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Date:
2012-Dec-24
Time:
20.45
Location:
North Belfast
Report:
Large orange ball travelling horizontally S to N at very high speed, approx 100-200 feet above the M2 motorway. It was very bright and I had it in vision for approx 10 seconds where it seemed to turn white, start to descend, zig-zagged a bit, then disappeared from view as it hit the earth, or went into the water. Judging by the distance it had travelled in the time I observed it, I calculated a speed of approx 800mph. There were no sounds, sparks or a tail.

Date:
2012-Feb-16
Time:
Approx 6pm
Location:
51*43'09.72"N, 0*30'39.06"W. Facing North East
Report:
A ball of orange yellow light with a long tail, appeared for about a second, enough time to say "look at that" to my friend but not long enough for him to see it too. It was visible between a break in the clouds about 5 degrees from the vertical traveling from southeast to Northwest direction. It fizzled out and i'm sure I saw at least 3 distinct small pieces come off the main body and burn up and disappear. I have perfect eyesight and it was a very clear evening.

Date:
2012-Feb-11
Time:
20:20 p.m. (UTC+10:00) Guam, Port Moresby
Location:
Pago Bay, Guam U.S.A.
Report:
Noticed large fireball, orange and yellow flames within and a bright yellow glow around it. "Chinese New Year!, I exclaimed." Carol, kept driving and we watched it move in a horizontal manner, going SE to SW. It then went down vertically, and then up vertically at a very slow pace and held a horizontal position moving ever so slowly. We got out of our vehicle to record it with our phone, however it was like the darn fireball knew we were trying to record it, it then took off in at an alarming speed into the night sky! Not cloudy, stars in the sky, beautiful night. It wasn't a flare gun or anything of that sort, since we're both familiar with how one works. This was the most bizarre thing we've ever encountered! Thanks for allowing us to share!

Date:
2012-Feb-07
Time:
Location:
Ballybay county Monaghan
Report:
I just sent you an emaill regarding a very large bright moon i saw last nite . I may have made a mistake in my email address . As i would really lov to hear more about what i saw .I am just clarafing my email address again . I hope you can explain what i saw Thank you Mary

Date:
2012-Feb-07
Time:
6oclock evening time
Location:
Ballybay county Monaghan
Report:
I saw a very very large moon , bright flame orange colour .A fantastic sight . Was going to a funeral so i couldnt take phota . I was serching your web sight to see if i could see it but i cant find it . Tho i did read it possibly called THE FULL SNOW MOON due to all the snow that fell all over the world . I would lov to hear more about it . Will it be repeated to nite ? It seemed to be moving to the left [i not good with N,S directions] Id say probally North . As there was a lot of high trees around , it was just above the trees . It was so so much brighter than the full moon or any bright star . It was massive size very bright bright orange glow fantastic sight to see . There was no noise , i never saw it break up.. After 15 mins of me seeing it it went out of sight and then i just saw the moon as normal , behind a building. I hope you can give me more information about it , as it was a sight i will never forget and would love to know more about it . Mary

Date:
2012-Jan-23
Time:
08:05
Location:
Sydenham, Belfast.
Report:
I was facing southeast and at first thought it was a plane caught in sunlight, but this appeared to be something burning up coming into the atmosphere, The fireball was also moving in SE direction as it moved away from me. It was not so high that it was a bright white light, it was more of an orange/pink/red colour. I could estimate how far it travelled as it was moving away from me but it was visible for approximately 4 minutes. It then disappeared behind some cloud and then a building. There was no sound

Date:
2012-Jan-22
Time:
2309hrs
Location:
Saintfield, Ballynahinch, Co.Down
Report:
Unusually bright meteor type object at approx 2309hrs visible for approx 1 second moving from west to east at approx 60 degrees above horizon at which point a secondary bright spot was seen to split from the main object in a north easterly direction before immediately fading . The primary object then faded also to nothing. Bright trail. No cctv/recording device. Seen by self alone. Naked eye. Brighter than brightest star in sky at the time. No sounds.

Date:
2012-Jan-16
Time:
Approx 9.15 pm
Location:
Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire
Report:
A bright ball of light shot across the sky in the north, from the east, after it had travelled past the plough it exploded in a large orange ball of light, there was no noise. The ball of orange was about an eighth to a quarter the size of the moon. All over in a few seconds.

Date:
2012-Jan-15
Time:
0715 hrs
Location:
Grid Ref NH77801 51044
Report:
Observed streak of intense green light descending , terminated in an orange flash above pine woods ,I was driving at the time in a Westerly direction towards Inverness . The light appeared to come from behind me ie an Easterly aspect , the angle of dip I would estimate to be about 60 degrees , episode lasted fraction of a second .Height of fireball above my horizon I would estimate to be 300 m culminating just above the tree line of mature conifers . it was intensly bright , I liken it to a laser beam , I did not hear sound as I was in the car .

Date:
2012-Jan-13
Time:
At approximately 21.00
Location:
Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Report:
Facing roughly south west, fireball was moving from west and stopped being visible just before reaching south. The fireball was highest in the sky in the west when first visible and gradually came down as it approached the south. The fireball was a bright vivid orange colour and was very distinctive in the clear night sky. The fireball was visible for roughly 5 seconds until it invisible. It traveled roughly 1/5 of the sky before it was no longer visible from west to south. No sounds were heard. My girlfriend who also witnessed this claimed to see it split up into one larger piece and one slightly smaller. It was seen to fade away to nothing.

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
0756
Location:
Sandholes near Cookstown
Report:
I was driving south down the A29 towards Dungannon (beside the turn off to Tullylagan Road) from Cookstown when I saw a green orb directly ahead abd falling towards earth. It was travelling roughly at the same speed as would a firework and seemed to disappear just before it would have gone behind the hilly horizon ahead of me. It seemed to be running on the same course as that stretch of road, but seemed to come from above me and into my sight. It was only visible for about a second and a half and was soundless. There were no pieces as far as I could see.

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
18.15 ish
Location:
Pontarddulais ,Swansea ,s Wales uk
Report:
A large fireball changing colours on approach falling almost straight down and fragmenting on descent approx 500m to 1000 m up must have impacted somewhere in loghor estuary area

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
22:35
Location:
dagenham essex rm109pb
Report:
parking my car westerly direction, I noticed a flickering orange red light coming from north west to south east. I went indoors and out to my back garden to see it pass over, it had changed to a dull grey colour, it appeared to be a quarter of the size of the Moon at that time, a massive spinning rock. It did not appear to go back into the atmosphere. It carried on over the houses.

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
c.23:35 UT
Location:
Seen from M1 near Lisburn, c.2 miles north of Sprucefield, NI
Report:
Sky was overcast, no stars obviously visible, though it was clear to the South and West. Bright meteor seen in direction roughly SW, a little to right of line of motorway. It lanced through the clouds at a steep angle moving downwards and a little from left to right, an angle 60 or more degrees to the horizon. Brightness around mag -3 or -4; similar to Jupiter and Venus. Appeared to fragment, but more likely this was one meteor seen appearing and disappearing through distant cloud layers. Duration 1 to 2 seconds roughly. Colour blue-white.

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
18:15
Location:
Highclere, Hampshire
Report:
A large fireball of light moving fast in the sky near the a34. It appeared to come from above and shoot from left to right at speed moving in a westerly direction before it disappeared behind the hills. The light was bright blue caused the car in front of mine to swerve (we both must have spotted it).

Date:
2012-Jan-12
Time:
6:15
Location:
A34 at Newbury junction going South
Report:
What I thought was a shooting star? It was coming down at an angle and glowed green before it disappeared. Directly in front of me (I was in the car) and for a few seconds max. This seems to be similar to another sighting.

Date:
2012-Jan-08
Time:
23:28
Location:
Hertford, Herts, Uk
Report:
Large pale green teardrop shape with short tail travelling downwards (from my perspective), appeared approx 30 degrees above the horizon for about 2 seconds looking in a S/E direction. Dissapeared before reaching the tree line, travelling much slower than a shooting star. I hope others can confirm/explain this sighting.

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
8.25pm
Location:
Craigavon
Report:
Green meteorite/flare heading straight down towards a treeline- meteor/flare was bright green- teardrop shaped- didn't appear to have tail. Only seen it for a few seconds. However I saw the meteor over Ireland a few years ago and it was exact same color/ fluorescence I was in Tannaghmore Gardens facing southwards- no sounds(although it was windy), didnt see it break up. Far brighter than anything in the night sky hope this is useful

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
Finished ~20:16
Location:
Bray Seafront, Wicklow
Report:
Walking towards Bray Head after the Sealife Centre Bright Spot noticed between Moon and Orion Bright spot turned into extremely bright white trail going towards Dalkey Island overhead. apx 6-10 small pieces broke off with an orange glow. trail remained white till completely burnt out over sea. trail was as bright as burning magnesium ribbon! No clouds at time, no fog, no sound, no gusting winds. from start to finish approx 4 seconds. any more info required let me know, Regards, Graham

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
7.25pm
Location:
Snelson, Cheshire
Report:
A Bright Object with a small trace behind it. We saw it for only around 3 seconds before we lost sight as it approached the ground in the distance behing trees. Looked like it could have landed in Marthall? We were facing North and it was travelling at a very high speed. It was a very Bright White in colour. We didn,t see it fade or break up. It was approaching the earth at an angle. We are fairly close to Manchester Airport.

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
between 20:10 and 20:15
Location:
Heythrop, Oxfordshire
Report:
I saw a very bright green coloured fireball, tear shaped with tail falling rapidly towards the horizon, but disappearing (I think) before it reached the horizon. The fireball was in the North West, falling nearly vertically at an angle of 80/85deg moving Easterly slightly (LtoR). I only caught sight of it as I looked up so I don't know how much of its travel across the sky I missed. I saw it about 20-30degrees above the horizon for a couple of seconds. No sounds heard and I didn't see it disintergrate - one of the brightest and most colurful I've seen for a few years!

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
bout 8.25 pm
Location:
sheldon, birmingham, england
Report:
like a green flare travelling across the sky but it was heading towards the ground as it was going, it was really bright, it was visible for a while until some trees obscured the view so i have no idea if it broke up or hit the ground

Date:
2012-Jan-03
Time:
approx 11.55pm
Location:
Sheldon, Birmingham UK
Report:
A Bright white/green colour shooting star. It was very quick and only appeared for what seemed like a split second

Date:
2012-Jan-01
Time:
0001
Location:
portglenone
Report:
A large red ball shape about the size of a moon moving quickly across the sky it didnt fad at all staying the same shape

Date:
2012-Jan-01
Time:
18:25
Location:
Belfast Lough Whiteabbey
Report:
I noticed a bright orange coloured fireball type object flying diagonally across Belfast Lough, heading from inland to the sea. It was large, at first I thought that it was an aircraft on fire. It was, low in the sky approx 200 Ft travelling at speed and there was little wind that evening so couldn't have been a large Chinese lantern as I have seen some of those lately. I was facing East at the time looking over towards Holywood from Whiteabbey. There were no noises associated with this. It disappeared from my site behind an apartment block

Date:
2011-Dec-31
Time:
8.35-840 pm
Location:
wollaton nottingham ng8
Report:
I was driving back home ,about 100yards near my home ,I saw bright red/orang ball in sky ,appeared staionary ,then very quicky disappered into cloud. I paprked my car in drive way ,and looked at it carefully ,this was not a plane .

Date:
2011-Dec-25
Time:
11.55
Location:
Walton on Thames, Surrey, uk
Report:
Orange fireball moving towards hampton court direction- east. Much bigger than a shooting star, a quarter the size of the moon. Not fading.

Date:
2011-Dec-24
Time:
06:00AM
Location:
M11 Hertfordshire
Report:
Very bright flash of light heading almost straight down to earth - lasted less than 2 seconds - but was incredibly bright and very fast moving. Looked like it must have landed quite near by.

Date:
2011-Dec-22
Time:
00:40
Location:
Hailsham,East Sussex,UK
Report:
Very Bright Green/Pale Blue Ball Object with a trail behind it Streaked Across Sky And Disappear Into Nothing (Like It Burnt Up)i was driving and it came over almost over the car and burnt up/dissolved in front of me in the sky it was visable for poss 3-4 secs

Date:
2011-Dec-19
Time:
02.40
Location:
birmingham. uk
Report:
a white ball of light slowly travling from one side of the sky to the other (right to left). had no tail nor made any nose.. lasted about 20-30 seconds and faded away..(also seen a simular thing a week ago but lite up the clouds!)

Date:
2011-Dec-17
Time:
23.02pm
Location:
newry
Report:
very bright and close,, going NEE-SWW. I folllow this stuff but this is the 1st time i have reported a fireball, prob in the atlantic but let me know anything. facing west north west. height closer than fireballs in the past and brighter.visible less than half a sec. travelled less than half way across the sky, no sound or break up + no fade away

Date:
2011-Dec-14
Time:
21:50pm
Location:
G76 7UY
Report:
I saw a bright orange object in sky falling downward and thought it was a plane light at first. However very low and no engine noise or any noise.And there was a white stream of light tailing from it and it continued down behind the trees to the north of my house, all in probably fell at acute ange less than 90 degree. And appeared below plough constilation. Probably more of a shooting star but thought i would email any way. I have seen shooting stars before but this was brighter and previous shooting stars were in Dumfries Sky Park area, never seen any shooting stars in this area before.

Date:
2011-Dec-14
Time:
18.05
Location:
Selkirk scotland
Report:
I seen a large brilliant White ball come from east to west, this thing was very fast, lowish in the sky, fuzzy looking edge to the ball, with a slight trail behind, no noise from it at all and left my sight as I was standing behind a building. This thing could have been about the same size as the moon when seen from the ground.. Very spectacular and interesting! I made a wish on it, if it had been a star but I didn't win the lottery as I'd wished for. Would like to know more about these things

Date:
2011-Dec-14
Time:
8-15 P.M. approximately
Location:
Cannon hill lane Sw20
Report:
I was walking down Cannon Hill lane from the Kingston Road in Merton Park. Facing South South West. Across the sky, considerably lower than an aeroplane flies, a bright light moved at great speed from left to right. It was visible for approximately 3 seconds. It was slow enough to see but much faster than a plane. If I were able to judge the size it would be approximately 3 feet across. It was as bright as a star but more like pale fire. I saw it travel straight across the sky in my field of vision until it went out of sight, masked by the houses on Cannon hill lane. No sounds. No breaking pieces. No fading. It was like something on a mission rather too close to be usual.

Date:
2011-Dec-14
Time:
07.12
Location:
Traveling North west on the M61 at junction 9
Report:
A bright meteor traveling at approximately 60 degrees in the direction of Ireland.It lasted about 2 seconds from when I noticed it.The time is accurate as I looked at the clock straight away.

Date:
2011-Dec-07
Time:
19:00
Location:
Merlin Park Hospital Grounds, Galway City, Ireland
Report:
A single bright orange ball moving slowly and silently across the very dark night sky. Object passed almost directly overhead of my location in central grounds of Merlin Park Hospital. Object was moving in a west to east direction. Size as observed was circa 2-3 times the diameter of a very bright star. Orange glow was very intense, and eerily similar to the intensity and colour tone of the orange street lamps in the hospital grounds. Flight path was straight, no apparent deviation observed during sighting period (circa 2-3 minutes). Was clearly visible from moment of observing due west until it disappeared high in the sky due East. Captured briefly (circa 50 seconds) footage on mobile phone video but no zooming capabilites - video shows a bright spot moving eastwards beyond hospital buildings and then disappears while still high in the sky - but perhaps this could be due to a cloud bank?? Height above horizon did not seem to alter. Light winds at ground level were moving in a similar direction.

Date:
2011-Dec-07
Time:
10:57-11:00
Location:
East London. E18 2FD. IN the east sky
Report:
Fireball going from south to north (low lying south east to north east) I was facing east and it went from right to left. It was quite bright as bright or even brighter than the stars in that area. Bright enough to break through london's light pollution. Visible for about a second with no sound. It's trail was also visible, but not for long afterwards. It seemed to fade away into nothing.

Date:
2011-Dec-01
Time:
around 8pm
Location:
about 10 miles south of newcastle seen form the A1
Report:
A large bright white light coming down with a definate trail behind it that lasted for a few seconds and simply disappeared. It was travelling down at an angle from left to right (west to east) and looked quite low and near, in fact i looked to see where it might land as it looked like a plane on fire so we were 'initially' quite relieved when it disappeared as it was heading towards the motorway! We were travelling north to newcastle to see a band but seeing this stole the show! It wasn't visible for long and so is hard to say what distance it travelled but it was visible for around 3 seconds.It disappeared completely with no visible debris. it was far larger than any star/planet but not moon sized. Would be great if some one could give me some qulified information on what they think we saw! Thanks TRACY

Date:
2011-Nov-27
Time:
22:39
Location:
Mitcham Surrey
Report:
I saw a bright light travelling fast towards SW as i was looking out my garden, I was looking south, it seemed to burn with orange light behind, itself very bright white it lasted for about two-three secounds but with no sound.

