Brad's Own UFO Sightings 

My First UFO Sighting

Date: Spring or summer 1958
Location: Stawell, Victoria, Australia. A small town on the Adelaide highway 150 miles from Melbourne
Time: 11.30 Am until around 2.00 pm
Event Description : A bright silver "Adamski" type flying saucer hovering for two hours
 



My first sighting took place in Stawell, Victoria Australia, in about 1958. (Boy, how does anyone remember back that far.)

I was around eleven years of age and it was probably spring or summer of that year as it was a fine cloudless day. Not usual at all, in the other months of the year.

I remember the occurrence vividly. It was 11:30 AM and I was about to leave the house by the front door. This door faces due west and if not for the house across the street it would have been possible to see the Grampians Mountains around 20 Km away.

As I left the house, I noticed a gleaming silver object the size of a dot at an elevation of 15 to 20 degrees dead ahead of me. It was later estimated by all witnesses to be around 10 Km distant which would mean its height would have been around 1,500 to 2,000 feet.

It was giving off a series of repeated bright lights from underneath, Blue, Red, Green, White, in that order. I couldn't see what the “dot” was, but it was hovering in the one spot without moving.

I watched it for a few minutes and then called my parents who came and saw the same thing as I did.

After a while we called the neighbors from across the street, who brought over their tripod mounted telescope. It was only a 4 inch 'scope but it brought the object into clear and undisputed view. It was a classic early 1950s flying saucer.

A flat bottomed disc with a turret type dome on top with windows and the old 3 ball type undercarriage protrusions beneath it. The flashing lights were coming from a point directly under the middle of the disc.

I had seen pictures of the original flying saucers, which by that time, had been resoundingly debunked by officialdom and ridiculed by the press so I was not a stranger to what it was. Nor were my parents and my neighbors.

There was one difference I noted from the pictures though. Where the old pictures showed round porthole type windows, this craft had vertically elongated rectangular windows with rounded tops. Just like the narrow church windows you sometimes see.

All of us watched that disc hovering there without movement or change until after 1 PM, almost 2 hours. Having other things to do, we gradually broke up and went away and the next time I looked for it, it was gone.

Stawell  was 150 miles from Melbourne and saw military aircraft once a year, at the Remembrance Day Flypast. (A Canberra Bomber usually, the only one with the range to fly past all the towns in western Victoria.) There was a light plane airstrip nearby but only had a Cessna 172 and 2 crop dusters. No one in the town to my knowledge had seen a helicopter outside of the Sydney area, a thousand miles away.

Aircraft in the area were rare but recognizable and there were none capable of hovering at all.   This was obviously a constructed aerial machine, way outside the type of aircraft that existed anywhere in the world, let alone in this isolated spot in country Victoria.

I was later to receive a report (from 1977) of another “flying Saucer” hovering over Lake Fyans which would have been almost directly under the UFO I and my family saw.

With multiple witnesses watching this UFO in daylight for such a long period through a telescope, I conclude that there is no doubt it was an alien constructed flying machine. What its reasons for being there and all the other question as to where it came from, etc., remain unknown, but one thing is for sure…. It shaped my belief in the phenomenon for the rest of my life

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Always Irreverent
Never Irrelevant
Brad Mildern
January 5, 2004

My Second Sighting


Date: The 15th January,1974.
Location: Twofold Bay (Eden), Far South Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Time: 0530 to 0615 am
Event Description : One star like light moving in purposeful patterns, at great height in the southern sky.

 Working night shift as Maintenance Engineer at the Woodchip Mill in Eden, New South Wales. I had just finished a job on the shiploading wharf and was getting into the maintenance truck. One of those ultra bright phosphorescing meteors that light up the whole sky and leave a fading trail appeared at about 80º to 85º elevation, coming directly downward to the south of my position. It shot down to about the 45º elevation position, directly to my south. Instead of disappearing it actually stopped dead and stayed brightly lit (about the same magnitude as Venus).

After about 30 seconds, it started to crawl to my right at the same elevation, until it had traversed about 30º of arc.... And then stopped again. It then crawled back to its first stopping point and stopped again. Then it shot upwards at a 45º angle while greatly phosphorescing again and leaving a trail just like when it first appeared.

