SEPTEMBER 2004
02.09.04 ADELAIDE, SA 0145hrs (NL)
(Source: National UFO Reporting Centre - www.nuforc.org)
On 2 September 2004, at 1.45 am, the witness saw a bright orange light rising above the horizon and hovering for about ten seconds before darting below the horizon for three to five seconds. It then rose again, hovering for a couple more seconds then shot about thirty kilometres to the left in three seconds before launching itself into the sky and out of sight. E-mail Report
03.09.04 MELBOURNE (YARRAVLLE), VIC 1830hrs (NL)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
The observer reported seeing two bright white circular lights, each about the relative size of a small coin held at arm's length, high in the grey overcast northern sky, in the vicinity of Yarraville ad the Geelong Road. The lights were silently dancing about each other.
Initially, she thought that they might have been birds, but the considerable distance, together with the high level of brightness, precluded this bird hypothesis. The lights flew one above the other alternatively, while moving very rapidly westward, and after about two minutes, both disappeared.
10.09.04 SYDNEY, NSW 0646hrs (NL)
(Source: National UFO Reporting Centre - www.nuforc.org)
On 10 September 2004 at 6.46 am, the witness watched three bright blue ships hovering in formation for around four minutes. Then two vanished while one stayed for a little longer before vanishing with a flash of light. E-mail Report
14.09.04 MELBOURNE (CRANBOURNE), VIC 2140hrs (NL)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
The reporting observer was on her way home from Cranbourne, heading toward Clyde Road, Clyde, at about 09.40 p.m., when she first noticed a silent bright flashing light, smaller than a five cent coin at arm's length, at an elevation of about 25 degrees, in the south eastern sky. At that time, the sky was mainly clear with a small quantity of cloud cover.
She was unable to discern the shape of the flashing light but payed particular attention to the time of this event as it appeared strange to her, and she expected that it would be reported in the news media. She believes that the flashing light might have been appearing over or toward Bass Strait.
While trying to imagine what might be the source of the flashing light, she mentally eliminated a star, due to the intensity of the light together with the way it flashed and also eliminated a plane or helicopter because she saw a plane fly by the light and was able to compare the two. She also report that the light appeared to change colour from red to blue and to white.
For a short time, the flashing light was lost from view, possibly due to the cloud cover and then reappeared for a while, before finally being lost from view in the southeastern sky. Her report indicated that the light was seen by four observers.
22.09.04 MACKAY, QLD 02300hrs (NL)
(Source: National UFO Reporting Centre - www.nuforc.org)
On 22 September 2004 at 2.30 am, the witnesses were camping with a view of a town when one of them noticed a bright looking egg-shaped light to the left of the town. It started getting closer and brighter until it was within half a mile then it started to fade and within a flash it was gone. The sighting lasted less than a minute. Other companions arrived at the camp and asked the witnesses whether they had seen a bright light. Both groups had the same description of the sighting. E-mail Report 02.11.04
24.09.04 MELBOURNE (NORLANE), VIC 2100hrs (NL)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
It was twilight with fine weather, light cloud cover, and an almost full moon. The reporting observer was mowing her back lawn, to tidy up what her son had previously mown. He was playing hide and seek around their outside bungalow, thinking that she could not see him.
Suddenly, he grabbed her and asked if what he was seeing in the southern sky, were UFOs. She had to look quite hard to focus, as the lights were small and faint. Once she managed to focus on them, she replied indicating that she believed that they were, and asked him how many he could see. "Twelve" was his repose, the same number that she was seeing.
The lights appeared between suspended electric power lines, just above the horizon. These lights were arranged in two groups of five white lights, at the vertices of two pentagons, and each pentagon had a faint yellow light immediately below it.
As they watched, the left group of white lights darted across to the group on the right, and after a short stay, returned to their base yellow light. Shortly after, the right group mirrored this activity. This darting back and forth between the base yellow lights continued for a short time and then all of the lights disappeared.
It was thought that this would be the end of the sighting, but to their surprise, shortly after at about 09:15 p.m, a single rotating object appeared, displaying lights that changed colour continuously from white to red and then to yellow. As they watched, the object drifted eastward and toward them, and this continued until they went indoors at 09.30 p.m.
At 10.15 p.m, she went back outside to see if there were any further unusual activity, but there was just a normal starry sky with a near full moon.
26.09.04 NORTHERN SUBURBS OF MELBOURNE, VIC PM (NL).
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
The reporting observer indicted that while outside at night on Sunday 26th September 2004, he observed an unusual orange lights in the sky. He had also seen six similar lights on Tuesday 24th August, heading in a southerly direction over the northern suburbs of Melbourne. The light over the northern suburbs on the 26th was also heading in a southerly direction, but on a slightly different trajectory.
While the reporting observer, who indicates that he is an aircraft pilot, realises that a UFO isn't necessarily an extraterrestrial craft, he couldn't find an explanation for this light. He sees many aircraft during the day and night, but nothing he can remember had such a bright light, exhaust or jet afterburner, except possibly an F111 dump and burn which this definitely was not.
Another thing that puzzled him was that on both occasions the lights were seen below the clouds. On the 26th the sky was quite clear except for a band of cloud that the light went under. On the 24th, there was a lot of stratus cloud so this was more obvious.
The observer was wondering if a reasonable explanation for these orange lights had become available, as his family had also witnessed the lights, and were curious about them. He states, "As you could imagine being the aviator, they turned to me for an explanation, one I couldn't provide!"
27.09.04 MELBOURNE (NORLAE), VIC 2100hrs (NL)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
The observer reports that she went outside into her backyard because she thought that she could smell smoke. She looked northward into the mild clear night sky, to see if she could see any of the colored star-like objects that she had seen on the previous Wednesday evening.
It was a calm, moonless Saturday night, at about 09.00 p.m, when she spotted one of these objects, which appeared to be just below the nearby power lines, and just above the large trees in the next side street around the corner from her home.
On this occasion, the star-like object was very faint, and zigzagged in the almost dark sky. As she continued looking, she noticed that there was a second much larger white star-like object that was flying gracefully beneath the first.
At this time, she noticed that the smaller object commenced hovering, apparently above the trees, and blinking between red and white lights. Shortly after, the larger white object flew eastward toward Corio Bay. She estimated that this activity occurred within a 15 minute time window, at al altitude of about 500 feet above the ground.
27.09.04 MELBOURNE (MORWELL), VIC 2215hrs (CE1)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004)
The reporting observer, who had been an engineer in the air force, and his wife, noticed that there were several different clouds in the sky - to the north was a dark streaky cloud, which partly obscured a lower portion of the moon; to the northeast were very high clouds. There was also a clear area and then more dark clouds to the east.
They also noticed what appeared to be a misty or steam enclosed object that at arm's length appeared to be about 10 cm in diameter, much larger than the moon. The misty object was taking about 1.5 seconds to complete each cycle of, at arm's length, a 60 cm diameter clockwise circular movement.
Sometimes the object was obscured by dark cloud, and just before finally disappearing behind cloud cover, it appeared elliptical. The sighting lasted about 25 minutes.
Later the reporting observer's wife spoke with her brother and sister-in-law, who live in the area, ad they said that they had also observed this strange misty object.