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Kelly-Ann Mills

Mysterious "bright orange" burning object lights up the sky before disappearing

A mysterious burning object was spotted flying across the sky on Sunday evening.

The “bright orange” object was seen by several people moving slowly over the north of the Hull leaving a trail in its wake before disappearing.

Eyewitness Rebecca Holmes says she saw it from her garden in the Bransholme area of the city.

Rebecca told Hull Live : “I was sat in the garden, my husband was doing some gardening and I looked up and it was so bright orange and it was just gliding really slowly like something was burning but it was definitely too slow to be a shooting star.

“It was weird, it looked like either a plane or a rocket or something.

“But it was just going really slow over the houses and then it just seemed to stop and stay still and it just disappeared. It was so weird."

She added: "It was mad it was glowing bright orange and it had the trail on it as well. It was crazy.”

Another person in the area added: “It just appeared suddenly from nowhere in the sky and we watched it eventually drift off into the distance."

Back in October a fireball that shot over Wales and Ireland was eventually declared as not a shooting star.

The first sighting of what some called a "fireball" was above Cork - with dozens of people taking to social media.

With other reports made from later the same night.

It was actually a Chinese satellite re-entering the earth's atmosphere and making a huge flash in the process, according to Astronomy Ireland.

They tweeted: "Thank you all for your reports of the fireball in the sky last night at about 9pm.

"Our chairman David Moore thinks that this was the rocket body of a Chinese satellite used to launch 'GPS' type satellite in January 2016, reentering Earth's atmosphere."

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