UFO-PRSA

Project Blue Water

Database of Sydney's Northern Beaches & Central Coast UFO encounters

The following database contains reports of unidentified aerial phenomena submitted to UFO-PRSA via RACE (direct) or from AUFORN. Some accounts were written by the witnesses themselves or by the reporting agent. The NSW based reports are in chronological order but exclude Sydney's northern beaches and Central Coast encounters. Because Project Blue Water was specifically initiated to study coastal phenomena and their behaviour, a separate page has been dedicated to cover this information. Click here to go to Project Blue Water. Please note that the database is suject to updating.



1992
A pilot reported a sighting when flying to Bangkok one evening in 1992. As the plane left Sydney, another flight near Brisbane reported an unusual aircraft heading towards them. The pilot said that his radio was transmitting the conversation between the other flight and Brisbane air traffic control. The pilots were feeling threatened as the object was on a direct collision course. Words such as "what the hell is this? Is the military conducting some kind of exercise?" were aired by the frightened pilots. The unknown, a bright object of some kind, was traveling at high speed and abruptly shifted direction nearly colliding with the other flight. Shortly after, the pilot received a call from a Compass flight over central NSW. The distressed Compass pilots reported an unidentified aircraft heading towards them. The transmission turned into panic as a highly luminous object appeared before them. Just as a collision was about to occur, the UFO positioned itself under the wing of the passenger carrier and followed it for a short time before disappearing at high speed. The pilot said that it wasn't long before unknown object was in front of them. Both he and the copilot became alarmed as the object was heading on a collision course. The UFO made a sudden change in direction and accelerated past them. As it ascended, it split into three. The pilots lost visual contact after the unidentified objects apparently took a geostationary orbit.

2000
The witnesses involved in this case were a mother and son. They were in the family car on Boxing Day 2000 when the pair of them caught sight of a strange, large grey object in the distance. Because they were driving in fringe suburbs, they experienced both clear and interrupted views of the low horizon. After the car slowed to a stop, the boy reached for his new Christmas present - a 5-mega-pixel camera. The boy took two shots of the object through the front windscreen of the car. Looking at the data size and low clarity of the images, it seems clear that the camera was digitally zoomed.
Having present knowledge of the reference points in the image and a familiarity with the streets, we were able to reproduce the angles shown by the images in order to get a better 'feel' for the surrounding area and to help rule out down to earth, prosaic explanations.
The area of the sky they were looking at is overlooking the Hoxton Park airfield and although the image does not appear to match anything conventional, on the day I surveyed the area, no less than 4 helicopters rose from beyond the tree line and circled the area. The image seemed inexplicable, especially when the witness testimony was taken into account. According to both, the object appeared to hover 'up and down rapidly'. Although the pair lost sight momentarily when they had to turn the car at a 'T' junction, when they regained sight of it, the sighting did not last long before the object just simply did not reappear the next time the same part of the sky was in view.
According to the description, the object was metallic and appeared to be a great distance from them - as far a 1km away and therefore must have, in their opinion, been 'huge'.

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2001
A lives on a property in a remote area in Picton. On 30th October 2001 A took her dogs outside before retiring around 10.30pm. A light shining through the trees caught her eye, moving slowly into a clearer view. She was amazed to see a huge 'boomerang shaped' object hovering above the neighbour's house. A described the object as being a dull light glow, no flashing lights, moving at low altitude - no more than a 30 or 40 storey high-rise building. The moon was on A's left side and she claimed that the craft was much larger. She also said that the object had over sized triangular wings, attached to a small body. Furthermore the craft produced no sound.
It then moved away from her, heading south until she could hardly see it. The object then came back to its original position. It did this countless times within a minute, circling in an anti clockwise direction. The object always seemed to come back to the same position and hovered in a strange 'grill like' cloud. A recalled that as it went into this cloud it became very faint. Then it reappeared, circled and moved back into the cloud, as if it was using it for cover. She estimated that the craft was no more than 100 metres away from her.
A then alerted a friend who joined her at the property. They watched it for approximately 40-minutes and eventually retired for the night, not remembering how the craft departed.

2002

The Tahmoor encounter

The witnesses: B (thirteen at the time), her sister M (twelve at the time) and their friend J (twelve at the time) began to describe their account.
The three girls, equipped with Binoculars and Walkie-Talkies, climbed to the roof top using a ladder. The house was a single story weatherboard cottage surrounded by acreages. It was just after sunset and the girls were spotting satellites as they did the evening before.

From the ridge the views were spectacular - the lights of Wilton and surrounding villages could be clearly seen. At 5.30pm on Sunday 28th July the girls noticed a large orange light 15-20 degrees (approximate values) above the eastern horizon. The light anomaly apparently fluctuated in colours of orange, yellow, white and pale blue.
At first they thought it was an arriving commercial flight, but then a second smaller light appeared 45 degrees south (approximate value) from the first object and approximately 10 degrees above the horizon. The smaller light began darting about in a triangular path while the other larger light slowly moved northwest until partially obscured by trees.

Then a third object appeared near the same area where the larger light had disappeared. It seemed to be landing or hovering close to the ground in a valley slightly west of Wilton. J peered through the binoculars and saw the object in great detail - a grey saucer shape craft of some kind with interchanging colours of green, red, blue and white rotating around the rim. J also took note that the trees were slightly illuminated by this unusual craft. In addition she saw window-like artefacts, which were rectangular in shape. The girls took turns observing the hovering craft through the binoculars for the next 20-30 minutes.

An interesting point that during this time the three were distracted by someone on their Walkie-Talkie saying, "Identify yourself!" This was followed by some unusual voices communicating in a foreign language.

Around 6.30pm the girls were called down to have dinner.

When we spoke to the parents, they said, "The girls were full of commotion, and used words they don't usually use". Despite this the parents did not take the situation seriously.

At around 7.30 - 8.00pm the girls went back to their vantage point. There was no sight of any of the lights. 10 minutes later the object nearest to the ground reappeared. Then, a yellow light beam shone up from the alleged craft and seemed to bend at right angles towards the girls, much like a low powered torch or spotlight. They stated that the light shone on their faces for about a minute. Suddenly and unexpectedly J ended up on the ground … unscathed. She then began weeping. None of the witnesses were clear how this happened. Had J fallen from that height, she would have sustained serious injuries.
By this time J became extremely hysterical and ran inside. B and M quickly followed. The father said that he went onto the rooftop to assess the situation for himself.
"I honestly thought that the girls had seen a helicopter", he said. Unfortunately, by the time he made it to the roof, the object was no longer there.

The encounter was met with certain after effects. During the night J was suffering from nose-bleeding and a bad stomach ache that continued into the next day. M and B also complained of stomach pains. In fact M's condition was so bad that she did not go to school the following day.
Other symptoms such as stitch type pain, dizziness and blackout continued that day (food poisoning may have been a contributor but it seems unlikely as nose-bleeding is not a symptom of food poisoning).

Since their encounter J and B said that they were experiencing heavier than normal sleep patterns. J had been experiencing nightmares that seemed very real. She recalled seeing people in her bedroom, approximately 5-feet tall with wavy arms.
"The elbows", she said, "were in different positions".

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2003

Penrith South - Friday night on 1st August at 9.24pm P and his wife noticed a bright object coming from the southwest slowly cruising towards their residence in Jamison Town. They became concerned as the object appeared to be engulfed in flames. Their initial though was a possible commercial airliner on fire. Alarmed P ran inside and alerted his neighbour who in turn called 000 and spoke to the local police. An officer did visit the residence about an hour after the event.
It was soon confirmed that the fireball was no conventional aircraft as it was slowing down. P immediately ran inside and grabbed his video camera. Taking precautions to ensure that what they were seeing would be documented, P checked to see if the camera was ready to function - blank tape inserted, battery pack ¾ charged. He then stormed outside only to discover that the brilliant object was now hovering silently above them.
Years ago P worked for the air force and is quite familiar about 'things in the sky' - in a conventional sense.
Outside P tried to activate his camera, but his efforts were in vain. The camera was malfunctioning and P could not figure out why. In the meantime the object remained stationary in silence.
P said, "I just knew that they came to watch us (P, his wife and neighbour) and no one else. I don't think anyone else saw it for that reason".
He described the object as if it was on fire: bright orange, circular and the size of a 'rock-melon' at arms length.
The spectacle lasted for around 2 minutes after which the object began its way east towards the freeway while gaining altitude. It then stopped some distance away and began to 'circle' twice in midair. This rapid change in the object's behaviour was totally unexpected. The manoeuvring ended as it took a stationary position once again. It vanished towards the north at incredible speed. According to witness testimony, the observers then saw a flare in a completely different section of the sky - from south to north.
P said, "It was like when you turn the lights on and then off". Whatever it was, it now appeared hovering in the northern section of the sky, approximately 60 degrees above the horizon. If it was the same object, it had become relatively smaller (less than a quarter of its original size) due to the distance. It remained there for another 2 minutes (an estimation) before slowly ascending towards southeast where the witnesses lost line of sight due to an obstructing tree line.

A second report from the same witness came on 22nd August at 9.04pm. P believes that it may have been the same object, but this time it was much further away. It appeared from the lower mountains (southwest). At first P thought it was a helicopter. But it stopped and hovered the same way it did 3 weeks earlier. It was bright orange and this time only hovered for a few seconds. The unknown then moved towards the Leagues Club (Northwest) and disappeared out of line of sight.

2006
On 29th October 2006 an assessor at a development site near Wentworth Falls was taking random photos of the area, including images of hazardous overhead powerlines. When we examined the pictures he took he was shocked to find that one of the images contained an object of unknown origin.

This incredible photo was taken towards the eastern horizon, making the unknown in the approximate area of MacMahons Lookout where a number of UFOs had been reported over the years.

The object is clearly cylindrical in shape, containing a number of unknown artifacts on its upper surface. A closer analysis of the image shows that the object is partially in a fine mist of atmospheric haze making it considerable distance from the observer. It is therefore safe to assume that the unknown is of significant proportions.

2007

On 9th April 2007, around 7.00am T. Keating was doing a paper run around Blackheath when he decided to take a number of random shots with his digital camera of the Grose Valley from Govetts Leap. Nothing unusual was noticed at the time. It wasn’t until he viewed the images on his PC that he discovered a silver spherical anomaly. Natural occurring plasma or perhaps evidence of superior technology?

These next images make up an impressive collection from Mr. T. Keating. Again taken from Blackheath shortly after the previous encounter (precise date uncertain) looking towards Richmond. The image displays four trailing lights including a much smaller, less luminous fifth light above the cluster.
Could they be flares?
According to the witness, the group of lights maintained altitude.
Could they be a small group of conventional or military aircrafts?
Looking at the close proximity between individual lights (the main three), one could assume an unlikely scenario but not an improbable one.

2008
On the 17th of March, a school teacher was walking her dogs along the shore of Lake Wallace near Lithgow. It was 6am in the morning and still dark enough to see the stars. She saw what she thought was a shooting star, but it suddenly stopped and made a right hand turn. She described the object as very high in altitude travelling south and suddenly turning west.

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