This is one that has intrigued me from when I first saw it c.1972 - 74 when i was a teenager. I was looking north ( I lived in Artane,Dublin at the time ), winter time I think , with just my eyesight when I spotted way out in the heavens what looked like a ball of fire much bigger than any star out there ( I seem to remember it was RED with no trail ) and was rolling across the sky west to east. It would have been travelling about the speed of an aircraft ( which it definitely wasnt !) in a steady line. I dont know what kind of satellites they had back then but this definitely seemed like something NOT man-made
I never saw anything like it since
Anyone shed any light on this ?
Might have been something burning up in the atmosphere, rather slow moving? I have seen stuff burn up in the atmosphere at slow speeds, leaving hardly any trails.
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That may have been it alright - I followed the link and looked up some reports and the descriptions seemed to fairly match up - I may have gotten the year wrong. A meteoroid can glow red during its flight but it is supposed to leave a trail which I dont remember !
I dont know - maybe it was somethimg burning up as Seanie suggests
Oh well!!
  