UFOS SIGHTED AROUND NATION

May 26, 1996 / posted May 28, 1996
Source: Sunday Herald Sun (Victoria Australia)
RESIDENTS in three states have reported seeing UFOs on Friday night.

The Adelaide-based director of the Australian International UFO Association, Colin Norris, said colored lights seen over Adelaide could not have been the space shuttle Endeavour.

The senior operator of the National UFO Hotline, Ross Dowe, told ABC radio early yesterday that calls about lights in the sky had also been recieved from people in Horsham, Wangaratta and Penrith near Sydney.

"People saw multi-colored lights moving around in Horsham at 10:30 pm, in Wangaratta at 10:40pm and in Sydney at 9pm," he said.

An eyewitness, Kathy Dickmann, 47, and her family watched three lights in the sky for 20 minutes at 9pm in the Adelaide foothills.

"We thought it was a plane or helicopter at first, but they were moving like you would'nt expect anything we know of to move," Mrs Dickmann said. "Then we pulled over and just watched as the lights just hovered, flashing on and off about every second or so for about 20 minutes."

Mr Norris said other callers described a white ball the size of a full moon which hovered and then sank to the horizon over several minutes.

Mr Norris and Mr Dove said six other sightings had been reported around Australia in the past week. Mr Norris said UFOs could have been monitoring the space shuttle.

But a member of the Australian skeptics society, Mr Peter Hogan, said: "We accept there is probaly life elsewhere in the universe, but not that they would be visiting us."

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Notes from Bunyip: the UFO reported by Mrs Dickmann has all the same characteristics of the UFO reported on the 23/06/96 by several people in the vacinity of Gladstone Queensland, including two police officers, and of UFO's reported on the same day in Ipswich Queensland (and captured on video).

A Sighting sharing the same chracteristic was also reported to have occured near Amberley Air Force base in Queensland on the 24/06/96. Amberley Air Base also confirmed that no planes had flown or been in the proximity of the air base.

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