Somewhere in the Skies - Witness Accounts: Volume 22

Episode Date: October 2, 2022

On episode 285 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, it's a brand new volume of Witness Accounts as we head to Ireland and Australia to hear four fascinating UFO accounts of black triangles, a bell-shaped craft, strange lights dancing through the night skies, and a very dramatic series of events over a military base and witnessed by several Australian military police. It's an international collection of listener accounts that keep us wondering what is truly happening somewhere in the skies. If you wold like to share your UFO story on a future episode, contact Ryan on any of his socials or email: [e-mail] Buy the new Somewhere in the Skies coffee! Use promo code: SOMEWHERESKIES10 to get 10% off your order: https://bit.ly/3rmXuap Ryan is now on Cameo! Book your video today at: https://bit.ly/3kwz3DO Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies Website: www.somewhereintheskies.com YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Official Store: CLICK HERE Order Ryan’s book in paperback, ebook, or audiobook: https://amzn.to/3PmydYC Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Read Ryan’s Articles by CLICKING HERE Watch Mysteries Decoded for free at: https://bit.ly/3rJpbd7 Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte Copyright © 2022 Ryan Sprague. All rights reserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/somewhere-in-the-skies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Terms apply. This is Somewhere in the Skies with Ryan Spread. Hi Ryan and Somewhere in the Skies listeners. Thanks Ryan for giving me this opportunity to tell my story. My name's Jamie and I live on the Gold Coast Australia. My sighting took place on the 14th of July 2021 at around 5.10 p.m. I just want to preface this by saying, I've always believed in UFOs and aliens and was fascinated.

about the topic, but I've never looked much into it. So if someone said to me, oh, do you believe in aliens? I'd be like, yeah, for sure. But I, yeah, never really looked much into the topic. I thought that there was only ever saucer-shaped craft. I didn't realize that there was other shapes. And, yeah, as a kid, I grew up in a small country town in Australia, some in the outback.

So there wasn't much to do apart from, you know, go camping. Or, you know, if you're out of sleepover, we'd just be out on the trampoline looking at the stars. So I've looked at the skies most of my life and I've never seen anything apart from your normal satellite going across until this day. So it was a normal workday for me. I work from home and I finish at 5 o'clock. So I was on my way. After I finished work, I was on my way to the supermarket to pick up some things. As I left my driveway, I was travelling southeast and I seen something in the sky and I thought it was a blimp.

I was so excited when I seen this blimp because I hadn't seen a blimp since I was six years old and I just wanted to see um what company was advertising on the blimp I was thinking like oh my god like I haven't seen that for so long what a cool idea um and in Australia at the time there was such a hard lockdown like we couldn't cross states so I live 10 minutes from the new south Wales border and my family or anyone couldn't cross. So at that time, there was almost no flights into Queensland. It was like, I think to the airport closest to my house, that on one day, there might be like two flights a day or three flights a day or something. Like, it was a hard lockdown. So when I've seen something in the sky, it was so exciting. And I was like, yeah,

oh my God, it's a blimp. How cool. Um, So I was traveling, yeah, southeast and I'm driving towards a highway. And I'm noticing the blimp in the sky is getting lower. It's not moving in a forward or left to right trajectory. It's just descending from the sky. So I don't actually know how blimps move. I don't even know if that is possible, but that's what I was seeing. So I didn't really think too much of it.

as I'm getting closer to the highway, I'm almost directly underneath this blimp now, but I realize it's not a blimp and it's a triangular shape. There's no distinct wings or anything like that. It's, I would say, probably 10 stories up in my mind, I'm thinking it's actually a lot lower than that, but I know that potentially I'm over exaggerating the height in my head thinking, oh my God, it was so close. But it was maybe about 10 stories high. And it was quite large.

