at sea West of Granada, Spain — 30 December 1677
Unknown “star”
Pierre Boutard, an officer aboard the ship La Maligne notes in the logbook that “on Thursday the thirtieth day of December 1677 in the morningl about 4 hours, we have seen l a star in the direction of northwest A west, ending southeast A east, but carrying (such) a great light that all on board thought there was widespread fire, but it was accompanied by over 200 rays carrying such a light, that we believed we were all lost. We dropped anchor about 9 or 10 in the morning in the small bay of Grenada.”
Source: Michel Bougard, La chronique des OVNI( 1977), 97. Case: W248