Unidentified Flying Objects over Melbourne ?
 

What I and four others saw this (sober:( ) evening... :uhoh:

time: approx 2350 local July 31st 2004
duration: approx 7 mins
location: guess 15-30km East of Essendon
alt: guess 10-20km
cloud: cirrostratus + some alto obscuring stars
event:

We noticed two intense, large, flame coloured lights estimated at 15-30km East of Essendon. The lights were well separated and seemed to hover for about 4mins.

The light that appeared higher or further East then appeared to move towards North or descend, whilst the other reacted in the opposite sense. Movement was not symmetrical and large separation was maintained.

The light that appeared to be higher dissapeared as it accelerated to what seemed an Easterly direction, whilst the second dissapeared soon after in an apparent South Easterly direction.

ATC did not record anything unusual.

Did anyone else witness these lights? I havent seen anything like them before. Their position and apparent motion suggests that they were not aircraft (in the normal sense), they seemed to be too high and move not like balloons.

yeah yeah i know where these stories usually end up but I did see them and they were unusual enough for me to write a post about them :ooh:

Any chance they could have been recog lights of two separate aircraft heading straight for you in the distance (thus they have no apparent movement)?

I got 'stalked' by a flame cherry red object at the wrong side of the clock over the Gibson desert about a month ago. Ended up being Venus, low to the horizon and rising, just the atmosphere doing bizarre things to it - colours, and size..as tracked me, it would retreat, get closer, retreat, change hue from red to yellow back to red ....

The old eyeballs can't tell the difference between something close and far when it's a point of light!

As you could in no way accurately tell the distance of the object, the only clue comes in was it above or behind the altocirrus?

There are many ways of making lights in the sky do straaange things...I won't post the better UFO hoaxing methods here (never know who's watching :E ) but it aint too hard to make something that makes the papers.

Venus, refracted through swamp gas from Cleanaway tip and a weather balloon. Say anything different again and I'll be around with my neuralyser.

Think you need to lay off the drugs, son. Get a job and a haircut while you are at it. :} :}

Nosign you were bound to get bagged for posting about a UFO sighting - so I am glad you had the b alls to do it.

We would be pretty arrogant to think that we are the only form of inteligent life around the place who could have developed the ability to travel.

The theory that there are no UFO's is unlikely to be correct, so you never know maybe what you saw was in fact something really cool!!

It wasn't Valentich's (sp) mates by any chance was it?:D

or

The famous 'flies' on the ATC 'overlay' of many moons ago:confused:

ding

I remember some time ago a very, very interesting photo was taken off the southern coast of Victoria just hours before Frederic Valentich went missing.

The photo was enhanced and deemed to be genuine and not a photographic emulsion or camera anomaly.
Whatever it was had mass and movement.

Guess some techo type could find reference to it on the net.

Autokinesis possibly? Only a thought, makes for good reading though.

Compressor Stall and Healy,

Two acft approaching towards me> possibly er I guess, but then they both accelerated in different directions.

Autokinesis> possibly during the time they spent "hovering" but definately not when they split directions! All of us saw the same thing.

Cloud> There was a brilliant veil around the moon which was almost overhead. The lights much lower on the horizon (about 30degrees from horizon) were behind some close low cloud. The lights appeared to span a 3mm circle at arms length.

WISH I HAD ME CAMERA!

Oh well, no answers :suspect:, looks like we've all been :cool: "neuralysed" :ouch: by ATC!

Nosign,

You must realise that not all who seem enemies are not friends. Psst psst, nudge nudge. Though we know a lot, our position prevents us from telling the truth until we are dead.

Last night the sky round my tower went from Cavok to BKN008 in ten minutes; the full moon illuminated things I can't even begin to talk about, or I will be forcefu

If Winstun starts posting again, then you'll know it was his Mothership!:}

Didn't see the lights NOSIGN, but I did watch the moon rise. Pretty spectacular as it's coming up over the horizon, looks a lot bigger too.:cool:

Well I think the answer is obvious...

they were space ships from another planet with another life form on board!

Can't you turkeys see that? :sad: :8

There's been some intense Iridium flares lately from the low earth orbit satellites. Blot out anything else in the sky except the moon with intense, steady bright, reflected sunlight and then disappear as the panels reflect the light away from the viewer.

Iridium

Great to watch! Some flares have been very short and intense with others going on for a considerable period of time over half the sky.

If the ceiling was low it could of been car headlights, reflecting or even behind the haze(in high country), Ive been fooled by this myself until the repetitive nature of the lights gave away the source

Remote areas, intense bright lights, "impossible manoeuvres", unexplained power outages = cotton season....


Green figures with big heads scarpering towards craft that takes off vertically and disappears into the night sky = mil chopper crew that stopped for a leak during night navex, sprung by passing motorist....

:p

I hate to start this all over but :E... tonights chanel 7 news at 6pm showed video footage of 6 unexplained flying objects over the northern suburbs of melbourne. The six lights were grouped into three, forming two triangle shaped flights.

Even though I witnessed only two lights, they looked identical to the lights in the video footage.

hmmm :oh: :ooh: :uhoh: :confused:

Probably Peter Abeles. The silver bodgie is still with us, so it couldn't have been him. Maybe Robert Maxwell.
I can't think of another 4 though.

Or Lord Lucan

Or maybe somebody spat their 'soothers'

Or perhaps the famous ATC "Not yet Identified, remain outside controlled airspace'

Or the new coach for Hawthorn.

ding:zzz:

Have OA started flying here again? With their tail logo in mind, we used to call them Aristotle Onassis & 5 other arseholes!