SIGHTING: FUNCHAL, MADEIRA (PORTUGAL)

Witness Testimony

"My name is (*name deleted--SGonzalez/CMS) living in Madeira island which is located about 500 miles west of Morocco.On May 22 nd 2008 at about 21.57 pm local time my wife and I witnessed a strange light which at first i thought was an extremely bright star.I had just walked out onto our balcony, I then realized that it was moving in relation to the stars in the sky .I then thought it must be a shooting star and expected it crash in to the atmosphere ,which did not occur. By this time my wife got the camera and managed to take two pictures before it disappeared from view over the apartment, heading northeast almost directly above us. The sighting lasted about 3 minutes. Unfortunately we are not great photographers, the images are not great but left us quite surprised and confused at what they revealed .In them both appears a star and the object, they were taken a few seconds apart."