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The mystery object sped toward the northern horizon, then miles north of Brisbane. Shortly after they sighted the object, it stopped and remained stationary for a few minutes before moving vanished. off again at a slow pace. Mystified, Mrs Stewart (who happened In April 1978, by now having moved to Gympie, Neil Gerard to be on her own at the time) watched as the red-glowing object was standing outside in the backyard of his house about |! pm. made several circular movements across the sky, taking a couple He was watering flowers in his garden when he saw a bright light of hours to do so before moving southward, finally disappearing in _in the sky to the north. It remained stationary for up to half an that direction. hour before moving away southward. One night in January 1977, Mr Trevor Jordan was out in scrub Another interesting UFO report from Gympie, a few years on a pigshooting trip near Toowoomba. He was standing ina _ before Neil Gerard's 1978 sighting, concerns the apparent disinte- clearing of brigalow scrub when he sighted a bright red object "the —_ gration of a mysterious flying object, as witnessed by many peo- size of a football" at a distance of half a mile to the east. ple. The object changed to green, then into lemon. It then began A large silvery object was spotted hovering stationary, high in pulsating and came down to treetop level. Trevor observed the the midday sky above the clouds, when suddenly it appeared to strange object for 10 minutes until it flew off slowly northward. explode. A search of the surrounding region failed to recover any This was not Trevor's first sighting, as he had spotted a UFO _ fragments of this mysterious craft. one day in 1968. At Tin Can Bay in 1974, a saucer-shaped UFO emitting a star- “I was at Somerset Dam up from Esk on the Brisbane River late _like glow, and with a dome on top and lights around its side, flew one afternoon, and the weather was cloudy and grey with rain over Crab Creek startling many night-time fishermen. The craft threatening. hovered over the inlet, forcing the fishermen to leave the area in a “T was setting up my camera on a tripod for the purpose of pho- panic. After 10 minutes the UFO rose into the air and left the tographing the reflection of the shoreline trees in the water. Iwas _ area. using Agfa CT18 slide film. After having shot the photographs I Back in 1949, Mrs Z. Kay was a patient in a Gympie hospital. wanted of the dam—which included some of the far end of the During the early hours of the morning while it was still dark, she dam with the sky in the background—I packed up and went home. —_ happened to be awake when she saw, through the window next to “However, days later when I received my slides in the mail, I _her bed, a glowing red light hovering close to the ground. discovered upon viewing them that in the long-distance shots I had Although some distance away, the object was far too big for an taken of the far end of the dam, one slide showed seven disc- aeroplane. It began moving away from the north-west to the shaped greenish objects in the sky overhead. A ufologist who south-east and increased speed as it did so. Mrs Kay watched the examined the slide estimated the bo object through the window as it seemed to objects to be about 30 feet wide and |... @ saucer-shaped UFO emitting stop in mid-air for a moment, and then ‘perhaps scouting saucers from a a starlike glow, and with a dome resumed flying until it disappeared rapidly much larger mother ship’. over the horizon. During a visit to Gympie, north of | ON top and lights around its side, Rockhampton, like Gympie, has a long Brisbane, in April 1976, I was fortu- | ffew over Crab Creek startling history of excessive UFO activity. Mount nate to obtain reports of a number of Archer, which overlooks the city of UFO incidents in that district. The | Many night-time fishermen. STEM Rockhampton to the enst, has been the Gympie district has been a veritable craft hovered over the inlet, scene of numerous sightings of strange hotbed of UFO activity going back . lights in the sky and other phenomena. many years. forcing the fishermen to leave On 7th August 1978 a group of white, In 1961, one morning around 3 am the area ina panic. glowing objects was seen flying around the Mrs Waller was standing on her 3 Rockhampton area for 20 minutes. For a verandah at Wolvi, a few kilometres time they seemed to hover over Mount east of Gympie. Her home was situated at the base of Wolvi Archer before flying off northward. Mountain, facing east. A light appeared over the mountain, so During 1968, a mysterious white light flew over Rockhampton bright that it lit up the whole area “like dawn over the mountain”, one midnight. The same object headed south to Maryborough as Mrs Waller said later. where Keith Lohrisch and his wife Julie saw it as they were dri- She described the object as being like a “fluorescent globe", a ving toward their home in Maryborough. They stopped the car very bright white light. The object hovered for three minutes and got out for a better look. Deciding it to be a UFO, they ‘hot- above the Waller farm before moving fairly fast in a northerly footed’ it home where they rang the police. They were told that at direction, returning soon after to sink down behind Wolvi __ least another 10 people had seen the mysterious light. Mountain. These are just a few of the estimated thousands of sightings to Tin Can Bay, on the coast some 35 miles east of Gympie, has _ have occurred over the last few decades in northern Australia! 0° also had its fair share of unidentified flying objects. Mr Neil Gerard lived at Tin Can Bay around 1959 when a UFO Rex Gilroy’ BE cot ey My: LietrunAdstaiialte ae i : , I D was said to have landed upon the roof of a house late one night, available. Contact your nearest NEXUS office for Jeaving the roof paint burnt. details The UFO had first appeared in the sk: hooting flarelik A eu eee eee atin eee eee eee eee | Australia: PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560. Cost $20 object. It descended onto the roof emitting a starlike glow and then immediately took off again into the sky. ine. postage. Phone (074) 42 9280; fax (074) 42 9381. Neil Gerard has had two UFO experiences. His first was witha | UK: 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 friend, Nell Starlberg, while driving to Brisbane on the main high- | 'BG. Cost £13 inc. postage. Phone (01342) 32 2854. way one night in 1976. At about 7 pm they sighted a glowing, |USA: PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946. Cost US$20 dull gold-coloured object which appeared to be stationary and | inc. postage. Ph (815) 253 6464; fax (815) 253 6300. about a mile above a roadside pine forest. The location was 35 Rex Gilroy's recent book, Mysterious Australia, is now available. Contact your nearest NEXUS office for details. Australia: PO Box 30, Mapleton, Qld 4560. Cost $20 inc. postage. Phone (074) 42 9280; fax (074) 42 9381. UK: 55 Queens Rd, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 1BG. Cost £13 inc. postage. Phone (01342) 32 2854, USA: PO Box 177, Kempton, IL 60946. Cost US$20 inc. postage. Ph (815) 253 6464; fax (815) 253 6300. 46 « NEXUS FEBRUARY-MARCH 1996