In this issue:
1. Australian Sightings
2. Close Encounters
3. 2005 UFO & Metaphysical Conference
4. ACUFOS Meetings

Editor : Sheryl Gottschall
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Unusual Crafts Over Wild Horse Plains, South Australia December 18, 2004.  3.45am 
(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 3.45am when Robert and I stopped off at Pt Wakefield to fuel up. We travelled down the road 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 100mtrs before darting off in a north west direction at a rapid pace but still close to ground level. After seeing the strange light we thought we better get back out onto Pt Wakefield Rd 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 3 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 800mtrs 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 Pt Wakefield Rd 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 5am.   

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 it's path when heading down the Gawler to Two Wells Rd. 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 30 klms." 

Source: Australian International Flying Saucer Research Inc. Adelaide, South Australia. 

Basket-shaped Object Over Cowandilla, Adelaide, South Australia January 24, 2005.  9.10pm  4 minutes duration. 

"The white light was flashing every 5 cm from our view of the sky. The craft was later spotted at 10pm moving north, this time the light was not flashing it just stayed on and didn't turn off. The craft rotated 360 degrees. Our two dogs were getting weird running round in small circles and barking." 

Source: Australian International Flying Saucer Research Inc. Adelaide, South Australia.   

Airshow Sighting, Avalon, Victoria March 10, 2005. 12pm Midday  

The observer reports that he was at the Avalon 'Airshow 2005' in March, when he captured on videotape, frames of what appear to be objects buzzing an F16 Falcon, which had flown at about midday or just after, and an FA18 Hornet that had flown about one hour later.  The objects appear as white orbs in the frames of the video, particularly in those involving the FA18 Hornet. The strange thing about these pieces of footage is that he had not noticed anything unusual until about four weeks after the air show, even though he had watched the video numerous times at his home. On one Saturday afternoon he was showing it to friends, and that's when he noticed the objects. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabin, Victoria. 

Silent Star-like Objects, Wyangala, NSW March 12, 2005. 10pm 

The reporting observer was fishing with one other on the Wyangala Dam, which is relatively near Cowra, when they noticed the activities of an unusual formation of bright white lights in the clear north-western sky, at an elevation of about 45 degrees above the horizon. What appeared to be four bright star-like objects silently travelling vertically past a stationary star, were giving the illusion of the stationary star falling between the formation of four brighter stars. The four could be seen for a good twenty seconds before disappearing from sight in the north-western sky. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabin, Victoria. 

Yellow Lights In A Rectangle, McDowall, Brisbane April 3, 2005. 6pm 

A man was looking north when he saw a pale star from which six yellow lights emerged. They remained contained within a rectangular shape as he watched them for 15 seconds, then they shot away into the south-west. Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland. Circular Object Over Water, Deception Bay, Queensland Reported April 4, 2005. Occurred a few years ago. A young woman was looking out her window at the water when she saw a bright orange light that lit up the water. Then she saw a circular object appear lifting up from the water which had an opening similar to a door. She was unsure whether it had appeared from under the water or was hovering just above the water. It then took off and faded off into the distance. 

Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland. 

Looping Objects, Holland Park, Brisbane Reported April 4, 2005. Occurred 29.3.05. 11.45am 

A woman was sitting with her husband and baby at the Moonlight Noodle Bar and was looking at a plane in the sky. She then saw a star-like object that was dark grey like “black balloons” in a bunch. It seemed to change shape and when she looked more closely at it, it appeared to be more saucer-shaped. There were about 20 smaller objects scattered around a central object. They did loops around each other before receding into the distance. 

Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland. 

Multicoloured Flashing Beacon, Dunkeld, Victoria April 10, 2005.10:30pm 

On a fine, calm, dry, clear night, while the reporting observer was standing outside of her front door, watching the night sky as she does on a regular basis, her attention was caught by something that initially confused, and then excited her. She felt that she was watching something that she had never seen before.   

It appeared to be a small, almost stationary but possibly revolving on the spot, multicoloured flashing beacon in the western sky, at an elevation of about 45 degrees above the horizon, and about the relative size of Venus. She indicated that she believes that this was not an aircraft, and estimated that it was at least five kilometres distant.   

During the hour that she watched it, it flashed blue, red, and white, as it appeared to move very slowly over a large tree, toward a large shed to the left of the tree, a relative distance of about two inches at arm's length, and then it suddenly vanished. She indicates that both her husband and son also saw this object. Since this sighting, she has had at least five similar sightings, and on each occasion, the weather was very clear and the object always vanished at the same location before 12:00 p.m. midnight. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabin, Victoria. 

