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Credit: The UK Meteor Network/ Twitter Residents witnessed a large meteor blazing across the sky on Sunday night. The fireball was visible shortly before 10pm, with the incredible moment captured on doorbell and security cameras around the country, with sightings in Hampshire, Essex, Devon, London and Cumbria. Here in Basingstoke, a few lucky residents managed to spot the meteor when it was visible for around seven seconds. One of The Gazette’s Camera Club members said they had ‘never seen anything like it’. While a second reported seeing the flash of light before it started ‘breaking up’. According to The U.K. Meteor Network, an astronomy group that uses cameras to record sightings across the country, the meteor was a fireball.