Meteor spotted burning above Bangkok sky for the second time in recent months

The light appears to come from a meteor — the second spotted in recent months

A large, mysterious ball of fire has shot across the sky above Bangkok — the second in recent months.

Dashcam videos show a huge green light shooting across the sky above Thailand, burning bright and then disappearing out of sight. The videos were shot this week and show the bright light shooting across the night sky.

The meteor is the second bright light to be seen in the Thai skies in recent months.

On 7 September, a similar fireball was spotted over many parts of the country. Experts including the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand said that the blaze was caused by a meteor, about 3.5 metres wide, flying into Earth’s atmosphere and likely burning up before it hit the ground.

“It’s all burned away” Worawit Tanwutthibundit, an astronomer at Chachoengsao Observatory, told a local newspaper. “The photo of the white smoke that has been shared a lot is in fact the train of smoke of a meteor. The public need not be concerned. This is a normal phenomenon.”

It isn’t clear whether this week’s light was from a similar source. But the quality of the like looks almost the same, with a bright white light followed by a trail.

Perhaps the most famous such “bolide” — as astronomers refer to meteors that explode in the atmosphere often with huge, bright flashes — was the one that shot above the sky over Russia in 2013.