Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Saturday, December 26, 2020

UFO Lands And Starts Rotating On The Ground Outback Queensland Australia

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  Approximately: 1979

Time:  Evening

I was travelling through outback Queensland with 2 friends in approximately 1979, it was a clear, star-filled night sky, I was driving while my friends slept and it was in the early hours.

In the distance (10 miles) I could see the outline of a mountain range against the sky dead ahead, on top of the mountain was a flashing light which at the time I thought must have been some kind of beacon to warn aircraft.

All of a sudden the light lifted up from the mountain several hundred feet and stopped. At this time I thought it was a helicopter, as grazers use a lot of them in outback Australia for mustering cattle and general transport.

I remember thinking at the time that it was awfully late to be flying a chopper.

The next thing I saw was the light streak west across the sky in a semi circle to my left, it travelled approximately 20 miles in no more than 3 seconds and then stopped dead at an altitude of several hundred feet. By this time I had yelled at my friends to wake up and "check this out".

The object then descended into the bush approximately 4 miles from our position, we stopped the car, I grabbed my 12g pump and we got on the roof of the car to get a better look through the trees.

Once the object had "landed" it started to rotate, and what I could only describe as (2) car headlights, slowly rotated in a fashion similar to the spotlight at airports.

We watched this for maybe 4 rotations when the lights stopped facing directly at "us"?

I don't know what it was, but we all looked at each other, not a word was said and with a cold chill running up our spines, we jumped off the roof and into the car and got the hell out of there!

There was not then and is not now any aircraft that could traverse those distances in that space of time  at that speed, stop in a instant and use VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) technology. What we saw was not "local" I assure you.

Thank you to the witness for the fascinating report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The Min Min Lights In Australia

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  Approximately 1979

Time:  Evening

Australian Aboriginals talk freely of a phenomenon in the Australian bush called The Min Min Lights, strange lights that follow cars, people, they are said to have some otherworldly significance.

During the same around Australia journey with my friends we were hundreds of miles from my other tale of intrigue and once again I was doing the driving ( I love driving and it was my car) whilst my companions slept.

We were travelling along a dead straight bitumen road miles from anywhere when I saw a set of (once again) what appeared to be car headlights come on as I was approaching (1/2 mile) a cut out in a small hill where the road passes through.

At the time I thought "what would anyone be doing up there ?", as the "car" appeared to be up on top of one side of the cut out maybe 60 feet above the road.

As I approached the cut out (50 yards) the lights went out, however in the second or two that it took me to get to the site in question the "car" had disappeared ?

I remember thinking "that is plain weird" but not as weird as what happened next.

Just after I passed the point where I saw there was nothing where the "lights" had been, the "lights" were now facing me from behind and were as plain as day in my rear view mirror. Go Figure!

Thank you to the witness for the fascinating report.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

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Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Friday, December 11, 2020

Numerous UFO Experiences In Victoria Australia

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  Various

Time:  Various

Brian Vike’s Note: In this report the names have been changed to respect peoples privacy.

First hand experiences.

When I was 5 (1966) I was lying in bed at Moore St (Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia). It was dark and the bedroom door was open and I was in the bed directly behind the door (the foot of the bed was flush with the open door). 

All of a sudden a ping pong ball, glowing softly luminescent pale green, floated in through the door about four feet off the floor. It then made an exact right angle turn and came down toward the bed. I was frightened and rolled over, pulled the covers over my head, turned my face to the wall and hoped it would go away. I cannot remember anything after that. I must have fallen immediately asleep.

When I was 14 (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) I was lying in bed at Rosanna in the boys bedroom in the bed against the wall when I heard footsteps in the hall outside heading down toward the kitchen. It sounded as if someone had gotten out of bed and had draped a blanket around themselves, as there was the sound of a slight swishing and dragging as well as the footsteps. 

Presently the kitchen door opened and closed with a repeated noise (as the double hinged swinging doors at Rosanna do) and I thought someone had gone to get a drink of water from the kitchen. I waited a long time for them to come back. I fell asleep waiting. In the morning I asked all who were there that night if anyone had gotten out of bed and gone down to the kitchen. No-one had.

