ManInBlack
Active Member
Location Melbourne CBD/Southbank
On April 12, 2024 I was travelling north bound through the Kings Way bridge (see below) in the evening at around 6-7pm. The sky was a little cloudy on the night and I noticed a large bright light hovering in between the clouds. What I did find weird about it was that it was quite bright and it seemed to be lower than a star however I just thought it was Mars or Venus so I didn't take much note of it. I had eyes on it for about 3-4 minutes. There was no indication that it was a plane or a helicopter, and there was no signal lights. As I got closer to the Kings Way bridge with seconds I saw it descend rapidly from above the clouds and then it disappeared from my vision. I thought that's strange, however there is a helicopter service that goes through that area and so I expected to see the helicopter as I exited the tunnel or at least hear it but there was no sound, nothing. I had seen drones in that area but they have all had green & red lights, and not travelled that quickly. Being a restricted flight zone due to the helicopter service the ones I have seen a usually small DJI style drones and definitely not that high. What I also found strange was that the size of this object/drone? was that it didn't look small, I would say it was the size of a off-road buggy or larger. So larger than a commercial filming drone. Unfortunately I was unable to get any photos or footage so I didn't think much of it, I was catching up with a friend at the time and I mentioned it, just saying I saw something weird and went on with my life.
Almost a year passes and talking to the same friend, he says randomly a short reel came up on his YouTube feed of that thing, I saw last year. I had no idea what he was talking about at the time but he sent me the footage and I couldn't believe it. Someone else had witnessed the very same thing (possibly a day apart?) and actually got footage.
Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/RF3eVoY-6Sc?si=wnzzo5qu2W1AZd2A
From what I can see the footage was taken from somewhere around or at the Yarra Botanica. The footage seems to align to the google maps location.
The witness also left a statement on the video:
I have ruled out that it was a plane, helicopter or consumer drone. It also moved to quickly to be a balloon, and it wasn't a meteor because it was stationary for a decent amount of time.
On April 12, 2024 I was travelling north bound through the Kings Way bridge (see below) in the evening at around 6-7pm. The sky was a little cloudy on the night and I noticed a large bright light hovering in between the clouds. What I did find weird about it was that it was quite bright and it seemed to be lower than a star however I just thought it was Mars or Venus so I didn't take much note of it. I had eyes on it for about 3-4 minutes. There was no indication that it was a plane or a helicopter, and there was no signal lights. As I got closer to the Kings Way bridge with seconds I saw it descend rapidly from above the clouds and then it disappeared from my vision. I thought that's strange, however there is a helicopter service that goes through that area and so I expected to see the helicopter as I exited the tunnel or at least hear it but there was no sound, nothing. I had seen drones in that area but they have all had green & red lights, and not travelled that quickly. Being a restricted flight zone due to the helicopter service the ones I have seen a usually small DJI style drones and definitely not that high. What I also found strange was that the size of this object/drone? was that it didn't look small, I would say it was the size of a off-road buggy or larger. So larger than a commercial filming drone. Unfortunately I was unable to get any photos or footage so I didn't think much of it, I was catching up with a friend at the time and I mentioned it, just saying I saw something weird and went on with my life.
Almost a year passes and talking to the same friend, he says randomly a short reel came up on his YouTube feed of that thing, I saw last year. I had no idea what he was talking about at the time but he sent me the footage and I couldn't believe it. Someone else had witnessed the very same thing (possibly a day apart?) and actually got footage.
Source: https://youtube.com/shorts/RF3eVoY-6Sc?si=wnzzo5qu2W1AZd2A
From what I can see the footage was taken from somewhere around or at the Yarra Botanica. The footage seems to align to the google maps location.
The witness also left a statement on the video:
For people who may know, don't planes and drones have green/red flashing lights to indicate aircraft position? Or some flashing/strobe light. Was stuck in the same place above the clouds for 10 minutes after we noticed and just happened to choose to record it when it moved. It covered a pretty sizable distance from a complete standstill
I have ruled out that it was a plane, helicopter or consumer drone. It also moved to quickly to be a balloon, and it wasn't a meteor because it was stationary for a decent amount of time.