Appearance / Description of Object(s)

Very orange in colour no sound whatsoever Large Very smoothe yet sudden movement

Size of Object(s)

From the speed it was approaching at, and the relative grow in size, I would esitmate it at about 35 feet in diameter, minimum.

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Altitude would be about 500 feet, descending slightly as it approached me.

Description of Area / Surroundings

Started out hovering above an urban area (residential) beside a small town at about 500 feet. Headed towards me, out towards the rural area.

Full Description & Details

I was staying at my parents house for a few months in Whakatane, New Zealand about 3 km (2 miles) outside of the main township. We lived quite high up on a hill, so I could see all of the township, and all of the residential area from the house.

On one night in February 1998, I went outside to have a cigarette, and I was just looking around, pondering as I do, and I noticed a stationary orange light, slightly larger than the normal street lights moving ever so slightly around.

I didn't take much notice at first, so I watched intently thinking 'what could that be ?'

As soon as I thought this, the light started growing in size. So, I kept watching, and the light grew larger until I realised it could probably be an aircraft. So I listened for the drone of a plane, or the thud-thud-thud of a helicopter for about 8 minutes, and I was surprised that I couldn't detect either of these familiar sounds.

As the light grew larger, I started looking for navigation or anti-collision lights on the object, and I couln't see any.

The object just kept coming towards me the more I concentrated on it, until it got about 500 metres or about 2/3 of a mile from me, and still no flashing anti-col lights or nav lights, and no sound which made it even more weird as it approached.

At this point I hurried inside and just waited. For what - I don't know. My Mother awoke, and asked me what was going on and I said I saw something really weird outside, so she waited with me, but eventually nothing happened. I can still vividly remember the whole 20 minutes to this day.

The next day my Mother related to me a story of one of her friends from the local church who was about 4 months pregnant, who woke up one day, and was no longer pregnant. She was sure her unborn child was taken.

I served for 7 years in the Air Force, and I know what an aircraft looks like in the sky, be it night or day - and this was no aircraft I had ever seen.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No, I watched for sometime listening for about 10 minutes for the sound of a fixed / rotary winfgaircraft, and heard nothing. It was a very calm night - no wind or traffic noise.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I had read nothing about UFO's and I was pretty much a skeptic. M views now are that there is no reason for them not to exist. I find it amusing that people can't admit that there could be a superior intellegence than us in the universe.

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