Hadn't considered that it might have been a missile test, good point. I think it was quite likely now that it was not a meteor as such but maybe a satellite burning up although the missile theory does account for the change in direction which we also thought we saw but were not sure as it was then going away from us. The crew I spoke to just afterwards who were at the southern end of the Bay of Biscay were quite sure that it had changed direction and gone straight over them. Very strange.
Krueger, where did you hear that there were some reports from Portugal?.