What UFO researcher looks for when considering alien activity

A UFO researcher has looked at video of mysterious lights captured in North West Qld. This was what she looked at when considering if it was alien activity.

A UFO researcher does not believe limited footage she had watched of mysterious lights floating in Mount Isa fit the pattern of alien activity.

UFO Research Qld has compiled decades of reports of mysterious objects in airspace over the decades, with North Queensland site locations including Townsville, Tully, Cairns, Mackay, Normanton and Camooweal.

But for two summers in a row strange lights have appeared on the outskirts of Mount Isa, which had been witnessed and video recorded by resident Leanne Kum Sing, who said they usually appeared about 10pm on most nights.

She had sent a video of the lights to UFO Research Qld’s president Sheryl Gottschall, who determined “it wasn’t actually presenting with classic UFO movement.”

Ms Gottschall was particularly interested in sightings that appeared artificial and yet could not be replicated by humans.

UFO Research Queensland president Sheryl Gottschall.

“Not paranormal, but advanced technology of an exotic origin,” she said.

“What we look for, for a genuine UFO is something that goes from horizon to opposite horizon within two seconds flat, or doing a 90 degree turn at a fast speed, or an 180 degree turn like going directly back on the line of its travel previously.”

The lights that Ms Kum Sing showed were travelling much slower, but Ms Gottschall could not explain the cause, having matched flight plans with the direction the lights were photographed.

An image of one of the mysterious UFO lights shining on the outskirts of Mount Isa.

Military exercises or aircraft were also possibilities.

“We’ve certainly had a lot of reports, not only Mount Isa, but in central Queensland around the Boulia area, with Min Min lights, those sorts of things but in other places too, and they seem to fit a definite pattern,” she said.

“What has been reported consistently is they travel just above tree height, they’ll match the speed of a vehicle going 100km an hour, and they can maintain that up to two hours.

Cartoonist Harry Bruce’s take on the Min Min Lights back in 2018.

“We know that’s not ours (human technology) because why would they do that?

”That’s definitely a phenomenon that falls under the category of UFOs, but it is we still don’t know.”

Ms Gottschall pointed out one of the earliest sightings in Townsville, in March 16 1960, of an eyewitness claiming that when they sat on their veranda overlooking Cleveland Bay, they saw a “cigar-shaped object” pass from the west directly towards Magnetic Island.

“The object passed beneath the moon and disappeared over Cape Cleveland behind a small group of clouds,” the report said.

The group had compiled more than 20 separate pieces of evidence of Townsville sightings between 1997 to 2017, with site locations including The Strand, Oonoonba, Cranbrook, and Castle Hill.

Originally published as What UFO researcher looks for when considering alien activity