Flare that prompted large lifeboat search operation in Aberd

Updated: February 19, 2021, 9:10 pm
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The sighting of a ‘red flare’ which led to a multi-agency search of the sea near Aberdeen may have actually been a meteor, the city’s coastguard has suggested.
Officers from Aberdeen, Stonehaven and Cruden Bay joined the Aberdeen RNLI’s two lifeboats to investigate multiple reports of a flare at around 9pm last night.
The boats scanned the mouth of the River Dee and out to half a mile offshore, while six search teams consisting of 29 coastguard volunteers looked on land between Torry Battery and Burnbanks Village.

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