{"id":530029,"date":"2026-04-14T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530029\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:19:13","slug":"green-meteor-spotted-soaring-through-norfolk-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530029\/","title":{"rendered":"Green meteor spotted soaring through Norfolk skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  At around 12.25am on Monday, the blazing green ball was spotted by baffled people in Mundesley and Fakenham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Did anyone just see the ball of fire?&#8221; asked one person on Facebook. &#8220;Not a shooting star, silent, so not a missile.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Fakenham local posted a video on the same social media site, asking: &#8220;Does anyone know what this is?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The &#8220;fireball&#8221; was spotted elsewhere around the UK, with doorbell footage from North Yorkshire showing the moment it blazed into a bright green inferno before vanishing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Now, experts have said that it is a meteor, with the green flames indicating that it is rich in magnesium.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides,&#8221; a spokesman for NASA explained.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;During the atmospheric entry phase, an impacting object is both slowed and heated by atmospheric friction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Objects causing fireballs are usually not large enough to survive passage through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere intact.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Those hoping to see a meteor shower soon might be able to spot the Lyrids, which will be visible from April 15 until 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At around 12.25am on Monday, the blazing green ball was spotted by baffled people in Mundesley and Fakenham.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530029","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=530029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}