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A family have witnessed a strange phenomenon in the sky over Maidstone this morning and are at a loss to explain it.
Scott Wilson and his daughter Isabelle from Larkfield were travelling in Queens Road, Maidstone, when they noticed the white ball in the sky at around 10.20am.
Mr Scott said: "It was very high up at first and travelled across the sky, falling as it went.
"It wasn't like the jet-stream from a plane, because it was round."
Isabelle said: "It was like a shooting star, only it wasn't."
Mr Scott said there was no accompanying sound, and described it as white "not orange or like anything burning up."
After a while, the object disappeared from their view behind the rooftops. Police said they had had no reports that might explain the sighting.
One possible explanation has come from Aviation APB who tweeted that it was most likely the contrail from an RAF C17 which flew over at around 10.15, although Mr Wilson is adamant that the round shape did not look like a regular plane jetstream.
A meteor lit up the night sky over Kent at the start of the month, but unlike Mr Scott's sighting it left a trail of orange flames and was accompanied by a rumbling noise.
The UK Meteor Observation Network (UKMON) said it had received more than 800 reported sightings of it from across the country.
