View source

[[Image:Oz_question_mark.jpg|thumb|right|Question mark formation]]
[[Image:Oz_kathy_d.jpg|thumb|right|Kathy D.]]
[[Image:Oz_11.jpg|thumb|right|Mysterious light]]
[[Image:Oz_14.jpg|thumb|right|Cropped - enlarged]]
[[Image:Oz 15.jpg|thumb|right|Enhanced]]
== Oz Lights ==

By [[Philip Mantle]]

One of the pleasures of lecturing or attending conferences on the UFO subject is some of the people you meet. In 2003 I had the pleasure of speaking at the International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada, USA. This Congress is without doubt that the largest such event anywhere in the world. Out of the many people I met there one was Kathy D. Kathy is originally from the UK but has lived in Australia for many years. 

Kathy is a UFO researchers and lecturer in her own right and she lives in the foothills of Adelaide. She has a beach house at South Haven in South Australia. This is about 30 minutes drive from where she lives. It is at this beach house that Kathy has had several interesting UFO sightings and has managed to capture some of these events on camera. The following account is directly from Kathy D herself: 

On the 25th June 2006 on a whim, my son and I decided to visit our beach house.
Accompanying us was our 17 years old dog. I might add at this point that in all his 17 years, our dog has never liked the sea and ran away when nearing a rock pool on the beach.
 
When we arrived at the beach house we went straight out the front and stood looking over the marina to the beach houses the other side of the inlet.
 
As we stood nothing was said, we just looked over the sea. I was picking up a very unusual phenomenon. Everything looked distorted, small and interestingly, we could not hear the seagulls or the noise of the sea. Everything was silent. It was as if viewing the whole surroundings through cellophane paper or, even more bizarre, from another place.
 
My son then mentioned that everything seemed strange and distorted, exactly the same sensations I was experiencing.
 
We then decide to visit the main beach which is situated a one minute walk from the back gate, to see if the same phenomenon was apparent on the main beach. It was. 
 
The sea seemed as if it was boiling and had a phosphorescent color to it, again we could not hear the waves crashing on the breakwater rocks or indeed the seagulls. Everything was almost silent. All of the time I was taking pictures with my camera and getting nothing. The air seemed electrified. By this time it was dark and the time would have been about 7 p m. 
 
Still taking pictures, my son called to me to look at the dog, which by now was about 10 ft into the water and walking in a straight line out to sea.  My son had to go in and pick him up.  The dog seemed as if he was on remote control. He was also very cold. This was indeed very odd behaviour.
 
We decided to take our dog back to the house and dry him off. All of the time we were walking back I was taking shots and again getting nothing. 
 
Halfway back I noticed a reddish haze near by in the sky, so I took a shot. I knew I had something this time because the window in the back of the camera lit up.
 
When back at the beach house I reviewed the shots taken and was astonished to see the object, which appeared on the camera. We immediately went back to the main beach to see if there was anything else apparent.

There was nothing unusual, but what was interesting, was the fact that everything was cleared and back to normal. We could hear the sea and the birds once more. It was as if viewing the object was the catalyst for normality to return.
 
I did not see the object at any time but what ever it was, made itself apparent before I took the photograph.
 
The camera used was a Nikon Coolpix 5900. The picture I sent to you was a re sized version.  Attached to this email is the original photograph for you to use.
 
Kathy.

Kathy has also sent me another photograph taken at the same location, which she nicknames ‘the question mark’. It is well known in UFO research that there are many locations around the world that seem to have a concentration of these mysterious lights. Marfa in Texas, Hessdalen in Norway and the Pennine Hills of Northern England are all such locations.  Whether North Haven is one such location remains to be seen.

Kathy is keen to receive any feedback on her photographs and while they are her copyright she feels they ‘belong to the world’. I would like to thank Kathy for allowing me permission to reproduce her photographs. If you would like to comments on these photographs taken by Kathy I would appreciate it if you could contact me at:


== Credits ==

Special thanks to [[Philip Mantle]]


== External Links ==

* [http://www.philipmantle.com Philip Mantle's Website]

[[Category:UFO_Articles]]