked our next door neighbours to see if they saw or heard anything but only one of them heard some sort of noise. This only lasted for 20-30 seconds, sounding like a spinning/whirring object hovering over my room or outside my window, moving up and down to see something in our house [this is what it sounded like]. I would like a scientific explanation because I am very worried and scared as I have never experienced this before.

Kyogle, July 22 2006, 10.00pm
I wish to report a sighting in the sky above Kyogle at 10.00pm tonight. My partner and I were standing on the verandah facing northeast when a large glowing ball descended from the sky, well-illuminated with a long glowing, flame-like tail, heading towards Lismore on its decent. This lasted for about ten seconds before the glow went out well above the ground. We are interested to know if anyone else happened to see this incredible sighting. We have seen many a falling star before but nothing compared to this.

Blackwater, July 22/23 2006, 7.25pm
I would like to draw your attention to a possible UFO sighting at Blackwater Queensland on the nights of July 22nd and July 23rd.

At about 7:25pm on the 22nd of July I returned home from work and noticed what I first thought was the Southern Cross star formation which was very bright. I looked again and noticed there where only three stars. Thinking that I had made a mistake I searched for the Southern Cross and found it in the correct place, then rechecked the position of the three other objects -- they had moved. I called out to my wife and she saw them as well. The objects appeared to be very large bright stars, orange-red in colour, to the right side of the Southern Cross and moving slowly west. They were visible for about five minutes.

Sunday 23rd July: On returning home tonight my wife and our next door neighbour witnessed another sighting at about 6:25pm. except there were twelve objects moving east to west and lower in the sky, the same colour and brightness, except this time one of the objects broke away and moved in a southerly direction. I would like to know if there is any natural or other explanation for what we witnessed.

Greenbank, Friday July 28 2006, night
A security guard working at Greenbank saw lights hovering above the tree line in the centre of the range area, and observed two smaller lights come out of a larger one. He had seen other similar events on previous nights, and has had a number of sightings since age 13. He is now 38.

AUGUST>>

Canberra, Saturday August 5 2006, 10.30pm
On Saturday 5/08/06 at 2230 hours in Canberra I noticed something in the sky as I was driving. There were four round balls [is the only way I can explain them] that were lit up, moving around quite slowly, and I really do not know how far away they were or how fast they were travelling. When I first noticed them they were in a straight, horizontal line one under the other, then one ball of light [an amber-yellowish colour] went behind another and slowly came back into view. It was as though they were hovering in the sky. We stopped and got out of the car to have a better look. There were already approximately ten or so cars that had also pulled over on the side of the road, and the people in them had got out of their cars and were looking up at these strange balls of light. I asked one guy in the car next to us ‘what do you think they are?’, but he had no idea.

I had my mobile phone on me so I took a video recording of these strange balls of light, although later when I replayed the video I was disappointed, as there was nothing much that had come out clearly so you couldn't really see anything except the moon. But if you go frame by frame it is quite exciting. I really wish I had pulled over when I first saw these lights - four of them were one on top of the other - it would have been even more spectacular. You could actually see more lights around the light itself. [The witness was able to email the footage to UFORQ but unfortunately the image size is too small for clear details to be discerned - PP] The amber coloured balls of light moved slowly away from each other and went up into space, getting smaller and smaller to our eyes until we could no longer see them. No one could explain them. They certainly were not planes, helicopters, laser lights or air balloons. Really weird, strange!! I have other people I know that were not with me that particular night who saw these four amber coloured lights in the sky as well on the same night.

On the Monday I spoke to a woman that works in my office and told her what we had seen. She said that her husband and a couple of friends were outside and they also saw those amber coloured balls in the sky. We all had no idea what they were and had never seen anything like this before. On Tuesday I called the Mt Stromlo Observatory and asked had they had any calls regarding what I had seen on Saturday night. They said that they hadn't as they look further out at planets, but told me to contact the Melbourne Air Traffic Control and speak to them, which I haven't as yet.

