Shortly after 9pm daylight savings time this evening, only just over half an hour ago as I write this post, here in central Victoria, while I was sitting on the front porch and watching the clouds go by lit by the moonlight, I began to wonder about all this UFO phenomena and asked myself, "Would I be afraid if I saw one?" Only two minutes later, that question was answered.
Just before going back into the house, as it was growing cold, I decided to take a brief walk up the driveway to scare off a rabbit that was messing around there and after I chased off the bunny and turned back to the driveway, as I turned to head back to the house, three bright lights in the sky caught my attention.
I looked up, toward the south-western sky, not far from overhead, and three bright lights were flying in linear formation, perhaps separated only by a few degrees of arc in the sky from one another, evenly spaced, with one leading, one in the middle and one trailing. They made no sound, were of essentially the same brightness as each other, were far too bright for satelites (and satelites do not follow each other around in such neat formation), and were heading north east. As they were almost directly overhead, a smaller light shot off at high speed towards the south east from the trailing light and quickly disappeared.
The whole thing lasted for about two to three minutes before they eneterd the shadow of the earth, so it is clear that their brightness was reflected sunlight, not their own light. They were each as bright as the brightest stars in the sky though not as bright as Venus but perhaps as bright as Jupiter on a good, clear night. The lights appeared to be a slightly blueish white so I imagine that is an effect of the reflectivity of the metal shells of the craft.
The middle one did not appear to be flying as steadily as the other two, with small, somewhat erratic deviations from its central position in the formation, jostling slightly to and fro, left and right, jittering as it were, sometimes a little closer to the leading one, sometimes a little closer to the trailing one, sometimes a little to the left or the right of the main trajectory they appeared to be on.
The last time I saw any such phenomenon was when I was about 12 years old, late one night outside in front of my parents' home, in suburban Melbourne. That was 46 years ago.
Anyway, my question was answered... afraid? No, but perhaps a touch of anxiety, especially considering I was just thinking about such phenomena which is not something I contemplate much to be honest, and there it was.
We are to expect a growing trend of strange events, but fear nothing of this world. Fear God and worship Him only.
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Addendum 2023-11-05.
All too often, when describing such things as written above to someone else, they jump to the conclusion that you have yourself jumped to a conclusion, and they assume that you have not considered any other possibilities first, that you simply leaped immediately to "UFO" as an explanation (which, by its own definition, is actually the lack of an explanation) and that was that... but, of course, they are the ones making the assumptions, all too easy to do when they have not themselves been witness to the events and all too ready to dismiss such things with nary a second thought, in effect implying that the witness to the events is either stupid or gullible or given to delusional flights of fancy.
So, I should point out something about my approach to analysis...
"UFO" was the very last thing I thought of in spite of my earlier contemplations. Being an electronics design engineer with nearly 40 years of experience (i.e. not quite the sort of person one assumes is stupid or delusional), I am highly analytical, thoroughly logical and pedantic when it comes to details. When I saw those things in the sky, my thoughts immediately turned to all manner of identifiable flying craft, beginning with the most obvious, whether terrestrial craft or spacecraft, and other things such as meteors, asteroids, et cetera, even missiles (God forbid!) among other things. As I watched, my mind went through each possibility but, as it did, each possiblity was shot down by ongoing observations, strange things unlike anything I have ever seen, until all possibilities known to me were exhausted and then, and only then, I was left with "unidentified flying object", the very definition of what I had seen.
So, a friendly note on this... please be careful of how you react to people who describe such events, particularly people who, for all intents and purposes, are rational and logical and not easily inclined to delusions. The right question to ask yourself would be, "If this is all a lie, what are they hoping to gain by it?" Nobody goes around declaring they were witnesses to such things because they want everyone else to think that they are completely insane (that is, unless that person is already short of a few sheep in the top paddock). So, please be careful with how you treat other peoples' strange experiences. Otherwise, we only cause them to hide their experiences and we therefore have fewer accounts to go on regarding the signs of the times. I am not suggesting that you simply believe whatever you hear, only that you do not write it off as nonsense without very careful consideration.
As for those things I saw, I cannot say what they were, I cannot say if they were manmade or something else (personally I lean towards the manmade explanation but, short of adequate evidence, I will not declare it so) and I cannot say who or what was piloting them, if at all. All I can confidently say is that they were very strange and I could not identify what they were.
