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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Townsville
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A bit of a saga, so stay with me.. I live in Townsville about 30 kliks from the RAAF base, at the moment we have visiting us a mob of F18's from NSW doing strafeing,bombing and Radar terrain following exercises(because of the hilly/mountainous nature of the ADF restricted area's around the High Range military training grounds to the west of Townsville it allows them to practice these exercises)Anyway. I was feeding my dog on my front verandah just on dusk when two F18's came up the valley from High Range to the south of me (about a kilometre away at around 500 metres up,the size of your thumb nail held at about half arms length) they make a tremendously impressive racket that close to you doing their allowable restrictive air speed etc.As they shot past me I noticed a very defined blue light,it was ovoid in shape and approximately 300 metres behind the F18's and seemed about the same size as the jets and shadowing them at the same speed same hight etc. As this thing went past me to the left it slowed down, seemed to hesitate,rose about a hundred metres and reversed its direction and took off back towards High Range at a quite staggering rate of knots.It made no sound I could hear, but my dogs ears were standing up and he was carrying on like a loose arab. anyway it disappeared back up the valley to the west of me. About 2 minutes later the two F18's came screaming back(I can only think in pursuit) they too disappeared up the valley.There was an awful lot of plane and copter activity all night.. (please note.All speeds,ceilings,and distances are relative) So, do you believe in this sort of thing?. I do now..
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