2007

JANUARY>>

Bracken Ridge, Brisbane, Sunday January 8 2007, 7.20pm
A man was performing a left turn from Bracken Ridge Road into Norris Road and saw a big white glowing stationary light in the sky at an elevation of about 45 degrees. He pulled over and continued to observe it. It was positioned in a patch of clear sky above one cloud and below another. It moved behind the bottom cloud and came out again in about 40 seconds. It then descended slowly to 20 degrees over a period of about 10 to 15 minutes. He was standing in a driveway while observing and a woman at that address brought out a video camera and proceeded to record the light. The light was to the west and the sky was black, with some stars. Its apparent size was about that of a 5 cent coin at arm's length. It was still there when he left the scene.

Warwick, Saturday January 13 2007, 8.10pm
Three witnesses observed a light illuminating the cloud cover to the southeast and moving erratically about in the sky making displacements of more than 10 degrees in a second. The event was observed for about 10 minutes.

Bellbrae, Victoria, January 24 2007, 10.55pm
I was searching the sky looking for a comet that I was expecting to see in the south-west. I didn't see the comet but I did see a moving star. As I watched this 'star' became brighter and bigger than all the others, so much so that all the stars around it grew smaller and very dull. I realized then that the moving 'star' was coming in closer. Its appearance was that of a star, but a very big, bright star. I was beginning to feel a little exposed from my position in our open yard as it drew closer, however I decided watching was a better idea than rushing to my home. After about 10-15 seconds the 'star' changed direction and started to move away. Within a second or two more it disappeared completely into the darkness.

Kingaroy. January 29 2007, 6.00-7.00pm
I would like to report a strange sight I saw outside my window at about 6:00 to 7:00pm on the 29th of January 2007. I looked up to see a silver ball rise up on a continuing elevation toward the clouds. I sat in my room and waited for this ball to level off its climb and follow a straight path over the clouds. But the thing just kept on rising until it disappeared. It was a silver ball. Like a football. Completely spherical. There didn't appear to be any structural vantage points upon the craft. No discernable features, other than its colour and shape. It made no sound. I couldn't hear anything in the way of jet engines or propeller emissions. It didn't produce a contrail or anything that would signify a conventional aircraft. It didn't have wings or tail. It was just a silver ball that kept on a path of elevation, until it disappeared on its line of elevation. The day itself was clear, bright and sunny. The sighting lasted about 10-20 seconds. The object seemed to be moving rapidly and it seemed to be around the same size as a Ford Focus. But again, perfectly round with no right angles. The object was travelling at an angle of around 50-60 degrees.

I live in the South Burnett. It is a region close to the Bunya Mountain Ranges. I believe it is the start of the Great Dividing Range. It is not the first sighting I've seen in this area. In 1995 I witnessed a aeroplane-like craft, but gold in colour. It was large, around the size of two Stealth Bombers. It glided over my house late one afternoon and continued over the Bunya Mountains. I stood and watched this thing quietly glide. I have seen other unusual sightings in this area. I have seen strange lights perform manoeuvres in the shape of squares and rectangles in the night sky. And there was one night where, after witnessing a strange object in the skies, a deep feeling of nausea hit. I also witnessed, with a friend in 1995, a red ball about the same size as a cricket ball circle my house. It was night time. We were sitting outside getting ready to go out and this red ball circled my house, hovered above myself and my friend then headed off into the clouds. We both just looked at each other in shock and asked one another if the other had seen that.

Brisbane, January 31 2007, 7.15pm
Just wanting to report a weird sight this evening. At approximately 7:15pm on the Southeast freeway just out of Brisbane, I've seen what looked like a flame-ball, some sort of projectile similar to a flame or aurora lights etc for less than a second. Perhaps a third of a second or so. It was on a slight arc travelling away from me, and I first thought it was rather small and close. It then seemed a lot further away. Perhaps about five kilometres in the air [very hard to judge of course]. It disappeared completely.

Rooty Hill, West Sydney, January 2007
What I have been observing for the last couple of years can be seen almost every night. When you look up at the stars - and you have to look very carefully - you will see objects that look about the same size as the stars moving at very fast speeds, too fast to be planes, no noise, no flashing lights etc. Most of the time they travel in a straight direction alone and at other times I have seen them in groups. I have observed one of these objects sit still for a few minutes, accelerate to an incredible speed and after a few red flashes of light disappear. This happened at exactly the same time three nights in a row. They appear to be just outside the Earth's atmosphere when travelling.

FEBRUARY>>

Southport, Gold Coast, Wednesday February 7 2007, 8.00am
A woman was proceeding east along Smith Street in heavy traffic when she saw a white object trailing eight white ‘contrails’. It moved horizontally at first and then dropped diagonally, diminishing in size over two minutes to about half the apparent size of the full moon. A six year old child in the vehicle began to cry. She contacted RAAF Amberley and was informed that they had received calls from other people as well, but could give no explanation. She was referred to UFORQ.

Melbourne, February 10 2007, 9.30pm
I live in Melbourne about 15km from the city and on the 10\02\2007 at around 9.30pm I believe I saw a UFO. My girlfriend and I were driving to the local video store to drop off some DVDs. We drove up a hill from my house and turned left to go down another hill. As I was driving down I looked at the city lights as I always do, when I saw a glow of red lights moving west across the city, and on top of the red lights I saw blue lights. It was shaped like an Aussie rules football, but thinner like it had been squashed. I immediately told my girlfriend about it and she could not see anything, not even the city lights, as she has bad eyes. I got to the bottom of the hill and did a u-turn and watched the lights in my side mirror. I turned back around to face it and parked my car and watched for about 10 seconds as it moved west. To me it was a large structure that reminded me of the size of a blimp, but its pace as it moved across the city in a westerly direction was so fast. I'm positive it was a UFO. [This report was forwarded to VUFORS.]

Camira, Sunday February 11 2007, 6.20 to 6.25pm
A red light seen for about 5 minutes moved north, east and ascended suddenly, came back and disappeared. Ashgrove, Brisbane, Thursday February 20 2007, 5.00-5.45pm A witness saw what looked like the Space Shuttle with vapour trails going up vertically north to south over Brisbane. [Possibly an unusual illumination of a high altitude aircraft with contrails by the setting sun?]

MARCH>>

Armidale [NSW], March 10 2007
I wanted a picture of stars for a project and mounted a tripod on top of my clothes line and aimed the camera up. I used the delay to avoid movement in the camera distorting the image. I didn't see anything unusual until I examined the image. As you can see there is movement in one object while the other stars around it are stationary.

The Gap, Brisbane, Thursday March 22 2007, 9.45pm
A woman reported seeing an orange ball that looked like it was on fire for about 5 minutes. It seemed to move backwards and forwards to the northwest and was the apparent size of a thumbnail at arm's length. She heard no sound and the light seemed to move faster than a plane.

Redcliffe, March 23 2007, 1.15pm
A woman was in bed and heard a noise like a truck coming down her street while slowing down and then idling. It seemed to start up and move on again without following the turn in the street. As the sound wound up again her bedroom lit up as by a floodlight, penetrating the lined curtains. Car headlights had never penetrated that window in this way, and the brightness in the room was much greater than with a spotlight or headlight. The illumination was unusual and no shadows were apparent. The light lasted for about one second. She described several other unusual experiences that had happened to her over the years.

Mooroopna, Victoria Friday March 23 2007, 9.30pm
A woman saw a large ‘shooting star’ with a double tail moving away to the north for about 60 seconds during which it crossed most of the sky. It was the size of a flare, red with a very short tail. The previous night she was sitting outside at 10.00-11.00pm when suddenly the whole sky lit up for an instant.

Currumbin, Gold Coast, Wednesday March 28 2007, night
A witness was about 4km from the Gold Coast Airport and saw to the east-northeast at about 40 degrees elevation, a stationary light about three quarters of the full moon's apparent size. It had a round shape with central lights.

Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, 31 March 2007, 7.30pm
I was coming off the ferry and walking home when I saw five red orbs. They circled around each other and at times disappeared and reappeared [whether or not they just turned their lights off I don't know]. The camera footage [frame captures provided to UFORQ] doesn't do justice to the size of the objects, they were massive, as in, if they were about five metres away from me the objects would be at least a sphere that was three or four metres in diameter. They moved away from me and I lost sight of them as they went behind my apartment block. I estimate they were about 500 metres off the ground and hovering just about where the Story Bridge is. They stayed a constant red glow. There is a rather large tree with many leaves [the oldest tree in Kangaroo Point] and my apartment block which may have caused what looked to be disappearing and reappearing on film. However having said this, when I began to start filming, one of the objects came completely out of nowhere. The later stages of the film is where there is obstruction [I was running to get a better view]. I've watched the film many a time scrolling in fast forward and rewinding. It's quite creepy especially when I consider myself a sceptic on such issues.

Coombabah, Gold Coast, March 2007, 8.30pm
It was the last week of March 2007 at approximately 8:30pm - I can't remember the exact day. It was very windy and overcast and I was returning home after my routine nightly walk with my daughter [3yrs] in the pram. My daughter said 'look at the pretty lights.' I looked up and saw a large circle with cylinders beneath it all the way around. It was twirling and humming and appeared faint to me, but my daughter kept saying 'what's that noise?' It was white and bluish in colour and was extremely large - the size of a field or small oval. This object appeared to be travelling at the same speed as me about ten metres above the roof tops. It was on an angle and the cylinders appeared 3D and it was transparent. It appeared to be following me so I stopped walking, and it also stopped and hovered. I then literally walked backwards and it again followed, then another object the same in appearance but much smaller came up behind it and followed. We were frightened at this point and I was thinking 'this is how people must disappear.' I walked towards my home and it was following but always a little ahead of me. I came to a roundabout and it hovered over it and waited for me to take direction. At this point I noticed the smaller version was gone. As soon as I came to my house it was directly over my roof like it knew where I lived. I was too scared to go inside so I stood there and just looked at it. My daughter and I were in amazement - it was too unbelievable, especially the size of it. Finally I went inside and turned on all the lights, inside and out, and when I came out it was gone. I sent a text to my sister telling her what I saw because I was truly worried something was going to happen to us. I haven't told anyone else because it's just too insane. I still can't believe it myself. I can't stop thinking about it so I starting researching on the net but I haven't come across anyone reporting the same thing. The other strange thing is that night I never saw a single person out there. I felt like we were the only people awake. It was very surreal.

Tewantin, Queensland, March 2007
I live in Tewantin, Queensland. For several weeks I have been observing 'blinking' objects in the night sky. Through binoculars they appear to be a round objects rapidly changing colours in a circular movement. In the two weeks leading up to the 30th of March 2007 I watched them on several nights: three were positioned towards the south and one in the north-west. On Friday 30th of March, I drove home in from Cooroy to Tewantin and noticed the same round object. This time it was close enough for me to see it colour changing with the naked eye. I hurried home and got my camera to take a picture. It was 11:30pm when these pictures were taken. The object was stationary at the west.

APRIL>>

Brisbane Area, Saturday April 14 2007, 2.00am
Witness reported seeing to the east, a pale yellow glow between three points of light in a triangle formation moving east to west. The object could be covered by two fingers at arm's length and seemed to be very distant.

Forest Lake, Brisbane, Thursday April 19 2007, 10.00pm
A witness reported seeing a green light moving west to east at an angle of elevation of about 50 degrees. Its apparent size was a thumb at arm's length, moving northeast at constant elevation, with a tail and emitting sparks. It was seen for about 10 to 15 seconds and was lost behind trees. The witness wondered if it might have been space debris.

Fernvale, Queensland, Saturday April 14 2007, 7.15pm
My girlfriend and I decided to go camping at Savages Crossing, Fernvale. We packed up the car and headed off at about 6.00pm on Saturday 14th April 2007. We arrived at Fernvale at about 7.15pm and turned right off the highway at the phone box and drove to a T-intersection. We then turned left and after about 500 metres the road turned 90 degrees right and then became gravel. This area has a few acreages and is sparsely populated. We went over a rise in the road after 200 metres of gravel and then both saw something we had never seen before. On the tree-line to our left, over a cattle paddock, was a metallic grey saucer of about 30-40 metres in circumference. It had equidistant lights around its periphery and they were all colours of the spectrum. The craft appeared to be startled by our presence and shot off into the distance at an immeasurable speed. We both looked at each other and were dumbfounded by what had taken place. The funny thing is we weren't scared at all and felt quite secure about proceeding to the campsite. All through that night we saw lights in the sky that were unusual, but they seemed to keep their distance and just appeared to be observing us.

Rubyvale, Central Queensland, Wednesday April 18 2007, 10.40pm
I witnessed a very bright, to sharp white light, seemed sharper than the white background of this email page, and not to be likened to any Automotive 12- or 24-volt lights, or lights from a residence or camplight. It seemed as though it may have landed, due to the shadows of what seemed like lights behind tree branches, and the way the light seemed to be going in a upward elevation. The light was very, very bright.

Burpengary, Queensland, Saturday April 21 2007, 7.00pm
My wife and I were on our way out this evening in two separate cars when we saw something very strange and big in the sky. It was approximately 7.00pm. We were approaching the corner of Fleet St and Uhlman Rd when we saw the UFO in the sky. It was very big like a football field, hovering on top of the trees. It seemed very close, but I knew that it was far away. The shape was oval, and the craft had white light on top and red light on the bottom. I felt that some one was watching us. The UFO stayed still for a few minutes, and then started to tilt to the left and then gradually dive to the left and disperse behind the trees. It is very hard to describe the feeling and the details of the craft. All I know that it was very big, oval and had a lot of light. When it finally moved, it was a quick decent but very smooth.

Greenbank, Queensland, Sunday April 22 2007
Was looking outside towards Ipswich area from my place at Greenbank to see red, green and blue lights, about six in total halfway up in the sky from the horizon, zigzagging. They were moving eastwards.

Margate, Monday April 30 2007, 2.00am
A woman who lives in a quiet street was in bed when she heard a whirring sound come closer, move away, come back again and move off. As it moved away neighbourhood dogs started barking. She was half asleep and did not see anything, but the experience was very real for her and she could not go back to sleep afterwards. She stayed in bed and kept listening. Her husband slept through the episode. In the morning she felt foggy and forgot a work appointment, which is very unusual for her.

Kedron, Brisbane, Monday April 30 2007, 7.10pm
A man was outdoors with a friend and looked up to see a spherical object the size of a small house three to four hundred meters above them. It was a mustard orange colour and passed them close to overhead. It was illuminated by moonlight, made no sound and moved steadily at about 100 km/h against the wind. The witness was adamant that the object was not a blimp or a balloon. It was observed for four to five minutes and had an apparent size about half that of the full moon. The site offered a good view all around.

Cape York, April 2007, Cattle Mutilation
In early April, 2007 a man had travelled to the Cape York Peninsula area looking for aircraft parts left over from WW2. He'd been scouting around the Lakeland Downs, Kowanyama and Hopevale Mission areas with some friends when he came across a large bull and two calves that were laying on the ground dead. Their cheeks had been cut away, their eyes had been cut out, parts of their ears, testicles, and stomach bag were missing, the top of a rear leg, and the backside was also removed. In various places the hair of the animals had also been peeled back.

All the observable cuts had been done with something cauterising the wounds somehow that had left no traces of blood anywhere. Although flies were buzzing around the carcasses it seemed that decay had not yet set in. He thought that either the wounds had only recently occurred or the decaying process had been delayed somehow. On inspection, the area around the animals was not disturbed and he could find no sign of a struggle nor any footprints in the area. The man had spent 24 years in the army being stationed in Cambodia, Namibia, Timor and Phnom Pen, witnessing many types of wounds caused to flesh by all manner of weapons, but at no time had he ever seen any wounds that matched those inflicted on these animals. Added to this, he felt extremely uneasy and apprehensive being near the animals, as if something didn't "feel right".

