AUGUST 2003
EARLY AUGUST 2003 DURAL, NSW 2000hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3058)
Around the beginning of August one night about 8.00pm in Dural, Bruce happened to look up. A bluey green object was crossing the sky travelling from north to south above the eastern horizon. At first Bruce thought it was an aircraft but realised it was travelling too fast. He said it was the size of a 20 cent coin held at arms length and left a slight trail behind it. It was moving at nearly 90 degrees above his head and took about 8 seconds to disappear over the southern horizon. Bruce tried to ring the aircraft control tower but it was a busy night and he couldn’t get through. He has come to the conclusion it must have been a meteorite, but it is not easily identifiable without the exact date. Larraine Cilia UFOSWS

15.08.03 BLUE MOUNTAINS, NSW 0130hrs (NL)
(Source: E-mail Report via AUFORN@yahoogroups.com 15.08.03)
Phillip couldn’t sleep due to toothache so he decided to get up and go outside to do some sky gazing. To his surprise he saw what looked like an orb like object shrouded in an yellow-white light moving slowly from West to East. At first he tired to identify it by known objects that he knew of but couldn’t. The he thought he might be looking at a meteor but it moved fair to slow. Then he thought it was a plane but it had no flashing lights and was far to high and stayed to long.

But what he thought was really strange about the object was it left a strange yellow orange trail behind it. which hung for some time, some what like a contrail but it glowed.

Phillip said: “I thought I was looking at a florescent light glob just floating in the sky because that’s what the trail looked like”. “It was really strange I’ve never seen anything like this before so I thought I’d better tell someone.”

Duration of sighting approximately 1.15hrs. Object size: As big as Mars right now.

22.08.03 SYDNEY (PENRITH), NSW 2220hrs (CE1)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3057?)
Phil and his wife Janet live in south Penrith. On the Friday night on 1st August at 9.24pm they noticed a bright object coming from the southwest slowly cruising towards their residence (1) at 10 Gymea Pl, Jamison Town (eastward). Phil panicked, as he had never seen anything like it. Apparently the object appeared to be engulfed in flames. They thought it was a passenger plane on fire so he ran in and alerted his friend/neighbour called 000 and spoke to the local police station. An officer did visit the residence approximately an hour after the event. The anomaly was no passenger plane. He grabbed his video camera and checked to see if it was ready to function; blank tape, battery pack _ charged… ready to go. He stormed outside only to discover that the aircraft was now hovering silently above them. No sound from the alleged flames was heard. Phil use to work for the air force as a cook and apparently is quite familiar about ‘what’s up there’, in a conventional sense. Outside and Phil tried to activate his camera, but it was a ‘no-go’ situation. He couldn’t figure out why! So Phil, his wife and neighbour just stood there in awe watching this anomaly hover in total silence. Phil said, “I just knew that they came to watch us and no one else. I don’t think anyone else saw it for that reason”. He described it as if it was on fire, bright orange, circular and the size of a ‘rockmelon’ at arms length. According to Phil, it was quite large. The spectacle only lasted for around 2 minutes before the object slowly made its way east (2), towards the freeway while gaining altitude. But grand finale was yet to come. The object then stopped some distance away and began to ‘circle’ twice in midair. This rapid change in the objects behaviour was totally unexpected. This circular motion before may have been scintillation. The three individuals had their eyes glued on the event, carefully watching every detail. This sudden manoeuvre ended with the object remaining stationary for a few seconds, and then vanished towards the north at an incredible speed (3), i.e. the anomaly flashed off from point in the sky and appeared virtually instantaneously in a different section of the sky (approximately 60 degree angle of travel from south to north).

Phil said, “It was like when you turn the lights off. The object, now at least _ of its original size due to the distance then hovered in the northern region for approximately 2 minutes before slowly ascending towards southeast (4). They shortly lost line of sight due to the obstructing trees.

Apparently the object then reappeared on 22nd August at 9.04pm. This time is was much further away, size of a 50-cent coin at arms length. It came from the lower mountains (southwest). At first Phil thought it was a helicopter. But it stopped and hovered the same way it did 3 weeks earlier. This time Phil was armed with a functioning video camera and was able to obtain few minutes footage. It was bright orange and this time only hovered for a few seconds. It then moved towards the Leagues Club (Northwest) and disappeared out of line of sight.

