© Newtownabbey TimesSpotted high in the sky above Ballyclare by Trevor McCusker, it's thought this object may be a fireball carrying information on the ancient history of the solar system.
Meteorites, fireballs or maybe something more extra-terrestrial may have been seen in the Ballyclare sky in the past fortnight.
Eagle-eyed Ballyclare man Trevor McCusker sent these pictures in of three strange objects he spotted in the night sky.
On Tuesday, July 5, the photographer spotted what he described as a "red ball" in the sky around 11pm.
He said: "It was like a football, It was going very fast from south west to north east. It had no tail just a round ball of fire."
Then on the following Saturday, July 9, he spotted a dark object in the sky at around 9pm.
"It was a black type colour object in the sky," he said.
"On the bottom left hand side of the object it was red. It was coming close to earth, I ran into the house and got my camera but by then it had went back up into the sky by the time I got the photograph.
"About two-and-a-half hours later I saw another red long object. It also came close to earth and went back up into the sky."
According to the Armagh Observatory a similar report has been made of a fireball in the sky above Ballyeaston village on July 1.
Astronomer John McFarland could not verify these latest witness accounts, but said sightings were not particularly rare.
He said: "Every year there is over 40,000 tons of space debris which falls to the earth. Some of it can be as small as a grain of sand or up to the size of an apple."
I was recently (July 15, 2011) in Belfast Northern Ireland and then on to Northern Scotland, The Highlands. The northern latitudes cause the sun to set at about 11PM local time. How can this photo be accurate? The sky background seems dark when in fact it is not in reality dark at that time of the evening. The 9PM photo invites even more questions. It is really daylight at that time. Ballyclare is several miles north of Belfast. Please enlighten me.