Occurred: 2007-05-19 20:30 Local
Reported: 2007-05-28 10:30 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Melbourne (Australia), , Australia

Shape: Oval
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Emitted other objects

I'm a 38 year old Australian/Italian male. I ws driving along at 8.30pm in down-town Brunswick/Melbourne/Victoria/Australia on my delivery run for the local pizza restaurant when I caught myself gazing at a very luminous, violet coloured, oval shaped ball in the night sky - about 45 degrees from the horizon and noticably travelling along at an odd sort of speed.

I checked to see if my vision was being influenced by anything thru my windscreen by popping my head out of my driver's side window - and sure enough it looked just the same.

The object was moving away from my field of vision at a steady rate, but it would have been close to about 30 seconds - (the same time it took for me to drive a distance of about 500 metres at 40 kilometres per hour) that after watching it gliding along in a generally static eastward direction, I then saw it ultimately disappear from my view on the eastern city horizon (Mt. Dandenong) - but only after seemingly seeing it split into two parts - with a much smaller (similarly shaped) part splintering off and making a sharp downward trajectory which is where I ultimately lost vision of it as well as the original (larger) object.

I initially thought that it was some sort of laser-type light show being staged at a nearby sporting ground.

There weren't any reports in the media that night or the next day so I really am lost for words as to what the object really was.

It definitely wasn't moving in a familiar aircraft-type manner - way too fast for something so high in the sky.

The size of it was comparable to the biggest star that you can normally see -multiplied by about five; but it wasn't that far up in the heavens - it looked like it was hovering over our side of the world - amazing visuals!!

Posted 2007-06-12

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