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A driver has described spotting what looked like a "huge" meteor soaring through the atmosphere.
Eleanor Higgs was on the eastbound A43 carriageway near Corby at about 12:30 BST on Monday when she captured the spectacle on her dashcam.
She joked that it felt like she was going to be "abducted by aliens in the middle of nowhere".
The UK Meteor Observation Network has confirmed her footage was one of a number of sightings in eastern England, including in East Anglia, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire.
"It was so much larger than anything I've ever seen in the sky," she said. "It was so huge and so bright."
John Maclean, from the UK Meteor Observation Network, described it as a "smallish meteor, travelling at approximately 35,000mph (56,000km/h)".
He explained that it was not linked to any meteor shower, and that meteors typically vary in size between that of a "grain of sand" and a tennis ball - but that their brightness makes them appear very large.
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