Phil contacted the authorities and a lady officer did come out to watch the footage. She said that it did appear to be a UFO and suggested that he should get in touch with the ‘UFO people’.

I visited Phil and Janet on 8th September and watched the footage taken of the second sighting. Unfortunately due to the cameras minimal light sensitivity and instability it provides no direct evidence of the anomalies characteristics other than being a white circular ‘blob’ in a dark background. Attila Kaldt UFOSWS

26.08.03 BENDIGO, VIC 2340hrs (NL)
(Source: E-mail Report via AUFORN@yahoogroups.com 27.08.03)
I went outside to smoke. I study the night sky and am used to seeing the variety of lights evident in the night sky. Last night Tues 26th Aug 03, at 11.40 0pm, I saw a very strange light the like of which I have never seen before.

It was not a commercial flight (I know their times and flight paths) it was not a meteor (it was visible for much longer than the flash of a meteor) It was not a satellite (it did not have the constant linear arc of a satellite) I saw a flashing light in the northerly direction at about 20 degrees.

Nothing strange about that. It was travelling at a very very high speed, which was strange. It was in my estimation at a very very great height, which was also very strange.

So I studied it. It was immediately obvious that it was a different light to anything else I have seen it was faint and I must say, difficult to watch with the naked eye. I have a Telescope, but I would not have been able to track it because of the speed at which it was travelling. I did not believe I had time to get my binoculars as I thought I may lose track of it.

This is the strangest part.

The flashing light, travelling at high speed suddenly darted forward at an even greater speed, so great that the flashing disappeared, then it appeared again well forward from where it disappeared, back to its original but still high speed. It continued to do this darting (for want of a better word) forward for all the time it was visible to me. Peter

27.08.03 MELBOURNE (BORONIA), VIC EVENING (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3109)
Beverly saw a group of ?gold-white creamy pale yellow beautiful round lights? travel from North to South below the height of the Mount Dandenong TV towers, as seen from Boronia Heights hill. Beverly waited almost one month before she decided to report the sighting. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

27.08.03 MELBOURNE (BORONIA HEIGHTS), VIC 2040hrs (NL)
(Source: Knox Leader 09/09/2003)
The Boronia Heights Neighbourhood Watch group is dedicated to keeping the streets free of crime. Nowhere in its charter does it mention keeping an eye out for beings from outer space.

But perhaps that should be included after its monthly meeting at Boronia Heights Primary School on August 27 was interrupted by a series of strange lights in the sky. President Frank Gilbert was one of about 30 in the group who saw the lights.

“Some kid had stuck a key in the lock of the hall door and we couldn’t unlock it, so we had to have the meeting outside in the cold,” Mr Gilbert said.

“Then someone said ‘look up there’ and we saw this series of lights coming from the north-west. “They came in at a high speed in a group and then they stopped in a straight line. There was no sound coming from them. Nobody was worried, nobody made mention of UFO’s or any being from outer space, but they were all interested “

?The lights remained in the sky for about 15mins. Mr Gilbert said he was still unsure of what exactly it was he saw. ?They were orange lights, but they weren’t helicopters because they tend to have two lights underneath,? he said. ?I didn’t see them disappear, the cloud just rolled in and covered them up so they must have been high up? Clive Edmead

27.08.03 SYDNEY (BONDI), NSW 2021hrs (possible meteorite)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3066)
Silvia lives in Bondi opposite the Tasman Sea. At the time of her report her father was visiting from overseas. On 27th August 2003, at approximately 8.20pm Silvia came home to find her father startled. He was staring at a bright, yellow light low in the eastern horizon (approximately 20 degrees east). It appeared to be at least double or triple the magnitude of Mars, produced no sound and remained stationary for a considerable period of time. Silvia claims that her father has a sceptical point of view towards anything out of the ordinary, obviously taking second hand information into account. However, whatever the identity of this anomaly was and what ever it did it was enough to alarm him. According to Silvia, the object appeared from virtually 'no where' and was hovering in one place for around 10 minutes before she arrived home to find her father in a state of distress.

Because of Silvia's vantage point, she frequently sees approaching and departing aircrafts from Mascot. But she had never seen anything like this. For the next 10 minutes, Silvia and her father were trying to put reason behind this mysterious light form. They assessed the night sky carefully, pin pointing the bright celestial objects such as Mars (in opposition at the time) and then the anomaly just vanished without any trace. Attila Kaldy UFOSWS