##IMPORTANT## - Anybody catch sight of fireball in the sky in SOUTH London, England..

Really??

My goodness!

I do not understand why we are not informed about these things.

Doesn't Britain have an alert and aware space agency?

Apparently, many things like this happen in the US and some actually hit people or partially destroy buildings!

However, I'm not so sure that what we saw was a meteorite....its flight trail was extremely slow and quite erratic...

It was so slow that we managed to catch sight of it and then have to run away from it to catch more glimpses of it as it flew behind a tall building....

It was further away from you and higher up in the atmosphere than it appeared so it seemed to move slowly and its flight path was eratic because meteorites are not perfectly streamlined and are not spherical so will adopt an eratic path.

it was superman

But what are the flight paths of meteorites??

Meteorites move quite slowly (relative to, say, fighter jets or missiles) by the time they reach the lower atmosphere. A meteorite the size of, say, a football can be very bright indeed due to superheating in the atmosphere (before it slows down). They can also follow odd flight paths because the aerodynamics are screwed up due to the completely uneven and bumpy surface. They land on earth all the time, that's why nobody really cares too much. One woman in America even got hit by one and it only made the local news (she was fine: it was the size of a pebble and had already gone through the roof and bounced off a wall).

And no, of course britain doesn't have a space agency in the sense you are using. We do have a space agency, but it's activities involve planning rocket launches and space missions, not watching out for pifflingly small meteorites. You seem to be confusing a space agency (i.e. NASA) with buck rogers. If it was of any considerable size you would be dead.

Doesn't Britain have an alert and aware space agency?

well I didn't see anything and it would have been pretty hard to see anything given the weather. How did you even manage to spot it?

Down?

Urm no, of course not. It's a man in a shed in Derby with an IBM Thinkpad and a GPS handset.

Meteorites fall down all the time all around the world. It's no big deal.

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Ah, a funny one...

No, I was not under the influence of narcotics, or tobacco or alcoholic beverages for that matter...

Were you even in South London at the time, hm??

(Also, three others and I witnessed this peculiar and unreported phenomenon, so I cannot have been dishonest.)

I saw it but I'm in Yorkshire lol wondered what the hell it was.

I meant with people winding you up *looks out for all the sarcastic comments*

Yes I live in one of the area's you mentioned it was in

It Was Teh Illuminati. Run For Your Lifes!!!11!!!111

I don't think it was an alien aircraft because space agencies and Earth defences would have already intercepted it

Really??

My goodness!

I do not understand why we are not informed about these things.

Doesn't Britain have an alert and aware space agency?

Apparently, many things like this happen in the US and some actually hit people or partially destroy buildings!

However, I'm not so sure that what we saw was a meteorite....its flight trail was extremely slow and quite erratic...

It was so slow that we managed to catch sight of it and then have to run away from it to catch more glimpses of it as it flew behind a tall building....