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1975 Lake Sorell, Tasmania Entity Encounter:

The Woman Through the Roof Hatch

One night in March 1975, a woman lying awake in her caravan bunk near Lake Sorell, Tasmania watched a woman’s figure enter head-first through the roof hatch above her — only the upper portion of the figure visible, a colorful scarf wrapped over her head — and float silently back and forth through the caravan for about three minutes before exiting the same way it came in. It occurred during a period when unexplained lights were being seen regularly in the same stretch of countryside.

Date: March 1975 (specific date not documented)

Sighting Time: Not documented

Day/Night: Night

Location: Near Lake Sorell, Tasmania, Australia

Urban or Rural: Rural

No. of Entity(‘s): 1

Entity Type: Human-appearing female figure

Entity Description: Only the upper portion of the figure was visible; described as a woman wearing a colorful scarf over her head; moved by floating rather than walking

Hynek Classification: CE-III (Close Encounter III) — an animate being was observed at extremely close range inside the witness’s own caravan; while no accompanying craft was directly seen, the figure’s entry and exit specifically through the roof hatch implies an association with a vehicle positioned above the caravan, consistent with CE-III’s defining feature of a being associated with an object, even though that object itself was not separately confirmed

Duration: Approximately 3 minutes

No. of Object(s): None directly observed; the figure’s entry and exit via the roof hatch implies an unseen craft may have been positioned above the caravan, though this was not confirmed

Shape/Size/Color/Distance of Object(s): Not applicable — no craft was directly observed

Number of Witnesses: 1

Special Features/Characteristics: The figure entered head-first through the caravan’s roof hatch, with only its upper body ever visible; it floated back and forth through the caravan’s interior for approximately 3 minutes before exiting through the same hatch; the incident occurred during a period when unexplained nighttime lights were being frequently reported in the same general locality

Case Status: Insufficient Data — a single, uninvestigated-in-depth witness account, though sourced to a named regional UFO investigation organization; no independent corroboration is documented

Source: Tasmanian UFO Investigation Center

Summary/Description: A woman lying awake in her caravan bunk near Lake Sorell, Tasmania in March 1975 watched a woman’s figure, wearing a colorful headscarf, enter head-first through the roof hatch and float through the caravan for about three minutes before exiting the same way. The incident occurred amid a broader period of unexplained light sightings in the same area.

Related Cases: Likely related to a separate object sighting from the same period and locality, published on this site as “March 1975: The Football-Shaped Riser at Lake Sorell, Tasmania” — the two appear to be distinct incidents from the same general flap rather than the same event

Detailed Report

One night in March 1975, a woman lying awake in the bunk of her caravan near Lake Sorell, Tasmania saw a woman’s figure enter through the caravan’s roof hatch, head first. Only the upper portion of the figure was ever visible; she wore a colorful scarf over her head. Rather than climbing down or walking, the figure floated back and forth through the caravan’s interior for approximately three minutes before exiting the way it had entered, back out through the roof hatch.

The source material notes that at the time of this incident, unexplained lights were being frequently seen at night in the same general locality — context suggesting this specific entity encounter occurred amid a broader, sustained period of unusual activity in the area, similar in structure to other documented Australian UFO “flap” periods.

Researcher’s Notes

The Lake Sorell Roof Hatch Encounter — 1975 and an Entity Without a Confirmed Craft

• This case fits an unusual, bedroom-visitation-style pattern rather than a typical UFO encounter. A floating figure entering through a specific access point (the roof hatch) and moving without walking has more in common with reported bedroom/night visitor phenomena elsewhere in the broader paranormal and UFO literature than with a standard landed-craft entity encounter.
• No craft was directly observed, but the roof-hatch entry point is suggestive. The figure’s specific means of entry and exit — via the caravan’s roof hatch rather than through a door or wall — implies the witness or the original investigators may have inferred an unseen craft positioned directly above the caravan, though this page does not treat that inference as confirmed, since it was never directly observed.
• The broader context of unexplained lights in the area is worth noting without over-connecting it to this specific incident. A period of frequent unexplained light sightings in the same locality provides useful context for why this specific incident might be considered part of a genuine local pattern of activity, but this page does not assert the two are definitively connected beyond their shared timeframe and location.
• This appears to be a distinct case from the previously published “Football-Shaped Riser” sighting at the same lake. Given the described phenomena are entirely different in character — an object sighting versus an entity encounter inside a private caravan — this page treats them as two separate incidents from the same general flap period rather than two accounts of a single event.

The Lake Sorell roof-hatch encounter stands out as a distinctly strange, intimate entity encounter within a broader local pattern of unexplained aerial activity — a single witness’s account of an unaccompanied, floating figure entering and leaving her own caravan by a route no ordinary visitor could use.

The figure floated back and forth for about 3 minutes, then went out through the roof hatch.

— as recorded by the Tasmanian UFO Investigation Center, March 1975