Did you see the meteor in the skies above East Yorkshire?
DID you spot the meteor in the skies above East Yorkshire?
Hundreds of people reported seeing a bright object breaking up at roughly 11pm on Friday evening.
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Hundreds of people reported seeing the meteor breaking up in the skies above much of the country. Submitted picture
Humber Coastguard received 29 calls immediately after from people believing it to be a flare of distress while ten reports came through to Humberside Police.
It was described as green and blue in colour.
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Humber Coastguard's Matt Atkinson, said: "We received 29 calls in total. People though they were flares for people in distress but we have confirmation that it was something from space."
According to national reports, people across the country saw the meteor.
Did you see the meteor? Email Katie Knass – k.knass@mailnewsmedia.co.uk
Comments
by ruscy
Sunday, September 23 2012, 7:03PM
“the ****'s will be after it for scrap metal where did it land ?”
by David_Nivea
Sunday, September 23 2012, 3:19PM
“@BevRoadNorth: The headline asks "Did you see the meteor in the skies above East Yorkshire?"
I have replied to the question.
What is the problem?”
by tosh1958
Sunday, September 23 2012, 10:16AM
“In addition to this a alien spacecraft landed in OPE and now there are a couple of Aliens wondering around Hull, trying to hitch a lift home as somebody nicked there craft.”
by BevRoadNorth
Saturday, September 22 2012, 10:36PM
“Prob be seeing pigs accompanying the meteors in the sky, if David Nivea had for once spared the site his insightful contribution..”
by Prescotts_Cat
Saturday, September 22 2012, 8:21PM
“People are saying it's probably space junk as there's that much floating about. If it's aliens checking for intelligent lifeforms East Hull is an epic fail.”
by paulnpaula
Saturday, September 22 2012, 7:59PM
“Wife saw it first and nearly had kittens... thought it was a firework... I have seen shooting stars before (not the TV series lol) but over Withernsea it was spectacular... green to brilliant white... am 47 will I/we ever see this again???”
by sjw789
Saturday, September 22 2012, 12:39PM
“I saw it as was driving back from work over the Saltend flyover. Incredible sight as it broke up above the city heading in a NW direction towards the Humber.”
by David_Nivea
Saturday, September 22 2012, 11:47AM
“No, I didn't see it.”
by Markohull
Saturday, September 22 2012, 11:07AM
“Yeah we saw it in Hedon at 11.15 right from start to finish about 30 seconds worth came up from the east initially green then turning bright white as it started to break up overhead into a golden colour dropping down to the west..it was awesome and frightened my daughter to death i think she thought it was an ET invasion or was going to land on a populated area..turns out it was likely to be a man made satellite burning up..ie space junk..but they are still investigating. Whatever it was awesome!”
by caz6405
Saturday, September 22 2012, 10:34AM
“I saw it out with my son and partner on a bike ride on Wednesday evening around 6.30 - 7pm, was near Humbleton (Aldbrough) and was falling from the sky at such a rate, it was pretty big and directly in front of us, had what looked like sparks coming from the back of it which were blue and red in colour and it seemed to come down in the fields somewhere, had a look but couldnt find it! what an amazing experience for my son to see.”