| Re: April Fireballs!
This could possibly explain something I saw a couple of years ago, over the Solway Firth which I had put down to some kind of UFO sighting!
Can't remember the time of year but it was just getting dusk at about 9pm, and there was a bright orange light, probably 2 or three times the size Venus appears, moving parallel to the horizon about 45 degrees above it at about the speed an aircraft crosses the sky , in a Northerly direction. Before loosing sight of it, it seemed to eject a short burst of about 4 or 5 smaller orange lights (a bit like tracer shells from a gun) down towards the sea which faded about half way down.
There was no cloud cover so I could not gauge its height and it was not a distress flare, so it could easily have been in the upper atmosphere. |