On Sunday evening, a huge fireball was seen flying over Britain and Ireland and it is believed that it crashed somewhere in Ireland or the Irish Sea.

According to experts, a search is continuing for the meteorite that may be worth a lot of money. The United Kingdom Meteor Observing Network (UKMON) in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland filmed the meteor.

As per UKMON, the meteorite arrived from an asteroid in orbit between Mars and Jupiter. There are rumors that whoever finds it might be in for a generous windfall worth thousands of pounds. UKMON said that up to now, they have got more than 50 public reports about a fireball spotted on 26 April 2015 at 22:10pm.

“This event was so bright that a piece or pieces may have survived the re-entry and landed as extremely rare and valuable meteorites”, said the Irish Mirror David Moore from Astronomy Ireland.

Everyone who have seen the fireball are requested to fill in to online report form on Astronomy Ireland’s website ‘astronomy’ as soon as possible as the details are fresh in their minds. In return, every will be sent analysis of all the reports.

Many astronomers made calculations with the help of data from about fifty sightings and it has been believed that it might have crashed into the Irish Sea. According to UKMON, there is a possibility that it is something has survived and landed in the Irish Sea and may be no bigger than 30 to 50 grams.

The fireball was so bright and visible that Astronomy Ireland was informed by the Irish Coast Guard at Valentia Island, off the Iveragh Peninsula in the south-west of County Kerry. Irish Coast Guard received numerous reports of what people thought were possible distress flares.