I would say it was the size easy of like a 747 or something like that. So it was this triangular black craft and it had three lights on each point. And the lights were round and they were like a bluish white. color. I was freaking out. My mind was going a million miles an hour because to me, I'm just thinking like, what is this? This isn't a plane. I work in the tourism industry. I've traveled a lot. I kind of have a rough idea of what planes are and kind of what they look like. So I was like, this is not a plane. What is this? And I'm still driving at this stage. And this thing's, traveling, well, it's not traveling. It's at a complete standstill above the highway,

um, pointing south towards Byron Bay. And at 5'10 in the afternoon, it, on this particular highway, it is bumper to bumper. It is packed. Um, so I was thinking, oh my God, everyone's seeing this. Like, what is this thing? I was trying to call, I couldn't get to my phone. Um, I was driving. I didn't have my phone in my hand, but through the Bluetooth in my car, I was trying to call my partner. And I knew that this thing was too low for him to see from our house, but I was still trying to call him, telling him to get outside, get outside and look up like you might be able to see what I'm seeing.

So I get over the, this thing also might I add no sound. This is the other thing that was freaking me out because I was like, one, I was like a plane can't fly this low over the highway, it can't, this thing isn't making any sound and it's not moving. A plane can't, it would fall out of the sky. I can't just stay there like that. So anyways, I drive, I take my exit 87 and I cross over the highway and I look back in my rearview mirror and this thing's gone. Like, there was no. it was just completely gone. I didn't see it take off. And then I was thinking like, how did that thing disappear? Like, surely I would have heard a boom or something for it just to shoot off like that. But

I heard absolutely nothing. So following that, I got to the supermarket and I tried calling my sister, who I knew she's had an experience before. And I was thinking like if this thing was a UFO, thinking in my head, can a UFO be a triangle shape? I wasn't quite sure. But I knew that this thing wasn't a plane and I couldn't. I didn't know what it was. But in my head I was like, I think that was a UFO.

So yeah, I tried calling my sister. She didn't answer. So I text her. And then when I got home, I told my partner. And for so long, those were the only two people that I ever told because I was thinking no one is going to believe me that I've seen the UFO. But since then, I've been able to share my story with work friends and, yeah, some other

close friends. And everyone actually believed me whether they've seen it, seen the UFO or not. They're all just like kind of intrigued with my story. So for months after that, almost every day I was searching the news and like Facebook thinking someone would have reported this. Someone would have seen exactly what I've seen. It's a busy day over the highway. This thing is so low, but never.

I've never heard anyone report it. I've never, yeah, seen anything of it. And yeah, so after that, it kind of sparked my information. interest in UFOs. And then I seen that through documentaries and different things, there are triangular crafts. And listening to Ryan's podcasts recently, the Triangles episode, I was like, yes, that's what I saw. I never saw the red light in the middle. The one that I saw, it wasn't illuminated or I just didn't have one. But yeah, it was an absolutely crazy experience. Yeah, so I guess how it's changed my life is that now I fully am involved in the topic.

Like, I love listening to the podcast and reading books and watching docos and all those different things. Yeah, so I guess I'll constantly be looking up now to, you know, in the hopes to see the next one. But thank you, Ryan, for letting me share my story. Hi, Ryan, and somewhere in the sky's podcast listeners. My name is Jeff, and I'm originally from Massachusetts, but I live in Ireland on the East Coast. I've always been interested in UFOs, you know, alien science fiction, you know, since I was a kid. But I never, never really, I never saw anything in the sky or anything that couldn't be explained away as, you know, plane or helicopter or something that was, you know, easily explained away.

That was until 2011. It was summertime and we were walking home in the evening from the playground. It was probably around 7 o'clock, I would guess, between 6.30, 7.30. And we were walking on the road that's overlooking the Irish sea. So we're walking along and it was myself, my wife, our daughter, who was two at the time, and our neighbors and their kid. And I remember I just looked up at the sky and I saw this orange ball. And it looked like it was emanating from, you could see that there was like a black shape, almost like I'll describe like a top of a bell. Or just some kind of, there was some kind of structure on top of it that it seemed to be emanating.

from, but it was like an orange ball. And when you were looking at it, it was shimmering as if you were looking at it through heat. You know, like when you're looking down the highway, like long road and it's hot out, and you can see the heat shimmering off the road. It was like that, but you're looking at it

and it was shimmering like I was looking at it through heat. Sorry, if I repeat myself. But I couldn't tell you what altitude it was. It was high, but it wasn't, it wasn't, super high. I don't know. Maybe a thousand feet. It's hard to know. But it was, I just remember seeing it. And just the first time I thought, that's, that's, that's something strange. That's, what is that? And I remember I tapped my friend and I said, look at that. What's up in this guy? And I remember his, I'm noting his reaction was weird. He kind of got freaked out and was like, oh, it's, it's nothing. It's a helicopter. And like, turned, they didn't want to look at it, which was, I thought was a weird, weird, weird.

weird reaction. And the wives were having a conversation and tending to the kids. So they really weren't looking at it. But I kept looking at it up in the sky and just thinking, that's not something. That's not a helicopter. It's, and then all of a sudden, the, as if somebody turned a light switch, it disappeared.

