Witnesses saw powerful flashes of light turn the night sky yellow before they hit loud bangs as a meteorite struck a nearby forest. A search is on for an unusually large #meteor that may have landed near Oslo, #Norway. The meteor was visible as a bright fireball in the night sky for at least five seconds after appearing at around 01:00 local time (04:30 IST), as per the Norwegian Meteor Network. Morten Bilet, who is among Rekaa’s colleagues at Norwegian Meteor Network, also witnessed the event which he described as spooky rather than dangerous. As per Bilet, meteor probably hit the asteroid belt of our solar system when it was travelling between Mars and Jupiter.

Source: dna July 26, 2021 06:33 UTC