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Oliver Schick
Bright thing in sky, any ideas?
Today on the Norfolk-Suffolk border I saw a very bright meteor-looking thing, 3:40pm, heading roughly north and low in the sky to the WNW, just on sunset. Sky perfectly clear.
It left a very long white trail and broke up into 2 or 3 fragments. Easily the most spectacular meteor/satellite thing I’ve ever seen. Appeared to be travelling quite ‘slowly’ as meteor things go. Was visible for perhaps 2-3 seconds.
I can’t see any meteor showers advertised and the Ursids a couple of days ago were emanating from the north.
It was very reminiscent of those films of the shuttle breaking up.
I don’t suppose anyone saw anything similar ? Or has heard of anything?