Date:
2011-Nov-25
Time:
about 05:25
Location:
1 Mile from Moy,Co Tyrone on Armagh Road in the North sky
Report:
A long streak of very bright light,brighter than the moon but not as big in the north sky going from right to left for about 3 or 4 seconds and then it burnt out. It seamed very close, and at an angle of about 45 degrees from where I was.It traveled about halfway across the sky. I didn`t hear anything as I was traveling in a car, but bits and pieces did fall off it

Date:
2011-Nov-22
Time:
approx 08.25am
Location:
Castlewellan - Kilcoo Co down N Ireland
Report:
While driving up cross lane BT34 5JT (towards the Bryansford Rd) I saw what looked like a plane on fire in the sky over the ocean (to my left - newcastle co Down) it was moving very slow but had a very small sort of tail - it was a ball of fire falling from left to right out of the sky but very slow - at a quick look it actually looked like it wasn't moving at all but when I stopped to look at it - it was def moving, there was no sound and it seemed futher away than a plan looks in the sky and it didnt leave a trail like a plane- at approx 08.40am I lost sight of it, seemed to fall behind the cloud line - very strange indeed!!

Date:
2011-Nov-11
Time:
4:58
Location:
hoover alabama 35244
Report:
I was walking in my freinds yard when i saw a huge glowing red orange object with red fire coming out of it and we dont have a image

Date:
2011-Nov-06
Time:
17.51 GMT
Location:
Harlestone Firs Northamptonshire 52.25/0.08
Report:
We were facing east and saw straight ahead a very white bright ball of light (estimate magnitude -7 (considerably brighter than Venus at brightest - minus 4.6?) or even -8 Moving parallel to horizon in northerly direction at about 45 degrees height in the eastern sky seen through cloud cover (perhaps cloud level at 5,000 ft so absolutely not a firework!) Head was ball shaped with definite width and scale Had a short tail thinning gradually to a narrow taper Duration 4-5 seconds travelled perhaps 5 to 10 degrees Seen through gap in cloud cover so faded out rapidly after around 4-5 seconds

Date:
2011-Nov-02
Time:
Around 5:30pm
Location:
Erdington - Birmingham
Report:
From Streetly Road/Short Heath, Birmingham, looking west, as looking to West Bromwich from Erdington. Fast moving, orange-coloured, round and silent falling, looked as if an airplane was on fire, or something was on fire. Moved from South to north in the west sky, disappeared behind the buildings... Visible for 1 minute, caught my eyes halfway down already, couldn't see anymore because of buildings in front of me. Compared to a bright orange star, large one. I was actually expecting an explosion when it hit the floor. I don't know what this is. No pieces falling from it. Steady light going down.

Date:
2011-Oct-31
Time:
Approx. 7.30pm
Location:
Back Garden
Report:
Was standing at the back door and notice a large orange glow straight overhead. Thought this might have been a firework at first. The orange ball had 2 smaller fainter metorites following it, assuming broken off pieces. I watched it for about 1.5 mins as it slowly meandered into the distance before fading. Looking out my backdoor at 9pm I would normal see ursa major. The firball was travelling appox. 5-10 degrees to the left of the constellation. The firball was appox 35 to 50 degress of the horizontal. Did not hear any sounds

Date:
2011-Oct-24
Time:
7.10 am
Location:
m5 northbound near worcester
Report:
Very bright white fireball (comparable to oncoming dipped headlights) in northern sky at about 40 degrees elevation, moving very fast at speed of shooting star, trail width approx .1 x diameter of full moon, length of trail approx 5 degrees, direction approx NNE, visible less than a second, faded away to nothing.

Date:
2011-Oct-24
Time:
07:11
Location:
Newmarket, Suffolk, UK
Report:
I was driving/facing North along the A142 between where the road passes over a railway line and the Snailwell roundabout. The fireball appeared to my left running almost parallel to me travelling north. I would say that it was lower than a jumbo jet in height as it left a small cloud like trail visible for some time amongst the surrounding clouds and sky. It was extremely bright, like magnesium. This was at dawn (closer to daylight than night) when no stars were visible. It was extremely quick although it was apparent to me that there were two blazes as if it broke in to two pieces. However I would say less than a second. It's hard to estimate the distance it travelled as it startled me and I was driving at the time but I didn't see it travel very far, from the edge of my field of view looking out my windscreen until perhaps the mid point of my windscreen. I didn't hear any sounds but almost directly after I saw it all the brids from the surrounding trees flew off (maybe a hundred or so birds) so perhaps there was a sound, or maybe this was simply a coincidence. It seemed to me that it broke up and did not impact anywhere in the distance. Once the flash had gone there was no sight of anything except the trail left in the cloud.

Date:
2011-Oct-24
Time:
7.11am
Location:
ROAD RUNNING FROM GREAT BLAKENHAM TO NEEDHAM MARKET.
Report:
Traveling from Great Blakenham to Needham Market,Which I Think is a Northerly direction,I saw in front of me what looked like a flash of lightning then immediately after a trail,of what looked like smoke,like from an aeroplane,Traevling in the same direction.I was surprised by the brightness of fhe flash lighting the sky up,in almost daylight conditions.The whole thing lasted maybe 1 to 2 seconds,As it seemed to fade before reaching the horizon.

Date:
2011-Oct-23
Time:
9:16 pm
Location:
Trenton Ontario
Report:
large fireball to the west shooting north to south..lasting only seconds

Date:
2011-Oct-21
Time:
about 20:10
Location:
South Downs East Sussex
Report:
I think it was a firebomb - visible for about 5-6 seconds before it went behind a tree. I live in Plumpton Green at the foot of the Downs. It was towards Brighton so not sure if it hit land or went out to sea. It did'nt appear to break up and looked about 20 metres wide or more! Never seen anything so big. I guess if it hit the ground about 20 miles away i would have heard it. I'm about that from the coast. Facing SSE more or less exact - used a compass. Very bright orange with flames coming out back, it was not high in the sky at all, just above the south downs looking at ground level in Plumpton Green. No sounds, to me it looked like it was going to hit land as it was so big! Moved from right to left. If it was not high in the sky, could it have been something else i.e a meteor or are they the same thing? Sorry don't know all the jargon - please email me back with any news. Chloe :)

Date:
2011-Oct-21
Time:
between 20.30-20.45 pm
Location:
south west birmingham
Report:
two bright white lights leaving trails behind them, one above or next to the other, speed across the sky in short flashes. one split second it was there and the next it wasnt then it appeared again but did not go behind anything...it was really quite high almost as high as the stars are visible, but was really much bigger and brighter. they CERTAINTLY wasnt planes or stars..i have NEVER seen any thing like this.me and my freind saw them and cant figure out what it might be.

Date:
2011-Oct-21
Time:
it was shortly after 8 pm
Location:
i was in hurstpeirpoint
Report:
I was just leaving hurstpierpoint driving towards henfield I saw large fireball it was huge traveling from the right towards the coast I watched it for about 8 seconds before it disappeared over the downs it wasn't that high and had like flames behind it . It was a meteor for shore best one I ever seen I couldnt of been the only one that witnessed that I heard a rumor today that people saw a ufo that night same time sorry no ufo im shore they got better technology than flames coming out the back lol

Date:
2011-Oct-15
Time:
Very approx 19:30
Location:
Narberth, Wales.
Report:
Facing West. Object appeared to be moving downwards or westwards Height: Very approx 15 degrees down towards hedge. Bright like welding arc. Visible for 1 sec approx No sound No break up.

Date:
2011-Oct-06
Time:
Location:
Report:
sighting report date should be October 6th, not June 10th.

Date:
2011-Oct-03
Time:
20:15 to 20:45
Location:
Burren, Co. Down
Report:
A burning orange ball at a moderate speed moving at a tangent roughly North to East. It went away into the East with a declining elevation and was still visible for after 20 minutes or so into the distance

Date:
2011-Oct-03
Time:
9.45pm
Location:
castledegr
Report:
fireball burn up very large and bright

Date:
2011-Oct-01
Time:
Around 8 P.M. Central Time
Location:
Menasha, Wisconsin, United States
Report:
We saw five or six red and orange balls. They were much brighter than any star. The balls made no sound. They were going no faster than an airplane and they were decently spaced. You were only able to see them for about a minute, then they faded and were gone. They were traveling West to East.

Date:
2011-Oct-01
Time:
between 2130 and 2200
Location:
Saintfield Co Down
Report:
A burning orange ball travelling at a very moderate speed moving roughly North East to South West. I was facing East and the fireball was about60 degrees above the horizon. Its path maintained an almost consistent height and was visible for 2 minutes or so. I called my wife who also observed the fireball. I was able to watch the fireball travel more than halfway across the sky. It was as bright as a halogen orange street light and I could hear no sound. There was no sign of it breaking up and it seemed to disappear into cloud.

Date:
2011-Sep-30
Time:
21:00 BST
Location:
Formby, UK (North West coast of England)
Report:
Large orange object travelling S to N at a steady pace along the NW coast of England. The object traveled slightly faster than a plane appears to travel and was visible for around 1 minute. Relatively speaking it was around half the diameter of the moon. It had no visible tail or trail (although it was dark) and made no noise whatsoever. Brightness wise, it is difficult to describe because it was a different colour to anything else. It was not as bright as a full moon on a frosty night but was far brighter than anything else in the sky and very visible. Best way to describe it, the same brightness as a fire/ bonfire in the sky. The object did not break up, it merely disappeared into the horizon at a steady pace (living in a built up area with lots of trees etc, it is not possible to see very far into the distance though) Attempted to photo it but got it too late so the photo just shows a dot of light in the distance The object was witnessed by all 4 members of my family and also a local friend

Date:
2011-Sep-28
Time:
00:26 +- 2 mins
Location:
Benone Beach
Report:
Looking East to North East on the 28-9-11 at 00:26 Flare/fireball seen on the north coast at 00.26 on the 28th 2 witnessesâ€™, three of us were on Benone beach but only two of us had been facing in the direction of the sighting, The Green then Green/Yellow flare appeared to descend sharply, Direction SW to NE At the time i thought it might be part of the satellite that was going to come down somewhere between northern Scotland @&the Norway. I assume anyone from our tiny little Provence could have seen this if they had been looking in the right direction at the right 2second moment in time. Iâ€™d like to know if anyone else seen this..

Date:
2011-Sep-28
Time:
Between 11pm and midnight Tuesday September 28th 2011
Location:
Enniskillen Northern Ireland
Report:
Observed a meteor / orange fireball falling across the sky relatively slowly (ie compared to some white shooting stars I have observed inthye past). This orange fire ball appeared to 'burn out' across he sky as ittravelled in the direction north to north west of my location.

Date:
2011-Sep-26
Time:
21:00 (ish)
Location:
Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim
Report:
Large bright yellow/orange object travelling SW to NE at a steady pace. It's speed, distance or diameter I don't know but was much larger and moved faster compared to anything else in the sky. It came from behind a mountain, passed directly over my head and lost sight of it behind houses. The object had no visual tail or debris and did not break up nor did I hear sound apart the wind even as it passed over. The total duration would have been around 2 minutes or so. I grabbed my camera but only got the last few seconds before it disappeared.

Date:
2011-Sep-16
Time:
Between 9:30 & 10:00 PM EST
Location:
Sellersville,Pa United States
Report:
Big ball of fire more yellow color than blue that arced with a tail for about 5 to 10 seconds and burnt out. Looked extremely close. Never saw anything like it. Moon had been up for about an hour in the east and what I saw was about southwest in my backyard. It moved from S to SW. Did not see it breakup -it was very graceful and beautiful.It faded away. Dead silence and was as bright or brighter than the fullest moon I have ever seen.

Date:
2011-Sep-16
Time:
9.30pm
Location:
Cockfosters, North London
Report:
I seen a large yellow fireball moving horizontally across the sky. I watched it for about 2 minutes before it went out of my sight into cloud. It was silent and moved at about the speed of a plane. It seemed quite large. The ball had a constant glow.

Date:
2011-Sep-03
Time:
22.45
Location:
from Hillsborough, over Lisburn
Report:
A clear night sky with a bright white tail streaking down towards earth for just over a second then, seemingly directly over Lisburn, (it was very bright and did appear to be rather closer than any I've seen before) as the tail appeared to burn out it broke up and I saw a yellow/orange flash ahaead of the tail which was visible momentarily. It appeared to burn up just above the horizon, from my viewpoint which was over Lisburn towards Black Mountian (approximately 20 degrees North) It moved in a very steep descent possibly 10 to 15 degrees off vertical in a left to right motion and was visible for maybe only the last quarter of the sky (from straight above to horizon)

Date:
2011-Sep-03
Time:
10.30pm approx - may have been IIpm - I wasn,t wearing a watch or carrying a mob
Location:
Loch Ken, Galloway Forest Park
Report:
looking in North Easterly direction I saw a large fireball travelling very fast in an almost due east direction. It was clearly something much larger than the shooting stars I have seen many times before when camping in the countryside. This was lower down - not very high in altitude but close enough to see that it was losing fragments behind it as it travelled. It travelled at a shallow downward angle. It was quick but nothing like as short a sighting as a normal shooting star at high altitude. I saw it for at least 2 seconds probably more, before it disappeared behind the low tree covered hills to the east. I'm guessing it may have been space debris but it was a sizeable chunk if that's the case. It's tail was not very long but clearly a burning sherical object almost white at it's centre surrounded by yellow with a pointed tail

Date:
2011-Sep-03
Time:
between 10pm and midnight ish
Location:
Over Belfast Lough towards Whitehead and the Irish Sea
Report:
Observed from Bangor, looking NNE over belfast lough towards Whitehead / Larne. Direction of Travel N or NE. Relatively low in the sky, very bright. Slow moving compared to shooting star. Only observed it for a few seconds. Large fireball with trail - becoming bright and then going out suddenly! Very distincy fireball appearance.

Date:
2011-Aug-28
Time:
approx 23.00
Location:
Southend on Sea, Essex, England
Report:
Large orange ball traveling west to east. It was travelling at a steady speed and was travelling paralel to the ground. It stayed in sight until the fireball was over houses a few hundred meters away. I watched it for about 90 seconds. It was as bright as a chinese lantern but was definitely not one of these. It was silent. I've never see one as bright or even anywhere near in size. It was quite a privillege to see!

Date:
2011-Aug-22
Time:
00:37
Location:
Carlton, Nottingham. East Midlands. England.
Report:
Very clear night. Half moon to the north east as I closed my bedroom curtains. Observed a bright fireball thats trajectory was as if it had come from the moon. I The head was bright white at the front and became orange towards the rear. The trail was orange and white and twisted as if the object was "tumbling" rather than going in a straight line. Lasted two seconds then went black and could no longer see the tail either. Was quite low above the horizon when it disappeared, guess about 5 degrees.

Date:
2011-Aug-22
Time:
00:37
Location:
Carlton, Nottingham. East Midlands. England.
Report:
Very clear night. Half moon to the north east as I closed my bedroom curtains. Observed a bright fireball thats trajectory was as if it had come from the moon. I The head was bright white at the front and became orange towards the rear. The trail was orange and white and twisted as if the object was "tumbling" rather than going in a straight line. Lasted two seconds then went black and could no longer see the tail either. Was quite low above the horizon when it disappeared, guess about 5 degrees.

Date:
2011-Aug-21
Time:
10.00pm
Location:
the manor country park ,romford essex
Report:
while walking home tonight saw one shooting star heading north about 5minutes later glimsped another one large bright tail coming straight down with orange spark disapiring behind the trees ,then while walking back on road with street lighting walking south, looked up to see large very bright light moving very bright ,slowly and silently west going east not a satalite or normal aircraft ,i felt draw to it as thing of beauty watched it fly slowly off, seen similer things lately , but this was the best glad i went for a walk..

Date:
2011-Aug-21
Time:
21:44 BST approx
Location:
Malvern Link Worcs (52deg 07.42min N, 2deg 18.14 W)
Report:
Bright orange meteor travelling approx S to N approx 2 mins before ISS went from E to West. Meteor got brighter as track progressed. Dissappeared quickly. Appeared as bright ISS pass (apart from colour)going up to maybe -4.5. Visible for maybe 2 seconds. Location approx SSW start to WNW. Started approx 40deg above horizon increased to maybe 50deg by the end. No sound

Date:
2011-Aug-16
Time:
10 pm until 1am
Location:
Belfast carrickhill
Report:
Clear night in Belfast last night. Seen 7 different air craft/UFO's at different times, over the space 3 hours, from 10 pm till 1am. They seemed to be at a high altitude moving in different directions, Â they were sporadically moving and disappearing and reappearing as the went across the sky not like and plane I've Â ever seen! Been researching this topic for a while! Now I know their up there I need to know why! hope tonight is clear again going to get a proper camera today! I did catch some footage with the iPhone 4 but it's crap! I will post it later thought! There are several whiteness to this!

Date:
2011-Aug-16
Time:
Approx 23.00 hrs
Location:
Dunsevrick Harbour
Report:
A large bright light (like a fireball with a tail, a lot brighter and larger than a star) flying through the sky. It lasted for a few seconds. I saw it and pointed to it and my family turned around and also saw it.

