Huge fireball seen Friday 21 sept...

Super Freak

Huge fireball seen Friday 21 sept...

Swept right across Laois from west to east at 23:04

Clearly visible for 1 minute.

Satellite returning to earth? Looks too slow to be a shooting star. There were about five pieces, maybe more. Looked out the window and could clearly see it through street lighting.

Hands still shaking......WOW!

Any ideas anyone?

qwerty93

I saw it there too , I like in North Kildare and there were 6 or 7 lights coming from the east ......Never saw anything like it in my life, any explanations for this? im literally shaking with shock

pjjk90

Cousin was just outside and came in telling me he seen the exact same thing, we're in Louth. Would be really interested to know what it was

Ryan451

I saw that. I'm in Dublin. Didn't know what it was. Definitely too big for a firework.

Kovu

Super Freak wrote: »

Huge fireball seen Friday 21 sept...

Swept right across Laois from west to east at 23:04

Clearly visible for 1 minute.

Satellite returning to earth? Looks too slow to be a shooting star. There were about five pieces, maybe more. Looked out the window and could clearly see it through street lighting.

Hands still shaking......WOW!

Any ideas anyone?

Just seen that as well! Scared the bloody life out of me at first, it just passed over South Leitrim approx 5 mins ago.

Kinger83

I saw something similar about 10 minutes ago over South Dublin. It was more than one fireball though, appeared to be quite a few. Like flares shooting accross the sky.

deadduck

Super FreakKildare 06 wrote:

Huge fireball seen Friday 21 sept...

Swept right across Laois from west to east at 23:04

Clearly visible for 1 minute.

Satellite returning to earth? Looks too slow to be a shooting star. There were about five pieces, maybe more. Looked out the window and could clearly see it through street lighting.

Hands still shaking......WOW!

Any ideas anyone?

Just saw it over Kildare, seriously impressive, but no idea what it was

qwerty93

Kovu Murr wrote: »

Just seen that as well! Scared the bloody life out of me at first, it just passed over South Leitrim approx 5 mins ago.

Jesus lads how fast was this thing going:eek:

Ryan451

Reports of something similar in Liverpool

https://twitter.com/BrianDurand56

N64

One of my friends who is in Scotland also reported seeing something in the sky around 11 minutes ago. I missed it myself

thorbarry

I seen it too in Rathfarnham a few minutes ago???

What the hell was it?

Matt Simis

Super Freak wrote: »

Huge fireball seen Friday 21 sept...

Swept right across Laois from west to east at 23:04

Clearly visible for 1 minute.

Satellite returning to earth? Looks too slow to be a shooting star. There were about five pieces, maybe more. Looked out the window and could clearly see it through street lighting.

Hands still shaking......WOW!

Any ideas anyone?

Was just about to post this, bright enough to wake me up from dozing off, had us both run from one side if the house to the other to watch it pass overhead! 5 to 6 large trailing yellow orange fireballs, silent, faster than a plane but much much slower and far larger than a shooting star. I saw it about 23:00 over Trim, Meath.

mfield

Just saw this in Kildare, three of us in the house ran out and couldn't believe what we were seeing!

MAD!

boycey

Looked like a meteor breaking up into atmosphere. Crazy stuff. Went right across the horizon. East to West. D15

cocoemma

WTF:eek: just seen this with my better half, in nt kildare ourselfs.Like you all said slow moving and not loosing too much altitude. from east to west when looking north, seemed to be more than 7 at 1st but a few faded as it was just out of sight to the west. hahahehehoho, exciting:D

tracert

woobevok

Saw the fireball with a tail of about 7or 8 fireballs across the sky in kildare at 22.55 approx. Never seen anything like this. Couldnt get the phone out quick enough to get a snap. Amazing

chinchin

Saw it in Swords, was heading east to west at 22:55, really bright white light, with plenty of pieces breaking off glowing orange as the fell, passed to the north of Swords.

wil

yup just seen same from Rathgar area about 10.55,
crossed the sky in about 20 seconds heading westish,
looked too slow to be typical meteor and not bright enough
also orange colour.
Silent and in a straiight line about 8 or 10 lights.
Twitter going mad from all over so must be astronomical rather than local
Where was camera when I needed:mad::mad:

flair

Just in Blackrock with my cousin! Having a cig and a glass of wine overlooking the beach. Fabulous sight ....think we saw it from its starting point just above the Cooleys, started as one large bright light and split off into a fireworks display in a perfect arc above our heads in north west trajectory, make a wish!

Tackleberry.

Just in from walking my dogs in Shannon, Clare, watched it come in from the east. Broke up overhead near the airport.

Lynfo

Saw it from Westmeath, fantastic sight!

e17

seen it in carlow just before 2300 Several objects travelling eas to west . could clearly see flaming tails. Like someting out of the movie armageddon

minibear

i saw it too here in mid county waterford. grabbed the camera and got three photos but it was almost gone by then and can't make anything out in the pictures.

shinny

I didn't see it, was literally washing my hair (for feck sake!) but all my friends talking about it on Facebook.

Wicklow Area.

N64

Few pictures off twitter:

Walkman

Saw it in Doolan, Co Clare. Moving south while I was looking west

suzegr

I'm in Dublin and saw it too. It was looked seriously cool!!!

chrismon

Any idea what it is lads?
Missed it, so upset for not seeing it.

biomech

Spotted in Galway. Passed straight over the airport and over the city (doughuisce) @ 11pm ish , from east to west. As discribed above , chain of 6 or 8 lights flying pretty quickly, no sound from them. Have been googling lanterns in the jet stream cause that's the first thing that came to mind.

120_Minutes

came on here to see if there was a better picture than what was posted by a mate on facebook

link to large pic

did this happen too fast for pics?

*edit* just saw the twitter pics