A glowing fireball illuminates Britain’s skies

At around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, the UK Meteor Network received more than 200 reports of a “fireball” in the night sky.

The lucky witnesses wowed by the mysterious object blazing through the skies above parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland flooded social media sites with eyewitness accounts and astonishing video footage, creating quite the buzz.  

After reviewing videos of the occurrence, the organisation concluded that “this was space debris.”

According to the preliminary trajectory predicted by the International Meteor Organization, the debris would have crashed in the Atlantic south of the Hebrides.