Like it was just gone. There was no trace of it at all. and I just thought that was really weird. I've never quite seen anything like that before my life. So, but then I saw it again. Two days later, I was driving, this time it was the afternoon evening, sorry, probably around, I'd say maybe 6.30 or something. I was collected my daughter from childcare, daycare,

and I was driving back, and I was about to turn into our housing estate when above the road again, there was the same thing from a different angle, but the same thing, it was an orange ball, glowing orange ball of light, which looked like it was emanating from the bottom of something, it was like black, almost, like, again, like I'd say, like a bell. And so I stopped my car and I pulled over and I was looking at it.

And same thing, within, I don't know, it could have been seconds, not very long, as if someone turned a light switch, it just vanished. And it was nothing there. And, yeah, it was just, my daughter was only two, so she really doesn't remember it at all. At first, I didn't think it was real. I woke up to this blinding light,

and I was transported to another place. Pluto TV! Then I heard a voice. Come with me if you want to live. There were thousands of movies and shows, and they were all free. The truth is our sin. It's just so beautiful.

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I'd like to think it was, but I am very, I'm, I want to believe, but I'm very skeptical about things. But this one was just, this one's hard to shake. It was, that I saw it twice, and it just, and the way it just vanished. Now, I've seen, you know, things like, you know, Chinese lanterns in the sky and stuff like that. And I was in Porto and Portugal, and they did this whole thing where they lit lanterns like that and put them up in the sky. And this didn't look like any Chinese lantern. This was just like a glowing orange ball.

And like I said, and it was shimmering. like you were looking at it through heat. And I don't, like a year ago, I remember I was talking to a friend here who was into UFOs as well, but he was telling me that, because I described it to him, and he said,

he said like, oh, the shimmering thing, that sounds like something he had read on Reddit or something where some theory that at a certain time in a day, maybe they have some kind of, they have a cloaking device, and if there's certain time in a day when the light is changing or something like that,

that they can't adjust or something like that. So, like, you kind of get a glimpse of them and the shimmering as you're looking through the cloaking device. I don't know. Like, that's just what he said he had read. But that was interesting that he said that to me after one night because I just thought it was just that it was, they know that it was shimmering, sorry.

And I actually went on YouTube and Googled, like, UFOs in Ireland. And I found one video, which, sadly, I don't know where it's gone. It's no longer there. but somebody in a house in the country in Ireland had went out their front door and filmed and it was exactly with their phone and fortunately this is 2011 so it was not a great footage but it was definitely the thing I saw in the sky anyway so the orange same orange ball looked like emanating from a black structure and it was hard to see if it was shimmering on the phone but it was without a doubt what I saw and like I said when I saw this thing it wasn't moving through

the sky, it wasn't flying, it was just like there, no sound, nothing, and then just like a light gone. So just, like I said, I'm left with wanting more, I guess, you know, because I know I saw something that is hard to, it's hard to explain a way, it can't be explained away, it was nothing, there was no sound, it wasn't anything human, you know, it wasn't anything aircraft of any kind that I, did I know of. So, it's just, it's just. just left me feeling that there is something more out there. But I don't quite know. Don't have any confirmation what it was.

But anyway, that's my story. I hope that's good. And thank you for giving me a chance to share it. I appreciate it. And I love the podcast. And thanks. Hey, guys, Ryan here. The Summer in the Sky's podcast is a labor of love every week.

