This is the astonishing moment a "meteor" hurtling through the sky is captured on a driver's dash-cam.
In the remarkable footage, a giant fireball can be seen rocketing towards earth at speed for a brief moment before vanishing into the night.
The driver, who wishes not to be named, spotted the mysterious object while driving down Binns Road in Old Swan, Liverpool, on January 31, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Watch the video above to see the moment the "meteor" was captured.
A similar incident in Derby on February 3 was captured on CCTV. A meteor was recorded plummeting towards earth in the Stenson Fields area at around 11.35pm.
CCTV footage in Birmingham also captured that very same meteor, which flashed across the sky. National Space Centre experts believed it was a bolide – a bright meteor which explodes in the atmosphere creating a flash, Birmingham Live reported at the time.
Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, the unnamed driver said: "I was going to pick my girlfriend up before we went out to a party.
"I spotted this thing in the sky straight away. But when I checked the dash-cam it had picked it up really clearly.
"I think it was a meteor rather than a UFO or anything like that.
"I had a look online and something similar happened in Derby a few days later.
"That convicted me it was a meteor."
Meteors are fragments of space rocks that have fallen from space into the Earth's atmosphere. They get the nickname 'shooting stars' because the friction with the atmosphere causes them to become so hot they burn and glow in the sky.
If they manage to survive the impact when they hit the ground then they are referred to as meteorites.
