Videos posted on social media and the website of the International Meteorological Organization (IMO) showed a bright ball falling over northern England. The object emitted a green light and left a trail of debris along its path.
The suspicion is that the object that dazzled the residents is not any cosmic fragment or meteorite, but a piece of space debris, which broke away from the Earth's orbit and fell on the coast of Scotland.
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Eyewitnesses have shared their experiences on the IMO website itself. So far, there have been more than 870 reports on the site, most of them from people who were in Scotland at the time of the incident.
In their reports, people highlighted the duration of the phenomenon, its unusual colors, and the noise the fireball made as it crossed the night sky in the Northern Hemisphere. According to the records, the object appeared to be an extremely bright fireball, and its debris was green, yellow, and orange, like the main body.
Watch a fireball in the UK sky
To find out what happened in the sky that night, the UK Meteor Network – a community of citizen scientists who run a network of meteor-detecting cameras across the country – claimed that the hero of the phenomenon was a man-made object.
It is still unclear to those involved in the analysis what the debris is or where it fell – if it fell at all. The UK’s Meteor Network said: “It may [o objeto] “It would have burned up in the air” before reaching the surface of the earth or sea. If it survived the conditions of the fall, it is likely to have landed in the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Hebrides archipelago, on the west coast of the Scottish mainland.
This is not the first time that space debris has been confused with meteorites. In 2022, pieces of a SpaceX rocket fell on a sheep farm in Australia. Another case involved the Chinese space agency, which on this occasion failed to predict the trajectory of parts of its rockets that would fall to Earth.
via: Newsweek
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