Afiery pillar appeared near Athens in 404 BC on a moonless, stormy night.[1]
Main Article Ghost rockets
Ghost rockets were witnessed in ThessalonikibyBritish Army units in Greece. In an interview on September 5, 1946, the Greek Prime Minister, Konstantinos Tsaldaris reported a number of projectiles had been seen over Macedonia and Thessaloniki on September 1.[2]
The Greek government conducted their own investigation, with their leading scientist, physicist Paul Santorini. The government believed they were Soviet missiles over Greece but the Greek Astronomical Society announced in 1967 that they were not missiles. Regrettably, after conferring with the U.S. Department of Defense the investigation was stopped.[2]
The Great 1954 Greek UFO flap. In 1954 a considerable amount of UFO sightings occurred throughout South America and Europe. Clusters of UFO sightings are called “flaps,”[3]