DECEMBER 2004
DECEMBER 2004 GUNNING & YASS, NSW (NL)
(Source: April, May, June 2005 UFOR NSW Newsletters)
I took a series of photos to track the progress of planted tree runs on a farm between Gunning and Yass in December 2004. The photos were filed away until they were studied recently. Then I noticed in the file P1010003 two objects in the sky, one in the left hand corner and one in the middle in the sky. I never look much into this sort of stuff, but looking at the pictures, all of which were taken with the same digital camera, a D-540 Olympus, within five minutes of each other on different parts of the property, I believe it was not something on the camera’s lens as the other photographs are fine and the marks do not appear again.

Also when I was younger there was a green light behind the clouds that faded away then came back over Macquarie Fields/Ingleburn. It did this for about forty-five minutes. It lit up too much of the sky for me to believe it was flares. My father also saw it but he dismissed it as the army playing with flares but the light didn’t rise or fall, just dimming then restoring.

DECEMBER 2004 MELBOURNE (BROAD MEADOWS), VIC (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 4812(?) May 2005)
Ray read about the Fern Tree Gully sightings in the local weekend newspaper, and the reports reminded him of his sighting of the same thing, in that same direction, but about six months ago, but from his location. So he thought he better make a report. He also saw formations and patterns that resembled kites and similar shapes that changed as they moved. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

02.12.04 DARWIN (LEANYER), NT 2030hrs (POSSIBLE IDENTIFIED - COMET MACHHOLZ C/2004 Q2)
Nigel said at first he thought it might be a helicopter but there was no noise and it didn’t move. Nigel took a picture of the object through his binoculars with his digital camera set at 6.1 mgp. The object was first sighted at approximately 8.30 pm EST, in an east-southeast direction at about 45-degrees above the horizon. Nigel and Julie watched the object for about two hours in which they said in that time it did not appear to move in any direction. The object’s lights continually alternated red, green and blue. Nigel said the lights appeared like port and starboard lights on a plane. Nigel said it appeared there were six more points of light which he could see with his naked eye. Approximately two hours later at 12.30 am on Sunday it had moved to a position approx. sixty degrees to the north of the first position. They did not see it move as they had just come outside at that time to look again prior to going to bed.

Nigel said he would appreciate any help in identifying the object, as he certainly does not know and obviously there is an answer. Diane Harrison & Robert Frola AUFORN

04.12.04 GEELONG, VIC 2300hrs (NL)
(Source: National UFO Reporting Centre - www.nuforc.org)
On 4 December 2004 at 11.00 pm, the witness and four friends were sitting outside in Geelong when one of them shouted to look up at the sky. Three dots of light in the shape of a triangle were moving across the sky from south to north (incidently identical to the Melbourne sighting of August 2003). They appeared to be at a very high altitude and moving too quickly to be satellites. They crossed the sky within minutes and then faded away as if moving out of the atmosphere. They also jittered independently but still kept within their formation.

NUFORC suggests it was the US Navy ‘NOSS’ satellites. E-mail Report

05.12.04 SINGLETON, NEW SOUTH WALES 2150hrs (NL)
(Source: Robert Frola: http://www.hypermax.net.au/~ufologist)
On 5 December 2004, Trish was watching TV around 9.50 pm when the dog began barking. She went outside to check and to the south a bright object above the shed caught her eye. It had three bright round lights in a row: a fixed yellowish light on each end and a flashing reddish light in the middle. It was barely moving, almost appearing to hover and didn’t make any sound. The lights were as bright as Venus. She called out to her 16-year-old son and husband to come and look at what she thought must be some sort of UFO as it didn’t have the usual light pattern of a plane and there was no sound.

Her husband didn’t come to look as he assumed it would only be a plane but Trish and her son viewed the object for about seven minutes. As it was going out of sight, the object seemed to dart to the left then right then just disappeared. Her son noted that it was ‘not normal’. The sighting occurred over a rural area, on a clear evening. E-mail Report, 05.12.04

06.12.04 SYDNEY (RICHMOND), NSW 0400hrs (NL + NOISE)
(Source: National UFO Reporting Centre - www.nuforc.org)
Around the 6 December 2004, in Richmond, New South Wales, the witness was woken when his partner woke up around 4.00 am after hearing the verandah sliding glass door shaking. When she got up, the witness looked out of the window in a half asleep state and thought it was dawn already as there was a light on the horizon.

