Kite-surfing is without a doubt an adrenaline-inducing sport, but one surfer got slightly more than he bargained for during a recent trip.
Dorian Cie, a kite-surfer from Bremerhaven, Germany, was surfing over the North Sea on September 12 when a fireball photobombed his selfie footage.
In the incredible footage, which Mr Cie posted to his YouTube channel Kite Buddy, the fireball - which is actually a meteor - can be streaking through the sky for just a few seconds.
His video was re-posted by the American Meteor Society , which described it as ‘a fairly unusual video for this kind of event.’
According to the American Meteor Society, the meteor was travelling from South-East to North-West, ending its flight just south of the city of Rens, Denmark.
Meteors enter our atmosphere family regularly, burning up on their entry - which is why they’re often referred to as ‘shooting stars’ or ‘fireballs’.
NASA explained: “The Earth's atmosphere protects us from the multitude of small debris, the size of grains of sand or pebbles, thousands of which pelt our planet every day.
“The meteors in our night sky are visible evidence of this small debris burning up high in the atmosphere.
“In fact, up to a diameter of about 10-meters (33 feet), most stony meteoroids are destroyed in the atmosphere in thermal explosions.”
