Cluster of UAP's observed in broad daylight from Sydney in 1999.

The above image is an AI (best effort) rendering based on my description of a multiple UAP sighting around April - May 1999. Location: Cressy Road in North Ryde, Sydney, Australia in the early afternoon (day light). We witnesses 4 metallic ovoid objects grouped together and seemingly quite high up. 
There was an apparent  hovering motion to them. The sky was perfectly clear blue with high cirrus cloud and the bright sun was reflecting off their shiny metallic surfaces. The day was calm...light breeze. We observed them for about 3 to 5 minutes or so. The group then started to disperse.

Two headed off to the south (top and right UAP),  the lower one in the image headed to the east and the left object to the north. They didn't shoot off at high-speed just a moderate traveling speed like a small fast plane would move. They simply then disappeared from view.

Two witnesses to the event. Steve Massey (multi-published astronomy author) and Ellen Schumann (a visitor from Holland) We were both quite astounded and mystified at the same time and agreed we'd witnessed the same thing and relayed the sighting to my brother.

As a highly experienced night sky and daytime sky telescopic observer, I feel well qualified to know what is what in our skies. These were like nothing I'd encountered first hand before.

I have published this sighting at the request of others as it may provide some vindication to the recent rise of similar sightings by others world-wide.

I recall well my deep sense of disappointment (at myself) at the time not having my optical zoom camcorder on hand to capture and study closer

Further, I somehow now regret my own personal fear of ridicule by colleagues and also the opportunities to tell the media what I had seen during many radio interviews and susequent questions from the public that I did over the years.

Like anyone else with a credible sighting, this will be classed as a lack of proof UAP / UFO sighting. However, it was real and this is my testimony for whatever help or vindication it may serve for others.


Steve S Massey - March 2026