He went back to bed, but his partner stood on the verandah looking into the foggy morning light but after ten minutes it faded back to darkness. When the witness was driving to work at 5.30 am, a strange phenomenon was mentioned on the Breakfast Show on Triple J FM radio. A truck driver and another woman from the NSW mid north coast rang and said they saw a bright light and felt shaking foundations like an earthquake, but the witness didn’t hear of any other reports.

Then when his girlfriend drove home on the 6 December, near Werington, Sydney, she saw a bald man with tall pointy features and his mouth wide open, staring at the traffic from the motorway overpass. It ‘freaked her out’ and she reported a suspected suicide to police but really thought he looked like an alien. E-mail Report 14.12.04

10.12.04 REYNELL, SA 0130hrs (CE1)
(Source: AURA White Pages)
On 10 December 2004 at 1.30 am, Sarah was driving home from work when her attention was drawn towards the hills at a triangular formation of lights in the sky above Pine Road, Reynell. At the time she was travelling east along Reynell Road. She slowed down to watch the lights which were much lower than a plane and larger than a star. The lights were in a rigid triangular formation, bright yellow and stationary above the paddocks on the eastern side of Pine Road. Sarah could not see any outline of a craft. The lights remained stationary for around two minutes before slowly moving towards Sarah and then accelerating off at high speed i.e. “shot off” in a south-southwesterly direction towards the sea. The evening had been overcast and stormy but it was not raining at 1.30 am. It was, however, still very windy.

Considering this intelligent manoeuvring (stationery, then a change in pace and direction) and the windy weather conditions, my opinion is that they cannot be explained as garbage bags or an ordinary aircraft.

Sarah also mentioned that when she approached her street only minutes after the sighting, she noticed that there were two people on her corner who were seeing off visitors and were pointing at the sky in the direction of the object. Debbie Payne, AURA

14.12.04 MILDURA, VIC 1900hrs (UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA)
Frank McCormack is adamant that the objects he and his family saw in the sky over Mildura did not come out of a beer bottle.

“We were having a barbecue, I was busy cooking the barbecue,” he says. “Yes, we were having refreshments, but it was far too early to be seeing double, seeing things that were not there.”

It was 7.00 pm, with a clear sky, and still daylight when Frank’s daughter-in-law spotted an odd object in the sky. The rest of the family sighted it as well.

“We finally spotted this shiny white object, coming in from the east to come across towards Mildura,” Frank says. “We continued to look at it to see if we could establish what it was, and then it became stationary. It stopped over Mildura. So, while we were watching it, two similar objects came in from the west. They just manoeuvred around like a rendezvous with the stationary one, then they just departed and went back west - then the other one that was stationary then started to move back towards the east.”

Nobody who saw them could work out what they were, but Frank is certain of what they weren’t.

“It wasn’t an aircraft, it wasn’t a balloon, it wasn’t a helicopter - there was quite a bit of glare... from the sun, we actually looked at them through binoculars but we still couldn’t define what they were. I think they were a long way up. I think they were too high for a helicopter. If they’d have continued in a straight line across the sky, we’d have possibly thought they were satellites.”

Doug Moffert, from UFO Research, New South Wales, says Frank’s encounter is typical in some ways - especially in the ‘round table discussion’ afterwards of ‘could it be this, could it be that’, seeking an explanation. While typical in that way, Frank is unusual in his willingness to come forward and talk about what he saw. Jonathan Ridnell, Simon Wallace and Jo Printz

17.12.04 GOLD COAST (SURFERS PARADISE), QLD 0630hrs (DO)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3776)
It was a beautiful clear morning at 6.30 am on 17 December 2004 when Ron had pulled into the petrol station on the corner of Arundel Drive and Brisbane Road, Surfers Paradise. He then noticed a big object, the width of which he described as “an A4 sheet of paper held at arm’s length” and the height of the object as “the height of an A4 sheet plus 50% at arm’s length”.  The object was described as a grain silo (the pointed end facing downwards) and grey in colour. This object was seen south of the petrol station (about a kilometre away), positioned slightly to the left of the road, moving from the east towards the west. Ron then drove up Arundel Drive, turning into Napper Road, which runs in an east to west direction. He then lost sight of the object. It wasn’t until he had reached the corner of Napper and Smith Street that he sighted the object again.  Turning down Smith Street, he travelled three to four kilometres before he lost sight of the object disappearing behind the tree line heading towards Nerang. Ron estimated that the object was travelling at a speed between 60 to 100 km/h.

