In the summer of 1942 a Royal Australian Air Force pilot was patrolling the Bass Strait in response to reports from local fishermen of night lights over that area. He watched as a UFO came out of the overhead cloud cover.
It was daylight, before six o’clock in the evening, and the pilot had good visibility. The UFO was described as shining, bronze in colour, some 150 feet (46 metres) long and 50 feet (fifteen metres) wide. On top of the UFO something like a plexiglass canopy could be seen. For a while the UFO paced the aircraft and then pulled away at remarkable speed and dived straight into the ocean.