UAP 'Egg' Melbourne, Australia - 24.01.25 (with footage & photos)

ManInBlack

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This was sent to me today from Melbourne, Australia.

This is the information I have:

- Two witnesses sighted the object whilst driving.
- The object was visible to the naked eye and was captured on car cam footage.
- The sighting date was today 24.01.25.
- I have the raw footage and the meta-data. Attached is a version where I have zoomed in.
- I have edited the footage to capture the timing and object.
- From the witnesses, the object appeared and the hovered before disappearing. The object look oval like an egg.
- The time the object was sighted was 17:38:41 to 17.39:07.
- Location was Maribynong road, Maribynong (see below) heading towards Highpoint shopping centre.
- This is a known flight path, but the witness confirmed it was not a plane.
- The witness said it appeared very high up in the sky. The sky was completely blue and no clouds.

My initial thoughts is that it is a high altitude balloon however I can't find any records of a weather balloon being released in this area. It is also a high flight traffic area.

@Giddierone could use your expertise here ;)

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What about that is specifically "oval" - how are you explicitly able to reject the possibility that it has corners?
 
Goes on and off. Reflection from the dash in windshield interrupted by shadows from poles.
I have confirmed with the witnesses that it was not a reflection. This was one of the first things I asked. I also thought it may have been something on the windscreen itself but I can confirm it was not.

@FatPhil this was the witnesses opinion. They suggested it was very clearly oval.

It could have been the fuselage of a white small plane. Nothing is off the table.

If anyone has a subscription to flight radar we may be able to confirm if there was a plane in the area at the time.
 
it does seem to be a lens flare that is generated from the sun glare on the car in front. You can see see that its appearace/disappearance is in sync with the movement of the car.

 
it does seem to be a lens flare that is generated from the sun glare on the car in front. You can see see that its appearace/disappearance is in sync with the movement of the car.

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@flarkey I'm going to call the witnesses tomorrow to gather more information. If they saw it out the side window that would change the discussion. At this point I think you are most likely right.
 
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I have confirmed with the witnesses that it was not a reflection.
If that was the first thing they ruled out, on their own volition, it would conform to the pattern of "it definitely is not the thing that it actually is."


I'm going to call the witnesses tomorrow to gather more information. If they saw it out the side window that would change the discussion.
It would, but it would not change the fact that what we have on video is clearly a reflection as it comes and goes in synchronization with the bright reflection off of the other car.

When you ask, I'd suggest being very careful not to ask a leading question. Witness memories are extremely fungible. It needn't be as blatant as "Unless you saw it from outside the car, your cool UFO is just a reflection off of that other car, so did you happen to see it while not in the car?" to be an issue. I imagine you are already aware of all that, but it can't hurt to mention it.
 
This is from the witness...

my girlfriend saw it on her side and me on my side at different angles. Also when we turned the corner it was still there out the side window with no cars in front. The windows were down and we had a clear view of it.
I have more video also which I will upload.
 
If that was the first thing they ruled out, on their own volition, it would conform to the pattern of "it definitely is not the thing that it actually is."
See? You'd already have 25 cents in your pocket, if you'd taken my advice & trademarked that!!
 
I think this could have been a plane. It is quite difficult to spot distant planes in the blue sky, if they do not leave contrails. @Mick West made a post about this in Contrail Science, the predecessor of Metabunk. However, it is possible sometimes to catch a reflection of sunshine from the plane surfaces, provided the plane's position and orientation relative to the Sun and the observer are right for it. Such a reflection does not look like a plane, but appears as a bright spot in the sky of vaguely round shape.
I have looked at a possible candidate and found this plane:
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It was in a right direction from the location at the stated time, but would probably be a bit lower relative the horizon than the "object" in the video.
 
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This is from the witness...
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my girlfriend saw it on her side and me on my side at different angles. Also when we turned the corner it was still there out the side window with no cars in front. The windows were down and we had a clear view of it.
I have more video also which I will upload.
Pending that video, that would raise the possibility that more than one phenomenon was observed -- a flashing seen through the window that seems synced to a flashing light elsewhere in the frame pretty much must be a reflection of that light source in the window with possibly some number of other shiny surfaces bouncing the light around. If a light was subsequently seen from outside the car, that light would have to be something else, a second phenomenon. Possibly a plane, possibly something else. It may or may not be possible to identify it from the video, once it is posted.
 
Looks like you were all wrong. With the exception of @Trailspotter.

It was not a lens flare as suggested. It was a plane...well the underbelly of the planes fuselage as it turned. Syncing the dash cam footage from fry-day and the flight traffic out of Melbourne airport I was able to confirm without a shadow of a doubt that the witness saw VOZ237. A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 (apparently the plane below is the exact livery on VOZ237).

I have attached a video showing the plane coming into view at egg-sactly same time the witness saw the object come into view.

This sun was reflecting off the belly of the plane as it turned sunny side up which explains the witnesses comment in regard to the shape.

They were seeing the white fuselage, with the planes wings blending in, due to the glare. The witness mentioned that it looked like it was hovering and that can be easily explained by the paralax effect. It's fair to say I've cracked the case.

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That's all for today, yolks!
 

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Looks like you were all wrong. With the exception of @Trailspotter.

