NUFORC Sighting 158428

Occurred: 2020-08-08 11:30 Local
Reported: 2020-08-08 21:20 Pacific
Duration: 6 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Sydney (Australia), , Australia

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Disk tumbling changing direction quickly, half the size of a plane.

A dark, disc like object seen from around 500m-2km (metric system) out to sea. The object was moving upwards and downwards quickly, and was tumbling/rotating longitudinal and latitudinal whilst doing so. I watched it for 3 minutes, ran to get my high quality binoculars, then came back and observed it for a further 2 minutes. It was about the size of half a Boeing 747. Through the binoculars I could see blue/purple light emitted from the top of the craft. I couldn't see it after it faded into the rain clouds sweeping into land from the east.

Shortly after I saw a military plane fly in that direction.

Posted 2020-08-20