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they've already started back up again since early last year and I don't really know what to make of any of it it's all very strange I just want to start talking about it So I live at the foot of Montpellier Hill in Dublin, where you can look up the hill and you can see the old Hellfire Globe ruin at the top of it. To my north is the Irish Air Force is based, the Casement Air Dron. And we're kind of in a flight path, essentially. We get the Irish Air Force's PC9s flying over, we get all the passenger jets and helicopters and the coast guard as well. They come over. So my first recent sighting is in April 2021.

it's the family's all in the house and we've got a family of and I end up volunteered to go to the shelf so I get my right my stuff ready, put my headphones in and I start walking it and I'm coming through the estate and I'm kind of in the middle

and I look up and there's this plane and I can hear it through my headphones I kind of pop the headphones out and this plane is really low over the estate like too low for what it should be really and it's turning it's not bound

it's just kind of it's like it's a full yaw trying to turn to its right so I'm watching and watching it come out with the estate fly over and fly off

and just find it weird but as I'm watching I can see the flight path that's decided to take is going towards this red star off of the distance this really bright red star it's quite low down

on the horizon and I just keep watching I'm walking through the estate and it's just weird to me. So it's just, for reference, the sky is fairly bright. Like, it's not dark yet. It's going to be, but it's, like, this is a bright star for what it is. So I keep watching, and I keep watching this plane fly further and further and further. It comes to a little thought. It's still going towards a star, though, but I start, where I'm walking, the house is starting the way of my view,

and I have to go into the shop. So I go in and I grab my stuff, I come back out. And as I walk out of the shop and hit to the estates and get a view again where it was, I'm looking for that star, and that star is gone. That red star that was so bright, it's now darker again, that star should be even brighter, but it's just completely gone. So I'm weirdly out with this, and I just start walking home. I'm like, okay, no problem then. Let's just go home.

I kind of, I get to my driveway, and I'm glancing at the mountain, and I'm glancing back at the spot where that star was. whole time. And when I look at the mountain itself, there's these two white lights over it. And like, the mountain often does that light on it. It's not that common, but there's farms and there's roads and there's paths and stuff. People sometimes just be up there with headlights and torches and stuff. But I'm watching these two little lights and they're kind of flanking each other side by side and they can move up and they just kind of move over and back behind the middle. They're high enough up over the trees. Like they're not in

the tree line anymore. I thought there were lights on them. They weren't that they were over. And at the time I thought it was drones, like two drones flying together, but it just doesn't really make a ton of sense to me when I consider the other things that happen after, including that plane as well. I think that plane's related to stuff after. But yeah. So my second encounter is in December, the start of December, that year. Home was really late on it's like half 11 or 12. and I'm walking through the estates and as I'm walking I kind of look over at the mountain and over the mountain

there's those two white lights again and I'm just kind of watching them oh there they're again they've come back over in the same kind of shape and science as before and as I'm watching there's more of them this time there's like three different objects

distinct objects with these two pairs of white lights and one of them has a little flashing red light in the middle that kind of flashes it I'm watching this. I'm standing in a drive-by like an idiot just standing in the open, staring at the mountain.

And these things are kind of flying up and they're going around and over the mountain. Like, if I'm to guess, like, they're... If they're over the mountain where the Hellfire Club itself is, these things are like car size, truck size, nearly.

Like, they're big enough. So I doubt they're drones. Otherwise, they're much closer and they're scanning a really weird part of the mountain. I keep watching them now. move off, they move together, they move around, and they're flying up, and they're down. As I'm watching, they all kind of come to the centre over, like a kind of random spot over the forest, and they just kind of slowly drift off.

They all meet up in the middle, and they just kind of pick different directions to go. One of them goes to my right, one goes off to the left, and one kind of decides to go over the back of the man. And I'm watching them, and I just turn around. I just turn around and go into the house. And I'm confused at this still, because you hear this happen for people where they, they're like, oh, I just, you know, turned away and I went to sleep.

I kind of didn't expect it to happen where I didn't have the way without catch myself and to stop myself and go, no, I should record this, not to turn around. But I'm watching these weird lights move off and move together and move away and I don't even watch where they go. I just go inside and it took like a day of me thinking about it for me to go why did I do that?

I had my phone with me. That freaks me out. I never experienced something like that. My first thought with these was that they're just drones or some sort of maybe mapping them out. But it's just the way they move off and meet together and then move off is so weird.