Date:
2011-Aug-14
Time:
21:10
Location:
Fourka Beach, Halkidiki, Greece
Report:
I saw five flames, similarly to planes on fire, that flew the one after the other on the sky (right to left, having the sea on my back). Then a green light appeared and they lost their colours, ending up like shadows on the sky. They disappeared behind the mountain. No sounds.

Date:
2011-Aug-14
Time:
11:15pm
Location:
Cork
Report:
Event: A very bright meteor / fireball, I estimate the brightness to be equal to a full moon. It was difficult to look at due to its brightness. At first it was dimmer in light intensity with flame red edges and then it exploded with green colouring as it brighted to full intensity, leaving a trail behind it, although impressive in appearance I could hear no sound. No breakup only a big explosion, event lasted maybe 7 or 8 seconds. Event faded away beyond Epsilon Persei but due to clouds and a full moon it was difficult to see even though my elevation was about 175 meters. Sky Conditions: The sky had cloudy patches and the Moon was getting high in sky. Location: I don't think this was a Perseid as it was the opposite way round. It started at Epsilon Cassiopeiae in the North North West, passing through Alpha Persei and dying out beyond Epsilon Persei, moving from North North West to South South East direction. Conclusion: Doubtful if a meteorite would have resulted from this event as it was only as bright as the full moon for part of its duration.

Date:
2011-Aug-06
Time:
Location:
Magheralin
Report:
At approximately 11.30 PM I observed 4 orange / reddish lights in the sky in the north western sky. These lights appeared to be moving from right to left and then upward. A further larger and brighter light came upwards from behind a low cloud bank and veered from left to right. The sighting lasted for about 1-2 minutes. I at first thought they were stars but were moving fairly quickly and in erratic directions.There were no sounds at the time.

Date:
2011-Aug-03
Time:
23.08
Location:
Great Paxton - PE19 6RP
Report:
I saw a bright object with a long tail. It was only one object and there seemed to be a yellowy colour near the main object. I was standing on my back doorstep and it seemed quite low and trailed down over a neighbours roofline.

Date:
2011-Jul-27
Time:
10.30 (ish) london gmt
Location:
Report:
I was facing west in the garden and this teardrop fireball entred the sky stage left in a semi-arch,it was low and brighter than anything I have seen in the sky, it was brilliant white. It was visible for 3 or 4 seconds,I had no time to react, it was breathtaking,from me seeing it to it vapourising was under 8 seconds,i did however make a wish.

Date:
2011-Jul-24
Time:
11:45 pm (ish)
Location:
Hound green, Hook, Hampshire
Report:
Long bright streak of light which had a break in the streak then it became bright again, incidence about 30 Deg. this was very low down and very close to the ground. I would say it came to ground in the general area of Hook. I was facing towards Hook from hound green - SE. the direction was from left to right and only light up close to the ground from about 11 o-clock ald light all the way to the grouund.

Date:
2011-Jul-22
Time:
10.00pm approx
Location:
LISBURN
Report:
A large yellow ball which was pulsating as if on fire. Planes from Aldergrove come over our house and at first I thought it was plane lights but the ball came from a different trajectory. It also travelled slightly faster than a plane, coming from north to south across my house and then veering away slightly to the south west where it stopped. It remained in that position for about five minutes and then gradually reduced in size and brightness until it just disappeared.

Date:
2011-Jul-19
Time:
04:20
Location:
just to the north -north/west of hemel hempstead
Report:
i was driving south down the M1 just south of jct9 yesterday morning when i saw something on fire come down at a steep angle the fire went out before it hit the ground i only saw it for a second or two, it only seemed to be a few miles away [5-10] from the M1 it was about 30degrees the my right it seemed to come almost straight down i saw it just about cloud height as like a flame in the sky but it went out just above/on the horizon it was about as bright as a lit match, i didn't hear anything as i was driving

Date:
2011-Jul-15
Time:
2.55am GMT
Location:
Kesgrave, nr. Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
Report:
I saw a fireball with a bright orange appearance and a white cloud trail, heading from a NE-S direction at approximately a 55 degree angle at it's highest point, to a 50 degree angle when I lost visibility. I was facing an easterly direction and caught a very good glimpse of it for all of 4 seconds whilst I was in my back garden, for about 1/4 of the length of the sky. It was very bright, and despite being in an area with streetlamps and sunlight just starting to show beyond the horizon, it was very clear. I saw no pieces break off, but I did hear a very slight fizzing sound, which caused me to spot in the first place. I can't estimate on a velocity, but as soon as I realised it was about to disappear behind the roof of my house, I ran to my front garden but it had already gone beyond the rooves of my neighbours houses.

Date:
2011-Jul-01
Time:
11.25pm
Location:
Ballyeaston Village
Report:
I was looking from my living room when on the horizon a white ball apeared which then produce a white tail being about 2/3 of the over all spectacle.The tail then produced flames around the upper edge then the whole object seemed to go out.The time scale seemed to be about 4 seconds. The event happend over the hill opposite my home in Ballyeaston Village,the ball was moving from right to left in a downward direction of about 15 degress at a guess.We face in a easterly direction,the ball would have been where the sun rises over the hill in winter.It was as bright as a full moon if not brighter.

Date:
2011-Jun-15
Time:
0230
Location:
Cambridge
Report:
I just saw a white light moving across the sky, just like everybody else was descrybing. It was not a satellite as it was much bigger and brighter, just above the clouds. Flying from the NorthNorth West towards SouthSouth East. Very strange never saw anything like it. Nuclear rocket send for London ? :] Guess I would know in about 5 min.

Date:
2011-Jun-15
Time:
0230
Location:
Cambridge
Report:
Correction on my mail a minute ago it was flying more towards the Colchester. It flied for about a minute, it was visible until it dissapeared in the thick clouds. I saw it from the middle of the sky and it travellled nearly all the way to the other side. I did not see any pieces falling off but i think it have been shredding some as the small tail was showing.

Date:
2011-Jun-15
Time:
9:20-9:25 pm
Location:
Texas County Missouri
Report:
A shooting star that started out as a normal brightness and then got very bright .. lighting the surrounding sky and leaving a light trail behind it for a second or two. The brightest one I have ever seen.

Date:
2011-Jun-13
Time:
~10:15
Location:
Avon, Ohio, USA
Report:
An object that looked like a star, but was noticeably brighter than any others in the sky, traveled across the sky. It was East of me, came from the south, and traveled northward. It seemed much faster than an airplane, but it took about a minute to get across the sky until I couldn't see it over the horizon. No sounds.

Date:
2011-Jun-10
Time:
8:40 p.m. EST
Location:
Monticello, GA
Report:
Green fireball with golden tail falling low in sky from left to right. I was driving south on hwy 83 about a mile north of the Monticello town square. The fireball was bright and visible until it fell below the distant tree line. I didn't hear anything.

Date:
2011-Jun-04
Time:
1.50am
Location:
Hertfordshire
Report:
Heading:West-S/W I stepped out the garden door and looked up at the sky within 3 seconds I realized an odd group stars, and then a strange thing happened. One of the stars appeared to be, moving I wondered if it was a satellite then it changed colour and appeared to be heading this way. It was yellowish turning neon green then in an explosive manor turned orange in a flash then vanished. This sighting lasted about 8 seconds. I was facing N/E, no clouds, no moon, looking directly up. I wandered down the garden in the dark searching the sky. I realized I had actually seen an object vertically enter the earthâ€™s atmosphere from the area around the triangles. I ruled out satellite, thought rocket or single jet engine but going in the wrong direction and concluded it must have been a fireball burning out on entry. Suddenly, about 5 minutes later a green trail of light went hurtling over the top of the house. I thought wow a larger than ever low flying meteor with a long turbulent and whirling green glowing gas or vapour cloud trailing behind it. This sighting lasted only 4 seconds heading West-S/W, and in spectacular colours. There was sound as I think that is what made me look up again or I would have missed it on the way indoors.

Date:
2011-May-30
Time:
2353
Location:
Ballymena
Report:
An extremely bright light (brighter than the full moon) passing at high speed, with a tail. I saw it from my bedroom window. It lasted only a few seconds. I didn't hear any sounds associated with it.

Date:
2011-May-30
Time:
Approx 2345hrs
Location:
In the northern sky
Report:
Looking north whilst dog walking, a large bright fireball (brighter than a full moon or any star) moving relatively slowly from NE mid-sky down to NW at an angle of about 20% from the horizontal for about 3 seconds. No bits were seen breaking off & I was able to watch it over a 30 degree sweep. It lit up the sky & disappeared from sight when the trail went behind a large tree - it was so dramatic I expected sound too!

Date:
2011-May-19
Time:
22.15
Location:
North Belfast
Report:
I was outside in my back garden tonight when a very bright glowing red object came flying across the sky, coming from a south west direction flying north east towards Carrickfergus. This object was flying very low but didn't make a sound, it was out of sight after about 30 seconds before it disappeared behind houses. Very cool.

Date:
2011-May-02
Time:
01:10am
Location:
Drumsurn Road, Limavady
Report:
I saw a bright shooting-star like ball in the sky though I thought it was moving unusually slow to be a shooting star and it seemed brighter than a normal shooting star/ meteor, about as bright as a full moon. I'm sure that I was facing South West at the time of the spotting and the star seemed to travel from South/ South-West to West. The star continued to stay very high in the sky and did not seem to fall to the ground. I also did not hear any crackling or popping noises. As I spotted it, the star was extremely bright and as it gradually fell it faded away so it was not visbale anymore. It did not travel far across the sky and was visable for about 5-10 seconds. The only unusual qualities of the star was how slow it was travelling and its brightness.

Date:
2011-Apr-27
Time:
10:30-45
Location:
west london
Report:
I saw big white light flying on the sky 27 Apr 2011 at 10:30. My boyfriend and I wore coming back from holiday and walking down the street to our home. Then we saw a big white light as bright as the stars flying from west north to north very slowly, then in just a blink of an eye the light went off and disappeared. It was strange because there was not other white or red blink light that planes and helicopters have. In my opinion it is a bit high for helicopter to fly high as it was flying and for a plane to have big light as a star. If you know what I mean! I have seen lots of Chinese Lanterns especially new years and it is not one of them.

Date:
2011-Apr-22
Time:
23:30
Location:
Above Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland
Report:
Tonight at 11.20 on the 22nd, April 2011 looking toward Holywood from Greenisland. Seen what looked like a plane on fire but I could not hear any engines and it could not have been a meteor or shooting star as it did not seem to mantain a steady course. It was travelling northward and had came across from the Belfast direction heading over towards Carrickfergus. The light seemed to die out as it got further into the distance until it looked like it dissapeared from view over Carrick. I tried to get some footage on my digital camera but the object was too far away for my zoom, so poor quality shots I'm afraid........ http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6394/imag0177v.jpg http://www.facebook.com/johnny.spoon#!/video/video.php?v=1838037362287

Date:
2011-Mar-27
Time:
10.15pm approx
Location:
near M42 - orion nebula - in west, edenderry bt8 8lg.
Report:
a shooting star left to right in objective while viewing M42. 90mm refractor with 90 degree diagonal star-mirror. Sorry, im quite new to astronomy, first time i used a scope for 12 years!

Date:
2011-Mar-22
Time:
22:45
Location:
Co.Kerry
Report:
Very big, unusual, not a shooting star! appeared white..about a quarter the size of the moon. Im in Kerry, facing the Limerick/Tipp direction. Moved right to left at an angle, appeared to come through the atmosphere as it was so large! Very bright and lasted over 4 or 5 seconds. Travelled a long distance through the sky and appeared to fall behind the hills behind my house. Me and my brother witnessed this

Date:
2011-Mar-16
Time:
7 to 7.30 am approx
Location:
It was around mid march approx. Outside Limerick city.
Report:
I was heading west towards turn off for Annacotty in Limerick. It was travelling in a S.W direction. I suppose it was midways in the sky. It was a red fireball and seemed to break-up in 3 or 4 parts. It was I suppose as bright as the moon but red. It was visible for about maybe 2 to 3 secs. It didn't travel very far but it wasn't a normal meteorite you would see at night I reckon this one made it through the atmosphere. I didn't here any sounds as I was travelling in a car. I saw it break up into 3 or 4 parts. I saw it fade away to nothing. If if did land somewhere it would probaly have landed somewhere west of Limerick around Clonlara, O Briens, castleconnell area. I am sorry I don't have exact date in March. I pick up a guy that morning I give a lift to work and he saw the same thing also. Sorry I didn't report it then I only remembered when I saw the ISS fly over Ireland tonight. Best Regards, Maurice

Date:
2011-Mar-09
Time:
10.20 pm
Location:
Banbridge
Report:
A huge fireball hurtling towards the ground with plumes of white and grey smoke rising from the surrounding edges trailing back up towards the sky. I could hear the roar of the fireball as it fell to the earth.Whilst i have submitted the date of early March i can only confirm that it was the early part of the year but it was definately a wednesday night at approximately 10.20.pm. I was driving home at the time travelling northwards and the fireball was moving in the same direction to my right.It did not fade away.It did not break up. it was visible for minutes. It had to hit the ground.it was huge and reasonably bright [orange and yellow]I thought for sure something would be on the news the next day.

Date:
2011-Mar-01
Time:
8pm approx
Location:
Armagh
Report:
A meteor looked to skim the atmosphere. From the Portadown road looking south. It moved from east to west for 5-6 seconds before losing sight, there appeared to be no angle of descent, size of satellite but with a tail behind. It passed half way below Orion and the horizon and covered a third of the sky before going out of sight.

Date:
2011-Mar-01
Time:
8.30pm
Location:
Boyle, Ireland
Report:
A huge meteor, yellowish with a fiery red/yellow tail. It seemed that I could see the meteor itself burning and the tail sparking red. It was in the southern sky, travelling due west on what appeared to be an even trajectory - it didn't seem to be falling but was on a fairly level course. I watched it for several seconds as it travelled across the sky and guess it would have been well out into the Atlantic before it hit. It was big and therefore gave the inmpression that it was quite low but obviously that was probably just a trick of perspective. It was very bright, no sound, it stayed intact and it was still going when it eventually dissappeared behind trees, still on a level course. I followed it across half of the skyline. I watched for a flash if it hit but saw nothing. I'm not very good at guessing angles but it was about a third of the way up from the horizon at all times. I would love to know if you have any information about it.

Date:
2011-Mar-01
Time:
20:28
Location:
Pigeon Top mountain Omagh
Report:
I was out photographing the Northern lights and at exactly 20:28 i turned to look south and saw a very bright fireball. It was perhaps 10 degrees above the horizon and traveling from east to west in a relatively straight line. It streaked across the sky under Orion. I would estimate the brightness somewhere between magnitude -5 to -8, easily brighter than anything in the sky but not as bright as a full moon would be. It was visible for 5-6seconds and red and orange colours were visible as it burned up and faded from view. There appeared to be pieces breaking off it right before it faded as well. An incredible sight, best ive seen to date.

Date:
2011-Feb-18
Time:
21:15
Location:
Belfast
Report:
Fireball like glow. Orange colour. Was in the sky for around 5mins until it faded away. Very bright and going from east to west.

Date:
2011-Feb-14
Time:
19:15
Location:
Viewing from North Belfast-appeared to the East - East/south east
Report:
Observered facing east a large bright white coloured flash high in sky, viewing from North Belfast appeared to be on east - east,south east coast/ Irish sea. From my point of view lasted 1-2 seconds and I didnt see any distance covered - possibly travelling directly away from me...ie west to east direction. Did not hear any sounds - First time report so please excuse.

Date:
2011-Feb-02
Time:
17:15
Location:
Newcastle Upon tyne
Report:
Whilst waiting in a traffic queue heading South at the North entrance of the Tyne Tunnel, a large bright blue ball of light moving across the sky caught my attention. I watched as it seemed to speed up and break apart leaving a trail of bright green light before vanishing from sight. All this took place in about 3 or 4 seconds

Date:
2011-Jan-31
Time:
12.05 am
Location:
antrim
Report:
sorry just me again i thought i saw fireball in antrim town earlier but have come to the conclusion it is just a chinese lantern as i saw 3 more after 12 o clock with the new year celebrations!!! FALSE ALARM!!!

Date:
2011-Jan-21
Time:
1640
Location:
Sighted from Cookstown looking North-East into the distance
Report:
I seen hat looked like a big fireball considering the distance it was from me. I was looking North-East into the distance from Cookstown, Co Tyrone. It only lasted a split second i was looking out just above the horizon it appeared just there and seemed to dissapear behind the horizon in a diagonal direction to the right if u know what i mean.. Seen them before but never that close..Didn't hear anything or see it break up.. I couldnt tell the brightness because it was daylight and the sun was in my face and i was a passenger in a veichle at the time.. Hope this helps

Date:
2011-Jan-21
Time:
Around 16.20
Location:
Holywood
Report:
Looking out over Belfast Lough from Holywood towards Whiteabbey this evening I saw a streak of white light which disappeared beyond the hills on the far lough shore. I assume it was a shooting star but it was astonishingly bright, especially given that the sky was still well lit. It was about 20 minutes before sunset, the sky was still very bright and there were only a few clouds. There were a few obvious high contrails but the light I saw moved far too fast be an aircraft, was visible only for little more than a second and left no track. From my viewpoint facing West-South-West it was travelling left to right at a 10 o'clock - 4 o'clock angle. I've seen shooting stars before but never in daylight.

