Holy shit, just seen biggest shootin star/comet ever!

[trappa 518]

Me and my lad saw it last night. He said it was a meteor, i thought it was a firework but realised it wasnt when it just carried on! It was flying north to south. Beautiful, big glowing tail!

[Moll. 1,770]

It went way further south than I thought it would.... was seen in Stoke on Trent... wierd how we heard a boom from that far away??? Maybe sonic boom or something else?

 

Maybe stoke has been blown off the map lol

 

I think the boom you heard may have been from Otterburn firing rage, i heard/felt it in the house last night, there had been a couple really big ones earlier on just before dark. Get them periodically here, sometimes so big the windows rattle

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

It went way further south than I thought it would.... was seen in Stoke on Trent... wierd how we heard a boom from that far away??? Maybe sonic boom or something else?

 

Maybe stoke has been blown off the map lol

 

I think the boom you heard may have been from Otterburn firing rage, i heard/felt it in the house last night, there had been a couple really big ones earlier on just before dark. Get them periodically here, sometimes so big the windows rattle

No offence, but I live on the ranges! And was there lamping when I seen it LOL

 

The boom was faint... and from the south... to be honest I didnt really think it was the thing crashing into earth until another poster said he heard it too, and he was in Co.Durham, just seemed a bit of a coincidence.

Edited March 4, 2012 by dogs-n-natives

[Moll. 1,770]

Perhaps that is what i heard then

 

I don't envy you living that close to the ranges, do you have to superglue your ornaments down...always wanted to ask someone from there what it is like being so close

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Perhaps that is what i heard then

 

I don't envy you living that close to the ranges, do you have to superglue your ornaments down...always wanted to ask someone from there what it is like being so close

The only ornaments worth having on the mantle piece are made of lead lol, Yea there can be sleepless nights here for sure, and pretty impressive displays...you do get used to it to an extent, but in the middle of the night when it sounded like a nuke just landed on next doors roof it can irritate. The thing I do like is the peace (between the bombs and guns lol) I can walk all day and not see a sole, plus the farmers and folk are canny enough chaps, usually spare the time for a chat.

[Moll. 1,770]

Perhaps that is what i heard then

 

I don't envy you living that close to the ranges, do you have to superglue your ornaments down...always wanted to ask someone from there what it is like being so close

The only ornaments worth having on the mantle piece are made of lead lol, Yea there can be sleepless nights here for sure, and pretty impressive displays...you do get used to it to an extent, but in the middle of the night when it sounded like a nuke just landed on next doors roof it can irritate. The thing I do like is the peace (between the bombs and guns lol) I can walk all day and not see a sole, plus the farmers and folk are canny enough chaps, usually spare the time for a chat.

 

I can only imagine, i must live about 20ish mile away and some of the really huge explosions make my house literally shake, birds lift from trees, dogs jump. And the constant rat tat tat of machine guns. Then there are the jet fighter planes and helicopters from Boulmer, the sonic boom from them flying low over here does the same. Do they ever sorta combine forces when simulating battles over the range?

But i wouldn't change any of it, those lads are all heros plus i get free aerial displays

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Im always getting caught in the middle of full scale battles, quite impressive to see at night with the tracer rounds, and flares etc

[kanny 21,159]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/meteor-mystery-flashes-across-british-skies-030837839.html

[stabba 10,745]

For all the astrologer academics out there who say they "thought" it was a meteor shower are lying...Nothing and i mean nothing gets past these guys without them havin prior warning. Probably kept hush hush for fear of sparking a hysteria end of the world type scenario imo..atb stabba

[Paid 935]

lol, the bigger fear is that pretty much everything does get past any thing they have to monitor it, makes you think a big one

could strike and first we would know would be the mushroom cloud.

 

Still, its cool that so many of you got to see this meteor

[paulus 26]

if you read the eye witness reports it was a very strange meteor it changed direction, colour and what about the bang that was herd

[cairnsy22 3]

I've seen two , within a year or so. The latest won was about 2 months ago and was MASSIVE, bloody good to watch tho

i saw it it last night in s yorks around 9 dont no if it was same one but wo best ive ever seen

[PlasticJock 539]

if you read the eye witness reports it was a very strange meteor it changed direction, colour and what about the bang that was herd

 

Some said it would be a sonic boom but it should have been too high to hear that

[paulus 26]

if you read the eye witness reports it was a very strange meteor it changed direction, colour and what about the bang that was herd

 

Some said it would be a sonic boom but it should have been too high to hear that

i would have thought it would have been traveling way past the speed of sound allready its a meteor ffs not concord

[Paid 935]

if you read the eye witness reports it was a very strange meteor it changed direction, colour and what about the bang that was herd

 

Well, it was a bigun, that alone makes everything else seem "odd" to lots of people, who then look for "things" i'm no expert, but i'll throw a few ideas out there, it changed colour as it came through the atmosphere, and burnt up more/less oxygen, the bang could of been sound barrier booms?

 

but the thing that most makes me think it was just a big meteor is all the proper outdoors folk on here that actually saw it, and say is was a big meteor ?