Norman Dunn's 'Hebburn and our Neighbours Forum'

Norman Dunn's 'Hebburn and our Neighbours Forum'
[ Norman Dunn's 'Hebburn and our Neighbours Forum' ]

Rules! No Politics,swearing,derogatory remarks or we delete. Anyone sharing our content on Face Book must credit 'Hebburn and our Neighbours'.

Fire balls for Rusty Alan

Posted by George on March 1, 2021, 23:39:10

These arrived only recently. Are they anything like what you saw in Felling a little while ago?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56241511

Re: Fire balls for Rusty Alan

Posted by rusty on March 2, 2021, 8:52:15, in reply to "Fire balls for Rusty Alan"

yes george,it came over wardley pit yard,descending all the time it looked to me about the size of a light aircraft,in fact that,s what i thought it was,,my son saw it going over the new houses being built at windy nook,it went over windy nook coming down all the time then dissapeared,it could be in carr hill, or deckham,or even saltwell park.

Re: Fire balls for Rusty Alan

Posted by Brian on March 2, 2021, 10:36:45, in reply to "Re: Fire balls for Rusty Alan"

The strange thing about shooting stars and meteorites is generally despite the brightness they tend to be very small indeed, the illumination is the object burning up in the atmosphere and can be as small as a grain of sand, most burn up before reaching the ground and its what probably happened to the one you saw. We also assume they are much closer than they actually are because of the brightness, I know this because exactly the same thing happened to me about 30 years ago and was convinced it would have landed on the moor about half a mile away, of course it hadn't but took some convincing.

Re: Fire balls for Rusty Alan

Posted by John Shearer on March 2, 2021, 14:13:01, in reply to "Fire balls for Rusty Alan"

George that's a good link, thank you.

Re: Fire balls for Rusty Alan

Posted by Bill Wallace on March 2, 2021, 17:16:52, in reply to "Fire balls for Rusty Alan"

I wonder if this is what you saw Sunday night.

Link: Meteorites

« Back to index