UK boy captures flaming METEOR soaring over his house
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A 10-year-old boy was stunned when he filmed a flaming METEOR soaring over his house in Manchester.
Jake Southward was warming up to go for a run with dad Anthony, 50, when he spotted a huge fireball in the sky.
The quick-thinking schoolboy grabbed his parents’ iPad and filmed the object as it flashed overhead at 4.30pm last Wednesday (19/1).
Jake, from Ashton on Mersey, near Sale, said: "I've never seen anything like it before.
“At first I thought it was a plane about to crash, but I realised if it was a plane about to crash it would've been going down."
The youngster, who attends Wellfield Junior School, posted the video online which has attracted hundreds of views.
Mum Yvonne, 50, said: "The children come out with rubbish all the time, so you don't really pay a lot of attention to it.
“But then I saw the video and I thought: 'Actually, that's weird'.
"I said: 'You'd better start looking out for a bit of rock, it might be worth some money'.
"I was going to send them down to Ashton Park to see where it landed."
Jake Southward was warming up to go for a run with dad Anthony, 50, when he spotted a huge fireball in the sky.
The quick-thinking schoolboy grabbed his parents’ iPad and filmed the object as it flashed overhead at 4.30pm last Wednesday (19/1).
Jake, from Ashton on Mersey, near Sale, said: "I've never seen anything like it before.
“At first I thought it was a plane about to crash, but I realised if it was a plane about to crash it would've been going down."
The youngster, who attends Wellfield Junior School, posted the video online which has attracted hundreds of views.
Mum Yvonne, 50, said: "The children come out with rubbish all the time, so you don't really pay a lot of attention to it.
“But then I saw the video and I thought: 'Actually, that's weird'.
"I said: 'You'd better start looking out for a bit of rock, it might be worth some money'.
"I was going to send them down to Ashton Park to see where it landed."