A huge fireball meteor passed over the skies of the UK today with an observatory saying it was by far the largest fireball ever spotted by it.
Captured at the Norman Lockyer Observatory in Devon at 02:04 am (local time), the footage shows the "bolide" meteor giving out a large orb of light.
According to Dave Jones at the UK Meteor Observation Network (UKMON), it was by far the largest captured at the Observatory.
The International Astronomical Union defines a fireball as "a meteor brighter than any of the planets" (magnitude -4 or greater).
A West Midlands Police traffic officer saw the fireball while travelling on the M42. It was filmed by the car's on- board CCTV, the BBC reported.
An eyewitness in Cardiff described the meteor as "spectacular".
It is reported to have broken into several pieces as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
