Alan Ferguson, who has been a UFO spotter for years, said he would be visiting Katherine on Wednesday for a night of UFO spotting in the hope to see “the guys from upstairs” with his own eyes.

“It seems the action is happening in Katherine and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be there to find out what’s going on,” the UFOlogist said.

Mr Ferguson said he was going to catch up with David Schuman, who took photos of an unidentified object in the night sky above Katherine.

Last week Mr Schuman was having dinner near Katherine’s Strongbala Men's Healing Centre when he saw what he described as "very large brightly lit object” hovering in the sky.

He said photographs he took of the UFO showed “a fuzzy triangular shape enclosing the object within, which seemed to be cloaking it's outer edge".

"One area at the end of the craft (had) what I perceive to be two hot spots, are a fuzzy silvery grey. The other end of the craft on the other hand appears in colour to be of a fuzzy dullish orange.”

Ufologist Alan Ferguson said he was “intrigued” by the sighting, which came only a day after a sighting 200km north of Katherine.

“I hope we get to see something while I am there and maybe we can take some more photos,” Mr Ferguson said.

“I’ll certainly keep those eyes on the sky and camera and video ready as you never know what you may capture.”

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