Meteor: incredible fireball sight in sky above Herefordshire

A DRIVER'S dashcam has caught the incredible sight of a fireball soaring through the Herefordshire sky late at night.

Ross Watkins from Bromyard caught the meteor on his dashcam in the early hours of Thursday morning.

He said it was an "extremely impressive" sight as he drove into Bromyard on the A44 just before Brockhampton.

The UK Meteor Network, which monitors meteors in the skies above the UK, called it a "significant fireball".

OTHER NEWS:

• Restaurant replacing Hereford's Pizza Express announces opening date
• Watch: Herefordshire woman's Buckingham Palace garden party invite
• Met Office reveals Herefordshire forecast as 'heatwave' in UK

The group said it was picked up by 15 of its cameras at 12.39am and had received more than 200 public reports.

Meteor over Clifton, Bristol in early hours of this morning, captured on our doorbell camera pic.twitter.com/jziBHDKZGL

— Allie Power (@Girl_Poker) May 12, 2022

It said it looked like the fireball was over South-West England heading into Wales.

Users have also taken to Twitter to report the meteor, with information shared by the group.

OTHER NEWS:

• Tortoise found in Herefordshire car park reunited with his owner
• Hereford's first open-air cinema festival - more details
• Patients still dying with Covid in Herefordshire's hospitals

Allie Power said her doorbell captured the fireball, with Dale Baxter also seeing it near Beverley, East Yorkshire.

We caught it near Beverley, East Yorkshire pic.twitter.com/iWxzPZKtdG

— 📻 Dale Baxter (@radio_baxter) May 12, 2022

Meteors can be viewed by the naked eye, and the best chance to see them is somewhere dark and clear, away from light pollution.

Meteors are pieces of debris that enter Earth’s atmosphere at speeds of up to 70km per second, vaporising and causing the streaks of light we call meteors.