Introduction: The 2000s saw a respectable number of UFO sightings in
Southeast Queensland. The change to email reporting led to an almost 100% cessation of images accompanying reports, although the odd sketch was still submitted and digital photos slowly began to be received. The pattern of sightings throughout the 2000s experienced a sharp increase in 2002 when 85 sighting reports were received, and sightings remained at the top end of a slightly wonky bell-curve until a declining trend commenced in 2008. The types of UFOs seen spanned an entire spectrum of colour from orange to blue to green and everything in between and the shapes the UFOs were assuming provided just as much head-scratching variety for the members of UFORQ manning the phones and email report lines as they did for the people who were seeing them. A lot more space debris was reported than in previous decades, but in the main witnesses were reporting genuine ufological anomalies and not meteorites or crashing satellites as the mainstream would have us believe.

The pattern of sightings ran as follows: 2000 – 14 sighting reports; 2001 – 51 reports; 2002 – 85; 2003 – 64; 2004 – 81; 2005 – 73; 2006 – 82; 2007 – 72; 2008 – 48; 2009 – 46. Given the dearth of sketches from this decade, we’ve culled the more interesting descriptions from our archives to post here and hopefully these descriptions will be enough to paint the images of witness reports.

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Gold Coast, Queensland. Tuesday January 18, 2000 10.00pm
Three witnesses observed two lights in the southern sky at about 45 degrees elevation moving west. The lights were below the clouds of that night and seen for about 2 minutes. The leading light faded as though entering the base of the cloud layer and seemed to change direction at that point. No sound was heard, and the lights did not resemble those displayed by aircraft. It was travelling from east to west and took approximately 2.5 to 3 minutes to travel from horizon to horizon. She was aware what satellites looked like but was sure this was not a satellite.

Gold Coast, Queensland. 2000 5.45am
A woman cycled to her place of work at a nursing home in Bermuda Street, Clear Island Waters, (near Carrara Markets) She stopped, got off her bike, then saw a very large bright yellow object in the sky. It was the size of a basketball at arm’s length, and the light was blinding. All of a sudden it moved in a jerky fashion about 4 palm widths at arm’s length, then with the same jerky movement returned to its original location. It moved over the nursing home and as daylight broke it took off at the speed of light. She went to work and was ridiculed but a couple of weeks later two other nurses reported seeing the same object.

Chuwar, Friday February 11, 2000  3.40am
A man living near College’s Crossing reported that a gigantic light with quivering colours, coming from the east lit up the sky, his back yard and bathed the whole house in white light. He was able to note the exact time as 3.41.46 am. He described the object as a big, fat, long thing which lasted for several seconds, got smaller and disappeared to the E. It was first seen at an angle of elevation of about 40 degrees and last at 20 degrees. It passed overhead slightly to his N. Its colours were brilliant but not steady – shaking or quivering. The object was round at the front and elongated. After 2 to 3 minutes he heard a loud sound like a sonic boom. [Ed. – A preliminary interpretation of this sighting is that this object might have been a meteorite passing 20-40km above in the atmosphere.]

Ashgrove, Brisbane. Monday March 6, 2000
A man was walking on a bike track at 7.30pm when he saw a fluorescent blue light with two oval rings encircling it. It appeared to be a couple of hundred feet away and there was a black shininess in a disc shape. The front ring was bigger than the other one. The object they were encircling was almost cigar shaped, luminescent electric blue and seemed to be gliding. He observed it for 3 to 4 seconds moving at the speed of a bird flying, then disappeared behind a tree. He was walking with a companion who although looking at the same area could not see the object.

Yarraman, Queensland. Thursday March 9, 2000
A man reported seeing a flashing light at 8.00pm two weeks previous to his call. It was travelling south to north across the sky in a straight line. He took a video of the object and when he viewed the video, the object appeared to have a trail behind it. It was the same size as a star, quite bright. He observed it for about 5 minutes before it flashed very briefly and disappeared.

Kallangur, Brisbane. Sunday March 12, 2000. 9.20pm
A man was looking north and observed a bright burnt orange light travelling south moving towards him. About two miles north of him it slowed down and seemed to get larger then smaller. It was larger than a plane light, making no noise. There were no clouds in the sky and he observed it for five minutes. It appeared to be very high then very low but he didn’t see it move. It travelled in a straight line. The witness was familiar with military and private aircraft.

Brighton, Brisbane. Sunday March 12, 2000.
A man reported a flashing red, green and white light approximately 100km away and two to three km high. He was looking northwest and the object was moving and flashing.

Upper Mt Gravatt, Brisbane. Monday March 13, 2000. 9.05pm
There was a message on our answering machine from one of our members that they observed a bright red-orange light travelling east to west at about 45 degrees above the horizon. As it went to the west it started to pulsate. He took photos of the object which appeared to be the size of two match heads together. The object was floating and appeared to be plasma-like. There were 5 witnesses, 2 of the witnesses have had previous sightings. The member left the message but no name. Thanks for reporting it whoever you are.

Kallangur, Brisbane. Sunday March 12, 2000. 10.15pm
On Sunday night at about 10.15-10.20pm two orange lights were observed travelling north to south for 5 to 10 minutes. They were high in the sky, above the clouds, making no noise and going in a straight line. The witness had seen unusual lights in the sky two years previously.

