Harbour Radio duty officer got to witness an unexplained phenomenon first hand.

The man, who declined to be named, said he was looking east from the station's perch at Fort George in St. George's around 10.40 p.m. when an object appeared in the sky above the former Club Med hotel.

"This was one of those rare instances where I actually saw something and was able to report it myself,'' he said.

"I observed what I later described as an orange and blue meteor-type object to the east over the Club Med. It looked like a meteor or maybe a rocket and was descending at an angle of between 45 and 60 degrees.

"It was in the sky for at least 30 seconds and left behind a blue vapour trail -- like a rocket would -- after it faded out. It was quite breathtaking.

It was not the Northern Lights or a rescue flare, it was something other than normal. I watched it from the start until it faded out.

"On reflection it could have been some kind of rocket. It is also hard in these cases to tell exactly where the object is.'' As he filled out a report on what he had seen, the station's switchboard was jammed with calls from people who had also seen the object.

The callers had seen the object from a wide variety of locations across the Island, leading the duty officer to speculate that the object was some distance away.