FISHERMEN VIDEOTAPE UFO IN NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)

On Sunday, November 7, 1999, several fishermen videotaped a UFO from their boat, which was just offshore from Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. 
"Tony Bell, 33, and his colleagues claim to have seen a strange dome-shaped object when they were about six natuical miles off the New South Wales coast near Coffs Harbour, north of Sydney." 

"This thing just appeared. It was 100 to 150 feet (30 to 45 meters) up in the sky, he said, adding that the object had a bright orange, shiny appearance and seemed to be coming closer to the two boats the group were using." 

"'It would move closer, then south of us, then move closer again.'" 

Grabbing his videocamera, Bell began shooting footage of the UFO. "'It was a flying ship for sure,' he said, 'You can see clearly from the video that it was some sort of machine.'" 

"The fishermen have sent the video to the Melbourne-based, privately-run National Space Centre. Operations director Ross Dowe said he was waiting to examine the footage, adding, 'It was definitely worth looking at.'" 

Coffs Harbour, N.S.W. is 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Sydney. (Many thanks to Ross Dowe and John Hayes for this report.) 

(Editor's Note: Coffs Harbour is also 64 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Grafton, N.S.W., the site of many UFO encounters during the past three years.)