Also at Rosanna (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) I was alone as mother, grandmother and sister had gone out shopping that night to Doncaster Shoppingtown. It was about 10.30pm and I was lying in the middle of the lounge floor listening to a tape of Dark Side of the Moon on Mary's tape player - the one presently at Apollo Bay - when there was a sound from the outside door leading to the billiard room as if it had been opened then closed. 

Next thing, after a short delay, the billiard room door started swinging open and closed (kachunka- chunk -a- chunk ka-chunka) and I looked up expectantly for the kitchen door to do likewise, as I thought all had arrived home from the shopping trip. Nothing. The billiard room door ceased its motion. No sound anywhere. I listened intently. Nothing. No sound. No movement. I became a little frightened to say the least but simply turned up the volume and closed my eyes. Everyone arrived home about half an hour later.

Afterwards, my mother told us that strange things had been occurring for a number of years but had not wanted to tell us children for fear of frightening us.

After the house was sold, the new owners reported nothing at all untoward occurring.

When I was 15 I was walking between the house and the hut (Busty Rd Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia. A Dark night. No moon. I had just topped the final rise before heading down to (name removed) when I heard this really loud hissing/whooshing noise - heading my way very, very fast from an easterly direction. Something was flying through the air toward me! Extremely quickly! 

I immediately dropped to the ground and as I did so I realized that by the time I had reacted it had already passed overhead. It sounded as if it had literally missed me by only a few feet - but I had seen nothing. I quickly looked up in the direction it had gone and was presented with a very bright flash of light that lit up behind the whole cloud bank to the south west. 

Having in mind the 4 second per mile (?) of lightning to thunder I counted the seconds and waited for the bang that certainly must accompany such a HUGE flash of light - the cloud bank was perhaps two miles out - at least behind the furthest ridge. Nothing. No sound at all. It was weird and I was frightened. Yet somehow, even knowing I would be alone in the hut in the dark when I got there and that I considered turning round and heading home - I proceed onward anyway.

1993. Sitting inside the flat at Kellet St (Northcote, Melbourne, VIC, Australia).  watching TV. It was a warm evening and Karen was outside talking to Rose the next door neighbor. Next thing I hear is "Bill! Bill" Come out here. Quickly!" I reluctantly - begrudgingly - rose and went out. They were pointing and staring at a large white light sitting very still in the air toward the North. It looked about 100 meters off the ground and about 300 Meters distant. It was just hanging there doing nothing in particular. 

There was no sound from it at all and it was not moving at all. It was rather large, about the size of the full moon when seen high in the sky - but this was no moon! No details could be seen in or around the light and it was about as bright as a car headlight on full beam although larger and without the blinding glare. 

We commented quietly but excitedly on its size, its seeming closeness to us, on the lack of sound, ruling out a helicopter, and the lack of movement, ruling out a plane. Suddenly the light winked out, reappeared some short distance horizontally to the right, although seemingly somewhat smaller in dimension and with what seemed a slight color change, then it winked out to reappear at the same distance horizontally to the left of its original position as it did to the right, then winked out and reappeared exactly where it was before. 

This all happened literally within the blink of an eye. It was so quick that I was unsure if I had seen correctly. Not wanting to prejudice an answer I quietly asked whether anyone else had seen something occur and if so what had occurred. Both girls stated what happened to the light - and their statements accorded exactly with what I observed. We marveled at this for a bit, then the light suddenly began to retreat directly away from us, gathering speed rapidly as it went, until in a very short time indeed it had disappeared directly and completely in the distance.

Greenhills Road Bundoora (1996). (Melbourne, VIC, Australia).  Sitting on the outside steps looking East. I was often there at all times of day or night to have my ciggies. Observed many planes heading for Tullamarine (the main airport approach route being about 2km to the north - flying east to west). Also observed a few interesting lights that I could not readily identify as planes. But nothing specific. Nothing startling. 

Then one morning about dawn I observed toward the eastern horizon a very large (huge), perfectly white, thin, almost pointed ellipse heading toward the east, finally to disappear below the horizon. It was, I suspected at first, a cloud of some sort, yet it did not have the pinkish orange dawn glow of all the other clouds in the sky at that time - and it did not change shape in the least as it moved. 

