NUFORC Sighting 34624

Occurred: 2004-01-15 13:45 Local
Reported: 2004-01-22 19:55 Pacific
Duration:
No of observers: 5

Location: Melbourne (VIC, Australia), , Australia

Shape: Oval

Home Council refers photograph to government agencies An employee of this major municipality during his routine work as a traffic engineer took a photograph of a level railway crossing at Beveridge north of Melbourne using a digital camera. When it was downloaded from the camera on to a computer an object appeared in the sky on photograph.

**** IF you go to this web site you can view the photo taken ******* www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au Council is considering referring it to NASA and other authorities.

((name deleted , Communications Officer.

email: ((e-address deleted.vic.gov.au

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NUFORC Note:

We are grateful to the individual, an Austrlian public servant, for submitting the report. We have looked at the photo, and although it is intriguing, we find it not to be unambiguous. We cannot rule out the possibility that the object may be a bird in mid-flight, but that is conjecture on our part. Article about photo, and photo, can be seen at the following URL:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8475447%255E2862,00.html <-- worth looking into

PD))

Posted 2004-01-31