Ron had called the Police Station, ABC Radio and the RAAF.  Ron was the only witness to report this object. Robert Frola AUFORN

18.12.04 BRISBANE (REDBANK PLAINS), QLD 0120hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3799)
On 18 December 2004, at 1.20 am, Perveena observed from her window a big ‘flash’, just above the horizon in the Redbank Plains area. Although it was raining, she stated that this was not lightning etc. but appeared to be huge in size, slightly oval in shape, with a bright blue colour on the outside and a whitish colour in the middle. She thought at first it might be a substation exploding as the flash was intense but there was no sound or disturbance to suggest this. Perveena observed the flash for a couple of seconds as she was alone and had no fellow witnesses. Overall she just thought it was bizarre. AUFORN QLD

18.12.04 WILD HORSE PLAINS, SA 0345hrs (CE1)
(Source: Australian International Flying Saucer Research Inc. Adelaide, South Australia)
(The following is an excerpt from a larger report)
“We were on our way back from Hawker after spending two days looking for fossils. It was about 3.45 am when Robert and I stopped off at Port Wakefield to fuel up. We travelled down the road [heading south], stopping at Wild Horse Plains to check out the stars, saying it would be nice to see something strange to top off a good trip, when there was a streak of light behind us in the next paddock. At first we thought it was a car coming up from behind, then it appeared again this time in a sporadic motion as bright as the moon. It seemed to move at rapid rate, now in the paddock right along side of us shifting direction, now coming straight at us in a bright flickering glowing light which came within 100 metres before darting off in a northwest direction at a rapid pace but still close to ground level.

After seeing the strange light we thought we better get back out onto Port Wakefield Road to head home. Travelling down the road further we both saw with amazement what looked like a craft of some sort about 1000 metres away on the left hand side. We were both dumbfounded. From that distance it seemed to be at least three stories high, white and shaped like a large hamburger. On the bottom appeared to be a bright red dome with a glow around it. A quarter of the way up from the bottom of the craft were flashing lights that went right around the craft and seemed to be recessed into it. The lights were the size of normal household windows and they flashed on and off in sequence. They ranged in colours from yellow, red, white, orange, green and blue. On top of the craft appeared to be bright metallic fluorescent-blue building blocks, staggered to different heights right across the top. It was like looking at a circus carousel or the main big top.

Directly across the other side of the road on the right hand side paddock at about 800 metres was another craft, a lot smaller and completely different. At this stage it became a bit overwhelming and our hearts started beating quite fast. This second craft was the shape of a bright white candle flame which seemed to have soft and undefined edges, you could say even a glow. Directly below the craft was a dome or ball of bright orange-red light with an aura surrounding it. Between half and three quarters the way down the main body of the craft was a ring surrounding the entire craft like the ring around Saturn. It was quite wide with a bright yellow-white mixture again aura-like or some type of energy field. It was also at house level and both were moving in the same direction at the same time in a unified formation.

Still travelling down Port Wakefield Road, and doing our sanity check, we kept an eager eye on both sides of the car while both craft followed at the same pace in a parallel motion, not getting any closer but not moving away either. Robert and I knew that there was a farmhouse and a patch of thick scrubland ahead. Knowing the rough distance between both craft we speculated the objects should disappear behind upcoming farms and dense tree lines at alternate times. With a sense of relief they did just that. It was now 5 am.

