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The Australian UFO Research Network, AUFORN, is a dedicated collection of UFO investigatory groups and individuals from around Australia. These groups and individuals have come together to provide a basic framework for collecting and sharing witness reports and investigatory resources.

AUFORN created a toll free phone number for witnesses to call in their sightings from anywhere in Australia. That number, 1800 77 22 88 will connect with an AUFORN controller who will direct your sighting to your nearest local UFO research group or individual who will contact you about your sighting.

After sightings are investigated the report pf the event will be circulated to all members of the AUFORN group via their email network to ensure all members are up to speed on what is currently happening and where, and so that any relevant comments, suggestions and reports of other events may be added to the overall picture of UFO events in Australia.

AUFORN, via a liberal freedom of information policy, allows for network members like myself, or anyone from the general public to reuse and publish these reports providing the report is given in full with credit given to the AUFORN network and to the investigator involved.

On this page, I have posted selected reports of UFO sightings and other events reported and circulated on the AUFORN Network.

I commend and congratulate the Network and its members for providing this service to the public at large and for the vision of furthering the cause of UFO research in Australia and the world.

Enjoy these reports courtesy of AUFORN Network and Mystical Universe.
page updated : 23 Mar 2007

New Zealand UFO Sighting Report

Date:  Tuesday 1st August 2006
Time:  8.50 pm
Place:  Maungaraki, Lower Hutt, North Island, New Zealand

Description:  A witness was standing on his back doorstep, when he noticed a
beam of light extending over a hill approx. 1.2 kms from his house (looking
in a northerly direction over bush-clad hills).  Suddenly the beam
disappeared and a large, bright yellowish light appeared and hovered
soundlessly over the hill around 300-400ft above the summit.  The witness
watched it briefly and then called another witness from inside the house to
video the light (captured on digital camera).  After 30 seconds or so, the
light began to move around above the hill, changing direction frequently.
Two other lights began to flash forming a triangular shape in the sky, two
bright yellowish/white and one orange.  The lights flashed on and off
randomly, although they all moved about in unison or formation, as the
light/object moved about.  The witnesses believed the lights were all on one
object, rather than a group of three objects.  They considered the initial
sudden appearance and the Obehaviour¹ of the light/object very strange.
The video footage shows a Ofalling leaf¹ or Oswaying¹ type of movement, with
sudden changes of direction, followed by a rotation of the three bright
lights in triangular formation, executing a flat, angular turn on a plane
(not banking like an aircraft), blunt-end-forward, as the light/object began
to move off.  The light configuration appeared to be on a large, flattish
object, possibly triangular.  The sighting lasted around 2 minutes and
ceased when the lights ³just flicked off like a light switching off².
Air Traffic Control has established that it was not an aircraft.  The
possibility that it may have been a police helicopter was ruled out when ATC
viewed the footage, as the light configuration did not resemble that of a
helicopter.  The entire sighting captured on video shows 9 out of the 15
main characteristics of  Oblack triangle¹ craft, sightings of which are
increasing worldwide.  At the time of this sighting, reports were made of
unusual lights in the night sky all over the southern North Island.
This case in still under investigation.
  
Source: Sue Hansen, UFOCUS NZ Network.  E-mail:  HYPERLINK
"mailto:ufocusnz@xtra.co.nz" ufocusnz@xtra.co.nz
Website:  HYPERLINK "http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz" www.ufocusnz.org.nz
 

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: Unknown
DATE OF SIGHTING: 1980s
DATE REPORTED: 09/05/06
TIME REPORTED: 7:50 pm
LOCATION: Sydney (Balmain)
NAME: Allan

REPORT:
Whilst reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, Allan was moved to
report something from the 1980¹s that he felt was too extraordinary for
words. Whilst living in Balmain, he looked out on a weekday night from his
upstairs veranda on a side of the house looking west. Not too long after
sundown,  against a pitch-black western sky, there were point sources of
light low down on the horizon. He saw about 5 or 6 of them and there seemed
to be a Omother¹ ship the other points were rotating around. ³Erratic
circling² was the description given to their movements about the dominant
craft. They moved as a group from south to north. All of a sudden, they all
accelerated north. He recalls no colours. Simply white point sources. Allan
was  really amazed by this. Later on that night, he called the observatory,
³ had any reports?²
³No² was the answer. The very next day, he rang the Herald, ³ any reports?²
³No² again.

