The 29-year-old quickly swiped out his mobile phone and snapped away at the object, unable to make out what it was, except that it was triangular in shape, dark and flying at high speed.
“I was out walking, when, all of a sudden, I saw something appear in the sky. It disappeared in a matter of a few seconds,” said Mr Ertfay, from Romania, who is in Malta visiting friends.
The sighting occurred on Thursday evening, at dusk. Mr Ertfay estimates it was sometime about 8 p.m.
The Armed Forces of Malta stated that an elaborate military exercise took place off Qawra on the day employing the Augusta AV212 helicopter. Nonetheless, it is recorded to have taken spot at about 10 p.m., a couple of hours after the sighting. The helicopter took off at 9.05 p.m.
The MaltaAir Visitors Services, which monitors whatever is in Maltese airspace, stated: “From an air targeted traffic management perspective, all aircraft flying at that hour had been accounted for”. They received no reports about any abnormal sightings.
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• Mysterious object photographed over Qawra, Malta
Zfort Ertfay quickly interrupted a brisk walk on the Qawra front when he spotted an unidentified flying object hovering over the horizon on Thursday. The 29-year-old quickly swiped out his mobile phone and snapped away at the object, unable to make out what it was, except that it was triangular in shape, dark and flying at high speed.