Mysterious 'fireball' sparks 200+ reports across Scotland and Northern Ireland

Just after nine on a Thursday evening, the skies above Scotland and Northern Ireland briefly became something other than ordinary — a bright, fast-moving object crossing the darkness and pulling more than two hundred people out of their routines and into a shared moment of wonder. The UK Meteor Network has taken up the question that the sky left open: was this a visitor from the cosmos, or a remnant of our own ambitions falling back to earth? In either case, the event reminds us that the boundary between the familiar and the unknown is never far above our heads.