The whole sighting lasted about 4 minutes. He was amazed no one else saw
anything and decided to ³pull his head in² after that.

Extreme acceleration of these objects were estimated at travelling through
10 degrees in a couple of minutes when first observed, then through an angle
of 30 degrees of sky in a couple of seconds!

Convinced that it cannot be explained in down to earth terms, Allan was also
just as convinced that these objects were low in the atmosphere.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5519
DATE OF SIGHTING: 1996
DATE REPORTED: 11/05/06
TIME REPORTED: 9:05 am
LOCATION: -
NAME: Mathew

About 10 years ago, the caller¹s sister had a strange sighting. Although she
is a nurse with no interest in UFO¹s at all, she felt compelled to tell the
story through her brother as it involved a strange disappearance.

Living on an elevated setting in a mountain range, she was able to look down
upon aerial objects. One night, she looked out to see a bright object
illuminated by a set of on board lights. At one point, the silent, slow
moving object gave out a brilliant stream of light which corkscrewed ahead
of the craft. It was into this stream of light that the craft
³dematerialised².

Some years later, the caller¹s father, a retiree from air traffic control
and also with no UFO interest, was outside the same premises at around 3 am
when he saw what could only be described as ³the same damn thing².

The caller has subsequently become deeply interested in theoretical physics
to the extent that he had to call someone and correlate his findings along
with reporting the original incidents which started it all off.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5541
DATE OF SIGHTING: 23/05/06
DATE REPORTED: 23/05/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 1901 pm
LOCATION: Singleton
STATE: NSW
NAME: Trish

REPORT:
Trish called during a sighting of three objects that she saw circling an
area between the Williamtown air base, Scott¹s flat and singleton itself.
She was originally drawn outside by the two dogs on the property ³going
off².

Trish described the objects by their lights ­ three in a line on the
underside. None were blinking. Having lived in the area for 15 months, both
she and her husband had to admit that the lack of sound and closeness of
these craft, coupled with the strange bright lights on them, made for an
unusual sight.

The craft were seemingly able to slow to a crawl if necessary and
occasionally gathered formation whilst circling, one waiting for the other
in mid-air!

The couple are used to seeing so many aircraft and jets in the area, that at
first her husband dismissed that it could be anything strange. But after
seeing these three strings of light in the sky, he changed his Otune¹.

About one year earlier, still new to the area, Trish was first called to the
back garden by her dogs barking incessantly at Onothing¹. That was the first
time she encountered exactly the same string of three lights in a row on a
single craft. This object was most definitely hovering and the dogs did not
give up until it was gone.

Neither person had ever reported UFO¹s before.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5543
DATE OF SIGHTING: various past four months
DATE REPORTED: 24:05:2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 11:30 pm ­ 3:00 am
LOCATION: Guildford
STATE: NSW
NAME: Marshall
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 2
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 0

REPORT:
Mr M is a 68 year old accredited author and a very well respected man in his
area of Guildford NSW.

He has been witnessing a strange phenomenon over the Blue Mountains area
since the beginning of this year and decided to ring and report it after
having coffee with a young man Mr J who had also witnessed the strange
event.

Mr M has been witnessing strange flashes in the night sky, which only lasts
for a micro second, over the Blue Mountains area most weekends since the
beginning of the year.  The flash happens generally between the hours of
11.30pm-3.00am and he has seen it 4 times in the past months.

