2002

JULY 2002
11.07.02 MELBOURNE, VIC 1930hrs (CE1)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code: 2572)
Caller went outside for a smoke and saw a thing shaped like a hang-glider. However...noone flies hang-gliders at night...over the suburbs...darting in and out of clouds. It had light blue lights on the ‘ v ‘ on each side. It came out from a cloud and went back in. He called out his partner who also saw it. She also saw it do a &Mac184; circle and curve back into the cloud. It was flying lower than 1000ft, and was a bit larger than a plane...triangular or V shaped. It was silent and it turned like a car doing a "u" turn..."planes can’t do that". George Simpson AUFORN VIC

14.07.02 NYAH, VIC 0500hrs (Possible Saturn or Sirius)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code: 2578)
The witnesse’s dog howled, which woke him up. He noticed a bright light like a star through the window...with shade cloth outside. The object was due East.

He then said three red lights descended from the first light...which were all visible from 5 am to 5:40 am. Then there were 4 red lights in a row. Quentin then said this occurred THREE mornings in a row. I would say that this last bit of information rules out UFOs as a likely cause. Only natural astronomical bodies do repeat performances morning after morning, same place...same time. Saturn, Sirius and Canopus are early risers at present and stand out...and repeat every morning. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

15.07.02 PERTH, VIC 1930hrs (NL)
(Source: AUFORN Web Page)
Just last night a friend and I were visiting Perth airport in hope of doing some aircraft spotting. Around 7:30 pm (Monday July 15th 2002) we stopped just outside the airport security fence next to a rotating radar on the northern end of the airport. (near Kalamunda road). It was a perfectly clear sky where we were and there wasn’t much of a moon. I turned around and looked up towards the south and saw a strange coloured strobe light (kind of yellowish) moving towards us. However it didn’t seem normal. The object seemed to be weaving slightly from side to side and changing its direction only slightly every couple of seconds. We were both doubtful that it was a conventional aircraft. It seemed to be at about mid altitude (5000 - 12000 feet) and wasn’t making any noise that we could hear. I only had a pair of 7x50 binoculars with me and had a look through those. It appeared as though the object had some kind of rotating disc on top. This is my best description as the entire thing may have been rotating, it was too dark to tell and there were no other lights on it. Both my friend and I were nervous because it just didn’t seem normal. Once it reached almost directly overhead, it started to climb directly upwards until we lost sight. To my knowledge no aircraft (unless it is a fighter jet or supersonic bomber) can perform something like that. It wasn’t moving very fast (or so it seemed) but it was able to climb out of sight without any horizontal ground motion. Ryan

16.07.02 bet. MELTON & BACCHUS MARSH, VIC 1730hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code: 2582)
It was 5:30 pm on the Western Highway while traveling from Melton to Bacchus Marsh. A car full of people saw the object which looked like a ‘candle flame’ on it’s side. It was bright orange and on a 45 degree angle...and not moving. It was watched for 10-15 minutes, then it was obscured by clouds. It appeared to be over near Macedon. Once the clouds went the object was gone. There are no Oil refineries in the area...and Karen is familiar with them as she once lived near one. This was different. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

19.07.02 TARALGON, VIC (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code: 2590)
This witness saw a round light like a ‘dinner plate’...low ...and very big...just hovering in the air. Her daughter saw it with her. It then went towards Melbourne...and changed from white, to yellow...to green and then went out of view. The witness took 2 photographs which have not been developed yet. There was also "lots of other things going on nearby...hundreds of small flashing things...just like camera flashes...hard to describe, to the left of it". George Simpson AUFORN VIC

19.07.02 BRISBANE (ASCOT), QLD 1300hrs (DO)
(Source: 1800 Freecallin National Hotline Callin Code: 2592)
Steven said he saw a silver rotating object travelling at high speed, what he had noticed was the sound of a light plane which he had heard before his sighting stopped half way through the sighting. Steven said I was working at a building site at Ascot and whilst packing up heard a sound like a light plane. Looking up I observed a silvery round metalic object about the size of a 1 cent piece shooting across at a height of approx. 30 metres above the rooftops. The object had no tail and travelled in a straight path with no deviation. ( Steven also inquired if there had been any follow-up to his sighting at Moorooka on New Years Eve - 2 black balls hovering over street lights). AUFORN QLD

19.07.02 MITCHUM, VIC 1730hrs (Identified as Military Jet)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code: 2589)
This witness was in the Nunawadding area and saw in the North.." a massive flare of light- falling- big flash- somewhere over Bundoora way". This might have been another ‘fuel dump’ by the Air-force...we will wait and see if similar reports come in. It could also be fireworks seen from a great distance. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

31.07.02 WANTIMA, VIC 1327hrs (DO)
(Source: 1800 Freecallin National Hotline Callin Code: 2609)
Daniel described seeing two "shooting star like objects" while camping on the Murray on 2nd march 2002. One was red and the other was white in colour. They looked too low to be shooting stars and were very bright. They were seen around midnight .No further details. George Simpson AUFORN VIC


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