{"id":528928,"date":"2026-04-13T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:14:08","slug":"experts-confirm-fireball-across-england-as-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528928\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts confirm fireball across England as meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists said a fireball spotted in the skies above East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire was a meteor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage of the meteor was captured in Hornsea, Billingborough and Moulton Seas End among other locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Charlotte Bays, secretary of the UK Fireball Alliance, said the meteor had been spotted across northern Europe at about 00:24 BST on Monday, but finding any material from it was unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Based on the fireball trajectory, the event occurred over the North Sea so, sadly, we do not expect any recoverable meteorites.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists said a fireball spotted in the skies above East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire was a meteor. Footage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-528928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528928","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=528928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}