Strange lights bring a bit of ‘X-Files’ to the cane fields
UFO OR DRONE?
“The truth is out there”, the iconic poster on the wall of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder’s office in the long-running TV show The X-Files says.
But Cooya resident Josie Muller might never be able to find the truth anywhere about mysterious lights she spotted over sugar cane fields when driving along the Captain Cook Highway recently.
Josie reported that it was around 8pm last Tuesday night when, on her homebound drive from Port Douglas to Cooya, she noticed “something with what appeared to be three bright lights” over cane fields near the Highway.
“It was dark, around 8ish,” she posted. “Suddenly, to our left, flying over the canefields. I couldn’t see the shape or form of the ‘ufo’ (I mean, by rights it was an unidentified flying object in every sense of the term).. and it ‘flew’ at a consistent speed ahead of us to our left for around 5km or so before fading out behind lower cloud cover.”
That was the last Josie saw of the strange lights and whatever they were attached to.
“I waited for it to clear the clouds but could not see it re-emerge. We then turned right into Bonnie Doon Rd and I was twisting my head in every direction to locate it again. Nope. Nothing I could see or hear, certainly no helicopter noise I could ascertain.”
She then asked: “Would it have been a drone? The light emanating from it was incredibly bright, nothing about it was subdued, including me who was excitedly trying to determine what ‘on earth’ (pun time) it was!”
There were a number of responses from other Cooya Beach page members, but none appeared to have witnessed what Josie had seen, offering theories in place of verifications.
One advised that she might contact the weather bureau and ask if anyone else reported seeing the lights.
“One night about 20 years ago we were travelling into Mossman and when we reached Wonga Beach we noticed three bright lights high up in the sky (not drones),” said a post, adding that the objects were stationary but then one moved off at light speed, and “other two travelled parallel for a while then shut off in the same way, at light speed.”
Quite a few Cooya page members went with the drone theory, though.
“I see the cane farmers early morning and later at night with drones over their crops, looks like they are spraying.”
And another:
“Pretty sure pig hunters are starting to use drones.”
If anyone else can help Josie get to the bottom of those mysterious lights, feel free to let Newsport know, won’t you?
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