THINK ABOUTIT UFO|ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT

1975 Melbourne, Australia UFO Encounter:

The Hexagonal Craft With Jetpack Figures

In the early hours of March 6, 1975, near Melbourne, a young witness and his cousin watched a bright orange, hexagonal craft hovering low to the ground roughly a kilometer away, felt a strange vibration, and heard an audible hum — before the craft shot straight up at high speed and departed. What made the sighting more than a simple light-in-the-sky report was what the main witness said he saw around the craft itself: two human-like figures, flying using what appeared to be strapped-on backpacks.

Date: March 6, 1975

Sighting Time: 0200 hours (2:00 a.m.)

Day/Night: Night

Location: Near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (specific suburb/locality not documented)

Urban or Rural: Not documented

No. of Entity(‘s): 2

Entity Type: Human-like figures

Entity Description: Described only as human-like in form, seen flying in the vicinity of the craft using what appeared to be backpack-type devices; no further physical description (size, clothing, facial features) is documented

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) — animate, human-like figures were directly observed in close association with the craft, meeting this classification regardless of the roughly 1 km viewing distance, since CE-III’s defining feature is the presence of beings associated with the object rather than a strict proximity threshold

Duration: Not documented precisely; described as a sequence of hovering, then a high-speed vertical departure

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A hexagonal-shaped craft, bright orange in color, hovering low to the ground; associated with a felt vibration and an audible sound; departed by taking off vertically at high speed

Shape of Object(s): Hexagonal

Size of Object(s): Not documented

Color of Object(s): Bright orange

Distance to Object(s): Approximately 1 kilometer

Number of Witnesses: 2 direct visual witnesses (the main witness and his cousin); the witnesses’ parents separately felt the vibration and heard the humming sound, though it is not documented whether they directly saw the craft itself

Special Features/Characteristics: A felt vibration and an audible humming sound accompanied the craft’s presence, perceptible even to the witnesses’ parents; the two human-like figures were seen flying around the craft using apparent backpack devices, suggesting some form of individual flight apparatus rather than the figures being part of the craft’s structure itself

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a brief, secondhand-compiled account with no named witnesses, no specific locality beyond “near Melbourne,” and no indication of a named field investigator having followed up on the report beyond its NUFORC submission

Source: National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC)

Summary/Description: Near Melbourne, Victoria in the early hours of March 6, 1975, a young witness and his cousin watched a bright orange, hexagonal craft hovering low roughly a kilometer away, accompanied by a felt vibration and audible hum. The main witness reported seeing two human-like figures flying around the craft using apparent backpack devices before it departed vertically at high speed.

Related Cases: None documented

Detailed Report

In the early hours of March 6, 1975, near Melbourne, Victoria, a young witness and his cousin observed a hexagonal-shaped craft, bright orange in color, hovering low to the ground at a distance of roughly one kilometer. Both witnesses felt a strange vibration and perceived an audible sound accompanying the craft’s presence.

The main witness reported seeing two human-like figures flying around the craft, apparently using backpack-type devices to sustain flight independent of the craft’s own structure — a detail suggesting some form of individual propulsion rather than the figures being fixed components of the object itself. The craft subsequently took off vertically at high speed and departed.

According to the account, the witnesses’ parents also felt the vibration and heard the humming sound associated with the sighting, lending some family-level corroboration to the physical sensory elements of the report, even though it is not documented whether the parents directly viewed the craft or the figures themselves.

Researcher’s Notes

The Melbourne Hexagonal Craft — 1975 and a Genuinely Rare Detail

Backpack-flying humanoid figures are an unusual and specific detail for this era and region. Most Australian entity reports from this period describe figures standing near or aboard a landed craft; here, the witness describes the figures using apparent individual flight devices while airborne alongside the object — a detail worth preserving precisely as reported rather than generalizing into a vaguer “beings near the craft” description.
The felt vibration and audible hum, corroborated by the parents, add a layer of physical sensory detail beyond the visual sighting alone. Even without direct confirmation the parents saw the object, their independent sensory experience of the same vibration and sound is a meaningful, if partial, corroborating detail.
This case is thin on documentation and was not, as far as this research can determine, independently investigated by a named field researcher. It reaches this archive only via a brief NUFORC-sourced summary within a larger international monthly compilation, with no named witnesses, no specific suburb, and no other corroborating detail beyond what’s given here.

The Melbourne hexagonal craft case is preserved here primarily for its distinctive detail — airborne, backpack-equipped humanoid figures alongside a low-hovering craft — even though the surrounding documentation is otherwise sparse and unverified.