NUFORC Sighting 144040

Occurred: 2005-04-01 12:00 Local
Reported: 2018-12-12 10:23 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Alice Springs (Australia), , Australia

Shape: Disk

Disc Shaped Saucer over Alice Springs

I was doing a semester abroad in Australia. Took a class that had us visit Alice Springs. Arrived a day early. Took a bus from a hostel into town. When I wanted to go home, I sat at a circle waiting for the bus back to the hostel. Clear day, nothing but blue sky.

Happened to be looking up while I was waiting and saw a class silver disc saucer. First noticed that it was much higher up than standard aircraft and traveling at a constant but noticeably faster speed than normal airplanes.

I observed it travel across the sky this way for a good 30 secs. Then, all of sudden it stopped on a dime in middair for a few seconds and hovered. It then traveled extremely quickly for a short distance in a different direction before pausing again, this time only for a brief moment, then it took off in a third direction, this time at a rate of insane speed and became blur that left my field of view in a fraction of a second.

Watched a TV show years later that pointed out that local Pine Gap facility is known to test disc shaped aircraft in the area and my sighting was likely another confirmation of that.

Posted 2018-12-14