'It Appeared From Nowhere': Fireball Lighting Up UK Skies Wows Onlookers

The UK Meteor Network has confirmed reports about a meteor, posting pictures of the celestial body on its Twitter page.

A huge meteor has shot across UK skies stunning onlookers with its impressive green and blue trail.

More than 100 people reported sightings of the meteor on Saturday evening around 7 p.m. local time as the celestial body was tracked in the skies above England, Scotland, and North Wales.

UK media outlets cited one of the unnamed onlookers as saying that "it [the meteor] appeared from nowhere and travelled at speed, losing altitude as it passed".

@Astronomer_Mark Managed to capture last night's fireball on my north-facing @UKMeteorNetwork UK0026 and my Allsky camera (where north is at the top) #meteor #fireball pic.twitter.com/p7lD4l7wRb

— ˢⁱᵐᵒⁿ ᵐⁱⁿⁿⁱᶜᵃⁿ 🔜🌍🔚☣️ (@minnican) January 30, 2022

Another onlooker reportedly said that they "saw this blue-tailed fireball on our way from Glasgow to Edinburgh this evening […] Looked like it was right in front of us! Spectacular!"

The event was also discussed on the Buckley Residents Facebook page, with one user writing that it was "awesome" to watch the flyover of what they described as a "massive" meteor.

Better picture found of the fireball tonight. pic.twitter.com/dO4J0S0jnQ

— UK Meteor Network (@UKMeteorNetwork) January 29, 2022

And the results are in. The fireball last night was a Sporadic type with an interesting orbit, in perihelion it's inside Mercury's orbit. Went down to 28km but no meteorite. https://t.co/0SBHhT8pkT pic.twitter.com/EbEOefTEmS

— UK Meteor Network (@UKMeteorNetwork) January 30, 2022

Large #fireball meteor spotted tonight 29 Jan 2022 at 18:48:26 UT from several UKMON cameras pic.twitter.com/RKsRibZ6NU

— UK Meteor Network (@UKMeteorNetwork) January 29, 2022

The reports were confirmed by the UK Meteor Network, which posted pictures of the object on its Twitter account, describing the meteor as a "Sporadic type with an interesting orbit".