CLIP: Giant blue fireball falls from space to UK

According to Daily Mail, blue fireball The dazzling light that flared up in the skies over South West England last month has just been confirmed by the kingdom’s leading meteor observatory network to be a meteorite that is older than Earth, shiny, iridescent and dark in color. Masses of people in South Wales, Hertfordshire and West Sussex have observed the phenomenon.

The image was recorded by a dashcam on a resident’s car – Photo: DAILY MAIL

More than 250 Britons reported the event via UKMON’s website, and 15 of the network’s 150 cameras located across the country also captured the special moment.

UKMON, Fireball Recovery and Interplanetary Observation Network (Fripon), Global Fireball Observatory (GFO), UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall) have shared data and jointly analyzed about the mysterious blue fireball.

Image from one of UKMON’s cameras – Photo: UKMON

“Preliminary analysis from UKMON data shows that the height of the sphere is about 30 km above the ground, a velocity of 6.9 km/s. That’s interesting.” – UKMON founder Richard Kacerek told MailOnline.

UKMON believes that with the above parameters, the blue fireball is likely to have landed on the ground rather than burn out completely, but they may also need scuba gear as calculations suggest it has fallen into the channel. Bristol.

Another view from another camera – Photo: UKMON

According to UKFall, this blue fireball is a meteorite. They forecast it would fall on the town of Shrewbury (Shropshire county). UKFall researcher Aine O’Brien told BBC News it could be an asteroid older than Earth and could unlock more knowledge about the solar system. The search is still ongoing.