Teardrop over Melbourne (Australia), YT · Australia
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
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.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131838). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Department of Defence (Australia) · records window 2016-12-20 → 2017-01-06