After witnessing this several times, he decided to contact the Department of
Meteorology and the Sydney Observatory to see if there was an explanation.
Neither party were interested in giving an explanation, however the Dept. of
Meteorology seemed to think he was witnessing lightning.

Mr M laughed this explanation off but has no idea what the flash and was
hoping that there had been other reports.  He explains the flash to be like
an electricity transformer exploding but with no noise just the flash. The
flash happens so quickly that if you were not looking in the right
direction, you would never see it.  He also explains that if it were
lightning, then the whole sky would light up and this is not the case with
what he is seeing.  Only an area directly west of Guildford over the
mountains lights up!

Kelly Pataky AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5549 & 5558
LOCATION: Windsor, NSW (Hawkesbury area)
DATE OF SIGHTING: 28/05/06
DATE REPORTED: 28/05/06 & 01/06/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 1831 & 1101 respectively
NAME: Debbie, Works for a radio station

REPORT:
Whilst waiting to go on air on a community radio station on a Sunday night,
Debbie received a call from a listener declaring that they had seen a ³ball
of fire² falling from the sky whilst driving along Richmond road at about
5:45 pm. She rang the air force base at Richmond. They didn¹t see it, so
when she went to air, Debbie announced the sighting and asked if anyone else
had seen it. Someone rang in and said they lived in North Richmond and had
seen the exact same thing. No mention of colour or sound was made. The
station transmits on 89.9, Hawkesbury,

From all correlations and descriptions, it seems most likely that this was
one of the meteorites called in from the local area that week. We have made
other callin reports from rural west NSW surrounding balls of fire that have
hit the ground.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5551
LOCATION: Canberra, ACT
DATE REPORTED: 29/05/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 5:39 pm
NAME: Cahl

REPORT:
Cahl called as part of the Sea Search and rescue teams on duty at the time
that the meteorite calls were being aired to radio and TV. He called us as a
second measure after ascertaining that reports made to his department whilst
he was on shift were not in fact related to air traffic going down over the
surrounding area. Once he was sure that no aircraft were unaccounted for, he
rang us and urged other callers to ring the 1800 hotline number if they had
any other such sightings.

It is our opinion that these were the origins of some of the callins we
received over the course of the week of meteorite sightings across the
Australian eastern seaboard.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5552
DATE OF SIGHTING: 18/05/2006
DATE REPORTED: 29/05/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 09:49 am
LOCATION: Terrigal
STATE: NSW
NAME: Gary
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 1
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

REPORT:
On 18/5/06 at 9.49am, Mr P was driving through the Central Coast suburb of
Terrigal and saw an object, which at first glance, thought it to be an
aircraft as it was leaving a contrail.

After viewing the object for about 5 minutes, Mr P then saw an aircraft come
very close to the object which
then made him realise that both objects looked quite different to each other
and what he first viewed was not an aircraft.  He has no idea what is was,
but seems to think there are a few strange things happening in the Central
Coast area.

Mr P took a photo of the object with his mobile phone and is going to
forward it on to AUFORN.  He is a private investigator and has seen quite a
few strange things in daylight hours while doing investigations and has
forwarded a report onto AUFORN earlier this year.

Kelly Pataky AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5557
LOCATION: West Kempsey, NSW
DATE OF SIGHTING: 2003
DATE REPORTED: 01/06/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 6:30 pm
NAME: Roger

REPORT:
According to Roger, an incident occurred around 3 years ago so richly
bizarre that even though he had called National security some 22 times in
order to report its nature, he is still dumbfounded to find that no one
takes him seriously! The caller lives in the Newcastle to Williamstown area,
close to the dividing ranges. One night, he observed a craft that he
estimates could only have been about 50 metres away, low to t he ground. The
time of this sighting was around 6:30 pm. Roger states that the device,
whatever it was, ³measured about 15 feet long and was kind of football
shaped; like a dome from a mosque with what looked like 3 portholes².
Hovering just above the trees, the object made no noise and moved rapidly
away.

