Fireball over Liverpool
© Lottie Blake
A woman was startled to see a "ball of fire" streaking across the sky over her back garden.

Lottie Blake, 30, had just finished having dinner with her sister, yesterday evening, when she went into the kitchen to make a cup of tea.

However, as she was putting the kettle on she said she noticed something out of the window overlooking her back garden.

Lottie, from Whiston, told the Echo : "It was yesterday evening at about 8.00pm.

"We had just had our dinner so I went to the kitchen to make everyone a cuppa when I saw something out of the window.


"We're under the airport flight path but it didn't look like a plane."

Lottie managed to capture the footage on her mobile phone which shows the unidentified flying object leaving a glowing trail across the late evening sky.

She said: "Since lockdown it's been quiet so now we really notice when a plane is going past. And last night the sky was dead clear.

"I thought it was weird as it was hurtling downward so if it was a plane it would have been in trouble.

"And it was interesting because it wasn't completely dark out but it was like a ball of fire it was so bright."

Lottie snapped some photos on her mobile and a short video before shouting to her sister to come out and see what was going on.

She said: "Admittedly I'm a bit of a UFO buff, I love all conspiracy theories and aliens but I thought I better not go off on one so I'll show it to my sister who is the complete opposite.

"So I was like, 'come and tell me what this is?'"

At first, her sister thought it was a plane but as she kept looking she started to change her mind.

Lottie said added: "We were both staring at it for ages,"

"It was moving but really slowly downwards until the trail disappeared so I don't know if it must have burned up in the atmosphere.

"I shared the video around and some people got back to me and said there was a big meteor shower happening that night.

"Others have said it might just be space debris, as that's something else that happens."

Meteors are pieces of debris which enter Earth's atmosphere at speeds of up to 70 kilometres per second, vaporising and causing the streaks of light which are often seen as trails.

One of the suggestions was that Lottie filmed the Eta Aquarid meteor shower that runs from April 19 to May 28 every year.

According to NASA: "The Eta Aquarids are pieces of debris from Halley's Comet, which is a well-known comet that is viewable from Earth approximately every 76 years."

This year the shower is said to be most visible in the UK between May 5 and 6, at which point there's expected to be up to 60 meteors every hour.