(March 21, 2010) The Northern Territory News reported a UFO sighting over a proposed site for a nuclear waste storage facility. Ray Aylett, manager of the Muckaty Station said he saw strange lights over two proposed dump sites north of Tennant Creek last Wednesday. He added that two UFOs from one of the sites followed him as he was traveling through Helen's Springs. The UFOs flew past him after he pulled over but returned when he reached the turnoff. Aylett described the UFOs as orange in color...like "an an orangey coloured star". He commented that unlike the other UFOs he saw, this one was, for the most part, stationary.
The Barkly Shire councillor, noted that Aylett's neighbors thought he was "mad". Nevertheless, his reports of UFO sightings made him quite a celebrity.