Later the witness visited the Cape York Hotel and was informed by locals that the aboriginal population in that region knew about the animal mutilations, not just performed on cattle but on kangaroos as well. The aboriginal people believed they were caused by the "spirit men" who walked among them. Consequently there are areas in the region that the aboriginal people will not travel near or through.

The witness also met a sheep shearer who told him the story of a similar occurrence around 1948 to 1950. During this time the Vestey Meat Company ran cattle in the area. Reports had been made to the company that 50 to 60 of their cattle stock had been found dead in the same area. Personnel had been sent to investigate and these investigators found the cattle had similar wounds inflicted on them by unknown causes.

MAY>>

West Stafford, Brisbane, May 1 2007, 6.00pm
The witness was standing on a street corner at 6.00pm waiting for a friend to pick him up and then drive on to Arana Hills. While waiting he saw an object in the sky just below cloud height with the underneath ‘spinning wildly’. Out of the object shot a blue beam of light that descended to the ground in a straight line. As his friend arrived the beam seemed to develop a bulge in the middle of its length but as he had to get in the car he didn't see what happened next. He refrained from telling his friend for fear of ridicule but did tell his doctor and someone from his Church [Catholic]. His doctor told him such things don't exist and the church member made no comment.

Chapel Hill, Brisbane Friday May 4 2007, 7.00pm
A member reported seeing three lights of equal brightness in linear formation for ten minutes until they faded away. They were 50 to 60 degrees above the horizon to the NNW. No noise was heard, the lights were circular with a golden/orange colour, spanning about 50cm in the sky at arm's length.

Wavell Heights, Brisbane Tuesday May 8 2007, 8.00pm
A man was shooting some video footage of his back yard through a window and later found a golf ball like light in his images. The light would have been in the sky if it was some distance from the camera. The fly screen web was visible in the light image and the image had details which changed over time. About a minute of footage was shot and a copy was sent us for study. Analysis is still in progress.

Sunnybank, Thursday May 3 2007, 8.00am
This occurred on the 3.05.07. I could have mistaken this for aircraft, anyway... I was travelling towards Mains Road Sunnybank heading south when I stopped at the traffic lights of Granard and Mains Rd opposite ANZ Stadium and saw three silver egg-shaped objects travelling extremely close together, I would says five metres apart in formation, and about 20 metres off the ground, just enough to fly over the trees and buildings. This was about 8.00am in the morning. I thought it was the sun reflecting off planes because they were travelling in the same path as most planes do, but as they got closer their shape was more rounded. Their path seemed to be just over the Sunnybank Hotel, heading west to Archerfield airport. Also they were all different sizes and there was one that was smaller and was moving around another of the craft in a vertical, circular motion before it disappeared, leaving what seemed to be two craft. I attempted to follow them, but once they were out of sight I never saw them again. I was expecting people to jump out of their cars and be staring at the objects but no-one did. I did see a small aircraft, maybe a Cessna-type, fly in the same flight path about 20 seconds later, but higher in the air. I do recall thinking I could clearly establish that this was a plane, and the objects were smaller then the plane by maybe 20 percent. Did anyone else report this sighting, or were my eyes playing tricks on me? I was about 500 metres to one kilometre away from the objects when I saw them.

Pacific Pines, Gold Coast, May 6 2007, 9.30pm
Can you please tell us if what we all saw was UFO activity on the 6th of May between 9:30 and still continuing as I write this email. We saw one large UFO floating northeast of Pacific Pines. This thing was flashing silver, green, red, blue and orange. It hovered and seemed to have a slow floating effect like a feather dropping to the floor, left to right to left to right, slowly heading down - this movement is only slight but is still recognisable. There was another object more south, not as bright but still there, and we think there are a couple more to our north.

Blewitt Springs, South Australia, May 7 2007, day
On 7th May 2007 I was at a friend's property at Blewitt Springs in South Australia with my son and husband. The sun was beginning to set and we were close to leaving to go home. My son was with his friends in their room which overlooks the hills and grapevines. He came out to the lounge and told us that he had just seen a plane flying too low, worried it could be in trouble and he was quite concerned. So I said for them to go down the hill and see if they could find what it was. I thought he must have seen a reflection or something like that, because the sky was unusual, this strange kind of overcast orange and pink reflective sky, which actually looked quite beautiful. As I gazed out the window I too saw this UFO. It looked like it was a fair distance away, at a guess 500 metres, but it was quite large and clear with defined edges shaped like an oval. It was a brilliant silver-white and it seem to glide out of sight just behind some trees. I ran to the edge of the yard to see where it went but it was out of sight. I called out and told my friends and husband that I too had seen it. Of course my husband only made fun of me saying, ‘Ooh aliens, aliens.’ So we decided to go and pick up our son from the bottom of the hill ,where he was still seriously wanting to know what he'd seen. I told him I too had seen it but the others missed it. As we were driving home my husband still didn't believe us - until he saw the same flying object on the left side of Whitings Road before it was once again lost behind the trees. He screeched to the side of the road and tried to see where it went, then decided to drive around to where we thought it looked like it had came from, past Douglas Gully Scrub, but we didn't find a thing. There was a strange helicopter which looked like it too was searching for something. As my son is into aircraft in a huge way he said the helicopter was not a typical one as it was long and black at the bottom and white at top, but definitely not the same shape as the UFO we had seen, this I am sure of. I can’t get this image out of my brain. It has been a week now but I am definitely interested if anyone else had seen anything in the McLaren Flat/Blewitt Springs area.

Mount Ommaney, Brisbane May 18 2007, 5.30am
After getting out of bed a young man looked out his bedroom window and observed a large rectangular-shaped object hovering above the Mt Ommaney Shopping Centre. He estimated it to be three phone towers in height above the centre and looked grey in colour with two smaller red lights on one side. He observed the object for four seconds before it disappeared. He was looking east at the time on a cloudy morning. After the sighting he went into ‘a sort of a daze’. He added that his father has also had many sightings.

JUNE>>

Miami, Gold Coast, June 16 2007, 8.00pm
Last night about 8.00pm my partner and I were standing outside our house when I noticed an intense large single orange light slowly pass overhead. The object flew in the same flight line as airplanes flying from Coolangatta, but the thing that struck me was that it was a lot lower and only had a single light. It had no flashing light on the tail and made absolutely no sound. I watched it for about three minutes as it slowly faded into the distance. I couldn't clearly make out what it was but the light emitting out of this object was intense and didn't look like a plane's light. About five minutes later a plane flew over our house. I quickly called my partner outside to watch the plane, which was flying at a higher altitude than the object, yet we had absolutely no problems in hearing the plane's engine. Also, the plane was lit up with its flashing light etc. I can't explain what I saw, but I'm sure it wasn't an airplane.

JULY>>

Laidley, Friday July 7 2007
Three boys aged 14 to 16 had planned to spend a night out camping on land designated for a new prison facility yet to be built, and were dropped off by an uncle. During the night they were terrorized by something they could not remember. One of the boys left the others to walk home and the other two were too frightened to leave their tent. In the morning they found unusual marks on their bodies and their dog was found dead some distance from their tent. They had little recollection of what had happened, were frightened and felt sick.

Bulimba, 10 July 2007, 8.00pm
Tonight at approximately 8.00pm I saw a blue and red flashing light in the sky. It was east of Brisbane airport, at quite high altitude. I looked closer with binoculars and noticed a green light flashing as well. It remained perfectly stationary, with planes flying nearby.

Toowoomba, 13 July 2007, 5.40pm
Hi all, I'm aware of the irony of this report considering today's date (Friday 13th). I arrived home from work at roughly 5:40pm and proceeded to open the garage to put my bike away. I glanced up at the western sky to see a very dark kite-shaped object moving steadily from southwest to northeast. Initially I considered that it may have been a piece of debris, like a garbage bag, being blown along by the rather chilly south-westerly, but its course and speed were too consistent to be rubbish at the mercy of the wind. The thing that really caught my attention was the lack of perimeter beacons or strobes, and it was absolutely silent. From my vantage point I guessed that this particular object would have been at approximately 1000 feet and its speed was around 160/200 km/hr, too fast for an ultra-light even with a tail wind. As a matter of interest the direction that this object was travelling would have put it very close to the restricted airspace over Cabarlah Army Base, a significant tracking and electronic intelligence asset.

