A 10-year-old boy was stunned when he managed to film a flaming meteor as it soared over his house in Manchester.
Jake Southward was warming up to go for a run with dad Anthony, 50, when he spotted a huge fireball in the sky.
The quick-thinking schoolboy grabbed his parents' iPad and filmed the object as it flashed overhead at 4.30pm last Wednesday.
Jake, from Ashton on Mersey, near Sale, said he had never seen anything like it before.
"At first I thought it was a plane about to crash, but I realised if it was a plane about to crash it would've been going down,” he said.
The youngster, who attends Wellfield Junior School, posted the video online which has since attracted hundreds of views.
Mum Yvonne, 50, said: "The children come out with rubbish all the time”.
“So you don't really pay a lot of attention to it.
"But then I saw the video and I thought: 'Actually, that's weird'.
"I said: 'You'd better start looking out for a bit of rock, it might be worth some money'.
"I was going to send them down to Ashton Park to see where it landed."
Late last year the Mirror reported on a meteor that was captured by a Darlington local’s doorbell camera as it shot through the sky one evening.
The doorbell camera was filming after a family cat activated the recording function just in the nick of time.
Julie Richardson, from Darlington, in the north east, said she “didn’t quite believe it” when her husband, Lee, showed her what their new doorbell camera had captured.
Julie’s family cat, Stanley, is filmed between two vehicles at the bottom of the footage and happened to be walking past at just the right time to set the camera rolling.
After walking the length of the car, Stanley sits down on the drive, where he stays put until the impressive display is over.
He then turned around and scarpers back towards the house.
The fireball was spotted in Peterlee and the Northumberland coast, with residents also commenting that they saw the meteor after Julie shared the footage on social media.
Julie said: "I didn't quite believe it, my husband Lee was the one that spotted it.
I just thought it was a firework but that didn't make sense as the 'firework' was going down not up.”
She said she put it on Facebook “just to see what other people thought about it” and came to the conclusion that it was “definitely a meteor”.
The UK Meteor Network also shared several images of a meteor spotted that same evening.
