Australian UFO sighting

Scores of people across Australia's east coast say they saw bizarre yellow-green light zooming across the sky "like a lollipop swirl" early this morning.

It is not clear what the light was although there is speculation it may have been the Falcon 9 rocket which launched into space yesterday.

The light trail was seen between 5.45am and 6am by people in Canberra, Sydney's north shore and Queensland, ABC News reports.

Several ninemsn readers said they saw the mystery light.

"It was moving west to east with a jumbled electronic sound," Jim White said.

Hayley Farry said she and a group of friends saw the light while out jogging.

"It was really weird, like nothing else I had ever seen before," Ms Farry said.

"We were trying to guess what it may have been, we were convinced it certainly was not normal."

ABC Radio Brisbane 612 caller Linda said the light travelled from the west, headed east and then out to sea.

"There wasn't a cloud in the sky — just this light with a swirl in the middle," she said.

Another caller said there was no noise in the sky as the light passed over.

"It was like bands of ribbon coming out of it and it looked like it was coming through a cloud, yet there were no clouds," she said.

Canberra local James Butcher said the light had a bright centre that resembled a star.

"The colour was yellowish but this may have been blurred and tinted by the morning fog," Mr Butcher said.

The Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida yesterday, went into low-Earth orbit just nine minutes after blast off. (yeah right this bit has been 'conveniently added since the original story ran...)


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