UFO sited near Brisbane - According to the Media

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Well their at it again. Did anyone in Brisbane see the Channel 10 news yesterday. A lady caught a "UFO" on video yesterday morning at about 3:00 (I thought all video came with a time stamp now ????) Taken from Rosewood, I think, out near Amberley Air Bases. Showed a very unfocused object just above the eastern horizon. Not moving, just "glowing very brightly"

Raaf said they had nothing in the air, BOM had no ballons in the area, therefore by deduction it was a OOFO. It was all very exciting, not. Oh and right at the very end of the story the reporter did just happen to mention quietly that some astronomers thought it might have been Venus. Duh!!!

A quick look at any planetarium program ( or even the local paper to find planet rising times) would have shown Venus at about 10 deg above the horizon (if it was at 3:00 and not later whn it would have been higher) and shining at mag -4.6. Now that is bright What's that around 15 times brighter than Sirius.

Boy the media must be really running low on human interest stories if they put that to air.

It does nothing but encourage the general population to put even more ridicule and scorn on dedicated Ufologists. And I'm proud to be one.


Another Iceinspace human interest story

[ThunderChild (Chris)]

While this might not apply in this particular situation, it does remind me of a more general question I have long been pondering :
I have often wondered what fascinates aliens with certain locations. They are clearly doing some sort of sociological research on particular categories of human demographics....
Sightings from trailer parks and hick towns seem to be over represented.


I reckon they're about to invade and are just doing their planning.
You see, if I was an alien, I'd appear in the sky around the same time and place as Venus too. You guys just don't seem to get it. You've outsmarted yourselves!!!

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

[ThunderChild (Chris)]

Originally Posted by ThunderChild

Sightings from trailer parks and hick towns seem to be over represented.

And in case I've offended anyone, I didn't mean to imply that Brisbane is a hick town with plenty of trailer parks.

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

I'm not one to Poohoo Ufologists. I honestly hope that somewhen somewhere someone really does find irrefutable proof. We may already have it bu just don't know it yet. But it's quite amazing though how excited people get and readily jump to conclusions. I'm guilty as charged.

I was attending a party one night and about a dozen and a half of us saw something that initially blew us away. The others might have been forgiven as they had had a pretty heavy night but myself and a good friend were the didicated drivers so were sober as. We were standing at the top of a pretty steep driveway in the dark saying goodbye to the hosts when someone spotted an irridescent greenish light out to the northeast. It appeared to be circling extremely rapidly, far faster than an aircraft of helicopter could. We were mezmerised. We watched it doing this for about 5 minute when it suddenly veered of to the north a fair distance and then started to hover.

At this time another person came from around the far side of the house to see what all the commotion was and spotted another one of to the northeast. We all turned to look but couldn't see it as there were trees in the road. Some of us went to move up to see the new one when the original started to head towards the new one. We were getting very excited by now. Suddenly the light started doing some pretty radical maneuvers as it headed slowly skyward, reaching a point about 60 deg above the horizon then slowly faded. By this time the second one had disappeared.

We were blown away. We stood around yabbering about it for about 15 min. Someone decided it was time to go and started to walk down the driveway and walked straight into a great big spiders web. Boy we laughed. But stopped when we saw the light again. But this time it didn't look like it did before and it seemed to be hanging right beside our friends head. As we moved closer we could see what it was.

A glow beetle/firefly that had been caught on a piece of the spiders web that was then dragged up to be partially wrapped by the spider. Man we felt like idiots

Good story though

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I reckon we should encourage them. I know a fella that used to put long burn sparklers on large helium ballons and let them go at night. They would probably get to 3000 feet before burning out. Made the cars pull over and look.

[circumpolar (Matt)]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

I reckon we should encourage them. I know a fella that used to put long burn sparklers on large helium ballons and let them go at night. They would probably get to 3000 feet before burning out. Made the cars pull over and look.

I had friends when i was younger that would use large black 100L garbage bags filled with helium, get a piece of aluminium fly mesh large enough to wrap up several 'Little Lucifer' fire starters and suspend them from the ballon using a single stand from the mesh.


Great effect but not so smart during fire season

[stinky]

Likewise - 6 foot tissue paper ballons with a cotton wool / metho burner. Big glowing orange disk!

[Vermin (Tom)]

Hehe, been there done that. Drycleaner's bags or cheap and nasty (thin) garbage bags work well too if the night is cold enough.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

I remember seeing in the news they did that in Thailand in memory of the Tsunami victims.

It's a wonder the local weather balloon doesn't set off more UFO reports. It's released twice at night with a light on it each time. I have several videos of it going up in a wobbly sort of way. I guess it's not as bright as Venus though.

[cjmarsh81]

I think your right Thunderchild. If there was an Alien invasion, the best place to do it is a trailor park. Most people wouldn't notice the difference.

[Robert_T]

Originally Posted by '[1ponders

A glow beetle/firefly that had been caught on a piece of the spiders web that was then dragged up to be partially wrapped by the spider. Man we felt like idiots

Good story though

I'll remember that one for quite a while!

[Striker (Tony)]

hahaha...that is funny Paul

[Vermin (Tom)]

The worst one I've ever done was when a friend of mine pointed out three evenly bright pinpoint lights in an almost equilateral formation he saw moving overhead through a large hole in the almost complete cloud cover.

I was trying to convince my friend that they were way too high to be spy planes as he suggested, and were probably satellites, but the formation still seemed too close.

That was when I realised they were "fixed" stars and the cloud was moving in front of them, making them appear to move. Doh!

[EzyStyles (Eric)]

so far haven't seen one yet.. but as seen from my avatar, im a big ufo freak!

The object was properly flames that someone shot off or since there is an airbase nearby, flares from a plane/jet.

[Comet Hunter]

hehe ... the local paper did a full page on the story. It's also funny how every sighting claims "no sound heard"... I get F1-11's flying directly over head very often... barely a few 100 meters above (today was every 1/2 hr!!!) yet my parents not 8k's away dont hear squat - at the distance you'd expect these 'craft' to be away of course you wouldn't hear anything...

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

They did a full page story on Venus? I dunno, Venus and Mars seem to be getting into a lot of trouble lately.

Or was it F111's?

Can you scan the page? I like an honest story.

[Comet Hunter]

Sorry Kevin, no can do with the scan - was reading the paper at work. They included a frame from the video they recorded and over magnified the light to point where it was heavily pixelated trying to show the object.... could kind of make out a blocky image of a nicely phasing Venus.

[mickoking]

The UFO report was near Amberley? Funny how these reports come from near RAAF bases. I believe aliens are interested in building scale models of our primitive air craft so it is only logical that they are spotted near our millitary airfields