World UFO Day the perfect time to turn your eyes to the NT’s skies

POP on your tinfoil hat and crack out your binoculars today, as July 2 marks World UFO Day.

POP on your tinfoil hat and crack out your binoculars today as July 2 marks World UFO Day.

The Territory has long been a home for our unidentified friends.

NT ufologist Alan Ferguson said UFOs were out there and seen regularly but observers rarely spoke about sightings for risk of ridicule.

“If people take the time to look up there instead of the idiot box they might see something,” Mr Ferguson said.

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Mr Ferguson’s most recent sighting was last Wednesday at 9.30pm out at Edith River.

“I was staying at a friend’s place and we were both looking for UFOs and she said she’s seen them to the west and just out of the darkness there was this yellow light that went straight down and back up like a ‘v’,” he said.

“Just after that we heard a bit of a rumble like a sonic boom.”

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Isabelle Tawil of Nightcliff is neither a believer or denier but reckons she’s seen a few unidentified objects in her time.

“I think I’ve seen a UFO before but it could have been too many beers. The possibilities are endless,” she said.