It makes no sense, right? Like, why would, even on a practical side, why would you want all three of your drone operators? If they're all going to different places, they have to land somewhere. What are you going to put each of your guys like miles away from each other? One in, like, a reservoir,

one in just a random mountain range, and one in, like, a housing estate? No, it doesn't make any sense to me where they were moving if they were drones because they have to go somewhere. They have to have somewhere where they launched from, and it has to be an operator that recovers them.

And why would you not just put them all on the mountain together? So maybe three weeks afterwards, me and my friends are trying to walk through the park nearby us. We're trying to meet up with other friends before Christmas to give each other Christmas gifts. And it's kind of late. We kind of left the two late and we're walking through, and it's pitch black. So we're going through the park.

The park has big street lights and stuff in it, so it's not too bad. But all this stuff is still in my mind, so I'm telling everybody about the lights that I saw. I'm describing them, describing how they moved, and I describe the middle one, the one with the middle red light flashes in a strange pattern. And as I'm

describing them, it's literally above us. I look up and I point up and I say to them, it's, that's it, that's what I'm describing. And it's exactly the same. It's the middle red light that comes on and off in a weird pattern and the two flanking lights, the white

lights. And it It's moving, and it's moving, kind of gently, it's moving side to side, and it's moving away, and it's kind of just going over the area. And these two white lights look like they're always facing. So it's like they're always directed towards you, they're not, like, you're not losing side of one light as it turns or something. It's just always visible. So I'm weirded out there this, and I'm pointing up and I'm telling my friends, like,

that's what it was. That's exactly what was over the mountain. And they're kind of glancing up, and they're like, yeah, yeah, it looks like a drone. And then they just move on. And these are people who've had experiences, people who've seen their own things and have crazy stories to tell. And this is, like in front of them. And they just lose interest, exactly the same way that I did when I was at the door in my house. They just turned away and started talking amongst themselves.

It actually kind of, it freaks me out. And I don't like the odds of me talking about that thing. And then it just spontaneously appearing directly above me. Like, that's not, that's a hell of a quix. The very final thing I've seen recently was only maybe a few days before I sent you this email, Ryan, was I was in my garden and I glanced up at my sky. And as I look up, this red streak just tears through the sky. It only goes a little distance before it just disappears. It's just gone.

And I thought it was a meteor. But like less than 30 seconds later, two planes, two planes come out of nowhere over the estates, just circling and flying. around and they fly around for maybe two or three minutes before both them head off north towards the aerodrome. And I have no idea what that was about. So yeah, those are my sightings. And I really, I don't really know how I feel about any of them, honestly. I'm a little bit freaked out more than I have anything else. It's those white lights that freak me out, because let alone that they don't seem to be drones, that they fly off in mad directions. I've never experienced that feeling of just utterly losing interest in something moving on,

especially for it that happened when I describe them in the park for that thing to show straight back up and give my friends the exact same feeling. That is bizarre to me and I really don't have to explain it. Thanks for having me on and I appreciate the chance to talk about these things. Cheers. Brian, thanks for this opportunity for me to be able to tell everybody about my possible UAE experience while serving in the Australian military in 2008 and 9. A bit about my background.

I did 15 years in the Australian Defence Force, the first 11 in the Navy as an electronics technician for weapons and radar. The last four years is a military working dog handler with the military police because biological is just the same as electronic or combat systems, isn't it? So anyway, I was posted of the latter to work at a remote, in the Australian Outback, not far from a town called Catherine

in the Northern Territory. And it was around the end of the dry season in September and we were hosting international exercises with the Americans as is widely publicised every single year and this year was no different. And it was a weekend. I was on night shift. I started about sunset and I usually work with one particular colleague who was on,

rested on with me that night, a general duty's police member and my police dog. And we loaded up the truck, drove down to the flight line. Now, in this particular place, the flight line is dispersed in bushland, which means that the craft don't sit on a nice concrete pad, all lined up in a row. with spotlights on it. This is dispersed in the dark, with around 5 kilometre radius, and in between each o'erlays or the floating areas

where they sit in is heavy thick bushland and just taxiways. Okay, so imagine that. You can see it on Google Maps if you look it up and give an idea about this place, if any of you visit northern Australia. It's hot, wet or hot and dry. And this isn't a hot and dry season. And the wildlife is quite thick.