At the top of its fast Shooting Star Act it stopped dead again. Then it crawled left, for 20º 0r 30º before becoming a shooting star again in another direction and then stopping. This crawling and shooting went on for 45 minutes over about 90º of arc of the southern sky and from 45 to 90º elevation.

Being alone on the wharf I had no one to co-witness witness my sighting. As the sky lightened before the dawn in the East (to my left over the ocean) the rest of the stars faded but this UFO stayed bright but decided to exit by crawling directly east until lost in the coming dawn. During this entire performance I estimate (My military Officer Training) that the UFO was certainly in excess of 80,000 ft and probably around 150,000 ft. When "crawling" it moved with the relative speed that a civil airliner appears to when it is at full cruising height (35,000 ft).

Having just exited the Military I was aware of the lack of Earthly technology able to undertake this performance. Nothing existed that could Shoot like a star, Fly at such heights, Stay stationary for lengthy periods, and be supported so far from the nearest possible base of earthly operations. (12,000 miles from the USA and no Australian base could hide operations like it, especially in 1974).

There was no question in my mind I witnessed extraterrestrial technology in action. Technology aside, What about the psychology and motivations of the performance?

Questions and Observations.
 The first "shooting star act" just maybe could have been atmospheric entry. What then was the 6 or 7 following times it acted like a shooting star? Was it an incompetent attempt at disguising themselves as a known phenomenon? Or was it a blatant attempt to attract attention?

If it was the first, then how come they are so incompetent?

If the second, why don't they just come on down and buzz our streets and buildings?

What would be a UFO's reasons for staying so high? For hanging around such a remote area with no military, scientific or other known interests.
These and a hundred other questions make no sense, the possible answers make no sense.

Obviously the psychology and motivations behind this UFO sighting are going to remain, like UFO's themselves, unidentified. Nevertheless these questions from this sighting are what led me personally to pursue a lifetime of UFO Investigating.

Should anyone have had a similar sighting, I would be extremely interested in hearing from you.

My Email address here at Mystical Universe is: ufochaser@start.com.au

Always Irreverent
Never Irrelevant
 Brad Mildern

January 5, 2004

My Third Sighting

Date: The 5th January,1987.
Location: The Hunter Valley, North of Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.
Time: 0530
Event Description : Green fireball with long fiery tail and two windows travelling from horizon to horizon at low altitude.
 


My third UFO sighting took place in the Hunter Valley west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

I was working at an open cut coal mine, as mechanical training officer. It was a 26 Km drive from town every day.  My days started early, so I was often driving to work well before dawn.

One day in January 1987, at about 5.30 AM, I was driving in alone, there was a bright green flash lit up the sky and as I leaned forward and peered out the windscreen to see what caused it, I saw, over the hills off to my left (south), an emerald green fireball with a 150 metre (400 ft) green fiery tail streaking across the sky.

I know how bolides, (meteors) can be green in colour depending on their mineral makeup, but unless they cross high in the stratosphere they do not normally fly parallel with the ground.

This one was flying parallel to the ground without rising or falling, at a height of around 500 feet.

It seemed to be about 30 feet in diameter and flew from left horizon across the front of my cars path to the right horizon, disappearing behind more hills, within the space of about 10 seconds.  

You may think that is not long to see and comprehend an unknown phenomenon, but I estimate that an FA 18 fighter like those stationed at Newcastle, not 10 minutes flying time away, would have covered the same path in about the same time if it were flying at the same height.

I certainly would have had time (count slowly to ten) to comprehend an FA 18 so why not a 30 foot (10 metre) green fireball?

Could it have been a natural phenomenon? An unusual bolide? The real clincher for me was, that set into the front side of the fireball were two huge dark panels which I must presume were windows. See sketch.
My biggest surprise was my own reaction to the sighting. I had no excitement or elation at all. I just seemed to calmly accept that I had seen a 30 foot UFO as if it were something I saw every second day.
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 Later I was to learn that “green fireballs” had been widely seen across the state for the previous 2 weeks, often in twos or threes and that every few years they reoccur.

 These types of fireball UFOs are also seen in other parts of the world, but are usually explained away as bolides.

 Always Irreverent
Never Irrelevant
 Brad Mildern

January 5, 2004