MARCH 2003
05.03.03 O’SULLIVIAN BEACH, SA 2230-2330hrs (NL)
(source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number-Callin Code 2875)
Duration of sighting: 15 seconds
Lights colour: bright strobing light, intermittent flashes
Apparent size: larger than a regular satellite
Shape: Star like
Noise: No
Objects: 1
Activity when see: outside to sit and have a coffee
Other witnesses: daughter
Ann had gone outside to sit and have a coffee on the western side of their beach front home when she noticed a bright flash of white light out to sea and above the water on the horizon. This was then followed a few seconds later by another flash and so on until the object disappeared after about 15 seconds. Ann called her 16-year-old daughter who also saw this. It was too fast for a plane and too close for a satellite. She also brought up an event 20 years earlier on the south coast of SA when she and a friend witnessed a large triangular shaped object, defined by a row of red lights down each "wing" at Cape Jervis. This un-nerved them enough to go straight home. Debbie Payne AUFORN SA
10.03.04 MELBOURNE (BERWICK), VIC 2200hrs (NL)
Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Callin Code 3350
Melissa watched two silent orange street light-sized lights travel from east to west against the prevailing wind. One followed the other, and then they paused before continuing on into the clouds. As they moved away through the clouds their visibility fluctuated. A motorcyclist also stopped to watch the lights. The sighting was reported in the Dandenong Journal at the time. George Simpson AUFORN VIC
25.03.03 MELBOURNE (FERNTREE GULLY), VIC 1520hrs (Identified as Canopus)
(source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number-Callin Code 2897)
This lady was watching an object....which is very low in the south western sky in the early hours of the morning. She saw it a couple of nights (mornings) in a row which just confirms that it’s not any UFO. Canopus is large, bright, low (at present) and continually changes colour....as the lady reported. Any movement would have been natural....and scintillation accounts for most of it. George Simpson AUFORN VIC
28.03.03 FALCON, WA 2235hrs (NL)
(source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number-Callin Code 2845)
Duration of sighting: 6 seconds
Lights colour: Yes white/yellow glowing with halo
Apparent size: large with tail
Shape: same as if you held a 5c piece at arms length
Noise: none
Objects: 1
Activity when seen: Outside feeding her dogs
Other witnesses: No
Object shot from east-west in approximately 6 seconds, tail still in east Weather conditions at time of sighting: very few clouds, lovely clear evening Additional Info: Sally advised that she was not on drugs, had no alcohol in her blood. I’m not a convicted lunatic and was certain that this object moved faster than anything she had ever seen before. It glowed with lights, and even though the speed was apparent, the tail of object was still in the east just showing how large the object was! She is aware of an earlier flare in the area, but wanted me to note that she is aware of what a flare looks like, and how slow they are, and it was in no way comparative to what she had seen. She was outside feeding her dogs at the time. No-one else in the house saw this, and none of her neighbours had either. She is very keen to find out exactly what it was so that she can tell all of her interested friends and family. Rachel Hawkes AUFORN WA
31.03.03 HOBART (SWANSEA), TAS 1650hrs (DO)
(Source: Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre)
Two witnesses were fishing on a beach south of Swansea on a fine clear afternoon with blue skies, one witness noticed something white and black out over the sea. The two witnesses took a closer look at a bright silver spherical object with a dark shadow on its trailing side. It had the appearance of a full moon size in the sky at an elevation of about 45 degrees. The object was moving steadily north out over the water without any apparent sound, no wings, tails etc could be seen. The object after 1 to 2 minutes seemed to just disappear in the northern sky, although one of the witnesses thought it went down and up again before stopping in the sky before just disappearing. Keith Roberts TUFOIC
31.03.03 TUNBRIDGE, TAS 2115hrs (NL)
(Source: Tasmanian UFO Investigation Centre)
Motorist travelling north on the Midland Highway caught sigth of some lights just after passing the little town of Tunbridge. Two bright white flashing lights were visible to the right (north-east) of the highway, the lights were side by side and at a fair elevation. Traffic ahead disappeared into the distance as the witness slowed right down and opened the driver’s window. As the witness watched the lights in one continous movement became one light and streaked downwards like a shooting star. The same or similar lights were now visible just above a paddock not far from the road. However, as the witness moved slowly on the lights wre obscured by a rise in the ground. The witness hurried on home to contact the Centre. Still under investigation but to date no aircraft or local explanation has been uncovered. Keith Roberts TUFOIC