Meteor burns up in the sky, creating a flash of light shortly before dusk in eastern Slovakia
The 'out-of-this-world' action was spotted by hundreds of worried people in the eastern part of Slovakia shortly before dusk on April 6 - who feared the asteroid would crash into their homes.
Lasting only a few seconds, the clip shows the meteor racing rapidly towards earth.
A split second later there is a flash of a fireball, before the bright yellow light quickly disintegrates and disappears.
It was filmed and uploaded to YouTube by a user called NikoLas Vegas, who said he was initially concerned the object would have crash-landed onto earth when he saw it at 7.34pm local time.
He told a Slovak news website: 'I was driving my car when I spotted something amazing up in the sky. I don't know what it was but I posted a video of it online to share it with others.'
He added: 'I was a bit worried that some of it had actually landed on the airport in Kosice but I was told later that it had disintegrated before it hit the ground.'
Slovak astronomer Jan Svoren said that it was a meteor of the type known as a bolide.
They are characterised as burning extremely bright, often seconds before exploding in the atmosphere — at the same time as creating an even brighter fireball.
One video of the meteor was taken from a car in the Hungarian town of Rakospalota, and another in a second car in the Slovak city of Kosice on April 6.
Five years ago, parts of a meteor were found in the same location near the city of Kosice.
Amateur astrologers and collectors managed to recover 64 fragments, of which the biggest one weighed over four pounds.
Or are there just more cameras? At one time you would make a wish on a falling star, now you make a youtube upload.