Circular beams of light decended through the cloud, rotating, then did a pitch and yaw manouver before ascending again
I live in Brisbane , Australia and was driving back there from the Gold Coast heading north and it was pre-dawn with no other cars around. I noticed that the big cumulo-nimbus cloud in front of me suddenly lit up.
As I looked up, I saw about six or seven circular beams of light decending down through the cloud. They were all in a perfect circle and rotating counter clockwise (from a ground perspective). They fanned out away from each other slightly. They took up most of the whole cloud...very big...it was hard to estimate the size of the source, but it was quite large and the lights would have had to have been very strong to penetrate that far. I know because I have been a Professional Commercial Photographer for over 25 years.
The object was behind the cloud because the light source was strongest at the top and disipated as it fell through the cloud....I would guess a couple of hundred feet below the cloud. During this time the lights continued to rotate at an even moderate rate.
After I had viewed this for around 20 seconds, the whole thing, still rotating, did a pitch and yaw manouver and then slowly ascended back vertically, lighting up the whole cloud again as it departed.
The size and behaviour of the light source ruled out any aircraft that I know as I have worked in very many aircraft and helicopters.
Although at no time did I see the object itself, the combination of vertical movement, rotation and pitch & yaw was most unusual. As a photographer, I know that the light was decending through the cloud and not reflected from the ground or from any other source.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD))
I live in Brisbane , Australia and was driving back there from the Gold Coast heading north and it was pre-dawn with no other cars around. I noticed that the big cumulo-nimbus cloud in front of me suddenly lit up.
As I looked up, I saw about six or seven circular beams of light decending down through the cloud. They were all in a perfect circle and rotating counter clockwise (from a ground perspective). They fanned out away from each other slightly. They took up most of the whole cloud...very big...it was hard to estimate the size of the source, but it was quite large and the lights would have had to have been very strong to penetrate that far. I know because I have been a Professional Commercial Photographer for over 25 years.
The object was behind the cloud because the light source was strongest at the top and disipated as it fell through the cloud....I would guess a couple of hundred feet below the cloud. During this time the lights continued to rotate at an even moderate rate.
After I had viewed this for around 20 seconds, the whole thing, still rotating, did a pitch and yaw manouver and then slowly ascended back vertically, lighting up the whole cloud again as it departed.
The size and behaviour of the light source ruled out any aircraft that I know as I have worked in very many aircraft and helicopters.
Although at no time did I see the object itself, the combination of vertical movement, rotation and pitch & yaw was most unusual. As a photographer, I know that the light was decending through the cloud and not reflected from the ground or from any other source.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate. PD))
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Brisbane (QLD, Australia)
Australia
45 sec.
45 sec.
circle
Occurred : 9/15/1998 16:45 (Entered as : 09/15/1998 16:45) Reported: 4/17/2005 6:37:17 AM 06:37 Posted: 5/24/2005 Location: Brisbane (QLD, Australia), Shape: Circle Duration: 45 sec. Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object emitted beams
Circular beams of light decended through the cloud, rotating, then did a pitch and yaw manouver before ascending again