July 19, 1981🇮🇩Sighting
Anomaly
Mahakam River, Borneo: Boat traveler sees blinking star-like light move in an arc
At 8:27 p.m. on 19 July 1981, Malcolm Smith, traveling by boat up the Mahakam River in Borneo, Indonesia, saw an odd star blink, move in an arc and fade out, then reappear two minutes later before veering away.
Background
At 8:27 p.m. Malcolm Smith was traveling on a boat up the Mahakam River in Borneo, Indonesia, when he saw an odd star that began to blink, moved in an arc, faded and went out. It reappeared 2 minutes later, moving and blinking more frequently, then veered away and faded out. Eberhart cites Smith's own account "Enigmatic Objects" in IUR (Winter 1995). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.