Meteoroid Lights Northern France, Seen From Wales

A meteoroid believed to have entered the Earth’s atmosphere above northern France has been seen lighting up the sky hundreds of miles away in Wales.

Sar2667, just 1m (3ft) long, illuminated parts of the night sky shortly before 03:00 GMT on Monday.

Despite its small size, it was caught on CCTV from Gower, Swansea, about 270 miles (440km) away.

Emma Oliver, who caught the footage at her farm in Slade near Oxwich, described it as “pretty amazing”.

After hearing about the meteoroid on the news, Ms Oliver hurried back to see if her camera had picked it up.

“I saw online that there had been an asteroid that had been seen over England,” the 35-year-old explained.

“It said 03:00 so I thought I’d go and have a little look on the cameras and I saw this huge flash – it frightened me to watch it at first.

“I thought it might look a bit like a shooting star, but I wasn’t expecting to see anything like that at all.”

It is just the seventh time that such a strike has been accurately forecast.

The European Space Agency, which first alerted stargazers to Sar2667, said it was expected to “safely strike” the earth’s atmosphere near to the French city of Rouen.

It later tweeted that it was “a sign of the rapid advancements in global asteroid detection capabilities”.