Newsgroups: alt.ufo.reports
From: kymhorsell@gmail.com
Subject: 28 Jul 2021: a busy night over Melbourne

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I've seen a few things flying over Melbourne in the past few years.
Some of them no doubt have a prosaic explanation.  Some are unlikely
to have a prosaic explanation.

But the night of Jul 28 2021 kinda takes the cake. So far.

I've reported it to local UFO organisation(s) but being Australia
there was not even an acknowledgement. There might have been an
up-tick in searches of my online info shortly after. I find a lot of
anonymous IP's with no known hostname are active these days. They
might be hackers.  Some of them geolocate to interesting places in the
US with big military or other complexes nearby. Or it might be my
paranoia acting up again.

Anyway. It's taken a while to process what I saw as is often the case
with these things. I never like to report anything that may be too
unusual. But after checking around it seems this sighting is fairly
"normal" for this kind of thing. And it also seems to jive with
another of my current hobby-horses -- the sighting came 1 week before
COVID cases in Melbourne started to go through the roof. Up till then
they had been on the decline after the 5th location since the start of
the pandemic.

Around 8.30 pm I went out as usual to my patio area with a cup of
coffee and started watching the sky. I live in almost rural Victoria.
The neighbour next door has a big garage that blocks off anything
below about 20 deg above the horizon. There is also a 2.5m-tall
fence.  I also have a roof over the patio that blocks anything to the
S of me and obscures a lot to the E and W as well.

If I get up and walk out into the yard I can see a little from the S.
The glow from Melb is on the S horizon, but I cant see that from the
patio.  There's a front porch for that.

I was watching and sipping the coffee. As on many nights the action
started pretty soon after I went out there. First there was the flash
of a brief meteor over to the N. I think it came down right to left
and lasted less than 1 sec. I think it was blue.

I went into alert mode. From experience I know these things come in bunches.

A few mins later I heard a chopper coming up from the S. It went over
my house as they often do and headed north. Almost directly to where
the fireball had flashed. It seemed to be a normal chopper. Maybe the
police chopper. Maybe another one. Nav lights flashing. Normal.  I
have seen unusual helicopters in the past couple ys. But this wasn't
one of those.

As the chopper disappeared into the distance just over the neighbours
garage there was ANOTHER flash as a meteor came down pretty much in
the same region as the first. This one was white and came down from
left to right and lasted less than 1 sec.

Unusual you should see 2 meteors in the same part of the sky framing
the transit of a helicopter, I thought to myself.

I got up and walked a little into the yard. 

Out of the corner of my left eye -- i.e. to the west -- 2 "sparks"
suddenly appeared quite high in the sky. They gave me a bit of a
start. They may have appeared out of nowhere. I.e. not travelled from
the S.  They were headed north.  They zig-zagged in approx
parallel. Flying quite fast and unusual that they seemed to fly
somewhat independently but in short straight sections with sudden
but gentle turns. They were bright enough they seemed to leave an 
after-image of each segment of their flight paths.

They headed north for 1-2 sec then started to zig-zag curve off to the
NW where they disappeared in another 1-2 sec.

I walked a bit further into the yard and turned around to look over my
patio roof to the S. The roofline was maybe 30 deg down from the zenith.

SHOCK. A huge dark boomerang appeared over the roof moving pretty
slow. And apparently pretty low. It came right over the top of me and
headed pretty much north, directly behind me.

While it was overhead I could see underneath it had 3 or 4 rows of
dimly illuminated circles along both wings. Each circle seemed to
have an dim dot in the center. The shape was a classical
boomerang otherwise. Rounded at each end. Symmetrical.  Shallow V
angle. It was quite wide -- maybe the length of 2 hands at arms length
end to end. ~35 degrees maybe. No nav lights that I remember.

As it was overhead I also noticed there were at least 2 little sparks
flying under the object, near the trailing edge. Maybe they were
coming and going inside the thing. The overhead part of the sighting
didn't last long and I was in kinda shock by this point.

The thing continued to move slowly over me and then off to the north
over the neighbours garage line. It didn't seem to have a rudder or
tail. But it was hard to see in the dark. You could really only see it
against the stars and dim glow of highway lights off in the distance
in that dir.  Maybe it was thick in the center and tapered off to each
end.  It disappeared into the gloom in the distance probably a few deg
above the flat roof of the garage.

The whole thing was over in less than a minute. Maybe only 10-20 sec.

I initially thought it might have been "something normal". 

The sparks might have been birds with reflections from ground lights
off their bellies. But they seemed far too bright and pointlike for
that.  I live in semi-rural Victoria. There are highway lights and a
couple supermarkets within 10 km off to the NW. I've seen other birds
fly at night and they look diffuse and not point sources. Of course
the zig zag flight of the first pair of sparks could have been
parrots. They do fly like that.  But they also make a hell of a racket
when they fly.  This whole episode was perfectly quiet apart from the
chopper.

