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Brian, a trades assistant in the 059 Workshops on 19 Level, has nearly nine years service with the company. He told "Isa News" on his return he was about 50 kilometres from Winton on the dirt road at about nine oclock at night when he saw, at some considerable distance away, lights he took to be from a road train.
"As I drove towards the lights," he said, "I noticed they seemed to become more tinged with yellow. I wasn't paying much attention and was completely unaware that anything unusual was taking place". Further on Brian said he dipped his own headlights indicating he wished the road train to do the likewise. Brian said "It was then that the object suddenly took off from the ground into the air flying directly towards me". "As it did my car engine stopped, the headlights went out and my cassette stopped playing," Brian recalled. "I was frozen with fear to the wheel. "It was an eerie, terrifying experience and although it's hard to estimate, I reckon it was about 150 meters when it passed over my car. I jumped out to have another look and after it passed over the car, the car lights went on and the cassette resumed playing. After chatting for about five minutes, we hopped in our vehicles and drove rapidly off." Brian said He considers it a once in a lifetime experience which he hopes, will never be repeated. |
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