Green fireball over Lincolnshire

[treesparrow]

Green 'fireball' flashes across the night sky in Lincolnshire

Sightings have been reported of a green 'fireball' flashing across the sky over Lincolnshire last night.

Lincoln City goalkeeper Paul Farman was among those who saw the phenomenon and wrote on Twitter at about 9pm that he'd seen a meteoroid or a shooting star.

RAF Waddington spokesman Lindsey Askin said no flights from the base were in the air over Lincoln.

Astronomer Paul Money, who lives in Horncastle, caught a glimpse of the spectacle out the corner of his eye as it disappeared to the north.

"It is difficult to say whether this was a chunk of man-made space debris or a piece of asteroid," he said.

"Images and eyewitness reports will be collated by the British Astronomical Association and some months down the line they may get an idea of what it actually was."

_http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Green-fireball-flashing-night-sky-Lincolnshire/story-18012570-detail/story.html

 

[treesparrow]

Just saw this report on greenish meteor over Birmingham airport -

http://www.sott.net/article/257552-Green-fireball-flashes-across-night-sky-in-Lincolnshire-England

Both the Lincolnshire(Horncastle) and Birmingham sightings occurred at about 9.00PM Wednesday night on the 31st of January. Both places aren't a great distance apart, about 80 miles (as the space rock flies, so to speak) therefore there's a strong likelihood it was the same object witnessed. Fwiw.