It's like being on the planet Dagabar and Yod is about to jump out. You and Terradactals and all that kind of stuff. So it's bats, kangaroos, snakes, spiders and stuff you don't even recognise. So that's just put picture this. So anyway, we get out there at about just before sunset. unpack everything and start walking the perimeter and chatting to my colleague as we're good friends as well outside of work and he started telling me a story about how in September a year before he was patrolling with another handler and he had a UFO sighting and

with my background and I love astronomy and I'm a science fiction nerd and I'm pretty kooky, even though I sound pretty straight-laced, I was like, hell yeah, I'll tell me all about. And he told me a story about three stars flying overhead, stopping on a dime, and then suddenly dispersing in a split second in all different directions. And that was it. And I'm like, holy shit, that's amazing. But where we are and what we're doing right here, that could be anything. Okay.

and Catherine is one of the UFO hotspots of the world, especially at that time of the year, right? So anyway, we start walking, the sun's starting to set, and we noticed this place usually has a lot of bats, a giant bat colony, and is full of teeming with alive. I mean, everything's alive and everything's got something alive on it. So, no, kangaroos, you name it, and there was just like nothing. And I put it down to maybe the bats have moved on because they were kind of troublesome and at the time interfering with the aircraft. And also we had a recent kangaroo cull. So I thought that the hunters had gone to town and just erased a lot of them off the face of the earth. So that's what I put it down to and I didn't think anything more of it.

Anyway, so we're walking on the perimeter, walking along, laughing about this story and my dog suddenly stops dead in his tracks. and my dog wasn't the most best police dog in the world. He was quite friendly, quite soft, quite distracted and quite uninterested. Being a police dog, he was just wanting to be a cat on your lap. That was about it. So he stops on a dime and he's looking at the horizon up. And I'm thinking maybe someone's going to do an exercise with me or something like that. What fun on the weekend when nobody's doing anything.

because my dog really needs it and then starts growling and my colleague they're oh my god look oh my god there they are and i looked up and no shit there were three starlight objects flying towards us in a sort of like a very wide fee formation so not a straight line and the middle one was slightly forward about the size of the planet venus on a good day you know when it looks big no flashing lights nothing like that, slowly flying in perfect formation, and just stopped right there. They're about 10 degrees apart, which is like when you look up, you put your hand up, it's about a hand span, and a 45 degree angle line of sight, and they just stop there. And I'm like, mate, mate, is this what you're talking about?

And he's like, yeah, yeah, this is it. And he goes, they're going to just like disappear in a minute. and we're looking and looking and nothing's happening and they just stopped there and it was like this feeling like they're looking at us we're looking at that and it was like this weird feeling it's like we're just still looking at each other right now and my dog starts barking which he never does even when he's supposed to so i'm like my god my dog can see this and just as i was like thinking gonna radio my boss and ask if we've got any unscheduled scheduled but not really shamed but not really scheduled flying activity going on and as I was calling him, the outer two objects just

and the opposite direction from each other just went, like flew away. I never seen anything like this. I've been in the radars. It's all like world. I've seen all sorts of weird crap, nothing like the Nimitz or anything, but seen some lots of weird crap, see nothing that flies this fast. And I'm on a base with fighter jets and all sorts of crap. So it's like, no, this is the fastest I've ever seen, but the middle one stayed, the middle object stayed. And we're looking at it, waiting for it to do something. And I spoke to my boss, says, is there any unscheduled, scheduled, but not really scheduled stuff? And he's like, no, leave me alone, get on with your job, bye. And I'm like, well, this is nothing nobody knows that does know that knows nothing

about. And it just stayed there, this thing. And my dog's barking. He's going crazy. His hair's thicken up. My dog never does. this and then there was this smell and the Aussie bush smells like wet trees and dust that's what it smells like sometimes flowers and animal poopled animal carcasses this was an electrical smell kind of like what people say ozone but to me no not really it was kind of like you opened up an old radar cabinet and all that waft of old people's home and old rusty metal come flying out at you that's what it smelled like. Asbestos or something.

