Melton, Australia: Police constables follow lights for hours, radar contact at Tullamarine
From 12:40 a.m. to about 6:00 a.m. on July 22, 1983, police constables Raymond Ellens and Peter Ferguson followed a two-light object over Melton, Victoria, Australia; it was picked up on radar at Tullamarine Air Traffic Control.
Background
At 12:40 a.m. police constables Raymond Ellens and Peter Ferguson, on car patrol east of Melton, Melbourne, Victoria, saw a bright, stationary light composed of two lights, which hovered about 200 feet above the Melton Regional Shopping Centre before flying off with a high-pitched humming sound. The UFO was picked up on radar at Tullamarine Air Traffic Control in Melbourne. The constables saw it again at 2:40 a.m., apparently on the ground behind the Toolern Vale stables (they found no traces), and at 4:30 a.m. at the shopping centre, where Sgt. Barry Harman and Chief Inspector Hickman also saw it at some point. Following it, they saw it head toward the antenna array of the Australian Army Rockbank Receiving Station before turning north; they lost sight of it at about 6:00 a.m. Their written report describes a counterclockwise triangular path bounded by Melton, Rockbank, Sydenham and Diggers Rest at 200 to 1,600 feet, and the Australian Signal Intelligence facility at Rockbank was alerted that its security had been breached. 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.