Canberra, ACT, 20 July 2007, 10.30pm
I wish to state up-front that before tonight I have had little to no interest in the topic of UFOs. On my way back to my car after work, I turned my head skyward briefly. The night was a little cloudy but some stars were visible above me. I focused on one of the fainter stars and a shooting star happened to fly past. This did not amaze me much as I recall seeing what really was a shooting star just a few nights earlier outside my house. What did amaze me is that this object, while appearing to have the same relative speed of a shooting star, continued to remain in view without the characteristic fadeout of a shooting star. This suggested to me that the object was in the upper atmosphere, possibly higher.

My amazement ended and astonishment began when a second shooting star-like object tailed, accelerated, and caught up to the original object. The second object moved in on the first object and produced the trajectory of a side-facing parabola, something like stunt pilots would execute. The first object then circled around at a very high speed in a wide arc, but only completed about ninety percent of the circular turn.

As I was focusing on the sudden - and frankly mind boggling - acrobatics of the first object, I lost sight of the second. The first object disappeared in its incomplete turn. The whole experience felt like about ten seconds all up. I have no idea what I saw, but I can tell you it was no shooting star.

Yes Canberra has an airport in the vicinity of my eastward vantage, but this event was right above me and these objects were extremely high. No way it was the air force, balloons etc, and I don't know much about satellites or space stations, but I would guess they don't move like that. I also discounted the possibility of my tired condition resulting in eye floaters, simply because these were bright objects. To test this, after I arrived home I tried staring at dark surfaces, but my eyes were not producing any bright artefacts. The objects in question were just dots but the way they moved! The trajectory crossover and turn did not seem natural. This has certainly messed up my scepticism.

AUGUST>>

Carina, Sunday August 5 2007, 8.57pm
I saw two lights last night [Sunday August 5] that appeared to be UFOs. Looking slightly north-northwest from Carina North at 8.57pm, approximately above the Brisbane River, I saw a bright light travelling slightly northeast by east at about the speed of a plane and slowly decreasing in speed and curving away to the northeast. That took less than a minute and suddenly the light went out completely. There was no noise whatsoever and the colour of the light resembled a car headlight. I could not see any shape of a craft around the light. The altitude was a little more than the approach height that landing planes use in that locality to the Brisbane Airport.

I ran to a window looking north in the middle of the episode, and waited there until about 9.07pm, and another light seemingly exactly the same came into view from the west-northwest. It seemed to travel the same path at the same decreasing speed, until it appeared to completely stop about another kilometre further to the northeast with its light still shining. A plane took off from the airport to the southwest and then the strange light shut down also. I had watched it for nearly two minutes. Another plane took off from the airport in a couple of minutes and went out to the south-east by east.

Mackay, August 6 2007, 6.30am
A friend and I were driving through to Townsville and noticed a star-like object in the sky, no clouds, just as the sun was coming up at about 6:30 in the morning. My driving partner in the back started to swear and told me to pull over because there was something in the sky. I pulled over and we were watching this star in the sky move randomly, as a fly or insect would towards a light at night time. Remembering we had his telescope in the back with all our gear he set it up to get a closer look. Meanwhile I was trying to video record it with my hand-held camera with no luck. I had a look via his telescope and what I saw, you wouldn't ever believe. It was a cell-like object with no real defined shape that looked to be harnessing energy from its surroundings, changing from some of the most unreal colours to the human mind and with no defined shape, like jelly in the air. We had to keep moving the telescope even though it was on the tripod because it was moving quite a bit. It was after it changed into a solid-like object and a solid colour of dark red that it moved real close to both of us. It appeared to be not even 50 metres away from us, then it disappeared.

Flaxton, Blackall Ranges, August 9 2007
My 22 year old son may have seen a UFO Last night between 3.30am and 3.45am. He was up late working on his computer, and when he decided to go to bed, glanced out of his bedroom window. He noticed what he thought was a very large, bright star in the sky, when suddenly it flew off. He said that it would stop suddenly and then fly off in another direction. This continued for several minutes. He said that the light emanating from the craft was very bright, and that it had other colours that came from it as well, for example, blue, green and red. It was a very clear sky last night, and my son was so certain that he was seeing a UFO that he dragged me out of bed at 3.45am! We both went outside, but I didn't see it, and he said when we went outside, he saw the craft sitting still again before it suddenly disappeared.

I told a friend about my son's sighting, and she said that she may have seen the same thing or similar. She sits outside on her verandah at night, also in Flaxton, as she hates the TV. Anyway, she said that she has also seen what appears to be a very bright star which suddenly moves off quickly to one side for example, and then stops again. She has called her partner out to watch it, and said that they wondered if it was a UFO. She said that she has been waiting to hear if anyone else has seen it and reported it. I don't know if this is the same as my son's sighting, but it sounds similar.

Southeast Queensland, reported August 13 2007
I seem to see distant white lights in the night sky that look like stars manoeuvring, disappearing and reappearing, moving at different speeds and at different times over the years. I’ve seen them at Springbrook, on New Years 2000, a few times over Moreton Bay and Wynnum, Dingo Beach and Mackay. I thought I'd email first as there have been too many occasions and I can’t remember the dates that I saw them.

8risbane, Tuesday August 14 2007, 2.30am
I am 17 years of age and a longtime believer in ET and a constant watcher for UFOs. Early this morning at approximately 2.3Oam I braved the cold to go outside as I often do. As normal I had my eyes towards the sky not specifically in the hope that I would see a UFO but just because I enjoy looking at the stars and find them very beautiful. About two minutes after venturing outside I noticed two very bright red lights in the sky. They were very high up, above the clouds. At first I thought it was a plane or satellite but the objects began to alternate in colour from red to white and then to a very dim grey. I could believe my eyes as this Is my first sighting. One of the objects then began to move in a circular motion. It appeared to be hovering in a circular motion. The other object stayed still. I watched the objects for about one hour. The object on the left then began to come closer towards me, but then it stopped and went back to its original position. A third object then appeared very high above the others tor form a triangle. They stayed like this for about five minutes before clouds came over and I couldn’t see them anymore. This was the most brilliant thing I have ever seen. Looking at the objects made me feel happy and content. I hope to see more sightings in the future.

Wednesday August 15 2007, 9.04am
An object that looked like an inverted pyramid in the sky was seen moving slowly from the west. It was white in colour and observed for 10 minutes.

Cooloola Cove, Monday August 20 2007, 5.20am
I live at Cooloola Cove, which is situated between Tin Can Bay and Rainbow Beach. I travel to work at Gympie (west bound) which is approximately 60 kilometres and about a 45 minute drive from home. I leave home for work at approximately 5.00am each morning. On Monday 20 August 2007 at approximately 5:20am, I was travelling along Tin Can Bay road going over the Goochon Creek Bridge just before the Toolara State Forest Barracks, which is approximately a two kilometre straight road between pine forests on either side of the road, and just before the Laminex Company.

I was three quarters along the stretch of road doing 100 kmh (the speed limit) when I noticed in the rear-view mirror a single bright white light back at the Toolara Forest Barracks, of what seemed to me to be a motorcycle travelling at high speed. As I was approaching the bend which has a single white line (no overtaking on my side) I noticed that the white light (or motorcycle) was right at the back of my Toyota Hilux ute (tail gating, and I noticed that light was not vibrating as it would if it were a motorcycle). The light seemed to hover, at which point I thought to myself, this fellow must be doing over 300 kmh because he was at least one and a half kilometres behind me and within a few seconds he was right on my tail. I had to adjust myself in my driving seat because the light was reflecting so brightly in my side and rear-view mirror. I was approaching a bend in the road and a logging truck was approaching in the opposite direction. Then the light, which I thought was a motorcycle, appeared to be going to overtake, at which I thought "you're bloody mad"! At this point the bright light was in my side mirror, in which I noticed it went straight up into the sky, and I thought to myself that this bloke was a "bloody idiot" as I imagined he was doing a wheel stand as he was going past me. That is when I noticed that nobody went past me and the light went straight up into the air and the truck went flying past me without any trouble.

