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About 10 years ago, I was chopping wood out the back in Hampon, Vic, it was July and about 6.30pm, pretty dark.
I observed three white/orange lights dropping in formation like flares from an a/c. I watched for a couple of minutes, then they moved west.I thought they were flares, perhaps a exercise over the bay? I ran out the front to get a better view and the change of angle revealed there were 5 of them, clustered in about a handspan at arms length. Maybe 5000ft max IMO based on years of plane spotting.
Unfortunately no camera or PC in those days, but I got a good view from Binos, they appeared to be just lights with no structure around them.
Short of banging on a neighbours door, I had no other witnesses. I watched them move way off to the west horizontally in formation.
I suppose I saw them for 15 minutes all up.
I rang papers etc but there were no other reports.
Later that week the local rag had report of the sighting from a few people.
No one believed me of course.
Some years later I heard kids launched garbage bags with candles suspended below for fun.
Now that could be the explanation, however it doest explain how they got up so high in the first place as it was breezy and a clear sky and I couldnt see "a great big orange garbage bag" through the binos.
It was one of those things you had to see to believe and Ive seen nothing like it before or since.
BTW the brightness was maybe twice that of Venus on a good day.
To my mind, they werent garbage bags as Ive tried to imitate the effect and its hard to generate enough heat to fill a grbage bag with candles suspended below. Once the wind gets going, the whole rig collapses and of course the candles go out.
I know its hard to guage the position of each light in the dark, depth etc, but they remainded in formation and didnt waver. Over 15 minutes if they were a man made prank, the relative position of some of them to the others would have changed.
I reckon they appeared over the Mornington Peninsula , perhaps a bit south, moved west and I lost sight of them maybe Geelong way. I doubt any non powered thing could have remained at the same height and travelled at that speed.
I reckon they travelled 50k in 15 minutes, thats 200kph.
It was either a very complicated elaborate hoax or a UFO.
If it was a hoax, I would have expected the hoaxers to call the radio, TV etc to get some exposure and excitement happening.
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