Four Pairs Of Lights, Ingle Farm, South Australia April 23, 2005. 10:40pm 

When he first saw the bright orange objects in the fine clear night sky, at an elevation of about 25 to 30 degrees above the horizon' the reporting observer noticed that there were four pairs in total. They were flying silently from the north to the south, at a distance of approximately 500 metres, and were about 100 to 200 metres above the ground. Each appeared to be about the size of a car, and eye shaped.   

He went and got his wife soon after he first saw the objects, and the two of them could not believe what we were watching. They also phoned their neighbours and got them out to see the strange objects. Later, he got his camera and took some photographs of the objects. One object from the first pair flew off by itself, and the remaining seven went into a formation. He estimated that the formation moved to about one kilometre away. The whole event lasted for approximately ten minutes and the objects just got duller and duller until they could no longer be seen. They did not appear to fly away, just slowly dim out. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, Victoria. 

Triangle With Three Big Spheres, Marsden, Queensland April 25, 2005. 10.10pm 

A man was walking home from the shop when he reached the i/s of Bourke St and Chambers Flat Rd and saw a large triangle in the sky above him. It had three big spheres underneath it and three lights with big grids under each light. The object made no noise and blocked out the sky and moonlight as it passed overhead. The lights were a creamy-yellow with low luminosity. The witness estimated the object was about 1000’ (300m) overhead and he could see lights from the ground glowing underneath the object as it moved away. He estimated that he observed it for 3 seconds. 

Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland. 

Shiny Object, Maleny, Queensland May 1, 2005. 4pm 

A man was at the look-out at Maleny looking towards the Glasshouse Mountains when he saw an object come in from the ocean at high speed. It was shiny, but not dark, and moved at the speed of a Cessna airplane. It moved across the sky in front of the mountains and when it came to a particular spot it took off vertically into the sky and disappeared. 

Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland.   

Eleven Weaving Circular Lights, Ferntree Gully, Victoria May 13, 2005. 10pm 

While at the corner of Edina Road and Wattletree Road, Ferntree Gully, the observer's attention was caught by the unusual movements of eleven bright orange-yellow lights in the southern sky, at an elevation of about 25 degrees above the horizon. The night was fine and mild, and there was little or no cloud in the sky. He was excited and intrigued at seeing something that he could neither identify nor explain.   

Each of the circular lights was about four times the size of one of the largest stars, and while he initially thought that they might have been aircraft, their silent movements were unlike those of any aircraft he had seen before. They seemed to be travelling with the speed of an airliner, one behind the other, weaving around almost like the movement of a snake.   

When the line split into a set of five lights, and another of six, he unsuccessfully attempted to use his mobile camera phone to photograph the six, and in doing so lost track of the five. As he watched, the remaining six continued to move from the south toward him, and changed into a rectangular or diamond shaped formation immediately above him.   

From this point, they moved in a roughly north-easterly direction until reaching the mountain ranges, at which point they commenced gaining altitude, and continued to recede until between five to ten minutes had elapsed from first sighting, when they could no longer be seen. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, South Australia   

Nine Bright Yellow Lights, Ferntree Gully, Victoria May 13, 2005. 10:45pm 

The reporting observer and her son, who was in the passenger seat, were heading home from a friend's place when they both noticed nine bright yellow lights in the clear northern sky. At first they thought that the lights were on a mountain, but she then realised that their observation point was not close enough to the mountain for this to be the case.   

She pulled her vehicle over near the Clyde Street, Burwood Highway intersection, and they stood in the cold atmosphere and watched the lights for about ten minutes. The lights were moving in the northern sky where they gradually, one by one, faded and disappeared. Initially, they were much brighter than the stars, and there was no noise to suggest that there were any helicopters or planes in the vicinity. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, Victoria   

Orangey-Yellow Light Over Sale, Victoria May 14, 2005. 9:45pm 

The reporting observer indicates that during the night he saw something that was unlike anything he had seen before. He lives in Sale, Victoria where, at about 21:45 hours on Saturday the 14th of May, he had just taken his dog outside before going to bed, and noticed a strange orangey yellow light off to the north. The light looked like a star, but was the wrong colour, and much too big. A white shooting star shot across the sky going from the east to the west, but he did not watch it for long, as the yellow light was so unusual. It was moving rapidly toward Sale, in a southerly direction.   

Without knowing the actual size of the light/ object, he could not determine its altitude for sure, but his best guess was about 10,000 feet. He also estimated that its speed was in the order of hundreds of miles per hour, and noticed that no noise could be heard. As the light got closer to Sale, it slowed until it stopped to the south of his house (over the main part of Sale), and then started to rise slowly.   

