Triangle over Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
a non moving non flashing light in the sky
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
Australian aerial sighting records answer to the Freedom of Information Act 1982. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Department of Defence (Australia) · records window 2010-02-04 → 2010-02-21
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May 25, 2021 · 6:15 PM · SPHERE
Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
This happened a few months ago, and I've been trying to get my head around it since. Definitely not like anything I've even heard of before. I'd seen weird shit in the sky before but man, was this different. It was about 6.15pm and I had just left my house to drive to the swimming pools. Daylight savings had recently ended so it was already very dark. I got to the end of my street, about 400m from my house when I saw it. To give you an idea of what was around me, I was at a small cross shaped intersection. There is a small street about 80m in length, directly across from the road I was on, right next to an apartment building. Next thing I know, before I turned left, I see what looked like a shooting star (meteorite) flying rapidly across the sky towards the horizon. Now, one of my worst fears has always been seeing a meteor hit earth and kill us all. So my immediate reaction was, "Holy fuck. That's way too bright and going for way too long to just be a meteorite. This might be the end." It travelled across the sky for a good 3 or 4 seconds, almost reaching the horizon (my guess was that it was about a few kilometres high in the sky, and miles away from me.) This is where it blew my mind. Instead of disappearing over the horizon or hitting the earth, it floated down smoothly and gently, in a sort of arc shape and landed on the footpath, right on the little street in front of me. I felt chills run up my spine and my instincts told me to fucking get out of there. I turned left and drove away, terrified at the idea of what the hell I just saw. I mean, nothing about it appeared sinister at all. But the sheer nonsensical and unexpected nature of it was enough to make me think it could have been anything (angel/alien/demon). It looked just like a point of light with a glowing ring around it, no bigger than a basketball. Once it touched the footpath it was obscured by the street lights, and perhaps other objects on the footpath, and somewhat regrettably, I didn't hang around to get a better look. The rationalist in me kept trying to think, OK maybe it was a drone, maybe it was a fucking firefly. At this point nothing seemed too ridiculous to consider. But none of them made any more sense than the other. Has anybody else had a similar sighting? Am I missing something here? P. S if the admin of this site wants to know the location of this event, I'm happy to disclose. I know for a fact that there is a security camera right where the object landed. I contacted the owner of the building but he seemed uninterested and was not willing to check the footage for me. I think if someone official/credible contacted him, he might be pursuaded to check the cameras. The sooner the better because I don't how long they keep the footage.
April 4, 2021 · 6:35 PM · CIRCLE
Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
I saw a black steady object in the sky at approx 18:35. It stayed really steady for a few minutes before moving in the sky and disappearing in the dark.
September 22, 2018 · 2:30 AM · OVAL
Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
Date indicated by source of report is flawed, and we have no means of contacting the witness, who elects to remain anonymous, and who provides no contact information. We have assigned an arbitrary date, which is our best guess. PD
September 15, 2017 · 10:15 PM · SPHERE
Melbourne (Australia), VICTORIA · Australia
This was a fuzzy pinkish sphere which looked like a metior at first moving in the night sky from the west to the east which lasted approximately seven seconds. The tops of the clouds were lit up from this thing then it suddenly zig zagged and disappeared. There was no sound coming from this sphere. Unfortunately I didn't have time to capture this on my mobile phone. I didn't report this as I thought that someone else might however I didn't hear of any reports and I just put it aside and didn't think about it much any more. I decided to report this after watching a UFO program on TV.
December 23, 2016 · 12:00 PM · TEARDROP
Melbourne (Australia), YT · Australia
Driving into Rosebud, vic, from Rye. In daylight. Teardrop object spotted from car window - appeared to be falling from the sky at first; but when I did a u-turn to stop and take a picture it seemed to have disappeared further away from view, then come back again. Almost smokey in appearance but tubular and remained in its shape - unlike smoke. The tip that was at the bottom was rounded and you could see the blue sky between the teardrop shape.
February 5, 2016 · 9:43 PM · LIGHT
Melbourne (Australia) · Australia
I just got home and was looking at the stars, like always there was a face made by the stars, and I looked at it for a while. That was when I noticed that one of the stars started to move quicker than the others. Then I noticed that it was a UFO, it moved what I think was further away but was going right, this direction would be north. I watch as it moved, it then came under a star and than gone what I think was S or SE in the speed of light. I also saw another one the next day again when I got home but this time at 22:30 on the next day 6/2/2016(DD/MM/YY). This one went the opposite of the first one. It flew straight but when I got close to vanishing point it started to do small zigzags that made it have a blur at the back. Then that was it.