Date:
2011-Jan-21
Time:
1640
Location:
Looking North-West from Cookstown Co Tyrone
Report:
Can i just correct myself on the fireball report from yesterday afternoon, I reported that i seen it in the North-East direction and this was a mistake. I seen it in the North-West direction.. Apologies for this mistake...

Date:
2011-Jan-18
Time:
6.12pm
Location:
Wantage Oxfordshire
Report:
Bright fireball falling to the ground just south of wantage

Date:
2011-Jan-03
Time:
20.16
Location:
cork mallow road due east low
Report:
Large white glow close to sky line appeared speckled silver with small tail due east while traveling in a northly direction. object appeared to be traveling due east.quickly disappearing pea size so very large with the brightness off the moon

Date:
2011-Jan-01
Time:
7.30pm
Location:
ahoghill co antrim
Report:
a fireball traveling very fast , with the naked eye it looked about the size of a blazing football. I was able to use my binoculars to see it, and it looked about the size of the moon , there were some "cracks" visible and a very distinctive ring of fire around it.It was traveling approximately west to east and at a very great speed. It appeared to be quite close moving left to right, and lasted possibly twenty to thirty seconds, visibility was good, howvever as it moved across my line of vision towards the right above some trees it vanished i got the impression it had gone behind some cloud.

Date:
2010-Dec-31
Time:
APP 6.20 PM
Location:
DUBLIN ROAD ESTATE ANTRIM TOWN
Report:
I WAS ALERTED TO A BRIGHT OBJECT IN THE SKY BY MY MOTHER WHOM I WAS VISITING I RAN OUTSIDE AND SEEN QUITE A LARGE FIREBALL IN THE SKY IT WAS TRAVELLING QUITE FAST. MY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS JOINED TO WATCH AND IT WAS VISIBLE FOR ABOUT 7 MINS THEN GRADUALLY GOT SMALLER TO THE SIZE OF A STAR AND DISAPPEARED. MY MOTHERS HOUSE IS ABOUT 3 MILES FROM BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SO MAYBE SOMETHING GOT PICKED UP THERE. I NEVER GOT TIME TO RECORD IT ON VIDEO AS I WAS STARTLED BY WHAT I SAW!

Date:
2010-Dec-31
Time:
9.05 pm
Location:
above my home at cathedrals view armagh
Report:
a red/orange colour fireball moving left to right at a slow speed watched it for about 10 seconds then it vanished

Date:
2010-Dec-31
Time:
23.20
Location:
Carrickfergus, Co Antrim
Report:
An orange coloured meteorite/fireball moving steadily through the sky moving from west to east. The fireball was bright enough to be seen through low cloud. It was observed from slightly above the western horizon until almost over head. It took less than 10 seconds to travel this distance. Observed looking towards the western horizon.

Date:
2010-Dec-31
Time:
7:30
Location:
Rathmullan beach - kinnegar strand
Report:
Seven of us were walking along Kinnegar Strand when a very bright orange light came straight towards us. It hovered directly over us for a while and looked mathematical four circles inside four squares enclosed in a square. It rotated above us then climbed away from us upwards into a cloud. At first we thought it was a chinese latern but the fact that it paused above us for few a minutes made us question that. Photos and phone videos were taken off it. Thinking it could be some sort of statelite.

Date:
2010-Dec-25
Time:
22 :25
Location:
co antrim
Report:
Bright blazing red or orange fireball or meteor, actually thought it was an aircraft on fire it was that big! It travelled one direction for a few minutes and then seemed to go the opposite way, where it went out of sight

Date:
2010-Dec-24
Time:
Location:
Carncoagh Road - about 5 miles north of Ballymena heading towards Cushendall
Report:
At aprox 20.15 on 24th December I was in my back garden, in almost perfect darkness when I saw what I took to be a shooting star. I was facing in a northerly direction and the object moved from right to left across the sky. It was clearly visible for about 5 seconds as it tracked across the sky eventually disappearing over the horizon. I regularly see shooting stars where I live in the countryside but this one was unusual in terms of the length of time it was visible, its brightness and the fact you could discern a definite shape with what appeared to be a tail streaming behind it. The night in question was frosty with a perfectly clear night sky, at no time did I hear any sounds or observe the break up of the object. Cheers Gordon Nicholl

Date:
2010-Dec-23
Time:
approx 21:50
Location:
Dundonald
Report:
I was facing NNW and saw quite a large orange ball of light travel North to South. It was very bright... about as bright as a full moon I'd say. It come towards me from the Craigantlet Hills, taking several minutes to travel past me in a straight line, and eventually fade out of sight in the direction of Strangford Lough. Don't think it lost or gained any height. Heard no sounds from it. Didn't see anything break off it. I did film it for a while on my phone, though the footage is not great. But at one point it is in shot with a street lamp, so you can see how bright it was in comparison.

Date:
2010-Dec-19
Time:
approx 3.15 pm
Location:
Address above
Report:
I saw what I thought were the lights of a low flying aircraft but I realised they were too bright and the ball of yellow light was too big to be an aircraft. I was facing west and the light was just to the left of the Sun that was low in the sky and beginning to set. I took a picture of it and then looked around and started to take other pictures of the scenery. When I looked around I thought it had gone until I realised that it had developed a long tail and was moving further to left of the sun and getting closer to the horizon. I took a short video, I thought I might be able to calculate its speed with Tracker software, but I was worried that it was soon going to be out of sight. I therefore took a few more pictures at full magnification. The photo of the ball of light seems to show, when I zoom in fully, it splitting into two, the photos of the fireball and tail seem to show debris flying off it when zoomed. It was brighter than the moon and it was probably on view for about 15 minutes.

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
5.35 approx
Location:
stirling
Report:
Seemed to be like one of those Chinese lantern - fairly large coming from the east (moving left to right as I looked at it. It was fairly slow at firstthen it seemed to accelerate and explode with lots of fragments - i thought it was a plane going up at first but realised it was a fireball - I did not hear any noise The visability was excellent - It seemed to end like a firework I have witnessed high up shooting stars but first time I have seen a fireball.

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
approx 1.35 GMT
Location:
Shotton, Deeside. North Wales/ Cheshire border
Report:
I was driving due East & the fireball moved from my right to left. It seemed about 40 degrees above the horizon before it fragmented & burnt out. Very bright, brighter than the morning star, about -5. I only observed the fireball from my car window so I don't know how far across the sky it had travelled, could hear no noise. I observed it for about 3 seconds. It finally burnt out after fragments fell of it. It appeared to be high over the Wirral penisula

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
17:35 hrs, GMT
Location:
Shotton, Deeside, Flintshire/Cheshire border
Report:
Unable to edit last submitted, so some details changed. I was driving due East & the fireball moved from my right to left. It seemed about 40 degrees above the horizon before it fragmented & burnt out. Very bright, brighter than the morning star, about -5. I only observed the fireball from my car window so I don''t know how far across the sky it had travelled, could hear no noise. I observed it for about 3 seconds. It finally burnt out after fragments fell of it. It appeared to be high over the Wirral penisula

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
1734
Location:
Uppingham Rutland
Report:
Fireball travelling NE-NW main body with at least 3 subsidiary balls falling off. Seen from my car brighter than all stars and current bright planets. Facing North (at time driving up hill but suggest angle would be 40 degrees above horizon. Duration was only for a few (5 seconds max). Covered an arc of about 30 degrees

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
17.40pm wed 8/12/10
Location:
Campsie, Londonderry. heading northward along A2 in my car.
Report:
white fireball entering atmosphere, i was driving north and the object appeared in front of me for approx 5 seconds heading vertically down, then split into a fork as it disintigrated. Initially thought it was a firework until i read bbc news meteor report tonight. No noise from object i could hear whilst in the car.

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
17.35
Location:
Breaston. Near Derby
Report:
Fire ball/ very bright shooting star but struck as very unusual as I was in a street-lit area and was still very bright. Orange tail I think- visible for 5 secs- but seen in section of sky between two buildings so probably did not witness full extent of it's traverse. Later that evening spoke to my husband on the phone who had been travelling from Bristol to Manchester ( ie M5/M6) and he had also witnessed it when driving but could not recall exact time but from his description presume it was the same event

Date:
2010-Dec-08
Time:
11 35 pm
Location:
5 maryville road bangor co down bt203rh
Report:
refer to previous fireball asteroid report. wanted footage taken of this object from nasa british satellite cameras over holywood /helens bay area at 40 miles altitude..... perseids...

Date:
2010-Dec-07
Time:
approx 21.00
Location:
over antrim
Report:
bright meteor breaking up

Date:
2010-Dec-07
Time:
0300
Location:
Crossmaglen
Report:
What I had seen was a bright (I suppose I could say) star. This is not my first sighting as I have noticed this in the past few months. The star is really bright and looks as if it is flashing. It also seems as though if it is orbit as when I was watching it, it was going up and down and then turning in semicircles. As looked into my telescope, I could see a bright red light just above it. Could I be right in saying that this may be a satelite as I have ruled out an airplane simply because I was also watching anb airplane flying past in the far distance and I had my window open so I could hear the plane but no sound was given off by what i am trying to discribe. Now as for direction, I'm not too sure and also it would go back to it's original position after it moved. The best discription I could give would be was like a really bright strobe light. Like I said before, it was not an airplane. Also I was looking at this from my bedroom window and I could see this was a brighter star than anything else in the sky. If it is out tonight I definatly would take a video off it and if anyone can explain as to what it is by all means please get back to me.

Date:
2010-Dec-04
Time:
4.10 p.m
Location:
Ballyargus Redcastle Inis Eoghain Donegal
Report:
Looking south towards Derry City from Ballyargus a bright yellow object with a very bright burning tail, a (fireball would be a good description ) appeared low in the horizon and moved across the sky from the east to west. We watched this object for about seven or eight minutes before it disappeared behind the Urris hills north of Buncranna County Donegal.It was still daylight and the sky was clear with some clouds, the object was very bright against the daytime sky.There was no noise associated with the object and we did not see any pieces fall off it.

Date:
2010-Dec-02
Time:
7.11 AM
Location:
M1, East of Junction 9 (Moira Roundabout)
Report:
Very bright fireball in East of Sky just above horizon. Moon and Planet (Venus perhaps) just to the right. Yellow colored, bright, not as bright as said planet. Single bright track initially that broke up into a more diffuse trail and disappeared behind clouds just above horizon. Came in at an angle of about 30-45 degrees to the Horizon moving Right to Left. Btw - I also saw a smaller on yesterday (1st December) in same general direction and around the same time. Don't recall much, but was commuting on the M1, and I think it came in on a more perpendicular track to the horizon.

Date:
2010-Dec-02
Time:
10:30 AM
Location:
lisfannan, co donegal
Report:
It looked like a huge snowball falling a speed behind the mountain - not sure of the name of the mountain google map location : http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buncrana&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.270158,36.518555&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Buncrana,+County+Donegal,+Ireland&ll=55.109874,-7.465081&spn=0,0.035663&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.109794,-7.465201&panoid=ng6MXVU2rHpeefaVapBCfw&cbp=12,124.72,,0,-0.52

Date:
2010-Dec-02
Time:
10:30
Location:
lisfannon, co donegal
Report:
sorry, sending this again with more detail. google location : http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=buncrana&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.270158,36.518555&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Buncrana,+County+Donegal,+Ireland&ll=55.109874,-7.465081&spn=0,0.035663&z=15&layer=c&cbll=55.109794,-7.465201&panoid=ng6MXVU2rHpeefaVapBCfw&cbp=12,124.72,,0,-0.52 - the sky was clear. - I was driving my car, when it caught my eye. It look like a massive snowball. It looked like more like snowball rather than a fireball - as from my point of view it was bright white. - It was falling down behind the mountain from my point of view (based on the google map location). - It was falling a quite at high speed, because as soon as i seen it, i stopped car to take a photo, but it went behind the mountain. - The was a plane in the sky heading the direction the snowball, approx 3-5 mins behind it. thanks Donncha

Date:
2010-Dec-02
Time:
6.05pm
Location:
Tralee, Co Kerry
Report:
I was driving east. It was a bright orange glow, moving at medium speed from the northeast towards a southwest direction, visible for about 4 minutes when it faded from view. Quite high on the horizon. It was not any type of aircraft.

Date:
2010-Dec-01
Time:
approx 6pm
Location:
Crumlin County Antrim
Report:
Large yellow/orange shape moving across the sky from north to west towards the ground at a gradient. The shape was very bright, much brighter than a star or the moon. At first I was not sure if it was something on fire moving across the sky. I did not see it break up or hear any sound. I did not see it fade away, it moved below my view point. In my estimation it would have landed somewhere around lurgan direction.

Date:
2010-Dec-01
Time:
17:25
Location:
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Report:
Orange/Yellow fireball almost directly overhead and heading roughly SW, appeared to break into smaller fragments, with other smaller fireballs appearing on same trajectory. Brightness of objected diminished over duration of about 1 minute (i.e. faded away) as they travelled about a third of the way across the sky from almost overhead towards the horizon. Could not hear any noise due to ambient sounds in college car park.

Date:
2010-Nov-29
Time:
06.45a.m.
Location:
Portnoo area seen from Traighena Bay, North West Donegal
Report:
Large, bright white light (looked like a jelly fish with hanging tendrils - or a domed chandeleir). It appeared to hang in sky for a few seconds then dropped directly down - leaving a residue of white 'shower' light after landing.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:45
Location:
Coleraine
Report:
Direction Facing: West to Northwest Direction the fireball: North to South at angle approx. 20 degrees. Height: 40 degrees start, 20 degrees end. Brightness: Extremely, brighter than full moon. Bright yellow and orange with a green tail. Visible: 2 seconds Tavelled: Less than halfway across the sky. No Noise. Plane in sky travelling from Southeast to Northwest at same time. Disappeared behind roofs of houses.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
between 5.30pm and 6.00pm
Location:
Strabane
Report:
Seen a huge streak of light shooting through the sky. It disappeared behind a house in front of me and then there was a flash. it was moving west. it was visible for a few seconds.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40
Location:
Beltoy Road
Report:
A bright red light with a with white tail shot accross the sky in a westerly directoin. Disapeared behind the forest.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17-40 pm
Location:
orangefield armagh
Report:
a bright light ( fireball ) only 150 to 200 feet high flying quite fast over the houses and gone in a number of seconds.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5pm or thereabouts
Location:
moy area
Report:
fireball blue at front white at the tail

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.45
Location:
Armagh
Report:
A bright fireball shot across this evening's sky north of Armagh,travelling roughly east to west. It appeared from my position to be quite low to the ground, so that at first I thought it was a firework. But its fast and constant speed made me believe it to be a meteor or bolide. I saw it for about 3 or 4 seconds. The fireball was burning brightly with a red or greenish glow; it had a tail.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.50pm
Location:
Shanksbridge, Ballymena, Co.Antrim
Report:
A bright white shooting star with a tail of what appeared like a sparkler, from one end of the sky line to the other (north west to south west) it disappeared behind low lying clouds, about 3times as big as the biggest star in the sky and brighter.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40pm
Location:
Dundonald Co Down
Report:
We Were driving home via Newtownards to Dundonald we had just came of the carriageway when I first noticed what I thought was a shooting star. As it got nearer moving from right to left it looked much larger and was travelling at some speed there were four of us in the car at the time and we kept checking with each other to make sure none of us were seeing things. as it past us our sight was blocked by trees and we were no longer able to find it in the sky.There was no noise as we were listening I just wish I had've been able to get a photograph or video the only way we or i am able to describe it is like a ball of fire. I have been checking the news and on line to see if there had been any reports but have still been unable to find anything I would appreciate any feed back you could offer. yours sincerely Lisa McAlees

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.30
Location:
Larne Road, Carrickfergus
Report:
At first I thought it was a firework or plane but realised it was moving too fast. It looked like a yellow/orange ball travelling from east to west, it had a long tail which looked like a vapour trail. It was low in the sky...

