Cairns couple spots mysterious ‘glitch’ in skies over Cairns

A man has spotted mysterious green light in Cairns skies while waiting for dinner outside a popular Cairns shopping complex.

Cairns man Charles Budby thought he was taking a nice photo of the clouds at sunset while waiting for his takeaway meal when his wife spotted something strange in the picture.

Mr Budby and his wife who were waiting for their dinner at the Civic Shopping Centre car park last Monday evening, did not see anything out of the ordinary in the sky at the time the photo was taken.

“It was one of those photos I wanted to take of the clouds as the sun was setting over the mountains. When I took it back to show my wife she said what’s that in the picture?” Mr Budby said.

“I zoomed in and it’s not a plane or floating balloon, just something you can only see in the photo.

Cairns man Charles Budby found an unidentified flying object in a photo he took of the clouds while waiting for dinner at the Civic Shopping Centre on McLeod Street.

“It was only 10 or 15 seconds when I looked back in the sky and couldn’t see anything,” he said.”

Mr Budby said he knew it wasn’t a plane as it was flying at the wrong angle to be landing or taking off.

“By the looks of it, it was travelling really fast. I don’t think a thousand people would've seen it all at once. I thought it was a glitch in the sky,” he said.
“In Cairns, we’re not isolated from the rest of the world. Funny things happen, even in our tropical lifestyle environment. We have quirky things going on.”

Mr Budby said he took the photo into his local barber to see if anyone else in Cairns had seen it.

“I just wanted to get it our there in case someone else might have seen something at the same time.

“It might trigger an astrological activity for Cairns one day or maybe there’s an inventor sitting in the back of Atherton and he didn’t tell us he had this transformative light speed rocket,” he said.

It is not the first time mysterious lights have been reported hovering over Cairns, with unexplained sightings appearing in Trinity Beach, Palm Cove and over the Great Barrier Reef.

Recently in Central Queensland, a grazier couple in Mackay claimed aliens may be behind cattle mutilation, after the couple found one of their cows dead in a paddock with seemingly surgically removed body parts.

A Cairns-based podcast hosted by marketing agent Kade Moir has been dedicated to uncovering “the weird and the wonderful” UFO and paranormal sightings in the Cairns region and beyond.

Originally published as Cairns couple spots mysterious ‘glitch’ in skies over Cairns