Giant space junk fireball may have smashed into ocean near Scotland

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More than 800 people reported seeing a huge fireball streak across the night sky.

"Bits seemed to break off and follow the main fireball for the whole time I saw it," reported another eyewitness from Cardoness, Scotland."After breaking off they would increase in intensity. Many of the bits that broke off were green but there were also yellow and orange bits, like the main fireball."

A screenshot of a video of a fireball passing over the U.K., taken by Mark Rae from Saltcoats, Scotland, on September 14, 2022. The fireball is suspected to have been space debris.One person in Armagh, Northern Ireland, even reported hearing what they described as"two bangs very close together after one minute of seeing the fireball."

However, rather than the object being a blazing space rock, the U.K.

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