In The News - UFO Sightings in Australia

***Dingo*** · 03-29-2010, 07:07 AM

There you go... my family 'covers' all these UFO hotspots in NSW Australia... One of my sister's lives outside Gosford in the Central Coast by the beach... I live well hidden way up in The Blue Mountains (though I am known to live in the outback desert at times)... And when we were kids we used to mainly live on a farm down Wollongong way as...

Is ET a summer surf nut? UFO spottings on Central Coast of NSW
March 29, 2010

There's something strange happening in the skies over a little patch of our pristine holiday coast. The suburbs around Gosford, on the Central Coast in NSW, are the state's biggest hot spot when it comes to UFO sightings, with dozens of seemingly authentic cases reported every year, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Each month, as many as 30 people turn up to meetings to share their UFO experiences. UFO Research NSW secretary Joann Kanda, who helps organise the meetings, saw what she believed was a UFO near her home at The Entrance in the mid-1990s.

'It was just a sort of a glowing light in the middle of the night,' she said. 'The dogs made a strange noise and I got up. There was something up in the sky with a greenish glow.'

The region was the scene for one of Australia's most baffling UFO cases - a series of sightings in 1995 and 1996 - that were reported by police and many other credible witnesses. Residents have told of seeing shiny, spherical, illuminated UFOs that often hovered above water.

UFO Research NSW's Doug Moffett said UFOs were commonly spotted over water or near power plants and the Central Coast had plenty of both. The geography of the Central Coast may also play a part. It is heavily populated in parts, which means there are people around to spot UFOs, but still isolated enough for them to be visible in the night sky.

'What UFOs do is, largely speaking, covert in nature. They're obviously not landing at the steps of the Opera House and saying, 'Take me to your leader',' Mr Moffett said.

The UFO and Paranormal Research Society of NSW said the Blue Mountains also figured heavily in UFO sighting reports. A group of enthusiasts spent the weekend in the mountains searching for UFOs they say visit the area each year in the last week of March.

One of the group, who declined to be named, said that in past years the craft had appeared above the Burragorang Valley, beyond Jenolan Caves, and were seen to hover for some time.

Several readers have reported seeing UFOs near Wollongong a week ago.

Is ET a summer surf nut? UFO spottings on Central Coast of NSW | News.com.au

Dingo
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***SOUL-DRIFTER*** · 03-29-2010, 08:22 AM

Why are there so many negative comments after that article? Does Australia have more cynical skeptics than everywhere else or is that a fluke?

Interesting article. Perhaps some of our visitors have an ongoing operation there.

***Dingo*** · 03-29-2010, 08:49 AM

SOUL-DRIFTER:
Why are there so many negative comments after that article? Does Australia have more cynical skeptics than everywhere else or is that a fluke?

Nah... That's normal... We do the same with almost every news story regardless of the topic.... Aussies are known to whinge and whine and shit on and bitch, and put down everything including their own dogs and kids and each other... We're allowed to because we can...

From an Aussie poem type thing..

We shoot, we root, we vote. We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. Even though we might seem a racist, closed minded, sports obsessed little people, at least we feel better for it.

It's in the culture and it's called the Tall Poppy Syndrome...

Dingo
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***Dingo*** · 03-31-2010, 05:51 AM

Here's a youtube of a tv news segment about a sighting in Western Australia during August 2009 by a tourist...

There is also an explanation of why what the tourist photographed more than likely isn't a UFO, as of alien origin, and is explainable...

Dingo
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**bart5050** · 04-05-2010, 11:49 PM

Gold Coast UFO sightings rocketing Local Gold Coast News | goldcoast.com.au | Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

**bart5050** · 04-05-2010, 11:52 PM

UFOs spotted over Evans Head | Northern Rivers News | Local News in Northern Rivers | Northern Star

***Dingo*** · 04-06-2010, 01:27 AM

Posting the Evans Head news article bart, before it gets archived and disappears... I know that area very well and often go there and stay... Interesting... Must do a bit of ringing around to the locals I know and see if I can get any extra info...

I know of incidents from that whole surrounding area and have involved members of my family... In one incident, the local cop freaked and took off as fast as he could... He gave off the impression that he'd witnessed some pretty weird things he couldn't explain....

UFOs spotted over Evans Head
6th April 2010

Strange lights spotted over Evans Head at the weekend have been listed as a possible UFO sighting.

The sighting is one of ‘a constant stream’ of such events recorded as ‘worthwhile’ by UFO Research Queensland, which monitors the skies from New Guinea to northern New South Wales.

The high incidence of sightings in the area had prompted the group to man a stall at this year’s Starlight Wellbeing Expo in Bangalow over Easter, and also to hold a workshop in Byron Bay on April 17. Tino Pezzimenti, who ran a seminar at the Expo, said the Evans Head sighting occurred when two men were walking back from the pub on Saturday night.

One of the men, who swore he was completely sober, had reported seeing ‘moon-like objects’ in the sky besides the real one. 'They were of the same size and brightness as the crescent Moon, but vertical,' Mr Pezzimenti said. 'A third appeared and they all started moving erratically, zigzagging in the air. One moved to the left, another to the right and the third straight up. They then rejoined themselves in the blink of an eye, back in their original position.'

Mr Pezzimenti said it was possible to discount other phenomena, such as hot-air balloons or aircraft. 'It was also at 10.30pm, so it could not have been Venus,' he said. 'It’s something we cannot explain. But many UFOs have been reported as behaving in this way – erratically, and making sudden right-angled turns without slowing down.'

Australia has been something of a hotspot for UFO sightings in the past. Almost 900 a year were recorded throughout the 1990s, and there have been 200 this year.

UFORQ has about 220 financial members and records reported sightings from all over the world. It had been in existence since 1956 and was the oldest still-running such group, Mr Pezzimenti said. One of the services it offered was a confidential support group for people who believed they had seen something but felt unable to tell anyone for fear of ridicule, or even worse, feared they might be going crazy.

UFO Research NSW spokesman Doug Moffett said the majority of the sightings in the state had been in rural areas. The reason for this was because the aliens’ actions were largely ‘covert’. 'They do not land and say ‘take me to your leader,' he said. They could get lower and not be seen by so many people in country areas, he said.

Grafton-based UFO researcher and sky-watcher Barry Taylor said the phenomena went in 20-year cycles, known as ‘flap activity’. He said the 1950s, the ’70s and the ’90s had been active years for sightings, and he expected activity to increase again this year.

Dingo
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***SOUL-DRIFTER*** · 04-06-2010, 08:53 AM

Sounds like the UFO activity is heating up the down under. Wish I could say the same for here.

**curiouse** · 04-17-2010, 07:36 AM

Hi Dingo ,I have a brother who lives at the central coast & has done for 30 yrs, he has seen nothing but he is a sceptic he doesn't even look too the sky, wich is something that i have always done.Myself & a friend had an odd occurence on the way there from Sydney early hrs of the Morn,we had missing time Got lost on a road i know really well, saw something in the sky at The Entrance Bridge,"Green Glow". A very weird experiance it has stayed with me all this time this event happend around mid 80's.

**Conspirator95** · 04-17-2010, 10:55 PM

I live in South Australia, and two of my mates have expirienced sightings of UFOs they are still freaked out about it and haven't anyone but me all i know was it was while i was at their house they went to get drinks so they saw and i didn't.