I write regarding Jeremy Charles Atkins' letter in last week's Bromsgrove Standard about a 'circular ball of red and orange flame with a tail of fire'.

He said it was traveling 'east to west on a line corresponding to Windmill Avenue in Rubery.' It is likely that the fireball was a meteor sometimes known as a bolide.

Some are made of rock others of metal.

A bolide is a meteor brighter than any of the planets and is usually magnitude -4 or greater.

'Bolide' is derived from the Greek word for bolis which translates to a 'flash' or 'a missile'.

Our group Anomalies Central England (ACE) scientifically investigates, for free, a range of anomalous phenomena eg UFOs, ghosts, poltergeists etc.

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