On the way home that afternoon I half expected to see a high powered motorcycle and its rider stuck 30 feet up in a pine tree. I never saw anything and there were no skid marks. I came home and told my wife about my story and she went on to tell me that it was not a motorbike but something quite spooky is going on in our part of the world. There is a military army base "Camp Kerr" which is parallel to the road on which I travel. My wife and I have dubbed it the Tin Tin Light after the Min Min Light.

Booval, Saturday August 28, 1.37pm
A man was tending his pigeons and noticed that one of them kept looking up. He also looked up and saw a huge object in the sky constantly changing shape and moving southeast to northwest. It passed overhead and was eventually lost to view, moving at the apparent speed of a small plane, but without any noise. It seemed to be moving in a straight line and was seen for about 10 minutes. The object appeared black beneath bright clouds coming from the west. The man also had a previous UFO sighting some years ago.

SEPTEMBER>>

Rosewood, Saturday September 1 2007 5.00am
A woman observed a large stationary light in the direction of Ipswich for about half an hour. It was like a spotlight having the apparent size of the full moon.

Cairns, Friday September 14 2007, 7.00pm
A woman and her husband observed a very bright orange ball of light to the south passing overhead and continuing to the north. It blinked out after about a minute. They live close to the local airport and are well acquainted with aircraft and meteors. The object maintained a constant colour and brightness with an apparent size of 1/16th of the full moon.

Trinity Park, North Queensland, Friday September 14 2007, 7.00-8.00pm
I live in Trinity Park Qld which is North of Cairns 17 kilometres, and last night went outside to have a smoko. I am not quite sure of the time, maybe between 7.00-8.00pm, I saw a strange bright orange light in the sky coming towards me that would be coming from the south and heading over me to the north. It passed overhead and travelled for maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute then blinked out. There were no clouds in the sky to suddenly make the light disappear. We also live almost in line with the flight paths for all airlines into Cairns Airport so I am well aware of aircraft lights of International Flights and also small aircraft. What I saw was nothing like our normal aircraft, as this was also totally silent and I have exceptionally good hearing. It was not a meteor as I have also seen many of them. This was a very bright orange ball light that was totally silent and travelled in a straight line overhead as if it were floating.

Lake Morris, Cairns, September 16 2007
I have a great UFO picture caught on two separate cameras taken during the signing of the registry book at my wedding. We didn't notice the object until a week after the wedding when my wife was taking another look through the photos. The shots are on disc and are excellent quality as you can zoom right in and see clearly the object. The second camera also caught the image and shows some very unusual energy shimmers directly under the UFO... like cushions/pillows of air. Also the UFO seems to create a very unusual 'shadow' or distortion on/near the ground. I have emailed the pics to friends but noticed that during compression for email the quality of the shots is greatly reduced. I would prefer to send you a disc with the digital images in their complete format. If I hear back from you I will organise to send this photo CD to you. I have attached one shot for your interest. [UFORQ did request a copy of these images but to date they have not been received - Ed]

Friday, September 19 2007, 1.15pm
A security guard observed two small white objects to the east and moving North for about 1.5 minutes. He thought they might be balloons.

Belmont NSW, Friday September 21 2007, 10.30pm
About 15 minutes ago I saw an unusual bright orange light in the sky coming from the southeast moving towards the northeast. It seemed to be moving extremely fast and looked like It was coming towards me. It looked like an orange ball of fire that looked larger in comparison than any star visible at the time so it was obviously not a star. The sky was very clear in that direction with hardly a cloud in sight and It was obviously not an aircraft of any type. It was silent and bright and appeared very large.

I was very fearful as I thought it may be an asteroid. I called my wife to come and have a look and she was very scared when she saw it. It appeared to be coming straight toward us and I told my wife to get the kids and put them in the car, and as I was saying this the object suddenly slowed down and changed direction and started going southwest, and it appeared to be going higher and higher, moving in an erratic manner until it eventually disappeared in what it seemed to be amongst the stars and vanished. I was amazed at what I saw and so was my wife who is a true skeptic about UFOs , until now of course. She has certainly changed her tune. I however I have always been open minded about these things as some of my family members have seen UFOs and strange lights in the sky and have told stories about it and they don't seem like the type of people to make things up. I live In Belmont NSW with my family and I am very certain of what I saw and so is my wife, who saw the same thing with her eyes that I saw with mine.

Southport, Thursday September 28 2007
I live near Sharks football club in Southport, Gold Coast, and observed a 'shooting star' heading from Tamborine toward the Broadwater. It stopped dead, drifted up then at right angles from its original course, headed for Surfers Paradise where it once again stopped instantly, drifted up as if searching for the next earth grid, and then went off at right angles out to sea and unfortunately was then obscured by a cloud. There was no acceleration, just go and stop. Out of phase with our reality when moving, and no ball of charged particles, rock or craft could stop instantly from that speed without distortion or disintegration.

OCTOBER

Deception Bay. Thursday October 12 2007, 11.00pm
Five lights were observed in the sky by a family for about 20 minutes. Three of the lights were stationary while one light travelled out over the bay and back again covering about one kilometre of sky, repeating this pattern five times. Another light zoomed off in a southwest direction and the three stationary lights moved straight up into the sky and faded out.

Darra, October 18 2007, 10.55pm
Looking through a glass window, two men witnessed an object the size of a ten cent piece held at arms length and whitish blue in colour. It was observed for one or two seconds moving downwards. There were two witnesses, but one wishes to remain anonymous.

Toowoomba, Friday October 19 2007, 11.00pm
I live in Toowoomba and on Friday the 19th October I was sitting with my husband outside on our deck quite late at night. It could have been after 11.00pm but can't recall. While we were talking I saw a bright whitish/bluish light appear in the sky. This ball of light was quite low and moved downwards at an angle out of sight due to houses and trees obscuring the view. I said at the time it was a really big bluey white ball of light and that it was too big for a shooting star and seemed to be much closer and lower than a star.

Reported October 20 2007
Hello, just thought I should write about a strange dream I had about three strange creatures. The last time I dreamed about them they were using a handheld light device looking under my skin on my right leg. They were insect-like with large dark eyes, and they were thin with smooth skin. I was stuck to flypaper so I couldn't move. They seem to be checking for something... I wasn't afraid and I didn't feel that I was in any danger. I thought after reading your article in the paper that you may have heard of similar story of someone being scanned with a similar device.

NOVEMBER>>

Swan Bay, NSW, November 1 2007, 8.55pm
A woman reported a triangular object the size of a house surrounded by 30 to 40 small fast moving lights, alternately lighting up the water of the Bay and the sky. While she was describing the events as they happened, her mobile phone cut out.

Mount Cooroy, reported November 1 2007
A man and his partner observed an object with lights about it two nights before the date of reporting. It departed vertically. He stated that many sightings and strange happenings were taking place. One such report came from a client whose parents in Western Australia saw a huge ship come in near Eighty Mile Beach.

Mackay, November 4 2007, 8.45pm
Tonight at approximately 8.45pm on 04/11/07 at Marian/Mackay, I was laying on the trampoline outside just looking up at the stars. I saw a sort of triangular shaped object, dark in colour with no lights or sound, heading north northeast. Probably about 1000 metres in the air and travelling fairly fast.

