From: Doug Roberts (doug@nolimits.demon.co.uk)
News Of The World Newspaper
30/07/95

Police across Britain were swamped with 1000's of calls early yesterday after a large meteor streaked through the sky.

Reports of a falling ball of fire came from the Grampions in Scotland to Buckinghamshire. Many people near the comet mistook it for a ships distress flare.

A witness in Southshields, Tyne and Wear said it lit up the area "like Wembley floodlights."

Most of the meteor probably burned up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere but part of it may have landed in Linconshire or the North Sea.