SIGHTING: BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND (AUSTRALIA)

Witness Testimony

"I was sitting beside the pool on a hot summer day at a house we were house-sitting. i heard a commercial airliner behind me ( i was facing sw) and observed the plane travel from east to south. i also observed several ibis birds circling very high that were gliding on the warm air currents. further past the ibis i noticed an orb/ball hovering still in the sky that then started to move from south to north - it occasionally slowed to a stop before starting to move again in a reasonaably straight line. it was traveling very slowly and nothing like the plane i saw a few minutes earlier. i asked my wife to keep watch while i went indoors and got my binoculars and digital camera. i took some photos on full optical and digital zoom that are not particularly clear due to the distance and reflection off the object. through the binoculars however i could see that the object was a solid ball but could not ascertain the size as i had nothing to compare it to. i would guess it was maybe 1 meter or so in diameter as it was definitely not as big as an aircraft but larger than the ibis (they have an average wingspan of 110 - 123cm). eventually the object moved in a large arc to the west before going behind a cloud. the cloud dissipated and the object was gone - i had been watching the whole time and it did not re-appear from the cloud but just vanished. i initially thought it may have been a satellite as i had observed them before but when it changed direction and came to a stand still i ruled that out (though i am no expert on satellites and their movement). "