Some months later, living on a property with full 360 degree viewing, an
object ³lit the room up! Windows were shaking² but that there was no noise
to speak of. Many people have confided in Roger of having the same sorts of
sightings in the General are, but that none have come forward.

Roger has lived in this area for some 20 years and until 3 years ago, had
seen nothing.
Roger¹s homestead lays West of Kempsey.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5561
LOCATION: Narellan, NSW
DATE OF SIGHTING: 01/06/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 2035
NAME: Darren

REPORT:
Darren, normally an unbeliever in UFO¹s, called to report the classic case
of a flying disc. Darren said that two large round silver objects, parted by
about 30 feet and flying roughly 800 feet high (the cloud bank was above
these objects), ³flew straight towards me². He yelled out to his mother who
also saw them. As they ³silently flashed overhead², the objects veered off
at 45 degrees in order to travel straight out to sea. ³They were coming from
the Blue Mountains, towards me and then went to the East. NO sounds at all.
Speed of them was incredible. It was at night time, a cloudy night, but I
could see them easily against the backdrop of clouds.² Telstra 123 put him
through to us. ³They took off at an incredible rate.²

He went on to say that he could not distinguish any light sources. The
objects were in his opinion, ³most likely metal, roundish, like an oval but
a curved at the end.²

Darren has lived at Narellan for 5 years and has never seen anything like
this in his life.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5562
DATE OF SIGHTING: 01/06/2006
DATE REPORTED: 01/06/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 09:45 pm
LOCATION: Ourimbah
STATE: NSW
NAME: Annette
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 2
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

REPORT:
Ms P and partner Mr J witnessed and incredible event on the 1st June 2006 at
9.45pm.  Ms P was sitting out on her verandah looking over the Ourimbah
area, a suburb of the Central Coast, when she noticed what she first thought
was a star. 

The object seemed to be hovering and was showing colours of red, white and
green.  The object moved several times which then made Ms P call out to her
partner to come onto the verandah and watch this object as well.  Both
viewed the object for at least 5 minutes and then called the local radio
station to report the sighting.  As no body really seemed to be interested
in what she was saying, she then rang Telstra to get the phone number of
their local police station.  The lady she was talking to told her that the
Police probably wouldn¹t be interested and gave her the AUFORN 1800 number.

While both were still witnessing the event, Ms P rang the 1800 number hoping
to talk to somebody straight away so she could report the event and
hopefully get an answer.  After leaving her details, she watched the event
for at least another 5 minutes.  She said the object moved from side to side
several times, and a one stage, made a very quick acceleration which then
made them both realise it was something out of the ordinary.

Ms P, who is 51 years old and Mr J who is 58 and an industrial chemist,
feels that what they witnessed may not have been in our Earth¹s atmosphere
as it did appear to be a fair distance away.  Ms P explained that she has
witnessed a few strange things in the sky before over the years, but her
partner with his scientific background, has always had an explanation for
what she had seen.  However, this time he couldn¹t explain the event and it
was he who prompted Ms P to call somebody and report the sighting.

Kelly Pataky AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5577 NSW
DATE OF SIGHTING: 05/06/06
DATE REPORTED: 07/07/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 10:30 pm
LOCATION:  Campbelltown, NSW
State: NSW
NAME: Cheryl
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 3
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 2

REPORT:
Cheryl rang saying that together with two other witnesses, she saw us two
orange balls in the sky somewhere between 10:30 and 11 at night. Thought
they appeared at first to be stars, they started to move up and down and
then went straight up and ascended through the atmosphere very quickly!
³They were definitely in our atmosphere² she said. Cheryl has seen them a
few times now, including an earlier sighting when she saw one the size of a
basketball at arms length in the sky, ³it was that close². This object, as
orange as the others she saw later, hovered at eye level. As she hurried in
for binoculars for an even closer look, it vanished into thin air. This
time, the sighting was around 3:00 am in the morning, occurring during a
trip to the toilet.