Caboolture, August 7 2006, 6.15pm
My husband and I just witnessed what we think was a UFO sighting from our backyard in Caboolture, Queensland. We were looking up at the sky and saw what appeared to be two stars, but on closer inspection saw that they were moving at an exceptionally fast pace. They were definitely too high to be aircraft of any conventional type, and were not falling, but rather moving across the sky. They were together for the first few moments, but then gradually began to taper off from each other until we could no longer see them.

Rosewood, August 21 2006, 1:10am
Early this morning, at 1:10am to 1:15am August 21, 2006, I happened to see an extremely bright white flash [hundreds of times brighter than Sirius] about 40° above the horizon at 30° [north-northeast] of here and thousands of kilometres in space, followed by four orange objects leaving this spot, swerving towards the west, southwest, southeast and east over the next five minutes or so. The speeds of the individual orange objects had to be in excess of 10,000km/h at a height in excess of 1,000km. I eventually lost sight of the individual orange objects as they disappeared behind high but sparse clouds. I have above average knowledge of aircraft and satellites, and above average knowledge of meteorology and astronomy [several years of detailed observations and study]. The only time I reported a sighting to the Air Force was a black triangle [50 metres tip to tip] coming from the direction of Amberley Air Force Base, then veering along this road at a height of about 15m, totally silent, no lights - was told ‘not one of ours, mate’.

Townsville Strand, August 28 2006, 6.30pm
A witness observed two lights moving about as the stars were coming out, for about 15 minutes. They moved about both slowly and quickly, changing direction. One of the lights disappeared. He took his eyes off the remaining light and when he looked back it was gone.

Blackwater, Central Queensland, August/September 2006
In August or September 2006 my sister was living in Blackwater about 45 minutes east of Emerald. She had just finished afternoon shift at one of the local mines and was driving home. She said she saw 20 orange/gold coloured flying objects in the sky. They weren't flashing like normal aircraft but maintained their colour. There was a car in front of her who she thinks must have seen them too as they began to swerve a little, but she doesn't know who they are. She called my mum who lives in Blackwater to see if she had heard or seen helicopters fly overhead as she thought that's what they might be. My mum heard and saw nothing. I now live in Sydney but always remember the strange things that happened in Central Queensland. I don't know what UFOs are but I know I saw one. And I'm pretty sure my sister saw 20 of them.

SEPTEMBER>>

Coolangatta, September 9 2006
I took a series of photos on Saturday September 9 2006 from the northern end of the runway at Coolangatta Airport at approximately 1.10pm. I didn't notice anything unusual until I later viewed the photos and found a black object in the background appearing to be moving at very high speed. The camera is a digital SLR and was operating on bracketing mode when it took this series of shots in very short succession. The object is visible in the last three of the photos, moving west to east with a very high rate of climb. The only aircraft I know that could likely be in that area with that sort of performance would be an RAAF F-111. However on inspection the object appears more disc shaped and doesn't seem to be leaving the usual exhaust trail quite often seen with RAAF jets.

Regents Park, Sunday September 17 2006, evening
A man observed a bright light about 4000-5000 feet in altitude travelling silently across the evening sky. It was moving smoothly in an arc at approximately 400-500mph in a north-west direction. It was the size of his palm at arm's length and as it moved it blocked the stars. The duration of the sighting was 20 seconds.

Brisbane, September 18 2006, 6.20pm
I noticed what appeared to be a large star moving in the sky from west to east, but the thing that got me was that there was another star slightly smaller following it at the same speed. The smaller object kept the same distance behind the larger one the whole time it was observed. There was also no sound accompanying the objects as they were travelling at quite a high speed, specially considering the altitude.

Stanthorpe, September 18 2006, 6.25pm
Two lights travelling due east at a fast rate of knots directly over Stanthorpe. They displayed a solid white light until they hit 10 kilometres away, then displayed flashes of green red and white. They were travelling in a consistent formation, one behind the other with absolutely no sound. This was seen by five adults, totally sober.

