{"id":276842,"date":"2025-11-22T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:28:11","slug":"drigg-flare-rescue-call-out-likely-part-of-leonid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/276842\/","title":{"rendered":"Drigg flare rescue call-out &#8216;likely part of Leonid meteor shower&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An emergency call-out prompted by reports of flares off a coastline was likely to be a meteor shower, the RNLI said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Bees RNLI was requested to launch by HM Coastguard Belfast on Wednesday after an angler reported seeing multiple flares off Drigg beach in Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lifeboat reached the area at 20:50 GMT and the crew searched using lights, radar and illumination flares to try to locate the vessel or person in distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the three-hour search, the team spotted several &#8220;extremely bright meteors&#8221; and said it was most likely in relation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/cgmxppv79g4o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leonid meteor shower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An emergency call-out prompted by reports of flares off a coastline was likely to be a meteor shower,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-276842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}