Cheryl has lived in the district for around 15 years and has not seen
anything like it before these two incidents separated by only a few months.
The objects were viewed facing north.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5603, 5618, 5623
DATE OF SIGHTING: 27/06/2006
DATE REPORTED:   27/06/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 05:45 pm
LOCATION: Newcastle, NSW
STATE: NSW
NAME: Deborah
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 1
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 2

REPORT:
Debbie rang on several occasions to report two sightings she had on
successive nights. She stated that what she saw was like a bright white
light much more so than any starlight but that it shone a bright gold in the
middle. Yet in three to five seconds it had faded and vanished!

Deborah stated that at that time of night, it was adjacent to the Southern
Cross constellation in the sky. The whole sighting on each night, at the
same time of evening lasted around 6 ­ 7 seconds and felt that what she saw
was strange enough from that of a satellite to report it to a UFO society.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5607
DATE OF SIGHTING: 18/06/06
DATE REPORTED: 29/06/06
TIME OF SIGHTING: 2:50 pm
LOCATION: Alwood
STATE: NSW
NAME: Gary
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 1
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 4

REPORT:
This report concerned both night and daylight orbs from the areas of Alwood,
Canterbury and Hurstville. On the 18 June between 2:50 - 3:05 pm, they were
appearing as stars in the afternoon sky lasting some 7 minutes. The objects
numbered up to 4, then one disappeared and the rest formed a triangle.
During the phase, one would accelerate toward the others. Gary remembers
looking up a website called UFOevidence.org where he found that a pilot saw
something similar on the same day at Tamworth two and a half hours earlier.
Gary first saw something strange in September of 2003 and always around the
Botany Bay area, mostly in southern sky. On Saturday 27th Sep 2003 to be
exact! At 11 am from different directions where one was moving towards the
first. He could not describe shapes, but referred to it as a ³good look at
it². On a separate sighting, Thursday 6th, then on the 12th, and finally the
14th January, 2005, an object appears over Sydney. Each time, the object
first appears at 7 pm then disappears at 8:20 pm. ³It speeds up and just
goes! A tail forms as it speeds up.²

At one point, Gary contacts The Daily Telegraph. They are not interested.

Gary enjoys elevated views. He is able to see from Chatswood to the Blue
Mountains.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5608
DATE OF SIGHTING: various
DATE REPORTED: 29/06/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 6:00 pm ­ 11:00 pm
LOCATION: Lismore
STATE: NSW
NAME: Stella
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 3+
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: Multiples

REPORT:
Stella rang to say that she has been seeing things in the sky since she was
8 years old. Even her son saw such things and had used the type of language
to describe them that he should not have known at the time. By then, all of
this did not seem so strange to her. There was, to her, almost a feeling of
being one of a few fortunate people in the world.

IN those times, Stella and her family lived in a remote area known as
Wyangeree, (Lismore). But all of that was some 40 years ago.

Present day: Having shifted to Dubbo, she had forgotten about all that stuff
- until about 1993. She now had a garden outside which she tended of a night
time do the watering. During the last decade, she has seen some very strange
things, certainly not satellites. Her Husband and Neighbours always saw all
these things from time to time.

Stella started to count sightings and managed to get up to 120 before this
year had even begun. She called recently to tell of objects which outshone
others and she asked about little scout ships seen well before Christmas 0-
even asking if anyone knew what they might be.

