Fireball Turns Night Into Day as It Blazes Across Sky in Lapland

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Tony Bateman was sitting at home in Lapland, Finland, on November 16 when he heard a loud bang. When he played back video from a camera he’d set up to record the northern lights, he saw this incredible footage of a fireball lighting up the night.

Jyrki Manninen, a physicist at the University of Oulu, said the object was likely a meteor, although he did not rule out the possibility that it could have been a piece of space trash, according to a local report. Credit: Tony Bateman via Storyful