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/u/thnmas
Red light, possible flare?
Witnesses
1 witness
Duration
Unknown
Source material
3
Timeline
1
Source context
Limited context
Interesting, but still missing stronger corroboration or harder source material.
Source provenance
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Live sighting record b13ef23e-d985-42a7-8a19-ebed18ea8f85.
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Correlations
Field Intelligence
Moon phase
98% illumination
Full moon — bright sky
Solar window
Weather
Open-MeteoArea activity
Context notes
Full/near-full moon (98% illumination)
Heavy cloud cover (100%) — limited visibility
Extracted details
Observed facts
Occurred
Jul 1, 2026, 12:20 PM
Timezone
Australian Eastern Time
Location
Melbourne Australia
Observers
1 witness
Witness account
Narrative
II was out the front of a house auction in Melbourne Australia a couple of weeks ago when I noticed something red in the sky. It descended from the clouds, no sound, and happened fast enough that nobody else around me saw it. My first thought was a flare, but the altitude doesn’t add up. It looked too high to have been fired from the ground, and flare guns aren’t easy to get hold of here anyway, Australia has tight firearms laws. That leaves a military flare dropped from a plane, but I was cl...
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