Who saw the star in the east?

Only the magi, or wise men, of Matthew's Gospel saw the star in the east when Jesus was born. Scribes and astrologers, in Rome, Egypt, Palestine, Persia and even China, failed to mention any such star in their careful records of all unusual celestial phenomena. In fact, Ian Wilson (Jesus: The Evidence) says the hard reality is that the Matthew nativity story does not offer sufficient historicity for anyone to be confident that there was a star at all