This story originally appeared on Time.com.
Residents were startled on Monday night when a bright glowing flash, believed to be a meteor, streaked across the sky in northeast Scotland.
Bill Addison shared footage taken from his car's dashboard camera, which shows a bright fireball shooting through the atmosphere.
Captured this on my dashcam tonight beauty!!
Posted by Bill Addison on Monday, February 29, 2016
Social media users took to Twitter and reported that the suspected meteor made a loud boom as it exploded.
Amazing explosion across the #Cairngorms. Sounded like a bomb #meteor #scotland
— charlotte m (@charlieluffers) February 29, 2016
#meteor #Scotland Anyone else see that meteor and hear the boom about an hour ago? Scared the kids to death.
— Tim Rogers (@Quiet_AsA_Mouse) February 29, 2016
Robert Massey, deputy executive director for the Royal Astronomical Society, told CNN that he believes the object could have been a 'low-altitude meteor,' which burned into a fireball.
"If people did see it and it was something like an incoming low-altitude meteor, they can consider themselves lucky," he told CNN.
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