Strange Light Seen Over the East Coast of Australia NEWS- JUN 5, 2010
A news article on the incident.
TWO men had just finished a big night out in Noosa when they saw a floating iceberg in the sky about 6am yesterday.
A bus driver transferring passengers at the Ettamoggah Pub saw a vapour swirl around an object high in the sky.
A mum out for an early morning jog saw a white milky haze that turned into a swirl above Buddina, and more than 40 market stallholders at Yandina were mesmerised when they saw a bright light with a vertical spiral above and below it.
Across the Sunshine Coast - in fact all along the east coast of Australia - early risers were shocked by the strange sight in the sky.
Reports of the UFO sighting stretched into NSW, the ACT and south to Victoria.
SunAir driver Rudolf Cermak said it was a perfectly clear morning with no clouds in the sky as he transferred passengers at the Ettamoggah Pub.
This thing came over. It just looked weird, he said.
There was this little white cloud and a bright light inside it and it was illuminating the cloud.
It was lit up like a Christmas tree.
At first, he thought it was the moon with a cloud over it but then realised it was moving north-east.
The cloud stayed with it and it left no trail, as an aeroplane would.
This was a vapour swirl around the object, Mr Cermak said.
Planes have flashing lights and because the thing was moving away from us, it could not have been landing lights.
I've seen a meteor and shooting stars go fast but this was a lot slower, like a very fast aircraft.
There is very little traffic on the Bruce Highway at that time of morning and yet there was no sound at all.
Patrick O'Brien saw the spectacular sight while setting up for the Yandina Markets.
Everyone just stopped what they were doing and the sighting was the talk of the market all morning.
It was a very bright light with a spiral of light around it, he said.
We watched it for quite a while as it went across the sky at an even height.
It was too fast to be a plane and too slow to be space junk.
It was quite strange. People were waving to it and saying, 'come pick me up'.
Rita Aitken said she was jogging along Iluka Avenue at Buddina when she thought she saw the moon behind a cloud among the stars.
It had a white milky haze over it. Then that haze turned into a swirl and then I realised the moon was behind me, she said.
I thought it might have been a plane but ... it had no other lights.
Colton Stevenson was walking with his mate Ricky Lowe when they saw the circular lollipop shape, which made no noise above Noosa.
They were glad they were together because we were sure no one would believe us.
It had a cloudy vapour on the top and bottom, Mr Stevenson said. It looked like a floating iceberg in the sky.
I don't believe it was a comet, because I've seen that, and I don't believe it was space junk, because I've never seen it float.
The cloud vapour doesn't move shape the whole time it moves.
While the mysterious object was still unexplained last night, it certainly was not a commercial plane, according to Sunshine Coast Airport manager Peter Pallott.
Mr Pallott said there were no jets flying into the Sunshine Coast at the time the unidentified flying object was reported.
Our first jet of the day doesn't arrive until 8.30am, he said.
Owen Bennedick from Wappa Falls Observatory said people were talking about the light in the sky everywhere he went yesterday.
The only thing I can put it down to is an out-of-shape asteroid that started to spin, he said.
But it sounds like it was going far too slow for that. The slowest meteor goes at 11km a second.
The only other thing it could be is an aeroplane or a UFO. Someone said it might have been a meteorological balloon, but it wouldn't have had a cloud around it.
It can't be a comet, because they don't do that.
I think it's in the too-hard basket.
Maybe the little green men are coming to take us away.
A Sydney astronomer said the bright light was probably a rocket.
Geoffrey Wyatt, from the Sydney Observatory, said it appeared to have been the Falcon 9 rocket launched in the United States an hour earlier.
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