Tuesday, May 12, 2009

'Green meteor' in Edinburgh (Scotland) sky

Meteor (generic)Observers have reported a meteor over Edinburgh, after a "very fast" bright green light was seen travelling across the sky towards East Lothian.

Witnesses said it happened just after 2230 BST on Monday and was as fast as a low-flying jet.

The fireball lasted about five seconds before burning out.

Rob Ritchie, of North Berwick, said he saw it while travelling along the A1 moving towards the Lammermuir Hills in a south easterly direction.

Another eyewitness, Chris Montroy, from Edinburgh, said that looking from his window, which faces Arthur's Seat, he could see an orange streak which turned into a bright green light.

Coloured tail

Joe Prentice, of Swinton Quarter Farm, south of Duns, told the BBC Scotland news website: "I saw the meteor on Monday night, it appeared to the south, travelling from east to west, dropping at an angle of 20 to 25 degrees, and I thought it must have been falling quite close by.

"Obviously I was wrong as I live in Swinton just south of Duns and 45 miles south of Edinburgh. It was quite spectacular, not unlike a firework with a nicely coloured tail."

Thom Fish, from Cramond, said: "I saw this in the sky to my south east as I approached the Calder junction of the city bypass from the A71 west.

"To be honest, I did think it was just a firework until I saw the news report. It was a very bright and luminous green."

via BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | 'Green meteor' in Edinburgh sky.

I saw two of these in one night while driving on a dark dirt road. They were a few seconds apart and they had swerving green tails.

1 comment:

Kathy said...

I saw the bright green light at 2:00 am in the northeast Nov. 12. It had a multicolored tail-very long-and the green light was so vivid that even though i wasn't actually looking out the window at the time-the brightness caught my attention-and i watched it for about 3 seconds. I live in central Oklahoma. I thought that it was going to hit the water tower because it seemed so low and so close.