Carindale, September 18 2006, 6.25pm
Did anyone else in Brisbane see the pair of lights pass across our sky at about 6.25pm on 18/9/06? The lead light appeared about the size of Venus and the second about star-size to the naked eye. They travelled from the northeast heading southeast. The trailing light remained the same distance from the lead light for the whole time that I observed them, which was approximately 90 seconds. The luminescence of the lights did not vary at any time from the change in angle from overhead to over the horizon. The lights did not flash or change colour but remained a bright yellow throughout the observation. They were not a plane [as known] nor a meteorite. I live beneath the BAC flight paths and have observed enough of either to know the difference. Flight paths this evening has been for takeoffs to the south. I was not able to approximate their altitude but my guess would be they were in the jet stream or stratospheric level. I was struck by two qualities of the lights: that they remained the same distance apart the whole time and that there was no change in luminescence from the change in angle of view as they passed across the sky.

Greenslopes, September 18 2006, 6.20-6.25pm
I observed three objects in total. Initially two bright white objects were in a stationary position below Jupiter in the west at around 6.20pm and while the sky was still light. Within a minute these two objects moved off in two separate directions. One moved to the northwest and ‘turned itself off’ just past Mt Coot-tha. The second object moved southeast, passing almost directly overhead. It moved at a steady pace and changed from pure white to an orangey-yellow colour the closer it got to 90 degrees. At just past 90 degrees [directly overhead] it passed a smaller and dimmer stationary star, but as it passed this ‘stationary’ star, the second star moved into position behind the first object [to form a straight line formation] and they both proceeded together at exactly the same distance apart and exactly the same speed the entire time. This second object did not accelerate to match the first object, it just seemed to move from stationary to the same speed as the first object instantly. It was completely uncanny. I watched them to the horizon, a total of almost 160 degrees of sky in about one and a half to two minutes, and they didn't change magnitude at all which indicates to me that they were generating their own luminescence rather than reflecting the light from the sun as a satellite would. Further, the first object commenced its trajectory from a stationary position, effectively ruling out any possibility that it was a satellite.

Adelaide, September 26 2006
A man reported that he had obtained video footage of an aircraft and a UFO in the sky near Adelaide Airport. The UFO appeared in 12 frames and its speed was estimated to be about 3600 km/h. Townsville, September 27 2006, 9.48pm We [self and spouse] spotted two orange glows high in the azimuth - I indicate not in the atmosphere - one in trail to the other, however maintaining a constant spacing as they traversed the skyline travelling in an easterly to westerly direction at a rate which I estimated to be satellite speed. The moon was just about to set in the west and I took a camera avi file, but on viewing my monitor was unable to detect clearly any moving object. I also took other still shots which cannot see what the naked eye saw. By 9:48pm the event was over, I also observed in this time the moon had gone below horizon.

Narangba, September 2006, 1.00pm
I think I saw a UFO. I was outside playing with my mate when we took a photo [not shown] of us doing jumps. In the background of the photo is a shape which I can tell is not a bird but looks like a UFO. When I saw the object again later it was in the southwest and made sharp manoeuvres which an aircraft could not do.

OCTOBER>>

Beachmere, Queensland, Tuesday October 10 2006, night
A man was out fishing and observed a green/blue light for three to four seconds moving very fast towards the Glasshouse Mountains in a straight line at an angle of elevation of 25 to 30 degrees.

Samford Valley, Friday October 13 2006, 2.30am
The witness observed a light like a twinkling star to the north, and aligned it with branches of a tree. He observed it for an hour during which it stayed the same brightness and stars 'moved' around it while it remained in the same place. Two witnesses and his family also observed it.

