From: cgosley@mail.powerup.com.au (Chris Gosley)

The Brisbane Sunday Mail, April 30, 1995, page 10.


UFO SIGHTED OVER BRISBANE

A MYSTERIOUS egg-shaped, bright orange light has been seen in the sky over Brisbane and Canberra only days after similar sightings over Adeliade and Melbourne.

UFO hotline operator Ross Dowe last night said up to 12 people called the UFO Hotline, which monitors reports of unidentified flying objects, to report the new sightings. He said three callers reported seeing an egg-shaped object with a gold and orange-yellow hue in the area of Karana Downs, west of Brisbane, just after 9pm on Friday.

"This was similar to the ones reported in Adeliade, it was high up and moving across the shy," Mr Dowe said. Warren Wex, a private investigator who saw the object, said even though it was near Amberley RAAF Base, the object made no noise. "I've seen a lot of things, but I've never seen anything like this before," Mr Wex said. "There were no flashing navigational lights, nothing like that, it was just producing that strange orange glow."

He said the egg-shappedlight came from the north, travelled across the sky, then disapeared suddenly and became a series of dots.

About an hour later the Hotline received seven calls from people saying they had seen a similar bright orange light hovering over Canberra.

UFO Hotline operator Ross Dowe siad sightings so close togeather in time but far apart in distance could not easily be a hoax.