Bright meteor lights up the skies over northeastern Mexico to the delight of stargazers

Residents in the northeastern Mexico spotted an incredibly bright meteor crossing the night's sky earlier this week.

The meteor flew over Monterrey, the capital of the state of Nuevo León, as well as Coahuila and Tamaulipas, at 10.14pm Tuesday according to the Mexico's Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Research.

Isacar Leal took to Twitter to share a clip from a friend's home surveillance camera that showed a clear view of the fireball gliding over a mountain before disappearing. 

Pachy Bautista was standing behind a building when he captured the meteor for nearly 16 seconds at it streamed through the dark sky.

'How beautiful is nature!' he gushed after the sky in Apodaca, a city outside Monterrey, was illuminated. 

Surveillance camera captures a meteor as it pass flew over northeastern Mexico on Tuesday

A resident in Apodaca, a city outside Monterrey, Mexico, recorded a glimpse of a meteor as it streaked across the sky at 10:14pm Tuesday

Images appeared on social media showing a group of firefighters standing alongside a group of curious residents in the Tamaulipas municipality of Ciudad Victoria after calls to 911 claiming two meteors had crashed down in the town of Lazaro Cárdenas.

Mexican news outlet Milenio reported Facebook users based out of Monterrey and Ciudad Victoria were hawking fragments of the meteors for as much one million Mexican pesos $47,000 .

Another user sought 3,800 Mexican pesos $179 for ashes that had been reportedly scooped up after the fireball hit the ground.

Mexican residents were astonished this week when they caught a glimpse of a meteor passing over the states of Nuevo León, Coahuila and Tamaulipas

Firefighters surround the grounds of an area in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, after residents claimed the fragments of the meteor made landfall. Authorities have yet to confirm

A security camera in McAllen, Texas, near the border with Mexico also recorded the moment the meteor flew over Mexico

'This is the original meteorite ash,' the seller wrote on Facebook.

Torreón Planetarium director Eduardo Hernández told Milenio that the meteor which flew over Mexico was the size of a basketball. 

Hernández said it would have been impossible to find the meteor.

'When these types of objects enter the upper atmosphere, they begin to heat up, catch fire and then explode,' Hernández explained. 'That is why they are difficult to locate since most of them spread through fields of debris or small fragments.'

A Facebook user in Nuevo León, Mexico, was hawking an alleged fragment of the meteor for one million Mexican pesos $47,000

A Tamaulipas, Mexico, resident claimed on Facebook to be in possession of ashes from a meteor that flew over Tuesday night. They sought 3,800 Mexican pesos $1790

Astronomers on September 27 witnessed a meteoroid skimming the Earth's atmosphere for a few seconds over Germany and the Netherlands. It later returned on its journey through space.

The bright cosmic object streaked across the night sky, dipping 56 miles in altitude - lower than any satellites orbiting Earth.

The video was shot at 11:53pm ET and showed the meteoroid covering a path of more than 499 miles as it sunk into our atmosphere for 19 seconds.

Researchers from Western University traced it to a Jupiter-family orbit, but was unable to identify matches of potential parent bodies.