SIGHTING: MELBOURNE (AUSTRALIA)

Witness Testimony

"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!!"