It also seemed to moving quickly while the other (normal) clouds were not moving at all. I have subsequently come across the term "lenticular cloud formation", but I remain unconvinced that this term describes exactly what I observed that morning.

1996. Driving along with Karen, heading North on the Street East of High Street Near Bell Street (Melbourne, VIC, Australia). when directly in front of me in a space between the buildings where the sky was visible, but low to the ground, a grey cigar shaped object flitted, moving extremely fast east to west. 

My immediate thought was a military jet of some sort, which for some reason had been painted completely dull grey with no insignias - then I remembered in my mind's eye that I had seen no wings or tailfin. However it happened so quickly I suppose it could have been. Karen did not see it.

2004. Lalor (Melbourne, VIC, Australia). 2am. Standing in the back door having a ciggie looking south. A star-bright object, but shining very steadily, arced very high up across the sky - South to North - extremely rapidly. It took about 4 seconds to cover 45 degrees of arc. It went behind the corner of the roof of the house but when I stepped out to remove this obstruction from my view, so I could continue watching, the light was no longer there.

Strange dream.

Lying asleep on the sofa (Lalor, Melbourne, VIC, Australia) in the lounge room when a loud bang from the kitchen awoke me. Strange, I thought, there is no-one here but me. Or maybe Chewy (our dog) has knocked something over. I better get up to investigate - something fallen down? I got up from the sofa and walked into the kitchen. 

I looked around, but saw nothing unusual or out of place. But then I thought there was something unusual. Something did not feel quite right. There was a strange aura about things. Wait . this is not right . oh . what is this? Uh oh, it suddenly occurred to me, I might be still asleep! So I turned to walk back to the lounge and immediately found myself back on the sofa lying down. 

Once there I immediately sat up and thought - Wow, that was a very strange dream indeed, it all seemed so incredibly real! Unbelievable, I have never experienced anything like that before! What a trip! Oh well . but now I am thirsty. I will go to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Still slightly bemused I got off the sofa and walked to the kitchen to get a drink of water. In the kitchen I looked around and thought. Hang on, something is still not right . What on earth? . It can't be, surely not . but yes, I am still asleep! So, back to the sofa I went! 

Literally walked back to the sofa and half way there suddenly found myself lying down on the sofa again. So I sat up confused (again??). OK. Am I asleep now? How can I tell? I have just had two experiences where I have ostensibly woken up, got off the sofa, and walked to the kitchen. Both times seemed so real, yet both times I must have been dreaming it! What about now? Pinch yourself . does it hurt? Yes . I am awake. will I go to the kitchen? No! I must do something else, the kitchen is obviously a dream world! I grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. I think I am awake.

Second Hand Reports.

A close friend. Bob, Sitting in his back yard in Northcote (Melbourne, VIC, Australia) lazily watching the westerly sun going down when an object rose vertically into the air in front of him. He took it to be a helicopter in the near distance. until it split in two, each part heading off at incredible speed in different directions to disappear in the sky overhead.

A neighbor (Lalor, Melbourne, VIC, Australia). Found a nicely framed mirror in good condition in a park. Disbelieving their luck to find such a nice object intact and in such good condition where they did, they took it home and hung it in their daughter's bedroom. Unaccounted for banging noises began occurring. 

Then one night they heard noises of a disturbance from their daughter's room. They rushed to open the door only to observe their daughter floating above the bed, near to the ceiling, in a wild state of panic. They managed, apparently with some resistance, to pull her down and to comfort each other. They told me they then threw the mirror away in the garbage and after that all was quiet and peaceful again.

Kelsey and Tami (Uncle & Aunt, Eltham, Melbourne, VIC, Australia). Observed what they took initially to be a motorbike headlight heading (as unlikely as this could be) across the lawn toward the glass door at the rear of their house in Eltham (Melbourne, VIC, Australia). 

However the light turned out to be a ball of light, slightly smaller than a basketball, that simply passed through the glass door and proceeded up the hall - three feet off the ground. No noise. I forget whether they said if it passed on up the hall and out the front door .. Or just disappeared inside the house.

When I was 16 (1977) there were reports of a UFO being seen at the entrance to the Wild Dog Valley (Apollo Bay, VIC, Australia). Apparently it was just a big glowing ball of light that had frightened the witnesses who saw it. These witnesses were ridiculed by local townspeople and after that the witnesses said no more about it.

