The 'shooting star' was reported by hundred of people across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
After questioning whether it could have been part of Elon Musk's SpaceX programme, the network of citizen scientists,"At this point we cannot find any known space junk or satellite de-orbit that could account for this fireball. We are looking at the data again."said the majority of witness reports were from Central Scotland but there were also sightings from the Black Isle and Kinnaber in the east, near Montrose and as far south as London.
"I was sitting in my living room at exactly 22:00 and I saw out of the widow due south this brilliant fireball - this meteor - streaking across the sky," he said. "Normally if you see a meteor or a shooting star, they are just tiny little streaks of light lasting a fraction of a second but this one was streaking across the sky for at least 10 seconds, probably longer."It travelled from due south all the way across to the west. It was a pretty incredible sight."
Mr Owens said: "Normally these little shooting stars burn up and everything vanishes and evaporates in the atmosphere, but the thing last night was bigger than a little bit of dust which causes normal shooting stars.
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