THINK ABOUTIT UFO SIGHTING REPORT

1994 Pentecost River, El Questro Station UFO Sighting:

Three Saucers for Seven Hours

While floating horses across the Pentecost River into El Questro Station in Western Australia’s Kimberley region on an August afternoon in 1994, a horseman watched three ovoid, saucer-shaped objects come in low, stop, and hover roughly 200 yards away — and stay there, completely silent, for more than seven hours, still visible as red and green lights when he checked again at 10:30 that night.

Date: August 16, 1994

Sighting Time: Approximately 3:30 p.m., remaining visible until at least 10:30 p.m.

Day/Night: Transitional — first observed in full daylight, remaining visible as the object continued hovering into the night

Location: Gibb River Road, at the Pentecost River crossing near El Questro Station, Western Australia, Australia

Urban or Rural: Rural — remote outback station country

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 DD, given the witness’s estimated 200-yard distance at closest approach and his statement that at one point he felt he could almost touch the objects, placing this within close-range observation territory rather than a purely distant daylight sighting

Duration: 7 hours or more, from approximately 3:30 p.m. until at least 10:30 p.m., with departure occurring sometime later that night

No. of Object(s): 3

Description of the Object(s): Ovoid, typical saucer-shaped objects, each displaying red and then green lights traveling horizontally around the middle of the craft; initially mistaken for aircraft due to their lights, but flying in unusually close formation for conventional planes, per the witness’s own aviation experience; completely silent and motionless once they came to a stop and hovered

Shape of Object(s): Disc/ovoid, saucer-shaped

Size of Object(s): Approximately 400–500 feet across, with a center height (top to bottom) of roughly 40–50 feet

Color of Object(s): Red lights followed by green lights, traveling horizontally around the middle of each object

Distance to Object(s): Approximately 200 yards at the point the objects came to a stop and hovered; the witness stated that at one stage during the extended sighting, he felt he could almost touch them

Number of Witnesses: At least 3 direct witnesses at the river crossing — the reporting witness and two others, whose names were withheld out of consideration for their preference; separately, approximately 30 people at El Questro Station reportedly saw the objects that night, visible to them only as lights

Special Features/Characteristics: The objects were initially mistaken for aircraft approaching a private airstrip, given the station’s wealthy clientele, but their unusually tight formation flying struck the witness — who had flown planes himself — as inconsistent with normal aircraft operation; the objects remained completely stationary and silent for the entire multi-hour duration of the sighting, taking no action of any kind until their eventual departure; the witness’s camera was unavailable, left in another vehicle traveling separately to the main station

Case Status: Unexplained — a multi-witness sighting (at least 3 direct witnesses plus roughly 30 additional observers at the station) with an unusually extended duration of 7 or more hours, reported to UFO Research (NSW)

Source: UFO Research (NSW), Australia

Summary/Description: While moving horses across the Pentecost River near El Questro Station in Western Australia’s Kimberley region in August 1994, a rider and two companions watched three saucer-shaped objects with cycling red and green lights come to a stop and hover silently roughly 200 yards away. The objects remained visible for more than seven hours, seen by approximately 30 people at the station that night, before departing.

Related Cases: None documented

Detailed Report

The witness was undertaking a horse ride from Broome to Darwin between July and September 1994. On August 16, at around three in the afternoon, his group was floating horses across the Pentecost River into El Questro Station, moving slowly along the rough track to avoid spooking the animals. Riding on the back of a utility vehicle keeping watch on the horses, he noticed what he first took to be three aircraft approaching low from his left.

He found this odd — having flown planes himself, he knew how dangerous such tight formation flying could be without proper training. He initially assumed the objects, distinguished by red and green lights, might be approaching a private airstrip, given the station’s wealthy clientele. Instead, they came in low and simply stopped, hovering roughly 200 yards to his left. Fully visible now, they showed the typical ovoid, saucer-like shape, with red and then green lights traveling horizontally around each object’s middle.

The three objects remained in that position for the rest of the afternoon and into the evening, still present when the witness checked again at 10:30 that night. At one point during the extended sighting, he felt he could almost reach out and touch them. Throughout the entire encounter, the objects remained completely silent and took no action of any kind until their eventual departure later that night. Approximately 30 people at El Questro Station reportedly saw the objects as well, though by night they would have appeared only as lights rather than the clearly structured shapes visible in daylight. The witness’s camera was unavailable at the time, having been packed in another bag in a separate vehicle traveling to the main station.

Researcher’s Notes

The Pentecost River Sighting — 1994 and an Unusually Long, Stationary Encounter

• The seven-plus hour duration is genuinely exceptional. Most UFO sightings last seconds to minutes; an object — or three — remaining stationary and visible for an entire afternoon and evening, witnessed by dozens of people at the station, is a rare pattern in this archive and elevates the case’s evidentiary interest considerably.
• The witness’s own aviation background adds specific weight to his initial observation. Recognizing the formation as too tight for normal, safely piloted aircraft — before the objects even stopped and revealed their saucer shape — reflects an informed judgment rather than a vague first impression.
• The reclassification to CE-I reflects the witness’s own words, not just the distance figure. Two hundred yards alone sits right at the edge of typical close-encounter proximity, but the witness’s own statement that he felt he could almost touch the objects at one point suggests the practical experience of proximity was closer than the baseline distance figure alone would suggest.
• The missing camera is a mundane, unremarkable detail, not a suspicious gap. A camera packed in a bag in a separate vehicle, on a multi-day horseback trip through remote outback terrain, is an entirely ordinary reason for a missed photograph, consistent with how other camera-related details have been treated elsewhere in this archive.
• The withheld names of the other two witnesses limit independent verification but reflect a reasonable, respectful choice. The reporting witness explicitly declined to name his companions out of consideration for their own preferences, which this page treats as understandable rather than suspicious, while still noting it as a limit on how thoroughly this account can be independently checked.

The Pentecost River sighting stands out for its sheer duration and witness count — three saucer-shaped objects hovering silently and motionlessly for the better part of a day and night, seen up close by a small group at the river crossing and, as lights, by dozens more at the station itself.

“They were completely silent and did nothing at all until they left that night.”

— witness account, Pentecost River, Western Australia, August 1994