A bankie has captured a meteor streaking across the night sky on their CCTV footage.
Ken McGirr, a member of the Clydebank Post Camera Club, found dazzling footage of the orange light which lit up skies across the West of Scotland in the early hours of this morning.
In the CCTV film recorded at 0.50am, a ball of light can be seen dashing across the sky before a flare of light enluminates the darkness looming over the town.
Residents from across Greater Glasgow reported hearing a big bang, with some believing it was lightning, not the atmospheric phenomenon.
Residents are far as those in Cumbria in the north of England have also reported seeing the flash.
A meteorite becomes known as a meteor once it hits the Earth's atmosphere.
Dr Cyrielle Opitom, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Astronomy, specialises in studying meteors, asteroids and comets.
Dr Opitom, who has worked at the university for just over six years, said that while the event itself wasn’t “anything unusual”, the clear conditions and brightness of the meteor made the event “very impressive”.
She said: “Meteors aren’t anything unusual, they happen all the time during meteor showers.
“But what stands out about this one is that it was very bright, so it could be seen by quite a lot of people, and we were lucky that it happened at night.
“A lot of meteors fall during the day, and so we don’t see them, or they fall over the oceans and aren’t seen by anyone.
“But this one could be seen on a clear night in Scotland, which doesn’t happen very often.”
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