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.40PM
Location:
Whilst travelling from Dromore to Lurgan close to Donaghcloney
Report:
A large, fast and low fireball with a long tail which raced low across the sky from right to left for 10 seconds then appeared to burn out. It was orange with an orange tail and was low enough in the sky to think initially it was a plane, but clearly it was not a plane

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
1730
Location:
Dublin Road Antrim
Report:
Very Fast object in the sky trailing a bright tail of blue and green light heading west towards Lough Neagh over Antrim town. It was in my view for about 5 or 6 seconds then seemed to disappear as it went into the distance

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 6 this evening
Location:
Travelling over Belfast city
Report:
I was sitting out at my office where one of my windows faces the city. Normally i se planes moving up into the sky at night with lights flashing etc. Tonight i just looked up and seen light and for a split second thought that planes bright then i jumped up and seen a large ball shaped object of fire and i ran down the stairs thinking was it someone crashing a plane...by the time i go to the front door there was no sign of it or sound of impact. Many be i am losing my marbles lol But if someone esle has seen it happy days. Ok the fireball was moving from East roughly to West and it was in the same height as the planes would be

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40 hrs GMT
Location:
Manse Road, Castlereagh, East Belfast
Report:
I was facing due North and observed a bright fireball moving from East to West and approx 25deg above the northern horizon. It was much brighter than a bright star and was visible from horizon to horizon for approx 7 seconds. The fireball was bright white and yellow and pieces of it appeared to break off as it approached the western end of its path. No sounds were heard and the fireball disappeared behind a hill to the west of my position. No CCTV footage of my observation is available.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
6.40pm
Location:
Lisnaskea, Co.Fermanagh
Report:
A large Comet-like fireball heading northwards. I actually thought a plane was on fire that was coming into land as it crossed the sky in front of me. To be honest, it was like something out of a film as it blazed across the sky. It must have been fairly close as the ball itself was huge and the tail as far as I could see was maybe three or four times as long again. It was extremely bright as at first I thought it was a firework streaking. There were no sounds but with sound being slower than the speed of light and having gotten into a car after seeing it, I may not have been able to hear it anyway. It did not fade on it's journey and nop pieces fell away. I was standing near the middle of the main street which is quite wide at the Donn Carragh hotel about to get into my car when it's brightness and movement caused me to look up. It travelled from one side to another in a straight continual movement. I had a view of about a quarter of the sky. From a perspective point of view, it was like a fiery football been kicked from one side of the street to the other one hundred yards away if that makes sense.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.40pm
Location:
Lisnaskea, Co.Fermanagh
Report:
A large Comet-like fireball heading northwards. I actually thought a plane was on fire that was coming into land as it crossed the sky in front of me. To be honest, it was like something out of a film as it blazed across the sky. It must have been fairly close as the ball itself was huge and the tail as far as I could see was maybe three or four times as long again. It was extremely bright as at first I thought it was a firework streaking. There were no sounds but with sound being slower than the speed of light and having gotten into a car after seeing it, I may not have been able to hear it anyway. It did not fade on it's journey and nop pieces fell away. I was standing near the middle of the main street which is quite wide at the Donn Carragh hotel about to get into my car when it's brightness and movement caused me to look up. It travelled from one side to another in a straight continual movement. I had a view of about a quarter of the sky. From a perspective point of view, it was like a fiery football been kicked from one side of the street to the other one hundred yards away if that makes sense.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.40pm
Location:
Lisnaskea, Co.Fermanagh
Report:
A large Comet-like fireball heading from a few degrees above East to a Westerly direction. I actually thought a plane was on fire that was coming into land as it crossed the sky in front of me. To be honest, it was like something out of a film as it blazed across the sky. It must have been fairly close as the ball itself was huge and the tail as far as I could see was maybe three or four times as long again. It was extremely bright as at first I thought it was a firework streaking. There were no sounds but with sound being slower than the speed of light and having gotten into a car after seeing it, I may not have been able to hear it anyway. It did not fade on it's journey and nop pieces fell away. I was standing near the middle of the main street which is quite wide at the Donn Carragh hotel about to get into my car when it's brightness and movement caused me to look up. It travelled from one side to another in a straight continual movement. I had a view of about a quarter of the sky. From a perspective point of view, it was like a fiery football been kicked from one side of the street to the other one hundred yards away if that makes sense. Sorry about the two previous submissions as I was in a bit of a hurry.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.45
Location:
OS 1:50000 map 8 grid ref D 097 062 on the M2 Ballymena bypass travelling North
Report:
Observed as we were travelling North a bright shooting star or perhaps a meteorite to the north of us that travelled from east to west apparently at low altitude and with a pronounced bright tail including debris sparks. It then suddenly seemed to burn out. In all my 72 years I have seen many shooting stars but never anything as bright or sustained as this (approximately 2 seconds). My wife also observed it and there was a fair amount of traffic emerging from the A26 at the Northern Exit from Ballymena at the same time. Field of view limited by car windscreen. Was a constant above horizon right over the motorway ie a very flat trajectory. It was as bright and as large as a clear half moon.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.45
Location:
Ballymena
Report:
i literally looked out my kitchen window and seen a really big glowing white ball fly across the sky going horizantly in a southerly direction with a tail that looked bluey purply going at a fast speed..from what i had seen it was in the sky for 3-4 seconds and then it disappeared..it not very high in the sky. it was really bright and alot bigger than a normal star. i seen it travel across the sky about 3/4 of the way. i heard no sound at all

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Sun Nov 28 2010 at 17.43
Location:
Castlebar Co. Mayo
Report:
From NE to W a large green object with a red line under and a small red tail went across the sky rapidly (10-15 secs) and in a linear fashion. No sound. Atmospheric coditions 100% clear and no cloud or moisture (temp -2C). Could it be a decaying satellite. Not a meteorite or a plane. Please advise me as to what it might be. I phoned the control tower at Knock airport and they said it wasn't a plane in their area but they would get in touch with Shannon airport.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.41
Location:
toome
Report:
very bright fireball with long tail, white at front with orange and white tail. lasted about 6-8 seconds and was heading north to north-west. we were heading west and it moved right to left. looked like it was heading for donegal, it went behind low clouds but was still bright. time was 17-41..

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
about 6pm
Location:
co antrin parkgate area /kells /tardree forest
Report:
we saw a large ball of fire very large crossing the clear sky it lasted about 15 sec then 5 sec nothing then another 5 sec burning .it was travelling very quickly. To quick to be an aircraft .the fire was a blue colour like the flame you would get from your gas cooker at home .i was facing south it went right to left the hight was hard to say it looked large as bright as the moon it travelled half way over the horizon

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 1800
Location:
ballyclare
Report:
In our back yard facing roughly north we saw a very bright ball of white light followed by a tail move smoothly across the night sky!! thought it was some sort of fire work at first but covered too much distance. it moved from east to west - towards aldergrove airport (maybe someone there saw it too??)very excited - husband saw it first said the tail had a red colour to it but mostly white. it started higher in the sky but moved lower as it headed west - it was very bright - as bright as a full moon it was visible to us for approx 15 seconds and travelled about half way across the sky before we lost sight - it was not accompanied by any noise and it just seemed to disappear into some cloud cover

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:45
Location:
Portadown
Report:
Was facing NW and saw a bright light which I initially thought was a plane. It then absorbed my attention as I realized it was giving off orange/blue flames and breaking apart. It was very low in the sky and was travelling horizontally from right to left. Lasted around 10 seconds. There was no noise from it.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 18:00
Location:
Lurgan, (BT66 7DF)
Report:
While putting the bin out last night (Sunday), I noticed what looked like a fireball going across the sky. It had a bright orange / yellow body and tail. It also looked like there was smoke coming from the tail. It flew across the night sky at around 1000 feet for quite some distance getting lower in the sky all the time eventually disappearing below the houses and school off in the distance. At the time, I would probably have been facing an northerly direction while the thing I saw was heading from the east to west of my position. It was visible for approx 20-30 seconds

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:45
Location:
Dundonald Belfast East
Report:
While looking in a Westerly direction I observed a bright fireball moving across the sky in a southerly direction. There was some breakup of the object and it remained visible for about five seconds until my view of it was obscured by the Castlereagh hills. It was much brighter than any star.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.45
Location:
Donnybrook, Dublin.
Report:
I was in Donnybrook, Dublin, 53.32021 N,6.219807 W Facing north, I saw a very bright object (-11 to -13 magnitude) travelling in a Northeast to West Direction. At first it had a tail and was glowing white. This changed to red and at that point streaks of red started coming from the main object. It very quickly turned green and the tail grew very small. It stayed green until it disappeared. It was travelling quite slowly. Initial Azimuth was about 45' and Initial Altitude was about 25'. Final Azimuth was 300' or less and Final Altitude was about 10/15' above the horizon. There was no terminal flash or sonic affects associated with the object. It disappeared low on the horizon.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40
Location:
85 Battlehill Road, Portadown, Co. Armagh, BT62 4ET
Report:
Large "Fireball" striking across sky in the direction of Dungannon, passing from right to left (Heading towards Armagh). Seemed quite low in the sky,(at first thought it was an airplane) compared to normal meteor strikes. Had the appearance of a mini comet, moving very fast, with a flickering tail / trail. Sighting lasted for approximately 5 seconds, before burning out.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 5:45pm I was driving so can't be sure.
Location:
West Antrim on hill overlooking Lough Neagh/Beg/ Sperrins
Report:
Ball appeared in North and streaked across sky in approx. ENE to WSW direction, very oblique shallow trajectory. Green colouration at times. Visible 5-8 secs. I was driving almost due west, appeared in drivers window and disappeared behind westerly cloud bank over the Sperrins. The fireball was low, I'd guess lower that Ursa Major in the sky at that time, perhaps cutting the middle of it (I didn't see it at the time!) Very bright, less that Sirius I would say, similar to Moon, but fuzzier. Also it was cloaked somewhat with thin cloud which would have affected brightness.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.30 approx
Location:
Dundrum, Dublin 14
Report:
A large bright green coloured ball going from right to left across the sky quite low down which faded out after about 4 or 5 seconds. I was driving from Dundrum Bridge towards Churchtown

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 8pm
Location:
45 Ballymacnab Rd Co Armagh
Report:
we saw a very bright green coloured flame in the sky travelling in a south westerly direction at very high speed. The sighting only lasted 3 to 4 seconds. It seemed to be very low in the sky about small air craft hieght.it disappered in the south westerly horizon.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.45pm
Location:
Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
Report:
I was driving from Thurles to Borrisoleigh in Tipperary and just as I was driving in to Borrisoleigh I saw a fireball travelling from East to West at a high speed. It had a long red tail and was a very bright white in the front. It looked like it was going to hit the ground but it disentegrated in the atmosphere. It looked to be travelling at a height of a low flying airplane. It seemed to be slighlty brighter than a large bright star. It travelled across almost half the sky. It seemed to fade in the sky as it dipped towards the surface.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.40hrs
Location:
traveling between Milltown and Ballindine in Co Mayo
Report:
Iwas facing north and the fireball went from east to west It did not appear to be high difficult to estimate it was like a rocket with a burning tail disappeared into a cloud on my left

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40
Location:
G766794, Castletown, Dunkineely, County Donegal
Report:
My location at the time of the sighting; G766794, Castletown, Dunkineely, County Donegal I was walking at the above location on a bearing of 226degrees approx and I saw a bright green light (sort of phosphorescent colour) off to my right, which was much brighter than a full moon. Once it caught my attention, I saw it for about 1.5 - 2 seconds. I estimate that it was travelling on a bearing of about 210degrees and at about the height of a small low flying aircraft. It seemed to be decreasing in altitude at about 5-10degrees to the horizontal It seemed to be travelling much faster than an aircraft but much slower than a 'shooting star' It seemed to be slowing and then it completely extinguished - It didn't break up, it just went out. It disappeared somewhere at about 255degrees to my position and 30degrees above ground level. It was a clear night and I had a clear view of the fireball. There was no sound from it at any stage. I know these things are subjective but if it continued on its original trajectory I think it would have come down towards the end of Benroe (near Carntullagh head) or in Donegal Bay

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:40
Location:
Coming into Coleraine from Bushmills
Report:
A very bright ball shape with sparks (possibly pieces) coming off it. It looked to be coming down at high speed

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5 40pm
Location:
Portstewart
Report:
I was in Flower Field Arts Centre Park with my dog on Sunday evening.I was watching a plane overhead flying northwest when this huge fireball shot across the sky in a westerly direction,or maybe slightly south westerly.It appeared to be about the size of the moon with a very long tail and much brighter than anything I have ever seen in the sky before. It seemed to be on a lower altitude than the lights of the plane I was watching.It was bright white with a yellowy orange tail.It was travelling very fast, I watched it for about four seconds until it disappeared out of sight towards the direction of the River Bann. It was an amazing sight

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Around 5.15 Sunday evening
Location:
Millfield Ballymena
Report:
My son and I were sitting in our front living room. In front of our house is a massive green, all of a sudden above this field was a bright white light, it lit up the whole green and the sky. There was a helicopter in the sky at the time, my son thought it may have been the spot light from the helicopter,but it's spot light would have not lit up the sky and field like that. After a few seconds it was over. I then looked out and the whole front was covered like a thick fog we could see nothing up the field, then after few seconds it cleared. All my son and I witnessed was a very bright light, and a weird fog. Fsonya517@aol.com

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Early (evening dark)
Location:
Cullybackey - Portglenone
Report:
not sure if it was 27th or 28th sitting watching tv seen out of a Northerly window huge flash like lighting or a pole transformer flashing over it may or may not be linked. Sorry no cctv camera.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
IN AROUND 5.30 SUNDAY
Location:
LISNASKEA
Report:
A BALL OF LIGHT [RED-ORANGE]WITH A TAIL WHICH WOULD RESEMBLE A FIREWORK.BOTH MY SON AND MYSELF HAD ABOUT 10 SECONDS OF VIEWING OF IT, WHILE WATCHING IT I NOTICED A SMALL PART COME OF IT THEN NOT LONG AFTER IT STARTED DYING OUT.THE DIRECTION IT WAS HEADING IN SEEMED TO BE FROM N-E TO S-W. MAGUIRES-BRIDGE TO A DERRYLIN DIRECTION FROM RIGHT TO LEFT WITH NO NOISE HOPES THIS HELPS.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
16:45ish
Location:
Dromore
Report:
Very bright orange light in the sky, looked at it for a moment and disregarded it it for an unusually bright plane so I looked away, looked back a few seconds later and it was gone. No low lying clouds so it could not have suddenly went behind anything. Looked for it in the surrounding sky for at least 2 minutes but to no avail.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Around 6pm
Location:
Bushmills - moving from east to west
Report:
I saw a round yellow/orange ball travelling fairly fast from the direction of the sea (east) inland (to the west).

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
MID EVENING
Location:
OLD MILL PARK, DUNDONALD
Report:
A VERY LARGE BRIGHT STAR WITH AN ORANGE FLAME BEHIND. IT APPEARED TO BE VERY CLOSE TO THE HOUSES BEHIND MINE

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.40 / 17.45 Sunday 28th Nov
Location:
Clonmore Road, Clonmore, Armagh BT71 6NB
Report:
I was out walking with my 2 sons when one said 'look daddy, a shooting star' when I looked up there was a bright fireball in the sky, West/south west direction, moving north to south in direction. It had a long bright tail. We watched it for about 30 seconds until it disappeared from view low in the sky. It looked as though it had burned up or gone to ground. Never saw anything like it before. Hard to explain the size but if compare the moon to the diameter of a dinner plate this would have been a cup.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17:45 -> 18:00
Location:
Driving up Whiterock road, Belfast
Report:
I was driving up the whiterock road in Belfast at this time on sunday evening, when I seen a large green ball with a long tail flash across the sky - It came from north or north east and was moving west. While the the ball resembled a very bright firework, it was moving very fast and went further than a firework would be expected to and was a lot larger. It appeared to be very low in the sky.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
between 5 30pm and 6pm
Location:
out my front window
Report:
Looking out my window towards the west I saw a ball of orange tailing to yellow with a trail of yellow behind it moved from high in the sky down west. Bigger and brighter than a star. Disappearing behind houses.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
roughly 6pm
Location:
glassagh gweedore co donegal
Report:
2 of us witnesses what looked like bright green glowing fire work falling fast from sky. lots of people in donegal witnessed it in our area. it fell down into ocean off gweedore nth west donegal. was beside the ocean when it happened. we were facin the atlantic 5 seconds exactly like firework green like lime colour blue orange behind

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.41
Location:
Bolton, UK
Report:
Driving along the dark unlit M61 motorway near Bolton, England, heading North-West, at 17.40, I noticed a white point of light appear in the sky in front but slightly to the right of me in the distance, at approx. my 1 o'clock, about 20deg above the horizon. It was quite dim at first (I noticed it because it was moving quickly, not because it was bright). It moved quite quickly, from right to left, in a straight line, disappearing behind trees at the left side of the motorway at approx my 11 o'clock). As it moved across the sky it got brighter - when it was about half way across (right in front of me) it was about as bright as Jupiter is in the night sky at the moment, and had started to develop a tail/trail with 'sparks' flying off it as it disappeared behind trees on the left side of the motorway. I heard no sound (I was in a car), and I didn't see any colour, it was just bright white. It was in view for about 6 seconds. I believed this to be a meteor and when I got home I had a quick look on Twitter and saw other people had reported it, mainly in Ireland, and today I came across the story on the BBC news website linking to your site, so I thought you might be interested in my report.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
8pm on sunday 28th november
Location:
derry
Report:
what looked like a firework that was in the sky that moved at high speed it was red with blue from the back and was out of site within 4 seconds

