1999-07-24 - South Shields (UK/England) - Fireball

Unnoticed fireball travelling towards ground then dissapears behind building never to be seen or mentioned

When I witnessed this I wasn't sure what to think but now from reports I have read their are some desricptions of what I had seen.

I was with my friends and we were all going home when the sky suddenly went to an orangy like colour and I thought it was just the sun going down but when we looked their was a great big fireball like thing travelling at a steady speed through the sky, travelling downwards. At first I thought it was a meteor or something like that until I heard reports of such sitings. The object was big and roundish and it looked black but was covered by, what looked like, flames as it was quite bright and filled the sky with an orange tint and was leaving an orange trail. Some people around were looking but most people did not see this as their were busy driving or what not, but there was many looking. But I thought it was quite strange how some people did not even see this huge fireball object. We followed the object as far as we could then it kind of went behind a builing and dissapeared. That's when I thought it was a meteor as I believed it had hit into the river,but there was no reports of anything in the sky or crashing down. The only times I have heard of this event was from my friends and people I know.


((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD))