A resident has told of the “bizarre” moment he watched a suspected meteorite fly through the night sky.
Lex Adair said when he woke up, his CCTV alerted him to a bright light that had crossed near his home in West Rainton, County Durham, at about 00:30 BST.
The keen photographer, 34, said he had seen shooting stars but never something of this “calibre”, and was surprised to see what he believed was a “massive meteor flying through the sky”.
Roy Alexander, director of learning at Battlesteads Dark Sky Discovery Observatory in Northumberland, said there had been more than 190 reports of the incident online, which he believed was a “large meteorite”.
