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This s the moment a suspected meteorite lit up the Spanish skies with a trail of fire, sparking fears from panicked people that a burning UFO was heading for Earth.

Scores of scared residents and holidaymakers called emergency services reporting sightings of a UFO on fire, while others thought the fireball was a downed plane.

Space experts examining Sunday’s fireball have been helped by a swarm of DIY footage posted to social media.

One seven-second clip shows the fast ball of light – thought to be a meteorite – speed across the sky before exploding as it is burnt up by the earth’s atmopshere.

It was reminiscent of the stunning moment last year when a 10-ton meteor travelling at 33,000mph blew up over Russia leaving hundreds injured.

Other pictures and video clips posted online showed the space rock cutting a trial across the sky, changing colour and leaving plumes of smoke behind it.

Thousands of people from east to west – in Barcelona and Aragón in the north-east, Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla y León in the centre, Valencia in the east, Andalucía in the south, and Extremadura in the west – reported sightings of the fireball.

It was also monitored by the Spanish Meteorological Agency (Aemet).

BELOW IS A YOUTUBE COMPILATION OF SPECTACULAR METEORS- BELOW THAT A CLIP OF THE SPANISH SIGHTING

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