Mt Gravatt, Brisbane. Tuesday March 28, 2000.  7.30pm
A red ball was observed to travel in a perfectly straight line for 15 to 20 seconds before dropping “something”. The same witness saw 3 red balls doing the same thing at 9.30pm on Thursday night the 30th of March when 2 of the objects dropped something from them as well. The witness rang the Planetarium and was told that these were man-made satellites.

Redcliffe, Queensland. Tuesday March 28, 2000. 10.25pm
A witness out for a walk observed two objects flashing white and red, and moving in relation to the stars, to the east. These objects were brighter than surrounding stars and were seen for 30 minutes

Caloundra, Queensland.  March 28, 2000.
A man reported seeing an object the size of four football fields and looking like castles joined together. He stated that he had also heard of reports of the same or similar object over Toowoomba, more than 100km away. For about a week after his sighting, strange things kept happening to him.

Algester, Brisbane. Wednesday March 29, 2000.  8.30pm
Two members of a family saw a bright flash of light, and about that time they also saw a plane in the sky. Their enquiries with the police and Air Traffic Control failed to disclose any more information about their sighting.

Forest Hill near Gatton, Queensland. Thursday March 30, 2000. 9.15pm
Two witnesses travelling in a car saw a blue light hovering in the distance for 1 to 2 minutes. Then, in 3 to 4 seconds it moved an estimated distance of 10 km to a position much closer to the observers, where it looked the size of a house. The object flashed a fluorescent blue at regular intervals, and passed them at a distance of about 2 km, making about 6 flashes in the time that it took to move to its new position. When moving it looked as though it had a lightning bolt through its centre.

Moorooka, Brisbane. Saturday April 1, 2000. 8.00pm
Two black ball-shaped objects were observed travelling about 3 metres above the ground and only about 5 metres away from the witness travelling diagonally in an upwards direction over the local rail tracks. They appeared to have a smooth surface and were illuminated by the street lights. There was no traffic or sounds in the vicinity of the sighting.

Woodridge, Queensland. Sunday April 2, 2000. 6.00pm
A bright orange pulsating light was observed by 3 witnesses for 5 minutes before fading away. It was half the size of the full moon and round like a basketball. At the time the witnesses were in a moving car and the object seemed stationary.

Arana Hills, Brisbane. Sunday April 2, 2000. 8.30pm
A man observed an orange light to the south from near the Keperra quarry, moving rapidly northeast to southwest in a clear sky. The object was teardrop shaped, its illumination coming on and off like the afterburner of an F1-11. It moved horizontally and seemed to strike the northern side of a hill, at which instant a big bright flash was seen. The hillside was about 3 km away and no sound of impact was heard. The apparent size of the object was smaller than a full moon.

Ferny Hills, Queensland. Sunday April 2, 2000. 8.30pm
A tear-dropped shape orange light was seen travelling in a southerly direction for approximately 2 to 3 seconds. It hit the north side of a hill approximately 3kms from the witness and a big bright flash appeared. It was smaller then the full moon but no impact noise was heard.

Forest Lake, Brisbane. Monday April 3, 2000.  7.10pm
A couple observed a bright flashing light travelling north as they looked east along the air traffic flight path. It was travelling higher than the planes usually do and the flashing light would at times become intense then dim. It was 3 to 4 times larger than a star and was travelling a slightly elliptical path at 60 degrees elevation above the horizon at first then lowering to 45 degrees. It was observed for 5 minutes.

Waterford West, Monday April 3,  2000. 7.15pm
A witness reported seeing a satellite travel across the sky, then a light brighter and faster than a star travel across the sky afterwards. This was then followed by a jet which did a sharp U-turn and travelled back along the path of the light. The object seemed to keep pace with the jet. The only sound heard was that of the jet.

Mt Gravatt, Brisbane. Saturday May 6 2000, 3.00am
A witness reported looking through their window to the southwest and observed what seemed at first to be a star. It moved up and down and to the north as it flashed. The light was different from a plane or a helicopter. It disappeared over the house and was observed for a duration of 10 minutes.

Mitchell, Queensland. Tuesday May 2 2000.
A light was seen in the east below the tree line. At first it looked like a spotlight that had just gone out. It flashed like a strobe or sheet lightning. As it went out it was described as resembling fading out like an element. It was observed for 5 minutes. The witness also reported an incident that also occurred in Goondiwindi in 1974 when he was rabbit shooting. A bright light appeared above a paddock 1km away, rose up in the air and then came down and went out.

Holland Park, Brisbane. Saturday May 13 2000, 8.30pm
A woman saw a blue shining light for 3 seconds as she was looking west towards Mt Coot-tha. She also saw 4 to 6 lights above her neighbour’s roof. She was on the third floor. A beam of light seemed to shine down from the object. Over time she saw a bright red light in the same place. She has also seen 10 of these objects above the TV towers.

Hawthorne, Brisbane. Saturday May 13 2000, 9-10pm
Three orange glowing balls were seen in the northern sky travelling south. They had an irregular brightness variation. The first two travelled close together with the third lagging more behind. They travelled with a steady constant movement all doing the same speed. The objects were observed for 3 minutes before being lost behind trees in the south east. Their apparent size was half the size of a 5 cent piece held at arms length.