And I'm like, where the hell is that smell coming from? There's no wind, nothing like that, no animals, no sounds, just this stench, this star in the setting sun sky. My dog growling and my colleague and I are just standing there and I'm getting jelly legs, you know, because, you know, brave soldier and all that. and just as I said that stinks like an old radar cabinet then the noise started well it wasn't actually a noise it was more like a vibration that I could only feel in my sinus cavities and my forehead and my lips and kind of a little bit of my chest it was more of a feeling rather than a sound an audible hum but I think my dog could pick it that long before we did because he was going

nuts. He was trying to bite off his lead. He was growling, his tail was between his legs, and I'm like, I'm trying to calm him down, thinking, holy crap, and I'm looking around. There's nothing out of the ordinary around us at all. So we're trying to calm him down and get his toy out and we've got to do this patrol and we're keeping an eye, waiting for this thing to do what my colleague said. The last year it did, nothing. But it didn't do it. And then it just started getting brought. and then dimmer and then brighter and dimmer again like a beacon really slowly and just sitting there and I'm like I don't know what's what do you what do you say to this uh phone camera it's 2008 I've got a Samsung thinking it's a galaxy S2 I wasn't going to capture that and I'm trying

to control my dog my colleagues telling me it we'll have discussions about Independence Day and, you know, Star Trek, the Balkan greetings. It's also, didn't happen. Anyway, we have to do this patrol. We're moving around the perimeter. The sun's below the horizon. This thing is still stationary. In fact, it's geostationary. We figured it out, because we watched the stars over about an hour or two move as they do, and this thing was still exactly where it stopped. We did a whole perimeter of the flight line, and this thing was still exactly where it stopped. and it was doing now doing a slow bright and dim thing and we're cutting through

going around my dog's jumping at every everything and looking over his shoulder and all this stuff I've got flashlights going we're all looking with flashlights nothing we had a break it got to about two or three in the morning we went back to the truck

which was parked in the middle of all this dispersal stuff at one of the OLA's. And I was sitting at the front. I put my dog in the truck because he was just about to lose all his hair at that point. And he quentin down when he was inside. And my colleague and I were laying on the tarmac watching this thing the whole time. And there's smell and there's humming and coming up with all the reasons what this could possibly be.

And I'm racking my brains. I don't know what it is. So I get up. And my colleague went to go and relieve himself in the bush. And I'm standing looking into the distance. And in the most heavily dense bush area, one of the corners of the area were patrolling, I could see this glow.

It was orange in colour, kind of like a fire. It was flickering like a fire. And scrap fires are not unusual at that time of year, especially in this area. So these spice do. spontaneously happen because under the basis and underwater river system and cave system and the fires do burn. I don't ask me about the science of this but it does and they pop up every now and then. So I thought maybe it's something like that and the smell is getting heavier and I'm like this

must be where the smell's coming from and the humming. So my McColley comes back and he goes, what the hell is that? And I said it looks like a scrub fire. So we call the fireies and say we've got a possible scrub fire could you please come out and they say look have a look at it first tell if it's a big one if it is come to splash water on it if not it will get it will go out itself all right so we start walking towards it again i didn't want to take my dog out but i took dog i took the dog out and he was virtually skiddy backwards as we were trying to walk forwards towards this light glow of orange and we got to about 15 minutes when my dog was virtually cruelly crawling up my back of my pants at that point and growling from between my legs and it was

this glow would have been about it looked like a ball of flame but not no smoke no burning smell and it was kind of a weird looking flame it was kind of everything was misty in between kind of like someone had a smoke machine and just made this haze of a ball thing um about three meters wide about the same tall in the middle of a very heavily, densely bushed, like, stretched area. That's what it would look like. And I was looking at it going, what the hell, and I could see something in it. And I squinted my eyes, and this is where it gets weird. It looked like there was a pair of legs in there, like not like standing in there burning.

Like legs cut out shape of legs. in this light and there was no body attached to it there was no feet all i could see was a pair of skinny little thighs knees what i thought were nubly knees and the top part was calves and then that's obscured by this orange flamely glowy thing and i'm like we've got an intruder and call the fireies and call the fireies to come out and they saw it they were as they were coming up they could see

the light we're talking about that came rushing out and just as they arrived the light blinks out like someone to turn off a switch and we're still like 15 metres away I don't know how many feet that is three feet to a metre you calculate and

the driver said well what the hell is that I'm like I don't know Let's have a look. You have a look. So they took the truck towards them. We're walking behind the truck very slowly. And they shone spotlights on it. And I drag my dog by the scruff of his neck virtually and my colleague.

