Fireball! Ball of flames pictured falling from the sky over York
People in York were stunned to see a bright burning object falling from the sky on Tuesday (February 3).
Chantelle Byford was one of those who saw the unidentified flying object – and she was quick enough to capture a photograph of it over neighbouring houses in Bishopthorpe.
As her children Olivia, nine, Charlie, six and 18-year-old Ailish got ready for the day ahead Chantelle was doing the washing up.
She told YorkMix:
With the sun coming up I thought it was like a very red sunrise. She said, ‘No, mum, look’ – and she opened the blind and it was there, above the roof of the house in front of us.
It was like a big ball of flame, I thought oh my god! It wasn’t flying across, it was going straight down.
She went into the garden and took the photograph, above, on her iPhone.
I was expecting a noise, a bang or something because you could clearly see it was something falling out of the sky and it was on fire.
Chantelle switched on the news when she went back inside “because I did expect something to come of it,” she said.
Describing the sighting as “very random for a Tuesday morning!” she said her youngest, six-year-old Charlie, was particularly excited.
Another person who saw it was Claire Davies from Acomb. She told YorkMix
I saw a very thick orange trail with something at the end of it. I thought, ‘Blimey, what’s that?’ It was a bit strange.
Claire added: “I suppose if it had been anything serious we would have heard about it on the news.”
What was that thing?
After Chantelle posted her photograph to the York Past And Present Facebook Page, the speculation began.
Most people seemed to think the most likely explanation was a meteor. And there was a report of a meteor sighting as far away as South Lanarkshire in Scotland at about the same time left on the Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports website.
Other speculation about the possible source of the ball of flame followed.
– Ali Lou
North Yorkshire police said they had received no reports about the UFO.
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Sorry about that everyone had a curry and my pants caught fire, had to leg em in the air hahahaha
I saw this this morning
Like these I saw before Xmas when I was leaving monks cross.
I saw one like this in Edinburgh a couple of years ago..it traveled across the sky for a long while?
Is it Johnny Depp’s career after he was in Dark Shadows?