THE UFO CHRONICLES


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      SOMETHING strange was seen in the sky above Old Inverell Rd on Monday night.

     An Armidale taxi driver heading towards the town, who wanted to remain anonymous, claimed he and two other people saw a line of three bright orange lights, heading west about 8.10.

     The lights, he estimated, were about the size and colour of streetlights and about 200 to 300m above the ground, travelling in total silence.

     They were travelling at a speed of about 70-80km/h.

     "I have no idea what they were," he said.

     "They were about the same size of street lights. We had nothing to compare with how high they were, but they not very high at all.

     "There were no navigation lights at all, and no noise.

     "We thought they could have been balloons, but they were going too fast."

     Reports of Royal Australian Air Force exercises in the city were denied by an Australian Defence Force spokesman, who said there was no RAAF activity in the area during that time.

     "We haven't been notified of anything at all," he said.

     University of New England school of physics' Dr Allan Ernest believed the UFO could have been a meteor, breaking into smaller particles upon entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

     "If it's a natural phenomenon, then more than likely it's a meteor," Dr Ernest said.

     "Travelling through the sky, they can be all sorts of colours, depending on their composition.

     "The usual colour is orange and they can be very fast, leaving an instant trail."

     He said he has seen bright orange meteorites travelling at speeds similar to aeroplanes through the sky while driving on the New England Highway, near Black Mountain.

     Armidale is no stranger to unexplained phenomena in its night sky.

     In 1996, a North Queensland man visiting Armidale spotted a flat, disk like craft with red orbs flying through the trees in the eastern side of the town.

     And in 1972, an Earle Page College student reported a metallic egg-shaped object traversing the twilight sky, at the speed of a low flying light plane.

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