In March last year, a Queensland woman drove north towards Charleville. It was a hot, still afternoon — a clear 37°C day with no hint of a breeze. The long road ahead was deserted but, up in the sky, something caught the woman’s eye. An eerie, vast, green solid mass about 50 metres long was travelling towards her at speed.
“At first she thought it was a giant plague of locusts, but it seemed too high and the edges of this shape were sharp. She described it as a huge, mint-green plume shape, similar to a teardrop,” explains Sheryl Gottschall, a veteran investigator with UFO Research Queensland. The volunteer organisation has been running for 65-plus years and records and researches possible UFO sightings.
“As it came towards her a powerful burst of wind suddenly blew her vehicle clear onto the other side of the highway. She quickly steered back onto the correct side of the road, and as she gripped the steering wheel she heard a crackling, sprinkling noise going over the roof of her car. She could hear it above the engine and air conditioning.”
The strange green mass passed over the woman’s car at a speed she’d never seen – she estimates it was travelling at “thousands of kilometres” per hour. “It was there one second and gone the next, without leaving any trail,” adds Sheryl.
In Charleville, the shaken driver reported the incident to police and at the council offices but there had been no similar reports that day.
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