Umina, New South Wales, Australia. Late 1980s.

At 11pm one Friday night a man was watching a football match on television when he was distracted by three consecutive evenly spaced sonic booms. They were powerful enough to shake the house and disturb his wife and children who were sleeping. He jumped up and went through the sliding glass doors out onto the verandah, fully expecting to see, at best, the lights of a jet in the distance or rapidly vanishing. He saw nothing and was about to go back in to watch the football when he suddenly became aware of movement above him. On looking up he saw a large arrowhead or delta-shaped craft.

It was he, at least as big as a jumbo jet. It had no wings and was a silvery-grey metallic colour. It had normal white lights around the periphery like internal lighting. He commented that on a normal aircraft he would have taken them to be cabin lights. What really astounded him was the craft’s flight pattern and behavior. It was very low, well below the overcast cloud which was no higher than 300-500 metres. It made no sound whatsoever and was moving at an extremely slow speed, no more than 60 klms/hour.

The object had come from over the Brisbane Water National Park which his house backed on to, and was moving in a straight and horizontal line of flight towards the north east. While it was overhead he could see the rear, but as it passed over the Everglades Golf Course and Woy Woy oval, he noticed what appeared to be twin propulsion units at the back. They were flat, orangey-red fiery glows at either side of the centre of the rear. They glowed with a tinge of blue, but were definitely not flames. He said, “it was like looking at the rear of an F18 with its twin jet propulsion nozzles but these were much larger, and there was no noise.

A week later the local paper reported that lights had been seen in the sky over Forresters Beach in the general direction of the flight path the witness noted.

Source: The Gosford Files – UFOs Over the NSW Central Coast by Moira McGhee & Bryan Dickeson 1996.