Strapping Young Lad
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Yes.
I grew up in rural Victoria. In the Goulburn Valley, to be exact.
One day, probably 25 or more years ago now, in the middle of the day, the old man and I had driven to our neighbours to discuss the coming hay season - we lived about 4 kms apart, but still called each other neighbours, and shared farming equipment.
As I got out of the little white hilux, I was almost immediately drawn to look up above the large sugar gums which stood behind our neighbours farmhouse( perhaps it was just the sheer size of them that had me look up at them).
As I did so, I saw a silver teardrop shaped object almost falling from the sky at speed, going down behind the gums. It stopped me in my tracks as I cornered the front of the hilux, and as my old man got out of his side, he followed my gaze up into the sky, and from what I could tell, caught a glimpse of it as well, before it went behind the trees completely.
In that small amount of time I had perceived the object to be hundreds of metres if not km's away in the sky, but the gumtrees being so tall meant that we couldn't see this thing either burn up or impact in any way(If you were to hold your hand out in front of they face at a maximum distance and and measure the distance between the tip of your middle finger and your elongated thumb, that's the distance that I roughly saw this thing move across(downwards) the sky).
Instantly I asked my old man, "what was that??", and he responded with "I don't know....maybe it was a meteorite...it might have been a weather balloon". Of course, being a kid, I had to ask what that even was as I had no understanding of a weather balloon, but I remember him being kind of excited by what he had seen, and smiling at me in a sort of amazement , half chuckling, when responding that he didn't really know what it was.
The days went by, and nothing was reported as landing or impacting anywhere in the area, so I was pretty disappointed to not have an answer as to what it was. I felt sure that if a meteor had anded on a farm we'd have heard t through the grapevine, or the local rag would've jumped on the opportunity to put something in the new other than some half baked local story about nothing much.
I know it wasn't a weather balloon, and it's like nothing I've ever seen since. Not to say that what I saw was a flying saucer, but it was indeed unidentified, and from my perspective, a flying object.
The weird part was bringing it up with my old man only weeks later and him having absolutely no recollection of seeing it, or of me seeing anything. It was like the entire thing never happened, like I'd imagined it all and this still eats at me a little.
My old man is and was completely lucid at the time, doesn't smoke and would hardly touch a drop of alcohol.
I still have no idea what I saw that day....or if I even saw anything.
I grew up in rural Victoria. In the Goulburn Valley, to be exact.
One day, probably 25 or more years ago now, in the middle of the day, the old man and I had driven to our neighbours to discuss the coming hay season - we lived about 4 kms apart, but still called each other neighbours, and shared farming equipment.
As I got out of the little white hilux, I was almost immediately drawn to look up above the large sugar gums which stood behind our neighbours farmhouse( perhaps it was just the sheer size of them that had me look up at them).
As I did so, I saw a silver teardrop shaped object almost falling from the sky at speed, going down behind the gums. It stopped me in my tracks as I cornered the front of the hilux, and as my old man got out of his side, he followed my gaze up into the sky, and from what I could tell, caught a glimpse of it as well, before it went behind the trees completely.
In that small amount of time I had perceived the object to be hundreds of metres if not km's away in the sky, but the gumtrees being so tall meant that we couldn't see this thing either burn up or impact in any way(If you were to hold your hand out in front of they face at a maximum distance and and measure the distance between the tip of your middle finger and your elongated thumb, that's the distance that I roughly saw this thing move across(downwards) the sky).
Instantly I asked my old man, "what was that??", and he responded with "I don't know....maybe it was a meteorite...it might have been a weather balloon". Of course, being a kid, I had to ask what that even was as I had no understanding of a weather balloon, but I remember him being kind of excited by what he had seen, and smiling at me in a sort of amazement , half chuckling, when responding that he didn't really know what it was.
The days went by, and nothing was reported as landing or impacting anywhere in the area, so I was pretty disappointed to not have an answer as to what it was. I felt sure that if a meteor had anded on a farm we'd have heard t through the grapevine, or the local rag would've jumped on the opportunity to put something in the new other than some half baked local story about nothing much.
I know it wasn't a weather balloon, and it's like nothing I've ever seen since. Not to say that what I saw was a flying saucer, but it was indeed unidentified, and from my perspective, a flying object.
The weird part was bringing it up with my old man only weeks later and him having absolutely no recollection of seeing it, or of me seeing anything. It was like the entire thing never happened, like I'd imagined it all and this still eats at me a little.
My old man is and was completely lucid at the time, doesn't smoke and would hardly touch a drop of alcohol.
I still have no idea what I saw that day....or if I even saw anything.