Scotland meteor: Spectacular moment blazing ‘meteor’ flashes across night sky

Mark Gilmour posted the video to social media in the early hours of July 3.

According to NASA, meteors happen when meteoroids enter the Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and burn up.

This is when they are referred to as “shooting stars”.

CCTV footage also shows the ‘meteor’ flashing across the sky above Edinburgh Airport.

The ‘meteor’ was also spotted in Erskine and Clydebank.