<a name="#STORY1">Wow! What an amazing set of encounters.
I hope others on this forum have an experience that they can share with us.
As for my own encounters -
The first time was when I was 14 years old. (22 years ago)I was walking home from a friends house who lived around the corner from me. It was about 9:25pm ( I had to be home by 9:30pm so it's easy to remember ). It was a bright clear night. When I got to the corner of my street a shadow went over my head so I whinced and looked up to see what it was. What I saw was incredible. This absolutely huge dark shape about 100 feet above me travelling North from where I stood. No sound, no lights - nothing! It scared the living daylights out of me. I jumped into a bush that was growing over a small fence on the corner house and watched it pass by. It's shape was circular. I could see the stars outlined all around the object and it cast this monsterous shadow on the ground in the paddock (field) across the road. We don't have grassy nulls in Australia - just dirt paddocks (fields). Best visual encounter I ever had in my life! I stood there cowering in the bush till it had gone a few miles off and then ran like the wind home! Sure, at the time I was scared, hey! 14 years old and seeing something spooky...but I realised later in life what a lucky sighting that was because so many UFO buffs have never seen anything!
Of course later in life you start wondering what a UFO was doing around your neighbourhood, right? Well, I live about five miles from the RAAF base Edinburgh in S.A.
Yes, UFO's get seen near bases a lot....But a lot of people outside south australia aren't aware that the "Weapons Research Establishment" (W.R.E.- now named DSTO or "Defence and Sciences Technology Organisation") is also built across from the base on Crown land. It's a hi-tech hub for defence research. It gets better....years ago, a journalist disclosed while working on a corporate video for the DSTO he had entered an off-limits hangar that contained saucer shaped craft - as he described it - when noticed in the hangar, he was swiftly escorted out and told not to talk about what he had seen. Others have stated that there is a top secret project named "Project Apotheosis" that involves the transport of alien craft from the DSTO to another secret location. So, my conclusions to this is there is a lot more going on out there than meets our poor un-educated eyeballs, that's for sure!...so, maybe journo's are not the only ones poking around military bases to see what's going on? whatsmore perhaps it was the DSTO that was the focus. After all, some of best defence projects in the world have come from there.
As for my other sightings, less dramatic but still worthy of mention. Strange lights doing right angle turns - there were three of them, at night, in the wee hours of the morning. It was still fascinating to watch and this happened in the 70's as well.
The most recent was last month while my brother and I watched a satellite pass overhead. He was leaving after visiting and we were standing in the driveway of my home, watching the sky while talking and saw the satellite pass, so we stood there talking about it and how it would be hard to mistake that for a UFO. Suddenly a bright light "switched on" in our view up in the sky and became really bright, then moved across the sky at a great pace till it disappeared. It took all of two to three seconds for it all to happen. It was like someone had kicked the engines to life and flattened the throttle..that's the best way I can describe it.
I look forward to more posts from anyone!
regards,
Dave.
[This message has been edited by Dave (edited July 10, 1999).]