There have been greater than 200 studies of a mysterious “fireball” crossing the night time sky over Scotland and Northern Eire.
The UK Meteor Community mentioned it started receiving studies of a fireball being noticed at about 9pm on Thursday.
The community mentioned it's “investigating to determine what the article was – meteor or house particles”, including that the majority studies had come from Scotland and Northern Eire.
Danny Nell, 21, was strolling his canine in Johnstone, simply west of Paisley and Glasgow, when he noticed the fireball.
“I used to be strolling my canine and it was unusually sufficient 10pm on the dot, and I simply noticed the flash within the sky and pulled out my cellphone and recorded it,” the Glasgow resident advised the PA information company.
“I believed it might be a firework at first as a result of there was plenty of Scottish soccer on however rapidly realised it wasn’t and simply grabbed my cellphone to see if I may catch it.”
Steve Owens, astronomer and science communicator on the Glasgow Science Centre, noticed the fireball because it handed over Scotland on Wednesday night.
He advised BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme: “It was unbelievable. I used to be sitting in my front room at precisely 10 o’clock final night time and noticed out of the window, due south, this sensible fireball, this meteor streaking throughout the sky, and I may inform that it was one thing particular as a result of I may see via damaged cloud.
“It wasn’t completely seen; I may see that it was fragmenting, breaking up, there have been little bits coming off it.
“And usually, when you see a meteor or a taking pictures star, they're simply tiny little streaks of sunshine, they final for a fraction of a second, This one was streaking throughout the sky for a minimum of 10 seconds – in all probability longer than that – and it travelled from due south all the way in which throughout to the west, so it was a reasonably unbelievable sight.”
He mentioned it's attainable it may have landed however added it's “extremely unlikely” it landed in Scotland.
It’s definitely not unimaginable that it landed - discovering it is going to be the problemSteve Owens, Glasgow Science Centre
He mentioned: “Usually these tiny little streaks of sunshine, these little taking pictures stars, all of them expend and every part simply vanishes and evaporates within the ambiance, however the factor final night time was larger than a bit little bit of mud.
“The one final night time might need been the dimensions of a golf ball or perhaps a cricket ball, perhaps larger than that, so it’s definitely not unimaginable that bits may have landed.
“It appeared prefer it was travelling a good distance, as these items do, and it was pretty flat throughout the sky as I noticed it.
“The UK Meteor Community, which has had lots of of studies from round Scotland and additional afield, goes to have the ability to triangulate all of these studies to work out its trajectory.
“It appeared to me prefer it was heading… it was definitely heading in direction of the west and, given that folks in Northern Eire had been reporting seeing it, it may nicely have handed over land and ended up within the Atlantic, however it’s definitely not unimaginable that it landed – discovering it is going to be the problem.”