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Approx 5.40
Location:
Randalstown exit on m2
Report:
an orange ball of fire travelling from roughly belfast towards londonderry

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Approx 5.40
Location:
Randalstown exit on m2
Report:
an orange ball of fire travelling from roughly belfast towards londonderry

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Between 5pm and 5.30pm
Location:
East Belfast
Report:
I walked out of my house (my house faces West) to witness a bright white fireball with a multicoloured though predominately blue trail. the trail was not particuarly long but was quite thick. It was low in the sky and was travelling from N/E to S/WW roughly. The rate of decent was approx 20 degrees and it travelled quite slowly compared to a shooting star. It may already have been visable before I saw it but it lasted for about 5 seconds. I was able to see the fireball appear to fizzle out before it was obscured by a row of houses. The point at which it appeared to fizzle out would have to have been over the greater Belfast area. There was no sound and it did not break up into seperate fireballs. If I had to guess where it would of landed I would say around Lough Neagh or further West.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
Approx. 17:00 - 18:00
Location:
Derry - just North of City
Report:
I was clearing snow from my car when I noticed a light in the sky. At first I thought it might be a firework but its trajectory was too straight. I was facing approximately West at the time and the object appeared to be travelling to a point just South of West at about 60-70 degrees above Horizon. The sky appeared foggy, though it wasn't foggy at ground level, but the object could be clearly seen and appeared to be at the approximate height of a light aircraft but it's hard to judge, likely to be much higher if it was also seen in Tipperary! The object appeared to be a bright white light with a tail, similar in size to about 3 or 4 planet Venus. The tail appeared to emit 1 or 2 bright off-shoots which quickly burnt out. It was clear in the sky when I first saw it and it disappeared behind some houses. There were no associated sounds. I would estimate it was visible for 3-5 seconds. I would guess I saw it travel across 1/5 of sky. Hope this is of some use.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
5.45pm
Location:
Mallow Road, Rathduff, Co. Cork
Report:
I was driving northwards on the Mallow Road in County Cork when I spotted a large orange light travelling across the sky, it was travelling a lot faster than a plane and was much bigger so I pulled car over and observed for a few seconds, all of a sudden it appeared to explode into a bright white light before disintegrating into a small green ball and falling to ground North West direction. Two hours later I saw three orange lights blazing across the sky and called another person to witness it, these in my opinion appeared to be lanterns, it may have been coincidental. It was a very cold but clear night so visibility was good. I reported this to astronomy Ireland about an hour after incident on Sunday night.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
approx 6pm
Location:
Dunmurry Belfast
Report:
meteor trailing across the sky, blue and green. Extinguished and then re-ignited. Wonderful ! I was facing North, object was travelling West. Brightest meteor I have seen this year. It moved across the sky and finally disappeared over the western hills. Pieces were falling off it ,like a sparkler !

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
between 17.30 and 17.45
Location:
on the road to Moira, just turned in of the carriageway
Report:
moving from right to left,travelling at considerable speed and lasted about 15 seconds. An extremely bright object, may not have been an orb at all. Very clear night allowed for excellent display, a prominent tail of green/blue then into bright red. A fairly flat trajectory more than the planets curviture, but not by much. It is my understanding that space debris comes in at a much tighter entry, to ensure burn up, before surface impact.My brother Christopher,(he was driving) and myself had a very good view after making a brisk halt. We were facing NW but silenced by distance. Absolutely fantastic, lucky if it is once in a lifetime. Had to report it.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
evening
Location:
Enniskillen
Report:
what I thought first was a helicopter. but too bright and was not flashing. I thought then a meteorite, it had a green/blue colour, short tail behind it, and I was coming out of Enniskillen just off the bridge onto the Sligo road heading Belcoo direction and the meteorite seemed to travel from my right to my left. then it disappeared. hard to say how hight, as it did not look that big to me. unfortunately no chance of a photo on my mobile. P.

Date:
2010-Nov-28
Time:
17.40
Location:
North of Claregalway on Tuam Road
Report:
Driving North saw directly in front at about 25-30degrees elevation what appeared to be a bright orange-white firework, with a short thin vapour trail, it was travelling from east to west. observed for about 10secs before got obscured by trees. It was moving much slower than other fireballs I have seen in the past. Only discivered yesterday when talking ot a collegue that it was a fireball.!

Date:
2010-Nov-17
Time:
19:17
Location:
Travelling NW along Markethill Road towards Armagh. 2 minutes outside Markethill
Report:
I was travelling NW by car. The object appeared slightly to the right of my direction of travel, halfway between NW and the Plough. The object travelled parallel to my direction of travel and seemed to move down across the sky. Due to the restricted visibility of the car windscreen the object appeared low in the sky, perhaps 30 degrees above the horizon and it descended through 5 degrees before disappearing. It was about as big as one quarter the size of a full moon at its biggest and shone as brightly for a brief time. It appeared to me to have a slight green colour for a time, certainly not red or blue. It took just over one second for it to brighten from a small point of light to its maximum. After the maximum it promptly disappeared into nothing, well above the horizon. No sounds were heard (perhaps due to the car) and the object seemed to remain intact as I observed it.

Date:
2010-Nov-17
Time:
about 5 /6 weeks ago
Location:
in the east above the rising sun at 7 20 to 8 o clock am
Report:
i see a serious amount of fire balls come through the atmostphere nine infact on that day and again about a week later at the same time they were like small fire balls and once through the atmostphere they had small tails on them and travelling very fast

Date:
2010-Nov-15
Time:
approx. 17.30hours
Location:
Bleary, Co.Armagh
Report:
I was out walking my dog last night when I noticed a bright light in the sky, looking up I saw it for about 3/5second. What really got my attention was the fact it was very bright and was like a fireball. After which it disappeared, went out.... I was on Bleary road just coming to Deans road. All in the sky was the Moon and a single star. The shooting star/Fireball was going from the northwest to the southeast direction. It appeared to be heading in the direction towards the Mournes It travelled across about a quarter of the sky before disappearing from my sight. No sounds. No brake up or pieces falling off. It disappeared high in the sky. It appeared to be very close to the earth. I've seen shooting stars in the sky before but this appeared closer than I had ever seen before. I would be interested to know if anyone else saw this event also. email: rongemmell@hotmail.co.uk

Date:
2010-Nov-15
Time:
Approx 5pm-5.30pm
Location:
Belfast
Report:
What i thought was a shooting star,it lasted around 1-2secs,seem to happen instantly with no movement around it,it travelled around 1/4 distance across the sky then dissappeared,there was no sounds,i noticed it easily enough,it was travelling left to right,i seen nothing before or after this.

Date:
2010-Nov-13
Time:
1835
Location:
Cosford, Shropshire
Report:
Facing S. Fireball travelled W to E. First seen 45 degrees over W horizon. Faded at zenith. A slow moving dull orange fire ball, apparent size approx 1/4 of the size of a full moon, visible for 3-4 secs broke into 5 or 6 pieces that stayed close together and faded.

Date:
2010-Nov-11
Time:
a few weeks ago at night
Location:
Lawrencetown Co Armagh
Report:
I thought it was a plane but it was an orange glow and flickered. Sometimes it was bright and sometimes not so much. It seemed to be in the sky rather than further awat and i though it looked like aplane on fire which was abit of a worry. there was no noise do i thought it was a lantern. was weird cos it looked liek it was moving slowly. I watvhed it dissapear. didnt film it. Was facing north east and it moved from my right actoss to my left. It was visible for about 5-8 mins and travelled right across the sky. i am un clear on the date. Id kind of dissaperaed behind a hill.

Date:
2010-Nov-01
Time:
06.30
Location:
Between Whitehead and Carrickfergus adjacent to Kilroot Power Station on main A2
Report:
A very bright low fireball. Intense light with a trailing tail. The object was glowing orange blue and yellow. It travelled in the direction of Belfast lough. I was travelling in my car from Whitehead towards Carrickfergus. As I approached the salt mines on this section I observed this travelling generally south

Date:
2010-Oct-31
Time:
19:43
Location:
Newry city
Report:
I'm not sure it was a fireball,but a bright red,orange object was in the sky towards the south I also seen it the night before but it was towards the north of the sky..after a while about 15 mins it jus disappeared

Date:
2010-Oct-30
Time:
22.05pm
Location:
ashford ave ,bangor
Report:
series of about 6 red/orange lights as if on fire travelling across the sky i think they travelled south west /north east ? lasted about 5 to 10 mins till they disappeared from sight

Date:
2010-Oct-26
Time:
Around 7pm
Location:
Newtownards
Report:
This is the 3rd time I've seen something like this, the last occasion was in Newtownards. A ball of fire going perfectly straight over our head into the horizon. We have sent this twice before in Crossgar, but it was a good distance away. The one in Ards was very low, and was basically a burning ball. There was so sound, or sign of pieces falling off.

Date:
2010-Oct-17
Time:
around 1900
Location:
Belfast
Report:
Large orange/red light travelling SE No navigation lights visible. Larger glow than aircraft lights. Disappearedbehind cloud cover around three quarters distance across the sky.

Date:
2010-Oct-17
Time:
22:45
Location:
tandragee road lurgan
Report:
i saw a large fire ball travelling quite fast towards the east as i was driving along road once it got close to where the moon was positioned it seems to get less visible before disappearing.

Date:
2010-Oct-16
Time:
approx. 20.30 pm
Location:
225 Cliftonville Road
Report:
A large bright red/orange fireball flying across the sky shedding flames and pieces as it went.There was no sound, the trajectory was higher than aircraft passing in and out of the airports and seemed "flatter"and brighter than a rocket or pyrotechnic such as a flare. It passed out of sight rather than burned out. it passed west to east right to left approx. from my 8.o'clock position to heading towards 3.o'clock position if north is 12 o'clock. a mixed description I know but there was so many people screaming about it it was hard to write down details at the time I hope this helps, the children and I usually watch the meteors this was a different colour but heading in the same direction as those from my viewing point.it was there and gone before we had a chance to get a camera or sight on it.

Date:
2010-Oct-15
Time:
8.34pm
Location:
Lurgan Co Armagh
Report:
I was out in my back garden and saw a large bright orange ball moving across the sky. My two children also came saw it. It was moving very slowly but looked very unusual and unlike aircraft.

Date:
2010-Oct-15
Time:
19.10
Location:
magheralin
Report:
orange bright light in the sky it seemed to get bigger and then it moved to the side and got smaller and disappeared.

Date:
2010-Oct-15
Time:
19.00
Location:
ring road armagh city
Report:
I was driving out the killylea road (NW) when i seen a very bright orange ball in the sky to my left over the armagh gaa pitch heading in the direction of the city hotel from were i was it appeared to be the size of tennis ball and by the time i got to my house in tullymore downs behind the gaa pitch which was about 1min 30 seconds later from my first sighting i could no longer see it.

Date:
2010-Oct-12
Time:
approx 8pm
Location:
Newtownhamilton
Report:
What looked like a Bright orange ball came slowly across the sky on the west side of the house just above very tall trees outside the back of my house. Went towards the left and slowly dissapeared. Must have been very slow moving as my husband had been out on the other side of the house and was watching it with some local children. Didn;t hear any noise.Was frightend at first thought it was an aircraft on fire.It was bright orange and bigger than Venus which to me is the biggest star {planet] I can see

Date:
2010-Oct-10
Time:
1030 BST
Location:
Bangor, Co, Down
Report:
I'd been sitting in my living room (in Bangor) on the laptop and noticed something an orangey colour in the sky. At first I thought it may have been a Chinese lantern but it was travelling too fast, but not as fast as a shooting star. It's tail was only about half the length of the fireball. Infact i actually thought I was seeing things and went outside to the front of my house which faces approximately north. It was travelling from my right to my left in a straight line, and NOT towards earth, but across it. I called my son who said he'd never seen one as big. I've never seen one at all. My friends don't believe me.

Date:
2010-Oct-10
Time:
8.02 p.m.
Location:
Glengormley, co. antrim
Report:
My brother and I were setting up our telescopes when I saw this bright orange-red object in the sky. We thought it was a plane on its way to Aldergrove, but it was totally the wrong colour. We watched it for maybe a minute and then it disappeared directly above us. There was no sound, it just extinguished abruptly. But the REALLY ODD thing is that when I pressed my watch light-button, it was 2 minutes past eight. Two hours later than the sightings I've been looking at on the internet. So this must have been a separate piece of the original object - but two hours later!? It vanished directly overhead, (neck craned up) just below or at the constellation Cassiopeia. It was quite awesome.

Date:
2010-Oct-10
Time:
20.02
Location:
Glengormley
Report:
An orange glowing light which was heading towards me from the east going west which lasted about 10 seconds, passed through cassiopeia and disappeared. No trail or sound. About 15 degrees above the horizon when first seen and about 30 degrees when it disappeared.It was not as bright as Jupiter much larger and glowed orange. Saw it travel about halfway across the sky.

Date:
2010-Oct-10
Time:
0132 UTC
Location:
Glenshane Pass
Report:
A bright green light lit the interior of my vehicle over the course of about one second, originating from above front and terminating to above right (I was travelling in a roughly south easterly direction) and terminating abruptly with a brighter green flash. On looking out of the side window I observed a luminescent pale green trail against the stars, (like a moonlit aircraft contrail but there was no moon) from approximately overhead to approximately 45 degrees elevation travelling on a track from north to south. The trail faded over approximately 20 seconds.

Date:
2010-Sep-26
Time:
9 pm
Location:
Finaghy. Belfast
Report:
We were travelling south. We saw a bright orange ball in the sky which we realised was getting larger. We realised that it actually appeared to be a ball of fire with bits fo fire falling from it. We were driving up Finaghy Road South,and turned right into Erinvale Estate. The object was travelling on our left side towards us. We were so amazed at what we saw we pulled in to watch it. It was travelling As it was getting lower the flames were extinguishing towards us on our left hand side. We drove up to our house and parked . When we got out we could smell burning and saw a grey, black ball, about the size of a football, rolling slowly earthwards. It started as high as the stars and the last we saw it passed over the rooftops and out of sight. This all lasted over 10mins. It was totally amazing.

Date:
2010-Sep-21
Time:
21:15
Location:
In the northern sky
Report:
I got a call from my father who had first noticed this 'streak' at around 21:10. We live just outside the village of Belleek (approx 7 miles NW of Newry, Co.Down). What I observed was a bright, motionless, pale, hazy streak in the North sky. It was very noticeable even though there was patchy cloud and very few stars could be seen. It appeared to be vertical (North South aligned) and between 1 and 2cm long when observed through your fingers at arms length. The colour was a blueish white. It's position remained exactly the same over the 15 minutes I observed it until it faded away to nothing. It did not appear to flicker or pulsate as you would see in a showing of the Northern Lights, nor could I observe any other associated 'streaks'. There was a break in the clouds around where this streak could be observed and while difficult to make out, it did seem like there were some faint clouds nearby which appeared distorted or in an rough downward facing fan shape. The streak did not distort in any noticeable way to the east or west while I observed it. By unfocusing my eyes slightly I believe I could make out a star within the streak approximately two-thirds way down from the top of the streak (another star was clearly visible slightly west of the object, 10 to 15cm at arms length). The moon was quite bright, above and behind me, still slightly east and was visible through the broken clouds. I would say that this streak to the North was not as luminous as the moon, perhaps half so, but it was also very obvious, and the brightest object visible in the North sky. The streak was also observed by a friend of ours who lives just outside Keady. To a degree, this reminded me of some of the photographs taken after some recent high altitude exploding fireballs over Canada and Sudan (I think it was Sudan), the main difference was that the path of the trail (if that is what it was) in this instance was not erratic like those I've mentioned, nor was there any sign of a terminating point which you might say was where the object 'exploded'. I should also mention that there was (at least from where I was observing) clear sky above and below the streak. I would be very interested to know if you have recieved any similar reports from last night. I understand you guys are extremely busy (I worked in the observatory with Dr. Jan DeGroot for a summer many years ago) but if you could get back to me sometime it would be greatly appreciated.

Date:
2010-Sep-11
Time:
8:00-9:00 pm
Location:
Southern NY
Report:
I was looking in the southern sky between eight and nine o'clock pm. What I saw was a dim object, traveling at a constant speed, getting brighter and brighter. At first it looked like a plane, but as it got brighter and escalated to a pulse like flash I realized it couldn't have been. The objects flight path was moving south east, visible for about six centimeters of the night sky, quickly fading out of sight after the half a second long flash. The object stayed intact and was visible for about three seconds. No sounds, the flash got about 1/4 as bright as a full moon.

Date:
2010-Sep-03
Time:
3:25am
Location:
Derry
Report:
A blue light going through the sky in a straight line, leaving a light trail and dissapearing before it even went into the horizon. 2 of us witnessed this.

