THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT

1993 Warrandyte, Melbourne UFO Sighting:

The Small Disc With the Neon Edge

In 1993, a young woman riding in the back seat of a friend’s car near Warrandyte, on Melbourne’s outer edge, watched a small, disc-shaped object with a domed top streak past just above the line of streetlights — moving with an eerie precision, as if “following an invisible road,” its black, night-sky-colored surface visible only because its edges glowed neon white. No one else in the car saw it, and when she tried to describe it to her friends afterward, none of them believed her.

Date: 1993 (specific date not documented)

Sighting Time: Approximately 8:30 p.m.

Day/Night: Night

Location: Near Warrandyte, on the outer edge of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (witness was traveling home from an evening by the river at Warrandyte)

Urban or Rural: Suburban

No. of Entity(‘s): None documented

Entity Type: None documented

Entity Description: None documented

Hynek Classification: CE-I (Close Encounter I) — corrected from the source material’s original NL. At only 12 meters’ distance with a clearly described structural shape (a disc with a domed top), this goes beyond a simple point-light sighting and fits close-range structural observation

Duration: Approximately 6 to 7 seconds

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A small, round, flat disc with a small dome on top — described by the witness as looking almost cartoonishly like “the quintessential image of a UFO”; the object appeared black and opaque, as though the night sky itself could be seen through it, with its edges glowing neon white (and at times other colors); the dome’s surface displayed the same alternating neon coloring despite its curved shape, which the witness noted should logically have made a clean glowing edge harder to perceive; moved with notable speed and precision, closely tracking the line of streetlights as if following an invisible path

Shape of Object(s): Disc with a small dome on top

Size of Object(s): Approximately 1 meter in length

Color of Object(s): Black/opaque main body with glowing neon white (and occasionally colored) edges

Distance to Object(s): Approximately 12 meters

Height & Speed: Very low to the ground, just above the height of nearby streetlights; moved quickly, passing over the car and continuing to follow the streetlight line before disappearing from view

Number of Witnesses: 1 — the reporting witness was the only person in the car looking in the object’s direction; the driver was focused on the road and other passengers were engaged in conversation

Special Features/Characteristics: The witness disclosed she had consumed a few beers earlier that evening, a detail she raised herself rather than having it drawn out; she attempted unsuccessfully to point the object out to other passengers in the moment, but the sighting passed too quickly for her to direct their attention in time; she has since wondered whether what she saw might have been an unusual reflection of the streetlights, though she describes the memory as detailed and vivid enough that she still doubts this explanation; the sighting was never formally reported to any authority or UFO research organization at the time, surfacing only later as a personal testimonial submission

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, uninvestigated witness account, self-disclosed alcohol consumption, no contemporaneous report, and no independent corroboration or follow-up investigation of any kind

Source: UFOEvidence.org, witness testimonial submitted by “Melissa,” Melbourne, age 33 at time of submission

Summary/Description: A young woman riding in a friend’s car near Warrandyte, Melbourne in 1993 watched a small, black, disc-shaped object with a glowing neon-edged dome pass low over the streetlights at close range for several seconds before disappearing. No one else in the car saw it, and the witness never formally reported the sighting at the time, later submitting the account as a personal testimonial.

Related Cases: None documented

Detailed Report

The witness, submitting her account under the name Melissa, described herself as skeptical of UFOs generally, but recalled an experience from 1993 she still cannot explain. As a young woman returning from an evening with friends by the river at Warrandyte, on Melbourne’s outer edge, she was riding in the middle of the back seat of a friend’s car, looking forward through the windscreen, while the driver focused on the road and other passengers talked among themselves. She noted candidly that she had had a few beers that evening, but felt what she saw was more vivid and detailed than anything she could attribute to that alone.

She saw something moving quickly toward the car, just above the line of streetlights along the road, approaching from the opposite direction before passing above the vehicle and continuing to follow the streetlight line away from them. She ducked her head to keep it in view through the rear windscreen as it receded, transfixed, and tried unsuccessfully to point it out to the other passengers — the sighting happened too quickly for her to direct their attention without losing sight of it herself.

The object was small — she estimated only about a meter in length — and flying very low, close to the road. Its shape struck her as almost comically textbook: a round, flat disc topped with a small dome, resembling what she described as a cartoon’s idea of a flying saucer. She felt embarrassed describing it to her friends afterward, and none of them believed her account.

What she found most unusual was, first, the object’s speed and precision — it hovered and moved with a smoothness that seemed to expertly track the line of streetlights, as though following an invisible road, moving quite fast. Second, its coloring: the object appeared opaque and black, as if the night sky itself were visible through it, and the only reason she could see it at all was that its edges glowed with a neon-like white light, sometimes shifting color. This neon-edged quality extended around the disc in what she described as a spherical pattern, and — the detail she found hardest to explain — the domed section displayed the same alternating neon-white and colored surface, despite its curved shape logically making a clean glowing edge harder to produce; she compared its surface texture to a strange, sheened, translucent plastic.

She noted the object would likely have been nearly impossible to spot at night were it not for the fact that she happened to be looking directly at the point where it first appeared, allowing her to track it as she tried to work out what she was seeing. She has since wondered whether it might have been some unusual reflection of the streetlights, but states that to this day she can describe what she saw with clear, specific detail, and remains genuinely uncertain rather than settled on either explanation.

At the time of submitting her account, the witness described herself as a mother, casual worker, and Master of Arts student, also working as a writer and artist. She indicated the sighting was never formally reported to any authority at the time it occurred.

Researcher’s Notes

The Warrandyte Sighting — 1993 and a Witness Who Argued Against Her Own Account

• This is a CE-I case, not NL. A clearly described structural shape — a disc with a domed top — observed at only 12 meters’ distance goes well beyond a simple point-light sighting. The classification is corrected to reflect the close-range structural detail actually reported.
• The witness’s self-disclosed alcohol consumption and her own alternative explanation are signs of honesty, not weakness. Raising the possibility that she’d been drinking, and separately proposing a streetlight-reflection explanation for her own sighting, without prompting, reflects a witness actively testing her own memory rather than defending an unshakeable claim. That kind of self-skepticism is worth noting as a credibility factor in its own right.
• This sighting was never formally reported at the time, and that matters for how it should be weighed. Surfacing only as a personal testimonial submitted years later, with no contemporaneous report, no photograph, and no other witness able to corroborate it, places this case firmly in the category of an interesting but uninvestigated personal account.
• The neon-edge/opaque-body description is unusual and difficult to attribute to a known conventional object. A genuinely reflective or refractive lighting artifact could potentially explain some elements of this description, but the witness’s specific attention to the dome’s curved surface displaying the same edge-lighting effect — and her own recognition that this shouldn’t logically be possible for a simple reflection — suggests she was thinking carefully about the geometry of what she saw rather than describing a vague glow.
• The small size and low altitude are worth flagging without over-interpreting them. A meter-long object moving low along a street is a genuinely unusual detail; this page does not speculate about what kind of technology, terrestrial or otherwise, could account for it, since the source material gives no further basis for doing so.

The Warrandyte sighting is preserved here as a vivid, specific, and self-questioned personal account — never formally reported, seen by only one person in a car full of witnesses, and offered by someone who has spent years weighing her own memory against a mundane explanation without fully resolving the question for herself.

“It hovered so expertly, so smoothly above the lights as if it were following an invisible road.”

— witness account, Warrandyte, Melbourne, 1993