Gailes, Monday October 16 2006, 9.30pm
At about 9:30pm on 16/10/06 I observed three yellowish lights in an equilateral triangle formation travelling in a south to north direction. I observed the lights from my deck at Gailes [halfway between Ipswich and Brisbane]. The lights were about the same apparent size and colour as your average star - that is, a dim pale yellow colour - and did not flash or waver. At first I thought it was a shooting star, but then as it was travelling at a constant rate I thought it must have been a satellite, as it seemed very high up as it tracked 'between' the stars. As my eyes accustomed to the light I saw to my great surprise that there were actually three lights in formation. The size of the formation was as if it would fit across the tip of my index finger with my arm fully outstretched, if that helps. I also noticed that there was no sound at all; a low flying jumbo jet passed over from east to west five minutes later and it really highlighted the noise, flashing lights and red and green lights of your standard jumbo. That's about all I can say as they quickly disappeared out of sight to the north. My first thought was 'UFO', and my next one was 'spy plane'. Maybe it was just a regular plane. Could you shed any light on this?

Highfields, Queensland, Wednesday 18 October 2006
I was taking the bins out and something came into the centre of my view and I looked over and there it was, I saw this craft in the night sky from a distance between the trees. I thought it was a regular aircraft but it did not move, it was floating. It wasn't a helicopter because it moved side to side really fast which a helicopter could not do. The ship had a flashing light and lights on the side, I looked away for sudden moment then it was gone in a split second. Pretty freaky.

Dakabin, Monday October 23 2006, 2.30am
An elderly couple coming home saw a big bright light in the sky as they pulled in to their drive. The light came towards them and the man shone a torch at it, whereupon it moved off to the northwest.

Shailer Park, Tuesday October 24 2006, 8.25am
A man observed a brown object about half the size of the engine of a 737 following about 200 to 300 meters behind an aircraft.

Melbourne, October 2006, night
I am writing to you in the hope that you may be able to give me some explanation of what I saw in the night sky in Melbourne about five months ago. It was a very clear night and, as is my usual routine, I went out in my backyard for a smoke before going to bed. On nights like that I like to spot satellites and meteorites. Almost every time I do this, I see at least one or two satellites so I am very familiar with what they look like and how they move through the sky. I also live near the airport so I am also very aware of the difference between planes and satellites in the sky. This particular night I saw a satellite moving almost directly north-south at a constant speed. Then I noticed it slow down and start to turn towards the east in a wide arc, something I had never seen before. Then, while I was trying to comprehend what I was seeing, I saw a second satellite approaching from the north at a very high speed. It passed extremely close to the first satellite as though it was sent to intercept the first one, and continued at speed on its heading towards the south. It seems that the second satellite didn't have the ability to change course like the first one did. The original one continued along its curved path from the north and disappeared into the east. I have told a small number of friends and family about this but I've never told anyone else. I don't have any photographic evidence but my memory of the event is very clear.

NOVEMBER>>

Blue Mountains, November 11 2006
A man now living at Deception Bay was camping in the bush in the Blue Mountains with his dog. He thought he was being stalked by a 'Bigfoot', which shook trees as it moved about. He picked up a bowie knife and a sharpened stick and 'wet' himself standing there.

Regents Park, Saturday November 11 2006, 5.00-6.00pm
A witness was looking south with binoculars with the sun low in the sky and saw what looked like a comet with its tail split in two, moving straight down slowly at an elevation of 15 to 20 degrees. The details of this report are consistent with aircraft contrails.

Wynnum, Brisbane, 21 November 2006 9.00pm
I was driving along Wondall Road Wynnum, towards the east, when I saw a matt-grey flying saucer hovering motionless over the foreshore area. It was large. I estimate it was about 500 metres above the ground as I have been a pilot. It was about the length of an airliner and had portholes lit up around the perimeter. It had a blue light on top. I turned into the driveway of my unit which was close by and looked in the direction that I had seen the saucer, but it had disappeared.

