Fireball over NZ
© Catriona Ross
A meteor has been caught on camera flying across regional Victoria.

Catriona Ross was sitting with her family around a bonfire in Koroit, near Warrnambool, when her son Lachlan noticed the meteor.

"I already had my camera open on my phone because I was taking photos of the bonfire so I zoomed it around," Ross told 7NEWS.com.au.

Ross said the meteor was bright but wasn't travelling as fast as a regular meteor would.

"It was amazing... it was quite clear," Ross said. "The unusual thing was that it was right on sunset."


'Space junk'

The Astronomical Society of Victoria said the meteor, which was also seen as far away as Daylesford, was a "sporadic meteor or space junk".

"(It) skipped along the earth's upper atmosphere and leaving a train (sic) in its wake," the society said on its Facebook page.

"It was slowish because it came in roughly from the west meaning that it had to catch up to the earth's speed.

"The reason the train looks 'all lit up' is because it was very high up in the atmosphere - perhaps about 90 kilometres, meaning that the sun, though set, could still shine on it.

"It would have burnt up completely and not hit the ground."