Amazing footage has captured the moment a blazing meteor soars over the Channel Islands.
What looks at first like mundane footage of cars passing through a lit street at night suddenly turns to life when a beam of light appears in the sky.
As it moves across the sky, the flash gets bigger, creating a blue-green reflection in the water.
The flash begins to fade within seconds before disappearing into the night sky.
The stunning video was recorded in Jersey and unintentionally shot by Nest Webcams, owned by Andrew Scotts-Miller.
What does it look like at first that the scene of cars passing through the street with the lights on at night suddenly turns to life when a flash of light appears in the sky?
As it moves across the sky, the flash gets bigger, creating a blue-green reflection over the water
Flash fades in seconds before disappearing into the night sky
Mr. Scots-Miller, who lives in the island’s capital, St. Helier, was watching TV at home when he saw a glow in the sky.
He had seen a similar flash, which he had originally seen as a firework, earlier in the week, but was later confirmed to be a meteor.
Andrew immediately checked his Nest webcam, which was pointing south from his home in St. Helier toward St. Aubin’s Bay.
And he was pleased to see that it had captured the wonderful moment perfectly.
He shared the footage on social media and in a matter of hours the video garnered an astonishing 70,000 views – and 2,000 times.
Andrew, project lead for a new air ambulance charity, said: ‘I was at home when I saw this huge ball going out my window.
‘A week before we had a meteor, I thought it was a firework, so when I saw it, I knew exactly what it was.
‘I checked the camera and we had caught it. The meteor was much more dramatic than the previous one, making great video even though it was more colorful than it appeared on camera.
‘I was stunned by the way the meteor’s glow reflected off the water in the bay. Some of the things that nature throws at us are incredible, especially where we are in the world.
‘We are not known for the Northern Light or other natural phenomenon, so it was spectacular and I am very fortunate to have seen two meteors in the span of a week.’
The footage was recorded just weeks after a spectacular meteor shower treated the residents of the Channel Islands.
The Perseid meteor shower was visible in the sky over the Channel Islands last month. It peaked on 12 August, when islanders could see up to 150 meteors per hour.
Two hundred vertical digital images of long exposures show the Perseid meteor crossing the sky atop a stone dowel at Kuklis, near the eastern city of Kratovo, Republic of North Macedonia.
The celestial event is associated with the dusty debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the Sun once every 133 years.
The meteors are fragments of Comet Swift-Tuttle and some are as small as a grain of sand.
But they are visible when they burn up when they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, producing a stream of light in the sky.
The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear to originate from the constellation Perseus – a constellation in the northern sky named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus.