Queensland’s strangest UFO sightings

The Far North is a UFO hotspot, with reports of strange lights over beaches, the Great Barrier Reef and objects hovering in the sky. Here’s some of the most bizarre sightings.

Following a recent meteorite sighting in Far North Queensland, Aussies have taken a renewed interest in astronomy, UFO’s and the paranormal, topics which have been extensively explored by a popular FNQ podcaster.
Marketing agent and self proclaimed “X-Files nut” Kade Moir has shared stories of strange sightings and unexpected encounters with what he believes to be aliens — and says he has proof to back his claims.

Mr Moir has shared some of his most memorable stories with people who claim to have encountered the supernatural on his globally renowned podcast Believe: Paranormal & UFO Podcast.

The Far North has a reputation as a UFO hot spot including strange lights hovering over beaches, the Great Barrier Reef and reports of strange objects hovering in the sky and most recently, a meteor sighting that lit up Queensland skies in May and is expected to have landed somewhere near Croydon.

Mareeba farmer Macello Avolio, who caught the unusual space event on camera, suspects a meteor is behind the “fireball” that lit up Far North Queensland skies

In April, Central Queensland, Mackay graziers Mick and Judy Cook reported alleged UFO activity after finding one of their cows mutilated with body parts seemingly surgically removed.

On his podcast, Mr Moir recalled a woman in Northern Territory who claimed she was chased by a yowie while riding her bike.

“She said the creature was so close she could feel its breath on her neck and its arm wrapping around her waist and body. The only thing that saved her was a car coming in the opposite direction beeping its horn and making a whole bunch of noise.”

Another guest on his show, a man from Sydney, claimed he saw a werewolf 20m down the road from him on a dark night in the city.

The man took photos of the creature which then went viral online.

“The guy’s pretty level headed but that encounter scared the crap out of him,” Mr Moir said.
“He had nothing to gain by sharing that story and it took him a long time to talk to someone about it. It’s kind of overtaken his life now and he believe these things are real and out there,” he said.

The Believe: Paranormal & UFO Podcast regularly boasts up to 2 million viewers per episode and is one of Australia’s most popular supernatural podcasts.

Mr Moir who confessed he lived a pretty tame life compared to those who witness supernatural creatures, said his only encounter so far happened while interviewing a friend of his who happened to be a paranormal investigator.

“He was exploring a location that’s like Australia’s Skinwalker Ranch and his body essentially got taken over. He wasn’t in control of his body and was extremely angry and violent to the point where he punched the ground and snapped his forearm in half,” Mr Moir said.
Mr Moir said he spoke to multiple people who witnessed the incident who described it as the most terrifying thing they had seen in their lives.

“We had to do the interview in two parts because when he was telling me the story, there was lots of weird activity on the Zoom call,” Mr Moir said.

He claimed weird appearances showed up on the screen, his guest’s earphones were ripped out of his ears and he has since had constant issues with his tech equipment.

“We’ve gone through three recorders in the studio because of it and they’re not cheap either. “They cost about $1000 so whatever this thing is, it’s an expensive problem,” he said.

Mr Moir said what most surprised him while recording the show, was most people who share their experiences had never thought of or wanted to encounter the paranormal.

File photo of undefined lights in the sky. Mr Moir has shared terrifying encounters with the paranormal in his podcast including an upcoming episode about an Indigenous man’s encounter with Australia’s famous Min Min lights. Picture: iStock

“I’ve had surgeons, police officers, firefighters, GPs and psychologists come on to share these encounters. The weird and wonderful stuff can happen to anyone, it doesn’t discriminate,” Mr Moir said.

“Talking to these people, I realised they don’t actually want this stuff to happen to them. Some have had to move out of their house or they’ll be in really yucky situations and try to live a normal life and not go crazy.”

He said it was a huge relief for guests to go on the show and share their story without fear of being judged or ridiculed.

“A lot of paradigms really change a majority of the time because people aren’t into the weird. They don’t go looking for aliens or ghosts or yowies and then they have this scary thing happen to them,” he said.

“I’ll get people on and they’ll say that the encounter breaks the rules of what they believe in,” he said.

Despite being based in the Far North, which has had its fair share of UFO activity over recent decades, Mr Moir said he hasn’t had a lot of interest around the region.
“It’s very rare for anyone local to come forward and talk about this stuff. I think I’ve had about two guests from the region. A lot of the guests come from down south or internationally,” he said.

Originally published as Queensland’s strangest UFO sightings