Inala, Brisbane. Monday May 15 2000
A light was observed in the western sky as it flickered 2 inches above the horizon. It shimmered red and green. It disappeared half an hour later. Two years previously the same witness observed a beam of light shine from the sky like a laser beam in the southern sky.

Victoria Point, Queensland. Tuesday May 16 2000, 9.00pm
An orange light was observed for 4 minutes as it travelled north before slowly moving out of sight. There was no sound and it looked far away.

Norman Park, Brisbane. Monday May 22 2000, 5.50pm
A man stopped his car and observed a large silver oval shape hovering over the city. It had portholes with lights and looked like a plate or saucer with a slightly domed top. It’s elevation was 30 to 40 degrees and appeared to be the size of a 50c piece at arms length. It started to move then stopped. His 14 year old daughter saw it too. He stated it was not a blimp or plane or balloon. The experience was described as unnerving. The witness rang the police, the Planetarium and the CAA.

South Brisbane. Tuesday May 23, 2000. 7.40pm
A saucer-shaped object was seen hovering in the south-west sky. There was a flashing light on top and 2 lights on each end. It moved very slowly, tilted and moved away. It’s elevation was approximately 45 degrees and it’s apparent size was of a 10c or 20 cent piece at arms length. The object was all lit up with a creamy glow. [sounds like the Whitman’s blimp]

Coorparoo, Brisbane. Tuesday May 23, 2000. 6.25pm
A man went to the kitchen to wash his plate and observed a flashing light off in the distance like a strobe light. He was looking west as he observed the object travel very slowly and get closer. He caught a glimpse of a red light. The object appeared to be surrounded by a misty halo and had a yellow light inside it. It did not deviate from its course until 7.10pm when he saw a green light and then the object disappeared in a flash to the west. He rang Air Safety who put him on to our organization.

Location unknown, Sunday May 28, 2000. 8.55pm
What appeared to be 2 stars were observed high up in the sky travelling south. One light changed from white to red then green. They were travelling faster and higher than a jet yet were as small as a star. They seemed to be a long distance away.

Surfers Paradise, Queensland. Tuesday May 30, 2000. 8.55pm
A man observed a white light approximately 30 to 40 feet above the beach a few hundred feet away from him. It was a white light that faded to an orange colour, with a beam-like search light on the water. He shone his car’s high beam on to it and it took off.

Bray Park, Brisbane. Friday June 2, 2000. 9.00-9.30pm
A light that looked like a street light in the sky moved down then disappeared. The same witness reported a couple of years previously they observed a bright orange light up high with the stars that moved fast, did a sharp turn then disappeared.

Wavell Heights, Brisbane. Monday June 12 2000, 6.50pm
Whilst looking north, a woman observed a green light like a shooting star.

Springfield, Ipswich. Tuesday June 13, 2000
A round shaped fireball was observed to the west over bushland travelling in an upwards direction before disappearing. A minute later a roaring noise like an engine was heard. The object was about the size of a 5 cent piece at arms length.

Mt Nebo, Queensland. Wednesday June 21 2000, 7.09pm
A man was driving when he saw a bright stationery light which he first thought was a helicopter. He stopped his car and got out and continued to watch the light. All of sudden it took off and then went out. It was approximately 3000-5000 feet high and 3 to 5kms away from him. There was no noise but it was travelling faster than a jet. He observed the object for about 6 minutes.

Wynnum, Brisbane. Sunday July 2,  2000, 7.35pm
A man observed a bright yellow light out over the bay area. It passed overhead and travelled toward the airport. He stated that it was not a plane landing and it made no sound. It was travelling north to north east. He could not give it a shape and described it as being the size of a flare. There were 3 witnesses. He spoke to Air Traffic Control who had no reports.

Goodna, Ipswich. Friday July 7 2000, 9.45pm
An orange light was observed travelling in a straight line from north to south with something dropping from it. The light looked like it was burning then it started to flash on and off. It was observed for 5 to 10 minutes before it disappeared. The witness also reported seeing 3 orange lights two years ago.

Normanton, Queensland. Friday 7 July 2000, 11.45pm
An officer from the Dept of Air Safety reported receiving a report of “something” the size of a football field travelling over the area. It appeared to have lights, no noise and left behind it what seemed to be a bit of a trail. This object was observed by 25 people.

Bundamba, Ipswich. Saturday 8 July, 2000 6.10pm
A light was observed in the northern sky moving in a southerly direction and flashing on and off like a camera flash. The object would flash then move then flash then move. This was observed by 3 witnesses for approximately 30 minutes before disappearing. The light was bigger than a star when it was at its brightest.

Normanton, Friday July 7 2000, 11.45pm
Twenty five people in Normanton observed an object the size of a football field with lights and leaving a faint trail, in the sky. On the same night the only known aircraft was a light plane over Groote Island, 600km northwest of Normanton at 10.30pm.

Windorah, Queensland. Sunday July 9 2000,10.30am
Townspeople heard an explosion after other locals reported seeing a red/orange glowing object streaking through the sky, leaving a silver trail. Locals reported that it was heading in an upward direction from the ground and heading north towards Injune.

