From: mark.whittaker@f605.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Mark Whittaker)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: UFO SIGHTINGS SYDNEY
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:03:47 GMT
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Original to: all.ufo.spotters

                  UFO SIGHTING OVER SYDNEY 
 
 
"UFO's"- Well some people may think I'm a screw loose, but 
I'm not.  I am 33 yrs young, a service policeman, a student pilot and a
Virgo which makes me quite level headed with an analytical mind.  Which I
hope will give some credence to what in am going to ask and tell all of you
who have taken the time to read this. 
 
On Saturday night 22nd August 1992 at 2220 hrs in my Eastwood home I went to
the kitchen to get a drink when I looked out the window and saw, what first
appeared to be a plane with its landing lights on but then I looked closer
at the light which was yellow in appearance and I couldn't see any rotating
beacons (red flashing lights).   It seemed to be travelling more like a
satellite than an aircraft.  It had a floating motion more so than flying. 
Curiosity got the better of me so I ran out to the car to get my binoculars
to check it out closer.  By the time I got back five more of these objects
had appeared which were travelling behind the first at different levels in a
staged formation.  I woke my wife who was asleep on the lounge and she
looked on in amazement.  They were travelling from North West to South East,
I estimate there height at 3,000 ft.  The first object appeared at a bearing
of 060^ and then travelled to 090^ were they congregated.  They manoeuvre
around not like any aircraft that I know of, with the exception of a "hot
air balloon" which also sprang to mind as the light that was coming from
them was not unlike that of the flame a hot air balloons uses, however they
travelled to quickly.  The size of the objects was about that of "Saturn". 
The UFO's once stopped began to form up into a pattern with a stepping down
affect in a straight line falling to the East and dropping in altitude.
There seemed to be a one hovering around on its own the ones which were in a
line then all disappeared the one on its own was there for a minute then it
to disappeared. 
 
I spoke to the local police who gave me the number of the senior controller
at the airport to confirm if there was any Balloons in the area, who in
formed me that they are not allowed to fly at night, he then tended to fob
me off and took another call and disconnected me. 
 
I rang various media organizations to see if anyone else had reported any
thing, one radio station treated it as a bit of a joke however while I was
giving details to a bimbo receptionist who was asking ridiculous questions
another caller from Turramarra one of which was a pilot rang re the same
sighting and they put both of use on the same line and compared notes, which
seemed to match-up.  They saw them form into a triangle and disappear they
would of seen it from a different prospective. 
 
Channel 9 news confirmed that they had several reports of the same UFO
sighting, they rang me back to day Sunday and did a subsequent interview,
they had two other interviews which backup what we had seen.  It will be
Aired on the Sunday nights news.  If anyone else has seen these UFO please
contact myself on (02) 8746619 or Mark Barcin TCN 9 News on 9652205.  The
more information of sighting locations the better they can be tracked as to
there course of travel. 
 

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 * Origin: ~\SHORTWAVE POSSUMS/~  DURAL, NSW, AUSTRALIA (3:713/605.0)