Stella was now seeing objects in a sort of pattern of timing which suggested
they may have been man made. But nothing was supposed to be in the sky and
nothing so bright in orbit (she had a friend check this out for her).
Stumped by this, she went on to describe ³Large ones at roughly 8:30 or 11
pm. They used to Oflick on¹ Due East and travel southerly.² Some erratic
movements were noticed but mostly smooth and slow moving actions dominated
her sightings. According to her informers, no known man made objects should
have been bright enough to occur regularly in the sky at those times. ³Some
of these objects are a reasonably large size, but most were small and look
like remote control or unmanned AV¹s. No particular shape.² Stella has
formed a great belief of Galactic ships in the solar system. We have invited
her to collate her sightings with us over time.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5672
DATE OF SIGHTING: 15/08/2006
DATE REPORTED: 17/08/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 11:20 ­ 11:35
LOCATION: Bega
STATE: NSW
NAME: Craig
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 3
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

REPORT:
At about 11:20pm on the Tuesday night of the 15th of August, 2006, 3
security officers were beginning / ending shifts at the Bega township,
Southern NSW. One of them looked up, asking ³is that a helicopter?² All
three of the men looked up to see a bright orange ball of light to the
South, seemingly high in altitude but low on the horizon. Then, the ball of
light came closer, getting larger and brighter than amber street lamps in
the foreground. At one point, the caller estimated the object to be no more
than 300 m up and 300 m away.  The object flickered a little around the
edges. Then, the three witnesses, Ogob smacked¹, looked on as the object
hovered motionless without making a sound.   When the object finally moved
away and receded, it finally petered out of sight.

The three guards talked about what they had seen and then went about their
business. The whole sighting took some 15 minutes and the caller referred to
their notes when recalling the times and dates.

At around 11:45, the nightwatchman telephoned the caller from one of the
premises on his tour to say that the object ³was back², this time somewhat
smaller and more distant. A little further to the eastern sky, the object
finally ³went out like a light². The caller logged the times as from 11:52 ­
11:55pm for this second sighting.

The caller has lived there all of his life, has been on the night shifts for
some13 years and has never seen so much in the sky as in this one year.

Dominic McNamara AUFORN NSW

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5678
DATE OF SIGHTING: 2003
DATE REPORTED: 19/08/2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: 11 pm
LOCATION: Algester, Brisbane
STATE: QLD
NAME: Michael
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 1
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1

REPORT:
The sighting the caller originally wanted to report turned out to be the
blimp. But, he also told me about a sighting of a creature from about 3
years ago.

Michael lived in Algester, Queensland at the time. There was a train siding
area situated at the back of his property. One night, he came home late,
approximately 11 pm. He ventured out onto his balcony for a cigarette.
Suddenly, about 15 metres from him, he saw a dark, black creature, about 8
to 9 feet tall running across the train tracks and into the bush. He
described it as looking like ³bigfoot². Michael was terrified to the point
that the sighting has never left him.

Larraine Cilia AUFORN NSW
 

New Zealand UFO Sighting Report

Date:  Sunday 21 May 2006
Time:  5-6.30 am
Place:  Rimutaka Ranges, Wairarapa, North Island, New Zealand
Duration:  Approx. 1 hour

Description:  The sighting took place when the witness and his companion
were travelling to Lake Wairarapa early Sunday morning to go duck shooting.
The reporting witness has over 30 years experience hunting and tramping in
the Rimutaka Ranges.
The companions travelled out through Upper Hutt, over the Rimutaka Ranges,
and then proceeded through Featherston into the Martinborough area.  Their
final destination was to be a Omaimai¹ (camouflaged duck shooting shelter)
located near Kahutara, Lake Wairarapa.

It was early morning; the conditions were clear at the time, with no wind or
moon.

The witnesses first spotted the unusual light between 5 and 5.30 am, when
driving through Kaitoke, north of Upper Hutt on the approach to the Rimutaka
Ranges.  It was directly ahead of them over the hills; a large, bright
purple\blue light, which changed to yellow and then white.  The light
initially appeared to be oval in shape, but its shape then became distorted
or fuzzy.  As the witnesses drew closer to the hills, the light moved and
suddenly appeared very close to them, almost over them at one stage, before
returning back to its original position at approximately 30-35 degrees above
the ranges.  They noticed that there was no sound accompanying the movement
of the light close to them.  The witnesses described the light as having
soft hues that appeared to glow.  They described the size of the light as
Osubstantial¹. 

