I've seen a few things flying over Melbourne in the past few years.   
   Some of them no doubt have a prosaic explanation.  Some are unlikely   
   to have a prosaic explanation.   
      
   But the night of Jul 28 2021 kinda takes the cake. So far.   
      
   I've reported it to local UFO organisation(s) but being Australia   
   there was not even an acknowledgement. There might have been an   
   up-tick in searches of my online info shortly after. I find a lot of   
   anonymous IP's with no known hostname are active these days. They   
   might be hackers.  Some of them geolocate to interesting places in the   
   US with big military or other complexes nearby.Or it might be my   
   paranoia acting up again.   
      
   Anyway. It's taken a while to process what I saw as is often the case   
   with these things. I never like to report anything that may be too   
   unusual. But after checking around it seems this sighting is fairly   
   "normal" for this kind of thing. And it also seems to jive with   
   another of my current hobby-horses -- the sighting came 1 week before   
   COVID cases in Melbourne started to go through the roof. Up till then   
   they had been on the decline after the 5th location since the start of   
   the pandemic.   
      
   Around 8.30 pm I went out as usual to my patio area with a cup of   
   coffee and started watching the sky. I live in almost rural Victoria.   
   The neighbour next door has a big garage that blocks off anything   
   below about 20 deg above the horizon. There is also a 2.5m-tall   
   fence.  I also have a roof over the patio that blocks anything to the   
   S of me and obscures a lot to the E and W as well.   
      
   If I get up and walk out into the hard I can see a little from the S.   
   The glow from Melb is on the S horizon, but I cant see that from the   
   patio.  There's a front porch for that.   
      
   I was watching and sipping the coffee. As on many nights the action   
   started pretty soon after I went out there. First there was the flash   
   of a brief meteor over to the N. I think it came down right to left   
   and lasted about 1 sec. I think it was blue.   
      
   I went into alert mode. From experience I know these things come in bunches.   
      
   A few mins later I heard a chopper coming up from the S. It went over   
   my house as they often do and haded north. Almost directly to where   
   the fireball had flashed. It seemed to be a normal chopper. Maybe the   
   police chopper. Maybe another one. Nav lights flashing. Normal.  I   
   have seen unusual helicopters in the past couple ys. But this wasn't   
   one of those.   
      
   As the chopper disappeared into the distance just over the neighbours   
   garage there was ANOTHER flash as a meteor came down pretty much in   
   the same region as the first. This one was white and came down from   
   left to right and lasted about 1 sec.   
      
   Unusual you should see 2 meteors in the same part of the sky framing   
   the transit of a helicopter, I thought to myself.   
      
   I got up and walked a little into the yard.   
      
   Out of the corner of my left eye -- i.e. to the west -- 2 "sparks"   
   suddenly appeared quite high in the sky. They gave me a bit of a   
   start. They may have appeared out of nowhere. I.e. not travelled from   
   the S.  They were headed north.  They zig-zagged in approx   
   parallel. Flying quite fast and unusual that they seemed to fly   
   somewhat independently but in short straight sections with sudden   
   turns. They were bright enough they seemed to leave an after-image of   
   each segment of their flight paths.   
      
   They headed north for 1-2 sec then started to zig-zag curve off to the   
   NW where they disappeared in another 1-2 sec.   
      
   I walked a bit further into the yard and turned around to look over my   
   patio roof to the S. The roofline was maybe 30 deg down from the   
   zenith.   
      
   SHOCK. A huge black boomerang appeared over the roof moving pretty   
   slow. And apparently pretty low. It came right over the top of me and   
   headed pretty much north, directly behind me.   
      
   While it was overhead I could see underneath it had 3 or 4 rows of   
   slightly illuminated circles along both wings. Each circle seemed to   
   have an illuminated dot in the center. The shape was a classical   
   boomerang otherwise. Rounded at each end. Symmetrical.  Shallow V   
   angle. It was quite wide -- maybe the width of 2 hands at arms length   
   end to end. ~15 degrees maybe.   
      
   As it was overhead I also noticed there were at least little sparks   
   flying under the object, near the trailing edge. Maybe they were   
   coming and going inside the thing. The overhead part of the sighting   
   didn't last long and I was in kinda shock by this point.   
      
   The thing continued to move slowly over me and then off to the north   
   over the neighbours garage line. It didn't seem to have a rudder or   
   tail. But it was hard to see in the dark. You could really only see it   
   against the stars and dim glow of highway lights off in the distance   
   in that dir.  Maybe it was thick in the center and tapered off to each   
   end.  It disappeared into the gloom in the distance probably a few deg   
   above the flat roof of the garage.   
      
   The whole thing was over in less than a minute. Maybe only 10-20 sec.   
      
   I initially thought it might have been "something normal".   
      
   The sparks might have been birds with reflections from ground lights   
   off their bellies. But they seemed far too bright and pointlike for   
   that.  I live in semi-rural Victoria. There are highway lights and a   
   couple supermarkets within 10 km off to the NW. I've seen other birds   
   fly at night and they look diffuse and not point sources. Of course   
   the zig zag flight of the first pair of sparks could have been   
   parrots. They do fly like that.  But they also make a hell of a racket   
   when they fly.  This whole episode was perfectly quiet apart from the   
   chopper.   
      
   The boomerang could have been a flock of birds I thought. But it   
   seemed totally solid and symmetric. Birds I see flocking around in the   
   daylight wheel around and don't maintain a constant distance from each   
   other. The don't fly straight and level and constant speed.  The   
   boomerang seemed quite solid and the rows of circles underneath seemed   
   to in precise parallel rows equi-distant from each other and the   
   spacing didn't change over time.   
      
   It might be a B-2 bomber. But this one was silent.   
      
   It might be an experimental military aircraft. Those circles with dots   
   in their centers could have been rows of propellers powered by electric   
   motors.   
      
   Maybe it wasn't as big as I thought. Just a large remote-controlled   
   drone.  Somewhat unusual to have (judging by the rows of circles)   
   60-100 propellers. I have built a couple quad drones. 100 hobby-type   
   motors might lift 50 kg. It just "seemed" to be a bit more weighty   
   than that. Again, judging by the rows of circles it had to have a   
   minimum wingspan of 20m. If the circles had a diameter bigger than   
   10cm then it was way bigger.   
      
   So maybe military and secret.   
      
   The possible association with the chopper is also unusual.  Was it   
   slip-streaming a police chopper? Was it some kind of escort?  Was it a   
   chase where the target was successfully evading?   
      
   All seemingly on the unusual end of the spectrum.   
      
   So a couple months later I'm starting to suspect it was maybe   
      
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