He called his girlfriend out and they watched it as it climbed and slowly moved back to the north, until it disappeared from sight. It did not follow the curvature of the earth as it travelled north. It just seemed to get higher and further away. As a holder of a current private pilot's licence who has flown light aircraft, helicopters, gliders, hang gliders and ultralights, and has been involved in one way or another with the RAAF since 1978, having worked on Mirage fighters, he is prepared to say that this was no aircraft that he has ever seen before. Additionally, he also once lived next to the Williamtown RAAF Base in NSW where the F18 Hornets are based, and two weeks ago FI-lls were based here in Sale. Encountering this unusual light was truly a bizarre experience for him. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, Victoria   

Cigar-shaped Object, Mulgrave, Victoria. May 19, 2005. 4:45pm 

While at work in Mulgrave, on a fine clear afternoon, the observer clearly saw in the northern sky what he described as a cigar shaped object/streak moving quickly further northward. After about 15 minutes, he could no longer see the object. While he did not think that the object was a cloud, as there was little wind, and the object was moving quickly, he is keen to know if anyone else reported seeing this object. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, Victoria   

Orange Light Over Prospect, Tasmania. May 23, 2005. 6:20pm 

While observing the slightly clouded north-eastern sky, the reporting observer and one other noticed a very bright orange light, which appeared to be larger than the stars, and moving rapidly across the sky from the northeast to the southwest, probably five times faster than an aircraft. They first thought that it might have been a satellite burning up, but it was below the cloud level, moving very fast, with no smoke trail, and producing no noise. Within one or two minutes, it had travelled straight toward the southwest until lost from sight. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabbin, Victoria 

Two Orange Lights, Ipswich, Queensland   June 3, 2005. 10pm 

A woman and her two adult children were about to get into their car when they saw two brilliant orange lights, barely moving in the sky. They observed them for about 5 minutes, then the lights stopped and moved quickly away. When they reached their destination in Rosewood the witnesses saw a stationery red light with a tail. About the size of a walnut at arm’s length, it hovered for 10 minutes before moving away quickly, disappearing in a few seconds.  

Source: UFO Research Queensland Inc, Brisbane, Queensland.  

Police Report And Orange Lights Over Wonthaggi June 19, 2005. approx 9:20pm 

While relaxing at home after a family trip, as usual I was checking for phone messages and monitoring the emergency services on my radio (being a member myself). All of a sudden it came over the radio, that police on patrol had sighted three extremely bright orange lights in a straight-line formation, moving parallel with the coastline at Kilcunda, about half a kilometre out to sea, heading towards Wonthaggi.   

At this stage, the conversation between the police patrol and the base station was becoming quite hurried and excited, with the exchange of words of description, location, and speed of the objects etc. ... I immediately went outside to the front porch with my wife and two children to observe the sky.   

Three intensely bright orange lights were travelling towards us from Kilcunda, at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 feet, just below the level of the cloud base. The three lights could only be described as like car headlights on high beam, on a highway whilst driving at night at approximately one kilometre away, or closer. There were no actual beams of light, and no features could be discerned, except for the lights. Their estimated speed was approximately 200 kilometres per hour. The night was cold and a low cloud base apparent, with absolutely no wind, and no sound could be heard as they passed directly overhead.   

Had it not been brought to my attention, I would not have realised that they were present. Approximately thirty seconds later, a fourth light, similar to the others appeared, following behind them. The total duration of the sighting from start to finish was approximately two minutes, and all of these objects disappeared into the clouds over the Cape Patterson area. These lights were witnessed by several emergency service workers, and members of the public. I have been informed that both photographic and video footage has been taken of these events. 

Source: Victorian UFO Research Society, Moorabin, Victoria.

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2. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 

Australian Cases from Laneesa's Blogspot 
http://ufoexperiences.blogspot.com/   

Wednesday June 8, 2005 
What's Happening In The Northern Territory, 
Outback Australia 2005    

Wednesday, July 13, 2005 
Visit By Spacemen To Outback     

Thursday July 28, 2005 
Two Cases From HBCCUFO Centre Perth, Western Australia  ___________________________________   

3.  2005 UFO & Metaphysical Conference   

Adelaide, Australia November 12th and 13th 2005 Details at http://www.arcomnet.net.au/~krobb/message.htm Enquiries Kevin Robb krobb@arcom.com.au _________________________________________________   

4. ACUFOS Meetings

Gold Coast - 
Community Centre, Lawson Street, Southport (next to RSL) 
First Saturday of the month, 1pm   

Sunshine Coast - 
CWA Hall, Memorial Ave, Maroochydore (opposite RSL) Second Saturday of the month, 1pm _________________________________________________ 

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