Booval, Ipswich. Sunday July 23 2000, 7.42pm
A witness observed an orange/yellow oval shaped object moving slowly across the sky without making any noise at 800-1000 feet. The object did a 90 degree turn and “took off”. The duration of the sighting was about 10 minutes. The above report was published in the Hervey Bay Chronicle. The witness version of this incident is: “I looked up above the house and saw something the size of a light aircraft. It was a yellow/orange/red colour with flames around it and bright enough to make me squint. I thought it was the after burner of an F111. At the same time I noticed that there were no sounds, no insect noises, you could hear a pin drop. This lasted for 5 to 10 minutes. I ran to get the video camera and recorded as the object made a very fast 90 degree turn. It shot out 100 yards and then returned to its original course and eventually disappeared. When it disappeared I could hear the crickets again. I watched it for about 10 minutes. It was a still night and there was no smell of fuel. I live on acreage, and there are no city lights. Visitors there at the time did not want anything to do with it, and they left quickly. I was in the army and I have seen flares and mortars. I have also lived next to an airfield, and I have seen weather balloons. This was nothing like them. When I viewed the video, I slowed down the tape and I could see something solid.”

Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Thursday July 27 2000, 5.50pm
A total of 5 bright white lights like stars, but very bright despite the city lights, were seen in the southwest at an elevation of about 60 degrees moving to the northwest. They were moving in formation all in the same direction. There was a bit of cloud cover and the lights moved behind the clouds at intervals emerging again. They all maintained a similar steady motion and a constant brightness. They displayed no trails and no associated noise was heard. The duration was 2 minutes in which the witness had time to go next door and alert her neighbours who also saw them.

Holland Park, Brisbane. Saturday July 29 2000, 8.55pm
A woman saw a flaming red light for about 3 seconds which seemed to be falling slowly downwards and to the north. It seemed to be far away and had an irregular shape like a bottle cap however it was not circular, like an amoeba. It was very bright reddish-pink and was seen near the horizon. Its apparent size was that of a 5 cent coin at arms length.

Westlake, Brisbane. Wednesday August 2 2000, 1.10am
Four lights arranged in a disc shape with one in the middle were seen for 15 minutes by two witnesses and then disappeared. They were very bright white distinct lights larger than a star that did not twinkle. The formation was stationary for 15 minutes well above the outline of a hill and appeared to be west of the Mt Coot-tha TV towers. When they disappeared it was as though the lights were switched off. The apparent size of the lights was less than a 5 cent coin at arms length.

Bethania, Logan, Queensland. Sunday August 8 2000, 7.15pm
A woman was outside looking north [towards Brisbane] to see aircraft. Instead she saw 15 to 20 round white balls high in the sky, and crossing rapidly one after another. There was no associated sound and the objects looked smaller than stars. The display lasted about 15 minutes and gave her an eerie feeling. She stated that she wears glasses. She had contacted the Bureau of Meteorology for information.

Moorooka, Brisbane. Monday August 14 2000, 8.00pm
A woman out on a walk with her son saw a bright light with a tail moving slowly across the sky. The tail separated from the object and then they saw 3 red lights slowly opening out into a triangular formation which then changed to yellow. The lights began moving clockwise then they joined together as one light then disappeared. They felt excited from seeing this incident but strange at the same time.

Cleveland, Redland City, Queensland. Tuesday August 15 2000, 7.55pm
Three witnesses observed five lights, three red and two white, to the northwest at an angle of elevation of about 15 degrees for about two minutes. They got out of their car for a better view. The lights seemed to be 40 to 60 km away, and to be descending slowly.

Victoria Point, Brisbane. Tuesday August 22  2000, 6.10pm
A man and his mother were in a vehicle proceeding along the Redland Bay/Cleveland Road when they observed a stationary light in the sky which dropped suddenly and later rose straight up to a new stationary position. They observed it for about 10 minutes and eventually lost it in clouds. At 7.30 pm they saw an F1-11 fly around the area and then fly away. The witness repeated a rumour that Amberley Air Force base had UFOs on radar near Flinders Peak, and that two pilots on instrumented training runs had seen it.

Redcliffe, Queensland. Thursday August 24 2000, 7.30-9.30pm
A woman observed a bright orange light in the sky whilst looking east towards Moreton Island. It had a little bit of a tail behind it and was a few hundred metres away. It was approximately ¼ size of the moon. It was falling and at first she thought it was a plane crashing. It made no sound and it burnt out one second before it hit water. She observed this for 3 seconds.

Sinnamon Park, Brisbane, Thursday August 31  2000, 7.30pm
An observer saw a yellow flame to the north and he wondered if he was seeing an F1-11 with its afterburner on. The object came closer but there was no noise. It passed overhead at an estimated height of 500 metres. The man’s wife also saw the object that seemed to be moving towards the city with little pieces falling off descending towards the ground extinguishing in mid air. The object started to vary in brightness, got dimmer and was lost to view. It was seen for 3 to 4 minutes and was also observed with binoculars. The witness saw what looked like flames but no associated object. These flames were elongated just as you’d expect the afterburner flame to be. It moved in a straight line with an apparent length of 4cm at arm’s length and a thickness of ½ cm. He telephoned Amberley air base and Brisbane airport and Brisbane told him they had nothing on radar. The sky was clear.

