{"id":49597,"date":"2026-04-13T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49597"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:47:15","slug":"dramatic-moment-massive-green-fireball-streaks-across-the-skies-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49597","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic moment massive green fireball streaks across the skies in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wild footage shows a massive green fireball streaking across the UK Monday morning, prompting stunned witnesses to quip it was linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us-news\/artemis-ii-splashes-down-completing-historic-lunar-mission\/\">the Artemis II mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100009504694386\/videos\/1438865277462922\/\">captured by one resident<\/a> showed a bright green glow, followed by two huge flashes in quick succession before the fireball burned out seconds later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"39070420\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<figcaption>Footage showed a bright green ball streaking across the UK.  <span class=\"credit\">Gary Pescod \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"39070884\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39070884\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/now-rocks-thrown-us-https-125565694.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A green fireball streaks across a starry night sky above a dark landscape with some illuminated structures.\" class=\"wp-image-39070884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/now-rocks-thrown-us-https-125565694.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 2872w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/now-rocks-thrown-us-https-125565694.jpg?resize=300,169&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/now-rocks-thrown-us-https-125565694.jpg?resize=768,432&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 768w, 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/now-rocks-thrown-us-https-125565694.jpg?resize=150,84&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Some witnesses suggested the fireball was a rogue firework or low-flying aircraft. <span class=\"credit\">Gary Pescod \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cosmic phenomenon was spotted in several towns and cities, sparking a flurry of reaction online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee we go round the moon and now we have space rocks been thrown at us,\u201d one Facebook user quipped, referring to the historic Artemis II mission.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cProbably a bit of the spacecraft they mislaid,\u201d another joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCould it be remnants of Artemis?\u201d a third chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses suggested the fireball was a rogue firework or low-flying aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw that. It was bright green. It was massive. I thought it was a firework at first it seemed so close,\u201d an onlooker said.<\/p>\n<p>The ball of light was likely a meteor, and sightings have been reported across the US recently.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a fireball was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/us-news\/giant-fireball-spotted-streaking-across-mid-atlantic-states-maybe-missiles\/\">seen blazing across several states<\/a> along the East Coast, prompting hundreds of spectators to file meteor sightings reports.<\/p>\n<p>In March, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASASpaceAlerts\/status\/2035537752524038171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2035537752524038171%7Ctwgr%5Edc516979518a5e3eb4267ff989c932bc6802331e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.khou.com%2Farticle%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fhouston-loud-boom-possible-meteorite%2F285-a560e7f8-1391-43b1-9fc7-17c2763a4cd5\">NASA confirmed a meteor sighting<\/a> above Texas \u2013 and a meteorite, which splintered off a fireball, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/22\/us-news\/meteorite-crashes-through-womans-house-after-pressure-wave-booms-29-miles-above-texas\/\">ended up smashing<\/a> into a woman\u2019s roof.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/world-news\/dramatic-moment-massive-green-fireball-streaks-across-the-skies-in-uk\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild footage shows a massive green fireball streaking across the UK Monday morning, prompting stunned witnesses to quip it was linked to the Artemis II mission.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}