Splashdown event in Binley Bay, in the first few minutes of New Years Day 1961.
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Meteorite strike or something more profound? Will life in Binley Bay ever be the same?
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New Year firework celebrations, combined with the Lysara meteor shower, drew attention away from an unusual splashdown, fifteen-miles offshore at Binley Bay, a traditional seaside town on the Lincolnshire coast.
A stargazing captain, under the moonlight, on the deck of a Norwegian cargo ship bound from New York - was the only person alive to have witnessed the object tumble from the heavens and land somewhere over the horizon as a ball of fire.