Texas [Queensland], Saturday September 2 2000, 8.00pm
A young man sitting in his car on top of a high mountain peak near Texas was looking north when he saw a very bright light. It was perfectly round, appeared to be 15 to 20 miles away at an elevation of 20 degrees. He observed it for 25 to 30 seconds and during this time he also watched it through binoculars. The object made no noise and was stationary when first seen until it left at a speed much faster than a jet. The witness spends 6 months of the year in the bush but has never seen something like this before. He described the light as having the same brightness as Venus, and noted that it was travelling on the north-south RAAF flight path.

Holland Park, Brisbane Saturday September 9  2000, 11.00pm
A witness saw what seemed to be an explosion looking like a big umbrella of light having an apparent size of a fist at arm’s length. It was white, very bright and visible for 2 to 3 seconds. She sees the fireworks at Southbank clearly but stated this was different from any fireworks. This event was different and to the west whereas south Bank is to their north. She has reported 2 sightings previously and notes that she has now seen 3 unusual things in the same part of the sky.

Deception Bay Monday September 25  2000, 6.35pm
A man observed a bright light to the south moving southwest and downwards on a slight arc. It was yellow-orange in colour and had an apparent size of 12mm at arm’s length. The brightness was constant and it seemed to leave an orange-yellow trail. There was still a little bit of twilight in the sky. The object was seen at less than 30 degrees elevation. It was circular in shape but its outline was jagged. No sound was heard.

Nundah, Brisbane Friday September 29  2000, 12.30am
A witness saw lights in groups of 3 and 4 which looked like stars but moved quickly a distance of 5 degrees horizontally in less than one second then turned and came back to their starting position. In the course of a few minutes a total of 20 lights were seen in the same part of the sky. Two or three of the lights came towards the witness quickly, passed overhead and disappeared. As the lights came closer he saw more detail. The objects looked almost like a bird flapping it’s wings. No sound was heard and there were 3 witnesses.

Wynnum Thursday October 12 2000, 8.55pm
Two witnesses observed two bright lights, like car headlights low in the sky to the NW. They said the lights were not like those of an aircraft and were seen for about a minute. As they watched, the lights wobbled from side to side, and were eventually lost sideways behind a tree. No associated sound was heard.

Burpengary, Monday October 30 2000, 8.20am
A man was about to get into his car to leave home when he looked up and thought he was looking at the Sunday . He got into his car and looked up again. He saw a bright white light to the NE at about 60 degrees elevation. The object had a black dot in its centre. He observed the object for a few seconds and heard no associated noise. He stated that he had not seen anything unusual before.

Woody Point, Monday November 5 2000, 7.30pm
A couple were in their parked vehicle in Kaunda Park looking out over water and saw an object the shape and size of a 44-gallon drum, red with a white band around its middle. It seemed to be floating in water about 20 meters away until they noticed that the water was quite choppy, but the object was not bouncing around. They turned on their car headlights for a better look, but the beam did not engage the object directly. The object then sped off above the water and at some distance it then shot up and disappeared in 5 to 10 seconds. The witness reporting was frustrated and annoyed at not knowing what they had seen even after contacting several relevant authorities.

Location unknown, November 12, 2000
Country sighting A man was driving in the country and saw what looked like an aircraft floating in the air. He got out of the car and walked to the edge of the object which appeared like a flat piece of paper and disappeared.

Victoria Point, Friday November 24 2000, 9.15-10.00pm
An orange ball was observed from Victoria Point as the witness was looking over Moreton Bay towards Stradbroke Island. It was not high up and just smaller than half the size of the moon. It was observed for just over one minute not travelling very fast. No sound was heard.

Between Bathurst and Oberon Friday November 24, 2000 9.30-9.45pm
A man was watching a plane when he observed a light travelling in the opposite direction. He looked in his binoculars and saw a disk with 8 nodules on the bottom. It was brightly lit and looked yellowish-grey. It was about the same size as a star and moving faster than a plane. It disappeared behind a cloud.

Everton Hills, Sunday November 26, 2000, 9.25pm
A woman hanging out the washing observed a bright light flashing intermittently in the western sky at about 60 degrees elevation. The light flashed about 4 times and then nothing more was visible. The flashes were as bright as strobe lights and lasted about one second. It was 5 to 6 seconds between flashes. After really bright flashes there were 2 dim ones and then nothing further was seen. The flashes seemed to emanate from the same place in the sky and were bright white. There was no moon light and the sky was clear. The flashes stood out against the starry background.

Runcorn, Friday December 1 2000, 10.00pm
A yellow light was observed to the south west at an elevation of approximately 45 degrees and moving slowly behind patches of cloud. The light appeared as big as the full moon when seen in clear sky and appeared bigger than a plane. When behind clouds the object looked smaller. It was lost behind clouds and when the sky cleared the light was gone. The light was seen for about one minute before clouds obstructed it and it was circular in shape.

