APRIL 2004
APRIL 2004 PERTH (AUGUSTA),WA (NL)
Source: Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research
In April 2004, the witness and his friend went fishing on a small island near Augusta, when they noticed an orange star which stayed in the same spot. It faded out or disappeared just as they left. They had to scale some cliffs and as they did, the witness saw this orange thing travelling at a good speed straight down. It took less than a second and he was sure it was the same orange object they had watched while fishing. It was closer than the horizon to them. It made no sound and didn’t appear to hit the water. His friend described exactly the same thing. Right before they got back to the car, they noted the orange light was now off into the distance. It was a bit duller and it was far away. But in the ten or so minutes walk back to the car it had travelled the entire horizon line so it was not a ship. It was not a meteor as it was hovering over the island. The orange was very vibrant. It did remind him of streetlights around town but even more intense. The witness got back to Perth and joked to his sister, “I saw a UFO”. Before he could say anything more, she said, “That’s funny, I saw this orange thing,” and described it exactly the same way before he got a chance to tell her anything. She was 15 km from the beach.

17.04.04 YORK PENISULA, SA 2300-2330hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3390)
Weather Conditions: Clear Skies
Object Description: Oval, green with yellow haze.
Location: Over water, between Wallaroo and Cowell.

On Saturday night, around 11 to 11.30pm last weekend a 47 year old witness was out fishing on the gulf when, having arced the boat in which he was a lone occupant, saw a strangely lit object on the horizon, toward the West.

The witness described the object as oval shaped, green with a yellowish haze around it. Suddenly the object moved off to the north at an undefined speed but was to the words of the witness moving ?at a phenomenal speed, faster than anything seen in the sky from the commercial liners big or small.? After travelling the Horizon dead level for around ?50 Kilometres? or so, the object then ?took off at 45 degrees up into the sky?. The sky was completely clear and moonless at the time of the sighting and the actions of the witness bear this out due to the necessity of fishing for his catch before the moon came up as it drives his quarry down deep.

After visiting the Alfred Hotel in Port Broughton, a few mates ribbed the caller about his story, yet some patrons unknown to the caller corroberated the sighting.

Witness claimed: ?35 years between drinks. Some of my old friends and I still talk about something so extremely similar we all saw some 35 years ago at Clare? Dominic McNamara AUFORN SA

22.04.04 MELBOURNE (BERWICK), VIC 2000hrs (NL)
Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Callin Code 3396
Darryl noticed a ball of light crossing Berwick and heading towards Frankston, Victoria. It had a clear trajectory and was not moving very quickly. It was orange to red in colour, fairly bright but didn’t make any noise. A small ball of fire dropped out of it and fell towards the ground and went out as it fell. It was a large light; no fuselage could be seen.

Comment. The fire dropping out of it suggests this could have been a firelighter operated hot air device. The description of its slow travel also supports this idea. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

23.04.04 SUNSHINE COAST (BUDDINA), QLD 2210hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3398)
Witness report sighting two very bright amber coloured lights flying horizontally, south towards Buderim.

The two objects appeared to travel at a height of 5,000 ft, one object travelled above the other, The objects were thought to be too slow to be a plane. No sound or disturbance heard. Sounds similar to two earlier sightings in Melbourne. AUFORN QLD

24.04.04 SYDNEY (ABBOTSFORD), NSW 1945hrs (CE1)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin June 2004)
The reporting observer indicated that on a fairly cool evening, with a slight breeze, three adults and two children observed the following unusual occurrence. The sighting was estimated to have occurred within a two minute time window.

A cone shaped object, within an orange ball of flames, was noticed in the western sky, heading east. It appeared slightly larger than the moon and seemed as though it was descending toward the ground. This event was accompanied by a very loud roaring sounds, similar to a jet aeroplane flying low, except this object was obviously fairly high up.

The fireball object then seemed to disappear, leaving a small red light, still accompanied by the roaring sound. This red light then changed course and moved at very high speed in a northward direction, until it disappeared from view.

24.04.04 BRISBANE (CLEVELAND), QLD 2015hrs (CE1)
(Source: Robert Frola: http://www.hypermax.net.au/~ufologist)
Chris’ wife Olivia and her sister Corinne go for regular walks around the same time each night. While walking home on the 24 April 2004, around 8.15 pm, Olivia complained to Corinne that she felt very uneasy that there was something watching her. A minute later they both spotted the object hovering overhead. The Brisbane suburb of Cleveland is located near the bay and the object appeared to come from the direction of the water. There was nobody else in their immediate area. They both stood still then the slowly moving object changed direction and started heading towards them. Olivia panicked and ran to the nearest house for shelter, noting that her mobile phone’s battery had become flat. As they both sheltered the object changed course again, seemingly back to the same direction it was originally travelling. They ran home and told Chris who, not taking it all too seriously, decided to pop out for some ice cream. He went to the exact location of the sighting but saw nothing unusual. Driving down the main street in the area he saw the object ‘sitting in the sky’. He pulled over as soon as he had a clear view through the trees. The object was clearly a diamond-shape with two red lights on either side and a white light on the top and on the bottom. It looked like it was moving at a snail’s pace over the local sports oval. Chris noted that the floodlights on the oval were on. He decided to grab his camera from home but in the three to four minutes that took, the object had vanished.

