NUFORC Sighting 8247

Occurred: 1983-09-01 21:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 1999-07-04 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Rosedale, Queensland (Australia), , Australia

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

lights in Milky Way, changed directions, very low very bright, no night noises, only a hum very bright light ran away...

About 15 years ago, I lived in a small country town Called "Rosedale" which is just north of Bundaberg in central Queensland Australia. I was still at school in those days, my best mate and I used to find any excuse to get out of a night time and go up behind his place (It was a nature reserve.) We just sat in a cleariing and smoked a packet of cigaretes, shining our high powered torches all over the place. The whole idea was just to have a smoke, (as if our parents couldn't smell it on us when we went home) any how, this one night, we were smoking, and talking about nothing when we looked up to see what looked like a few satalites moving across the "milky way". This was nothing out of the ordinary as it is very clear at night. All of a sudden, the satalites changed direction and went shooting all over the place at high speed. Big tough 15 year old boys that we were, we both said something to the effect of "It would be great if it were UFO's and we got to meet an alien." So wee started shining our torches in the direction of these lights in the sky. It was at this time, we realised the lights were getting larger, and the sound of the night crickets and other sounds were gone. At the same time, We saw a very bright light come out from the right side above the trees, it took up most of the sky. The only noise to be heard was a hum . It was more felt than heard though. Like a big sub woofer for the Hi Fi systme. This light went over tthe trees and as it went out of sight over to the left of the clearing the light and sound were gone aswell. Like big tough men, we turned to each other and said something less than pleasant. Turned again and ran a good mile in what seemed like only seconds. As we got tho the house, we saw the dog jumping over the fence to go the way we came. We called it to stop but it never took direction very well and ignored us completely. Within a few minutes, we heard the dog yelp in pain, we thought about going to see if it was OK but chickened out. The next day, th! e dog came home but was sluggish for a couple of days before it came back to its old self. It had no visable marks or anything and wee can only guess as to why it yelped. I don't know if anyone else has experienced anything similar, but this is the first time I have told this story to anyone other than Family in almost 15 years, It is as clear today as it was then. Please feel free to email me at ((deleted))@hotmail.com

Posted 1999-07-05