Flashing meteor that exploded over Norway landed somewhere in a nearby forest

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The hunt for fragments of an "unusually large meteor" that lit up the skies over Norway on 25 July has begun. 

The meteor awakened awestruck residents of the country's capital city, Oslo, with the sound of a large explosion. 
Footage shows the fireball from the meteor streaking across the sky in a trail of bright flashes at around 1 a.m. local time Sunday morning before it landed somewhere in a forest near Oslo. 

The rumbling of the meteor startled numerous residents and led to calls to Norwegian emergency services, though no injuries or damage have been reported yet, the Norwegian police said. 

The Norwegian Meteor Network (NMN), a group that monitors meteor activity in the country, has analyzed video footage of the extraplanetary visitor's trajectory to pinpoint its landing site, which the group believes to be somewhere in Finnemarka forest, located 40 miles (60 kilometers) from Oslo. 

"My wife and I heard a loud rumbling noise and saw two powerful flashes of light," Morten Bilet, a meteorite collector and an NMN member, told Verdens Gang, a Norwegian newspaper. "It's definitely a large meteor that has come in over eastern Norway. This is a big deal." 

The meteor was traveling up to 43200 miles per hour (72000 km per hour) and lit up the sky for five to six seconds, according to the NMN. The meteor's pressure wave also caused a strong gust of wind, the group said.