Bulimba, November 8 2007, 8.30pm
I was just out running and after about 30 mins of running, this is what I witnessed: Heading east up Brisbane Street in Bulimba, I was looking up at the sky (since I was running up a gradient). I looked to my left, and saw a whitish glowing light, with I thought two light sources of the same colour heading on a 45 degree angle towards the Earth. I thought it was a jet or plane crashing (the Airport and Port of Brisbane are to the east of my location) and waited for the flash over the horizon to signify the crash. When this didn't occur I convinced myself it must have been a meteor or something similar. I kept running only to see, about 30-45 seconds later, a similar light heading from the direction the other had just travelled at a steep angle, back to my right and heading in the direction of Ipswich. This time the light was moving at a more regular angle to the Earth, but at a similar speed. It once again made no sound and after about 5 seconds disappeared. I can't work out what else this could be, so for the moment, I am leaving it as a UFO. I am 24, male, and don't do drugs. I was sober at the time, and though running, was not overly exerting myself. I stopped to watch the second appearance.

Traveston, Gympie, November 10-11 2007
An unusual pattern was found on the reporter's son-in-law's property on the weekend of November 10 and 11 2007. The circled had formed in water-lilies in a dam in Traveston, Gympie (north of Brisbane). The formation of the circles was not observed by any witnesses and vegetation and livestock in the neighbouring paddock displayed no unusual behaviour or ill-effects. There are no known weather events that could have caused the lilies to separate in the manner that they have. The circle has a centre area clear of lilies or other vegetation, with the lilies being divided into two distinct bands, with a thin dividing area between these bands. The person reporting the event stated that "some lilies had obviously floated a bit because the circle was a bit wobbly so they must have been torn from their roots. Looking at the picture it seems there are some brownish lilies, but whether or not its browning off I can't remember. We were going to take more photos but the phone's battery went dead."

Red Hill, Brisbane, November 15 2007, 10.30pm
Last night (November 15) my partner was woken up at approximately 10:30pm by a loud noise she assumed to be a very low-flying aircraft. I wasn't home at the time. She looked out of our bedroom window and saw a bright, luminous disc-shaped object with a red and blue light underneath (red on one side, blue on the other) moving towards our flat, from north to south. Over the course of approximately two minutes it had passed over our building and was no longer visible from the flat. As it moved on my partner described its sound as changing from the roar of an engine to something musical and harmonious. As this sound faded she went back to bed.

Underwood, November 19 2007
I have always been a strong believer in alien life forms. As a child I had repetitive dreams of being abducted and also saw a yellow light moving in weird directions above my house when I was young. My parents also witnessed this strange occurrence. Well tonight, being the 19th of November, my partner was having a cigarette in the back yard of our house in Underwood when I heard him yelling out my name. I ran out the back and saw a round yellow-orange light in the distance. We watched it fly in a straight line, no noise, no flashing lights, so we definitely knew it wasn't an airplane. After we watched it for approximately five minutes we saw it change to a more orange-red colour, and soon after the light in the sky vanished right before our eyes. My partner is one of the biggest sceptics I know, but tonight he saw something he described as unidentified, but will not admit to it being an alien craft as I think it is. So yes from a sceptic and a huge believer, we definitely saw something. 

Windsor, November 19 2007, 8.00pm
Just wanted to report something a little out of the ordinary in Windsor (inner Brisbane) on Saturday 10th November. At about 8.00pm and facing with my back to the city and looking north at about 45 degrees I saw a shape not unlike a pregnant woman lying prostrate and about the size of a bar of chocolate when my arm was fully stretched. I know it sounds absurd but this object was completely black, devoid of anything and seemingly bending the light surrounding the shape, as if it was a black hole or something sucking in light and everything around it. It lasted for a few hours then disappeared. It was as if everything within its vicinity was being sucked in, kind of like a giant hoover. Just wondered if anyone else experienced the same thing.

Eagleby, November 20 2007, 7.30-9.30pm
The witness was looking west-northwest towards Brisbane and saw a bright white light rise, pass over their house and enter a cloud. It emerged from the other side of the cloud and faded out while moving to the southeast. The light exhibited steady motion and was seen for about two minutes. It was larger than a star and made no sound. The witness has had other sightings before this one.

Helensvale, November 21 2007, 1.15pm
Witness woke to a noise, went outside and saw an object of unusual shape and size. It had an oblong diamond shape and seemed to be at 20 to 30 thousand feet. He observed it with binoculars and went back inside and to sleep at 2.30 am. While other stars moved in the sky, this light appeared to be stationary with yellow/red lights in a triangular formation. The witness has had other sightings in 1992 and 1947, in one of which "the whole sky lit up".

Albion, November 21 2007
A witness saw a very bright "meteorite" coming down at an angle. It lasted about two seconds.

Highfields QLD, November 27 2007, 3.45am 
In the early hours of this morning I observed a large bright object in the eastern sky at about 70 degrees. The object appeared to hover and rotate in very very small clockwise circles, changing from extremely bright to becoming duller. When the object was extremely bright it appeared to have shafts of either light or something else coming from around it in a very structured pattern. I observed this for approximately one hour before returning to bed. I have never seen anything like this before and even woke my husband who was amazed also.

DECEMBER>>

Carindale/Belmont, December 9 2007, 9.45pm
The witness was driving northwest along Old Cleveland Road on her way to the airport. Around the Carindale/Belmont area she noticed a round object with four or five lights around it in the sky to her left. It was bigger than a star and appeared not to be moving. The object was observed for 30 seconds then switched off like a light. It was a rainy night.

Hervey Bay, December 14 2007
On Friday night a woman reported seeing a meteorite that looked like a six inch ball blue-green in colour, with a tail.

Armidale, NSW, December 2007
I have been taking pictures of aircraft activity over my home town of Armidale, NSW, since about January this year. Although my purpose in taking these pictures was sparked by my interest in aircraft "emissions", I began to notice anomalies in many of the photos I have taken. This still continues now. I have attached two pictures which were taken earlier this year with a 6mx digital camera. As I am not technical with graphic or photographic work, it is still bugging me as to what these anomalies are. I have had a few people with interest, or profession, in photography and they have mainly been inconclusive. One picture is of a bluish orb in the bottom middle 1/3rd of the picture, the other has a red and blue light, on either side of an emission from an aircraft. In all the pictures I have taken I have not been aware the objects were there when I took the picture, however I have had four sightings, two of them with other witnesses, of orb-like objects. One of these was only about one or two months ago in broad daylight when a friend and I witnessed a silver/mercury-like object that went from a really intense brightness, like the sun was shining off it, to a sort of opaque blue, nearly invisible, appearance which then just vanished. The friend that I was with, we later found out when discussing it, saw the object, but it appeared differently to him. We stood there and watched if for a minute or so. We also have a Lockheed/Martin facility about 10 kilometres out of town. It is US-run and they monitor and manipulate satellites from this station. Apparently in the late 60s the ex-mayor had a property about 15 kilometres out of town where they ran some tests involving HAARP. I find this interesting especially after watching Jamie Maussan's video last year on the activity over Mexico. In this video there were many UFO objects but one that I am still trying to get my head around is one that looked like a horse! Are these illusions or holographic images that are being projected into our skies, or physical objects?

MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS RECEIVED IN 2007>>

Murphy's Creek, early 2006, 5.30pm, reported October 2007
Some time earlier last year I was taking my wife to work at Helidon. After l dropped her off I was returning home to Murphy's Creek and was driving along Airforce road with three kids age 6 to 12 in the car when I saw a bright cigar-shaped light in the sky that didn't move. I told the kids to look at the bright light, and as l drove the car slowly along the road the three kids became scared and my son, 6, jumped into the back seat trying to hide from this light. The two girls kept looking, but they both suddenly become very quiet and scared. l kept driving very slowly until l reached the Lockyer Sliding railway. Even now we still all remember what happened on this late afternoon at 5.30. It was not a plane but we believe it was a UFO. I am 60 years old and l have seen these things a couple of times -- once while camping in Victoria near Bright, before the first Russian spaceship Sputnik 1 was launched, plus 12 years ago near Dalby Queensland, at about 12.30am.

