{"id":783,"date":"2015-03-24T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=783"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T15:57:48","slug":"ufo-close-encounter-of-an-eerie-kind-as-gorokan-family-sees-hovering-sphere-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/ufo-close-encounter-of-an-eerie-kind-as-gorokan-family-sees-hovering-sphere-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO close encounter of an eerie kind as Gorokan family sees hovering sphere of light"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Josh<\/a>
Josh Elton of Gorokan, 15.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

IT WAS bright, swerving and dipping at an incredibly high speed. And then, suddenly, it disappeared without a trace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For teenager Josh Elton and his family in Gorokan, in the Central Coast, this brief sighting in the sky was enough to make them wonder if they had seen a UFO<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just sitting on the lounge last Thursday night, about 7.30, and my younger brother and I saw what we thought was a plane flying really low,\u201d Josh, 15, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was swerving all around as we looked out to San Remo, and I really thought it was going to crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family and I have never seen anything like it before. Mum initially thought it might have been a meteor, but there has been nothing on the news about something like that hitting the Central Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josh captured the eerie encounter in a 12-second video on his iPad.<\/p>\n

He said he showed it to his friends and neighbours who were equally stumped as to what the spherical, luminous object was.<\/p>\n

The Express Advocate forwarded it to an expert on UFO sightings, Dominic McNamara, for closer examination.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlashing lights are normally at a slower frequency, but can sometimes appear to be a revolving object instead,\u201d said Mr McNamara, a senior member of the UFO and Paranormal Research Society of Australia.<\/p>\n

\"Dominic<\/a>
Dominic McNamara from Woodbine, NSW.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cInterestingly, vector diagram and measurement shows that it appears to change course ever so slightly toward the left of camera as it is about to be lost from sight.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it is impossible to say what this is. Still, there\u2019s not much that is lit up and floats to the ground \u00ac- if indeed it is descending as sharply as the imagery suggests.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be receding, but there\u2019s no way of knowing. To date, there is no other report of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there also did not appear to be any evidence relating to a lost airborne object.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly not with our sources,\u201d Mr McNamara said. \u201cBut I intend to examine this video more thoroughly, and a trace search for other accounts from this area has already begun.\u201d<\/p>\n

The last reported UFO sighting on the Central Coast came in July 2013, when Drew Ryan, a hobby photographer, snapped images and extensive video footage of a large, luminous object hovering over Empire Bay.<\/p>\n

Nothing was proved on the UFO claims at the time, nor has there has been on this latest one.<\/p>\n

But for Josh and Drew, the truth is out there.<\/p>\n

\"Jane<\/a>
Jane Pooley of Springfield captured this picture of a UFO over the Coast in 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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