Something crossed the sky over Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday evening. Hundreds of people, raising their eyes to the sky, from the streets, from the windows of the house and from the hills, followed this unknown object with their eyes. But what interests us is that they filmed him on the phone.
In the UK, there is the Meteor Network, a thriving community of citizen scientists passionate about watching the sky and trying to study the meteorological phenomena that rock it.
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That association’s switchboard blew up at 9 p.m. Wednesday with reports recording at least 200. In a tweet, the network said it was “investigating to determine what the object was: a meteorite or space junk.” In another post, he added: “Most reports are coming from Scotland and Northern Ireland. We just surpassed 200”.
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Twitter user Chris Duffield wrote: “It seems everyone who saw it was impressed. I live on a hill and am lucky enough to have a clear and unobstructed view of the sky and be able to follow it on my way to Ireland. Never seen anything like it.”
Do you think there is? I think we will find out very soon.
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