Date:
2010-Sep-03
Time:
22.01pm
Location:
Cloughcor strabane
Report:
my son reported to me that spomething was on fire in the sky when i went outside i saw what initially appeared to be a flare type light in the sky which was quite obvious and of a good size, it was bright red with a tail of smoke above it as it was coming down to earth, it quickly went out of view in the landscape. There was also a light in the sky moving away from this like a helicopter or a plane hence the panic we had calling 999. we were facing towards derry when we saw it (n) and it was much biggewr and brighter than any star, visible for about 6 secs or so, no sound was heard thank you

Date:
2010-Aug-25
Time:
around 9.45 pm
Location:
craigavon co armagh
Report:
bright light at first moving closer then it looked like flame and as it got higher and going away from us it would remind u off the burner off a rocket it seemed to get higher and higher till it burned out or disappeared we watched it for at least 7 minutes

Date:
2010-Aug-24
Time:
11.30pm
Location:
Loughros point,Ardara,Donegal
Report:
Very bright object(brighter than the full moon,which had lit up the area like daylight) It emerged from the east and travelled south-west,I was facing south-east. The object seemed to be travelling fairly fast,but I was able to see it clearly and it dissapeared behind a hill/mountain. It wasn't above my head and I seen it face on at a fairly normal level of vision. It didn't break up and there wasn't any noise,it was visible approx 4 seconds.

Date:
2010-Aug-23
Time:
12.00pm and 10.25pm
Location:
Over Derry City
Report:
Bright orange coloured balls of light, low across the sky...appeared to be going northwards, thought it was a helicopter or plane, but no sound. Lasted about a minute...maybe less and then just seemed to fizzle out in the sky.Observed on both occassions by myself and my father.

Date:
2010-Aug-21
Time:
02;15
Location:
between omagh and ballygawley on a5 road just before kellys inn
Report:
wo, orange fireballs,not together, one after another, about 30 secs space between them i was going in the direction of ballygawley, they were something i had never seen before, having seen falling stars, and meteor showers,they disappeared behind a hill, i did'nt hear any sounds or cracking, they were moving right to left,

Date:
2010-Aug-19
Time:
12.00pm and 10.25pm
Location:
Over Derry City
Report:
Bright orange coloured balls of light, low across the sky...appeared to be going northwards, thought it was a helicopter or plane, but no sound. Lasted about a minute...maybe less and then just seemed to fizzle out in the sky.Observed on both occassions by myself and my father.

Date:
2010-Aug-13
Time:
Approx 22.15
Location:
1.5 miles west of Larne town centre
Report:
It was bright orange, similar in brightness to a full moon so may have been a piece of space junk such as a Cosmos rocket. It was travelling approximately WNW to ESE and parallel to the earth's surface so not falling. Visible for about 25 to 30 seconds travelling about two thirds of the sky but then disappeared behind cloud. No sound or break up.

Date:
2010-Aug-12
Time:
00:19 & 00:57
Location:
Blackrock Castle Observatory
Report:
2 meteors. 1st at 00:19 east to west across Ursa Major 2nd at 00:57 travelling NE to SW

Date:
2010-Aug-12
Time:
11 34 11 35 pm.
Location:
garden 5 maryville road bangor co down bt203rh
Report:
facing south right to left sw to se fireball first observed near altair aquila about 45 degrees above horizon travelling to 5 degrees a.horizon in south east... seen for 8 seconds . yellow orange colour .size half that of full moon. no tail.. flames visible....travelled more than half way across sky ... no sound no break up.. it did not fade ,disapeared over south east horizon ..photographed with 15million pixel camera altitude 50 000 ft..missed belfast by 12 miles mass.10,000 tons JUDGING BY INERSIA methinks a small asteroid ,if so A VERY NEAR MISS...CECIL MCCARTNEY 18.5INCH NGT REFLECTOR.. THE VECTOR WAS SIMILAR TO THAT OF A JUMBO JET...

Date:
2010-Aug-10
Time:
21:30
Location:
in western sky
Report:
A large fireball moving west towards horizon. It appeared a bright orange colour in the evening sun. Flames were observed through a telescope for about 15 minutes.

Date:
2010-Aug-07
Time:
2240
Location:
Co. Louth
Report:
Facing South (no compass) Fireball direction: Straight Down Height of fireball from start to finish: Travelled apx.length of little finger at arms length. VERY bright white then glowed a bright green when broke up. Visible for a second or 2 No sounds (I was outside and it was quiet) broke off into at least 3 pieces, only started to glow green after breakup. started and finished in sky, didnt see it go behind or infront of anything. If you need any more info I will try to help as best I can! :)

Date:
2010-Aug-07
Time:
09-10pm
Location:
Newtownards
Report:
hi, on sat 7th aug 2010 there was a bright light to the west, dropping down behind the hills of belfast. can anyone possibly tell me what this might have been? i live the far side of newtownards up high were we able to watch this facinationg object. this happened roughly 9-10pm.

Date:
2010-Jun-26
Time:
9:00 PM Eastern time
Location:
Knoxville, TN
Report:
I saw a large purple-blue object fly across the sky for maybe 10-15 seconds before fading away to nothing, however it was already moving before I looked up and saw it. I am not sure that it was a fireball, but some of the other reports sounded similar to what I saw. It was moving north west in basically a straight line. From where I stood, it looked about the size of a basketball. It was about 40 degrees high, but that's just a guess. It was very bright, but sort of hazy and not quite as bright as the moon. I did not hear any sounds.

Date:
2010-Jun-24
Time:
approximately 20:30 EDT
Location:
Schnecksville, PA 18078 USA
Report:
Observation Point Latitude: 40Â° 38' 36'' N Observation Point Longitude: 75Â° 38' 56'' W Direction Observer Facing: West Direction of Fireball Travel: ESE to W Fireball Height at Start of Travel: ~60 deg Fireball Height at Highest Point: ~80 deg Fireball Height at End of Travel: ~40 deg Brightness: 2x to 3x of brightest stars Visible Period: approx 2 to 3 sec Transit Distance: approx 75% of celestial dome Sounds: Muffled Bang after 10 to 15 min Break-up: Orange flames with blue, several pieces breaking off End-of-Travel Characteristic: Fade to Nothing

Date:
2010-May-30
Time:
1 AM ON SUNDAY MORNING
Location:
NEWCASTLE CO. DOWN N.I.
Report:
4 LARGE FIREBALLS CROSSING SKY PROBABLY FROM WEST TO EAST 2 AT A TIME WITHIN MINUTES OF EACH OTHER THEY WERE BRIGHT ORANGY RED FLAMES AND SEEMED TO BE NOT FAR ABOVE THE TREES IT WAS VISIBLE FOR AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO US IE MYSELF AND ANOTHER CARE ASSISTANT DOING NIGHT DUTY AT A NURSING HOME IN NEWCASTLE THEY TRAVELLED RIGHT ACROSS THE SKY .WE WERNT ABLE TO WATCH FOR LONG AS WE HAD TO GO BACK IN WE WERE AMAZED AS WE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO AMAZING B4 I WOULD BE GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD LET ME KNOW WHAT THESE UFOS WERE

Date:
2010-May-30
Time:
oo.05am
Location:
omagh
Report:
myself and 3 others witnessed 5 orange lights all following the same coarse in the sky tonight .all faded in exactly the same spot.there were no trails no noise just bright orange lights.we tried to photo this and take a video on our phones but didnt succeed in getting anything solid.but what came up on the video was strange.seemed like several lights roaming over the screen at once.very strangethe sky was m,ostly clear but these didnt seem to be rather high and definetly wasnt any form of aeorplane

Date:
2010-May-23
Time:
22.35ish
Location:
Glenholm Park, fourwinds, Belfast.
Report:
Due to being within a flight path I am used to seeing planes coming in to land etc, however this light was extremely orange and was the wrong colour/shape/size/speed for a plane. The light moved quite slowly towards the back of my house, at quite a height, similar to that of a plane, but appeared to get slightly lower as it moved. It continued in the direction towards Belfast city centre, however was not as far as that, it was then roughly over the top of the houses in my street. I rang my mother and she and friends seen the same thing also. The light continued for about 2 minutes, then stopped, and moved backwards in the OPPOSITE direction. Then after a short period of time continued in the original direction. After about another minute the light appeared much smaller, and then abrubtly disappeared. The light was rather large, a firey orange colour, similar to that of a street light, and was just as bright. It was at a height similar to that of a plane in descent.

Date:
2010-Apr-30
Time:
TEN PAST TEN
Location:
ARDBOE MOVING WEST SOUTH FADING
Report:
STAR MOVING WEST SOUTH THEN FADING DID'NT DROP NO NOISE

Date:
2010-Apr-20
Time:
@ 9pm
Location:
Co Down -From Crawfordsburn looking west -towards Belfast area
Report:
arge Bright light - looked through a low powered telescope but could clearly see red flaming edges -thought it was a planes lights, but due to fly ban had a second look. It was visible for well over an hour and moved right to Left. Much brighter than star or moon, phoned the radio station, but never heard it mentioned again. over the 1 hour we watched it it appeared to get smaller (or maybe it was just getting further from us!) no noise -surprised at how slow it moved. would be interested to hear if anyone else spotted it.

Date:
2010-Apr-17
Time:
10.10PM APPROX.
Location:
ROSTREVOR
Report:
AN ORANGE GLOW LIGHT, TRAVELLING FROM EAST TO WEST AND THEN CHANGED DIRECTION TO SOUTH. I WAS STANDING OUTSIDE MY HOUSE WHEN I SAW THE ORANGE LIGHT COME FROM THE EAST TO WEST OVER THE VILLAGE OF ROSTREVOR THEN IT CHANGED DIRECTION TOWARDS THE SOUTH OVER CARLINGFORD LOUGH UNTIL I COULD NO LONGER SEE IT. VISABLE FOR APPROX. 3-4 MIN.

Date:
2010-Apr-16
Time:
2230 approx
Location:
new forest hampshire- A31 to Burley road grid ref 50.845072, -1.723151
Report:
I was standing outside the car facing south when in my peripheral vision something bright caught my attention. I turned to view it, facing roughly southwest. I saw a very bright green meteor. It had the characteristics of a green flame with a white centre. It was very bright, being as bright as a struck match. It was travelling from right to left as I looked at it. I guessed its angle of descent was about 60 degrees from horizontal. Size was very difficult to judge as I had no idea of its distance from me, although it did not appear to be very distant. I would say it was about 40% as big as the moon last night. It lasted for about 5 or 6 seconds, before disappearing below the treeline. When I first saw the meteor it was high in the night sky, coming from roughly west. I was looking at angle of approx 45 degrees following it downward. It did not have any trail, and I did not hear any noise as it travelled.

Date:
2010-Apr-13
Time:
10:02
Location:
galena illinois
Report:
a very bright light pass behging are store looked like a fireball coming down from space looked like it just crashed into something i heard no noise from it but the light was so amazingly bright lit up the whole area in the sky it was traveling from the east to the north

Date:
2010-Mar-27
Time:
9:23
Location:
Middlesbrough, England
Report:
I saw what seemed to be a large (around 1-2cm) long fireball in the sky. It seemed to travel fast past my house, then slow down when it got further away.It then seemed to stop and float in mid-air. Then slowly disappear, before disappearing it constantly dimmed and got brighter over and over again. I then thought it was over, only to turn around and see two more coming my way, this scared me. they followed the same path and did the same as before, however they lasted longer and one more came past my house again. It was very surreal, I would love to know what they were. The fireball moved left to right. It was very bright i'd say brighter than a star. They were visible for around 3 minutes all together, maybe longer. It travelled the full way across the sky. I did not hear any sounds coming from the fireballs. I could see pieces falling off. I cant be sure if the object simply disappeared. However the first fireball seemed to go up into the air. I hope this information helps. I also did try to get a video, however the camera on my phone couldnt capture it. I would still be happy to send the video incase you can adjust brightness etc.

Date:
2010-Mar-14
Time:
APPROX 21.20
Location:
STRABANE, CO TYRONE
Report:
FIREBALL HEADING ON A SOUTH-NORTH LINE AND LASTING AROUND 5 SECONDS. STARTED AS A BRIGHT LINE, AND ENDING IN A FIREBALL. LASTED LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO SPOT IT, POINT IT OUT TO FRIENDS, AND THEY HAVING ENOUGH TIME TO TURN AND SEE IT THEMSELVES. IT SEEMED TO TRAVEL MUCH SLOWER THAN A USUAL METEOR (AS IN A 'SHOWER') WE WERE FACING EAST, AND THE FIREBALL AS MENTIONED RAN NORTH/SOUTH, ABOUT MIDWAY UP FROM THE HORIZON. I SAW THE FIREBALL BREAK UP INTO PIECES AND DISINTEGRATE ENTIRELY. I WOULD SAY IT TRAVELLED AROUND A QUARTER THE LENGTH OF THE SKY AND WAS QUITE BRIGHT (I HAVE SEEN LESS BRIGHT FIREBALLS)

Date:
2010-Mar-04
Time:
5.45
Location:
Knowl Bristol
Report:
Large Ball of light which look like flames came over the roof of the houses and went so high in the sky looking like a star then just past over facing south passed towards east, just above rooftop the highest point was near the stars and then just disappeard very bright like a fire watched for about 2 mins passed halfway accross sky no sounds no break ups no pieces falling off faded away to a small ball.

Date:
2010-Feb-23
Time:
6;10
Location:
Florida
Report:
I seen a huge black thing coming toward me and it had purple around it and then it stars falling and the you can see the streak of white and yellow falling and then you can seee a bunch of little pieces break up and you can see the red I seen a huge black thing coming toward me and it had purple around it and then it stars falling and the you can see the streak of white and yellow falling and then you can seee a bunch of little pieces break up and you can see the red

Date:
2010-Feb-14
Time:
2200
Location:
NH766503 on A96 road between Inverness and Nairn , Northern Scotland
Report:
I was driving heading in a NE direction , i noticed a bright green light ( small circle I think with a red end ) streaking over the road , it appeared to be travelling downwards ( trajectory ) and disappeared into woods , the object was travelling from South to North , I think it may have been about to strike the ground but I am not sure . It was definitely not a firework nor I am sure a distress / signal flare as it was travelling too fast . I was driving so I estimate looking throught the windscreen it was not very high in the sky at all . I did report it to the local police . Because I was in the car I heard nothing nor see it break up .

Date:
2010-Feb-13
Time:
19:15
Location:
Derry
Report:
An orange fireball moving across the skyline.I was facing South. It traveled east to west in the skyline becoming smaller, turning red in colour and eventually lost sight as it passed into cloud. It lasted for approximately 5 minutes. Possibly at 20 degrees. There was no sound and no break up.

Date:
2010-Feb-04
Time:
approximately 7:10 pm Los Angeles time
Location:
driving northwest
Report:
On February 4th 2010 I spotted a green fireball at approximately 7:10 pm Los Angeles time. I was driving northwest and the object moved from left to right. It was about 25 to 35 degrees over the horizon. It lasted for maybe 5 seconds across about 1/5 of the skyline. It was bright green and then faded out. That evening there was a brief report on 1070 am radio and since then I have heard nothing from any news agency. It is also strange that the time difference between Ireland and Los Angeles does not fit the time slot. Also seems weird that it would be visible from the other side of the planet. I have to assume these are two different events but too close to not mention it.

Date:
2010-Feb-04
Time:
about 5.50
Location:
coming from Tandragee to Armagh
Report:
It was heading from left to right and was above horizon and disapeard over a hill it was very bright at the time Do let me know how it you get on

Date:
2010-Feb-04
Time:
approx 6pm
Location:
Louisburgh, Co Mayo
Report:
Regarding sightings of fireball. At approx 6pm today Wednesday 4th February. I saw a 'fireball', very bright, jet like object come to earth from a southerly direction, extremely fast and appeared to land in the sea close to land in Clew Bay between Aghany and Roonagh point, Louisburgh, Co Mayo.

Date:
2010-Feb-04
Time:
6 pm
Location:
Markethill, Co Armagh
Report:
Exact Time - 6 pm Your Location - Markethill, Co Armagh Direction you were facing - Driving towards Armagh on the maain Newry Road Direction the fireball moved (e.g. Left to Right, if you know what direction you were facing) or Left to Right towards Armagh in a downwards position NE to SW, or S to N, etc) Height of the fireball above your horizon at start, highest point, and end of its visibility. You can estimate that in degrees if you have the experience, where 0 degrees is the horizon and 90 degrees is overhead. Otherwise, say something like 'halfway from the horizon to the zenith (overhead point) about 45 degrees How bright was it, compared to a full moon? the tail was bright orange For how long was it visible, in seconds? 4-5 seconds How far across the sky did you see it travel - e.g. halfway? Less? More? only lasted about 4 - 5 seconds and it was travelling very fast so probably estimate it as travelling a third of the way across the sky Did you hear any sounds, like bangs, or pops, or crackling? no Did you see it break up, or any pieces fall off it? no Did you see it fade away to nothing, or did you see it disappear behind a building, or tree, or hill etc? disappeared behind trees and I honestly thought it would have hit somewhere around Armagh in the direction it was travelling

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
approx 6pm
Location:
M1 from Moira to Lurgan
Report:
I was travelling on the M1 from Moira to Lurgan at approx 6pm on 3/2/2010. I was 2-3 miles from the lurgan exit a fire ball approx the size of a football with fire swirling around it and a greenish smoke trail passed across the fields to my right heading horizontally over towards lough neagh, I seen it for approx 5 seconds.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
17:56
Location:
travelling North approaching Moy Village
Report:
Glad to see someone else saw this! I was travelling North approaching Moy Village on Wednesday 3rd. February, 2010. Time was 17:56. I saw a bright whitish fireball about the size of a football with long orangy tail for about 2 seconds. It seemed to 'dim' for a fraction of a second then flash brighter for a fraction of a second as bits broke off and burned up reddish colour in the tail, the fireball continued on until obscured by rooftops. Total time about 4 seconds. It was 'slow' and appeared to falling downwards rather than travelling across the sky. Direction was left to right, maybe SW to NE just under 45 Deg. I heard no sound (in moving car with radio on). Quite a sight! - the best I've ever seen - I thought it was a satellite falling from space!

