Fireball in night sky likely to have been space junk

People reported seeing a 'shooting star' last night - here's what scientists believe it was.

had almost 800 witness reports from across the UK and Ireland. The majority 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.

"If you have a look at those videos you can see it's breaking up all the time, there are little bits coming off it, which indicates that it is quite a fragile structure and so, combined, these three suggests that maybe it is a little bit of space debris. "I could tell it was something special. I could see through broken cloud that it was fragmenting - breaking apart with little bits coming off it.

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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