The object was spotted by the pilot of Olympic Airways flight 266 from Athens, and the sighting was corroborated by staff at Athens Airport and a nearby Greek air force base. Pilots of two other passenger jets also reported seeing the body.
The eyewitnesses described it as looking like a large star, although it was moving erratically and constantly changing shape.
Two fighter jets were sent to investigate the sighting over the Greek capital in November 2007 but the object shot up into the sky and vanished before they could get a clear view.
The incident was kept secret by the Greek authorities for more than a year, but is now generating huge interest after official documents and recordings of the conversation between the pilot and control tower were released.
An Olympic Airlines spokeswoman said: "I can confirm the incident. It is the first of its kind involving our pilots."
This conversation happened 04.20 AM -07.41 AM commercial pilot and traffic controller.
04.20 - contacted the Center of the GEA,Services involved already are enabled to confirm or interpretation of the testimony of the pilot.The first confirmation came from the Control Tower of, whose staff said that the flying object continues to appear in the region of Karystos, while asking agoniodos what about the Air Force.
06.02 - The system monitoring the progress of the case, added another piece of information archielegktis the radar unit at the top of Parnitha (2nd ADS) informed the GEA «sees that he and other colleagues of a bright object like a large star, which shines and is strongly undetermined height and shape .Indeed advised that members of staff of the plane are taken with the camera, but something does not seem clear.
06.23-unknown at what level-off the two F-16 fighters from the base of New Anchialos (111 Combat Wing) which was on standby (Scramble).
6.28 - The F-16 code Lightning 2 off region of Attica, Marathon, Karystos. The observers continued to monitor ground
06.45-There is a new report from the observer Parnitha, that the subject began to be removed and rapidly rising.
07.41 The patrol of two F-16 ended without pilots to identify anything.
Well Air Defense Information Center in Athens censored the conversation that happened between 06.23-06.45 because it clearly disproves the Air Force's original statement that "Its just a Venus and that’s what we think it was " - because as everyone knows Venus does not climb altitude 'instantly'....
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