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
6:10pm
Location:
Galway
Report:
i live in sligo...and yesterday I noticed the meteor which passed over Sligo at approx 6.10pm ? I didnt check the time when i saw it...but it was around this time....... i would estimate that the meteor was flying in nthe trajectory of the black arrow on the attached jpg file...approx north north east or slightly north of north east.. when i noticed it it was approximately level with the car park in connaughton road....and about 10-15 seconds later it had moved approx another 1000 to 1200 meters.... (and its volume seemed to have reduced at this stage by 60-70% in size) it is hard to say exactly how high the meteor was flying ???? maybe 1200-1500 meters..... i hope this information is of use to you....

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
around nine o clock
Location:
Cushendall, Co Antrim
Report:
I saw in the sky what i belived to be a metior last night around nine o clock. I was in Cushendall, Co Antrim. It was heading in the direction of Ballycastle which i think is heading north. It was very bright and yelow/orange in colour. I did not notice a trail behind it. I saw it for 4 or 5 seconds before it went over the mountain and i couldn't see it. I know this sighting is later than the other sightings. I would be interested to hear if anyone else saw the same one as me.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
6pm
Location:
Portadown-Moy Road
Report:
Hello, attached map roughly where the fireball passed over the Portadown - Moy Road at 6pm. Only visible for about 3 secs, long green streak that broke into several pieces and then seemed to burn out. Hope it helps

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
approximately 5.55pm
Location:
on the A3 from Portadown towards Armagh
Report:
At approximately 5.55pm I was travelling on the A3 from Portadown towards Armagh. I was about Allens Honda Garage when I saw the fireball on my right in the approximate direction of the Moy and Dungannon Roads ouit of Portadown. The fireball appeared to be falling from the direction of Armagh possibly towards the direction of the Bannfoot /Lough Neagh. It was low in the sky (I only saw it for about 2 to 3 seconds before it disappeared behind trees) and definitely appeared to be falling as opposed to following the earths curvature. A ball of flame is the best description I can offer with the flames tailing behind it and what looked like a shower of sparks following behind. It looked kike a firework except it was going down instead of up. I hope this sighting is of some use to you.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
time was around 17.55
Location:
53\’36\’55\”N 6\’12\’31\”W elev 37m
Report:
Hi Miruna, Great to here from you here is an official report 1, time was around 17.55 2 Location 53’36’55”N 6’12’31”W elev 37m 3 I was facing North. 4 fireball moved S to N towards polaris 5 around 35 to 40 degs 6 -1 to -3 7 5 to 7 seconds 6 less 8 No sound at all 9 It broke up to around 7 pieces 10 I saw it fade away to nothing

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
Location:
Sligo
Report:
This is about the fireball on Wednesday 3rd of February 2010 I live in Sligo an witnessed three fireballs travelling in close proximity from east to west . The fireballs seemed to be just above the height of Sligo Cathedral,coming towards where I was standing as I was walking west to east they appeared motionless in the sky for a moment getting brighter and then faded to nothing. My opinion is that these were smaller fragments that eventually burned up in the atmosphere. Several people witnessed this in Sligo

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
Location:
Omagh
Report:
I saw it around the time stated but it seemed to be going down i work in Asda in Omagh and work in the car park. At first i thought it was fireworks because i could see it out the corner of my eye but then i saw that it was fireball it was bright orange and there was a trail coming after it. I thought that it might be heading towards the Castlederg/Drumquin area but who knows were it landed. I was speaking to a man who saw it behind the Scared Heart which would indicate it would be in that area that stated above maybe even Newtown/Strabane or the parts of Donegal in around them two areas

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
Exact Time: 5.55
Location:
Round abouts Victoria Bridge on the main Omagh to Strabane road
Report:
Exact Time: 5.55 Your Location: Round abouts Victoria Bridge on the main Omagh to Strabane road Direction you were facing: I was facing north towards Strabane Direction the fireball moved (e.g. Left to Right, if you know what direction you were facing) or NE to SW, or S to N, etc) The fireball moved from left to right Height of the fireball above your horizon at start, highest point, and end of its visibility. You can estimate that in degrees if you have the experience, where 0 degrees is the horizon and 90 degrees is overhead. Otherwise, say something like 'halfway from the horizon to the zenith (overhead point) It was a little higher up than half way between the Horizon and Zenith How bright was it, compared to a full moon? It was as Bright as the full Moon if not brighter For how long was it visible, in seconds? I only saw it for about 2 - 3 Seconds How far across the sky did you see it travel - e.g. halfway? Less? More? It traveled for less than halfway across the sky Did you hear any sounds, like bangs, or pops, or crackling? I didn' hear any noises at all Did you see it break up, or any pieces fall off it? I didn' see anything break off it Did you see it fade away to nothing, or did you see it disappear behind a building, or tree, or hill etc? The star of Fireball went behind a huge dark cloud and I didn't see it again after that!

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
6.00 pm
Location:
Loughmacrory Co Tyrone BT799NB
Report:
Exact Time 6.00PM Your Location Loughmacrory Co Tyrone BT799NB Direction you were facing North Direction the fireball moved (e.g. Left to Right, if you know what direction you were facing) moved from left to right Height of the fireball above your horizon at start, highest point, and end of its visibility. You can estimate it was about 1 mile away and when I saw it first it was 500 m high and coming down fast. It would have landed in the Creggan area – may have been a piece that broke off the main fireball.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
roughly 6pm
Location:
approx 5 miles out side of Newry on the Armagh Road
Report:
Two colleagues and myself where driving home from work last night at roughly 6pm. We where approx 5 miles out side of Newry on the Armagh Road, when Linda Geraghty (the driver) said, “What is that”? We all looked up into the sky and there was the “fire ball” passing in front of our eyes from left to right, at this stage it was pretty low in the sky and appeared to fall behind the fields to our right. It was a strange colour, maybe orange or red with a tail falling behind it. At first we thought maybe it was a light aircraft that had caught fire, or a UFO (strange but true). We tried to contract Armagh Planetarium but they where closed. We then contacted 5FM to see if any of their other listeners had seen it. When we got home we informed our families, who obviously thought we where crazy. However Catherine, Linda and myself where sure of what we had seen, I checked teletext to see if anything had been reported, then on Ceefax Page 106 RTE 2 it was reported. We came into work today and told our colleagues, we then found the article on the BBC website that said “He said it was very important for anyone who saw it to report their sighting and suggested contacting either the Armagh Observatory or the Irish Astronomical Association”. So please find attached our account of what we seen, should you require any further information do not hesitate to contact us via email!

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
around 6pm
Location:
travelling along the M1 last night in the direction of Dungannon
Report:
My wife and I were travelling along the M1 last night in the direction of Dungannon. At around 6pm we were somewhere between the Lurgan junction and the Birches junction when we saw a large light in the sky moving towards the ground, in front of us and to our right. It disappeared after a few seconds. It wasn’t until we saw reports on the news this morning about other sightings that we realised that it may have been a meteorite. I hope this information is of some value.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
around 6pm
Location:
travelling towards Strabane from Omagh
Report:
was travelling towards Strabane from Omagh on Wednesday evening around 6pm and was about a mile from Victoria Bridge when I saw the fireball/ meteor to the top left hand side of my car windscreen.It seemed a whitish ball followed by a red/ orange tail, far bigger and brighter than your normal “shooting star”. It went across the screen, in a top left to bottom right direction but obviously did not travel the full length of the screen. It was visible to me for around 2 – 3 seconds before disappearing behind a darkish cloud and then there seemed to be a flash. I would say it was heading in a NE direction.

Date:
2010-Feb-03
Time:
about 5.50
Location:
Car park on William Street in Lurgan
Report:
xact Time – About 6pm (my husband had got off the train in Lurgan at about 5.50 and have walked up to the crèche – about a 10min walk) Your Location – Car park on William Street in Lurgan Direction you were facing – I was facing NW I think – in the same direction as the Lough Road out of Lurgan towards the motorway to be precise – my husband checked a map and says that’s about NW) Direction the fireball moved (e.g. Left to Right, if you know what direction you were facing) or NE to SW, or S to N, etc) – it appeared to move Left to Right... therefore going in a NE direction Height of the fireball above your horizon at start, highest point, and end of its visibility. You can estimate that in degrees if you have the experience, where 0 degrees is the horizon and 90 degrees is overhead. Otherwise, say something like 'halfway from the horizon to the zenith (overhead point) – I’d say it was only about a quarter to a third of the way between the horizon and the zenith.... closer to the horizon than the zenith How bright was it, compared to a full moon? – it seemed as bright as the moon but with orange flames coming from it and a smoke trail For how long was it visible, in seconds? Only a couple of seconds.... I shouted ‘Look’ three times, by which time my husband finally turned round and it was gone. How far across the sky did you see it travel - e.g. halfway? Less? More? I only saw it travel about a quarter way across the sky, but in a downwards direction, almost at a 45 degree angle Did you hear any sounds, like bangs, or pops, or crackling? No Did you see it break up, or any pieces fall off it? No Did you see it fade away to nothing, or did you see it disappear behind a building, or tree, or hill etc? – Disappeared behind the skyline of Lurgan..... which is about town-house height.... Thanks. I saw yesterday’s fireball and in the news today it suggests forwarding whatever information you have to the Armagh observatory or to Astronomy Ireland. I thought I’d drop you a note as suggested .... It was about 6pm, I was speaking to my husband at the time and initially thought it was either a meteorite or an aeroplane crashing (or even someone launching a rocket attack in the distance.... well, it is Lurgan!)..... I shouted at him to turn round but he was too late.... as there was no explosion that I could hear then I concluded it was a meteorite.... Direction – I was looking sort of north west of Lurgan and it appeared to be moving from my left to right, therefore it must have been travelling in a north easterly direction.... and it was moving downwards at about a 45 degree angle. The fireball appeared to be about the same size as something like the moon would look to us in the sky. It was bright creamy white, had oranges flames following it and then a dark tale of smoke.... that’s what made me think it might be a crashing aircraft. It just disappeared down behind the Lurgan skyline

Date:
2009-Dec-13
Time:
07:40
Location:
Connemara, Co Galway
Report:
I saw a huge fireball through the window at daybreak it's hard to describe the intensity of light but it was very bright and had the sky been darker it would have lit up the whole sky.It was traveling in a W to E direction I was facing east. It's hard to know the height but much lower than a jetplane and very beautiful as it seemed to glide rather than fall, the whole thing lasted just seconds and it disappeared out of sight behind a hill.

Date:
2009-Jun-08
Time:
between 9 and 12pm
Location:
Ballylifford, Co.Tyrone
Report:
the date could be out slightly. I was standing at the window about to make a phone call after dark so it was some time after nightfall. A massive fire ball passed my vision in the sky. I thought it was a meteor, and I put the phone down in shock. i'de never seen a shooting star, nver mind a fire ball!!! There were flames behind it and I was sure it was going to crash in the region of Magherafelt, it seemed so low that it would crash only miles away..in a panic i ran into the sitting room watching out the window expecting to see a bright flash of it crashing but it never happened. I searched for it on the news, but no mention of it. The next morning i visited my aunt and asked had she heard anything on the radio about a fireball in the sky and nobody apparently had seen it. it never turned up on any news, nor on the British news. It was not a halucination, I don't take drugs, or alcohol. i'm baffled. Strangely though i flew to Mexico to meet my Mexican husband with the kids on the 15th June and he told me as soon as i'd arrived that he had seen a fireball in the sky while up on the roof deck the week previously which really scared him as he had often seen shooting stars in Mexico and small fireballs but nothing as big as what he witnessed. He did exactly the same thing as me..he waited in fear of impact and then when none came he asked people living by if they had seen what he had just witnessed, but they hadn't so he turned on the news. but nothing..I could'nt believe it...I told him i'd witnessed exactly what he described in the sky the week before. which would have coincided with the time he saw his..yet I wsa in Northern ireland and he was in east of Mexico. we can't seem to make sense of it at all!!! Are these regular occurences? why do pepel not see them?? what I saw would have had drivers on the road calling in their thousands!!!. Please don't think I'm making this up. This has baffled me for years!!!

Date:
2005-Sep-30
Time:
01:30
Location:
Carlisle
Report:
while walking dog in early hours of morning in field near house looking at sky for shooting stars, clear still night walking in southerly direction turned to look to left and high in sky as if from nowhere an orange fireball appeared falling in an arc straight down towards the ground watched for about 8-10 seconds as it fell towards ground thinking it was heading straight for the roof of the factory across the other side of the field however as it neared the ground it appeared to slow down and stopped hovering above the roof for a few seconds it then appeared to change shape elongating sideways into a cigar, shape still bright orange, as orange as the street lights on the road. it then started to move sideways in a southerly direction towards caldbeck fell, seemed to follow the line of dalston road maintaining the same altitude above the ground was moving as quickly as a car away from me. it seemed to rise with the lay of the land, watched it as it rose up to and over the hill until it disappeared into the distance, i would say it stopped about 30 or 40 feet above the factory roof and that is the height it maintained above the ground as it flew off into the distance. i have no idea what this object was nor have i ever seen anything like it before or since. can anyone shed an light on what this may have been,it definitely wasn't a plane, a chinese lantern or a meteorite, i have seen many of these as i have worked night shifts for many years. i watched the object in clear view for about a minute and a half i think. there was no sound from the object but it was a still night and i was able to hear noise of the factory and local rail works which are over a mile away in the distance the fireball maintained its size and no pieces fell of it and i was able to see it until it disappeared into the distance. i looked inthe papers at the time to see if there were any other reports and have looked on the internet several times for similar occurrences but have never found anything similar

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
approx 3am Southern Hemisphere, Adelaide South Australia.
Location:
Adelaide Airport
Report:
Conditions approx 4/8 stcu 3,000' 3pm city lights reflecting off the clouds, Happen to look up and saw a burning object traveling from S.E to N.E. It appeared through cloud breaks, smoke trail seemed to be about 1/2 the horizon in length, relative to where i was it was almost straight above my position, Alot of smoke in the trail, It seemed to be burning on one side and if you held an average coin at arms length it would be about the correct size in relation to it actual size at it's given distance, which seemed hard to judge, it looked low, it did not crash and kept moving across the sky. Usually when i see these things they usually is a flash, I have seen about 2 dozen of these things in my life and they end with a flash, but nothing this big before, it look slower in speed and was travelling across the sky at a shallow angle, no reports of satellite or space craft re-entry at the time...and didn't report it because I didn't think anything of it at the time. Hard to estimate time it took to travel across the horizon, but at a guess about 10-20 seconds. I am a pilot so the report is accurate and not exaggerated.

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
approx 6pm
Location:
M1 from Moira to Lurgan
Report:
I was travelling on the M1 from Moira to Lurgan at approx 6pm on 3/2/2010. I was 2-3 miles from the lurgan exit a fire ball approx the size of a football with fire swirling around it and a greenish smoke trail passed across the fields to my right heading horizontally over towards lough neagh, I seen it for approx 5 seconds.

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
roughly 11.30pm
Location:
aspley in nottingham
Report:
i saw a large oval shape bright white light,looked like it was falling to earth but not in a straight downward motion more to the side.I was just going to bed at the time.But it was moving very fast and disappeared behind the houses.

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
just after 8 pm
Location:
hurstpeirpoint
Report:
Huge fireball flames behind it travelling from right to left defenatly a meteor it was cool I saw a good one 13 years ago it shot straight across the sky wasn't high all sorts of colours it left a vapour trail about a hundred foot long which was still visible for about ten minutes before it disappeared that was a good night for meteor showers

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
10.15pm
Location:
gisborne nz
Report:
very light blue trail probably 100 metrs long travelling in south west direction lasting about 5 seconds also at very low altitude, at guess 900ft.I have seen shooting stars but nothing like this.

Date:
0000-null-00
Time:
friday 9.00 pm
Location:
Ashford common Ashford Middlesex England queen mary res
Report:
The fireball took about 2 mins from coming in to view to dissapering over the horizon,the direction was south to north. I could hear it as it passed over head.It was a truly fantastic sight one that has stayed With me all these years As it was heading across heathrow airport where would

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