Post by uforn on Jun 28, 2010 3:40:38 GMT 1
UFO sighting: Bright orange lights
FOR the second time in a month, Sunshine Coast residents have reported strange lights in the night sky.
Lauren Bennett had just finished her shift at Till's Bit O Bull at Alexandra Headland last night when her colleague spotted orange UFOs low in the sky about 10.10pm.
"They just kept coming. We counted 29 of them. We don’t know if there were many more before we walked out," she said.
"The were bright orange lights with no tails, nothing around them.
"It looked like dots but glowing, not really pulsing but almost like a flame.
"They weren’t that big or that high. They appeared to be travelling from north to west.
"Sometimes they were in a line, sometimes they were in clusters and then they would move around.
"Two got very close together at one point. There was a big gap between the 28th and the 29th light.
"The 29th one appeared to be travelling faster than the rest and then it just disappeared, it just vanished.
"It was really creepy and we were all wondering what the hell we were seeing. There was about 15 people standing around outside by the end of it."
Novotel Twin Waters courtesy bus driver Chris Golder said he was driving about seven people home at the same time when he saw about 10 to 15 lights.
"I was at Twin Waters looking south and it looked to be just off shore around the area between Maroochydore and the southern Sunshine Coast," he said.
"I was driving along a dark road and I saw them in the sky directly in front of me.
"I just stopped the car to get out and have a look and I just couldn’t believe it.
"It was so clear. The lights were about the same brightness of a yellow light at the traffic lights, maybe a bit redder.
"Some of them were brighter than others but they all seemed to be in the same area in a formation.
"At one point they appeared to all move away a bit, then move in closer again and then away again.
"The objects weren’t moving like a plane would. They made no noise whatsoever."
It wasn’t the only wonderment in the sky last night.
Half the moon disappeared last night when its glow was blackened by the earth’s shadow in a partial lunar eclipse.
The event began at 8.16pm on the east coast of Australia, covering half of the moon at 9.39pm before retreating and disappearing altogether by about 11pm.
The event occurs about four times every two years, when the earth moves between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow onto the moon.
Earlier this month, there were UFO sighting across NSW, the ACT, Victoria and Queensland.
Two Sunshine Coast men had just finished a big night out in Noosa when they saw "a floating iceberg" in the sky.
A bus driver transferring passengers at the Ettamogah Pub saw "a vapour swirl" around an object high in the sky.
A mum out for an early morning jog saw a "white milky haze" that turned into a swirl above Buddina, and more than 40 market stallholders at Yandina were mesmerised when they saw a bright light with "a vertical spiral above and below it".
Source:
www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2010/06/27/ufo-sighting-bright-orange-lights/