NUFORC UFO Sighting 182924

Occurred: 2024-01-28 02:30 Local
Reported: 2024-09-06 07:36 Pacific
Duration: Under 10 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Warrumbungle, New South Wales, Australia
Location details: Campground in the Warrumbungle National Park, located in central west New South Wales

Shape: Circle
Color: Black; green lights
Estimated Size: Difficult to say; possibly 30 metre radius or more
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Westward/above us
Angle of Elevation: 70
Closest Distance: Possibly three-hundred metres overhead
Estimated Speed: 700km/h by conservative estimates
Characteristics: Lights on object

Circular craft hovering a few hundred metres above us, stationary, then it shot off with no discernible period of acceleration.

I was camping with a mate in the Warrumbungles over the Australia Day long weekend in 2024. In the wee hours of Sunday morning (I don't actually know the exact time - it was some time between 1am and 3am), I was sitting in a camping chair looking at my phone and my friend was lying on a picnic blanket looking at the stars. We sat that way for some time.

My friend pointed up and said "What is that?" and I looked up. There was a metallic looking disc-shaped object completely stationary in the air above us. It looked to be grey, black, or possibly even navy in colour (it was the middle of the night in a dark sky reserve, so very dark and hard to make out the colour of the exterior). More prominently visible were the green lights on the base of the object. The lights were either a single ring tracing the outer edge of the bottom of the object, or a series of individual lights. It was hard to tell.

The object was, I would guess, a few hundred metres in the air (this is estimated based on Cessna hobby-craft being flown around in the sky the next day, which cruise at about a thousand feet IIRC). Impossible to guess it's size, but it's radius was comparable to, possibly larger than, a Cessna - at least 30 metres in diameter if I had to guess.

I only had a couple of seconds to look at it, when suddenly it started moving in a straight in a west-north-west direction. I did not notice any period of acceleration at all; it was dead still, and then suddenly it was moving at a constant speed. It traveled in a straight line and disappeared over the ranges. I have measured the distance on Google Maps from where it started to where we lost visual contact with it to be about 1.7km, and I recall that once it started moving we had it in line-of-sight for about 4 or 5 seconds.

I used a calculator to work out the speed; if I use conservative figures and say that we could only see it move a kilometre before it was gone in 5 seconds, that places it upward of 700km/h. If we assume that the line of travel is the 1.7km distance that Maps is telling me it is, that puts its speed over 1200km/h. I don't know what could possibly move that fast!

I wanted to get a photo but it was over so quickly that I didn't even have time to fumble open my lock screen.

Posted 2024-09-07