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'Huge
fireball' appears over Britain
Sunday March 04, 2012 08:10:48 PM,
IANS
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London: An unusually
bright slow-moving light appeared in the night sky above northern
Britain, a media report said Sunday.
Police forces across Britain have been inundated with calls after
what is believed to be a meteor was spotted in the sky around 10
p.m. Saturday, The Telegraph reported.
Thousands of people spotted the chunk - or possibly chunks - of
fist-sized space rock burning up while coming through the earth's
atmosphere.
The Met Office received dozens of calls within an hour of the
light first appearing.
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been
"inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the
west of Scotland.
The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge
fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at
9.41 p.m.
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