Amberley, Wednesday November 22 2006, 12.04pm
West of Amberley AFB; cloudless skies, at 12:04pm [midday]: saw willy-willy spiralling very high into the sky. As I followed the dust upwards there was a very bright metallic-looking craft heading for the area of the top of the willy-willy [but much higher], which I considered to be a jet. As it flew way above the willy-willy, I could still see its light through the dust, going in a straight line from south to north. It carried on past the dusty section and then suddenly did a very sharp left hand U-turn [tighter than would be possible even with an F/A-18], wobbled some, and straightened out again. As it re-entered the area above the dust, its light could still be seen through it, when it suddenly vanished. Total time of observation about 12 to 15 seconds. At 12:14pm the first of three F-111's headed from Amberley towards the northwest. After 12:23pm at least one F-111 was heard around the area for several more minutes.

Centenary Heights, Toowoomba, Friday November 24 2006, 12.50am
We want to report something very unusual that we saw and heard last night. Both my husband and I were awoken last night to an exceptionally loud sound that could neither be described as a helicopter or an aeroplane. It sounded like a persistent loud hum. It was at 12.50am this morning [24th November 2006]. My husband got up and looked out our bedroom window but it had scared me, so I stayed away from the window. He said that he saw a round object, a bit bigger than a Lear jet. The lights were blue, red and green, with small flickering white lights. It was hovering slowly in an S-shaped pattern, and then went off to the distance in the west, and the noise faded. We live in Centenary Heights in Toowoomba and it came from over the eastern side of our house.

DECEMBER>>

Southeast Queensland, Monday December 11 2006, 7.58pm
The witness was standing outside on his deck and saw a 'star' in the north-east sky at a high angle of elevation. It moved slowly and disappeared after four to five seconds. He was alone. He terminated the phone call before more information could be obtained.

Glen Aplin, Friday December 15 2006, 7.10pm
A woman reported an object that looked like a clock face at a low elevation to the west. Lights of various sizes were positioned around the ‘face’ of the ‘clock’. Two days before, about the same time in the evening, she saw a light for 2 to 3 minutes at an elevation of about 20 degrees which disappeared suddenly.

Glen Aplin, Monday December 18 2006, 7.15pm
The woman who reported the Friday sighting above observed lights resting on a distant hill to the west. They changed brightness and she took a number of photographs. While she was observing the front of her neighbour's house was lit up. The object was gone by 9.45pm. [Venus?].

Cameron's Pocket, Mackay, Monday December 18 2006, 2.00am
A man observed a bright light to the NNW shoot off and come back in a cloudless sky. Its elevation varied between 25 and 60 degrees. The light was prominent in the sky and flashing colours.

Logan City, 20 December 2006, 8:30pm
It was around half past eight or so and I was out for a stroll around our property in Cornubia when I looked up into the sky to see the stars. I noticed a glimpse of light travelling between two trees that separate us from our neighbour's backyard. From the distance between it and me, I estimated it was around 400-500 miles away, high in the sky, just hovering. I stood there being eaten alive by mossies just watching this thing for more than half an hour. I ended up dragging my dad off the couch and outside to show him the bright object and see what he thought. He also thought it definitely didn't look like a plane or passing satellite. He took out his telescope and we looked through it. It looked like a large bright star looking as if it was moving incredibly slowly up and down and occasionally back and forth, and seemed to be flashing an array of colours, including white then blue-orange-green-red.

Toowoomba, December 30 2006
My mother and I sighted orange lights in a haze directly above our house in Toowoomba. The lights covered the entire neighbourhood and all the dogs in the district were barking. Though the object itself was invisible, it made a low humming sound and moved very slowly over the roof tops. I came out to see the craft after having an 'abduction' experience in which I was in a hospital environment - white, clinical, all curved walls - with two rows of 'people' in crib-like capsules. I remember seeing a 'man' who I sensed had some connection with the USA. I was being studied and said at one point 'stop it, you're hurting my head'. While staying in Toowoomba, I woke up on several occasions with strange marks on my head, a lump on my neck two days prior to the sighting, and seeing a vision of the Earth's destruction and the sensation of symbols being projected in my mind.