Maclean/Munruben area Wednesday December 13 2000 9.45pm
A man was driving along the Mt Lindsey Highway when he looked out the drivers side window and saw 8 lights shining on the landscape and in the sky. The lights were 200 metres away and keeping pace with his car whilst he travelled. He stopped the car and when he did so the lights also stopped. Thinking they were a reflection from his car he walked all around his car and could not see anything reflecting. He drove off and when he pulled into his driveway the lights receded and disappeared. Each light was 10 to 20 metres across and very round. They followed him for 8kms. The man arrived home with the “hell scared out of him”. No sound was heard.

Victoria Point, Tuesday December 19 2000, 9.05pm
The witness was driving on the Capalaba – Thornlands road and was followed by a light about 4 to 5 times the size of a star, flying sideways. It was first seen between clouds. The witness pulled up at Victoria Point and the object was still there. It was bright yellow and was observed for 10 to 15 minutes. It seemed to be large and high up. The object got closer but still remained high up. No sound was heard, there was some cloud in the sky but mostly clear. The witness said the incident freaked her out a little.

Darling Downs, Sunday December 24 2000, 8.10pm
Ten witnesses observed a bright light moving east to west low in the sky. It was seen for about 20 seconds coming downwards like a falling star. It was at an elevation of 45 degrees when first seen towards the west. It was yellow at first and then became white with a pale blue tinge. It had a tail with an apparent length of six inches. The object moved in a straight line and should have come to ground. It passed behind clouds. The witnesses lived close to the Oakey military base and their radar was not operational at the time.

December 31, 2000. reported March 2012.  location unknown
I have recollections of about 14 years worth of UFO sightings, which ended roughly five years ago. They were occurring that frequently, about two to three times a week, that I and my wife became quite used to them, even having the opportunity to point them out to BBQ guests every now and then. We never bothered making specific notes about times and dates and so on, because they were so frequent.

One of them, I’m guessing about ten or twelve years ago, was actually as creepy as it was spectacular, and provided about twenty minutes of entertainment for about ten of us at a New Years Party across the road from us. We’d been there about half an hour and a mate pointed roughly north north-west at two big orangey/red things and yelled to me, “hey, there’s ya UFOs”. Everyone there laughed, me included, because the direction we were looking was into the flight path for jets coming into Brisbane, so we initially jumped to the conclusion that they were in fact jets. Then it dawned on us that they weren’t moving. It was raining very heavily too, and there were no beams coming from the lights like you’d expect, and like we have observed from approaching jets in the past, even when it’s not raining.

We all watched these things for about twenty minutes, going through various theories about what they might be. The only movement we saw was from the one on the right which slowly moved down a small distance before stopping. The next morning I was going over the whole thing in my head, still perplexed and a little disturbed when it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember how the whole thing ended. I remembered we watched these things for about twenty minutes. I remembered we left the party at about 11.15pm. I hadn’t a lot to drink and neither had anyone else, but I just couldn’t remember how it ended. I asked my wife, who doesn’t drink at all. She got a funny look on her face and said that she couldn’t remember how it ended either. I thought that was a bit strange so I went back across the road and asked the mate who’d had the party. He couldn’t remember either. I ended up asking everyone who was there, and not one could remember how that ended. I still get a creepy feeling every time I think of that.

The next most spectacular occurrence I saw was one of these things which came from the east. It moved slowly west toward our place (I was out the back having a cigarette), and slowed almost to a stop above the old air field at the end of our street. I was looking up at it at about a 45 degree angle. It turned right and went the wrong way up the flight path that goes over our house. I had a ‘mag light’ with me and whilst the object was making its very slow turn, which was not an arc, but a right angle, I contemplated flashing it at the thing. I suddenly got the creepy feeling that whatever I was looking at was looking at me too, so I thought better of it.

Red Hill, Saturday December 30, 2000. 8.15pm
Four witnesses observed a round object with five lights “at it’s back” moving west at an altitude of 1000 feet. There was no cloud in the sky and the object was moving slowly without noise. It was observed for five minutes and continued in a steady straight line horizontally until lost behind trees. It seemed to be travelling at half the speed of a plane and it’s apparent size was a lot smaller than a full moon.

Near Ipswich, Queensland.   11 February, 2001   3am Two people were driving to a party in Ipswich when they became lost and were running low on fuel. As they searched for their way, they noticed a red light in the sky. Suddenly, they were forced to slam on the brakes when they spotted a large owl sitting directly in the middle of the road. After coming to a stop, they noticed six small green lights in the long grass at the side of the road. As they watched, something in the sky caught their attention—an object that resembled the Moon, but it was moving erratically, bouncing around the sky before heading straight toward them “like an arrow.” The object appeared to be made of dark metal, glowing with a bright orange hue. As it approached, they could make out the underside, which reminded them of the underside shell of a Moreton Bay Bug, a type of Australian crustacean. Once the object moved away, they continued driving to the Aratula petrol station. There, they asked the attendants if anyone else had seen the strange lights in the area, hoping to find some explanation for what they had witnessed.

