A flurry of UFO sightings in the Katherine night sky has caught the imagination of grey nomads travelling in the Northern Territory.
For some adventurers, a good happy hour is now not complete without spotting an unexplainable red or white light darting across the sky. There have been at least 10 sightings in the last month.
NT based UFO spotter Alan Ferguson says the time for doubt is over.
“When I came to Katherine I did not expect to find so many people who had seen and documented their UFO experiences,” Mr Ferguson told the NT News. “Katherine is in a UFO mecca.”
Carrina Turner was one of a group of 10 people who last week claim to have seen a light fly across the sky at least twice as fast as a satellite would travel.
She said the light was hovering in the sky, “really, really bright”, before it disappeared. “But a few seconds later it was back,” she said. “And it was kinda going on and off, like it had a pulse.”
David Schuman told the NT News that back in July he saw a craft that changed shape and colour over Katherine with an “almost silent woosh” as it faded out of view.
Mr Schuman described it as an orange double ringed orb with two “hotspots” of fuzzy silvery grey.
And Tracey Graham reported seeing something like a giant spotlight due west from Limbunya station near Timber Creek.
“The light plummeted vertically to the ground but I didn’t see it hit as the main shed was in the way,” she claimed. “It wasn’t a shooting star or a heavenly body but a large light … there was no fire, tail or attachment to it as far as I can tell. I heard no impact.”
Mr Ferguson says that instead of trying to conceal the truth , the NT Government should embrace it. He said tourism campaigns weren’t diverse enough, especially now as visitor numbers were down.
“It’s like the only things we advertise are barra fishing, national parks and Aboriginal paintings,” he said. “There’s more to the NT than just that. If you were to add a UFO in some of them posters, I guarantee that’ll grab attention.”