We get to the corner where this bushland is. He can't actually access that place. I'm standing at the edge of the taxiway and looking in. It would have been about five, ten metres in. And there was just like this empty patch. This oval-shaped empty patch of gray ash and sand. Save now at Whole Foods Market. It's the summer splash event.

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There was absolutely nothing, but it's heavily bushed, right? So there was trees and stuff hoving, overhanging it. And they were untouched. There was no scorch mats, nothing. There was no smoke. There's no warmth. Nothing to what I would say is in a bushfire. and the fire is like, this is weird and they asked me, what the hell is that smell?

And I'm like, yeah, can you hear that, Harmon? And the driver said he couldn't, but my colleague and I could definitely feel it. And I'm pretty certain my dog could. And they sprayed some water on it because that solves everything in the firing well. So call us if it starts up again and go away and drive back. And left myself, my colleague and my dog standing there. and we legged it

we legged it my dog didn't need to even be told where I wanted to go it was like hold on to my dog's lead and he was straight to the truck meanwhile this thing is still flashing above us

which I in the excitement and everything both my colleague and I had forgotten to mention to the fire he's like have a look at this shit they totally didn't I forgot you know

we went back to that truck faster than you can say holy crap I put my dog in the enclosure at the back locked it up and we're just standing there looking at this pulsing whatever it was above us and looking far in the distance where that orange light was waiting for it to come back or waiting for ET to come and you know tap us on the shoulder or something like that nothing

The humming was still there, smell was still there My dog was calm As soon as he went inside his little box He was calm By this stage it was about 4am It'd been non-stop all evening Like, and I was not going to report this I was not going to because

Everyone knows I'm a bit kooky And I was the only female in the section at the time And it was hard enough And I just didn't need extra problems so, and it's 2008, you know, and so about 4 a.m., we did a drive-by again. This thing's still in the sky. And then I don't know what made me look up, but I looked up again, and it was getting smaller. It was still flashing very slowly, but getting smaller.

And smaller and smaller, and I'm like, to my colleague, it's going, it's leaving. And he's looking up going, going, It's going to flashed away really quickly and we're waiting for it to do something dramatic and it didn't. It just slowly raised and disappeared into the sky. And the humming and the smell slowly dissipated over the course of the next hour until 5 where I had to get back to the section to do a handover. And I didn't even know if I wanted to go back to city. I wanted to get the hell out of there but I wanted to stick around, you know, as well. I didn't want to leave the place.

I'm like, I want to see if something else happens. But nothing else happened. But at sunrise, it's usually when the kangaroos come out again, and the bats do their big thing, nothing. There was still absolutely nothing. There was no birds. There was no bats. There was no kangaroos.

Usually kangaroos are like kamikaze pilots jumping into the car just as you pass. Nothing. It was to avoid. And it's only until we got back to the section that, started seeing, you know, the usual sunrise wildlife on the base. And I spoke to my section commander at the shift change over the next day who got me drug tested pretty quickly and my colleague and told us that it was obviously a scrub fire, underground scrub fire probably hit something metal, that's what the smell was and the rest

of it were just making it up. And don't you dare write anything like that in any of the reports because you're all liars. Anyway, from that time on, I've never ever been able to talk about it, really. I just talk about it with that same colleague with still friends. I live in Germany now and I work with military radar systems once more and I still haven't heard or haven't seen anything or any stories, anything remotely similar to what I've seen and experience. And I trust me, I'm out there all the time when I can look in and have. And how it's, I haven't seen anything like that ever since.

And no many in black came to me. Nobody wanted to know. Nobody asked me any questions. And everybody just thinks it's a great old story. And I'm spinning it. But I'm telling you that's what I saw. I can't explain it. I sometimes dream about the legs sometimes.

And yeah, that's how it went. And the next time I was out on shift, nothing ever happened. And trust me, I was looking for it and saw nothing, heard nothing, and my dog just continued on as per normal until I got out. So that's my UAP strange story. Thanks for listening. Somewhere in the Skies is produced by Third Kind Productions,

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