Posted on 03/02/2016 10:37:39 AM PST by BenLurkin
A bright glowing object, believed to be a meteor, flashed through the atmosphere above northeast Scotland on Monday night, lighting the night sky and startling residents.
Footage captured on a dashboard camera by Scottish driving instructor Bill Addison showed a bright blue fireball hurtling through the cloudy sky, briefly illuminating the landscape as if it were day.
“I was driving along the road and there was a huge big flash of blue light,” he told CNN. “The sky totally lit up. It was like a missile.”
Startled social media users took to Twitter to report seeing the suspected meteor, saying it caused a loud boom as well.
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Walmart special.
There’s a Kmart in Scotland?
It could have been a “blue jet”, a type of upper-atmosphere electrical phenomenon.
We made him a star!
Wasn’t there supposed to be an asteroid flyby? The story was a couple days ago. They were still trying to figure out what the CPA was going to be.
After effects of spoiled haggis?
A Haggis re-entering the atmosphere after the successful test flight of a new recipe. The ‘Chieftain’ successfully splashed down in the North Sea , it was recovered and the crew are safe.
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