Residents of the British Somerset and Dorset reported that at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon they heard first a strong rumble, and then something similar to the echoes of a strong explosion. The windows in many houses trembled.
Social networks were flooded with messages:
– The glasses in my greenhouse rang and were about to jump out of the frames.
– The ducks living in my yard were very frightened. Something made them jump, after which we heard a loud crash.
“My whole house shook. We decided that it was an earthquake, and, grabbing the children, ran out into the street.
The British Department of Defense said the incident had nothing to do with military exercises or jet flights. Seismologists said they did not record any activity in the earth's crust.
A few hours later, the driver of one of the taxis shared the recordings of his DVR. They show that a bright unidentified object is rapidly sweeping across the clear sky.
The British Department of Defense said the incident had nothing to do with military exercises or jet flights.
The British Department of Defense said the incident had nothing to do with military exercises or jet flights.
Astronomers believe that it was a fireball – a small celestial body that explodes when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. And that the people of Dorset and Somerset were fortunate to a certain extent. the size of the car, in contrast to the meteorite, is not so much, and the car completely burned out, and did not bombard the ground with its debris.
In February of this year, scientists discovered a 300-gram piece of meteorite in western Britain, which caused a similar commotion.
A whole meteorite was last found in the kingdom in 1991. He fell in the garden of an apartment building.