Driving on he spotted it again and it appeared to have travelled a great distance in a short amount of time. The UFO lights were not blinking or flashing. When he reached a hill where he had a clear 360-degree view, the object had disappeared. Olivia and Corinne confirmed that Chris had seen the same object. The sighting lasted about ten minutes, the object moving east to west at about five to ten kilometres per hour. E-mail Report, 24.04.04

25.04.04 SALISBURY, SA 2030hrs (NL/IFO)
A female pharmacy assistant was at home on the phone top a friend when her husband came into the kitchen and asked if she would like to see a UFO? They went out into their back yard. The sky was very cloudy and by this time of night it was dark. There were no stars or Moon visible.

Then she saw a cluster of white lights in a circle which appeared just above the clouds at tree top height. Then there was a second larger circle of white lights flashing around the cluster and finally a larger circle of white lights around the other two, this was also flashing and rotating. The angular size was quite large. Seen for 2-3 minutes. There was no sound.

A check with the Australian UFO Research Association revealed that there had been at least one other call about a very similar sighting. An AURA investigator living at Elizabeth South went outside at the time of this other call from a member of the public. The investigator reported seeing revolving circles of white lights in the night sky. It was later ascertained that the cause of the sighting was a man made light display as part of some event around the City. It is therefore highly likely that Mr and Mrs M’s observation was caused by a man made light display. AURA

26.04.04 ADELAIDE (SALISBURY DOWNS), SA 2030hrs (NL)
(Source: Robert Frola: http://www.hypermax.net.au/~ufologist)
Around 8.30 pm on 25 April 2004, in the Adelaide suburb of Salisbury Downs, Denise was talking on the phone when her husband came into the kitchen and said, ‘Do you want to come and look at a UFO?’ Thinking he meant on the TV as Rick is sceptical of all things UFO, she asked what are you watching, but he meant outside. From the backyard Denise could see lots of low clouds but no stars or moon. Rick said keep looking at the cloud. Denise describes the five minute sighting.

“Above our backyard, just above the clouds, was a series of rotating lights in a circle then another row in a bigger circle and then a final circle of lights, moving in a spinning motion. It was huge; really, really large. It looked like we could see the base of a very, very large object. It was one object but extremely large and definitely nothing that I can describe … in writing. If you had seen it you would just know that there is no plane, satellite or anything man-made that could be that big hovering just above the clouds. I was so scared because I knew that it was a real UFO … I looked at my husband hoping he would come up with a logical explanation but he just shook his head and said it is the strangest thing he has ever seen.”

Denise ran inside and told her friend who had been waiting on the phone, about the UFO overhead. Rick, from Alaska, is used to seeing the auroras over the Alaskan sky but he had never seen anything like this sighting before.
Denise made Rick come inside and about ten minutes later the extremely large object ‘about the size of four backyards’ had moved away but was still in sight. E-mail Report, 26.04.04

26.04.04 MELBOURNE (NORLANE), VIC 2120hrs (NL)
(Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin June 2004)
On a fine, dry, moderate windless evening, the observer happened to glance out of the lounge room window at the side of her house, and caught sight of a bright circular white light, about half of the relative diameter of the moon in size. The light glided silently across the starlit night sky, from the southeast, possibly crossing Corio Bay, and appeared to pass over her neighbour's garage roof at an elevation of about twenty degrees.

As the light continued to pass the back of her house, the observer excitedly ran to her back door to see where the light had gone, but was disappointed to discover that it was no longer visible. The observer estimates that she watched the light for about five seconds.

27.04.04 YAKKA (nr.CLARE), SA 2000hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code ?)
While driving home Russell sawfour very intense round orange (amber) lights in a row approx. 300 ft off the ground. He said they looked about 2 feet in diameter at that height.The lights were spaced equidistantly in a straight line and were travelling at a fair speed from the left hand side field of vision towards the right.

When he reached town some minutes later he pulled over and the lights were now directly overhead. They proceeded to change formation in unison to form a lop-sided square (diamond shape). This was all done at a constant speed and altitude. The movement seemed regulated according to Russell. As the objects moved further away they formed back into a straight line. Then the last one in the formation broke away and headed off at a rapid speed towards the coast. The remaining 3 objects banked right at a constant speed but gained altitude. The two either side of the centre one then took off at a greatly accelerated rate of knots and disappeared. There was no sound at all. Dominic McNamara AUFORN SA

28.04.04 BUNBURY, WA 0035hrs (NL)
(Source: Robert Frola: http://www.hypermax.net.au/~ufologist)
On 28 April 2004, at 12.35 am, in Bunbury, Steve and a friend were standing on the balcony and noticed a bright light about 10-degrees up from the horizon in a south-southwesterly direction. The light was the brightest feature in the sky and twice as bright as the planet visible to the west at the time of the sighting. They watched the light change colour with the naked eye so they used binoculars to view the object. The object appeared stationary and at a great distance away. They could see alternating colours of white, blue, red, green and violet. It stayed like that for about five minutes. The object then become a constant white colour and faded away until nothing could be seen. The sky had some high, thin drifting clouds. E-mail Report, 24.04.04