A HUGE meteor wowed onlookers as its fireball streaked across the sky.
The UK Meteor Network said they had received more than 100 sightings.
One householder even caught footage of it on their doorbell camera.
Many people mistook the dazzling shooting star for a UFO.
Paula Leonard, from Hull, said: “It was a big green ball of light with a long white tail.
"Initially I thought it was a firework but it was too big and travelling downwards.”
The meteor scorched in from the North East over Hull but was seen across the country on Saturday at about 6.45pm.
Sam Clapp in Bristol said: “Awesome. So bright and fast.”
Penny Hogg saw it near Edinburgh. She said: “Had a bright orange tail, then you saw the bits of fire rock crumble away.”
The UK Fireball Network said yesterday: “It was a meteoroid from the outer asteroid belt.
“It was unusual as its orbit took it past Mercury, which explains why it came in so fast, 31.7km/s. Sadly no meteorites survived, it burnt up 38km up.”
Meteors are space rocks that blaze in the Earth’s atmosphere.
One that exploded about four miles up in 1908 devastated the remote Tunguska area in Siberia with a 12 megaton blast.
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