Hundreds of people across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern parts of England spotted an unusual fireball lighting up the night sky. CNN's Kristin Fisher reports on what people think it was. #CNN #News
Why a mysterious fireball in the skies has scientists puzzled
I saw a very colourfull one about 2 weeks ago but it was strange because I have never seen one move so slow and fly so low, it is as if it was 2 stories high from the earth and the trail light was colorful as a rainbow. I saw it in the Caribbean and not england
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The further away it is the lower it will appear on the horizon, it will appear slower as well.
@Frass man uh oh, here we come, teeheehee 👾👾👾👾
I remember seeing a meteor years ago while walking at night in northern Virginia. I was impressed that you could see it while being so near an urban center. Usually light pollution is a problem I thought.
Moving a bit slow to be a meteor
Here finally https://youtu.be/f_TJ9KMAGQg
@Jason Sparks no, that meteor was a sign…..
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My partner saw it. The sky was clear and it’s dark where we live. He said that none of the videos look anything like what he saw. He said it was a long glowing, fiery, green rod with yellow and red in it. He said it looked huge and quite close, as it flew over the loch and disappeared over the mountains. His first thought was that it might be a missile.
@Kirsten Easdale why not say it normally
@Kirsten Easdale wear a mask
@Tony Bryant You are so wrong I’ll leave it at that. You need some real life to get going.
@Kirsten Easdale His description elaborated on what he saw from where he was. What I saw were the short videos that some people captured, which didn’t catch the complete 20 seconds that other people saw. I was grateful.
When you see one, you don’t even have time to process what you are seeing before it’s gone. Not scary. Just really cool and a wow! What did I just see?
Scary would be if you see it making turns and speeding up and slowing down and stopping and hovering then you see three more doing the same, that would be scary.
@LincolnTek Or if it stops and then lands right in front of you and a little guy comes out and says you can’t read good and then kicks you right in the nuts, that would be scary also.
@Micks you’re my hero!
Last fight https://youtu.be/u244gu7o5ys
@Micks terrifying 😂😂😂
My vote still goes to space junk. 1) It came in a very shallow angle and very slowly,.. as far as reentry goes. 2) Changing color indicates different kinds of material burning off at different times.
That’s a good observation, especially your second point.
@bobby bob yes. The second point was a good analogy. Maybe chinese space junk.
Neither of those indicate space junk though.
Meteors can come in at any angle. Infact there’s one recently discovered crater that is several miles long because it hit the earth from such a shallow angle.
As per https://youtu.be/OWnoHV7r1Kc at 12:30s
And meteors do contain different elements. They’re not just one big lump of one element. They form by random space dust clumping together through gravity in exactly the same way the planets are
@bobby bob no it’s not lol
Saw a similar “colorful” meteor over the Bronx on June 6, 2006 [6/6/6]. It was a drizzly night, so the light of the meteor through the clouds produced a rainbow effect. Very trippy.
@Brendan Fraser’s Alimony you spelled your name wrong
I call BS 🙂
Hypersonic missile test
I wonder if the meteorite that fell in Missouri, I think in 2018 or 2019, was ever found. That one was not only seen from the flash of light that lit up the area, but the boom and the shaking. It was felt for miles and miles around.
Still blows my mind the force a piece of rock that you can hold in the palm of your hand, can be so powerful.
@J Green where are you from? 3rd world country? 😂😃
@J Green I said meteorite because it hit the ground, and a meteorite fragment can fit in the palm of your hands.
*A meteor is one that does not land on the ground.
Yes it was bigger than our hands before it exploded in the sky above us, but pieces the size to fit in your hands coming down after that, can still go through someone’s roof or window. The explosion of it was seen on radar, and they estimated the path to go towards some fields on a farm.
It was like a gold rush to go and find it because whoever found it would get paid for it.
@stratocasterblue I’m not American lol
I clicked this knowing that the only thing scientists are “puzzled” about is, “Was that a rock, or space junk?” I resent clickbait titles, but I did want to see if this report contained anything unusual. It doesn’t.
Your point?
@Polarbearsrus I think it’s quite obvious from the comment. What part don’t you get?
