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'My next thought was fireworks but I'm 90% sure it wasn't that, and there was no explosion. 'For reference it was about the same size as the full-ish moon tonight, visible through the clouds, but as a much brighter blue green color and, again, moving quite fast. 'It was a very odd combination of speed, size and brightness and didn't look like anything I've ever seen in the sky here before.'