The footage, filmed from a fixed camera on the shore at Dawlish, Devon, shows the meteor flying through the sky before it appears to hit the water.
The operator of the fixed camera later wrote on Facebook: "What was caught on camera the other night?
Many sky-watchers took to social networks to discuss the sighting - with some speculating it was a UFO from outer space.
Last week, a bizarre flying saucer-shaped object was dug up during excavation work by a coal mining company in Siberia's Kuznetsk Basin, Russia.