Thank you to the person for these excellent reports.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Huge Disc Shaped UFO Observed At Dorrington Brisbane Australia (Graphic)

Brian Vike's Favorite Cases.

Date:  January 1965

Time:  Around 12.00 - 12.30 a.m.

Hi Brian, I've attached a composite with my limited ability on computers. The exterior paneling goes go all the way around the object and this was what was causing the bright light blue/ white glow, the inner circle of lights is close to what we saw with the only colors being red, green, yellow, and white, all of these were constantly flashing and the black interior occasionally flashed similar lights intermittently here and there. The exterior paneling was constant light.

On a Saturday night in January 1965 my wife and I were getting ready for bed 12.00 - 12.30 a.m. after seeing a movie at the local theatre at Ashgrove, a suburb of Brisbane Qld.

At the time we had only been married a year and I was not long discharged out of the army and we were staying at my wife's parents home at Dorrington. A suburb next to Ashgrove. It was drizzling rain with low dense cloud cover.

Just as I was about to get into bed the bedroom window lit up like someone had turned a huge spotlight on. My wife said what is that so I opened the window  and I could see this bright light coming up from the south just above the clouds.

I told my wife what I saw and I remember issuing an expletive (holy bloody hell) quick Noela, look at this. The object had come below the cloud cover and we couldn't believe what we were looking at.

This huge disc shaped object with very bright light around it's circumference. It was travelling very slow (about 20 miles an hour), then the noise started. It was a screaming high pitched sound which had my wife in agony, hands over her ears and crying with pain.

It didn't worry me as much except it was irritating headache material. As suddenly as it started the noise stopped as it went over the house. We raced out to the front patio and looked straight up at it.

That's when we saw the other coloured lights on the inside. It was only about 200 feet above was, moving slowly north and would have been somewhere between 200 and 300 feet wide. All up we observed the object for between 5 and 10 minutes as it eventually disappeared in the northern sky.

It was not spinning either. The funny thing about this is that no one else heard anything in the house and no mention of it appeared in any paper. We decided to keep quiet about it at the time. We moved to the next suburb out which is The Gap were we are still living.

One sideline to this is about 3 years ago I was having a few drinks with a friend of mine at The Gap and I mentioned that I had seen something strange  in the night sky back in 1965 when I was living at Dorrington. He looked at me and said January 65 ? yes I said, about midnight on a Saturday ? yes, I said, drizzling rain ? yes, I said.

I was watching it, he said, It came across Mt. Coot-tha above the clouds, very bright then when it got to about Ashgrove it dropped lower and continued north. I said to him did you tell anyone at the time, he replied why bother, no one would believe it.

Thank you to the gentleman for the great report and diagram.

Brian Vike, Director Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research. Email: brian_vike@telus.net

The Vike Factor Blog.

Kamloops British Columbia Canada UFO Research.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Translucent Boomerang Shaped Craft/UFO Spotted In The Sky Over Bendigo Victoria Australia (Graphics)


This is not a Canadian report, but comes from Australia and thought everyone my enjoy it.

Peter and Marg. This report written for Brian Vike (b_vike@telus.net) on Wednesday 6th May 2015.

Date:  May 5, 2015
Time:  9:20 p.m.

Witnessed by: Two only – Peter. and Marg.
Location: (residential suburb of) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Outside in the open yard of our home.

Description of object: Translucent boomerang shaped object.
Direction: The object followed a constant direction of approximately NW to NNW at a constant slow speed.

Weather conditions: Calm, windless, still, cloudless, no moon at that time, stars were bright against clear dark sky.

Temperature: Approximately 10°C to 15°C
Length of Sighting: Marg approximately 10 seconds, Peter approximately 15 seconds.

Sighting as reported by Peter:

It was a beautiful clear cool evening and Marg and I were outside in the yard talking. As we were chatting, I was looking up at the sky and happened to look directly at something moving over head. I said, "look at that!" To our amazement we saw some type of aircraft gliding silently overhead.

It was not far off being directly overhead and at low altitude. If I hold my arm fully stretched towards the sky with my first and fourth fingers pointed and spread as far apart as I can, that is how much sky the wing span of the craft covered from my perspective.