I’ve seen over a dozen instances of falling stars, meteor falls, and the likes throughout my life. But this one is certainly impressive on account of how clear and long it lasted. Wish I had seen it myself.
Hypersonic missile test
Movement is relative. It was moving with the Earth that is why it was slow
Stars dont fall it would destroy the solar system
@THE VIRAL VIDEO’S he didn’t mean literally. That is a common nickname for a meteor.
@THE VIRAL VIDEO’S but to be more literal Stars do collide with other solar systems.
Idk I’m no expert but to me, the slow speed and changing colors make it even more likely to be space junk. It would have been in a shallow decaying orbit and made of all kinds of different materials that would change the color of it as they burn up.
1 Alex Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScZkRHtm_U
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
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Cool. Lucky for those seeing it. Saw what I thought was a parachute flare, but it lasted too long, got brighter & brighter and as it flew overhead started to disintegrate into myriad glowing pieces. My kids were in the car with me, open skylight all hanging out, stopped at a red light. Nobody else saw it as they were madly honking at us when the light turned green. Unbelievable
@Marie Lucas LOL, funny
@robert jones ikr? The nerve of some people.. honking while there is a possible alien inva- erm, i mean a neat fire rock in the sky. ahem, igtg.. i made a whoopsie. 👽
@robert jones no, she’s a bot.
We had a fireball fly over Utah, just over a month ago, except it happened during daylight hours. It does seem like these are happening more frequently these days…
@Sara Miles yeah, we’re on our way.. heads up. 👽
I saw one as a kid in Albuquerque. Came from right behind us and flew directly over our heads. Walking around late at night writing on things, west side near the end of neighborhoods heading towards the west mesa maybe 2005-2006.
1 headcoLd7 Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScZkRHtm_U
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
— 1972 Great Daylight Fireball —
The Great Daylight Fireball was an Earth-grazing fireball that passed within 57 kilometres of Earth’s surface at 20:29 UTC on August 10, 1972. It entered Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 15 kilometres per second in daylight over Utah, United States and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada.
1 Elto Desukane Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScZkRHtm_U
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
Had a gold mining claim in the Mojave Desert. When you get away from the city lights and are camped out at night, they are a fairly common occurrence. Most of them smaller than this but this is not some bizarre phenomenon worthy of a National Enquirer story.
1 Hawley Griffin Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScZkRHtm_U
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
About 10 years ago in Wisconsin I was outside at dusk in my backyard and suddenly it seemed like the back of my house lit up. I turn to look at my house and suddenly I heard a boom overhead and I looked up to see a big Fireball shoot across the sky and I would swear that I could hear it sizzling. It’s shot across the sky and disappeared over the horizon and I stood there for a minute waiting to hear a boom cuz it looked like it was going to strike Earth but maybe it just went into the lake. I never heard any comments from anyone else about it and when I mentioned it nobody seemed to know about it, but I wonder how often things like that happen and no one really notices.
1 Wally Kimball Fuk what you saying it here 😠 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScZkRHtm_U
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo. 😠
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy buenos resultados 😠😠
Saludos desde la Cd.. de world 🌹😉💖
los mortales abian apreciado tan hermosa mujer
From Wisconsin I may have experienced an event related to what you saw. Before getting too deep, was it by chance in The Fall? I have an interesting story if it was. Thank you for sharing your story!
I saw that one too!? I was already wondering what it might be as it looked really different from anything else I’d ever seen! And I’m from the Netherlands (the North), which is not that far away from Scotland geographically, so maybe it was even bigger? It was at the exact same time and it indeed appeared to me as a meteor 😮
How cool was that! We do have meteor showers in western hemisphere late summer to fall. Glad you guys sighted such phenomena!
It’s such an amazing thing to see meteors and shooting stars, like an instant lift of energy. Wish I had experienced that 🙂
Different metals glow different colors as they burn up… And although meteors have been known to contain multiple types of material, the variety of colors may tip the scales toward a man-made object constructed of many different metals falling out of orbit. They simply need to compare the colors with what much of the space junk is made of to more precisely determine what it really was; which is a more feasible way to go given the unlikelihood of finding any remnants.