UFO Map

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Country

Australia

cases
12
years
1846–2026

Unexplained: 4 Disputed: 5 Explained: 3

  1. 19th century

    1. 1846–1847 Lake and river monsters · Explained The Murrumbidgee Bunyip Skull Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales A settler found a strange skull by the river that Aboriginal people called a bunyip skull – displayed at a museum in Sydney, it drew crowds.
    2. 1882 Other wild men · Unexplained Henry McCooey's “Native Ape” Coast between Batemans Bay and Ulladulla, New South Wales An amateur naturalist described in the press a tailless, black-haired “native ape” seen on the New South Wales coast – one of the oldest yowie accounts.

  2. 1910–1919

    1. c. 1918–present Ghost lights · Disputed Min Min Light Near Boulia, Channel Country region, Queensland A fuzzy light hovering above the horizon in the Australian outback that, according to accounts, can follow travelers.

  3. 1960–1969

    1. 1966 Crop circles · Disputed Tully “Saucer Nest” Horseshoe Lagoon near Tully, North Queensland In 1966 a Queensland banana grower saw a gray saucer rise from a swamp – leaving an almost perfect circle in the reeds.
    2. 1966 Discs and flying saucers · Disputed Westall UFO Westall school and The Grange area, Clayton South, Melbourne In April 1966, more than two hundred people from schools in Melbourne watched a silvery object descend over a nearby clearing and fly away.

  4. 1970–1979

    1. 1978 Cigars and mystery airships · Unexplained Disappearance of Frederick Valentich Bass Strait between Cape Otway and King Island, Victoria Pilot Frederick Valentich radioed about a strange object above his Cessna; minutes later contact was lost, and the plane was never found.

  5. 1980–1989

    1. 1982 Living fossils · Unexplained Hans Naarding's Thylacine Sighting Near Arthur River, northwestern Tasmania A Tasmanian parks service officer held an animal with stripes on its back in his spotlight for several minutes – one of the most credible thylacine reports.
    2. 1988 Close encounters with beings · Disputed The Knowles Family Encounter on the Nullarbor Plain Eyre Highway west of Mundrabilla, Western Australia A family driving across the Nullarbor Plain at night in 1988 claimed a glowing object chased their car and lifted it above the highway.

  6. 1990–1999

    1. 1998–2015 Unexplained signals · Explained Perytons at the Parkes Radio Telescope Parkes Observatory, New South Wales For 17 years, the Parkes radio telescope recorded brief radio bursts resembling signals from space – their source turned out to be a microwave oven.

  7. 2000–2009

    1. 2001 Unexplained signals · Disputed Lorimer Burst – The First Fast Radio Burst Parkes Observatory, New South Wales In 2007, a millisecond radio burst from 2001 was found in archival Parkes data – the first known fast radio burst from beyond our Galaxy.

  8. 2010–2019

    1. 2018 Unexplained signals · Unexplained Mysterious Radio Pulses of GLEAM-X J1627 Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, Western Australia A radio source found in 2018 data flared for about a minute every 18 minutes for several weeks – it fits no known type of object.
    2. 2019 Unexplained signals · Explained BLC1 – A Signal from the Direction of Proxima Centauri Parkes Observatory, New South Wales In 2019, the Parkes radio telescope picked up a narrowband signal from the direction of the nearest star – it turned out to be interference from devices on Earth.