It was not a lens flare as suggested. It was a plane...well the underbelly of the planes fuselage as it turned. Syncing the dash cam footage from fry-day and the flight traffic out of Melbourne airport I was able to confirm without a shadow of a doubt that the witness saw VOZ237. A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 (apparently the plane below is the exact livery on VOZ237).

I have attached a video showing the plane coming into view at egg-sactly same time the witness saw the object come into view.

This sun was reflecting off the belly of the plane as it turned sunny side up which explains the witnesses comment in regard to the shape.

They were seeing the white fuselage, with the planes wings blending in, due to the glare. The witness mentioned that it looked like it was hovering and that can be easily explained by the paralax effect. It's fair to say I've cracked the case.

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That's all for today, yolks!
How about a Google Maps reconstruction?
 
I explicitly said that I wasn't willing to rule out the existence of jutting out bits - sometimes known as "wings".
And @JMartJr explicitly raised "it definitely is not the thing that it actually is.", which is a perfect match for "the witness confirmed it was not a plane."
You crack me up. Witnesses are unreliable, eye's play tricks. It's is still important to include every bit of witness information despite if they are proved to be wrong.

It's a shame it wasn't eggstraterrestial.
 
You crack me up. Witnesses are unreliable, eye's play tricks. It's is still important to include every bit of witness information despite if they are proved to be wrong.

It's a shame it wasn't eggstraterrestial.
Well done. I'm glad the investigation is over easy. Just a plane bacon in the sun.
 
So, VOZ237 on 24 Jan 2025...

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/va237#38d90708

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KML is attached

- The time the object was sighted was 17:38:41 to 17.39:07
Which is UTC+11, so 06.38:41UTC

Location was Maribynong road, Maribynong (see below) heading towards Highpoint shopping centre.
-37.77123,144.9118449 is close enough for an initial Sitrec

I've created a stitch in Sitrec - Permalink https://www.metabunk.org/u/q7DBmB.html

It seems to whow that at the start time of the video 06.38:41UTC the plane would have been out of shot to the right of the FoV,

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And it would appear in shot at 06:38.54, moving right-to-left through the upper part of the video frame,
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I'm not totally confident that I have Sitrec set up correctly, so please somebody check the stitch.
 

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Looks like you were all wrong. With the exception of @Trailspotter.

It was not a lens flare as suggested. It was a plane...well the underbelly of the planes fuselage as it turned. Syncing the dash cam footage from fry-day and the flight traffic out of Melbourne airport I was able to confirm without a shadow of a doubt that the witness saw VOZ237. A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 (apparently the plane below is the exact livery on VOZ237).

I have attached a video showing the plane coming into view at egg-sactly same time the witness saw the object come into view.
Actually, VOZ237 has come into view a few seconds after the time interval stated in OP. I saw this plane on the ADS-B exchange playback, it is in the screenshot in my previous post. I edited this screenshot below to indicate this plane with red circle around it and the viewing direction along the street with red arrow.
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Despite a small discrepancy in time, VOZ237 is almost certainly the culprit. However, I did not consider it before, assuming that the witnesses would readily recognise the plane taking off from the airport. Before it turned away from them the plane was at the nearest only about 5 km (3 miles) away from the car to the right:
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hmmm, whilst I agrre that they could have seen the plane, I'm not convinced that the plane is in the video. Sitrec shows it well out of frame at the time-bounds of the snippet of video.

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hmmm, whilst I agrre that they could have seen the plane, I'm not convinced that the plane is in the video. Sitrec shows it well out of frame at the time-bounds of the snippet of video.
Yes, this is what I noticed too in my Google Earth reconstruction. Perhaps the dashcam clock was slow by about half a minute.
 
@flarkey @Trailspotter I have received the full footage directly from the dash cam with timestamps (see attached). I'm still confident it was VOZ237, it still seems to line up with my flight tracker data.

Of course if it not a plane, it must be an Egg UFO operated by NHI.
 

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@flarkey @Trailspotter I have received the full footage directly from the dash cam with timestamps (see attached). I'm still confident it was VOZ237, it still seems to line up with my flight tracker data.

Of course if it not a plane, it must be an Egg UFO operated by NHI.
It is a low resolution copy. I can hardly read the line at bottom left corner and can't see the "object" or anything else in the sky apart from a spec of dirt on the front glass or camera lenses, illuminated by the Sun after the car turned to the left. Speaking of the Sun, its position in the sky ahead of the car, slightly to the left of the road in the beginning and to the right after the turn, independently corroborates the time of the day but does not rule out that the dashcam clock is slightly off.
 
It is a low resolution copy. I can hardly read the line at bottom left corner and can't see the "object" or anything else in the sky apart from a spec of dirt on the front glass or camera lenses, illuminated by the Sun after the car turned to the left. Speaking of the Sun, its position in the sky ahead of the car, slightly to the left of the road in the beginning and to the right after the turn, independently corroborates the time of the day but does not rule out that the dashcam clock is slightly off.
Agreed, its a lower resolution than the original snippet. We cant even see the plane in it at all. :(
 
First video is 15.5 MB for 18 seconds.
Last one has 16.9 MB for 60 seconds.

According to my calculations, the second video is crap.
 
The main missing piece of evidence is how out of sync with actual time is the dashcam clock, the problem is each passing hour puts it more out of sync or increases the chance it gets corrected.
 
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