It was a brief sighting (10 to 15 seconds) with the craft disappearing behind trees that obscured our view. From our home (south eastern Bendigo) it headed towards the northern area of Bendigo.

I was able to see it for longer than Marg, about 15 seconds as I was able to move to where I could see it between the trees, that by then, were obscuring Marg's view.

The object was translucent. Stars could be seen through it yet it had visible form. It was not unlike seeing a translucent jelly fish in shallow sea water. Although the leading edge was  distinct, the trailing edge (or rear) was indistinct as though it was blurry. The shape was like a boomerang.

At the time it reminded me vaguely of the wings of a typical jet passenger aircraft, (Boeing or Airbus) but without the fuselage or tail section, yet our impression was that it looked whole and complete. The shape was very like, what I now as, the B2 Stealth Bomber.

It was a very quiet, calm evening outside our home that night and there was absolutely no sound that we could make out coming from the object as it went over, unlike that of any jet or propeller craft or helicopter, all of which we often hear and see in our location.

Although translucent, the object appeared dark, not lit by any kind of glow or lights. Upon reflection, I would estimate its altitude to be approximately 150 meters and had a wing span of approximately 50 meters.

I have found these figures difficult to estimate, but put together the above estimate based on such as elapsed time, apparent speed, apparent distances and approximated angles from when it passed over.

We were left feeling in awe, having been so privileged and fortunate to have seen something so unusual, serene and graceful. Neither of us felt any fear.


Before we got to discuss what we saw in any detail, I suggested we both pencil draw what we saw. They looked much the same other than our different methods of sketching. I have misplaced those drawings, but I'm sure that we can find them if ever required.

The next day, I felt compelled to tell someone about our amazing experience. I was unsure about who to tell and what to say. Considering that I run a small business and Marg is a registered nurse working at both local hospitals, the last thing we wanted was to be known as the local fruit cakes for having gone public with our story.

So at first, I gave an anonymous report to a local radio station, their story went to air. I guess I was expecting others to come forward too with their account of the seeing the same object, but I heard nothing.

As days turned into weeks, I felt a type of anxiety building up inside me, I think now because to me there was something unresolved about this. I made some inquiries about who I could or should contact. I tried phoning a military reporting number, was not taken seriously. I tried a UFO hot line number and got some jerk who was kidding me along and stringing out my call (as I out found out later) to make money by timed/tolled incoming phone calls from people wanting to chat or ones such as myself making UFO reports.

I was then feeling very angry! At a later time, I found a phone number of a UFO investigation organization, rang it, got a message service, left some brief information about my sighting and my contact details. They didn't ever return my call.

Several years later (in 2005) I happened to see a UFO magazine in a news agency, flicked through it and saw an article written by a UFO investigator by the name of George Simpson. There was a phone number for contacting George. I rang it, got a message service, but this time I left a surly voice message saying something like, "this is the last time I'm going to bother reporting our sighting!"


To my amazement, I got a return call from George! He was very interested in our story and arranged to do a trip to Bendigo soon after, to do a video interview with Marg and I. He later posted his written story about our encounter on a website.

The link to that story is: http://www.auforn.com/February_2005.html (Was there yesterday, but not there today! Not sure why?)

After having George Simpson follow up on my report, the sense of anxiety and anger left me and has not bothered me since.

So, to this day, it still remains a mystery as to what we saw. Was it man made? Was it from some another intelligent race? Or could there be a different  reason behind its origin?

We have no idea! Although 18 years have now passed, we still talk about the experience from time to time.

Cheers, Peter.

Thank you to Peter and his wife Marg for an excellent sighting report and great graphics as to what the craft/UFO looked like. Also I have passed this report along to Bill Puckett.

If anyone has had a United States UFO sighting, please send me an email at sighting@telus.net or to William (Bill) Puckett at wpuckett@ufosnw.com

Please remember to include the date and time and location. (Town/City – State or Province) and as much detail as possible.

Vike Factor Note: I do receive sighting reports from all over the world, and I post all of the reports I receive here: http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

Brian Vike.
Box 1091
Houston, British Columbia, Canada.

Email: sighting@telus.net or b_vike@telus.net

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