UFOMYST
CaseCone1997

Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia

Driving home with freinds, saw unusual craft (real obvious UFO) hovering in a field, stopped to look at/verify what it might be...

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-11-20
Where
Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
Shape
Cone
Duration
10 Mins
Geo
-37.814, 144.963 · exact
Slug
cone-over-melbourne-vic-australia-1997-0c2166
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 48 documented reports from Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Australia logged 12 sightings in 1997.
  • Cone sightings ran at 0.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 0.4%).

Report

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