Unidentified lights circling over Palmerston have left residents grappling with the only likely explanation: aliens are real and they walk among us.
As night fell on Thursday, multiple beams of light emerged from the Holtze area to create otherworldly patterns – or signals – in the sky.
Social media was soon probing the possibilities.
“UFOs doing laps before fuel hits $5 a litre,” one Facebook user said.
“Flying saucers practising speedway racing” and “definitely aliens” others said.
“Super strange. Can’t be light testing,” said another.
Northern Territory Police confirmed it was aware of the alleged incident.
“I’m told – and I don’t know this first-hand – but I’m told that the Joint Emergency Services Control Centre had received multiple reports of UFOs over the night sky in and around Palmerston,” Detective Superintendent John Ginnane said on Friday.
“In all likelihood that’s because Wycliffe Well is now shut down, so eventually these people are going to have to find a new home and I’d suggest that’s the case.”
Wycliffe Well, located on the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, was renowned as Australia’s UFO capital, with frequent reports of alien activity.
Once home to a popular alien-themed roadhouse and caravan park, the site has been essentially abandoned since it was destroyed by flooding and vandalism in 2022.
Questioned about whether authorities were covering up evidence of extraterrestrial activity, Detective Ginnane refused to confirm or deny.
“Area 51 – I can neither confirm nor deny its existence, or its location on the other side of Marrakai,” he said.
“There is no sealed off section of the Mount Bundy training range and no bunkers.”
This masthead is yet to confirm whether it is Territory taxpayers who would be stung with the bill for investigations into matters that fall outside the NT’s terrestrial jurisdiction.
It comes just days after a strange bright light was spotted in skies across northern Australia, an unidentified flying object seeming to exit the earth’s atmosphere.
It is not the first time a UFO has been reported in the Palmerston region, with the NT News reporting a sighting in April 2022 by local resident Jordan McNiven.
Mr McNiven was driving with his housemate when a strange illuminative phenomenon graced their eyes on Chung Wah Tce, heading towards Elrundie Ave in Palmerston.
In May 2021, a bizarre formation of lights were also spotted above Humpty Doo, with a local resident saying the lights appeared to be hovering in one place and barely moved at all before vanishing.
A Territory UFO-ologist was unable to be reached for comment on the latest mysterious light sighting, but have previously told the NT News UFOs often appeared in the Top End at the beginning of the dry season.