UFO Sightings: Indonesia
Submitted by: Dahono F. - Semarang, Central Java Indonesia - Date: 2/5/2000 - Time: 5:22 AM EST
Sightings to date: 1
Country: Indonesia - Seas around the islands of Moluccas and Irian/Papu - Number of witnesses: 4 maybe 6
Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 20 to30 - Object had lights - Object emitted beams of light
Event Description: 3/04/00 - Indonesia Update
Actually, it was my cousin's experience. I told him to tell other people to look for an explanation of this event but he doesn't want to and he doesn't dare. So I finally write to this website to look for answers.
He was on a cargo-ship crew that serve the sea lines between Surabaya, UjungPandang (Makassar) and the cities in Iran Java (Sorong, Manokwari, Nabire). During the predawn morning on January 15, at about 04:00
A.M. he told me that he and his fellow crewmen saw strange shapes of lights from under the sea. At first there's only two of them right in front of the ship. Then suddenly these two lights moving fast toward the ship and stop
right beside the ship. One on each side of the ship. As soon as they stop, suddenly many more of these things lights-up, just as somebody has turned on the lamps from the bottom of the sea. They were shapeless, just like
figures of islands on the maps. These shape of lights were scattered on the area 1.8 km in diameter. The outside boundary of the area they occupied formed an oval shape. No sounds were heard. And they just stand there and
do absolutely nothing until the ship passing them by. The lights was white just like a TL lamp, neon lamps.
My cousin told me that he never saw anything like it. But his friend did see this things just one month earlier. The
location is nearby, eastward from the first location. His friend was during the trip toward city of Manokwari. He saw the same lights under the sea but in different formation. These ones form a long line formation just ahead the
boat. When the boat he was in trying to turn back to avoid crash with these things, suddenly the same lights formed the same formation just behind the boat. The boat was lifted up a bit when hit these lights. Next thing the
boat turn right and escape from both the lights formations.
The last sighting was when the KM Lintas Samudera (a passenger ship) was having an accident in the Sea of
Banda on the Moluccas. Some people were killed during the accident (I don't recall the number of casualties but you can check it out on the local and national newspaper on 22-30 January 2000. one of them that I read was
Jateng Pos dating Friday, 28/01/00). Some survivors told that before the ship was sunk, there was two shape of lights from under the water moving fast toward the ship and crash the ship. The ship was later found in the beach
of nearby island.
I'm very eager to look for an explanations of this phenomena. My cousin and I have some thoughts that maybe
the lights was generated by some underwater creatures as fishes, sea-eels, or maybe giant octopuses. But if they were so, why didn't they make a movement (On my cousin's sighting). And how did they turn-on and off the
lights they generated? As far as I know, some undersea creatures can generate electricity and lights, but if they do, won't they always have lights? and unable to turn it off?
Second thought was that it was A gigantic nuclear-submarine. Well, who knows that the riots happens in the Moluccas Island was related to these submarines that was on a such stealthy mission to drop weapons on the
islands?(well,maybe it's too delusional and paranoid). But the lights generated by the nuclear reactor on the subs. by processes called Cerenkov radiation could form that lights, isn't it? But if they were a submarine, what kind of
submarine has a diameter 1.8 km? And how it could change shapes?
Please, I'm looking forward for explanations.
My cousin is the 3rd engineer on the ship of KM Sidu Arsi, a cargo ship belongs to PT. Pelni (Pelayaran
Nasional Indonesia) that serve the route Surabaya-Makassar-Irian. You can check it out. 3/04/00 -
Indonesia Update