1966: Burkes Flat UFO – The “Bent Headlight Beams”

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date:  April 4th, 1966

Sighting Time:  8:00 p.m.

Day/Night:  Night

Location:  Burkes Flat, Victoria, Australia

Urban or Rural:  Rural

Hynek Classification:  CE-II (Close Encounter II) Observation of an object in close proximity to the witness, where physical traces (impression, burn, medical effect, etc.) are left or (electrical effect, heat) are felt

Duration:  

No. of Object(s):  1

Height & Speed:  

Size of Object(s):  about 15′ in diameter

Distance to Object(s):  

Shape of Object(s):  top

Color/Description of Object(s):  white phosphorous type of light on the ground that appeared to be about 15′ in diameter. It opened up and there was another white oval on top of it, about 30′ in height, coming down making the shape of a cone, with a 15′ bottom diameter and 20′ top diameter. And in that cone were tubes of colored lights, all the lights as you see as you look through the spectrum, all the colors of the rainbow red, blue, indigo & purple. Travelling up and down, or they seem to be, from the small oval to the bigger oval at the top. They were going up and down in shafts.

Number of Witnesses:  Ron Sullivan

Source:  

Summary/Description:  At about 8:00 p.m., Ron Sullivan, was travelling on a straight sealed section of the Dunolly-St.Arnaud road, near Burkes Flat, in central country Victoria. Ahead in a pasture off to his right, Sullivan observed an unusual light. He first took it to be a tractor, engaged in night plowing, but as he drew closer, Sullivan began to see a most unusual light display, located at ground level. The following things happened quickly as he drew closer to the scene, and then passed it. He was paying attention to both the light display in the pasture on his right and the road when he observed the following sequence of light display in the strange phenomenon in the pasture.

Initially, as he approached, Sullivan saw a white phosphorous type of light on the ground that appeared to be about 15′ in diameter. It opened up and there was another white oval on top of it, about 30′ in height, coming down making the shape of a cone, with a 15′ bottom diameter and 20′ top diameter. And in that cone were tubes of colored lights, all the lights as you see as you look through the spectrum, all the colors of the rainbow red, blue, indigo & purple. Travelling up and down, or they seem to be, from the small oval to the bigger oval at the top. They were going up and down in shafts.

Then gradually the top seemed to come to meet the bottom, They seemed to close in, making a transition of one light oval, similar to first view, everything then just disappeared. The last thing Sullivan saw of the light.