A skygazer caught what looks like a fire in the sky and believed it could have been a meteor shower before an expert weighed in on the phenomenon.
The spectacular footage was taken by Owen Roche in Gurranabraher, Co Cork, and shows light particles falling through the air.
The video was taken at 8.04am on Friday with rare clear skies, and it turns out it's actually a common occurrence that we generally miss out on due to the nature of our cloudy weather.
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Founder and Editor of Astronomy Ireland, David Moore, set the record straight by revealing that they were actually formed from something as simple as contrails from a plane.
He explained that the blazing line is "the byproduct of aviation fuel burnt in the aircraft jet engines”.
He said: "These are aircraft 'contrails' - the condensation of the by-products of aviation fuel burnt in the aircraft jet engines.
"Beautiful, aren't they. Though not environmentally friendly! We often get people sending us sightings of these, usually around sunrise or sunset on the rare days when the skies are clear in Ireland".
Despite it not being something more magical this time around, there is a meteor shower that will be visibly over Ireland in the coming weeks.
David added: "They are not comets or meteors, though there is a bright comet due in the next few weeks!"
If you'd like to find out more about it or learn about other events coming up - you can follow Astronomy Ireland here.
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