Mount Warning, NSW, November 15 2006, reported October 2007
I saw a huge "shooting star" over my head whilst driving west from Murwillumbah towards Mt Warning National Park in the early evening. I thought it was fireworks at first as it was so low and bright. I proceeded driving west for another seven minutes, still thinking about the strange ball I had seen when, suddenly, up to my right and behind a low bluff, approximately 500 metres away, I saw a large rectangular light illuminating the tops of the trees while slowly sinking behind them. There are no roads or houses on this bluff. I had a friend in another car behind me, so I didn't stop. When we arrived at our destination, my friend said she had seen the "shooting star" but not the large light after that. I have also read that Mt Warning is a hot spot for UFO sightings.

Zillmere, Brisbane, July 16 2005, 5.15pm [reported February 2007]
The witness was proceeding along Beams Road and saw three bright orange dots forming a triangle in the sky above nearby houses. It was not quite dark at the time of sighting.

Gladstone [QLD], 1994, 11-12.30am [reported January 2007]
It was late and I had decided to turn the lights out for the night. Our house at the time backed onto state forest, no houses or streets were behind us. A dry deep creek bed ran right through our backyard boundary, in line with the house. As I was walking towards the sliding glass door to lock it [located at the back of the house], I noticed a green misty light in the forest. At first I thought it was a reflection off the glass, so to make sure I opened the door. The light was still visible, and I walked a few feet closer and had a good look at what I was seeing. The green light was not far above ground height, and it looked to be some kind of green glowing mist around the source of the light, which looked like a sphere, [but I couldn't say for sure about the shape of the light source], and lit up a small area of surrounding tree trunks. As I was watching this, for around a minute, I noticed a humanoid shape amongst the light and mist. It seemed to be kneeling down on one knee beside a trunk of one of the trees. I did not see any features of the entity, but I could clearly see a humanoid shape amongst the light and mist. I quickly and quietly retreated inside, closed and locked the door for the night and slept with my light on. This scared the heck out of me, and I still find it very difficult to talk or discuss this with anyone. Even now I am feeling a state of anxiety. The thing that I saw was on the other side of the creek bed, and about 12metres into the forest from the edge of the creek bed, around a total of 80 meters away from our house. I seem to remember when my grandmother was alive and living with us at that house, she told my mother about some strange lights she saw late one night, in an area not too far from the lights I saw myself. My grandmother described to my mother what she thought was a tree lit up, with lights coming from the ends of the branches. She watched this for over half an hour but decided not to tell anyone or wake up anyone the night of her sighting.

Riverview, December 2005 [reported May 2007]
A man was out walking when he observed a large black, cigar-shaped object in the sky. He was near the Riverview Police Station at the time of the sighting so when a police car pulled up at the station he asked the policemen what it was he might be looking at. They also observed the object but answered that they didn't know. They radioed other police cars to ask if anyone else knew what it was but that was all he found out.

Glasshouse Mountains, Southeast Queensland, December 21 2004 [reported May 2007]
My sighting occurred on the 21st of December 2004 at around 11:30pm. We were four-wheel-driving in the Glasshouse Mountains, with four people in two vehicles. We were driving along a fire road with a space of about 50 meters between the vehicles when my friend's wife yelled over the UHF to stop and look above the tree line. There, just hovering above the trees, was a ‘panadol [capsule] shaped’ object roughly the size of a petrol tanker truck's trailer. It was also emitting a low humming noise. It was glowing like a dull fluorescent light and was just above the trees, so close I could have easily thrown a rock and hit it. We had a video camera with us but it had run out of battery just five minutes before which is a shame. After a few minutes it just tilted forward and drifted west like a balloon down into a ridge. We followed in our cars and got out to look for it but it was gone and so was the humming.

Arana Hills, February 18 1998, 4.20am, reported October 2007
Although I wish to remain anonymous, the following events genuinely occurred in a built-up area of Arana Hills, Brisbane at 4.20am on the 18th February, 1998. It was not yet sunrise and still quite dark. I know the time of the event as I was wearing a wristwatch that has a 'glow in the dark' face. Prior to the occurrence, two senior age adults and one mature age adult - me - and a three year old child were all asleep. All three bedrooms are positioned next to each other. We were all woken virtually at the same time by the deafening sounds of what seemed to be a huge engine, which seemed to emanate from the roof above the house, and very bright lights that were clearly visible through the curtains of the window that my bed was positioned next to. At the same time the house rattled inside and out. We called out to each other from our beds but, out of fear I suppose, remained in our beds, but I quickly got up to comfort the young child who was also scared of all the noise. 

Although scared, I peeked out the window next to my bed and all I can remember seeing is what seemed to be large spotlights and lots of grey metal-coloured machinery under what appeared to be an extremely large and from what I could see angular - triangular or rectangular? - shaped object. It seemed to be paused just above the top of the house and was close enough for me to see in some detail. I could see one side of it and it seemed very large. The direction it was very slowly moving was easterly - I know this from the position of the house. I was quite scared and 'hid' in my bed. The noise and rattling was there for what seemed a few minutes and then it seemed to almost instantly stop. 

The two elderly people later asked their next door neighbours on both sides and the neighbours directly across the road if they had heard anything at that time and none of them had been disturbed from their sleep. One of the next door neighbours is a senior Police Officer who was asleep at the time, but is normally very vigilant with any and every noise he hears outside. The other neighbour was an accountant and JP, and the one across the road a middle aged tradesman - all have families with at least two children. Of myself and the other two elderly family members, it is worth noting that we are all strict teetotallers and very conservative in behaviour. The airport was called that morning and a complaint was made, but we were told that there were definitely no planes at that time and we are not in a direct flight path. My relatives have never had this occur before and have lived there since the early 1960s. The amount of noise and rattling was so loud it is impossible that the mostly middle-aged and elderly neighbours, positioned closely, could not hear it. The noise was genuinely almost deafening. 

When overseas many years ago I found myself in an area where a large earthquake occurred and this event at Arana Hills was louder, and everything shook and rattled inside the house. None of us went back to sleep. We were all scared and puzzled. We are not science-fiction buffs or 'trekkies', and thought UFOs were a lot of old 'codswallop' until that night. I have not come forward before to report this for fear of ridicule. It remains a puzzle to us as to what it was. Sometimes when we get together we still chat about it and ponder what was out there.

Cunninghams Gap [QLD] 1990 [reported March 2007]
I am curious to learn more about an unusual object I saw whilst driving back to Sydney from Brisbane with my husband many years ago. Sadly I cannot recall the exact year or date but I believe it would have been somewhere around 1990. We were driving through Cunninghams Gap at approximately 1.00am in the morning when we saw what appeared to be a mass of lights [orange and white] and they appeared have a large cylinder shape object behind them. The road was windy and my husband was driving so he did not get a very good view of it. I watched it for approximately 20 seconds and then my husband pulled the car over to the side of the road. We wound down our windows to get a better look and the object continued to hover for a while and then it moved away. It then changed direction and sped off. It was completely silent. My initial reaction was that it had to be some sort of aircraft but I was amazed by its apparent size and that it was silent and had the ability to change direction so fast. We continued to drive home to Sydney and at each petrol station that we pulled into we were asked if we had seen the UFO. I remember someone else commenting that they had seen it change direction. There was also an article published about the sightings in a Sydney newspaper shortly after this. I wish I could remember the exact year and date but I cannot. I know it would have been somewhere around 1990 and I imagine it would have been in April/May as that is when we took our annual holidays.

Tansey, near Gympie, 1982, reported October 2007
I was probably about 12 years old (going back 25 years) and I lived on a farm in Tansey in Queensland which is about an hour inland from Gympie. I saw what looked like a bright star just over the horizon, above a hill in the far distance. It was just going on dusk so all the stars were coming out, but whatever it was it was larger and brighter than Venus. The stars are much brighter in the country than the city. I thought it may just be a satellite or a distant plane, but it just hovered around in the same spot. It actually moved back, forwards, up and down but did not move in relation to the stars. It was random movement but it generally kept in the same area above the horizon. I got my parents out to look at it but they just made fun of me as they just saw it as a star, but I always have remembered it. I watched it for more than an hour straight and then randomly checked on it ever 15 mins or so for the next few hours until it was bed time so it would have been in the same spot for about 3 hours - sometimes still and sometime moving slightly in different directions. I never saw the "star" in the spot ever again after that. A star, shooting star, satellite, weather balloon or plane moves across the sky in a pattern. There was no pattern at all so I guess I'll just always wonder what I saw.

