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One Twitter user said: "Just driving through and looked up to see something we could only describe as a fireball.
"It was a real 'wow' moment, I just saw it fly across the windscreen.
"It was low and very fireball-like."
The UK Meteor Observation Network posted an image of the fireball, taken in East Barnet in London.
© UK Meteor Observation NetworkFireball seen in Sussex
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Several people on social media said there was some activity in the St Judes area of the city during the early hours of Monday morning.
She tweeted: "there was a massive bang at 4.10am heard in st Jude's, anyone know what it was please? Scared the life outta me it was so loud."
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© Ezi-Web Wholesale Bargara/ Tim SayreA view of the meteor from The Hummock Lookout, left, and a still from dashcam footage taken on McCarthy Road, in Bundaberg.
Tim Sayre and his wife were two skygazers left in awe when the night sky lit up above their car about 6.40pm on Monday.
They captured the shooting star on dashcam on McCarthy Road, in Bundaberg.
"Really a case of the right place, right time!" Sayre told 7NEWS.com.au.
Comment: Two other similar events have happened over the same continent within the last 8 days: Spectacular light show as meteor fireball lights up south-eastern Australia
Meteor fireball detonates over Australia's Northern Territory, turns night into day
© ABCKiwis and Australians witnessed a short but stunning light show as a meteor burnt up in the atmosphere just after midnight.
At around 12.25am Northlanders were woken to a flight of light, a deep rumbling and a flash of colour flying off the burning meteor.
Locals took to social media to describe what they saw and heard, with many revealing they thought it was a supersonic aircraft.
"It was a meteor. I saw it really close overhead at Oromahoe shortly after midnight. I could see green, yellow, orange flames coming off the rock as it burnt up," described one Northlander.
"It was very close and incredibly bright and afterwards there was a long rumbling sound. It was certainly bright enough to be seen at Paihia and Kaikohe."
A meteor has lit up the Northern Territory night sky with a flash that created "daylight" in Alice Springs and a noise that shook windows.
NT Police Duty Superintendent James O'Brien said officers received a phone call from an Alice Springs resident just after midnight, and quickly started checking their own CCTV vision.
The footage shows the meteor also shooting over Tennant Creek, more than 500 kilometres north of Alice Springs.
"We were a bit dubious about it," he said.
"But then we started looking around our CCTV and the one in Tennant Creek sees this beautiful purple light coming down.
"And the ones in Alice Springs basically show Alice Springs showing up like daylight. It was quite magnificent."
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Comment: A subsequent article reports that the loud bang was caused by fireworks. The noise was heard the Hooe, Laira, Mutley and St Jude's sections of Plymouth which encompasses about a 4-5 mile area. We doubt fireworks could cause such an uproar at 4:00 am.