Gerry Underwood, saw a mysterious burning object at approximately 8 pm local time last Wednesday in the English town of Stretham, in the county of Cambridgeshire.
“It felt like a very thick chemical trail to begin with,” Underwood explained to the British newspaper the Daily Mail. It looked like a short, thin cloud. it wasn’t moving quickly. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a meteorite. Because it would be gone in seconds. We saw hundreds of shooting stars. But it definitely wasn’t that either. This was going down very slowly and in a spiral. It started to glow orange as you can see in the pictures. There were also flames coming out of the back. It was really unusual.
Underwood photographed the impressive burning object as it fell from the sky, leaving behind a huge trail. He also noted how it dropped very slowly between 10 and 20 minutes. The seemingly unexplained object then disappeared behind a forest. Underwood said he was looking at Huntingdon as he watched him go down. He also emphasized that the object could have fallen much farther.
“The overall size is what impressed me,” Underwood explained.
“When you look at the pictures, they show the trees in the foreground and besides, it was really big.
Fell beyond the horizon.
That’s how big it was: we couldn’t see it land.
Experts in the field have proposed several theories for the strange sighting.
These include meteor showers, shooting stars, fireworks, airplane trails.
Some even suggested it was the wake left by a troublesome alien craft.
However, astronomers have offered another explanation.
“The burning object moving across the sky on Wednesday night looks a lot like an airplane trail to me,” said Dr. Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“Although it’s impossible to say exactly what the object is without more evidence.
It looks like an airplane contrail illuminated by the setting sun.”
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