What was THAT? Australian spots a bizarre object floating through the sky - and insists it wasn't a plane or a drone
- Man has filmed an unidentified flying object hovering over his Queensland unit
- Gabriel Rosa was able to pull out his phone and film the object before it sped off
- The video follows the United States military declassify three UFO videos in April
An Australian man has filmed an unidentified object hovering through the sky.
Gabriel Rosa managed to pull out his camera and film the object as he was standing on his Sunshine Coast balcony in Queensland about 6.30am on Tuesday.
Mr Rosa said he woke up and went to his balcony with a coffee in the unit he shares with his wife.
'When I saw this object, it stopped flying when I first saw it. Initially I thought it was a bird until I saw the sun reflecting on it then started to move north really fast.' Mr Rosa told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
An Australian man has filmed a strange unidentified object hovering through the sky on Tuesday morning
He said he watched the object stop in the sky for about five seconds before he was able to start filming with his phone.
'Probably took another five to 10 seconds until I started the phone camera. At this stage it was already moving north at speed. It stopped, then went behind the trees.'
Mr Rosa insists the object was not a drone as they are strictly not allowed in the area because of its close proximity to an airport.
'I don't wanna be alarmist on this, especially because I'm not sure what it was. I just wanted to share so someone else can keep the record too,' he said.
UFO Research Queensland Australia, which keeps track of reported sightings of extraterrestrial vehicles, said they had not received any other reports of sightings on the Gold Coast for quite a while.
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The footage follows the United States military declassifying three videos taken by US Navy pilots showing mid-air encounters with what appear to be UFOs.
The grainy black and white footage had previously been leaked and the Navy had acknowledged they were Navy videos.
The Department of Defense said Monday it was 'releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.'
'The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,'' the Pentagon statement said.
One of videos was shot in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015.
In one, the weapons sensor operator appears to lose lock on a rapidly moving oblong object which seconds later suddenly accelerates away to the left and out of view.
In another video tracking an object above the clouds, one pilot wonders if it is a drone.
'There's a whole fleet of them. Look on the ASA,' the other says.
'My gosh, they're all going against the wind! The wind's 120 knots out of the west!' he said.
'Look at that thing,' the first says as the object starts rotating.
The videos had previously been released by the New York Times and the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, a group co-founded by Blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge.
After a thorough review, the Pentagon said it determined that 'the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.'
Retired US Navy pilot David Fravor who saw one of the 'UFOs' in 2004 told CNN the object moved erratically.
'As I got close to it ... it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,' Fravor told CNN in 2017.
'This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way.'
Former Nevada senator Harry Reid, whose state hosts the top secret Area 51 Air Force facility, welcomed release of the videos.
'I'm glad the Pentagon is finally releasing this footage, but it only scratches the surface of research and materials available,' he tweeted.
'The U.S. needs to take a serious, scientific look at this and any potential national security implications. The American people deserve to be informed.'
In December 2017, the Pentagon acknowledged funding a secret multi-million dollar program to investigate sightings of UFOs, although it said it had ended in 2012.
The three video clips -- 'FLIR,' 'GOFAST' and 'GIMBAL' are available to download on the Naval Air Systems Command website.
Mr Rosa insists the object was not a drone as they are strictly not allowed in the area because of it's close proximity to an airport
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