We saw it from Lockerbie in the Southern sky. Rather spectacular.

Fireball XL5 produced multicoloured smoke as it wobbled in space. Seriously though there have been many reports over many years of aircraft testing advanced propulsion systems which have unusual glows.

i seen it come down over the a74 southbound on my
way back home and so would other lorrydrivers at the same time

See here for updates:

http://www.popastro.com/sections/meteor/fireball_sightings.htm

Date: 09/05/11-12
Time ~21:35 UT ~22:35 BST
Magnitude: -9;
13 reports direct to section so far

Few initial reports of the May 11-12 fireball, seen from places scattered across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, gave enough detail to allow a possible trajectory for this meteor to be estimated. It may have flown on a very rough south to north track from above eastern England (maybe somewhere over East Anglia/Cambridgeshire) to a point above the North Sea possibly off the Lincolnshire to North Yorkshire coasts, but this is all very uncertain, and the end may even have been over land near those same coastal districts. Half the witnesses reported the fireball was distinctly green, but a few others noted orange, blue or red was present in it instead. Those people who saw most or all the flight indicated the object remained visible for up to three or four seconds. Four early reports were noted on the BBC Scottish News website, but the suggestion there that the fireball may have originated from the η Aquarid meteor shower was quite wrong. Most bright fireballs like this belong to no known meteor shower in general, and linking the event by date to a shower with no supporting evidence is a very common misconception. The most critical problem in making such an association in this case is that the η Aquarid radiant was still well below the horizon at 21:35 UT, since it rises only after the start of morning twilight even from southern Britain during May.

KC???? Never heard of Tunguska in 1906? 9 miles of destruction wouldn't have been caused by a stone cold pebble...

personally, I didn't see nuffink guvnor

Any good astronomer will know that the two events, the fire and meteor, are unrelated.

There were reliable reports of Witches in this country until two centuries ago so perhaps one dropped a butt end as she flew over the peat bog.

I saw this meteor pass over Carlisle Centre and logged it at 10.37 p.m.It was a very bright white light similar to a Roman Candle and was travelling in a straight line from West to East.It appeared to extinguish itself halfway down Warwick Rd.Amazingly when I phoned Police HQ the next day no-one else had contacted them to enquire about what it was.

Sorry - meteors don't cause fires. Meteorites are stone-cold by the time they reach the ground.

Mention of UFOs may seem comical, yet we have had two new reliable witnesses this week alone of more UFO sightings in the Cumbrian region. Something odd is occurring in the area. Air space is being compromised on a regular basis and the MoD seems largely indifferent to it all.

Pat Regan

Founder of North West UFO Research