I had a little UFO experience on the weekend. Was driving home at about 9.30pm on Saturday night (28/07/2007) along the South-east Freeway (around the Daisy Hill area) and half-noticed a bright object about the size (and light intensity) of the Moon in the Western sky (being in the upper left of my visual field). I remember thinking to myself that it was a strange object, but for some reason I didn't make more effort to look at it directly (perhaps because I was driving in traffic at the time). What I do remember is then noticing it basically vanish, like the illumination suddenly 'sucked' into the center of the object.

I probably would have written it off as some visual misperception (eg. reflection on my windscreen), except my wife Tonita then remarked 'did you see that?'. She had seen the object more directly, and said it resembled a spotlight shining onto a metallic surface - ie. circular, with very demarcated edges, and metallic in appearance. She also said it appeared to be moving, and disappeared in the manner that I described.

My first thought was that it might have been a spotlight shining up into the sky, but there was absolutely no cloud cover that night, and so I'm not sure how that could happen. Next I considered that it might be an iridium flare, but it seems a bit late in the evening for that (and on checking the next day, none were 'scheduled' for that time), and it also persisted as a large, consistent object for a bit longer than iridium flares usually do.

So, any Brisbanites know what I saw? Was there some light show on Saturday night that could have produced this?