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The blazing orb was spotted over parts of Scotland, northern England and Northern Ireland on Wednesday night.

It said the preliminary trajectory has been calculated by the International Meteor Organisation, and this "indicates that the object, which we now believe to be space debris, would have landed in the Atlantic south of the Hebrides"

Reports of the object in the sky starting coming in at about 9pm on Wednesday, mainly from Scotland and Northern Ireland

Nearly 800 reports were received after the blazing ball of light was spotted in the night sky on Wednesday

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More than 200 people across the country reported seeing the mysterious light shooting across the sky.

Almost 900 people have reported seeing an unidentified object zooming over the UK.