Bundaberg woman captures UFOs on camera as another tells of a mysterious sighting
Reports and photos of UFOs spotted over the Bundaberg region have been coming in thick and fast as an expert reveals sightings are more common than ever. SEE THE PHOTOS
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They’re not birds, they’re not planes, but something was shining down through unusual cloud formations over the skies of Bundaberg when one woman snapped away, not realising what she had captured for almost two years ago.
The realisation come as another Bundaberg woman revealed seeing a strange object in the skies over the city just a week ago.
After seeing the story and a question on social media about whether locals had seen anything similar, another local, who preferred not to be named, said she had been searching through old photos of skies and sunsets to find a new Facebook cover image when something stood out.
“I posted this photo of a really strange cloud over Bundy on July 26, 2020,” she said.
“Yesterday on looking at it again I saw the two little white dots in the middle of the cloud.
“When expanded you can see that they are definitely not part of the cloud formation.
“I had another look at the other pictures on my phone and found the dot in another two taken a few minutes later.”
The woman said she recalled that at the time other locals had noticed the strange cloud formations and had said it came over their homes on that day.
The Bundaberg Observatory’s Lonnie Smilas said the images could show plasma or ball lightning, though it was very rare.
“In all probability looking at that storm front it is more than likely a plasma type lightning that takes the shape of a ball or boomerang,” he said.
“They are very rare but have been reported approximately two weeks ago in the Kingaroy area by a pilot.”
Mr Smilas said ball lightning was often seen for around 20-30 seconds at a time.
He said any actual built object would have been in a lot of trouble due to its position in the stormfront.
Last week the first woman, who also preferred not to be named, told the Bundaberg NewsMail she had been driving near the Southside Central shopping complex at around 8.45am when she saw a large, circular object hovering in the skies.
She said she was so amazed by what she saw, she turned the news on that night to see if anyone else had been talking about, but to her surprise, there was no discussion.
“Someone else had to have seen it,” she said.
The woman said the object was circular, light on top and darker on the bottom, and that if she had to guess, it was around the size of two vans.
She said there was no way it was a drone or any other known object and that it disappeared quickly once it went.
Agnes Water extra-terrestrial expert and author Mary Rodwell said she believed it sounded like the orb spotted by the woman could be a craft.
“There are so many sightings these days and many taking photos of them,” she said.
Ms Rodwell said crafts were seen”all the time”.
“I have so many (photos) sent to me and some are extremely clear,” she said, adding that the Pentagon in the US had confirmed that unidentified aerial phenomenon were real.
“I get emails every day from people that not only have seen them, but have interacted with them.”
On Tuesday night, Bundaberg woman Donna Gutzke came forward to share images she took of an object in the skies over the city.
She said the object had disappeared before reappearing in another part of the sky.
Last year, locals took to prominent UFO groups online to tell of strange sightings in the Wide Bay.
One UFO was captured over Woodgate, while another local said they saw a green, triangular object hovering over South Bundaberg in 2021.
A man even reported spotting an object resembling a UFO under the water in the Burnett River in the heart of the CBD.
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A mysterious light show seen over Brisbane, the Gold and Sunshine Coasts was the work of Elon Musk‘s Starlink satellite train.
Notable Bundaberg region UFO sightings
1. Blue light over West Bundaberg
Ryan Peat was left astonished after a blue light appeared in the night sky over Bundy.
“I have never witnessed anything like it before. It was the coolest thing I have ever seen,” he said.
2. Spooky blue lights
A reader contacted the NewsMail in 2013 after she saw a strange light in the sky.
“At about 9.15pm as I was watching television I saw through the open lounge room door a blue light that came down like a beam not far from our house, or at least it looked like that,” she said.
3. Strange green cylinder spotted
One NewsMail reader sent in their account to staff at the paper, after initially being reluctant for fear of ridicule. However, they decided to share their story while keeping their name withheld.
Driving home in Bundaberg on the night of January 16, the anonymous witness said they saw a green cylinder in the sky.
“I didn‘t mention it to the others in the car until suddenly the object shot straight up into the air... pretty much exactly the opposite way a meteor would,” the witness said.
4. Kitty cat-napped by aliens?
“A strange, almost twisted crescent shape hurtled from the sky near us. It was not too big - an odd crinkled shape of light and shade on a shaft of energy/light,” she said.
The anonymous NewsMail reader said they then saw a cat appear from nowhere.
5. Childhood sighting still haunts
“It was a crystal clear day, not a single cloud in the sky… I was watching it for a good minute or so while we were driving over near the cemetery at Avoca,” says Amber Beattie, who can‘t get the image of a silver object in the sky out of her mind.
6. Retired rail worker doesn‘t forget what he saw
On a Saturday evening in 1967, Victor Olsen said he was on the driver‘s assistant shift when something otherworldly happened as the train routinely slowed down.
En route to Bundaberg from Maryborough, Mr Olsen could hardly believe his eyes as an alien craft appeared and started to hover in front of the train.
“We were working on the train from Maryborough to Bundaberg and it was just before we got to Thabeban,” he said.
Mr Olsen said he could even make out a figure in the craft.
7. Is it a bird? Definitely not, says birdwatcher
“After watching for a few minutes, I suddenly noticed several very tiny but very bright lights come up from the right and merge with the large object,” said Richard Gear.
8. Childers sightings consistent, says UFO expert
UFO researcher Mary Rodwell said Childers woman Diane Styles‘ sighting of a UFO was similar to others than had been reported in ther region.
“It looks like it‘s got little lights all around it,” Mrs Styles said.
“Then it looks like it‘s opening up into a dome on a round bottom.”
9. Another Childers camper sees things he can‘t explain
“It rose higher and higher and I thought ‘that’s not a star’ and a beam of light came to the ground and there was no noise.”
10. Mysterious UFO hovers over local home
A paranormal podcast episode recounted the frightening moment a UFO hovered right over a Bundaberg region home.
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