Fireball in the sky

[Abernus]

Hi all,

Just got off the phone to my mother who saw a fireball in the sky. She lives in the North East England not too far from Durham. It was at 21:00 she saw a very bright with a firey trail travelling very fast from West to East. We have very thick cloud cover at the moment and this was below the cloud cover. Not long after seeing this the flames went out and the object was still travelling at great speed but was now a visable grey object.

Has anyone got any ideas of what this could of been. My mother says is was way too fast to be a hot air balloon or Chinese sky lantern.

Thanks

[richbyers]

a firework? cant really think of anything else apart from the two you said

rich

[Abernus]

Don't think it was a firework as my mother says there was no sound at all

[Space Oddity6]

Could generally have been a meteor. The amount that hit the earth every year or pass close enough to see is quite surprising, probably in the hundreds of thousands.

I see moving lights quite often in my scope that look very star-like, as in they don't have flashing lights, just a single white light that moves across my field of vision, but are probably either planes flying very high up, or satellites.

[richbyers]

cloud levels were only a few hundred feet here in N.west, so if it was anything like that and you still seen it, it must have hit earth!

[valleyman]

Chinese lantern in a stron wind

[Abernus]

I think I will be keeping an eye on the local news, and sites to see if anyone found any meteor fragments.

[Shibby]

I have to say, it sounds like another Chinese lantern. When they go out, which happens fairly quickly, you always see a grey ball left. However, you did mention a "fiery trail" so I could be wrong.

[Abernus]

Loks like we will never know for sure. here has been no info on the local media. I hate not knowing!!!!