Posted: July 10, 2009

Location of Sighting: Mongonissi in Paxos Island in Greece
Date of Sighting: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Time: 03.30am

Witness Statement: I was with a yachting flotilla around the Paxos and Anti Paxos islands and we had moored at a small port named Mongonissi which is south of Paxos Island just south of Corfu. We had a beach barbecue and then some Greek dancing and a meal and then we went back to the yacht. The sky was the clearest I had ever witnessed in my life and I sat out with a cup of tea and a sandwich and afterwards lay back to gaze at the many stars. Just as I was going to head for bed, I saw a shooting star and thought it doesn't get much better than this. About 2 minutes later a bright thin orange line appeared to my right hand side high in the sky and shot across very quickly until it was just above me, I assumed I was witnessing another shooting star. However whatever it was stopped dead in the sky and then shot off almost at a right angle to the right, then it stopped again dead and shot back towards me, it continued doing this a couple more times and then shot off and out of my view to my left hand side.

My view of the incident was totally unrestricted as the land around me was very flat and the night was so bright. I cannot say exactly what this was but to travel from as far as the eye can see on the horizon on your right to the same point on your left was covered in approximately 3 or 4 seconds.