From: jimmyw836@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 5:08:17 PM UTC-4, MrPosti...   
   kymhorsell.com wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
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