The boomerang could have been a flock of birds I thought. But it
seemed totally solid and symmetric. Birds I see flocking around in the
daylight wheel around and don't maintain a constant distance from each
other. The don't fly straight and level and constant speed.  The
boomerang seemed quite solid and the rows of circles underneath seemed
to in precise parallel rows equi-distant from each other and the
spacing didn't change over time.

It might be a B-2 bomber. But this one was silent.

It might be an experimental military aircraft. Those circles with dots
in their centers could have been rows of propellers powered by electric
motors.

Maybe it wasn't as big as I thought. Just a large remote-controlled
drone.  Somewhat unusual to have (judging by the rows of circles)
50-100 propellers. I have built a couple quad drones. 100 hobby-type
motors might lift 50 kg. It just "seemed" to be a bit more weighty
than that. Again, judging by the rows of circles it had to have a
minimum wingspan of 10m. If the circles had a diameter bigger than
20cm then it was way bigger.

So maybe military and secret.

The possible association with the chopper is also unusual.  Was it
slip-streaming a police chopper? Was it some kind of escort?  Was it a
chase where the target was successfully evading?

All seemingly on the unusual end of the spectrum.

So a couple months later I'm starting to suspect it was maybe
"something else".


There are also these other sightings I looked up just now from the
NUFORC database for the past couple ys:

Date       Time     State   Comment
2020-11-13 01:10:00 TX  Boomerang shape black with 5 lights. no sound fly at
  a fast pace. Seen for about 2 seconds once my eyes focused. it was headed
  south.
2020-11-27 05:00:00 MO  It was shaped like a boomerang and flying low there
  were lights in the front and as it passed over we could hear a humming noise
2020-10-05 18:45:00     We saw a big boomerang shaped craft above us (INDIA)
2020-10-13 20:30:00 TN  Boomerang-Shaped UFO glides silent and dark over
  Knoxville
2020-10-15 22:30:00 FL  5 bright lights appeared out of nowhere in the
  middle of the sky, formed like boomerang shape and travelled high speed
  across the sky.
2020-10-17 01:38:00 FL  Solid Light Grey Boomerang Object Traveling Slower
  than A Plane
2020-10-22 20:30:00 CA  Shooting start transitioned into a black boomerang
  shaped craft.
2020-09-19 22:10:00 FL  Boomerang shaped craft over downtown/historic
  district of Plant City
2020-09-26 21:00:00 AR  Oval/triangle/filled in boomerang shaped spacecraft.
  Lights flashing in a row, noises too loud for aircraft and for its size.
2020-08-20 21:00:00 TX  3 UFOs however one shape shifts into boomerang shape
  then plane ?
2020-06-09 22:05:00 UT  City-block sized, boomerang shaped craft with 7
  greenish-white lights hovered only a 100 feet over and moved slowly.
2020-06-25 17:00:00 FL  White boomerang shaped craft travelling south to
  north in a straight line at satellite speed for a very long distance.
2020-05-01 22:30:00 ON  Strange orbs in the sky followed by an enormous
  boomerang shaped craft. ((Starlink satellites?))
2020-04-13 13:00:00 WA  Looked out my deck toward shorewood beach and saw a
  black shaped boomerang come out of water with a man in a suit of some 
  kind hovering
2020-04-21 00:00:00 AB  Very large silent Chevron boomerang shape moving
  north approximately 1500 mph no noise. Instant fear, checked family and went
  into base
2020-03-19 20:45:00 OR  Boomerang shape or kind of like the shape of a bird.
  Situated in the SW of Medford, OR. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))
2020-03-24 20:48:00 OK  Eleven sightings 4 following each other,
  boomerang shape all within an hours time. ((Starlink satellites))
2020-02-20 06:15:00 BC  Observed at least 30 triangular (boomerang) like
  objects traveling In a NE line formation. (('Starlink' satellites??))
2020-02-26 21:15:00 AB  Boomerang shape, 12 red lights in back in groups of 4
. Green and white in the front. Black body ship. Moving very slow and no noise .
2021-04-22 21:00:00     Boomerang like shaped with 5 lights made a speed
  big heart like path and suddenly distriduted and vanished


Many of the salient features seem identical. Dark boomerang moving
slow and silent. Accompanied by orbs, some in front, sometimes
others nearby.

And, as I said, there was the unusual COVID connection that Melbourne
was in its 5th lockdown at the time and managed to fight daily Delta
cases down to 0 for I think the 3rd time. But almost immediately after
the govt ended that lockdown cases started to shoot up again about 1
week after this sighting. And they haven't come down yet.  We're still
in lockdown 6.0 with (at last report) at least more weeks before
there's a prospect of getting back to COVID-normal again.

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