April 7 2001, Taringa, Brisbane, 8.00pm
My housemate and I were walking back from Indooroopilly in Brisbane to our home in Broomfield Street about 8.00pm. He was very drunk as he had finished work earlier, but I was sober. We heard a hissing noise and both looked straight up. An object was about 35 metres above us, rectangular like a domino but divided into three squares. The long side was the front leading edge. I would say it was 5 metres breadth and 15 metres length (as it was made of 3 squares). On the back of it were two flames, but like a jet lighter flame, totally conical and clean, but still a flame, blueish and orange. Each of the squares had what looked like soft yellow downlights in the corners, which showed the underneath to maybe have a roughish detailed surface. It moved rather slowly, maybe 70-80 kilometres an hour. We both vocalised independently that it was a UFO. It moved at an even level, unwavering, and went over the left side of Mt Coot-tha and was gone. As it went overhead we had a good few seconds of looking at it up close. My friend remembers but was very drunk and doesn’t remember details unfortunately. It was over Taringa heading in the direction of Mt Coot-tha from the St Lucia/Indooroopilly direction. It was pretty much flying perpendicular with Broomfield Street.

Dalby, Queensland 25 October, 2001.  A woman was out walking when she saw a bright orange ball coming down to the ground in a straight line at 80 degrees. It had a long tail and lit the sky up in an orange light. She observed it for 2 seconds. She rang the Oakey army base and was told the MPs there saw it too.

Wide Bay Military Training Area, Queensland. 2001/2002 (reported July 2023)
The witness was looking east and saw a UFO on Wide Bay Training Area about 2001/2002. He and a friend were on an Army exercise on gun picket and were watching satellites, shooting stars etc in a magnificent night sky. What they
initially thought was a white speck of space junk or a satellite tracking across the sky at about the same speed as the others suddenly accelerated vertically out of sight in about 1-2 seconds. “The acceleration was, say you look into the night sky, put your arm at full extension holding a one metre ruler. Then it accelerated that distance comparatively in 1-2 seconds, essentially leaving the vicinity of Earth and going somewhere very quickly.

Stanthorpe, QLD, 2002
A woman who lives on a farm was in bed when she heard a loud crashing on the roof. She initially thought it was a plane crashing, but then her bedroom was lit up through the curtains and she could smell sulphur. Her dog in the next room began scratching at her bedroom door to be let in. Looking outside everywhere she found no sign of anything. The next day she was at the local shop talking to a girl she knew who lived half a kilometre from her farm and the girl confirmed that her dog was upset too. A few days later after the crashing sound incident, the woman’s dog became unwell with coughing. The sulphur smell lingered, disappearing then reappearing in other rooms in her house. Her house has a cement floor and showed no sign of anything emerging from under it, yet the smell remained. Her property is reasonably flat but high up.

Gold Coast, 2002-2003
I lived on the Cold Coast and in 2002/2003 saw strange lights in the sky. I lived in Crestridge Crescent, Oxenford at that time and had a good view from the bedroom window. I could not sleep that night and enjoyed the view from my bed, till I saw those strange lights. I did not wake up my husband. What I saw were about four or six lights going up and down, but in the same area. It went on for a long time and it looked as if they were playing with each other. It could not have been helicopters because of the way they moved around. Because I never heard a thing about it, not in the newspaper, not on the news and not from other people, I thought I better not tell anyone, otherwise they might think I am crazy.

St Kilda, Melbourne. Sunday February 9, 2003 (weekend of the St Kilda Festival)
A man was walking towards his car parked in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, when he looked up in the sky between two buildings and saw a black triangle moving slowly. He described it as having white lights in each corner with a red light in the centre. He ran to a nearby woman and said “do you see that?” but she seemed dazed and didn’t respond. The triangle then did a U-turn, paused, then passed behind a building and disappeared. He saw it for about 20 seconds so he “got a good look at the object” and describes it as being identical to what was reported being seen over Belgium during 1989/1990.
*The Belgian UFO wave resulted in no less than 2500 written reports of flying triangular objects submitted by a percentage of the estimated 13,000 witnesses.
These objects were being tracked on radar and fighter jets scrambled, and reports were even submitted by the Gendarmerie. Pilots of the jets reported the objects were moving so fast they could not possibly be man-made, being able to move from an elevation of over 15,000 feet to 500 feet in a matter of seconds. All these years later no concrete explanation has been forthcoming.

Gold Coast, Queensland. 2004
A young woman was attending Bond University and was driving home just after midnight on the road to Helensvale near the beer factory. She was alone on the road and noticed a very bright white silent light approaching her vehicle from behind.

It was approximately 100 metres above the ground, but as it got closer it descended to only 50 metres above her car. She became very frightened as it paced her car for about 10 minutes, following her car exactly into the many twists and turns on that road. When she caught sight of other vehicles ahead she accelerated to be nearer to them, and as she did the object departed. She was extremely frightened through the entire episode. She stated this was definitely not a plane or helicopter. This was the first time she had ever experienced anything like it.

Main Beach, Queensland. 2005
A man was laying on the beach looking at sky. Wearing polarised glasses he observed a white object about the size of a pin head which seemed to be hovering over Surfers Paradise. It started to move slowly east, going out to sea. As it did, two more white objects appeared from the east and made their way slowly to meet it. They fell into line with the first object, hovered for 30 to 45 seconds, then all slowly moved out to sea. He watched them for five minutes. The witness has seen many satellites before and said they were definitely not satellites, planes or helicopters.

