Sydney- Is it a UFO? Flying objects spotted hovering over

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Sydney's reputation for being a great place to visit has clearly spread to the stars, with four unidentified flying objects spotted hovering over the city's suburbs on Monday afternoon.

A photograph capturing the four UFO's - which witnesses said hovered in the same spot for more than 10 minutes before simply disappearing - was snapped from Tom Ugly's Bridge Marina just before 5pm.

Photographer Ivan Mikkelsen, from nearby Sylvania Waters, said he first noticed the objects through a window on his boat before stepping outside to confirm the unusual objects weren't simply a reflection or a trick of the light.

"We just looked up and they were there. They were just sort of hovering there,'' Mr Mikkelsen said.

"They were quite high in the air, which is why I thought they might be aeroplanes at first, but they weren't, they didn't move.''

He said about five people at the marina paused to watch the stationary objects as they glowed over the city's west before they simply disappeared as quickly as they came.

"They just blinked and disappeared, whooshka, they were gone,'' Mr Mikkelsen said.

"I'm a bit sceptical, but it wasn't a reflection, it wasn't laser beams, it wasn't anything else.''

A spokesman for Airservices Australia, which managed aviation traffic, said they had not had any reports of unusual objects on Monday afternoon.

"We have had no reports of any unidentified flying object activity over the greater Sydney area on Monday evening,'' he said.

"However, at just before 5pm on Monday, there were a number of commercial aircraft operating.''

New Zealand - Interview with Suzanne Hansen (UFOCUS)

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UFO Sightings Increase

Radio interview (5.32)

UFOcus New Zealand's director Suzanne Hansen talks to

Larry Williams about an increase in UFO sightings in New Zealand.

New Zealand - UFO Alarm Sounds Around North Island

There have been an "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings reported in the North Island over the past two months, UFO watchers say.

And aliens may even have visited Northland in the past five weeks, with one man reporting seeing a UFO land in the region, Suzanne Hansen, director from Ufocus NZ research network said.

She said: "He's a very credible source. He saw an object that had landed and said it was definitely not an aircraft or like anything else he had seen.

"I've got 30 (UFO/UAP) reports on my desk at the moment from the upper North Island and Northland from the past couple of weeks that we're yet to process [on top of the many others] ... It's unprecedented."

Maungakaramea resident Charles Gillard reported seeing strange lights hovering above the Tangihua ranges just after 4am yesterday.

Mr Gillard said the white and blueish lights were definitely not a helicopter or plane and darted about at speed for several minutes before simply vanishing.

"I've never seen anything like it before, but it definitely wasn't somebody with a torch or vehicles as it was above the skyline, not on the hills," he said.

Inquiries could not find any helicopters or planes operating in the area at that time yesterday morning.

Ms Hansen said Mr Gillard's sighting was similar to others reported recently in Northland and Ufocus would be looking into all such reports made to its website http://www.ufocusnz.org.nz/

"Researchers we work with in Australia have reported the same things happening there with what we call a "UFO Flap" [an outbreak of UFO sightings] there as well," Ms Hansen said.

However, the NZ Skeptics (New Zealand Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) says UFO sightings can be easily explained, usually by natural phenomena.

NZ Skeptics spokeswoman Vicki Hyde said despite the "unprecedented" number of UFO sightings recently this was the first the public had heard of the situation.

"The problem with UFO sightings is that there are a such a huge number of possible explanations for them. "Something like 80-90 per cent are people mistaking things like Venus for UFOs."

UFOs On The Today Show

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Tino Pezzimenti on the Today Show reporting on recent UFO reports from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Have You Ever Seen A UFO? ABC Radio Interview

Whenever the subject of UFO's comes up, people always ask "Why don't they ever appear in front of scientists or the military?".
Well they do - and according to a report in the Huffington Post, Retired Army Colonel John Alexander, a former military insider with top secret clearance who created Advanced Theoretical Physics ( a group of top-level government officials and scientists brought together to study UFO reports) wants Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus and National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper to offer amnesty to anyone in the military who has been previously sworn to secrecy about UFOs.

It seems those in the military have been either sworn to secrecy about what they have seen or fear being ridiculed and damaging their careers. Have you ever seen anything you can't explain?
Afternoons presenter Kelly Higgins-Devine (who keeps an open mind on these things) spoke with Les Saunders from ACRUFO - "Australian Combined Research in UFOs", and heard some great stories from listeners. http://tinyurl.com/cxyfbhu

UFO Amnesty to be Considered by Pentagon?

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and General David Petraeus are being asked to grant UFO amnesty to servicemen who want to speak publicly about alien visitations.

 

Retired Army Col. John Alexander is behind the effort for more UFO disclosure in the military. He is asking the Department of Defense to allow service men and women to share their paranormal experiences with the American people.

 

Transparency is always the best option. What is the government afraid of? The average person already believes in intelligent life in other places in the universe, so why all the secrecy?

 

In fact, if the Pentagon does grant UFO amnesty, it would quell some of the conspiracy theories out there. The government only creates more suspicion by hiding information.

 

Alexander may just be trying to promote his new book, but he makes some great points.

 

Many very intelligent people believe in UFOs. Gen. Douglas MacArthur warned of a future in which humans would fight a war against alien invaders. What's more, ex-NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has said the government is actively covering up proof of extraterrestrials.

 

It's time for the government to come clean, and approve UFO Amnesty for military members seeking to share their experiences with the people they protect. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981335897

Amamoor Sighting on the Sunrise TV Show

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