The objects reappeared not long after, still at the same distance, still parallel and heading in the same direction. We both knew there was a road coming up on the left hand side heading to Mallala. As we approached it, to our amazement with the heckles standing up on our back, the biggest and brightest of the craft crossed over the road and with it a glow that equalled the brightest neon sign with flashing lights. At that moment we both got spooked, planted the foot yet still couldn’t shake the craft. We knew this was something extraordinary that we were seeing but the disturbing thing was that the objects seemed to be following our every movement. We knew we were about to turn off to head into Two Wells and on a collision course with the bigger craft because we would have to cross its path when heading down the Gawler to Two Wells road. Once we were heading to our destination both craft disappeared so we pulled over for a breath of fresh air and go over what had happened the last thirty kilometres.”

31.12.04 INGLE FARM, SA 2140hrs (NL)
(Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3806)
On 31 December 2004, around 9.40 pm, S.P. was walking home from her boyfriend’s house in the Ingle Farm area, when at the T-junction she saw five stationary round red lights. One of them took off slowly towards the west then another joined it afterwards. The other three lights went in different directions. They were very bright indeed. From the slight cloud cover, it was enough to convince the observer that the objects were not at too great an altitude. Dominic McNamara AUFORN SA

31.12.04 BRUNSWICK HEADS BEACH, NSW 1430hrs (DO)
Friends visiting from England, Nicky and Rachael, were sitting on the Brunswick Heads Beach, north of Byron Bay, New South Wales, on 31 December 2004 at 2.30 pm observed in the clear sky a large white cigar-shaped craft. They had watched a small plane fly past beyond the waves when they heard the noise of another plane and watched what they at first thought was a big airliner. However they were amazed that the sound dwindled away and as it came close it made no sound, had no wings or tail and flew at about half the height of a normal airliner and was travelling slower than a normal aircraft. It came from the southwest, flew over the beach and then curved around in front of them over the ocean above them and slightly to the east, heading north along the coast. The rear seemed to be dark in colour, the rest was white with no normal aircraft insignia, numbers etc. They watched it for a full five minutes, then both glanced down at their towels and immediately looked back up and were shocked that it had vanished. Rachael thinks it may have gone straight up.
 
That night a small metal double spring, one wound inside another, dropped out of the night sky and into a glass of wine. They assured me that it could not have come from a roof or aircraft. I examined it and it was just two normal springs half a centimetre wide and 1.5 cm long wound inside each other. They kept it as a souvenir. Gary Opit

31.12.04 COFFS HARBOUR, NSW 2120-2155hrs (NL)
(Source: Brian Vike, http://www.hbccufo.org)
My family and I witnessed a strange light in the sky between 9.20 and 9.55 pm on 31 December 2004. The four of us were attending the Coffs Harbour New Year’s Eve fireworks display as we do every year and as per usual could not find a suitable vantage point to sit back and enjoy the display. After an hour of searching we eventually found a reasonably secluded road behind a large sporting field so we parked and waited for the 9.30 show to begin.

After the fireworks began I noticed a bright, deep orange light to the right of our car about 45-degrees in the sky. It was slightly larger than a normal star.

After a few minutes I noticed that it was rising very slowly. I could see this using telephone wires as a point of reference.

As it got higher in the sky it began pulsing on and off in time with each fireworks explosion. That’s when we all got out of the car to watch it. Every time a firework lit up the sky the light would dim right out... then slowly brighten back up. All this time it was moving across the sky and getting closer to the fireworks area. That’s when we could see a faint shape attached to the light. It was too far away to see but we could all make it out. The shape was about three times the size of the light.

It seemed to pass directly over the fireworks area and head out towards the sea. By this time the fireworks display sent up its last few starburst rockets. As they went off we saw multiple orange lights, maybe 8-10, all flash together. This was not part of the fireworks explosion as these lights went on and off multiple times in exactly the same position of the sky where the first object was headed.

My whole family couldn’t stop talking about whatever it was. I think they enjoyed the UFO more than the fireworks. E-mail Report

31.12.04 ADELAIDE (INGLE FARM), SA 2140hrs (NL)
Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Number - Callin Code 3806 02.01.05)
On 31 December 2004, around 9.40 pm, S.P. was walking home from her boyfriend’s house in the Ingle Farm area, when at the T-junction she saw five stationary round red lights. One of them took off slowly towards the west then another joined it afterwards. The other three lights went in different directions. They were very bright indeed. From the slight cloud cover, it was enough to convince the observer that the objects were not at too great an altitude. Dominic McNamara AUFORN SA