On 12 December 2024 we received a report of strange lights in the sky from a Mt Isa woman who has been seeing them regularly. Her story subsequently appeared in The Townsville Bulletin on January 1, 2025 but was behind a pay wall. Fortunately the witness, mentioned in the article, sent us screen grabs of the news piece which we have transcribed for your interest below.

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Source: The Townsville Bulletin Jan 1, 2025

Could These Mysterious Lights In North West Queensland Be The Min Min?

By Chris Burns

A North Queensland resident remains puzzled by strange lights that have appeared late at night in December 2 years running. Could they be the legendary Min Min or extraterrestrial?

Mysterious balls of light have been recorded on a phone camera on the outskirts of Mt Isa yet again, a year after they were last spotted, with paranormal investigators tasked to solve the case. Dozens of lights within the same night have been recorded south of a remote suburb, about three klms from the central business district, where there is nothing at night but dark skies, rugged soil and the occasional dingo.

The lights have baffled resident Leanne Kum Sing, who has been looking out for the lights from her patio each night throughout the Christmas season, and its prompted her to send her videos to the Non-Human Intelligence Research Institute and to the UFO Research Queensland research Group.

“We’ve nearly exhausted every possibility we can think of, so I’ll see what the so-called experts think,” she told the Bulletin.

Ms Kum Sing first captured images of the lights from Boxing day last December, and said her indigenous friends and family had seen similar strange occurrences across the outback, including the remote community of Alpurrurulam, hundreds of kilometers away. They saw special significance behind such sightings.

But the lights returned from December 8 (2024) this year, ranging in number widely to more than 70 spotted within a night, and Ms Kum Sing said they usually appeared about 10pm.

“Normally they don’t show up when its story or cloudy, however last night (on Sunday) was the first time they showed up when it was very cloudy, “ she said.

She had been told by a UFO research Queensland spokeswoman [Sheryl Gottschall] that sightings coincide with people with dams, creeks, rivers or swimming pools on their properties.

“I have a dam that holds water 6 to 9 months of the year and I back onto Breakaway Creek, which only holds water a few weeks per year after the rains. Nothing out the back at all except a deserted property, no roads and kids are probably too scared of the dingoes and the dark to venture out there. We’ve also driven 10to 15klms out of town one night, south, and sat and observed for a few hours but sighted nothing.”

Two hundred and fifty klms to the south is the town of Boulia known for its outback camel races, but also for the unsolved mystery of the Min Min Lights. These mysterious lights have been spotted in a large outback area throughout the years, including by long-serving regional journalist John Andersen, who described them as a “slow-moving ball of light that doesn’t throw out a beam”.

In his talk about the North column in the Bulletin about 18 months ago, Andersen claimed to have seen them in Kynuna, and while driving near Winton, and had written about them several times in his lengthy career.

He interviewed a drover by the name of Edna Jessop, who had moved cattle extensively across the Kimberley, Northern Territory, across to Camooweal and Dajarra, and had only ever seen it once.

Interestingly, Edna who had spent her life working with Aboriginal people, had never heard them talk about the Min Min Light,” Andersen said.

“This reinforces the assumption that the Min Min was not around in the pre-industrial age.”

The UFO Research Queensland group was contacted and did not respond before deadline, but Ms Kum Sing believed what she was witnessing was different to the Min Min.

“I’ve seen one as a kid and my family and others have seen them too, many years ago,” she said.

“They’re more a singular, larger following behavioural type of light.”