Blinding meteorite stuns driver as is it shoots through Russian city

Footage has emerged from Russia showing a meteor exploding as it enters the atmosphere and lighting up the night sky.

In the short clip, recorded on a car’s dash camera, a bright object can be seen streaking across the sky before breaking into pieces and disappearing.

The scenes are reminiscent of the 2013 Russian meteor which exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, shattering glass in nearby buildings and injuring 1,200 people.

Some have cast doubt on the new extra-terrestrial object, pointing out that Russia has a military base nearby and it could simply be a missile test, but no long range tests were scheduled for that evening.

Witnesses in Russia’s northern Murmansk region say that, unlike the previous meteor, there was no audible explosion when the bright object appeared at roughly 2.10pm local time. TRUNews