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In the early hours of January 20, 1988, Faye Knowles and her three adult sons reported a glowing object that descended onto the roof of their car on the Nullarbor Plain, lifting the vehicle before dropping it and bursting a tyre. Truck driver Graham Henley independently spotted the object from behind and confirmed four indentations in the car's roof.

The Knowles family encounter on the Nullarbor Plain generated same-day international wire coverage, with UPI filing on January 21, 1988. The story was significant enough that police at Ceduna took statements and UFO Research South Australia dispatched investigators within days.

Declassified Archives New Zealand files released in December 2010 revealed that DSIR scientists formally classified the Kaikoura objects as UFOs in a January 1979 UN report and acknowledged they could not replicate the anomalies seen in the TV1 footage through any conventional optical or atmospheric explanation.

On December 21 and 30–31, 1978, pilots and a Channel 0 television crew filmed luminous objects tracking their cargo aircraft above New Zealand's Kaikoura ranges. Wellington air traffic control tracked unidentified radar targets simultaneously, and the RNZAF, DSIR, and Carter Observatory launched a formal investigation.

On December 21, 1978, Safe Air Ltd pilots Vern Powell and Ian Pirie observed a formation of lights ranging in size to that of a house tracking their cargo Argosy aircraft between Blenheim and Christchurch. Wellington air traffic control simultaneously detected three unidentified radar targets, one of which moved 60 nautical miles at high speed.

On October 21, 1978, twenty-year-old pilot Frederick Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control to report a large, shiny, unidentified object orbiting his Cessna 182 over Bass Strait. His last words were 'It's not an aircraft.' He and his aircraft were never found.

On January 19, 1966, Queensland banana farmer George Pedley witnessed a disc-shaped craft rise from a lagoon near Tully, leaving a 32-by-25-foot depression of clockwise-swirled reeds uprooted from the water. Tully police and Townsville RAAF Base were notified the same day.

On April 6, 1966, more than 200 students and teachers at two Melbourne schools watched a silver, domed disc descend into a field near Westall High School. The object left flattened grass circles, and witnesses were later warned by uniformed officials not to speak about what they had seen.

On June 26–27, 1959, Anglican missionary Father William Gill and 37 witnesses at Boianai mission, Papua New Guinea, observed a large disc hovering over the station on consecutive nights. Human-like figures were seen on the craft's upper surface and responded to the witnesses' waves.

The Boianai mission reported additional UFO activity on June 28, 1959, the night after the primary sighting, and again during the following weeks. A total of over sixty separate sightings were logged from the Boianai and Giwa mission stations between April and August 1959, according to regional mission records.

On August 31, 1954, Royal Australian Navy pilot Lt. Shamus O'Farrell observed two brilliant, fast-moving objects pass his Sea Fury fighter over Nowra, NSW. Radar operator Petty Officer Keith Jessop at HMAS Albatross confirmed two independent returns near the aircraft. The Directorate of Naval Intelligence called O'Farrell 'an entirely credible witness.'

On August 23, 1953, Tom Drury, Deputy Director of Civil Aviation for Papua New Guinea, filmed a silver dart-shaped object emerging from a cloud over Port Moresby on 8mm color film. The footage was sent to the United States for analysis; when returned, the best frames had been removed. A 1966 RAAF summary could not account for the missing frames.

During World War II, Allied servicemen stationed at Wycliffe Well in Australia's Northern Territory documented repeated UFO sightings in a handwritten journal kept at the local camp. The volume of recorded incidents prompted a formal Royal Australian Air Force investigation.