Fireball explodes over Ireland

[Rabelais]

Things are heating up.

irishtimes.com - Last Updated: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 21:20

Fireball seen over Ireland

PADDY CLANCY

Members of the public throughout the country have been reporting sightings of a fireball in the skies this evening.

Tommy Moore from Astronomy Ireland said a space rock collided with the earth’s atmosphere at about 6pm, showering debris over many parts of the country.

Mr Moore said: “A major explosion happened in the sky over Ireland. We think it’s a fireball, that’s a rock from space the earth has slammed into and they burn up as huge shooting stars. This one appears to have lit up the whole country. The phones here in Astronomy Ireland are going crazy.”

One man told his local radio station: “I saw the ball of fire just above the trees. I rang the emergency services. I thought it was a helicopter.” Another said: “I thought it was a bright gas cylinder. It seemed to get brighter as it was approaching the ground.”

_http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0203/breaking85.htm

 

[Vulcan59]

Thanks Rabelais,

It's on SOTT news. :)

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/202419-Fireball-seen-over-Ireland

 

[Vulcan59]

Just to add here that I found a youtube video claiming to show the fireball in the report above but the report does not mention this video. There are some accounts on Facebook that state that this video is a fake, but I haven't being able to verify that yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu5Qn3ipPeQ&feature=player_embedded#at=32

 

[durabone]

Another decent article and video:

http://niteskygirl.blogspot.com/2010/02/meteor-crashes-in-ireland.html

This video shows it for 41 seconds? Must be fake?!

http://www.irishcentral.com/multimedia/video/video_selection/?videoID=91e3d3f40f3ab&videoTitle=Meteorite%20blazes%20across%20Irish%20sky

Hard to believe it could slow down that much and still stay aloft in this camera's view for so long?!?

 

[David]

I have been listening to the radio in relation to this and a lot of eye witness accounts from different parts of the country, seem to think it just fell a few miles from where they were observing (observers 400-500 miles apart), the general speculation is that it fell some where in the north/northeast part of the country.


Could chalk the whole thing down to Galactic Sectarianism by firebombing leprechauns :)