(Daily Star) – A man was baffled when he captured bright lights with flaming tails hurtling towards Earth from the sky. Video taken by St Helens resident Aiden Macartain captures what appears to be meteorites falling in different directions above him in the dawn sky on Saturday morning.

In the 30-second long clip, it shows three separate bright lights descending from the sky in east and west directions. When he tilts the camera upwards, it reveals a bright fireball-like object falling through the sky and leaves a long flaming trail. Aiden, 43, told the Liverpool Echo that he was driving down Liverpool Road at around 6:30 am before he realized the lights.

He added: “I initially thought it was an aircraft but I saw five or six of them in different places and descending at different points. “They were like falling lights, I was stunned when I saw it. “I sent the videos to my wife and she said she had no idea. It looked like something had broken up in the sky.

“It definitely wasn’t a commercial or military aircraft, I’m guessing it was some type of light aircraft display.” The sighting came hours before a meteor was spotted entering the night sky in the UK where thousands of people reported the rare incident. Scientists from the UK Fireball Alliance, which is led by staff at the Natural History Museum, confirmed that a slow-moving meteor was seen shortly before 10 pm on Sunday and sent a sonic boom across southern England. READ MORE