FighterControl

Just saw something rather odd - very bright light visible through the clouds - looked suspiciously like something re-entering the atmosphere. 17.20 - heading NE. Anyone else see it?

Not from Brum!

But I did see something very similar down here a couple of weeks back.

Strange business innit?!

It looked like a flare slowly dropping before fizzling out...........

Sounds like space junk or meteorite dropping out of orbit and burning up....or was it.??..

Seen strange lights before, me and a mate saw two silent 'lights' flying over Oxford early this year,,

top stuff.

You been on the ale Tim?

I've seen satellites passing over before whilst sat in the girlfriends hot tub, but they were deffinately moving.

I thought it may have been the meteorite that was on the news which landed in Latvia, but turns out it was a hoax by Nokia !

Tonight we had a Hercules over which is nothing unusuall here but he deffinatley had a jet up there with him. Only the Hercules had his lights on.

Ben

I'm mystified. I'm a bit of a part-time star gazer so I've seen hundreds of satellites (and the space station, shuttle, etc.) so I'm certain it wasn't a satellite. It was obviously very bright to be showing-up through the cloud and it did appear to be burning - it wasn't a steady or tumbling light. It was shifting at the right sort of speed for a satellite which makes me think it was space debris of some sort. I'm just surprised that nobody else has reported seeing it.

Must stop drinking Toilet Duck...