This is the moment a meteor shot through the sky above Kent.

Tom Bell on the Isle of Sheppey discovered he had accidentally filmed it on his doorbell camera.

Other sightings were recorded from all around the UK including London, Hertfordshire and Wolverhampton.

One witness said she saw a burning light streaking through the sky for about 10 seconds before it disappeared.

She said: “It was large in the sky, orange with an orange blaze behind it, not what I would describe as a long shooting star tail, but a shorter orange one.

"Then it just disappeared… Popped out of the sky. It seemed like it hadn’t really happened.

"I tried to tell my husband but he didn’t quite believe me!”

One woman said she “had just turned my computer off and looked up out of the window” before spotting an object streaking across the sky, adding: “It was perfect timing.”

The Met Office was intriqued enough to ask anyone who spotted the meteor and had footage to send it in to them.

A spokesman said clear skies had contributed to the quality of the sightings.

Separately a bright green comet, not seen in our solar system since the last ice age, is now hurtling towards Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), says NASA, was discovered by astronomers using a wide-field survey camera in early March 2022 at an observatory in California.

Since then, say experts, the comet has brightened substantially and is now passing through the inner solar system and will be closest to the Sun on January 12 with a chance that it may be visible to the naked eye just a few weeks later.