2004

JULY 2004
JULY 2004 NUNAMARA, TAS 1830hrs (CE1)
The witness and her son were travelling about ten kilometres northeast of Launceston on the Tasman Highway when the mother saw a bright light that was on a metal-type oval object with red, blue and other lights on it. She slowed down as the object was stationary over the paddocks some 500 metres away. It did not appear to go anywhere but just vanished into mid air.
Keith Roberts TUFOIC

12.07.04 nr. SHEPPARTON, VIC 1830hrs
Source: 1800 Freecall National Hotline Callin Code 3382
Andrew was driving along the Goulburn Valley Highway, about sixty kilometres south of Shepparton, when he noticed something to his left “taking off” and ascending into the sky. It was a white light, which went up to tree height and then disappeared. He then saw a light on the other side of the road, which was just above the ground. His dog was travelling with him in the car, and the dog became very excited by it. He described it as being a “neon thing” about fence height, and very close to the ground. It was there one minute, and gone the next.


It has been playing on his mind ever since. George Simpson AUFORN VIC

LATE JULY 2004 nr.MURRAY BRIDGE, SA ca0400-0500hrs (PHOTO)
Several young people saw and videod a number of objects during the early hours of the morning from a house boat on the River Murray.

At 0400hrs first sighted an orange/silver light to the South. This light was not Venus and was about 4 times the size of an average star. It moved around more than scintillation or autokinesis effects would make a star do.

The there was the video sequence of the lights across the river at ground level. This witness though these lights were in fact associated with a building and not a UFO.

Lastly, and this was not on the video, a light similar to a satellite travelled across the whole sky in 30 seconds at about 0435hrs.
AURA

29.07.04 MELBOURNE (GEELONG), VIC 0100hrs (NL)
Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin September 2004
The reporting observer, a Shell Oil Refinery nightshift employee, and another observer, were standing in or near the centre of the refinery, outside of the control building, when they first noticed a brilliant white object with an orange tail, about the relative size of a twenty cent coin at arm's length, a little above the horizon, to the southeast.

The brilliant object moved relatively slowly to the northwest before disappearing from view after about fifteen seconds. Initially, the observers wondered whether the object was a shooting star, but had never before seen a shooting star this large, and moving so slowly, so rejected that hypothesis. The reporting observer would like to know if anyone else in the vicinity also observed this large brilliantly glowing object with an orange tail.

31.07.04 ANDAMOOKA, SA EARLY MORNING (CE1)
Source: David Gray and Robert Heading
On Saturday evening, 31 July 2004, Robert Heading and myself, David Gray, were out on one of our expeditions, looking at fossils and the odd bit of opal under the controlled light of high-powered torches. We were northeast of Andamooka, 30 km west of Lake Torrens, during the early hours of the morning. It was a still, clear night with no wind and no clouds and a near full moon of which you could see so clearly the definitions. It was about half past three in the morning when we both noticed a small bright red orange light in the sky towards the eastern horizon. Approximately half an hour passed and we noticed the light was getting brighter. It also appeared to be getting closer to us and seemed to be getting closer to the ground. It was a lovely bright orange colour. All of a sudden the ball of light changed colour from bright orange red to bright white and was getting even closer to the ground and heading in our general direction.

Both Robert and I were starting to get concerned after a previous sighting at Hawker in January this year. The light this time was in a northeastern direction and by our calculation about five kilometres away and at 25 to 30 thousand feet. There was no sound coming from the light. It was eerie and silent. At about the same time a passenger jet going west to east flew close by and in the same proximity. It seemed to be lot higher, at about 40 thousand feet. There was a delayed noise coming from the jet. The light slowly moved closer to within 5 kilometres and still 25 thousand feet and stopped and hovered in a swaying motion. We were both looking at the strange light that seemed to be sitting dormant in mid air. We were flashing our torches at it.

Another half an hour went by and the white light was still hovering quite close. We nervously went about with what we were doing, keeping a close watch for any changes. Then Robert yelled out to me to look up in the direction of the light and another dull orange type star turned really bright then all of a sudden exploded. It was like fireworks, bright and glittery from all around as this bright light fell to the ground. As that was happening the bright light appeared to be free falling from the sky at an astronomical rate. It got down to about 15 to 20 thousand feet and then darted straight back out into the atmosphere till it was the size of a pinprick. This happened within a time frame of ten seconds; the fastest thing we both have ever seen. We were dumbfounded at how it looked like it was going to crash and then it recovered and went right back up to where ever it came from as if nothing had happened. Amazed at what we both had just seen we quickly turned around to check on the bright white light and it was still in the same position and was in a swaying motion.

A total sense of excitement came over us; to be able to witness such a thing seemed so surreal. A few minutes later, from the northern sky, we saw what looked like a shooting star that had exploded. As it came across the sky going north to east it had hit the earth’s atmosphere and exploded in a spectacular way and had broken up falling towards the ground in the Lake Eyre region. It was the same type of glittery fireworks that we had experienced before. Once again the debris flew past and over the top of the other white light that was hovering around five kilometres away. It was sitting at the same position as it had been for the last few hours. At about 5.30 am we were moving around to keep warm because it was icy cold. It was near enough to a bright full moon in the western sky and Robert and I were comparing the difference in brightness from the moon to our newly found friend that had been sitting there for some time. The moon’s definition was very clear and bright but the ball of light was much brighter and stayed that way, not moving, only swaying from when it first arrived.

Then up in the sky and in the southeastern direction another dull-type of orange light started to move around, then, as if it was turning with its head lights at high beam, it became bright orange then darted across in a northwestern direction at such a speed then it disappeared to a pin prick once and for all in a matter of seconds. We could not believe our eyes what with all the things that we had seen and still were seeing throughout the night. It was just on day break and there was a light tinge of blue coming across the sky as the sun was rising but we were still keeping an eye on our friend as we called it. It still hadn’t moved and was still swaying from side to side and still as bright as ever. At this time it was starting to look out of place. Not only was it not following the same pattern as the rest of the stars but the bright moon had also disappeared into the western sky.

Towards the east it was getting lighter and lighter as day was breaking. It was about seven o’clock and both Robert and I were now trying to figure out if the ball of white light was ever going to leave, as it was still stationary in the same spot that it had been for many hours. The sky was getting brighter as the sun had started to move higher into the sky. The object was not moving away but was just moving straight up from where it was. It was still in a close range of five kilometres but was now at about forty thousand feet and was slowly climbing. Looking into the sky we noticed a round object where the light was. It was as if someone put a black dot in the sky as the sun reflected behind it and with a form of bright light around it. We both could see what the object looked like now it wasn’t just a ball of light. It was still hovering around until about 8.30 am.

It seems certain to me that the remote spots just north of southern Australia is a playground for UFO AIRCRAFT. In a way it’s quite an adrenalin rush to see these things darting around let alone seeing these several times up close. But one of the disturbing things is that it seems to be every time Robert and I go there. We will be more prepared next time instead of being caught off guard. We will hopefully get pictures. E-mail Report

31.07.04 UNLEY, SA 2240hrs (IDENTIFIED AS LASER LIGHTS)
Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin September 2004
While walking in an easterly direction in Hyde Park, Unley, the observer noticed in the southeastern sky at an elevation of about 35 degrees, possibly near the foothills close to the Glen Osmond area, many small white circular objects, each about the relative size of a twenty cent coin at arm's length, arranged in pairs in a larger circular pattern, about the relative size of a small dinner plate at arm's length.

The pattern was silently rotating very rapidly in an anti-clockwise direction, but from time to time reversed direction, but from time to time reversed direction to clockwise, and then back to anti-clockwise repeatedly. The rotating objects were also lost from sight periodically, for short time intervals.

As it was very cloudy and there was constant light rain, the lights were never really bright, but cloaked in cloud and diffused. The large circular pattern seemed to move in a general north south up and down oscillating pattern, but appeared to remain within a small region close to the location where first sighted.

After watching the activity for thirty minutes, the observer initially thought that the pattern might be a part of a "light show" for a party, or a similar event, but noted that the objects seemed to be lit from within the cloud, not from below. He also felt that under these conditions of low cloud cover and constant light rain in the foothills, why would anyone have an outside "light show" anyway!

31.07.04 MELBOURNE (PASCOE VALE), VIC 2350hrs (NL)
Source: Source The Australian U.F.O. Bulletin December 2004
The reporting observer was a passenger in a car travelling north on Cumberland Road when she was surprised to see two unusual dull orange circular lights, each a little smaller than the full moon, at an elevation of about 75 degrees, in the northeastern sky. The weather was fine, there was no wind, the sky was clear, and the full moon had a large ring of light that appeared to be around it.

She drew the attention of the driver to the lights and he stopped the car to enable them to better view the strange lights. Her initial thought was that the lights might have been helicopters, but when the lights appeared to be in danger of colliding, the first one moved slowly into the large moon ring and then vanished, followed by the second, she felt that the lights were not likely to be helicopters.


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