To wonder what the hell this aircraft was?

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

Firstly...I live in South Australia so it's night time here. Where I live is a very, very tiny hamlet. It's rural...the sea is about 20 mins drive away and the land here is mostly farm and just bush...scrubby hills with no houses on them.

There are other houses here where I live and shops but it's out of the way. We never see planes...it's not on a flight path. We see the odd helicopter on the way to check a shark sighting but that's all.

I was sitting in my patio area which backs onto the garden....behind the garden is a vast open area with a few trees.

I saw a bright orange light in the sky and thought "oh...a plane...that's novel."

It flew behind the trees...they're BIG tress and I lost sight of it for a few seconds.

I could hear this very loud drone noise...a big engine....then it appeared again as it traveled past the trees...and it was COVERED in lights. Red, white and orange. It was enormous! And low.

As it was dark it was hard to make the actual shape out but to me it looked like the Maltese Falcon! Like a big disc....I called DH who came and gaped open mouthed.

It was so big and so weird looking that we were lost for words.

When we discussed what we'd seen we had different impressions...he saw it as kind of triangular "like some stealth bomber thing with mainly orange lights but fire and haze coming out the back"

Whilst I saw a big, Maltese Falcon looking thing with about 15 lights all over it....red, orange and white.

What was it? Is there some Military thing that looks like this?

[Justaboy]

Humm shouldn't be surprised if some odd work goes on there, after all they like to keep experimental things hushed up and all that. That base sure is remote enough to do that and as you say Oz is a bit like America places are few and far between.

I always wondered if aliens are around or nearby where the hell do they come from after all if they were from light years away and that's a long way away then why don't they come and say hello or if their intent on destruction blow us up?.

Or are they in another dimension that we aren't aware of. I've seen some things over time that have defied a rational explanation.

Or is it just where were are in time? Go back a hundred odd years and show someone a TV or a mobile phone with a TV call on the go that'd be deemed real Magicke!

Course we now understand how that all works and we didn't then.

[WhoTheFuckIsSimon]

We have an Osprey which flies round and round and round our village for days on end. It's very obviously a military aircraft not a ufo even though it is a bit of a wtf moment when you first see it.

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

What authority would I call to ask about it? Is there some aviation centre or something? South Australia...I've googled but it's confusing!

[Justaboy]

Try,

www.airservicesaustralia.com/about/vision/

or

www.casa.gov.au/

[sadwidow28]

In September there was an article in the Independent about the Taranis

Tests on the unmanned aircraft named after the Celtic god of thunder have included “simulated weapon release”.

Taranis has already completed two sets of test flights and officials have released film of it flying from an unnamed location, believed to have been in Woomera, Australia.

There is footage included in the article.

The Telegraph 13th September 2015

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

Just thanks I will!

Sand the shape isn't impossible but what about all the lights on the thing I saw? It had many more lights than any ordinary plane....I wonder if when testing things they add lights during darkness? They could so that it's easy to see for their tests or something?

[TheHouseOnTheLane]

Meant to add that the noise, that dull and quiet drone was right.

[CassieBearRawr]

My step mum has seen ufos. She once called up the local paper to see if anyone else had reported what she'd seen (pre internet days), dunno if that's an option for you.

[rainingsleepingbags]

I'm so jealous!

MUFON have a live ufo tracking map called UFO Stalker, maybe have a look OP? They also have an Experiencer Checklist you might like to keep handy too

[MrsTerryPratchett]

I haven't RTFT properly. However, I shall tell my spoooooky story. We very briefly had a millionaire friend who lent us his plane to fly to the Bahamas. I know, right! The pilot let me have the cans (hark at me) to listen to the chatter. Some pilot said something about lights in the sky... I asked our pilot about it later and he said, "all of us have seen things. We don't talk about it". Sqweeeeee. Exciting.

Sensibly I will say that Australia is one of those places that everyone tests everything because it's empty, off the beaten track and not hostile.

We see the odd helicopter on the way to check a shark sighting but that's all. Jealous.