WREXHAM residents were left stunned on Monday evening after spotting a meteor. 

Just after 8pm on Monday evening, the Met Office tweeted: “Reports of a meteor in the sky over the UK just now. If you managed to take any footage we’d love to see it”.

And it was spotted by people in the Wrexham area. 

One woman took to the Llay Noticeboard on Facebook to state: "Just walked down Watts Dyke saw what at first glance thought was an aircraft - but it was more like a fireball - looked like flame trail in the direction of Rossett."

Other people commented on the post saying they had also seen it. 

 

Laura, who did not wish to give her surname, from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, caught the flying object on camera at around 8pm from her front room.

Her video showed a light streaking through the sky above a residential area for just under 10 seconds before disappearing from view.

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She told the Press Association (PA) news agency: “I had just turned my computer off and looked up out of the window, it was perfect timing.

“It wasn’t like a shooting star I have seen in the past. It seemed overwhelmingly close. It was large in the sky, orange with an orange blaze behind it, not what I would describe as a long shooting star tail but a shorter orange one.

“Then it just disappeared. It seemed like it hadn’t really happened. I tried to tell my husband but they didn’t quite believe my account!”

A Met Office spokesman told PA the time of day and clear skies contributed to the quality of the sightings.