The festive holidays brought an out-of-this-world experience for one Stratford family.
The Butlers, who live on Birmingham Road, heard a strange bang at 10.30pm on Boxing Day.
Next morning when they went outside, Paul Butler was baffled to find his mum and dad's car, left safely on his drive within a secure courtyard and well away from the road, had a cracked windscreen.
Events took an even weirder turn when Paul's youngest son Nathan found a strange-looking rock on the ground near the car.
About two centimetres long, it's jet black with shiny bits and doesn't look like any other rocks they've ever seen.
This video shows a superb bolide recorded over Spain on January 9, at 22:08 local time (equivalent to 21:08 universal time). It was brighter than the full Moon. The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks.
The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 67,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Palencia and León (northern Spain). It began at an altitude of about 86 km over the locality of Lomas (province of Palencia), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 23 km over the locality of Joara (province of León).
We received 70 reports about a fireball seen over Île-de-France, Bretagne, Centre-Val de Loire, England, Normandie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire on Sunday, December 22nd 2024 around 22:25 UT.