A spokeswoman for police in Durham, north of England, told callers that their vision for the 'bright light or fire in the sky' at about 2145 on Saturday night.
However, air traffic officials confirmed that no reports of any aircraft suffered an accident, as announced the National Meteorological she believes that the 'ball of fire' which is viewed Shihab.
Said astronomer David Whitehouse The body was in the size of a fist and may be due to scattering wreckage of a planet is made up from the ground properly.
He added: 'It was a mass of rock may be coming from somewhere between Mars and Jupiter lost in space for thousands of millions of years'.
It should be noted that the meteors are bodies floating in space and burn up as it entered Earth's atmosphere, while meteorites are larger in size or burning in the atmosphere, but up to the surface of the earth.
Source: Jerusalem Arab