When the same man was 17 years old in New Zealand he went rabbit shooting with a friend. It was 5.00am and they were sitting near their vehicle when they observed a light like a light bulb come down to ground and land. It was about five miles from their location. As daylight broke the young men decided to walk to where the light had landed, but when they got there they could find nothing.

Fraser Island, Queensland. 2007 8pm – 9pm.
A man and his wife were moored off Fraser Island four years ago. He was with his wife were accompanied by another couple in their boat. They were 200 to 300 yards (180 to 270 metres) off the beach and could see three small lights moving along the beach. Two of the lights seemed to be meeting up with the other one which was more stationary. When all the lights finally came together about 40 seconds later, the four witnesses observed a saucer-shaped object rise off the beach taking off into the sky at a 15 degree angle, then rising to pass over their boat about 50ft (15 metres) away and 30ft (9 metres) above them. The main witness described being able to see inside the object which was lit up a ‘lettuce-green colour,’ but could not see any occupants. Externally, the middle of the object was spinning and turned slowly, revolving once every four seconds. The top of the object ‘appeared like glass’ and the top ‘cabin’ tapered to the centre. The lower part of the object was metallic looking but did not reflect any light. Witnesses heard no sound during their observation which was for less than 30 seconds. They were amazed!

28 March, 2009.  Dalby, Queensland, Australia Glancing out my lounge room window on Saturday 28th March 2009 about 8.30pm (an approximate) I saw a bright orange coloured light moving across the sky. It was low enough to tell there were three lights in a triangular shape that emanated a bright but unusual orange light. My partner also saw the light and we went outside to observe it for about five minutes. The light travelled north-east and rose higher so that it became a very small light and eventually went from view. It was the first time I have ever seen anything like this.

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MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS RECEIVED IN 2000

The following was received via email in July 2000:
Good morning. I just had to write this down, so I know that I didn’t imagine it. Yesterday, I was taking a picnic lunch up to Binny who was working up at Wakes Lagoon – which is about 60km north of our house. Anyway, it was 11:10am and I was on the road near the airstrip, [Adavale] – which means I was heading west – when right in front of me came something down from the sky – it was falling really fast, and looked like metal disintegrating and was so bright that I had to close my eyes and stop the car. [of course I stopped the car first] Darcy saw it too and was very excited – at first I thought it was going to cross on the road ahead of me – like a whirly wind sometimes does – then I thought we would hear a big bang when it hit the ground, but I guess it burnt up before it impacted because it got to the tree line on the other side of the airstrip and … well… nothing – it vanished. I was tempted to drive over to where I saw it go down, but I was running late and I figured whatever it was would still be there when we got back. Then we got back very late last night, so I missed it in the dark. When I got to Wakes and discussed it with some others, we decided that it could have been a shooting star – because that is not unheard of, but it was so fast and the streak was so bright – it was, I’m sure like metal burning up and disintegrating. Has anybody mentioned a missing satellite lately? Who can I ask? Anyone got the number of the FBI Unexplained phenomenon’s? This is a job for Mulder & Scully! Really bizarre!

In a further message, the witness stated: The man who reported it to the ABC Longreach Radio lives about 200km north of us and if he said it went down 100-200metres from him, it must have been a very long way away for both of us, unless we saw two separate parts of the same broken up …thing… I’m surprised to hear that the report made it to the city.

[There were other similar reports of this sighting on ABC radio news Longreach with other witnesses some distance from each other, and all stating that the object was very close to them. Further, a Courier-Mail article explained the occurrences as a meteor shower. Alert readers will have noticed in our Sightings section a number of sightings around the 7th and 8th of July. Coincidence…? – PP]

Surfers Paradise, some years ago
A man reported that on a night some years ago, on the beach he saw red blue and green lights on a triangular shape about 100 feet above him which had the colour of a stealth fighter. There were other people on the beach and the object made no noise. He could not seem to take any kind of action and felt “mellow”. However he did note from his watch that the episode lasted 30 to 45 minutes.

Aspendale, southern Victoria 1979, 11.00pm [reported 2000]
A man now retired to the Gold Coast was living in the southernmost part of Victoria in 1979. One night at about 11 pm he and his wife saw a circular objects with lights around it about 150 yards away from their house. It was observed for about 10 minutes whereupon it flew away over the sea. The object seems to have come down to the ground in several places because there were found places near the sighting where vegetation ceased growing. The sighting had been reported to the Victorian UFO Society.

1974/75 [reported February 22 2000]
A man observed a UFO over the Illawarra power station. It was a long silver object with portholes. He was driving at the time whilst trying to keep an eye on it when it disappeared at lightning speed.

Cairns, [reported Thursday December 21 2000]
A message was left on the answering machine stating that when the witness was about 13 years old or less, he observed two round objects about one foot apart moving about in the sky together. The sighting was made in the early 1950s. (no phone number left to return call)

Bankstown NSW, late 1960s [reported 2000]
The witness remembers a sighting which he witnessed with 8 other children at Milperra. They were at a bar-b-que on semi-rural land and it was after midnight. The object was reported in the media and had left a huge mark on the Bankstown golf course about half a mile away. He did not see this mark [a circle of flattened grass] but saw a photo of it. The object changed size in an instant while being observed by him.