Rockhampton, 1970s-1980s, reported November 2007
I don't think this is a UFO but is very strange. About 30 years ago in Rockhampton, out on the edge of town, I was driving to collect a family member and had to stop on the crest of a hill to figure out what I was seeing. It was just coming on dusk but from this position I could see for miles over the river and treetops towards Gracemere. It appeared there was a long straight split in the sky about five miles away with a phosphorus ooze coming from it. The length of this "split" had to be considerable for me to see it so clearly. I walked forward of the car and back to see this from different angles. I even climbed up some of the hillside on the other side of the road. The thing that convinced me of the distance was that part of this ooze was blocked by the shape of the end of the Range on the other side of the city. It was too high to be power lines, and if this had looked like it was oozing upward I would have thought it some phosphorus gas from lagoons out that way. I wanted to wait for someone else to come along the road, but had to be on time. Has anyone else reported anything like this? I really do hope so.

Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, September 1974 [reported March 2007]
A man had pulled into a BP service station at the intersection of Miles Platting Road and Logan Road at night. He was ‘pretty drunk’. A woman with children pulled into the service station, very distressed and complaining that they had been ‘chased’ by a light. He observed a light passing over the service station and followed it along a dark roadway or track. The light came close to him several times and was shaped like a football. It eventually moved away looking like a faint star. He ‘passed out’ and returned for his car an hour or so later.

Moreton Bay Beach 1963 [reported April 2007]
A man attending one of our public meetings described an incident in 1963 when two families comprising eight adults and a five year old boy landed on a beach on Moreton Island to picnic and enjoy the moonlit evening. It was very still and a clear sky with a full moon. A member of the party had brought along a good quality wide angle binocular. Our witness used it to study the moon and observed five cylindrical objects flying in a two pair formation with the last object in the rear. The objects were visible to the naked eye also, and the party eventually became bored looking at them by the time the tide had risen and extinguished their fire.

Queensland [reported June 2007]
A woman called to report that when she was a child one evening she heard the family dogs barking. She stepped outside to see what was causing the ruckus and felt a buzzing sensation on the top of her head. She looked towards the shed in the backyard where her father used an amateur radio and saw a small being leaning back into the shadows so as to remain hidden. The being also seemed not to like the light. She described the being as having white translucent skin, big almond shaped eyes, pointy chin, long limbs, thin figure and about the height of a child. The buzzing sensation on her head was also hot and she put her two hands on her head and pressed down to stop the feeling. She screamed and ran up the stairs and fell in the back door of the house. Her father immediately knew what the cause of her fright was.

Her father is now deceased but while alive he had a keen interest in UFOs and collected UFO magazines which he kept hidden in his shed. He was a WW2 communications expert who built his own radio and would sit at it for hours. The woman thinks her father might have been listening for signals of unknown origin and he would create written records of what she described as Morse code transmissions. After her father died a man came to the family home and was adamant that he have the radio. This man was from the private electronics sector and when her mother gave him the radio he also took the many books that her father had recorded the Morse code in.

Thorneside, 1983 [reported July 2007]
When 13 years old a woman saw a large triangular-shaped object hovering about one metre above the roof of the house. The object was nearly the size of the roof and underneath there was a red circular flashing light. On two points of the triangle was a line of red lights and underneath the object there was a lot of intricate detail with a non-smooth surface. The object hovered for two minutes above the roof then slowly moved over the house next door, then disappeared. She told her mother what she had seen but her mother yelled at her and sent her to bed. The next day reports of other sightings were reported on the radio.

Melbourne, 1953 - present [reported June 2007]
A woman telephoned from Melbourne and described her experiences spanning many years involving visitations, visions and paralysis. Her experiences have been clustered in time, in that she might have experiences every day for a month and then a period of many weeks with none. These experiences have been going on since 1953 when she was a little girl. They take place at night and frighten her. She thinks that she has been used for the purposes of the beings involved, and has encountered up to eight of these beings at a time.

Ellen Grove, Brisbane, mid-1994 [reported August 2007]
This happened in June or July 1994 at 6.00pm during the school holidays. I was 17 nearly, and it was either a Friday or a Tuesday. I remember because I had cracked my ankle and was at the kitchen sink getting a drink of water when I looked out the window and was looking to the west. Anyway, the sun was going down and I saw a cloud, but there was this really bright star (at least that's what I thought it was). I stared at it for ages. It was like I knew that it knew that I was watching it. I knew it was not a star because no other stars were out yet -- because it was not dark enough! Not only that but it looked like it was in front of that cloud. Anyway I stared at for a good 10 minutes, and the sky was getting darker. I looked away for half a second to make sure the cup was under the sink and BAM the bright light was gone! Weird! It never moved at all, it shone the same brightness, there was a huge clearing so it didn't just move behind a tree since the trees were way too far apart for it to hide behind in half a second! But the feeling I had while watching it, it was like I knew what it was. and it was like it knew I was watching it, and it was like it was waiting for me to look away to disappear. I remember it like it was yesterday! It was 6.00pm when I started to stare at it, but it wasn't until 6:30pm when I walked out of the kitchen onto the balcony to see if I could see it somewhere after it disappeared. Maybe I did stare at it for half an hour, I do remember looking at the clock before I went to the sink and after I left the sink to see where the light had gone though, and those are the two times that remained in my head after all this time. That's another thing -- as the time went by the star never moved at all, even though all the other stars that came out into the night moved in that amount of time, this one never moved.

Woomera 1950s [reported September 2007]
A man who served as a security policeman at Woomera for many years was shown an interesting ground marking by a colleague. He was taken out onto the test site to a place where a 20 foot circle was "melted" into the ground. It was about 2 feet 6 inches deep, surrounded by three small circles 2 feet 6 inches deep and also "melted" into the ground. On another occasion excavation at the site exposed a huge opal deposit which was loaded onto semi-trailer vehicles and taken away while the rest of the deposit was covered over.

Ipswich 2006 [reported September 2007]
I live in Ipswich QLD and one night around mid-2006 a mate and myself were outside looking up at the stars when we both noticed a satellite-looking object that suddenly zig-zagged in the air an a matter of seconds. It just went straight up and disappeared. Most people I tell think I'm crazy though I think they are just scared of the truth.

Toowoomba 1983 [reported October 2007]
When I was about 10 years old, about the summer of 1983, I was looking out our kitchen window in Perth St, Toowoomba, and saw a cyclamen pink sphere. It was so close to our home in relation to the gum trees nearby that even now I would estimate it was possibly within 500 metres of our house, so it appeared to be a very large object. It would wobble then dart back and forth from side to side, and then hover and wobble again. Being so young I don't remember feeling scared but more curious. I watched it for a couple of minutes before calling out to my father who was the only other person at home at the time, but by the time he finally got to the window it had disappeared. The next day on the morning radio there were other reports of the object, but there never seemed to be a big deal made about it -- I have a feeling it was brushed off as a weather balloon or something silly like that. I have never forgotten the incident simply because it was so bizarre, and yes I was just a kid, but it happened and I will never forget it!

Many years later I was living on the escarpment in Highfields, not far from Toowoomba, and it would have been about 1998. Again during the summer months, and I was outside taking down the washing in the evening when I saw several spherical lights out over the valley. They were making similar movements to the one I had seen as a child, in addition to taking off at great speeds before coming to a dead halt in the sky. These guys were throwing off different colours (not just pink). I got my partner at the time, who was as big a sceptic as you could meet, outside to take a look. He was astonished at these things and sat out there with his binoculars watching them for a good hour. I actually tired of it and went inside! The following night on the 11.00pm news, similar sightings were reported all up and down the east coast.