Fersit, Scotland, United Kingdom – Wednesday, July 02, 2025, 23:50 UTC, A meteor fireball was observed heading E at 12 km/s, and ending at a height of 24 km. Sonic boom reports and visible fragmentation points to meteorites on the ground, although recovery could be difficult due to land access and a large search area.
The story of the meteor over Scotland was reported by the BBC and the event was detected by the UK Meteor Network cameras, and they posted data to the UKMON online archive.
More than a hundred eyewitness in the UK reported the event to the American Meteor Society (AMS) and several videos were posted of the event.1
ABC News footage of the event, showing fragmentation
Search Efforts
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The UKMON trajectory solution was run through the StrewnLAB software to predict the search area shown below. Please download and review the Google Earth files below for detailed maps of the search area.
2025-07-07 03:59 UTC – V2 posted, based on UKMON data. After reviewing the ABC News footage from Helensburgh, I believe there are definitely rocks on the ground. From that video, I would speculate there are many sub-50 gram pieces, 1 bigger fragment, and 1 big main mass miles away from the rest to the east.
Due to the high end height and uncertainty in the trajectory solution, the search area is very large.The critical search area in the immediate vicinity of Loch TreigThe strewn field is likely more than 12 km in length, with the approximate mass distribution shown
Weather Data
The weather data below is sourced from weather balloons, and publicly available via NOAAโs Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). This data is downloaded and post-processed by the StrewnLAB algorithm, to account for changing weather patterns and weather balloon drift. The plots have altitude on the y-axis, in kilometers above sea level. The wind speed below 10km has large effect onthe drift of meteorites.
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