The light remained in view for approximately another 20-25 minutes until the
men drove over the ranges and down the other side towards Featherstone.  At
this stage they lost sight of the light because of the close proximity of
hill ridgelines.  The men continued on their way discussing what they had
seen.  (The reporting witness had observed a similar unusual light on the
West Coast of the South Island many years ago).

Upon arriving at the maimai, located at the north eastern end of Lake
Wairarapa, the men busied themselves preparing for the mornings shooting.
Once settled in the maimai, the witnesses were facing in a southwesterly
direction overlooking the lake, waiting for ducks to show up!  The sun had
not yet risen.

Shortly after 6 pm, the men noticed a glow behind a hill called Maunganui,
some 12 kms distant (an estimate).  Near the hill was a flat plateau along
Western Lake Road.  The witnesses observed this whole area - and the
surrounding hills also - light up as if in daylight, and they saw a glowing
light visible above Maunganui.  This brilliant expanse of light remained
constant for approx. 10 minutes before suddenly extinguishing, leaving the
area in semi-darkness again before sunrise.  The area that was lit up is
sparsely populated, with only a few farms in the area.  Both men were left
baffled by this strange spectacle.

Source:  Sue Hansen, UFOCUS NZ Network.  Investigator ­ B. Humphries.
E-mail:  HYPERLINK "mailto:ufocusnz@xtra.co.nz" ufocusnz@xtra.co.nz
Website:  HYPERLINK "http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz" www.ufocusnz.org.nz
 

1800 UFO HOTLINE CALLIN CODE: 5632
DATE OF SIGHTING: 1978
DATE REPORTED: 14/07/ 2006
TIME OF SIGHTING: approx 4 am
LOCATION: Maroubra
STATE: NSW
NAME: Ken
NUMBER OF WITNESSES: 1
NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 2

REPORT:

This particular report had been passed on to another organisation many years
ago but Ken could not remember as to whom. The incident happened some 28
years ago. Ken used to do a lot of fishing. Although Ken lived at St Peters,
He managed to find a lift from a friend spending time fishing off the
Maroubra coastline, in the CBD beach and cove districts of Sydney. After a
couple of years of this, his neighbour moved, but our caller had been bitten
by the fishing bug and carried on alone. 28 years ago, after fishing most of
the night and at a time still a couple of hours before daylight, an event
occurred that has stayed with him for life. Toward the Anzac rifle range end
of Maroubra Beach, Ken noticed lights toward the Sydney Heads.

³One light was brighter and appeared to be coming towards me. I didn¹t
initially take much notice. But at that time of night, I thought it a bit
strange.²

The lights ended up directly in front of me; less than a hundred yards out.
Just a light, a fairly small object at best, a bright white light, not
flashing, just fixed. I Sensed I was being watched by a controlled object.²
Ken had a fishing rod pointed toward it so he laid it down and crouched down
himself. After what seemed like two or three minutes, the object rose
straight up! Ken heard no sounds during the whole event. Ken described sea
conditions as calm ­ no surf at all. The now singular object no more than a
hundred yards away, rose up higher than the rifle range and moved over the
Headland itself some 500 yards away until Ken lost sight of it down the
other side. Ken estimated the speed of movement over the Headland as slow,
about 20 ­ 40 k/hr.

³Then, a couple of minutes later, the light circled around, came back over
the range and landed directly behind me! Dust seemed to rise up from
underneath. It touched down and the light went out and complete darkness
fell over me again². The area in question is a light grass, scrub and bush
area, then the South Maroubra Lifesavers building grass area.²

³It landed there, the light went out and I got pretty nervous. I picked up
my fishing gear and started away toward the roadway. I kept looking behind.²
Amazingly, Ken waited in the bus shelter for cover of daylight and has
wondered to this day if He should have taken a closer look, but He was
alone.

Ken is now 78 years of age.

Dom AUFORN NSW