I was 16 years old still living on my families farm in Curlwaa (between Wentworth and Dareton in Far Western NSW) Winter of 1992 I think as it was dark and cold, we had recently planted a crop of Oats close to the house which was being wiped out by Wood Ducks and Rabbits so the old man would get me to go out regularly at night with a torch and shoot any Rabbits in the crop, it was 10/10.30 at night and I headed out with my hand held torch and old double barreled shotgun, it was very dark outside, I noted we must have had cloud cover it was so dark, I walked down our Dairy road which ran parallel to Tuckers creek searching the crop which was downhill between the road and the creek.
I noticed a very bright orange “star” directly above me, wow that’s bright, it must have been a break in the clouds and star looked so bright as it was so dark under the cloud cover.
I continued my search and noted it was gone a few moments later, I walked down the dairy road and noticed red brake lights down the end of our property near the back fence line, hrrrm someone pinching stock? Id better go look and put a few shots over their heads, as I walked towards the lights one or two cheery red brake lights looked to be three or four brake lights, hrrrm more than one car, id better go back to the farmhouse and get the old man as I turned back towards the house I noticed the ‘brake lights rise above the bush and begin floating towards me over the top of the gum trees lining the creek, I stopped and watched in amazement, it looked as if it was floating on water although it was in the sky, slowly bobbling back and forward as it moved generally above the creek towards me, it took a minute or two to get level to my position where it stopped – it was approximately 100 meters away over the creek I was on the dairy road, it halted for a moment and it seemed as if we were looking at each other sussing each other out, I could see it clearly, there were seven ruby red lights in a semi circle, it was about 25 meters wide.
It then lifted slightly above the gum trees and began coming towards me directly ie 90 degrees to its original path of travel along the creek, oh shit I thought what do I do shoot at it?
Hrrrm not a good idea I thought and broke the shotgun, ie opened it so it was safe, I watched it get closer, the thing seemed to be feeling my mind, I dont know how to explain it, it was getting close and the reality of the situation suddenly overwhelmed me and I bolted for the farmhouse, I barged through the kitchen door yelling at family to come outside and look, my old man telling me off as although broken in half he could still see cartridges in the breech – quick quick disk in the sky, slowly (felt like forever) he got up and come and looked and saw it heading back up the creek towards Dareton way.
I could only see the lights but from the shape it seemed to be similar size and shape to the Beamships Billy Meier photographed in the 70s/80s, it could have been Government test craft I guess as we are pretty remote but there seemed to be some type of mind contact with it, and it backed off as soon as I did the bolt towards the house.
