A meteor was caught on camera as it streaked across the night sky this morning.

Stargazers spotted the meteor over Brighton, along the south coast and parts of France around 3am this morning.

The roughly one-metre asteroid, known as Sar2667, exploded with a flash of bright light as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

Some took to Twitter to post their footage of the meteor. One user, @KadeFlowers, spotted the meteor over Brighton and described the sight of it streaking through the sky as “beautiful”.

Officers for Sussex Police also spotted the meteor, with a police car camera capturing the moment it passed over Hove.

The Argus: A police car camera captured the moment a meteor streaked across the sky over Hove early this morningA police car camera captured the moment a meteor streaked across the sky over Hove early this morning (Image: Sussex Roads Police)

Sightings were reported from as far afield as Cardiff and Paris.

It comes just over a month after another meteor was spotted over parts of Sussex during an annual meteor shower.

Meteors are objects in space, which range in size from dust grains to small asteroids, that enter the atmosphere at high speed and burn up.

Around 50 meteor sightings were recorded in the skies over the UK last year.