This fireball was reported by “Les<\/strong>” from Norwich. He described it as having a 3 second duration as it headed from the south east to the north west, passing above the stars of the ‘Plough’ and just to the west of Polaris.<\/p>\n June 8th \u00a001:15 BST (00:15 UT)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n This fireball was seen by\u00a0Peter Edwards<\/strong>\u00a0(Liverpool). He describes it as passing overhead, \u00a0having a duration of 3 seconds and being orange & white in colour.<\/p>\n June 10th \u00a002:08:54 UT This fireball was imaged by\u00a0Richard Fleet<\/strong>\u00a0(Wilcot, Hants) very low\u00a0in his northwestern sky.<\/p>\n His image is reproduced here.<\/p>\n Triangulation, using Richard’s image along with an image captured by another UKMON member, showed the fireball to have had an atmospheric trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean, just to the north west of Co Donegal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n July 20th \u00a021:48 BST (20:48 UT)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n This fireball, of duration 3-4 seconds. was reported by\u00a0Adrian Umpleby<\/strong>\u00a0(Fen Ditton, Cambs) and by\u00a0David Winn-Morgan<\/strong>\u00a0(Kingston upon Thames). Adrian saw the fireball through his car windscreen and describes in heading downwards in the southern sky in an almost vertical direction.<\/p>\n Additional reports appeared on the IMO website (see\u00a0http:\/\/fireballs.imo.net\/imo_view\/event\/2015\/1579<\/a>\u00a0) from locations including Oxfordshire, Luton and London. There were also several reports from observers in northern France. Unfortunately, no images of this fireball have been reported.<\/p>\n The sky positions reported in the individual reports indicate that the fireball started near the south coast of England, probably over eastern Sussex and headed in a roughly SSE direction, passing just to the west of Rouen and ending around 120 km west of Paris.<\/p>\n July 20th \u00a023:40 BST (22:40 UT)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n This fireball, of duration 1-2 seconds, was seen by\u00a0Jennifer Ashby<\/strong>\u00a0(Bristol) and was heading in a westerly direction. She describes it as being orange in colour.<\/p>\n July 25th \u00a001:15 BST \u00a0(00:15 GMT)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n This fireball was reported by\u00a0Kathleen G<\/strong>\u00a0(Glasgow). She saw it in the north western sky through a window and described it as being bright blue in colour with a short blue tail and having a duration of about 4 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The long light evenings at this time of the year, together with the shorter nights inevitably reduce the opportunities for people to see fireballs. In general, there will be few people still outdoors by the time that it gets dark.Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"\"](\"\/images\/meteor\/RFleet_2015jun10_0208.jpg\")
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