UFOMYST
CaseCone2005

Australia, Australia

((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax. PD)) Dark, egg shaped, rocket boosters no windows.

Report quality: Low8/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-06-28
Where
Australia, Australia
Shape
Cone
Duration
2-3 Minutes
Geo
22.499, -81.136 · fallback
Slug
cone-over-australia-2005-d0e149
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 18 documented reports from Australia, Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Australia logged 60 sightings in 2005.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.4%).

Report

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